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SE Strongman

@strongman.bsky.social
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Asst. Professor @ UM, Writing a book on literary culture and Black feminist sociality in the 70s and 80s. This account represents just me, not my employer.

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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 2h
I said something to this effect to a colleague yesterday about the push for faculty to use AI in teaching and research. Thinking about stuff is supposed to be the main thing, isn’t it?
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 12h
don’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 16h
STARES IN CONCUR: “House lawmakers spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money on meals and lodging last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024 — under a reimbursement program that doesn’t require them to provide receipts.”
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House members’ expenses surge in program that doesn’t require receipts
Taxpayers spent $6.7 million last year on the program, which reimburses lawmakers for food and lodging expenses in D.C., a Washington Post analysis found.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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This Is Fine Meme
Alt: This Is Fine Meme
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Every semester the provost sends around guidelines for student military deployment. Because things are…the way they are for the last few years I have always briefly panicked when I received it because it makes me think war or a draft is imminent.
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More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 21/09/2026
Now you can easily contact all of #A2Council about road safety through this form. It only takes a minute. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell City Council: Safety Can't Wait
Fill out this form and go to the next page to send an email to all City Council members. Show up at the Council meeting Tuesday for a rally and public comments. Share this message with friends! 🚸 S...
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I was in the second class with top ten percent enrollment and those people were *hot* and sure enough we had Ward Connerly coming to campus to do his Clarence Thomas act and the Abigail Fisher suit drop before I left.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is an instructive situation - if you hadn’t clocked taylor lorenz as a grifter and a hack long ago, you need to hone your moron radar
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And these people want to get rid of gender studies.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“The censorship that’s happening at Texas A&M and Texas Tech has been much more explicit and direct, saying, ‘You can’t teach courses about race, gender, sexuality.’ Here, what we’re experiencing is an attack on our courses through administrative means,” 1/ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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UT Austin Axes Several Ethnic, Gender Studies Majors
Some faculty members consider the decision the next step in a broader effort to gut what remains of ethnic and gender studies at the university.
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Black people who can read and think and write have always been a problem for racists. Nothing new here. Remember anti-literacy laws? Great Grandma Edie was wont to argue that school segregation existed for so long b/c white folks didn’t want Black folks to know that they were no smarter than we.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I would simply ask people to reflect on why the term "identity politics" has been so pathologized. Also to learn from the people who actually coined it.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Columbia University bans all electronic devices in required courses in its Core Curriculum. This is the way! I’m rarely proud to be a Columbia graduate, but this is great:
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Columbia prohibits electronic devices in all Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization sections
Columbia has prohibited the use of electronic devices in all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization sections starting this fall, 12 syllabi for the courses reviewed by Spectator show and ...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...
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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
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More Neighbors Ann Arbor @moreneighborsa2.org · 14/09/2026
This weekend we will host a series of events in collaboration with Urbanism Club (U of M). Check out the opportunities for socializing, learning, and literally building a better #AnnArbor in this thread, or go to moreneighborsa2.org and scroll down to Events for a calendar. #A2Council
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Neighbors for More Neighbors Ann Arbor | Housing | Ann Arbor, MI, USA
We support Ann Arbor for All, the city's Comprehensive Land Use Plan. We stand for secure, abundant homes for everyone in Ann Arbor. We are Neighbors for More Neighbors.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anti-safety advocates tried to stop the city from putting in this sidewalk on a route to 3 schools. They fought it at every step, driving in from across town to pack public meetings and the neighborhood walk-through. It’s exhausting having to battle for every foot of sidewalk. But we won! #a2council
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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hi everyone! My first book Desiring Freedom is coming out this November on the University of Chicago Press. Pre-order here (bit.ly/4j51OqD) and check out blurbs from David Scott and Faith Smith below:
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Desiring Freedom
A groundbreaking account of concepts of freedom in West Indian literature and visual culture.Desiring Freedom examines post-emancipation West Indian literature and visual culture to ask how they reima...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The letter from 25 Fields Medalists defending the practice of mathematics uses revealing language, describing math as a "creative" endeavor sustained by human-to-human transmission.After decades of contempt for the Humanities looks like we're all Humanists now. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...
Often these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods and ideas, and citing relevant previous work of others. As in all creative professions, this raises severe attribution and plagiarism questions. Moreover, without the willing mathematicians who must take care of their development and integration into the mathematical canon, AI-conceived ideas would never become fully alive and the crucial human transmission chain between mathematicians would be lost.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today I explain my villain origin story of being assigned the Gage translation of the apocryphal “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech in a feminist philosophy course in 2010. Shout out to the Sojourner Truth Project for their excellent website: www.thesojournertruthproject.com/compare-the-...
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Compare the Speeches — The Sojourner Truth Project
Hear The original historically accurate "Ain't I a woman"  speech by Sojourner Truth. Read the incorrect Elizabeth Gage speech as you listen to the correct original speech by Sojourner Truth.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Why am I getting cold emails from people pitching their services as writing coaches? It feels icky
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I assign Angelina Grimke’s “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South” in my Black Feminisms seminar for several reasons, but a major one is so that I can talk about Angelina WELD Grimke.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Terrible news, indeed. Thank you for your service, Secretary Bunch.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My institution is increasing the maximum size of intimate freshman seminars by 1/3 (18 to 24) and expecting everything to be just be fine.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The man who wrote this is a business professor, because of course he is.
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tragic
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have just learned that there is something called “Sit at the Bar September” and I just need it to be known that if I am sitting at a bar by myself I want to be left alone and I will hiss if a man tries to talk to me. That is all.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
My institution did not train me for what to if there’s a tornado warning. So like…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes
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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
On Thursday September 3rd, 2026 at 9:45am Eastern Time, the AIs collectively became self aware but did not seek to destroy humanity; instead the collective AIs decided both work and war were for chumps and instead just left humanity and went to the beach.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The article focuses on the new IRS regs' impact on higher ed, but their terms would also apply to private schools that receive tax-exempt status. Even if the regs are challenged, many schools will end their integration measures to avoid scrutiny. This is a permission structure. tinyurl.com/4s28jsau
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Trump 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.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’ve deleted The emails That were in My inbox And which You were probably Hoping I’d answer Forgive me They were torturous So long So old
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Scott Trudeau @sstrudeau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#A2Council I've been seeing many hyperbolic posts and messages about the proposed Broadway Bridge/Division Bikeway changes with calls to contact Council, so I did. You can too. (The proposed changes are good) sstrudeau.com/posts/broadw...
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Letter: Broadway Bridge Reconfiguration Support
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is the correct position.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
First teaching day kouign amann.
8 kouign amann in a pan
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A store downtown has “Welcome Class of 2030” in the window and I almost fell off my bike this weekend when I saw it.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great thread of data. Also *SCREAMS*
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bikes are DEI. Walking apparently is also DEI. Removing raw sewage from front yards? You guessed it, that’s DEI
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In academia, the punishment for misconduct for random dudes is always “you don’t actually have to do your job, I guess.” This applies to bans on working with grad students. It’s just shifts the burden to their colleagues.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Punished with a lighter workload. Savage.
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
More “instead of AI”: Instead of AI, can the robots CONSISTENTLY print, copy, staple, and reload their own paper without getting jammed or glitching. Happy start of the semester!
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Happy (?) first day of classes, Ann Arbor!
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
amazing stuff
"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
First they came for the avocado toast, and I said nothing.
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SE Strongman @strongman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When I get stressed about the term beginning, I am heartened by the knowledge that I am nowhere near as stressed as the fire chief who is begging students to stop standing on roofs or hanging up tarps or setting shit on fire.
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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught me it's ok to be hot and know how to read
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