Lee Gilmore

Given how often I have been disappointed in the CSU (& SJSU) administration, consider me pleasantly surprised:

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Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

Yes. The adoption by higher ed institutions of AI is moral injury, as surely as if they asked me to permit in my classroom a student who had assaulted me.

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

Religion in the U.S.

U.S. Foreign Policy
Christian Zionism.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

“We’ve invented a service that will do every substantial piece of human activity so you can focus on being slowly lowered feet-first into an industrial shredder”

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

I'm revoking the scientific finding that gravity keeps us anchored to the earth. See you losers later; I'm going gliding

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

Uhoh those the were load-bearing witches.

This, I think, was really the point.

Inasmuch as he dialed in the intersectional history of colonialism across the Americas (the diversity of performers wasn’t an accident and you can’t convince me otherwise) he REALLY dialed in the history joy as a revolutionary act.

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."

A "Portland Frog" holding up an inflatable letter it just pulled from a big bag, in front of a message made of the same letters which reads: WE'RE NOT COOKED WE'RE NOT DOOMED WE WERE MADE FOR THIS MOMENT"

the vibe

Also universities.

The “rules” that local police follow haven’t stopped them from executing Black and Brown folks.

Why the fuck would it stop ICE?

Sidewalk chalk art reading: “We welcome immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Community.” Embellished with pink hearts & sunshine.

Community.

Religion in the U.S.

Church and State Violence

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YOU WILL GET AWAY WITH IT

lose paperwork
make food wrong decaf instead of regular overtighten lug nuts strip spark plugs delete jira tickets

IT IS YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE MISTAKES YOU CAN FIGHT ICE WITHOUT ANY RISKS

everything adds up you have no excuses anymore just do it

Trump would probably have preferred to make the Kennedy Center into some kind of MAGA venue but closing it works just as well, because the important thing isn't for them to win, but for us to lose

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com