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I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

Today I learned here in Portland teachers are being asked to either take 3 furlough days or cut 170 full time teaching positions. My son is in a blended class of 4/5th graders because they didn’t have enough money for another teacher. Fuck off

soon! see you?

Made a little zine for the panel called "Writing With Humans as Collaborative and Collective Practice" and you can have one if you attend

I've also brought souvenirs

Tomorrow morning at 10:35 in Room 308 at #AWP26, you will like it

Panel is called "Teaching Writing Despite 'AI': The Noncoercive Rearranging of Desire" & includes @eireannmor.bsky.social , Arisa White, @shanayoungdahl.bsky.social & me

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awp, tomorrow at 10:30ish in room 307: come see the slowest writing in the world

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I'm not here. I'm fasting from social media for Lent. But I wanted to say I'll be in a few places this week—a panel on Friday at AWP about refusing 'ai' in the writing classroom, and the @milkweededitions.bsky.social reading on Saturday at Fadensonnen—and also:

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I spoke to someone running an aid kitchen in Beirut. He told me way less donations are coming in this time. Also Western Union and Whish money transferring services have blocked them from receiving money transfers.

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I'm not here. I'm fasting from social media for Lent. But I wanted to say I'll be in a few places this week—a panel on Friday at AWP about refusing 'ai' in the writing classroom, and the @milkweededitions.bsky.social reading on Saturday at Fadensonnen—and also:

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thank you so much for activating your network!!

my friend on the ground also made the same rec, thank you so much

my friend on the ground also made the same rec, thank you so much

my friend on the ground also made the same rec, thank you all

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

ACLU have seen 700 constitutional violations in minnesota in the last 8 weeks. calls it “a years worth of violations.” and these are only reported ones. john says it is not the full scope

More than 300 Woodbridge High students get suspended after anti-ICE walkout More than 300 Woodbridge Senior High School students who walked out of their school last week to protest ICE have been disciplined with three-day suspensions.

Woodbridge High School suspended over 300 students for 3 days for their “ICE Out” walkout last week and said they’ll do it again if they walk out again on Friday like the kids are planning

www.princewilliamtimes.com/localnews/mo...

uhhh YES

YES!!

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

The idea that to be a good citizen required curiosity about the world was a positive force. Now we just have ignoramuses crowing about "Western civilization" while knowing nothing and wanting to know even less.

If you wanna know how Pam Bondi’s religious protection & Tom Homan’s drawdown is going, ask if your local Latino church cancelled Ash Wednesday services or if there they need folks standing guard

My guess is that the goal here is not only to punish the children for turning more people against ICE/DHS, but also to make news outlets think twice about reporting on kids' suffering at the hands of ICE/DHS, out of concern that doing so might lead to retaliation against the kids.

Capitalists dont get excited about technology they are excited about the profits that technology brings. The main group of people that are truly excited about the advancement technology can bring human well being and its capacity to remove or reduce certain difficult tasks are socialists

A remarkable story (from a forthcoming book). What was a matter of "the book" in the 1930s is today a matter of data-hoovering and AI

Union Strong: IAM Local 4538 Members Win Jobs Back at BCPL YouTube video by IAM Union

A dozen Baltimore County librarians got fired for organizing their union and then won their jobs back with their union. youtu.be/eAMK9ugqqhc

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

A purple poster with a photograph of Prof. Patricia Hill Collins wearing a hot pink top with a colorful necklace.

Prof. Patricia Hill Collins will deliver the annual WGS Eleanor Roosevelt Lecture, "Black Women's Intellectual Activism, Social Justice, and Radical Hope." This was the last event that I organized with Faith Smith before I stepped down as Chair so it feels extra special. I cannot believe it!!😍

“You’ll be left behind without gen ai” is a marketing campaign maybe for middle class yt ppl. There’s no way they’re trying to sell that to someone like me whose lived a life where my knowledge, skill, experience don’t matter and my labor was exploited even before gen ai. There is no “ahead” for me.

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