I'm co-organizing an #MLA2027 panel on Public Humanities in the Undergraduate Classroom -- please submit & spread the word! Happy to answer questions. Abstracts due March 20 @modernlanguage.bsky.social mla.confex.com/mla/2027/web...
AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380
Looks like a ship’s hold
I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.
Columbia’s dean of AI initiatives on the predatory nature of AI companies on college campuses
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
@nhannahjones.bsky.social on the importance of white folks becoming race traitors www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...
“The air-brushed AI commercials spun out creepy fantasies of imitation life, decontextualized knowledge, robotic efficiency. Bad Bunny…—in contrast—gave life to the realities of work, history, struggle, community& joy that make us all human” @emdillon.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...
The Rump administration fired half of the employees working to address discrimination in education & wasted 28-38 million in taxpayer dollars preventing investigators from doing their jobs.
www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...
A great blog by @cathyndavidson.bsky.social on Artificial Ignorance & Data Sycophancy! cathydavidson.com/blog/artific...
“Defending the university is not about defending the institution itself, but rather understanding the institution as a condition of possibility for other things to emerge.“
Hello!
Thank you so much for organizing! Such an inspiring conversation!
I am grateful to Colleen and to @danicasavonick.bsky.social along with everyone who joined our book discussion this afternoon. Open Admissions is a terrific and enlightening read. Get a copy and read for yourselves. www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...
A fantastic article by Jeanelle K. Hope on Black women's traditions of anti-fascist organizing + education as a key battleground in the struggle for democracy @readlux.bsky.social
lux-magazine.com/article/blac...
So many brilliant, creative, and inspiring ideas about how to resist & shut ICE down!
"If resistance is a muscle, June Jordan’s regular exercise of dissent produced a mode of courageous truth-telling that was not limited to foreign policy."
Such a brilliant & pertinent essay by Abena Ampofoa Asare
radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/radicalt...
An exciting CFP for the Journal of Lesbian Studies on "Lesbian Erotic Life." Abstracts due Feb. 15!
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
The test of a great university is not whether it attracts those already trained to succeed, but whether it can recognise and cultivate potential wherever it exists. At a time of deepening opportunity divides, that distinction has never mattered more.”
"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
These students are being brutally harassed by their government and still showing more bravery and integrity than most college presidents.
**Thread** Actions are continuing to spread across the country to protest ICE, the killing of Renee Good and all those killed and at risk from ICE goons.
As Noem spoke, a crowd of dozens of protesters marched from Foley Square to rally outside One World Trade Center, denouncing Good’s killing and ICE’s efforts more broadly.
from @gwynnefitz.bsky.social:
Here is the excellent reply by the A&M professor to the censoring of his course on Plato. Note that he emphasizes that the course does not advocate a race or gender ideology—which is the text of the law in question. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
This is so good! The Baldwin Test offers a framework for challenging the mystifying, celebratory rhetoric of tech companies, with specific questions for interrogating surveilling, proprietary ed tech. Long live critical & creative pedagogy!
Part of the unbearable stupidity of the current administration is its feckless enthusiasm for doing things that seem like manly feats of strength to manosphere idiots and also make this country weaker...all the way down to Pete Hegseth and his belief that pushups are a top military strategy.
NEW from Important Context:
Genocide experts, including two past presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, are speaking out about escalating attacks on transgender Americans in the U.S.
www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...
ACH 2026 welcomes proposals on all aspects of digital humanities work. Share your research, tools, pedagogy, or community projects with our vibrant DH community. Virtual conference June 24-26. Deadline: Feb 2
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
