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Sort of (re)launching my Substack! I posted a few notes since last year, but I'm planning to post more thoughts about history, culture, and politics there. Please subscribe! Starting with updated book tour information and a media roundup. austincmccoy.substack.com/p/finally-la...

Finally launching my Substack: Living in a DAISY Age Fall Tour

Book and tour updates!

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I'm doing a book event at the Baltimore Book Fest @redemmas.org this weekend! I'll be in conversation with SKIZ Fernando, who's published books about hip hop culture, Wu-Tang, and DOOM. Join us! Saturday at Red Emmas at 5pm! Should be fun.

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Finally launching my Substack: Living in a DAISY Age Fall Tour

Book and tour updates!

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Funny but not surprising that the president is railing against “socialism” while proposing to bribe people to vote GOP in November

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace is such a good, yet brutal, read (assigned it for my Working Class America class). Gets me every time.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Thomas Bell's Out of This Furnace is such a good, yet brutal, read (assigned it for my Working Class America class). Gets me every time.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Living in a DAISY Age tour continues! Next week I am heading to Portland to give a talk at Lewis & Clark College on Thursday. Then, on Saturday, the Free Society People’s Library and Mississippi Records is throwing a free party at Sumner-Albina Park.

This is an image of a flyer for the block party on Saturday. It's laying on a dark board and the flyer itself is yellow with a white frame. An image of De La Soul appears near the top. The pertinent information about the event--All Ages, Saturday 9/12, 4-8pm, Sumner-Albina Park, 722 N. Sumner St., PDX, with DJ Jumbo and Sound by the Impact Sound. Free!

Sponsored by the Free Society People's Library and Mississippi Records

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I won't be in town but I hope my Portland folks will check these out

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Awesome the latest episode of Lanterns is named after OutKast and it dropped a little after the 30th anniversary of ATLiens. Such a great fit for that particular episode too (in the ways that the writers address race, culture, and John Stewart's upbringing)

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Whew. I'm still not used to teaching at 8:30am 😂

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Solidarity with The Baffler workers! They, like all workers, deserve a fair contract that protects them from the whims of management.

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Listened to a recent Chris Hayes podcast about AI and the guest said something about what folks really wanting with artificial general intelligence is the ability to have robot slaves. Then I encountered this while watching the original Westworld last night. Havent gotten this out of my brian since

Image is a picture of a TV displaying a scene from the 1973 film, Westworld. One character is standing to the left wearing brown pants, green shirt, and a khaki bandana while holding a brown cowboy hat. The other is sitting in a chair on the right wearing a blue shirt. To the right of hinm is a fern plant and above the plant is a gold lamp and two small pictures. At the bottom reads the caption: "Boy, machines are the servant of man!"

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Yeah, I was happy to read @jamellebouie.net ‘s comments in this exchange. The timeline supporting the critique that “wokeness” of 2020 undermined Democrats in 2024 when Biden won in 2020 😂 1. That’s rightwing framing, which has sought to rewrite the history of spring/summer 2020

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I usually talk about the history of the movement of women office workers who inspired the 9 to 5 film later in my classes, but I thought I’d address a little of it in class yesterday. I found the contents of the last two slides while researching my book. Yep, there's some 9 to 5 calendars out there

Powerpoint slide with the 9 to 5 movie poster on the left, in yellow, a black and white photo with women carrying picket signs on the top right, and the title of the lecture ("9 to 5" in Politics, History, & Culture") in white letters against a dark gray background on the bottom right.

A powerpoint slide with images from the 9 to 5 calendar. On the left, the main characters played by Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Jane Fonda are posing and on the bottom is the January 1981 calendar. On the right, Dolly Parton sits at a desk in front of a typewriter with the February 1981 calendar at the bottom.

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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music (Gift Article)

So, I just read this NYT interview with Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine and whoa boy. They talk about AI use, or I would say they try to talk about it, and it's as ill-informed, rediculous, and contradictory as I expected. I'm about to rant. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...

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The hit-making duo turned tech moguls also have thoughts about why corporate America isn’t collaborative enough.

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Also, Rick Rubin recently declared AI to be the "new punk rock" and Palantir touted Raekwon visiting their facitilies. All of this happening this past week, I believe smh

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Also, Rick Rubin recently declared AI to be the "new punk rock" and Palantir touted Raekwon visiting their facitilies. All of this happening this past week, I believe smh

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Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine Think A.I. Is Good for Music (Gift Article)

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The hit-making duo turned tech moguls also have thoughts about why corporate America isn’t collaborative enough.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

First day of classes. Not ready. Teaching Modern US & Working Class History this semester. Students in both classes are watching Terminator 2. (automation, AI, nuclear war fears, Big Tech). We will also watch clips of Norma Rae, Flashdance, and Finally Got the News in Working Class America

A powerpoint slide with three images--first with Alex Owens (character) dressed in work gear with one foot on a large pipe. The next is the darkly colored Terminator 2: Judgement Day movie poster, the last, on the right, is a black and white image of Norma Rae (played by Sally Field) holding a "Union" placard.

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Obviously I’m not interested in dealing with dealing with students’ potential AI use in my classes, but I still can’t bring myself to give up take home papers and/or do in-class exams lol

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Begging some publisher to reissue Sidney Wilhelm's Who Needs the Negro. I'd definitely write a foreword for it if necessary lol

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ICE and Data Centers Aren’t New, But Face Growing Pushback as They Intertwine

I wrote my latest for Truthout about how folks in Neptune Township, NJ, in part led by the Climate Revolution Action Network, voted to ban the construction of ICE detention camps AND AI data centers. truthout.org/articles/ice...

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A New Jersey township ordinance is the first in the US reflecting the link between the deportation regime and Big Tech.

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Read Tyler Harper's piece. I will say this, tokenizing in academia is real (something I've experienced since I was an undergrad & have comical stories), but to turn a problem Black and POC students, staff, and faculty have dealt w/for decades into an anti-"woke" screed like its a new thing is funny

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