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Matt Gold

@mkgold.bsky.social
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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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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/10/2026
From The Archive: DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
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DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“I have gotten less patient with the commitment to silence that many of my colleagues have,” he said, “which I do think is immoral and cowardly.”
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The College President Who Won’t Shut Up
Michael Roth is trying to defend higher education. Why isn’t anyone joining him?
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Amazing
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
jesus christ i have never heard a democratic talk this bluntly about an opponent
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Amazing -- congrats, congrats, congrats!!!!!
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Huge congrats!!!!
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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 · 25/09/2026
Congrats!!!
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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
Huge congrats, Brandon!
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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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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Congrats!!
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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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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Huge congrats, Amy!!!
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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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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Great work, Quinn!!
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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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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’m so sorry, Martin. Thank you for sharing here. I hope that things improve very soon.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Congrats!!!!
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congrats!!
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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
Thank you! Given the opportunity to craft “guidelines” rather than, say, “policy,” we jumped at the chance to create a document that encapsulated the many complications of this moment.
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I’m glad to have worked with @lukewaltzer.bsky.social (who is really first author) and @maurasmale.bsky.social on this, with the strong support and input of our Provost @sentantiq.bsky.social and President @joshbrumberg.bsky.social
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
There is much else, including discussion of data privacy and other entanglements of AI in enterprise platforms We welcome comments and responses
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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
Thank you
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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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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
CONGRATULATIONS!!! So happy for you!!!
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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Love them both. After the game, Hart said that OG’s tip-in had saved him a lifetime of regret for that missed basket off the steal
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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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Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Same. Jumping
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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
It was all happening at once, is all I’m saying! And it was Ernie
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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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