I'm a little late to the party, but I just finished Kate Beaton's "Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands. One of the best graphic novels I've ever read. Impossible to put down and I found myself re-reading so much of it or just lingering over the panels and artwork. bookshop.org/a/9252/97817...

I was delighted to join @scottmccloud.bsky.social @neilcohn.bsky.social & @reimenayee.com yesterday for an absolutely invigorating conversation on comics & education! Appreciate the good folks @cartoonist.coop for hosting & making the recording available! Listen here! www.youtube.com/live/gymwh40...

Newark learning a lot (way too much?) from US college #campus #protests

If your business requires me to download yet another app to use it, odds are pretty good at this point I am not going to use your business. It's like a part-time job at this point. Enough.

"No one I know read the Sunday Times, so I can speak freely, right?"

Looking for examples of “cultural appropriation” and not expecting to find such current ones

I keep coming back to this, and aside from the general ignorance about the multi-crises impacting academia globally right now (including global fascism and tech tyrants seeking to control/decimate academia) there is also a marked ignorance about the costs (in all the ways) of mobility.

Covered by this Rushkoff book but he was maybe too nice about it: wwnorton.com/books/surviv...

we don't have a masculinity crisis. we have a patriarchy crisis. patriarchy creates and sustains male unhappiness with its dogmatic, toxic, rigid definition of masculinity which says the worst and most undesirable thing a human can be is female which is how we get insults like "Low-T Talarico"

Welp. I blew it, joining way too late so it’s gotta be the rerun in the morning. Sure picked my moment, though, seeing the “twins” pull off the switch! 👀 #HouseOfNumbers #TCMParty #NoirAlley

About halfway through the piece you see this line which helps make sense of everything: ‘When Tie was 18, she won a Thiel Fellowship – a then $100,000 grant funded by the billionaire Peter Thiel awarded to people aged 22 or younger who are willing to drop out of university to “build new things”’

You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

I check out the Discover and Popular With Friends feeds fairly often. And some days they're pretty good. #HowToBluesky #SocialMedia

MS Now is clearly still figuring out the "Now" part of their new handle, but as of Friday night they finally put some time into the detention center protests. Glad to see the indies and residents remaining on these stories.

I'm a "new convert" to Atwood's public presence. It was never about the writing! I just couldn't get into her author talks or interviews in early-early days. Something clicked for me a few years ago, and now I'm like yeah of course she has a flamethrower, what of it #BannedBooks #reading

Students need to learn critical thinking, full stop. Not just to "critically interpret outputs." We are narrowing and tailoring what an education means to the asinine greedy demands of the tech industry, who just want us to keep using their products, ffs.

interested in our 'AI for all' government's response to this, since digital sovereignty has been big on their agenda. the fundamental fact is BigAI operates in violation of sovereignty, privacy, & plagiarism laws. also borders. we need regulation as first principle.

I don’t think doctors are happy to see all their scribes being laid off and replaced with AI notetaking. They’re keeping a brave face on it.

interesting how elected officials who say they want to “lower the temperature” only hold the unarmed side of a protest to that standard.

“Nice window ya got there, Mr. Overton. Be a shame if somebody moved it.”

The past was erased, the erasure won’t be forgotten, the Big Lie won’t become the truth. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

This is the other thing. If you're someone who fancies themself on the side of the good guys, someone on the "right side of history," and you still say "I don't care" to this kind of shit because it doesn't affect you personally, you absolutely can't be trusted.

There is a shortage of 4.7 million cybersecurity professionals and AI is changing the speed and scale of cyberattacks. In @girlswhocode latest op-ed, CEO Dr. Tarika Barrett explains why we need people, especially more women to defend our digital systems bit.ly/gwc-fortune-...

This does align with how campus C-Suite equivalents (senior admins & execs) advocate for #AI in their unbridled fervor. #AcademicSky #HigherEd

The classic tale of the frog doing whatever the scorpion wants while a bunch of other frogs are yelling at it going “this scorpion is stinging everyone, please stop giving it a ride” as the frog takes it around letting it sting everyone then the frog is like ah shit who could have known @wikipedia

We all know that "back in the good old days" sort of talk is broadly nonsense and "back in my day we didn't have XYZ social concern" is usually incomplete thinking, but sometimes I think that doesn't give enough credit to the ways the past was progressive. This is from a 1959 YMCA teen manners book.

Yoicks—and I wonder if #Google will be outsourcing manual fixes to underpaid overseas for this kind of #AI flub? (Check the QPs and replies for more fun)

For nearly a decade, the Pentagon was warned—by its own contractors, analysts, and intelligence agencies—that anyone with a credit card could buy a map of where American troops sleep, work, and store nuclear weapons. Now the bill has come due in a war zone. My latest at @wired.com

JUST IN: Corn dogs have announced they won't be available for Trump's Freedom 250 event.

I would be remiss not to point out that "Tricking Milli Vanilli into performing a concert for a dictator" is LITERALLY a storyline from the 1990s 'Super Mario Bros 3' cartoon 🙃

Remember! Waymo is ICE. Waymo hands over your photo and location data to ICE without requiring a warrant or anything—just to help them. Stay woke. #philly

a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

Attorneys at the Education Department’s civil rights office described working in a “dismissal factory.” Most discrimination complaints filed by students’ families have been dismissed without ever being investigated, records show. (Published Dec. 2025)

dying laughing at the strava data for the guy running laps on the french carrier

www.theguardian.com/world/2018/j... 8 years ago.

When they say #Panopticon dammit they MEAN Panopticon

It's "Post-It® over the webcam" on steroids. Other random thought: I guess the technique isn't just for heist movies anymore when whole cities join in. www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

I use #AI tools in funded professional development (PD). "Why are they paying college faculty to learn this? What's the Hidden Curriculum?" is always on my mind. And I do test a "PLEASE TRY ME NOW" intrusive #BigTech tool on occasion. Because I want to see what happens when it's left enabled.

This works for "Has anyone actually pulled gold out of Fort Knox? They've been trying since 1965 but Oddjob got electrocuted."

History, finding another way to rhyme. (Tufte's famous/infamous visualization is in the replies for your comparison)

I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.

White male landed gentry? (Other landed gentry need to pay attention here)

This is a better analogy than it should be.

Was just speculating about #serendipity in how new undergrads find books of interest… Hmm hmm

New ideas rhyme with old ideas

A senior CIA official was arrested last week after investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million stashed in his Virginia residence, a small fortune that he apparently brought home from work, according to court papers.

Remember these two HORROR LEGENDS, CHRISTOPHER LEE and VINCENT PRICE on their shared birthday! 🖤🖤🖤

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

It's impossible, obviously, to run the counterfactual, but if they hadn't murdered USAID, the odds of this outbreak happening go way down.

AI is inevitable. That's why we're sneaking it into everything, hiding it in hard to find and turn off places, forcing it into products that don't need it, suddenly claiming old things we've always done is now done with AI. Because it's inevitable. You don't need to do all that when things aren't.