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Move to Rhode Island, they said. The weather's not as bad as you think, they said.

Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Feeling the Bern in Matewan, WV. #bernie

This. Always this.

I've posted my seminar on 'The role of the university is to resist AI', which takes as its text Ivan Illich's 'Tools for Conviviality'. danmcquillan.org/cpct_seminar...

Seconded

There’s a clip from the show Landman that’s gone viral, where Billy Bob Thornton’s character delivers some ‘hard truths’ about how rubbish wind turbines are. Here’s Rollie Williams, my favourite climate commentator, chewing up those arguments and spitting them out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBC_...

Great opportunities at this winter's Newport MFA residency. Free and open to the public. #creativewriting #publishing

Great.

Same, girls. Same.

Lame

I can't recommend Steve Earle's show on Outlaw Country (Sirius XM) enough. His Labor Day show (playing right now) couldn't be more perfect for my current project.

Wrap it up, everyone. Joe Walsh on PBS wants to hear more specifics. And not the cool Joe Walsh.

After nearly dying due to Tennessee's extreme MAGA abortion bans, my friend Allie Phillips is running to unseat a republican stronghold. Her odds are really really good, Google her. Women here, like women everywhere, are fed up!

This is quite good. Really. I mean it. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

New Downfall video of Trump post-Kamala (h/t Sam) youtu.be/WiEO9p8OVMQ

Happy International Cat Day from the squad

This is one of the coolest innovations in internet organizing ever

PROJECT 2o25 current numbers In case you wondered, the Heritage Foundation has a phone number you can call. Definitely don't bomb their line and take up all their time by letting them know how much everyone hates them: 800-546-2843 Also call the #1 donor! The Scaife Family Foundations, 412-392-2900

I’m gonna need all 370 of you who reposted above to share this: www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...

an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

You; You know this is mostly just about controlling women and making sure they can't escape the control of men, right? Republicans:

On this website, we celebrate wins. This is a massive W. Goodbye, Infowars. Enjoy being broke, Alex Jones. apnews.com/article/alex...

NYT '64: "Mayor James Diprete Jr. of Cranston, a Republican, called Goldwater a 'fascist who is threatening to take over this country by dividing the American people against one another . . . Goldwater is a fanatic who is deluded by a messianic complex that he is the lord and savior of the U.S.”

If you're in the Newport, RI area this week . . . today.salve.edu/newport-mfa-... Guest speakers include Michael Ruhlman, Andre Dubus III and Elizabeth Strout. #creativewriting #MFA #annhood

hell yeah north side

Most professors would do anything to *avoid* becoming a department Chair or a Dean.

Read this, share this, write your representatives and senators to demand they back this.

"In my nearly 40 years as a faculty member, I have never seen such brazen cruelty toward students and faculty, such cowardice before what amounts to a right-wing witch hunt, and such blatant dishonesty." Robin D. G. Kelley to Columbia President Minouche Shafik: www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...

Congress should haul Gordon Gee to Capitol Hill and make him squirm for ruining a whole state’s public higher ed system

Maybe we should start calling it "voting fraud."

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

youtu.be/i-OggxFtRLE?...

find me a single example of this story being written in the opposite direction. "Trump is building his border wall, but the crowd at the local anarchist bookstore wasn't having it."