Musk is pursuing a war against multiracial democracy. Its defenders would be wise to understand that

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Next year’s NeoLuddite class will be even bigger.

Hard to keep up with Kang's hackery. Probably not worth the trouble. But... The primary source for this story is Kevin Carey (who has never worked for a school). He has been an EdTech shill for decades, promoting a series of failed rollouts. His think tank is funded by technofeudalists.

Do you know I actually think that these people are so inoculated from any public sentiment that they are legitimately shook by a handful of boos at commencements this week?

This new @mcsweeneys.net piece by my colleague Richard Amesbury is a little too real www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

They had to have paid? status.instructure.com

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Cold hard truth.

If you teach classes online at a Canvas school, what are you doing to rely on Canvas less?

A great @brahmresnik.bsky.social profile of the ASU Atomic debacle, featuring @chrishanlon.bsky.social m.youtube.com/watch?v=PZFu...

If you’re at ASU and are concerned about your course materials being stripped and sold for parts by an AI bot, join us in @ucwarizona.bsky.social and help resist this

I asked @pkrugman.bsky.social why the markets keep letting Trump hoodwink them when what he's doing is so obvious. His answer was interesting, albeit depressing: newrepublic.com/article/2096...

This catastrophe ought to be getting more coverage. Texas Tech has some brilliant and brave humanities scholars who have effectively been shut out of meaningful research & teaching. A huge loss for the academy and a dire warning for other institutions.

What a disgrace?

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Student athletes have control over their name, image, and likeness. Faculty do not.

My friend Michael Ostling and I wrote this op ed for the student paper about AI at ASU about 9 months ago; our concerns seem almost quaint at this point www.statepress.com/article/2025...

I have been saying this was coming. And I will sometimes be called paranoid. But even I didn’t think it would happen this fast or be this brazen.

Libs and leftists are gonna be pretty humiliated when it turns out shutting down global trade, collapsing your own popularity, eliminating your medical research base, and causing a global energy shock as you alienate your military and strategic alliances, is actually the path to National Greatness.

Two headlines from last week tell an interesting story if you’re paying attention. 👀

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

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Stephen Miller almost says that Trump is seeking a "final solution" in Iran but then catches himself

A lot of my sense of political life has been founded on opposition to Western military adventures in the Middle East. That's three decades or so of hating this, maybe not much but not nothing either. Even relative to all that - this latest war in Iran may just be the worst. Certainly the stupidest.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

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57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

Sounds like the Senator is volunteering to run point on this operation

THE NLRB GRANTED OUR ELECTION PETITION! USC non-tenure-track faculty will FINALLY get to vote on our union in April!

Arizona friends - don’t miss the book launch for Gioia Woods brilliant new history of City Lights Books! Tomorrow (Tuesday) night at Changing Hands PHX! Hope to see you there. www.changinghands.com/event/februa...

Join us tomorrow, when Charles Murray discusses the lack of Aristotelian unities in Riverdale

Don't know whether "high density of Scandinavians" or "over-empathizing" is my favorite bit

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

For anyone who missed it or was procrastinating like me, this @mattseybold.bsky.social article is an absolute must read. ASU folks - I'll be talking about it in my talk at the "Humanities as the Horizon of Responsibility and Freedom" symposium at Barrett tomorrow! www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

Did the anti-woke university run by morons and other, richer morons crash out? That's crazy. That is unexpected my dude

surely he would never violate THIS norm, i think to myself, as i sign my “Trump Is God-King Except This One Special Thing” ruling

11 days into the new year and we've got a new illegal war of plunder with an abducted head of state, full administration backing for executing moms driving near ICE, and the chair of the federal reserve recording proof of life videos to explain the threats he's recieved from the president

1.) Bringing down international enrollments & (by other means) enrollments by all students of color is imperative to manifesting the "enrollment cliff," which is not so much demography as policy prescription. Making it true underwrites the next cycle of austerity (which is actually social control).

Yarvin’s books were being sold and advertised at AmericaFest two weeks ago where a grip of Trump regime stooges appeared, including Vance + basically every face in the American right.

"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.

why are there rarely articles written about liberals in red state urban centers (e.g. Salt Lake City) being gerrymandered into some rural conservative representative?

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