Reposted by D B *free Palestine*dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 8ha lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way: 115437
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not a thing we know or will ever know can come from anything other than this deep well of care and patience, of being together with difficulty. 115215
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 13hIf we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7. 315064
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*BEAN YEAR @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 13hOK, I’ve seen enough, I’m calling it: American manufacturing and logistics is cooked, tired, busted, soulless, fried, exhausted, worn out, worn down More than ever before I have to re-ask for PO and logistics confirmations than I ever have in 14 years 49110
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 16hit’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore 314238
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 15hVery excited to share the cover of my new book JUST BENEATH THE SOIL: WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS LAST WITNESSES. It will be out May 4, 2027. I learned so much writing this book and truly can't wait to share it with you all. It’s available for preorder now: sites.prh.com/justbeneatht... 726354
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21hNow I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care. 952635
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 15hThe Department of Education has been incentivizing people to switch out of the SAVE plan and onto a more expensive plan. They said they would reduce your interest rate by 1% if you enroll in autopay by Sep 30th. But they just extended the deadline to Dec 31. This was a trick. 12616
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1033895
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Anyway, yall know all this stuff. The real point is that we all know this stuff but they keep making this AI thing that pretends we don’t know this stuff. the word for that is power. 025129
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026In the logic of the people who think, e.g. that LLMs can factually think, they have the logic backwards: they have already decided they can think. So it's like already deciding the pyramids were built by aliens... you will under such a frame find things that seem to you to be "evidence". 32511
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Madison! You are a beacon of happiness to a traveling band! Bless the Barrymore Theater. All y'all rock. 31354
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Derrida said that each death isn't the end of *a* world, it is the end of *the* world, and I think he's right. taking this insight seriously is what it means to actually not be a utilitarian monster 2162
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026luckily this feeling will never haunt me one day in my life 061
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026RIP Mighty Sparrow (1935-2026)caribbeannationalweekly.comLegendary calypsonian Mighty Sparrow has diedLegendary calypsonian Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, has died at the age of 91. 09937
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Using the excuse of number of majors to cut disciplines and departments weakens every major at a college as surely as the environmental damage of removing a keystone species from a habitat. 0284
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026applying market terminology to something does not make it a market 3689
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026anyways I think it certainly wouldn't hurt to hold ourselves and each other to higher standards of reading and arguing so let's give that a shot 1138227
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026my students went rogue after reading The Ignorant Shcoolmaster 010
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Congrats to Zahn McClarnon! Zahn McClarnon will receive the 2026 Visionary Award from the Santa Fe International Film Festival, honoring more than three decades of work as an actor and his growing role as a producer and director. redpopnews.com/zahn-mcclarn...redpopnews.comZahn McClarnon to Receive 2026 Visionary Award at Santa Fe International Film FestivalZahn McClarnon will receive the 2026 Visionary Award from the Santa Fe International Film Festival, honoring more than three decades of work as an actor and his growing role as a producer and director... 521762
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you'd listened in to the conversations between Himmler and his inner circle at Wewelsburg, you'd have been certain they were a gang of third-rate cranks. They killed millions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wewelsb... 286
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is 100% accurate and it’s why I’d never go to Bavaria 5056445
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As @interruptcrim.bsky.social has long noted, criminalization is the fuel for fascism. 15 years ago, we explored how processes of criminalization work. And we've continued to educate and warn about "bipartisan" efforts to expand, deepen, strengthen those processes. Join us. 0199
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Literacy is load-bearing, y'all. Not AI literacy, not digital literacy, not media literacy. Literacy literacy. 114335
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026You cannot talk about "affordability" without talking about debt. We're being robbed twice. First at our workplace by our bosses who refuse to pay use enough. Then a second time by our creditors for charging us interest to borrow for what our bosses don't pay us. It's a sham. 24712
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Because I won’t use Canvas I’ve created Slack channels for my classes ( kinda) and a very sweet side feature is how certain (male-coded) students are gently instructing me on how to set things up better. 4171
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026the postwar university for all its problems worked according to a pretty complex balance of cultural and economic capital with other kinds thrown in, but it looks like we can simplify our Bourdieu for the phase of neoliberal higher ed we’re in now, where the only thing that matters, ever, is money 27023
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age. 1026041
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm actually a big believer in passages of beauty in literature being as valuable as an overall work of literature. I can never actually remember the plot of Gatsby, but the experience of reading those final passages are seared in my memory forever. 2152
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear 12685155
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026indeed one might argue that the whole point of admins is to sustain as vibrant a curriculum as possible given how LLMs, the media, and the whole damn US government are actively trying to destroy educational options. if you want to be heroes, admins, you’ve got a great opportunity. 04910
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 24/09/2026You don’t in fact gotta hand it to the admins who closed a host of programs at your university 220216
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Are you AI enhanced or did you just suffer a concussion?” is going to be a question doctors ask in the future 5428
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026That's the point--and, frankly, I think the more most students are exposed to what is truly unique about the academy, the more they love it. A university is one of the only places where people can play with ideas without needing to expect any sort of commercializability. 423827
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026All week long, New Yorkers will take action across the city to say: BLOCK THE BOMBS. END THE GENOCIDE. LET GAZA LIVE. Tune into the @jvp.bsky.social livestream here: www.instagram.com/jvpny/live/?... 13714
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Tomorrow is the USA premiere of my film BLACK PACIFIC, CHINESE ATLANTIC @ ICA in Philadelphia. Part of a group exhibition on #AfroAsian ecologies that will be on till Feb 21, 2027. An Afro-Chinese Jamaican cinematic odyssey, it follows my grandad’s errant itineraries from Asia to the Americas. 11813
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026they are literally saying ‘give us what we want, or humanity gets it.’apnews.comTech leaders to UN: For the sake of humanity, please control the AI technology we createdThe heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people. 0176
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026LLMs allow for a counterpart to the alienation of labor, which separates the worker and the product in our eyes LLMs (like other forms of social control) are designed to prevent us from seeing and blaming those responsible 0173
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They’re gonna hold hearings one day about what happens to these kids 3246
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Émilie Oléron Evans @bringyourownsun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Taught my 1st class today and included a slide on Academic Integrity drawing on the material generously shared by @olivia.science & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social. In my AI-frenzied institution, I am channelling a mix of Astérix (for the resisting) and Bartelby (for the stubbornness). Wish me luck. 3327
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I think I’ve underestimated how radical it is to be an “actually, we don’t need more data” guy in the age of AI 329645
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"If AI is 'inevitable,' neither market forces nor the immutable tides of progress [make] it so.... A [few] firms are exploiting their economic and political power to impose a new technology in the face of two developments: mass resentment and muted demand for paid (and unsubsidized) AI services." 1194
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026There's such stressful oversupply of words right now; this horrific tsunami of thought-shaped dead word bodies belched out of methane-fuelled computer buildings. It's so gross. But it also makes me think hard about every word and sentence I write. It kills me to think I could commit the same crime. 18012
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I can only assume this bill is designed to protect women athletes such as Aminata Seck 06316