Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The nation explicitly cast as a fortressed bunker ensuring "survivability" for the in-group. A.K.A. end times fascism. 26429126
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialNiko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I'm grateful to Radcliffe and the Schlesinger Library for ensuring that my mom's work will be accessible to her many students, past and futurehls.harvard.eduLani Guinier’s legacy, in her own words - Harvard Law SchoolSchlesinger Library collection offers scholars a closer look at Lani Guinier's work on voting rights, race, education, and equality. 419640
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialNeil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...timeshighereducation.comBlack academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequencesScholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree 3200111
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialArrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Now THAT is a well-tailored suit 1102
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialDurba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026remember that one time when the Cornell University President hit students with his car and then pretended not to have done it then justified it just sayin 1238
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 22/09/2026”Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you are South.” — Malcolm X (1964) 17224
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialYale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 21/09/2026The Supreme Court still permits universities to pursue diversity through lawful means. LDF warns that a broader settlement could go beyond what the law requires, restrict Yale’s authority over admissions and expose the university to further federal pressure. 3/4 1103
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns. 412509829
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price 291927809
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy. 17392150
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/09/2026“Scholars have groped for what even to call this dire diminishment of intellectual capacity. “Human enfeeblement” has been proposed, and alike “cognitive surrender” and even “cognitive extinction.” (You could also call it, “losing your mind.”)” - Jill Lepore www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comArtificial Education | The Harvard CrimsonMachine conversation is not free. It comes at the cost of our common life together as teachers, learners, and researchers, colleagues, mentors, and friends. 48936
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialEric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway 1623671114
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 17/09/2026At Boston University, a cratering in demand for the master’s in economics program and a spike for the master’s in social work, early sign of people pivoting to AI-resilient fields. 721624
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 16/09/2026This is why they wanted Pentagon reporters to sign an oath promising to seek approval before publishing anything. They wanted to lie without pushback. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...aljazeera.comDozens of aircraft, hundreds of buildings: US loss to Iran attacks revealedThe Pentagon watchdog's report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region. 13342144
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026enjoyed making this one youtu.be/zGYmIwM4T90youtu.beSmart Answers to Stupid Comments About SlaveryYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 541378332
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This attempt to construct a narrative of persecution around being a white guy in America is at base, an expression of profound jealousy and insecurity towards people who have to overcome challenges they will never face 281401196
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 10/09/2026john fetterman is the first rat in history to climb onto a sinking ship. 475239154329
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialandy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...) 8379812145
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialRyan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A politician seizing vanity-laden control of cultural institutions is not compatible with a free society. It also makes us dumber and culturally poorer. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...nytimes.comSmithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the InstitutionIn the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart. 1278
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialWill Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This is a massive loss for all of us.nytimes.comSmithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart. 715971
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hi Dems, don’t think that millions of Muslims - & not just Muslims but anti-racist liberal & leftist Americans - don’t hear the deafening silence from most of you as the Muslim Democratic mayor of New York is being smeared and attacked by the GOP and right-wing media over 9/11. 1192717552
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I respect Lonnie Bunch enormously. He has done stellar work as a historian, on so many levels. His absence is indeed terrible news -- for the Smithsonian and the country. 26851228
professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I regularly read @jamellebouie.net for his razor sharp political analysis, not for emotional impact. But this piece is devastating. It can’t have been easy to write, and I’m grateful to him for putting himself through it. RIP Pierre Damas… www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Pierre Damas Bel Should Not Be Dead (Gift Article)Pierre Damas Bel should still be alive. 032
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026elaborating on some points i've made on here youtu.be/goSvMAf2UKQyoutu.beThere Was No Vibe ShiftYouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie 2364990
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/09/2026the literal position of the trump administration is that any school that has any more than a smattering of black students is engaged in illegal racial discrimination against whites www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 9041661394
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026More Palestinians have been killed (1,300) since the so-called ceasefire began in Gaza on 10th October 2025 than Israelis were killed on 7th October 2023 - including ten times as many children (300!) as were killed on 10/7. This is what a 'ceasefire' looks like for Palestinians. 311518576
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialDurba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026critical intervention by @jennifercnash.bsky.social & Emily Owens on the starvation of WGS at Harvard: “how can a university that has produced many of the country’s leading feminist scholars continue to devalue the very program that trained us?” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...thecrimson.comWe’re Harvard WGS Alumni. Our Field Has Never Mattered More. | The Harvard CrimsonAt Harvard, the single biggest threat to the study of gender and sexuality has long come from the institution itself. 096
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialvijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026One of the most sane institutional takes I have seen… “However sociable or responsive AI systems become, they cannot substitute for the relationships and practices necessary to grow and mature as a human being.” aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/aiandeducation.mit.eduReport – AI and Education 0175
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026NEWS: After the Hindu nationalist RSS rally at MSG – and as students across India continue to protest – nearly 100 US politicians are pledging to reject money from the RSS (which birthed Modi’s political party). Includes everyone from Abdul El-Sayed & Haley Stevens, to Ro Khanna & Pramila Jayapal:zeteo.comU.S. Politicians Reject Donations From Hindu Nationalists, Days After Far-Right RSS Rally in New YorkThe pledge comes after a controversial gathering at Madison Square Garden, addressed by Mohan Bhagwat, head of the RSS, the group that produced both the killer of Gandhi and Narendra Modi’s BJP party. 07019
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialBrad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I want to address what happened over the weekend outside Madison Square Garden. A few loud numbskulls must not deter us from building multi-faith, multi-racial coalitions for justice. 491522256
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026This is an important First Amendment victory, backed by a careful, well-reasoned opinion from Judge Noel Wise in the Northern District of California. www.newsday.com/news/nation/...newsday.comTrump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rulesCiting the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel and others in its quest to deport noncitizens who... 213743
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail. 18803421712026
professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Joining AAUP has been the best career decision I’ve made this decade: “The ruling follows another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...nytimes.comJudge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Stanford Students Who Criticized Israel (Gift Article)The ruling was a win for Stanford’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, and it followed another court victory for students targeted by the Trump administration last year. 042
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialvijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026“This approach benefits students by putting a clear focus on what we want them to be doing … reading on their own, thinking for themselves, and engaging with their fellow students in conversations that really matter.” www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...chronicle.comU. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core CoursesThe new restrictions apply to students and faculty members. 0213
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct 62167597
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 27/08/2026 155137331867
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialEliza 7777777🌟 @eliza7777777thstar.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Just logged in to share this meme a friend texted me. Maybe y’all already saw it. But seriously!!! 14293341751
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialrael gost pictuers @jackfeerick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026What Dolly taught us is that it is in fact possible to be wealthy beyond your wildest dreams of avarice but still be a fundamentally good person with a strong moral compass, and the only reason more rich people aren't like that is because they don't want to be. 2541721273
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...nytimes.comWashington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen AttiahAn arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing. 1194326376225
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs. 171146233126
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Some of the richest people in the world want a racial caste system, and they want scholarly backing for that in the form of racist pseudoscience. And a lot of ostensibly non racist people quietly agree, and don’t like to see those who peddle that pseudoscience excluded from mainstream institutions. 7855121455
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/08/2026Not that TAH will be dislodged from his lucrative lane of rage-baiting boomers (watch for the book-length version coming soon) but it is good to have this on the record by Andrew Baker analyzing the events at Bates with integrity and political perspective. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 19425
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialamulya.bsky.social @amulya.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My husband Drew wrote this at breakneck speed while moving cross-country and caring for an 8 month old, bc he felt it was necessary, ethically and politically, to correct the record. If you read Tyler Austin Harper's piece, I hope you'll read this. 10999314
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialThe Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 10601265
professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 19/08/2026When my people tell stories, they tell the truth. Andrew Baker is my people. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...newsletter.thedriftmag.comRacism and labor at Bates: the other side of the storyAndrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper 071
Reposted by @professorvbrown.bsky.socialseranine @seranine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"What Harper sees as groupthink madness was interracial solidarity by experts in their fields. Rather than allowing the institution to coerce more unseen labor from our peers, CWG decided to force the issue with our colleagues: if you value DEI like you say you do, put in sweat equity." 1237
![Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.
A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/bafkreibeadpx66jtqlttglhgbgkew6g65haxqngz5yt6p3ybwyi5zney54)
