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Solidarity with all the colleagues on strike across higher education at the moment Another university is possible and this is what this manifesto is about While I'm at it, solidarity with French students too obviously and anyone fighting for better sites.google.com/view/manifes...

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MANIFESTO TO SAVE HIGHER EDUCATION

The Manifesto to Save Higher Education arises out of the ongoing attack on jobs and programmes across UK campuses. It was coordinated by members of UCU and Unison branches from around the country. C...

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 16h

Pope Bob holding firm on the idea that humanity is real

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 16h

the only thing - and i mean that literally, the ONLY thing Trump could do to make his base hate him is to take their big gas guzzling cars not killing a school full of children, not food prices, not staging a coup, not rape, not child rape, not insulting a disabled man on live television only gas

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 17h

this is not a new or unusual tactic on the part of the US, we did this in Vietnam, in Afghanistan, in Iraq

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Season One Finale of Slings and Arrows, or the party conference episode of The Thick of It

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"DON'T BE PARALYZED" "the honest politician that you want, it's you, my friend" true words from a man who spent his entire life fighting for the rights of workers, the poor, and the oppressed against incredible odds

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psyopson da cialva @marceeeeeeeeeel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

LULA ANUNCIA COMPRA DE DÍVIDA KÁRMICA PRA TIRAR MILHÕES DO SAMSARA

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

previously I've been suit and tie professor, every day but at my non Berkeley classes I've stopped wearing them, their continued behavioral problems just make it not worth it on a spiritual level

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the fascists are on the rise EVERYWHERE Trump is a symptom of a civilizational problem - the world isn't working for many people and the centrist leadership offers no solutions

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've had enough of "but everything was not was it seemed" middle school complexity in narrative give me either a timeless classic or a rich story of living, fleshed out beings, in between is dull

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Maybell Romero @maybell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

People following the Cornell case keep asking the same questions about Jane Doe. Why did she text one of the men afterward? Why didn't she call it rape right away? Why didn't she see herself as a victim from the start? My last three articles take these questions on. 🧵

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the GOP has a serious problem - their party staffers are all terminally online fascist bros, who care deeply about streamer beefs meanwhile their base is aging racist boomers who are happy that old man Trump says on TV what they've been saying over beers their whole life

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

after Trump there will be a wave of grifter seeking to keep his base - some will tack hard right along with the fascists, and others hope to keep the fascists as an appendix while seeming like moderates. Gov. Cox is one of those.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

moving away from fossil fuels is vital to the future of literally every single thing, and i mean that literally literallly

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

rape is an inherent part of "Rationalism," just like any other right-wing ideology they believe that women are things, and that things are there to be taken

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

no warby parker, a "virtual try on" option is not the same as putting the glasses on my actual face

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

these people think that culture is a product individuals stare at culture is a shared phenomenon! people watch shows because their friends are watching the shows! that has gotten more fragmented in the last few decades, but i don't think we'll end up in a fully bespoke AI landscape

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Join me today as I press a button and restore Rome as a Muslim ruler in the video game Crusader Kings III, in my ongoing attempt to stream games in ways that piss off the fascists. Next time I stream it might feature...killing Nazis! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e26i...

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Historian Plays Crusader Kings III: Muslim Rome Pt 14

YouTube video by Professor Craig

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am preparing for the Thanksgiving season by returning to the backlog of Paul Blart Mall Cop 2

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There is a good reason to support a billionaire tax that isn't answered in this article: it's propaganda to help people see that the wealthy are their class enemies

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

ICE is a crime, a mistake, and we don't need to keep making it

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

most podcasts and AI influencers could be replaced by this

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the heart of the AI industry is taking without asking, taking what you want, taking because you don't care, ignoring what others think and say and just doing it because it's good for you

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yudkowsky is supposed to be one of the kinder ones, folks

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Previously I have said that my politics could be summed up in two positions: fuck fascism, and fuck cars. I would like to add: fuck AI.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Realizing that with students on their phones and staring at screens - in a college course - I am for the first time not looking forward to class! gonna make some changes. I'm showing up as my actual, regular self, metal band tee and all. I'll talk like it's a podcast instead of a lecture.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the students have their headsets on, they're watching their computers what she means is: school is for the control of human behavior, and AI does that effectively

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I took the politics quiz and while there was no "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need" option (as in, it seems that left-communism isn't in there at all), I was pretty pleased with the "countries you fit into best" result:

says I fit best in Allende's Chile, Rojava revolutionary state in Syria, the Anarchists in Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War, and the Paris COmmune

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

very true that what we need to be saying is "they are TRYING to steal the election," not the defeatist "they have already done it"

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there is already a sci fi story about this, by Isaac Asimov: in the far future people have forgotten math but somebody rediscovers it, and the generals are ecstatic bc it means you can put a person in a missile to guide it rather than a more expensive computer

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"history" strategy games, the best platformer ever, the best story games ever, the best roguelike, the best sandbox (though SimCity was almost up there), and the best game to play for 8 continuous years in your friend's basement

CIV IV, Super mario world, Zelda: Majora's Mask, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Smash Bros Melee, Crusader Kings III, The Sims 2, Slay the Spire, and Civ VI

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we literally let the guy who attacked Ft. Sumter just... get away with it, he was pardoned in 1868

en.wikipedia.org

P. G. T. Beauregard - Wikipedia

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

join me in a bit for streaming CKIII, playing as Muslim Rome! I've been enjoying streaming, might switch it up to other games soon rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today in class I saw, again, a student just on their phone scrolling through videos. I have a no phone policy in class. This happens every day. I teach college. Honestly, I didn't know what to do. I stood there shaking in confusion for a while until I started talking again.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

sometimes I feel like all the activist work I've done or seen is the foam left over by that crested wave Hunter S Thompson wrote about seeing crash into the shore

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i'm strictly aquaculture, I only have good ideas in the shower

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

any consequences for public intellectuals absolutely eating shit for decades would be nice yeah 50 state strategy for Clinton? Sorry, not interested in your political takes ever again

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

good thread! as a history professor, i never ever make jokes about what i teach being useful, or relevant, or whatever literally what we teach in my department is EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO HUMAN BEINGS UP TO THIRTY YEARS AGO anybody who thinks that isn't relevant is a fool

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.com · 23/09/2026

[Agreeing] In the same way antisemitism is "the socialism of fools", antisemitism is the anti-Zionism of fools, the decolonialism of fools, genocide-opposition of fools, etc. www.facebook.com/veryangryjew...

Facebook page "Angry Jew"
> It used to be you'd point out a leftist had said something antisemitic and they'd say "It's never antisemitic to be against Zionism", which is a denial and a deflection but at least accepts the premise that antisemitism is hypothetically a bad thing. Now they say stuff like "People are dying, I'm past giving a shit about hurt feelings" which is notably, not a denial anymore
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> I don't know if this is that "Trump gave right-wingers permission to be bigots out loud" cultural shift from ten years ago finally catching up with the left or something else. As someone who's been visibly Jewish in lefty spaces for a long time though, it is a noticeable change from "I'm not being antisemitic" to "So what if I am? Who cares"

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the whole point of LLMs is to add another layer of separation between the people doing the social harms and the harms themselves like hiring a consultant, the point is for it to do what you always wanted while you go "haha that thing has a mind of its own"

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