Universities want to reorient our entire profession to train students to do this.

The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Happy to report my Rep is a co-sponsor. Let’s do this!

A powerful article in @newsweek.com from new @umasspress.bsky.social author Todd Weissman on a tough diagnosis of #parkinsonsdisease. We publish his book, The Light That Endures: Stories of Courage, Compassion, and Resilience at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in next few weeks. #Boston #DanaFarber

Matt Garcia published his very good biography of César Chávez 12 years ago. This piece is useful. calmatters.org/commentary/2...

Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.

So @universitypress.cambridge.org sent me a survey about peer review, something I care a lot about. Turns out it was about USING AI FOR ACADEMIC PEER REVIEWS.

let us pray

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Molly Geidel offers an amazing read of the sexual metaphors used in the exercise of 60s global imperialism in her book “Peace Corps Fantasies,” but I don’t think even she anticipated this.

slinging last minute gifts at Downbound Books! come by till 4pm

Said goodbye to this perfect pup exactly one year ago today. Almost 14 years with him. Still miss him everyday if I’m being honest.

This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Trump's Epstien cover-up is the most incompetent cover-up ever.

Here's a better view of the now-deleted photo showing Trump with Epstein and Trump with a group of young girls. The photo was originally posted as item EFTA00000468 but was later deleted. Now the 'official' list simply jumps from EFTA00000467 to EFTA00000469.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Nurses are the best.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

something good: Downbound Books has installed its Richard Scary Busy People mini print automat! www.downboundbooks.com

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

If there's one thing Jesus loved it was dumping loads of diarrhea on his opponents.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Based on what?!? Vibes? What is this?

Again, very strange to have US leaders bragging about war crimes on TV — especially since Vance’s unfunny joke is basically “we base our air strikes on such sketchy intel that we can’t figure out who is a fisherman and who is a drug smuggler,” which does appear to be true, BTW.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Fundamental Interests Of United States Of America Would Be Irreparably Harmed If It Race-Based Harassment And Detention By Masked Thugs Were Even Temporarily Halted

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Shame on these institutions. Unconscionable.

What’s especially interesting here is that leftists from the 19th century forward attempted to develop a robust progressive approach to sexuality. But none of that makes even a cursory appearance here, just a second-person projection with the only ideology being “ideally men should not hate women.”

WaPo taking an administrator’s perspective on what “shared governance” means.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

New York Democratic officials who've declined to endorse Zohran Mamdani so far: - Gov. Kathy Hochul - Sen. Chuck Schumer - Rep. Hakeem Jeffries - Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand - Rep. Laura Gillen - Rep. Tom Suozzi - Rep. Dan Goldman - Rep. George Latimer

if you’re wondering about the gop plan to deal with the electoral fall out of passing a massively unpopular bill, it’s “even if we lose the midterms we will retain control of the courts, the presidency, and now, thanks to this bill, a massive federal police state”

It’s interesting how the WaPo finds endless angles to report on the rationale behind MAGA voters and legitimize their economic concerns, but with this outcome they have concluded NYC Dem Primary voters are nothing more than ill-informed rubes seduced by false promises. Really makes you think.