Also a member. #aaup

I guess I will be communicating this to students for the rest of my career. And the drive for earning grades (as opposed to learning content) and the use of AI to complete assignments go hand in hand.

Mississippi’s Secretary of State, and candidate for Lt. Governor, is directing the FBI and DOJ to target a private citizen for political speech. Michael Watson doesn’t belong anywhere near public office.

I hope I live long enough to see Hollywood replace the stock Nazi antagonist with some manifestation of MAGA. In 2046, the Avengers will assemble to stop a Christian Nationalist megalomaniac who collected the infinity stones. Captain America will have a monologue about diversity in the movie.

You can access the full complaint here. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-jo...

You don't realize what a good stable government looks like until you get a bad one.

One reason conservative pols are antagonistic towards knowledge workers is simple - their supporters are not in those positions and are not skilled enough to compete for them. So, knowledge industries (academia, tech, law) will always be scapegoated. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

I love this podcast, and use it to talk about sex work in my classes. But this recent episode can be used to talk about sex work...and so many other things. youtu.be/vhu8IwdkIM8?...

#AI was built on all our labor. Every word, image, idea came from us. Its gains belong to everyone, not just a few. I signed the AI Pledge for Humanity, committing 2% of my income to @itsafoundation.bsky.social to advance #UBI & our shared prosperity. actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...

If using descriptors like fascist, totalitarian, and white supremacist can lead to violence against public figures...well I believe in non-violence, so I'm happy to use different words to describe those same qualities in a person.

Hey, man, if you want to talk about all the many reasons professionals who study fascism and white supremacy for a living keep calling Trump a fascist and a white supremacist, we'd be happy to sit down and walk you through them all. Can you clear a couple weeks on your calendar? Three, tops.

Once you start to understand that there is a powerful and influential minority of Americans who think democracy is a bad idea, you start to understand the fight we are in

I call BS on these cooking competition shows. There is no way these folks are making a steak dinner with sides in 20 minutes.

This is why academic freedom is so important. We need to know these things. Even if the study had gone in a different direction, it's much better to have knowledge generated through valid research methods and not through the vibes and feels of influencers. english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

Trump voters really have no credibility at this point. There needs to be a name to describe a group that has prostituted their morals and values in this way.

Outstanding?!?!? Maybe?!?!? You don't have to continue sleeping with your partner if you don't want to, and that partner does not need to continue sleeping in the same bed...or domicile, if they don't want to.

We are seeing people more willing to silence others - even those who give lip service to free speech - because subconsciously we as humans are recognizing that words in our current world can be so harmful as to be considered violent. It's just we can't bring ourselves to think along those lines.

I wish they'd show a baseball game from a different angle. Like put a camera along the 3rd base line or out in right field so you can see the other nine people move when the pitch is thrown. Watching a game on TV is nothing but a series of pitcher and batter closeups.

Surveilled enough already? www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Big retailers like Walmart and Target are set to get refunds from the Trump admin for tariffs that were deemed illegal by the Supreme Court. What about the American people who paid a substantial portion of those tariff costs? They get nothing.

Ke'Bryan Hayes must have some dirt on somebody in the Reds coaching staff. That's the only way that guy is still getting ABs.

It seems the trick is to mix the healthy thing with the unhealthy thing to get a great average healthy thing. I made a cauliflower and bacon soup and I'm not mad at it at all.

Watching this Trevor Noah comedy special and he's making a joke about white people thinking black pepper is a spice. Everyone laughs. But if it's not a spice then what is it?

This, my baseball loving friends, is weird. Very weird.

I remember taking Cultural Appreciation classes in undergrad. At the time, they meant nothing. But now that I need an escape, and someone has provided it in the form of a quality movie, a series, or work of art, I truly understand the value of culture. It is much appreciated.

Few write about working class whites like Arlie Russell Hochschild. In this insightful chapter, her informants talks about class and race in a way that none of the elites on either side would like. I want to teach sociology classes again just to have an excuse to teach this book.

"You learn the most from things you enjoy doing so much that you don’t even notice time passing. I am often so engrossed in my work that I forget to eat lunch." - Albert Einstein

Happy Jackie Robinson Day!

A few decades ago MLB tried hard to separate itself from gambling. Now it seems every other advertiser is a betting house. What a turnaround.

I sounded the alarm when Donald Trump went after thousands of libraries and museums — and they just won BIG. These are institutions that preserve our history, add BILLIONS to our economy, and educate future generations. There's power in fighting back.

I need a phrase comparable to "thank you for your service" for school teachers.

Why I am using #FOSS technologies. In what world does one own something, but can't use it without setting up an account with the company? I'm erasing this OS and installing Linux ASAP.

This will only be of significance to a few people... but during the time of the writing of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams served on 23 committees in the Continental Congress. 23. How is that possible?

I guess the reason every other professor in a movie is a writer is because every writer of professors in movies is a writer.

The only jobs that will remain in demand after the AI revolution are those in which human to human interaction produces the best outcome. Sex work. Nursing. Teaching. Counseling. Home health care. And sex work again.

I cannot and won't read the article, so I won't speak on that. I do believe that this site and almost any other social media *will* foster this kind of behavior - it is embedded in the very design of these sites.

To me the Trump administration's policies can be reduced to one goal: An affirmative action program for white conservative Christians - especially male. So this tracks.

Apparently it's some kind of fashion no-no to wear a t-shirt and blazer. I've seen negative comments about this now several times on TV shows. What is this world coming to?

i have so many questions. did the researchers just fully fall for the instagram propaganda or what?

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

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TIL that Henry David Thoreau was not holed up deep in the woods all by himself. Instead his house was on the side of a road, people often passed by, and he went into town every other day to hear...the gossip.

I agree with this...I even wonder if the notion of perfect habits should be discarded as well. It implies that typicals are more perfect in their habits, and divergents are less perfect.

As a general rule, I speak of nothing in class that I cannot demonstrate with actual events and phenomena. Today we will talk about policing cybercrime, search warrants, and what evidence can be gathered. #neighborhoodsociologist

I would support a PEA party (Policed Enough Already) or SEA party (Surveilled Enough Already). I just can't square these massive investments in law and order with notions of freedom and liberty. There is an inverse relationship between individual autonomy and the power of the state.

I'm telling you right now...Jameis Winston is going to be a star as a media personality. Bet.

In Hollywood, to break stereotypes you must introduce new ones. So now the black man must be gay and the Asian woman must be sexually voracious.

I want to be like the main character in Best Medicine - moving to some quirky small town and having to deal with all of its residents and traditions. I'd be just as misanthropic. Only I'd be a community college professor not a doctor. Don't ever tell me I don't have goals!

"evil" is a slippery concept with regimes but by any of the usual ways we measure it, israel and the US have done far more "evil" things than Iran since 1979, and one doesn't have to believe the Iranian regime is "good" to understand that it's pure propaganda to suggest otherwise