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Women academics, this is how to acknowledge your husband in your magnum opus. Mary Douglas ‘Purity and Danger’ (classic text on the anthropology of dirt), 1966. #academicsky

Read: Serbia's long-serving strongman leader conceded defeat to a diverse, student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government

🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 thank everything that is holy!🙏🏼🙏🏼

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

this why I believe abstinence is the only real way, but I know it's hard we have been here before with smoking, where the best thing is never to start & the second best is to stop as soon as you can — and it doesn't matter if one cig a day is "not that bad" if you can go down to one go down to nil

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Has Josh Turek ever considered that once the fascists are done with trans people, they will go after the people in wheelchairs

While this is accurate and I suspect someone does need to hear it— Disabled people need your advocacy because we are disabled now. I sincerely hope by the time it catches up with the nondisabled people reading this we’re in a better place, but we are radically endangered right now. Help us.

Shocking! People can't just be automated. @emilymbender.bsky.social and I speak with Clarissa Redwine and @js-tan.bsky.social, authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World’s Most Powerful Industry, in our latest episode “My Tech Workers Have Unionized”!

🤣 this is awesome and yes 2) is so very relatable

Trans voter to @aoc.bsky.social: Trans people in America feel like they've been abandoned by the Democratic Party, that we are a losing issue, that it's not worth defending us. What do you say to that? AOC:

It is incompatible with philosophies that require harm reduction, personal accountability, critical thought.

There are no ethical uses of AI. There are no “safe” uses of AI. There are no defensible “leftist” uses of AI. You want to know how I know this? The computer scientists in my life who had to work on it are all suffering moral injuries and burnout.

Writer @naomiaklein.bsky.social says the rapid rise of artificial intelligence is part of a much longer project of privatization. "After 50 years of outsourcing and hollowing out of public functions of the state, the very last stage is the outsourcing of thinking, of intelligence itself."

people need to pay far less attention to what bernie sanders says about ai and far more to what aoc says about ai. sometimes you do just need to step back from the apps and the screens.

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

"the combination of universities’ self-image as incubators & world-leading labs of climate action & innovation, paired with the obscene energy bloat & fossil fuel hunger of generative AI. It’s something a little worse than mere hypocrisy, more in line with betrayal & treachery." - @ketanjoshi.co

Life update: I’ve taught myself to draw and paint over the last 3 weeks, and I will attempt to only post words I write and images I draw, paint or videograph myself on social media until the end of the year. I invite you join me. I want to read your words & see your art, not just memes & “AI”!

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500 years ago today, a pandemic, a divisive election and white-on-white violence sparked one of America’s greatest traditions A thread.

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Holy shit. Every single Democrat: This is the message. This right here. This is the whole ass pitch the voters in the weeks before the election.

this is so great😆

yup, exactly. it's contradictory!

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

I haven’t reviewed it in full yet but it looks like someone finally did us a solid by publishing a primer suitable for undergraduates.

Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. This video shows where the app buried the off switch. The stakes are high on an app like Grindr. Numerous countries criminalize same-sex relations, so being outed through your data can be dangerous.

"It's already here, what do you mean you think you can refuse?" is just another variation of the agency-stealing inevitability narrative. The future is not yet written, and we can shape it, starting with rejecting inevitability and claiming our agency. /fin

Just a reminder: child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on X is not a flash-in-the-pan thing associated with Grok's loose image generation rules. It is a persistent, ONGOING feature of X Fair to assume X will be one of the few to carry a live-streamed execution too, btw www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

If you’re wondering what the vibe is going into the midterms the New England fall fair I went to today had a crochet guillotine for sale.

Yup, this sums up my PhD experience, particularly in the last few months😒

My cousin organized a series of masked concerts in NYC so immunocompromised and other covid-conscious folks can still enjoy live music events, and is raising funds so he can keep doing so! Love and appreciation to anyone able to chip in 🙏🏾♥️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/pos...

The techbros are very obviously setting up “don’t be mean to AI” as not just a moral virtue but a speech prohibition. They gave the game away when they brought America’s worst dissembler on side to attempt to criminalize calling AI “artificial”.

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Ditch Chrome; use Vivaldi

You’ll be shocked that people are being extremely normal about this in comments. DeGraff is a well-respected linguist, and the topic is a valid subject of linguistic inquiry, even if it doesn’t jibe with your politics. Tenure is supposed to allow us to explore ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...