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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 18h

For the Monday morning crowd! I wrote about DTF St Louis and the wonderfully strange TV Steven Conrad has made over the years (Patriot! Perpetual Grace LTD!), and why all that textual idiosyncrasy hits so good right now lareviewofbooks.org/article/dtf-...

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Nonpredictive Texts | Los Angeles Review of Books

Exploring ‘DTF St. Louis’ and the anti-algorithmic worlds of Steven Conrad.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/10/2026

"OpenAI could have been held liable for unleashing malware around the world, hacking Hugging Face, hacking all sorts of government agencies, but instead … they managed to redirect the conversation to some type of unprecedented rogue machines that don’t exist."

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The Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit Gebru

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This autumn is the 10th anniversary of the publication of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure. It came out during a heartbreaking time, my mom’s passing. I worked on copy edits and proofs from her living room, between medical appointments. uncpress.org/978146962771...

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Written/Unwritten

The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and ...

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

just having some nice window times over here

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I loved writing this piece, and I love Steven Conrad’s weird shows, and I hope more people—especially those who liked DTF St Louis—will watch Patriot and Perpetual Grace LTD

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For LARB, I wrote about DTF St Louis and the gloriously unpredictable televisual worlds of Steven Conrad lareviewofbooks.org/article/dtf-...

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Nonpredictive Texts | Los Angeles Review of Books

Exploring ‘DTF St. Louis’ and the anti-algorithmic worlds of Steven Conrad.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

got some decorative gourds, no one can tell me anything

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026

Nottingham today. Everywhere tomorrow. 2,700 staff put at risk. 600+ jobs targeted. At least 48 courses facing closure. What happens here sets the template for the sector. Stand with Nottingham.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi! I will be running the 2026 NYC Gaza 5K next month—here's the donation page if you're so inclined. Any ontributions are very much appreciated! getinvolved.unrwausa.org/fundraiser/7...

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2026 NYC Gaza 5K

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

at a certain point I don't know how to interpret this kind of bad-faith higher ed think piece other than as a death-driven attempt to tank the whole enterprise and then scab for it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's real! Too many people to thank, but I'm feeling so very grateful for the years of conversation, learning, and generosity that made this book possible. More about the book below --

Left hand holds a white hardcover book. The top half features an American flag with ASL alphabet replacing stars. Bottom half reads “before disability. A history of American citizenship. Sari Altschuler” in blue, red, and off-white text.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

pretty sure even people who eat meat don’t want to go to meat town

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Watching the original PLANET Of THE APES with the 12yo: “The apes have great hair” “It’s like a Twilight Zone episode” (discussed Rod Serling’s involvement) ”Bro…that’s deep“ (of the ending)

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"To exist alongside dinosaurs is impossible. Their narrative presence, then, brings other out-of-reach pasts into the frame." Alison Laurence reviews "The End of Oak Street" and "The Social Dinosaur": lareviewofbooks.org/article/end-oak…

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Diana Moreno @dianaforqueens.com · 25/09/2026

I joined @psc-cuny.org this morning to rally outside the arbitration hearing of the Fired Fourth to demand their immediate reinstatement, oppose the New McCarthyism and its authoritarian chilling of speech, and fight for strong, statewide academic freedom protections!

Assemblymember Moreno walks the picket line

Assemblymember Moreno speaks to the crowd

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I commented on this “partnership” already, and this is not good news. Keep commercially acting AI firms out of our cultural heritage.

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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To mark the publication of her amazing new book, THE EDGES OF CINEMA, Erika Balsom will lead a panel discussion at the New York Film Festival featuring #NYFF64 filmmakers Peggy Ahwesh, Éric Baudelaire,& Tiffany Sia on Sunday 10/4 at 6 pm! bit.ly/4ruRTgh @filmlinc.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

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Free Talk: NYFF Currents and The Edges of Cinema

Critic Erika Balsom leads a panel discussion featuring filmmakers from the NYFF64 Currents lineup considering the recent histories and possible futures of alternative filmmaking practices, and reflect...

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Referencing one's teaching at CUNY—when the "T" is right there next to the "Y"—is hazardous enough, but I will never get over the application in which I described my dedication to "pubic education"

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is time to devise some consequences for people who deliberately block the box, obstruct crosswalks, tailgate, and engage in other non-ticketable but intensely anti-social and dangerous driving behavior, so far all I have is shaking my fist, yelling and wishing tiny curses on them

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OK I did it! Imposed some artificial constraints (no limited series, stuck to the US) and leaned into shows I have written/thought a lot about

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“CUNY graduates half of New York’s nurses and a third of its educators – workers who remain here, pay billions in taxes and are essential to fulfilling the mayor’s affordability agenda.” It’s long past time to tax NYU and Columbia to support NYC publics!

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Opinion: New York’s wealthiest universities need to finally pitch in

It’s time to revisit Mamdani’s proposal to have NYU and Columbia help fund CUNY.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

niche post: tfw you accidentally take the stairs out of the Lexington Ave and 53rd St station

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

everyone talks about the midnight margaritas but no one ever addresses the giant bread bowl in the room, maybe Practical Magic 2 will finally explain it

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

petition to bring "lousy" back into the vernacular

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On October 13 at 1pm ET, @liznorell.bsky.social, @thetattooedprof.bsky.social, @josheyler.bsky.social, and I are convening a webinar about why we believe in AI resistance in higher ed. Registration link in the first comment!

"The AI boom is being sold as inevitable progress, but the real question is not whether artificial intelligence can do useful things in theory. It is who owns it, who profits from it, what it is mostly being used for, and who pays the environmental and political bill when the hype turns into microchip manufacturing plants, data centres, rising power demand, water stress, surveillance and attacks on democratic life." Medhi Leman, "The energy and environmental impact of AI and how it undermines democracy," at Greenpeace.org.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

all I will say about the NYT Best TV Shows of the 21st C list is that if Reservation Dogs, Better Things, Justified, and Catastrophe aren't coming in above 80 then I am officially Very Concerned

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Join @cjdenial.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and me for a free webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education on October 13, 1:00-2:00 pm ET. Register now! olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Announcing a live webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education: Taking a Stand for Our Students and Our Colleagues. Event takes place on October 13, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET. Speakers are Cate Denial (University of Minnesota Rochester), Joshua Eyler (University of Mississippi), Kevin Gannon (Queens University Charlotte), and Liz Norell (University of Mississippi).

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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Join us Monday for our second @aaup.org AI pushback toolkit webinar on Monday 9/21 1pm ET. If you’ve ever wanted to find out what your admin signs away in tech vendor contracts to organize around it, this is for you. www.aaup.org/event/foias-...

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FOIAs for Better Shared Governance Around Technology

This webinar provides examples of how to conduct public records requests to gather and analyze information pertaining to an institution's technology contracts, correspondence between institutional adm...

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sleater-Kinney and Liz Phair in Prospect Park, basically secular church for Gen X Brooklynites

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

ok, not to over-do it here, but my kid also parried the accusation that they hadn’t seen enough “new movies” by asking “OK, but have you seen any Buster Keaton movies? How about Alfred Hitchcock?” my heart!

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 19/09/2026

ICYMI

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

i just overheard my 12yo explain a physical newspaper to a friend: “you know, like what you see fathers reading in old movies”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On October 23, Creative Time and the Brooklyn Museum will co-host an all-day gathering between artists, activists, and scholars as we reckon with the most urgent issues shaping contemporary political life, from migration and reproductive justice to mass criminalization and climate change.

Event poster with bold red and blue text: “CONVENING IN PURSUIT OF LIFE, LIBERTY, AND HAPPINESS.” Event is October 23, 10 am–5:30 pm at Brooklyn Museum. “CREATIVE TIME” is at the top.

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