I understand the sentiment, but feel just the opposite. AI is saturating every surface of students’ lives. What we have to offer them is not small tweaks to their engagements w the technology, but rather spaces separate from it via which they can develop their own critical faculties.

The difference between a millionaire, billionaire, and trillionaire, as explained in Ray D. Madoff's "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy"

A whole generation of journalists seem to believe that journalism is just stringing together TwitterX posts.

April Fool’s Day is the worst. It’s like amateur comedy hour.

He can’t even fill all the seats in his own renderings.

She used her academic expertise to improve conditions in the real world?

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

We’re inching close to the charge that something is too real to be real so it must be AI.

Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline. (Sun Ra)

Remember: Octavia Butler wrote we should save seeds to plant, pick up skills like sewing and carpentry, learn how to shoot guns, practice how to fight, and create the futures we need, even as we look to the stars.

Nice visual/written essay by Terry Godier on how material goods of capitalism (phone, appliances, apps) shifted from being products to becoming relationships. This shift is a mirror of neoliberal subjectivity that demands ‘work on the self’ via moral imperatives. www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

Be prepared for everyone to claim a state of exception, as if it had not been organizing things all along.

A lesson to learn: power expands at the speed of tolerated transgression. Each crisis that fails to end someone’s transgressions resets the threshold of what comes next.

That Overton Window slides pretty fucking fast.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

Masthead, then headline, then kicker...I ask...is this vertical integration?: "Maybe the significant gains to humanity from these new satellites are worth the losses to astronomy, to the atmosphere, to biodiversity, to human health and to the night sky. Reasonable people can disagree about that."

Same. (Kafka’s diary entry on 25 Feb 1912).

Good morning

I wrote about how the reading crisis can only be understood within the context of class warfare, and how culture and capitalism continues to be intertwined lithub.com/on-the-so-ca...

“I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.” ~SAMUEL JOHNSON (in Boswell's The Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides)

The Supreme Court:

Every time you unsubscribe from a Dem campaign, they add your number/email to three others you also never subscribed to.

This image comes to mind every time I learn about some new AI tech. Globalization, and the global inequality, is just the real world version of a green screen.

In this economy??? marchforbillionaires.org

“...poetry today might have more to teach us than economic science, the human sciences and psychoanalysis combined.” ~Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis

Happy birthday to Antonio Gramsci, one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century and a socialist hero.

Explore Günther Anders’s The Obsolescence of the Human, now available in English—one of the twentieth century’s most important works on the philosophy of technology #MLA26

Breaking News: Bela Tarr, a Hungarian director whose long, grim films like “Werckmeister Harmonies” made him an art-house titan, died at 70.

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.” ― James Baldwin

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

A key for my teaching has always been “finding friction” for students to grapple with. AI removes most friction in favor of a kind of faux fluency. This essay gets at exactly that dynamic also needed at the larger curricular level.

“I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline…” marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

The Texas Department of Transportation is annexing properties along I-35 in Austin to make way for an expansion of the interstate. Here are some of the people and businesses being displaced: placesjournal.org/article/along-a-path-of-impermanence-highway-displacement-austin-texas/

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

There are so many Zs in this story.

Huh…maybe Joyce Carol Oates was onto something here.

Never before have I been as intrigued by a phrase as I was after reading the title "Inflatable space stations" Super cool new article by @angadh.com on how to create artificial gravity in space 🛞 worksinprogress.co/issue/inflat...

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This shortened title hits different these days

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

There are no words for how evil this is

Jimmy Carter's advice to a young person. My nephew Matthew shared this letter with me yesterday. Five years ago, he wrote to all the living presidents and asked for advice on how to participate in public service. Only Jimmy Carter responded. A precis on how to live a life of service.

The problem with digital ID cards isn't what you think. Here's why Britain and other nations should stop pushing digital ID apps, right now. My latest for @newscientist.com, now free from the paywall! www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

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"Through his mode of life...Diogenes exposes himself absolutely to domination, to murder. He can be crushed like a snail is crushed underfoot. He can be broken, reduced to pieces. He can be exiled and tortured. But he cannot be governed." Catherine Malabou on Diogenes. No notes.