iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Amazing work from all the organizers, presenters, & our hosts from Labor@Wayne I’ll take some credit for editwork, but this really was conceived from the outset by @deyob.bsky.social @sunyufspresident.bsky.social & Sean O’Brien.

theamericanvandal.com

AI, FOIA, & The Public Good (Vandal Live from Labor@Wayne)

with Christopher Newfield, Sean O’Brien, Yasmeen Hishmeh, & more

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

If you believe higher education is essential to the project of building multiracial democracy and the infrastructures that support human flourishing, then you oughta read this, sign our petition, and pass it along to a loved one, a colleague, or a friend!

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Sign the Petition

The State of Shared Governance: Independence Day 2026

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

In Michigan it’s lookin’ like a wasted opportunity—pretty sad, actually. Benson’s connections with BT are a flock of albatrosses hangin’ heavy on her neck; Whitmer’s coziness with Altman is political malpractice of the highest order. The only Dem speaking sense on the issue seems to be El-Sayed.

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Public Good U @publicgoodu.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

AAUP TV and The American Vandal Podcast will help conversations like Thursday’s reach wider audiences. In addition to AI, talks from Public Budgets, Public Good at Wayne State focused on how higher ed is being affected by private equity, institutional debt, and ed tech. Top notch work!

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Higher Ed folks, mark your calendars cuz this is happening! Gonna be broadcast on AAUP TV so we can reach a national audience! Please spread the word to help us reclaim higher education for the public good!

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Most definitely interested. In fact, examples from outside academe would be especially helpful!!!🙏

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

English Studies colleagues, I’m gathering examples of position statements on AI, as I’m working with a colleague on a draft for our department. The one from Rutgers rocks, and I’m wondering if any of y’all could share yours? The process is trickier than I had imagined !🙏✊

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Department Statement on AI

The Department of English is the largest humanities department in the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Our faculty st

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Thanks for sharing and amplifying our story, Matt. Many of us at GV have been preparing for this—listening to the ensemble of critical voices you’ve gathered in your excellent podcast, The American Vandal, has been indispensable, empowering, and inspiring. ✊🙏

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

If you’ve been haunted like I’ve been by what that grinning bow-tied grifter did to WVU—and you wanna try to make sense of the AI-EdTech-Higher Ed nexus—please read and share widely✊🙏

mlive.com

GVSU approves $139M bond to cover new technology hub plans

GVSU authorized issuing bonds not to exceed $139 million, a decision applauded by university leaders and decried by some faculty members.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

This book is a godsend for academic workers! Read it, share it with folks who care about the fate of democracy and the planet, teach it, talk it up within organizing, union, and faculty governance spaces. It's gonna be indispensable to the struggle to build a political economy that works for all.

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University Keywords

How American universities operate as social and economic engines that shape society beyond their traditional educational roles.University Keywords gathers, contextualizes, and develops original unders...

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

So much I wanna say about this episode. For now, just wanna extend my most heartfelt thanks to Matt and the collective of good folks who make AV possible—and are fighting, on the daily, to build a more just, beautiful, and verdant future. Burn, burn—always, Matt—with Pater's "hard, gem-like flame"!

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Cruel Futurism

The American Vandal · Episode

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Thinking (too much!) about technofeudalism, the seemingly unstoppable genocidal/ecocidal violence/madness directed toward Palestinians, climate apartheid, the death drive, Eisenhower's warnings about the military-industrial complex, Trump's interminable bloviating, then happened upon this title...

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The Palestine Laboratory

Winner of the 2023 Walkley non fiction journalism prizeFinalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights WritingIsrael's military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a te...

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Academic workers at public regional universities MUST have a seat at the table with admin to determine their respective digital strategies; it's also imperative they have a say in their contracts with EdTech, AI startups, and companies like Ziplines. If not, they need to ORGANIZE and DEMAND it!

open.substack.com

How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships

You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Just formed a faculty-staff-student led Land-Use group at Grand Valley State University to collectively resist technofeudal projects in the Great Lakes region, such as the building of data centers that will drive up the costs of energy and water for working people...

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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.

The real estate platform streamlines investing in US farmland. Now farms are fast becoming a portfolio staple for investors worldwide.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Close reading—FUCK YEAH!

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

As I keep tellin' my students while they're makin' their podcasts together, if we're gonna make a revolution, we gotta become maestros in the ART of LISTENING. If yer feelin' down or downright disgusted with the state of things, then simply pour this tasty episode of AV into your ear!

theamericanvandal.substack.com

From Technostructure To Technofeudalism (A Tale of Today, Episode #16)

with James Livingston, Astra Taylor, & Yanis Varoufakis

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone interested in understanding university budgets in the context of polycrisis—please join us for our webinar this Wednesday, April 16, 4:30-5:45, EDT. Link to register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Gonna start with big picture stuff, theory, history of the financialization of higher education, then we're gonna discuss what we can practically do—budget activism.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Sounds great. Hope you can attend the webinar, as there will be plenty of time for discussion!

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Paging all critical university studies folks—and anyone keen to learn more about university budgets—I'm jazzed to announce this is happenin' next week! Join us👇✊

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 31/01/2025

From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

ICE On Your Campus
Questions to Ask Your Administration
1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities?
2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents?
3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant?
4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant.
5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance?
6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE?
What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now
1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact.
2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night.
3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan
4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney.
Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus
Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators:
1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so.
2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Methinks the late Fredric Jameson would have deep and penetrating insight into the fact that a US president-elect/greedhead/bullyboy/con-man/real estate mogul just brokered a ceasefire in Gaza: "I will put a very simple proposition to you: namely that today, all politics is about real estate."

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

"These developments expose without a shadow of a doubt that the Biden administration’s failure to achieve a ceasefire was always wilful, and that the Democratic Party government positively chose to arm and support the genocide. There will have to be accountability for that."

electronicintifada.net

Why is Trump pressuring Israel to end its war on Gaza?

Gaza ceasefire is closer than ever thanks to resistance steadfastness and intervention by US president-elect.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Galvanizing to witness hundreds of fellow academic workers protesting the MLA's refusal to allow its members to vote to approve a resolution endorsing the 2005 call of Palestinian civil society organizations to boycott, sanction, and divest from Israel at the Delegate Assembly meeting today✊🇵🇸♾️

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Matt has answers to the ongoing and accelerating climate catastrophe—build and harness the power of a transnational labor movement. Wanna do something about the wildfires in California? Or the genocide in Gaza? Support and build unions that are excited and ready to FIGHT to defend the planet!

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Lookin' out my hotel window at the MLA in New Orleans and ... cruise ships on the Mississippi—WTF?😱

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Warm thanks to colleagues in the MLA for their principled stance on the genocide in Gaza. Anti-BDS legislation is fascistic and continuous with the barbarous logics of coloniality since 1492. To capitulate to the idol of neoliberal economic rationality at this historical moment is MADNESS!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

fortune.com

AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

It also guzzles enormous sums of water.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/01/2025

Events like the California fires demonstrate why it's so dangerous when tech billionaires decide to eschew rigorous fact-checking. Social media remains a vital source of real-time life-saving information during crises and disasters. Having accurate information is often a matter of life or death.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Holy smokin' mother of SIN! "BILLIONS AND BILLIONS SERVED"—indeed ... and legions upon legions of wild-ass chickens comin' home to roost! So this is 2025—buckle up, folks ... and UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE, UNIONIZE!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Always read Mike Davis: "You say fire, I say climate change, and we both ignore the financial and real-estate juggernaut that drives the suburbanisation of our increasingly inflammable wildlands." "Unnecessarily, our children, and theirs, will continue to face the flames."

lrb.co.uk

Mike Davis | El Diablo in Wine Country

In 1942 Alfred Hitchcock recruited the author of Our Town, Thornton Wilder, to write the screenplay for Shadow of a...

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

One last thing. If you're keenly interested in critical university studies, but don't always have time to read the latest, AV is a lively, inspiring, and accessible digest of CUS concepts, themes, and concerns.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The collective knowledge produced by this podcast has been a boon to teachers like myself whose time is being stolen away on the regular by said political economy. Listening to this podcast has helped me to steal time back and imagine ways to reclaim the commons in our classroom praxis.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Gearing up to write an abstract for an essay on indebted life and the ways that higher education is entangled with neoliberal, extractivist, racial capitalist political economies. Gotta recognize the ways that listening to @mattseybold.bsky.social's podcast has made this work possible.

theamericanvandal.substack.com

The First Curriculum is Work Without Wages (A Tale of Today, Episode #11)

with Rachel Sagnar Buurma, Jelani Favors, Laura Heffernan, Nathan Kalman-Lamb, & Derek Silva

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

"Collective actions that have material impacts can also remind people that we can affect the heartbreaking conditions that discourage us. Feelings of powerlessness and overwhelm are responsible for many of the harmful dynamics that hinder our work as activists and organizers."

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"Unions are engines of democratic life that invite and allow for sustained participation. Union participation puts workers in common cause with one another, which offers a reason to rethink the social relationships between workers and owners."

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"Confronting the state will require a mass base of people, and the strategic value of preventing solidarity between the people who could make up that base is no more mysterious than the question of whether the average army would prefer to face a larger or smaller enemy army."

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"One sense of solidarity is in the direction we want, that of solidifying popular power against oppression and working to expand the zone of people whose material lives, rights and dignity are respected."

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"Under Elon Musk’s tenure, the company has been converted into a de facto anti-organizing platform that eats solidarity and shits out bitcoin."

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

"And local sources of news, which could counter the political narratives being shamelessly promoted by the billionaire class, are facing censorship, layoffs and closures." In the absence of local news, colleges and unis can do their part to train up an army of muckrakers to counter fascist bs.

inthesetimes.com

Scapegoats and Solidarity

Scapegoat politics is a tempting—but harmful—distraction from the real work of solidarity-building.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Intrigued, pissed, and a touch terrified by the AI advertising blitz happenin' on ESPN and elsewhere during college bowl season. Same shit goin' down while watchin' the Lions last night🤔😱

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

"What might it mean to live a life, if we can't risk desiring and working towards utopia?" – Rinaldo Walcott, "Towards Another Shape of this World"

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Warm thanks to our colleagues in the MLA for their principled stance on the genocide in Gaza. Anti-BDS legislation is fascistic and continuous with the barbarous logics of coloniality since 1492. To capitulate to the idol of economic rationality at this historical moment is madness.

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Brian Deyo @deyob.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

"By reimagining the global economy as a means to exert pressure on Israel, BDS has transformed boycotts into one of the most effective forms of nonviolent resistance in a capitalist world, creating ripple effects that resonate far beyond the checkout counter."

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

““A few days ago I visited the ruins of the village.The devastation is total.One wall of the school is still partially standing. It has an elegiac inscription in Arabic: “We have the right to an education.” I have never seen people so devoted to educating their children as the Palestinians”

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