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Associate Prof of English and Digital Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center. Director @cunycommons @cunygcdi @cbox. Co-Editor @dhdebates. Co-PI @ManifoldScholar. mkgold.net

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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So exciting to see the CFP for this new volume on DH & AI out in the world! Edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @lnakamura.bsky.social @zentralwerkstatt.org, part of the Debates in DH series @uminnpress.bsky.social. Deadline 11/1/26 dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Powerful, personal, gut-wrenching reflection by Nikole Hannah-Jones on segregation and inequality in the NYC school system and the choices parents make for their kids within it. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m... (gift link)
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP, Annie Dillard. She was forceful, frank, funny, intimidating, and intense as a teacher. Relentlessly curious and filled with exultation about the world. She taught me how to write and appreciate poetry -- but also how to wash dishes and eat an artichoke. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/b...
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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81 (Gift Article)
Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
The taxpayer-funded White House incitement account is now attacking me for [checks notes] being in my 40s
President Trump does, in fact, travel with staff.

Aaron, on the other hand, is a sick, deluded freak (in his 40s) who sits behind a keyboard and posts creepy things like this.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/09/2026
A Cloudflare co-founder launched the company due to OPT. This crushing fee probably means Zatlyn starts Cloudflare or another company elsewhere. Add in all the int’l PhD grads who stay for postdocs, often on OPT. Lots of US Nobel Prizes come that way. This is a stupid and destructive policy
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Guardian provided the essential context yesterday: “It’s a land grab – a massive land grab,” said one well-known opposition figure….”This is not the United States of the Marshall plan. This is a rapacious, mafioso United States.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Venezuelan opposition up in arms over reports US wants big stake in oil and gas
Critics call move to gain long-term access to country’s massive energy reserves ‘predatory’ and ‘unconstitutional’
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
A few hours ago a Madison Police officer shot a man three times, point blank, in the face. The man was being restrained by three other MPD officers at the time. It happened in an intersection I cross every day, less than a mile from my house. When will the executions stop.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
If ICE can kill anyone it wants with impunity, then none of us have any meaningful rights. It’s that simple.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This is horrific & a powerful article by @willbunch.bsky.social - we can’t look away. Gift link in replies…
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
CUNY Graduate Center Provost Joel Christensen @sentantiq.bsky.social on @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social’s approach to AI, which “center[s] human ways of thinking and being . . . emphasiz[ing] collaborative development rather than compliance and punitive approaches.”
Image of text reading: “We are interested in developing guidelines that reflect our values and institutional mission, that could help us continue to center human ways of thinking and being, and that would also emphasize collaborative development rather than compliance and punitive approaches.”
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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I wish more institutions would dedicate resources to home-grown critical AI experimentation, rather than ceding control and precious dollars to our tech overloads. @cunyailab.bsky.social is a model of how to do this! #ACH2026
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m excited to shared draft AI Guidelines for the CUNY Graduate Center community @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Importantly, they embed a right of refusal for faculty, staff, and students where reasonable alternatives exist.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m excited to shared draft AI Guidelines for the CUNY Graduate Center community @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Importantly, they embed a right of refusal for faculty, staff, and students where reasonable alternatives exist.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Cannot believe they did it. WOW
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
53 years. So proud of this team!!! Unbelievable!!!! JB forever
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🙏
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
JB. Incredible
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How many calls on the Spurs can the refs miss?
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Somehow I feel like Mikal is key for us tonight. Glad he’s getting going.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.
Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
Vanderbilt University AAUP
vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com
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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 11/06/2026
The Knicks pulled off the largest comeback (29 PTS) in NBA Finals history.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Marcus Camby, Latrell Sprewell, Walt Frazier, John Starks — so many Knicks legends at the Garden tonight cheering and celebrating.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
OG OG OG. What a game. Hero.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
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Law Murray 📘 @lawmurraythenu.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The San Antonio Spurs had an 81-52 lead with 9:40 left in the third quarter From that point on! Knicks outscored Spurs 55-25 Spurs missed 29 of last 35 shots (17.1% FGs) Spurs missed 13 of last 15 3s (13.3% 3s) Spurs scored only 4 paint points Spurs had 4:9 AST-TO ratio
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Combination of the Wu-Tang and the Taylor-Ernie hug unleashed some weird magic in the Garden tonight
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Greatest comeback in NBA history
Screen grab documenting the Knicks win — greatest comeback in NBA history
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
One of the best wins ever
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
OG carried them all game and right to the last tip
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
YEAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! OG!!!!!!!!
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Mike Brown was 100% right
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For a gorgeous use of Manifold for a book with extensive digital assets, see @whitneytrettien.bsky.social's Cut/CopyPaste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork, 2021 manifold.umn.edu/projects/cut... @uminnpress.bsky.social List of digital resources in the book: manifold.umn.edu/projects/cut...
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Cut/Copy/Paste | Manifold@UMinnPress
**How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?** <br/><br/> In *Cut/Copy/Paste*, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collabo...
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The book's last section (from Ch 14 on) exploits the fact that the Manifold platform for digital editions of U. Minnesota Press’s open-access books (manifold.umn.edu) can include digital assets. About Manifold manifoldapp.org @mkgold.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social
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Graphic design featuring an impossible geometric shape composed of interlocking pastel-colored bars forming a pencil. Text highlights "Manifold" (the name of the online ebook publishing platform) and the teaser word "Possibilities." There is also a button labeled "Watch Video."
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Tariq Panja @tariqpanja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This will go down as a major stain on FIFA and its World Cup before a ball has even been kicked. Infantino has been banging on about the most inclusive World Cup and Africa’s top referee can’t even get into the country. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...
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U.S. Denies Entry to World Cup Referee From Somalia
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026
Aha! Now it all makes sense!!
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
OMFG!!!!!!
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Love seeing John Starks in the crowd
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate
Alabama gambled on the Court’s partisanship, and won.
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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Neighbors maintain a free broadband network in Philadelphia — @phillywireless.bsky.social — that now serves 7,600+ users. Read about the six-year project to build community-supported infrastructure in the latest Debates in DH volume from @uminnpress.bsky.social cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/06...
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New Publication Details Cooperative Broadband and Community-Supported Infrastructure
New Publication Details Cooperative Broadband and Community-Supported Infrastructure
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Like so many others, I hated seeing Thibs fired, but damn — all hail Mike Brown
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
BTW, this is going to be a battle. I think it’s going to go a full 7, Knicks standing at the end. Knicks needed to get 1 of 2 in SA, and have already accomplished that.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wow
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The fact that it’s the finals and the Spurs seem embarrassed to hack Mitch could be huge for the Knicks in this series
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
LET’S GO KNICKS!!!!!!!
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AL.com @al.com · 03/06/2026
Derrick Coleman declined his Mobile Sports Hall of Fame induction, saying he could not accept the honor while Black voters face diminished representation under newly approved congressional maps. More 👇
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.
First, the Court's decision will cause havoc. The so-called
"Purcell principle" "generally holds that, because late-breaking changes to election procedures can cause chaos, federal courts should hesitate before exercising their equitable discretion to alter state election laws close to an elec-tion." Malliotakis v. Williams, 607 U. S. _, —
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(SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 10). Today's decision tramples on that principle of restraint.
As the District Court explained, the path of least change in Alabama is keeping the District Court's remedial plan in place. According to Alabama Director of Elections Jeff El-rod, all voters in Alabama are currently assigned in county-level voter rolls to congressional districts based on the remedial map that the District Court previously ordered and that the State used for the 2024 election cycle. 2 App. 135.
To run an election using the remedial map, then, the State need not make any changes to its voter rolls or change the status quo.
To switch to the 2023 Redistricting Plan now, however, county elections officials will have to reassign hundreds of thousands of voters across the State to new congressional districts. Three of Alabama's counties will be particularly hard hit because they are split across two congressional dis-tricts. 2 App. 121-122. These counties have about 600,000registered voters between them (roughly 15% of the State's total number of registered voters).2
Elrod testified below that county elections officials would have to reassign those 600,000 voters manually. "The sys-tem," he explained, "is not automatic" and "requires manual input" from elections officials who must "physically manually interface with the system." Id., at 146. Reassigning voters in precincts split across two districts is particularly complicated, he continued, as it "cannot be done with a simple click" and instead requires officials to check street-level data to determine how to assign individual voters. Id., at 156-157. Worse yet, Elrod warned that reassigning voters requires using complicated computer software that officials must be trained to use, as "most of the counties' registrars are not tech savvy" and "registrars are the only ones who can make the changes ... to a voter's record." Id., at 147-
148. This process also requires many prechecks and backend quality control steps, all of which add to its time-inten-sive nature. Id., at 140.
Given these complexities, the process for reassigning voters typically takes months. Alabama knows (or at least knew) this. In 2021, at the first preliminary-injunction stage in these cases, Alabama filed a declaration from El-rod's predecessor representing that voter reassignment
"can take a county's Board of Registrars 3 to 4 months to accomplish." ECF Doc. 82-7, p. 4.3 For example, after the Alabama Legislature redrew its state legislative districts in 2017 following litigation, "local election officials struggled to complete the district assignment process in up to 4 months." Ibid.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, issues a 17-page dissent to the 4-page order: "[J]ust as Alabama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court today doubles down on chaos."
JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and
JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting.
Before the Court are two paths. Down one lies an orderly election, held under a tried-and-tested congressional map that protects Black Alabamians' right to vote and with which all voters, elections officials, and candidates alike are familiar. Down the other lies a chaotic election, held under a never-before-used congressional map that intentionally discriminates against Black Alabamians, that Alabama adopted in unashamed defiance of a prior court order directly affirmed by this Court, and that will require officials to change the voter registrations of hundreds of thousands of voters in just days at best, a task that Alabama previously represented would take months.
The majority chooses the second path and disregards both democratic values and the rule of law. I respectfully dissent.Weeks ago, I warned that vacating the District Court’s
injunction in these cases would “unleash chaos and . . . con-
fuse voters.” Caster, 608 U. S., at ___ (dissenting opinion)
(slip op., at 4). Nevertheless, the Court forged ahead. Now
the Court is squarely faced with a record of the turmoil it
has caused and the harm it has wrought. Yet just as Ala-
bama doubled down on racial discrimination, the Court to-
day doubles down on chaos. Because I choose to defend the
rule of law and the right of all Alabamians to participate
equally in democracy, I respectfully dissent.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
To be clear: the lower court said the map intentionally discriminates against black people in violation of the *constitution* (not just the VRA) and the MAGA Majority of SCOTUS is saying "that's ok now."
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