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Jessica M. Elliott @jmelliott.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I can’t stop thinking about the part on using AI-generated images in teaching. An illustration/reconstruction by an artist working w/ a trained historian still reflects something about the past as we currently understand it. An AI image is just based on bullshit and vibes. It’s an image of nothing.

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Dean Chahim @deanchahim.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My piece on the "logistics of waste" has been online for a bit, but I am v. excited that it is now published as part of the special discardian issue of @antipodeonline.bsky.social on "A Global Era of Disposability: The Anthropocene, The Apotheosis of Waste"! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678330...

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Antipode: Vol 57, No 5

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I have a new piece in Dissent, thinking through what delivering Zohran's agenda will look like in practice. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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What Can Zohran Accomplish? - Dissent Magazine

What distinguishes Zohran Mamdani's socialism is not its aims. It’s his willingness to take seriously the problem of how to get there.

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Dean Chahim @deanchahim.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Nvivo completely corrupted my data in the new version, so I am looking for an alternative, ideally open source to avoid this mess in the future. Any favorite qualitative software recs? I just need simple tagging but more organizational ability than what Taguette seems to offer.

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Amelia Frank-Vitale @ameliafv.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

one-year lecturer position in environmental studies and the social studies of science and technology: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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beth semel @bethmsemel.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

tech companies prove time and time again they have little to no understanding of how boots on the ground medical practice and hospital administration actually works, but National Nurses United do and they want absolutely no part of this www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nation...

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National Nurses United survey finds A.I. technology degrades and undermines patient safety

A survey by National Nurses United found that artificial intelligence technology (A.I.) often contradicts and undermines nurses’ own clinical judgment and threatens patient safety. The findings unders...

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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

A historical photo of Ivan Illich being interviewed by a camera crew. Speech bubbles have been added to the image. The speech bubble from the interviewer says "The role of the university is...?" and the speech bubble from Illich says "...to resist AI".

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/06/2025

the amount of contempt vance has for everyone he's talking to — such that he'll say obvious nonsense as if he's fooling you — is genuinely remarkable

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/06/2025

the fact that people were told “today you are going to an elementary school to lie to teachers and kidnap kids” and didn’t immediately tell their bosses to go fuck themselves is all you need to know about why ICE should be dismantled

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Only in LA would protesters think to tag the ground so it’s visible in helicopter shots.

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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Best piece I’ve seen on why AI must be kept out of the humanities classroom: Not only because writing =thinking but also bc language is how we become human. It’s how we become the specific individuals that we are. We can’t be fully human without creating language ourselves

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Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee

What I learned serving on a university AI committee.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

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Philip Loring @philiploring.com · 05/06/2025

Google is muting their AI summaries for specific questions about the impacts of Trump on society. See attached for results for the same questions about human rights, one including "under Trump" and one not. Doesnt happen when "under Reagan" is included. Same happens for a q about economic impacts

Screengrab of a search in Google that asks "how are human rights being challenged in the US under president Trump?", and the results show "An AI Overview is not available for this search."

Screengrab of a search in Google that asks "how are human rights being challenged in the US?", and the results show a lengthy AI overview that notes discrimination, police misconduct, and the erosion of reproductive and voting rights and LGBTQ+ rights."

Screengrab of a search in Google that asks "how were human rights challenged in the US under Reagan?", and the results show a lengthy AI overview that notes domestic and foreign policy, civl rights, and voting rights, and tax breaks for schools discriminating by race,

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

This email makes its clear that ICE has always wanted to do illegal behavior, that they despised the constitution for constraining them, and that they never wanted to focus on criminals. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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US immigration officers ordered to arrest more people even without warrants

Exclusive: Ice officers told to get ‘creative’ with arrests, including of undocumented people encountered by chance

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

I read so many essays on AI's biases + dangers — particularly re: its applications in governance — and think: if you swapped "big data" for "AI," this very essay could've been written 10+yrs ago. In fact, this same essay was written, 100x, 10yrs ago. The think pieces perpetuate the ahistoricism.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Important story: These arrests happened last night "despite pledges from the mayor and the police commissioner that the City doesn't assist in civil immigration enforcement."

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

This was always the tech industry dream I've been spending two weeks each semester teaching computer science students about deskilling and feminization of labor for a reason!

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Dean Chahim @deanchahim.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

It was only a matter of time. And all of this speed up, for what? To sell us more shit we don’t need.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 17/04/2025

It shouldn't matter if Trump’s victims have criminal records. If we only defend the “innocent,” the fascists will argue that their victim “was no angel.” An anti-fascist rhetoric that carves out exceptions for imperfect victims is a gift to our opponents. New from me for @us.theguardian.com:

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What is a ‘criminal’ immigrant? The word is an American rhetorical trap | Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Labels like ‘gang members’ and ‘terrorist supporters’ are an easy way to make humans disposable

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 25/05/2025

Instead of starting the police reform clock in 2020, look further back in time: Rodney King (community policing), Michael Brown (body cameras and procedural justice training). We've known for a long time that police reform doesn't address the true mechanism enabling police violence: police power.

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Since George Floyd’s Murder, Police Killings Keep Rising, Not Falling

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

The uncomfortable truth for leftists is that a lot of low-carbon climate progress is being driven by elites who aren’t under pressure from mass movements. The uncomfortable truth for elite climate wonks is that those gains won’t be enough to stabilize the climate. We still need mass green politics.

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Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Please don't let this happen. Leave a comment today! www.regulations.gov/docket/FDA-2...

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

big first effect of the ranked choice system in the 2025 mayoral race — Mamdani encourages his supporters to not only support but donate to another candidate

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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

They hate mRNA vaccines, but now they’re ALSO restricting Novavax, the only traditional vaccine for covid. For no effing reason at all. It’s been approved and in use for two years in people over 12. Now only over 65s can get it. They want us sick. Or dead.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

like this would be party-collapsing if Democrats were in power it's just fucking maddening Republicans get to be unconscionable monsters and it's just baked in

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

"HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?""I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside," Boxtown resident Alexis Humphreys said through tears, holding up her asthma inhaler during a public hearing about the turbines on A April "HOW come can't breathe at home and y'all get tO breathe at home?"
Alexis Humphreys holds out her asthma inhaler while asking the Shelby County Health epartment rO deny a permit for XAl'S methane gas turbines. | Ariel Wittenberg/POLITICO's E&E News

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It’s unconscionable.

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Dean Chahim @deanchahim.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

How this would be reported anywhere else.

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Scott Ross, animate candy corn @skort.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Israel is starving two million people and the people protesting this are the bad guys?? This world does not deserve to exist.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵

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Scott Ross, animate candy corn @skort.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Important story about Georgetown postdoc Badar Khan Suri who was arrested without charge on the way home in February and now finds himself in a Texas detention center: newlinesmag.com/first-person...

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Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center

A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk

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Arlene Dávila @arlenedavila.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

“Latin American reformers know that the way to beat today’s new fascists is the same as it was in the 1930s and 1940s… in a voice simple, clear and sure, to improve the material conditions of people’s lives.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Want to beat authoritarianism? Look to Latin America | Greg Grandin

The region has grappled with dictatorships, coups and inequality. But its democratic spirit remains vital – and offers a lesson for the US

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