Another way that students are the product is how tech companies and universities see students as a data gold mine to extract and monetize. www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...

Another way that students are the product is how tech companies and universities see students as a data gold mine to extract and monetize. www.forbes.com/sites/rayrav...

Samuel Alito-level partisanship and hypocrisy.

agree but lots of people who aren't especially ideological either do not believe in double standards or are embarrassed that they do, both of which make it politically important to demonstrate that the right trades in double standards

Pro-tip for faculty who are more trusting than me: any time anyone tells me to do something verbally, I always send an email to them right after saying "For my memory, just to recap our conversation a few minutes ago, you asked me to do X. Please let me know if I misunderstood." Paper👏trail👏ALWAYS!👏

I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature. *As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.

This morning Justice Fux - a reliable defender of Bolsonaro - is making his assessment of the case. As a conservative jurist, he has no problem contradicting his own prior rulings and statements to defend conservative power.

Kansas City (and Jackson County) had its single democratic rep stolen by the republican party state dictatorship yesterday and it hardly made the news. To turn our district red, republicans redistricted KC residents to share a representative with people who live 3 hours away.

Even at the height of "woke", nothing equivalent to this ever happened.

This morning Justice Fux - a reliable defender of Bolsonaro - is making his assessment of the case. As a conservative jurist, he has no problem contradicting his own prior rulings and statements to defend conservative power.

This line about teaching to the course catalog description is such a pathetic cop out. Beyond academic freedom it's ignorant of how learning and knowledge creation work. "This class is supposed to be about Renaissance Italy but the professor talked about early modern Germany, I want them fired"

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

I understand that people who go to Ivy League schools are simply worth more than people who don’t but if it’s not too much trouble and you have the time perhaps one of our major news outlets could look into a major right-wing political operation being run at the ag science capital of the world

If you are a right-leaning professor who had their lecture cancelled, it's a great way to become a national figure invited to join various boards and publish in places like the Wall St. Journal and Free Press. (See Dorian Abbots cv). If you are on the left, good luck finding a new job.

If I were to post this on X, the predictable response would be "ah, you lefties tolerated cancel culture so don't complain that now it is coming after you." But there is simply no symmetry here in nature and scope of cancelations, media support and consequences for the faculty involved.

Senior Lecturer immediately fired, Department Head and Dean removed, full Wrongthink Audit of all courses ordered. I’m sure the NYT has dispatched Anemona Hartocollis, perhaps accompanied by the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf, to have a genial dinner party at the home of the person fired.

Even at the height of "woke", nothing equivalent to this ever happened.

This was similar to my experience with government minders in Kazakhstan during anticorruption sessions I would run. I was surprised at how bold people were in calling them out. It really is notable how everyone in that Texas classroom seems so… cowed.

One of the use cases for AI - as a supposedly neutral third party running cover for the fascist project

I still remember when the Utah State Legislature ended DEI initiatives in part because, according to them, it added administrative burden. Now I’m asked to post my syllabi in THREE different places in three different formats thanks to new state law 🤌 🙃

I saw someone say that In N Out is the Chick-fil-A of the West coast, and well...

In my father's poli sci classroom in 1970s Taiwan, he would always call out the 'spy students' in the back: "Take good notes! Spicy bit!" The class would titter. Even the report-maker would look a bit abashed. In this A&M student's righteous "Dear Leader" invocation, there was no shame felt at all.

Wish I could cast a vote for this man

Flashback to 2023

One of the use cases for AI - as a supposedly neutral third party running cover for the fascist project

the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators please feel free to use it

Wish I could cast a vote for this man

Flashback to 2023

Mind you, they just happened to dig up that tweet — which was already old by that point — after an article about me as a barrier breaking Black woman in physics went viral Which is to say, they saw a Black woman succeeding and went looking for something to try and tear my entire life apart

Just submitted my copy edits!

The coup planners even *printed* out their coup plans in the presidential palace.

A second justice has voted to convict Bolsonaro.

CEOs keep trying new ways to invent slavery and calling it freedom.

The coup planners even *printed* out their coup plans in the presidential palace.

Great summary of the court proceedings, the details of the attempted coup, and the bigger context. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

"Brazil nearly went back to being a dictatorship … because a criminal organization made up of a political group led by Jair Bolsonaro doesn’t understand that the alternation of power is a principle of republican democracy​" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Just submitted my copy edits!

The current administration has claimed renewables are making the grid less reliable. If that were the case, I'd expect states adding the most renewables over the past decade to have the largest increase in outages. However, the opposite seems to be true!

Moraes votes in favor of condemning Bolsonaro and the other coup conspirators.

Fantastic Unlimited Foucault

My question is why has it taken so many people (not OP) so long to notice this was going on in states like TX and OK? This active kind of targeting of professors and their speech by students, student orgs has been going on for a while. Meanwhile the NYT and Atlantic are still whining about woke.

For reference youtu.be/4Qv25_DFR2k?...

Justice Moraes is walking through each criminal act that Bolsonaro and the other parties are accused of committing. Moraes is clear that this is a "criminal organization" and that Bolsonaro was the leader. It is an absolutely damning presentation. www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/mor...

I get that it's very challenging for people to wrap their brains around this, but it's worth re-iterating: Musk and Trump decided a few months ago to kill millions globally by destroying USAID in a fit of pique, which has almost destroyed the global aid sector, and nothing is replacing that money.

Justice Moraes is walking through each criminal act that Bolsonaro and the other parties are accused of committing. Moraes is clear that this is a "criminal organization" and that Bolsonaro was the leader. It is an absolutely damning presentation. www.cnnbrasil.com.br/politica/mor...

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