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“Being the mayor of New York is a big deal…One of the things I would have loved to be is the mayor of New York City” 😱😱😱

sometimes my life would be easier if I cared less: a memoir

This has become such a menace, I feel like I am under an interrogation lamp every time I come to a stoplight

Walking on a busy Brooklyn block tonight I think I finally — finally —understood what Journey was trying to get at with their immortal line “streetlights, people”

For @thenation.com, I wrote about the Condé Nast Fired Four and what our fight means for the labor movement www.thenation.com/article/acti...

A European academic colleague has a note in their email signature that they "normally deal with emails on Tuesdays and Fridays," can such limited exposure to electronic mail truly be possible, what are these boundaries of which you speak

Once you read this, please check out @elizabethalsop.bsky.social on the trauma backstory 📺 lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

"Plots, similarly, are treated not like longer series of events, but crises developing because something terrible happened in the past..T.he plot itself is the aftermath...but the energy of the show all goes toward locating the original source of the damage." Brilliant piece by @kvanaren.bsky.social

Horrible news. Solidarity with faculty and students at The New School.

All educational administrators—K-12 to university-level—should have significant classroom experience to qualify for their jobs and teach with some regularity once they have them. That's my take and I'm sticking to it.

Shades of Forest Ratner declaring downtown Brooklyn ”blighted” and in need of ”revitalization” in order to push through Atlantic Yards — instead of shared governance uni admin just wants to claim eminent domain

more coverage of this administrative buzzword coup “vision new synergies of the future with the School of Human Expression” "eliminating all the academic departments in a liberal arts college that is not hemorrhaging enrollment would be a very unusual step." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...

I may need to append this to my email signature

"...an essay like this usually pivots to a full-throated defense of the humanities’ & social sciences’ worth...But...maybe the onus should be on [administrators] to explain their mad plan to leave intellectually immiserated & stifled the students’ lives they ought to be committed to enriching."

paging The Specials

By definition, AI algorithmic engines repackage an aggregated, mathematically averaged version of what has already been thought & said. This means they are best seen as ideology machines: mechanisms built to recirculate the common sense of a social formation back to itself as though it is knowledge

The first section of our forthcoming book is a deep dive Gee's "Academic Transformation" at WVU from those who actually lived it; after you read it you won't be able to fathom why some people in the higher ed space still insist on taking him seriously. sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

Sending out thanks to all the fantastic NYC teachers doing conferences tonight! Even in the 5 1/2 minutes I had to talk to my middle schooler’s teachers I was blown away by their energy, thoughtfulness and enthusiasm 🙌

Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

Happy Publication Day to @melisser3.bsky.social and me!! It's pricey, but you can ask your library to grab a copy! #generationx

Just had a delightful & energizing conversation with two strangers on the Q train about Mamdani — whom we all canvassed for — and our hopes for the city, but sure NYC is a hellscape!

Graphic design, passion, etc etc

Parts of Penn Station feel like they should be off-limits, that’s how dank and weird and dilapidated they look, but what this otherwise very good article doesn’t mention is the insanely sub-par signage. Want to get to Amtrak from the subway? Good luck, hope you spot this tiny placard

fall dinner, fall dessert

Give the people the linear series that they want!

“America is sleepwalking into authoritarianism, and if there’s anybody out there that is a member of a labor union that is safe and doesn’t think this applies to you, he’s coming for you. They’re coming for you.” inthesetimes.com/article/drop...

the feeling of noodling around with an idea and then suddenly finding yourself writing the sentence that articulates what had been intuitively thinking but unable to quite say — nothing like it!

‘It’s almost shocking to encounter a world free of plastics and defined by literal manual labor—gestures done by hand, not by a swipe or the click of a button. An incidental effect of the film may be to induce … a powerful longing for a predigital moment.’ By @elizabethalsop.bsky.social

Oh god no

1. Watch The Lowdown, one of the best shows I've seen in quite some time. 2. Read Kathryn on The Lowdown, one of the best TV columns I've read in quite some time. 3. Profit.

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did! Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

For the Monday morning crowd! My take on THE MASTERMIND and the politics of the heist film for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

so it’s neither morally justifiable nor politically efficacious, I just went to make sure I understand the nuances of this lose-lose strategy

I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.

watching ep 2 of Pluribus and feeling slightly concerned by how strongly I identify with Rhea Seahorn’s character

just look at this day we had yesterday

just wait and see what ChatGPT can do once they've worked out all those bugs

guys I think this sweet potato might grant me three wishes

For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about Kelly Reichardt's THE MASTERMIND, and what her riff on the heist film has to say about labor, art, and entitlement lareviewofbooks.org/article/rebe...

We are underway. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social delivers opening remarks at a packed “Close Reading For The 21st Centure” book launch symposium.

a minor point in a magnificent finale, but I love that Lee Raybon writes his tour de force article in what appears to be a free text editor

Le French 75

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

Today is the opening day for AAUP v. Trump, in which a historic coalition of unions is suing the Trump administration for using funding threats to suppress free speech. I just listened to the judge's opening remarks and they were SCATHING to the defendants. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71360...

If I was working at the Times (would never happen lol) I would be talking to my women colleagues and perhaps outside counsel about whether this constitutes a Title VII violation.

did women what now

Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...