It’s time for another birthday! 🎂 And what a year it’s been: 📚two of my books were published, the result of years of work writing and revising 🏝️exciting travel, including new beach locations in the Caribbean and Mediterranean 👨‍❤️‍👨 fun times with friends + family 🥘 amazing new food experiences

Always come back to this observation from @adamserwer.bsky.social

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Nazi Germany’s Reichsbahn treated humans as "cargo," optimizing logistics via transit "warehouses" and standardized "bulk shipments." By integrating cattle-car transports into national rail schedules, they achieved terrifying efficiency, managing millions like a routine industrial supply chain. 👀

Trump is building the infrastructure of a police state. People marked as "migrants" are its first and foremost targets. But anyone who thinks "citizens" will also not end up in these national gulags is not facing reality.

concentration camps.

The Intercept reports on the companies that are making millions as ICE bounty hunters: theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

the samizdat 60 minutes report www.theverge.com/policy/84943...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

It is soooo normal for a country to have a TV news report about its gulag system removed from the broadcast

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

In case people need a refresher: The Trump administration is fighting contempt proceedings y in federal court over what happened “inside CECOT” to human beings unlawfully renditioned there. Bari Weiss’s CBS News is now part of the coverup.

This message could/should be extended to a wide range of academic fields and areas of study. My field, communication, has too often dismissed media ownership concentration as a serious concern.

Once again. This is not a presidential administration. It's a mass mortality event, targeted at the youngest and most vulnerable.

3 outstanding opportunities to join the fabulous @nuqatar.bsky.social faculty: Assistant Professor, Strategic Communication Open Rank, Environmental Humanities & Open Rank, Humanistic & Critical Approaches to Artificial Intelligence www.qatar.northwestern.edu/about/employ... Apply by 1/4/26

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

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Hurrah! Our collaboratively authored video essay OM SHANTI OMNIBUS made the Sight and Sound list this year. Shout out to my fellow members of IVERN (International Video Essay Research Network)!! @kathleenloock.bsky.social @llamasjr.bsky.social @ludology.bsky.social

In the fall of 2023, @bkwilliams21.bsky.social sat down with @llamasjr.bsky.social to discuss his book _Border Tunnels: A Media Theory of the US-Mexico Underground_ and the politics surrounding media depictions of border infrastructure and immigration www.reverbcast.com/podcasts/202...

This short video beautifully captures the spirit of my @asc.upenn.edu course “The Past and Present of Latin American Television” and my students’ commitment to and enthusiasm for the class material from this past spring:

Miller is a deranged racist commanding a federal police force J Edgar Hoover could scarcely have imagined in his worst fever dream. Home Depot has become both a site of domestic human rights violations and a town square where thousands of people are defending democracy. It must choose a side. /10

This short video beautifully captures the spirit of my @asc.upenn.edu course “The Past and Present of Latin American Television” and my students’ commitment to and enthusiasm for the class material from this past spring:

You can’t “fix” X, The Everything App by going back and posting there because the owner has this thumb on the scale of the algorithm to promote the worst ideas and people. It’s not a viable solution, you have to let it go.

Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.

Student newspaper in absolute goblin mode

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

From queer film classics to the artistic journeys of houseplants, we’ve got a great selection of books to gift your artsy loved-ones. Browse More: buff.ly/FEDRIRi #AarhusUniversityPress @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @llamasjr.bsky.social #GiftGuide

If tomorrow they made being undocumented a felony, it wouldn’t justify any of this. Things that are harmless or even good can be criminalized.

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill. It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.

Question for folks who attended the @scmstudies.bsky.social virtual symposium this weekend: were the meetings automatically recorded or did hosts get to choose? I wanted to watch some meetings at the airport today and it looks like only a handful of SIGs have recordings… #scms25

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

I happen to think Donald Trump getting a prize from the most corrupt organization in the world is actually perfect.

In 2020, Netflix announced it would base its regional operations in Mexico City, which has long been the central hub for telenovelas, news and variety shows, led by giants like Televisa. Now with Netflix in town, what’s changed? A course taught by @llamasjr.bsky.social asked that question:

It’s just open white supremacy at this point.

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

Easy (and appropriate) to blame this situation on AI. But that's the proximate cause. The ultimate cause is the catastrophic, shameful state of scientific publishing, which incentivizes the largest number of the most incremental papers/results, rather than pursuing the best work on its merits.

The most insidious slight of hand the AI industry has performed is getting everyone to conflate all forms of ML/AI with ChatGPT style LLM-based chatbots. Most people read this headline think “ChatGPT is making weather prediction more accurate.”

“The Black women of the film are lightning rods for the most forceful conversations the film can bear, and it’s thrilling to watch them embody what Anderson’s script can only loosely hold.” www.vulture.com/article/blac...