Adding this to the “AI is just the Hegelian master/slave dialectic” folder (i.e., the point of using AI is to perform the status of the master, whose frictionless existence is subtended by the friction-full labor of subordinates). AI ‘democratizes’ this position of mastery.

me when the AI bubble bursts

because I will always be the "I have a skilled trades/labour background, not an education" person, I will tell you that a big part of becoming skilled in anything is trying, failing, and being willing to try again despite how much it hurt. That's key labour, and without it, it's all an illusion

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

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does ACAB not include police dogs?

While the Great Man theory theory of history is bunk, the That Fucking Guy theory of history is compelling.

NEW: Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a leading champion of the SAVE America Act, repeatedly rejected concerns that the bill would impose voter registration barriers for millions. But privately, he admitted it would pose hurdles for married women and those who’ve changed their legal name.

If the only jobs become mid-career and management because everyone has decided there isn't enough bandwidth to train early-career folks... where do y'all think mid-career candidates will come from exactly? #medlibs 📚

Wolverhampton are slashing lit courses, Durham are allowing student work to be marked using gen AI, Edinburgh are on strike again next week, Oxford have entered some unholy partnership with Chat GPT. The prospect of a future without functioning higher education is starting to feel really frightening

Wouldn't it be interesting if Reps and Sens had to do everything the rest of us did? - pay for healthcare? - stand in the TSA lines? - work a damn side hustle like driving Uber? I'm just saying...

Glad to see this thinking out in the world, happy to not be alone in noodling around this cjal.ca/index.php/ca...

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

It’s not the biggest problem but one real reason why no left-liberal popular front has emerged in America is because of a loud and highly visible cohort of not-that-young-anymore leftist edgelords who refuse to be in coalition with their moms.

I'd be working on expanding capacity too

They are sick-making, carry huge possible legal implications, and should be seen, at least some of them. I was astonished they were even briefly taken down.

Here’s my interview with Shishir Mehotra, the CEO behind Grammarly’s “expert review” feature which attributed writing advice to people - including me lol - without permission. Or, as you will hear us talk about a lot, compensation. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

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Threads like this make social media worth it

I see your you should be able to change your name and gender whenever you want and I raise you a the government should have no right or interest in knowing your gender

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04

Would be great if the flight attendants' union and the pilots' union shut down all air travel to prevent ICE from taking over the airports.

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

There has been so little info on mainstream media about this that I want to throw some doors open and tell them to put all their attention on this. This is a big deal now. They need help now.

The U.S. Senate passed a bill, backed by U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock, which included a provision limiting the number of single-family homes an institutional investor can own to 350 homes. #BlackskyNews www.gpb.org/news/2026/03...

I know it’s unpopular on this site to point out that Democrats are largely very supportive of trans rights but they are, and we should recognize when they do the right thing

“It’s just incredible to think that this relationship began almost 200 years ago. Now, all these years later, we get to carry it on. This was a relationship born out of kindness and generosity that, all this time later, we still get to celebrate.” Long may it last.

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.

This is one of (if not the) most important issues in our field, and Violet has been doing this from a position of extreme vulnerability. Don't miss the excellent & actionable suggestions here; don't miss that those of us [currently] w/ prof stability HAVE TO pick up the work of advocacy here.

So if you can’t see the attached picture, in a lake the most visible swimwear colors are orange, yellow, and hot pink. In the pool, it’s red, yellow, orange, hot pink, and black. Purple and green could be okay depending on the shade. Blue disappears

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

Imagine if "big tent" meant accepting trans people instead of transphobes.

Honestly yeah this.

Tatyana Thompson said when she became pregnant with her son, her pain from sickle cell intensified. She was repeatedly in the hospital with a sharp pain, which she compared to being cut by a knife. After experimental treatment requiring bone marrow from her brother, she is pain-free. #BlackSky 🌱🙏🏾

Hi! 👋🏼 I’m a feminist public health professor and the only elected union leader in the race for Susan Collins’ US Senate seat. Andreaformaine.com

The USPS IS NOT LOSING MONEY. THE USPS IS SPENDING TAX DOLLARS ALLOCATED TO IT BY THE BUDGET. THE USPS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO ZERO OUT ITS BALANCE SHEET IT IS NOT A BUSINESS IT DOES NOT HAVE SHAREHOLDERS. IF THE USPS IS OUTSPENDING ITS BUDGET IT SHOULD BE ALLOCATED MORE BUDGET.

Apparently this is becoming a necessary weekly PSA. If you don’t want to read, write, and think, that’s fine. But then you have no business being a scholar. Especially if you’re TT/tenured, and especially in the humanities, if you can’t be bothered to do these things, you need to get out now.

Please call about this!!

Seconding and thirding the appeals for "...in front of Zendaya!" to become part of the lexicon

reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

I just signed a historic bill. In Washington state, law enforcement officers, including ICE, are now prohibited from wearing masks.

Went to campus today and one student complimented my outfit and a different one a while later said they loved my hair and that my friends is why I should get out of the house more.

This was better than I expected it to be, and I had HIGH expectations for it. I've already shared this around to multiple library folks I'm connected with and hope they find it inspiring and useful. So many absolutely fire parts that had me pounding my desk.

Nazca polychrome pottery is some of the best in the world

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Students also believed they were going to University to get a job because so many people in and around universities told them that was the reason. I feel these are structurally similar (related?) situations

Another great CUNY libraries job! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻