Reposted by Viet!Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...globecollegetown.substack.comCollege campuses need to be liberated from their administratorsHigher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students? 219571
Reposted by Viet!Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.” 21646161
Reposted by Viet!Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026This is exactly what I have been saying. Flock & similar devices/services used by police are fundamentally incompatible with a free society. No one asked for this. No one wanted this. And we are not free if we live under the surveillance of a panopticon Kudos, @vntrinh13.bsky.social 1164
Reposted by Viet!DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ICYMI, this is Dr. Trinh's excellent public comment about Flock cameras at a Columbus City Council public safety meeting in August. "It inverts the very nature of how police are supposed to function." 0166
Reposted by Viet!DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@vntrinh13.bsky.social and @bjmendelson.com discuss Flock! "the existence of this tech & its use implies that we are all under investigation at all times & then once the crime actually does happen the police have already conducted a pretty significant portion of their investigation through Flock"stupidsexyprivacy.comEveryone Is Being Watched All The Time NowOhio State University professor, Dr. Viet Trinh, joins BJ to talk about Flock Safety cameras, how everyone is basically under surveillance all the time by the police thanks to them, and what we can do... 1107
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities 7616169
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026That all of these universities producing reports on what the future of higher ed should be are collaborating with the American Enterprise Institute is a tell that they see this moment of higher ed "reform" as an opportunity to entrench reactionary policies and undermine the humanities further. 312834
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026For the Cornell report to give even a shred of credibility to right-wing propaganda that defames, undermines, and attacks the humanities and humanistic social sciences - indeed, which invalidate the very idea of peer review - is a sign that this report, much like the Vanderbilt report, is unserious. 113313
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 04/10/2026The Cornell report on the Future of the American University is a disaster, mainstreaming and endorsing profoundly reactionary right-wing diagnoses of higher education that have no business in a serious report on what higher ed is or should become. 719049
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Day 2 of #artober is LIBRARY. 152
Reposted by Viet!Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this: 261185214896
Reposted by Viet!Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...fnl.mit.eduHow We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter 8436202
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026day 1 of my #artober list is FROG. i made this using tiled.art which is a really cool browser tool. 2133
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I had a lot of fun chopping it up with @bjmendelson.com over Flock, data privacy, and our civil liberties. Now available as a podcast! share.transistor.fm/s/e6b6a803share.transistor.fmEveryone Is Being Watched All The Time | Stupid Sexy PrivacyThis week on Privacy Tips, Ohio State University professor, Dr. Viet Trinh, joins BJ to talk about Flock Safety cameras, how everyone is basically under surveillance all the time by the police thanks ... 061
Reposted by Viet!BJ Mendelson ❌👑 @bjmendelson.com · 01/10/2026Everyone is being watched by the police all the time now: share.transistor.fm/s/e6b6a803share.transistor.fmEveryone Is Being Watched All The Time | Stupid Sexy PrivacyThis week on Privacy Tips, Ohio State University professor, Dr. Viet Trinh, joins BJ to talk about Flock Safety cameras, how everyone is basically under surveillance all the time by the police thanks ... 011
Reposted by Viet!Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026Lot of words when the term “stalking” already exists.tampabay.com2 Pinellas deputies arrested for tracking people they were interested in, sheriff saysOne deputy queried a license plate reader database 300 times to track a woman, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. 141345335
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026my #lifeSkillsJam zine is live now. it is and will always be completely free. you don't need an itchio account or anything else in order to download the PDF. aeta.itch.io/making-doaeta.itch.ioMaking Do: a life skills zine by aetaStuff you can do, fold, cut up, tape together, paint, tie, hang, store, mix, use, reheat, and make your own 3119
Reposted by Viet!Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 01/10/2026modern day retelling of prometheus but he gives mankind the knowledge of deep frying 2624812
Reposted by Viet!Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still! 535985
Reposted by Viet!I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I'm afraid we've been bamboozled. 2272
Reposted by Viet!I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I would call them pandiplomats but I recognize protocol isn't black and white. 1212
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Wait. Do you know about the Homecoming server? Originally a CoH pirate server, but they got an NCSoft license a few years ago—it’s the same game as 2012 CoH, with a splash of new content. 110
Reposted by Viet!Footnotes in History @footnotesinhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A photograph of a Japanese American women standing next to the post office at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in Wyoming. Caption "Harada 9/25/1943 in front of Post Office." The photograph was taken by Yoshio Okumoto on September 25, 1943. 🗃 #skystorians #OTD 0214
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Counterpoint: If the ballroom is a firetrap, then maybe… 130
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Free throw, partially because I won an iPad by hitting free throws as part of a college basketball game’s halftime entertainment. 020
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026IIRC he has been a cop since 2005ish. They did one of those weird human interest stories about him a few years ago. 041
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Racism/bigotry influenced the Pacific War’s trajectory—far, far too much civilian collateral both in the U.S. and Asia—but the actual villains responsible for fascism and genocide got way better than they deserved. Hirohito got to stay emperor—albeit nominally—for nearly another half-century! 030
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In the alternate timeline where Adolf Heusinger gets a noose instead of multiple high-ranking positions in the Bundeswehr and NATO, they probably have a more successful de-Nazification project and ultimately fewer Nazis by the twenty-first century. 130
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Famously, the Allies dissolved the German government and propped up two new puppet governments. Infamously, virtually every serious antifascist today agrees that the Allies shoulda gotten even tougher because too many ex-Nazis scored positions of power in the new puppet governments. 1121
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026TIL that a pet-related sport called “dog diving” exists and it is exactly as fun as it sounds. I watched it with my cats and they enjoyed it too. 020
Reposted by Viet!Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of the important hills I'll die on is that the digital rights space needs more historians because so we understand that many of the problems we're facing stem from pre-digital ways of organizing society and need holistic fixes that don't get bogged down in the high-tech boogeyman of the week. 24720
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Universities discourage printing/hard copy while actively avoiding investment in serious, structural decarbonization, like fixing aging, energy inefficient buildings; and while investing heavily in provisioning environmentally-destructive AI to students "for free." 2252
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026This is a little mean but I also think the idea that “AI must be taught in college” is an older generation projecting their own tech incompetency and anxiety onto a younger one. It sounds interchangeable from saying “TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat should be taught in college,“ which is just lame. 210019
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Unfortunately, I don’t buy the idea that AI competency is an ”essential skill” that “must be taught” in college. College is about learning how to learn and that is best done with books and paper. You can figure out AI after college if you want! 4979
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT 6409101
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Has anyone considered orienting college education around the practice of sitting together and discussing real books, read on paper? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...nytimes.comUniversities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace ItAs A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. 317028
Reposted by Viet!Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026Not a typo. Four thousand.futurism.comPolice Investigator Accused of Making Over 4,000 Illegal Flock Camera SearchesAn employee for the Albany County Sheriff's Office was caught conducting over 4,000 unauthorized queries on five people. 12650225
Reposted by Viet!berserk du soleil @aetataureate.bsky.social · 13/09/2026sunday goals #catsOfBluesky 2205
Reposted by Viet!Toby Applegate @tapplegate.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Add: There is no way, none, that using AI is in line with UMASS's carbon neutral goals. None. 0134
Reposted by Viet!Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026Tenure-line faculty ARE expensive. But so is a contract with Anthropic, OpenAi, Google, and Microsoft. Some of the services that those companies provide are worth it for universities to purchase (email, word processing, etc.), but I don't see the ROI on paying for a proprietary version of ChatGPT. 410916
Reposted by Viet!Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“we're a bunch of raw materials that don't…mean to be made into any product! Don't mean -- Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!” 2164
Viet! @vntrinh13.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The American Studies Association (ASA), the American Sociological Association (ASA), and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) all have the same abbreviation. Not a problem, but it does make conference-planning slightly annoying. 011
Reposted by Viet!melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 11/09/2026too many people in my life with TBIs and burn pit toxins, lucky to be alive at all. still paying on student loans because we had to fund forever wars instead of college. surely there could’ve been a different vision than stealing the future. 192
Reposted by Viet!Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Look diesel going up to six bucks a gallon isn't ideal but it would only be a big deal if we were a huge country where the vast majority of our consumer goods, commodities, building materials, and food were transported almost entirely by vehicles that run on it 17971134
