Very interesting piece fortune.com/2025/09/23/a...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

And also that to be autistic is to be a tragedy, a burden on society, a problem that must be solved. This is deeply dangerous stuff.

As budgets for public #science are cut be wary of big tech and the political power they wield eg. over #Space writes Alina Utrata @stjohnsox.bsky.social @raioxford.bsky.social #NASA #ElonMusk #AI #technology www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

“Our results establish that people are more likely to request unethical behavior from machines than to engage in the same unethical behavior themselves,” the paper concludes

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Crying

I will day this, the Disney Adults have proven themselves much more ready to meet this moment than any Harry Potter Adult has.

This is not OK www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

I’ve been convinced to call Disney+ to cancel Disney+ and Hulu to drive up their customer service costs. Be sure to let them know canceling Kimmel for saying nothing wrong lost them your business.

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair our inter-university research seminar is pleased to invite you to the Paris Book Launch of @profdanhicks.bsky.social Dan Hicks's 2025 banger *Every Monument Will Fall: A Story of Remembering and Forgetting*. 15th Oct, 5 pm. undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com

I do think maybe we should be making a bigger deal of the world’s richest man calling for the violent overthrow of British democracy.

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk. I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

Let me just start by saying, firstly—no. And secondly—dare we really mess with the mass of the Moon? I truly despair at the hubris of humanity.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

the deep American inability to think about other countries is going to mask how much we're destroying our international reputation I think

My friends, you have no idea how much of my brainspace is dedicated to thinking about the potential of the public post. @alinau27.bsky.social had me on for a whole-ass podcast episode about it four years ago: open.spotify.com/episode/5Aay...

Low key one of the most talked about episodes of this podcast, josh is brilliant

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

Texas A&M University has dissolved its faculty senate. It will be replaced by a much smaller “Faculty Advisory Committee” starting in November. thebatt.com/news/am-facu...

It's September and the details are HERE: www.speculativeinsight.com/pitches-open . We want to hear your idea for an essay! Send us an email! ... and PLEASE pay close attention to the requirements, to make it easier for us to say yes...

I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus

Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either. ht @danhon.com

The whistleblower in this case is ** the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration**

“They claim to read the same books” is such a multilayered burn, I LOVE it

Had a great time on the Anti Dystopians talking to Matthew Cole about his new book on dystopianism and fearing the future! open.substack.com/pub/alinautr...

Sighing here in Ann Arbor. Unless I missed an email over the summer (when we’re not under contract), U-M instructional staff (lecturers, GSIs, clinical and tenure-line faculty) haven’t been informed about any of this.

Incredible new privacy risk: Redditor recounts doing a job interview over Zoom with an AI notetaker on the call (Fathom). After the applicant left the call, the interviewers stayed on to discuss/bash her. She then got their post-call remarks in the AI summary. www.reddit.com/r/interviews...

My last article proof had absolutely been through this kind of AI, and it took three rounds of emails to the journal to get a manually corrected version. As ever, Lisa is worth a read:

Musk complained by the deficit while receiving an enormous amount of subsidies, tax breaks and contracts from the government that increased that deficit. And he used his money, political influence and government position to cut everything else he did not benefit from.

The right and corporate America have been steadily dismantling higher education and the most prominent people in the field have been laser focused on policing the speech of students and disfavored colleagues.

Wow I am shocked. This is my shocked voice.

Tinderbox Britain: How conservatives ended up praying for violence iandunt.substack.com/p/tinderbox-...

can you imagine trying to convince the average skepti-dude in the year 2010 that this is what summer europe will look like in 2025

a friend gave my partner and me like... several hundred of these stickers. not sure if this counts as a meme, but if anyone wants a sticker, please find me or something.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

Umm. In all of NYC, only 956 new jobs were added from January to June? Versus 66,000 additional workers in the same period in 2024? "It is shocking because we aren’t in a recession,” said economist @lmelodia.bsky.social. [Maybe that should be called a recession? – Me.]

Stripe pivoting to blockchain under Trump, as it targets and blocks LGBTQ community payments, is soooooo on-brand for them

Great timing to have just written something about how ALL science and ALL scientific funding is political, whether scientists want to admit what they're doing is politics or not www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Wrote something for University World News about why we should be cautious of embracing private industry and Big Tech with the cutting of public funds, and why all science—like all business—is political. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Universities are not run by the professors. They are run by boards of managers composed of people from finance and real estate who last saw a university when they were legacy admission undergraduates paying someone else to write their essays. They agree with the anti-intellectual agenda.

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"Scientists and technologists, as well as investors and CEOs, are often loath to admit that what they do is political. But ... the forces that guide you and the decisions you can make are shaped by politics and have political effects."

Wrote something for University World News about why we should be cautious of embracing private industry and Big Tech with the cutting of public funds, and why all science—like all business—is political. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Well done, folks. This is the inevitable world that all the assholes just asking questions were leading us to. Hope you're proud of yourselves.

They gave this man a Nobel Prize

In a new digital twist to environmental individualisation of responsibility, the UK government is now advising people to “[d]elete old emails and pictures” in data centres to help with the current drought. www.gov.uk/government/n...