starting to think I don't know what "crashing out" means, is that crashing out

a lot has been written about Jameson in the year since his passing, but no one has pointed out one of the all-time best footnotes (in The Political Unconscious) where he gives permission to all the dumdums who don't care about Marxian interpretation (central to the book's armature) to skip 35 pages

it's so funny to argue about what flag the grandma choking on tear gas outside an ICE facility should have been carrying

Support the journalists taking pepper balls in the face

For folks asking, Pastor (Reverend? Sorry, we keep messing this one up, lol) Black is okay. He's still OTG right now, checking on others in the dark, after taking multiple volleys of pepper balls to the face and being repeatedly brutalized by ICE:

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

now I have to explain to my dog who Jimmy Kimmel is

yesterday two neighborhood children I'd never met asked to pet my dog, and then a few seconds later asked if I could bring them more dogs to pet. "I think I saw one down there. we'll stay in this spot waiting for you."

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

tomorrow I will make summer melon ajo blanco (h/t ham el-waylly) with homemade croutons and it will be delicious and every one will cheer

What are the most effective things—even if they sound extreme—that we can do to limit, and ideally abolish, the unauthorized use of AI on campus? www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

the way my upstairs neighbor drops something heavy and sonorous down our shared staircase every night around now, waking me up in the process, is frankly incredible

nobody does it like natalie shapero

sorry to cross post but I mean every word of this

my dog listening to my mom’s plot summary of an episode of the Gilmore Girls

CHICAGO PPL with dogs—PLEASE make sure that your pets are up to date on their leptospirosis vaccines. I lost a puppy to lepto 21 days after adopting her from Kentucky where lepto is not common; it was devastating. The disease can spread to humans & cases are up this year. wgntv.com/news/chicago...

I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.

Too many professors think academic freedom and tenure will always protect us. We need to be better organized as workers.

Can’t say enough how much Sarah’s index makes this book a real functional tool for its readers. So grateful for her excellent work on it.

was honored to design the index for this volume—essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of higher ed

*tenured lib voice* job!

go bills

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

unfortunately hyped on melancholy dot com has been hijacked but I will be back with something even better soon and it doesn’t involve selling crypto or whatever they’re doing with that domain ✌️

what are you talking about

was lucky enough to read this book and it's a total game-changer

two blurry favorites

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Matt Seybold ( @mattseybold.bsky.social ) "I ask my fellow educators to consider some measures for reducing our complicity in efforts to steal our students identities, attention, and right to education, even indenture them to train algorithms" theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/against-te...

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Read the entire legal complaint against OpenAI yesterday. Extremely brutal, haunting stuff to contemplate as universities roll out their latest LLM advertisements.

I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis

your english teacher and your gym teacher are getting a divorce, and they're crowdfunding for legal fees (see link below). your gym teacher has gotten into crypto again. your english teacher is moonlighting as an uber driver (where she also grades your papers) while your gym teac

I did it the other way

he doesn't know about The Argument

I asked my family to scoop up this v chill coyote and drive him to Chicago but they refused?

looking especially lupine this morning

heads up Chicago! Sem Coop, 9/13 www.semcoop.com/event/natali...

RIP david berman you would have loved how smoke detectors are hard to find when their batteries need replacing

I feel like we're not mocking UChicago enough for losing a ton of money on crypto

it's so cool how ZERO of FIFTY members of the u of c board of trustees have phds or any experience in higher ed

I'm an alum of the University of Chicago, and I wrote Dean Deborah Nelson a letter today.

highlands no. 27 strawberries, painted by royal charles steadman, 1921

is it okay and perhaps even radical and ethical pedagogy to make my students do a breakout room exercise tomorrow morning while I buy tickets to see cindy lee

seeing a lot of posts decrying the possible cuts in humanities and arts at uchicago written by people who are friends with the liberal administrators holding the knife

would love to see more of this, as my sense has been that the grotesque dynamics of academic labor have meant that it is most often precariously positioned colleagues, including non-TL faculty in writing, who are targeted by admins whose goal is to secure “faculty buy-in” for AI mainstreaming