Andrew J Douglas
@ajdouglas.bsky.social
political theorist at morehouse | latest books = http://bit.ly/mlkcrc + http://bit.ly/duboisccs | in-progress books = du bois and political economy + theories of money in the black radical tradition | aaup-aft 6741 | distance runner | posts ≠ employer
Teach an analog seminar on the political economy of hyperscale imperialism, then look your provost in the eye and demand merit pay for “integrating ai” into your coursework.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 7h agoMiami University: All academic departments at Miami to integrate artificial intelligence into the curriculum by 2027-2028 "If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework" miamioh.edu/news/2026/08...
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.
So many people I encounter, especially in HigherEd, believe the only strategy for this moment is "keep your head down." @debtcollective.bsky.social didn't change priorities in 2024, nor in 2020, nor in 2016. They barreled ahead. There first big win was $800 million. This one is $11 billion.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14h agoCongratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.
What gets me is that AIPAC is going to turn around & spend on the Republican in the MI Senate race while centrist Dems malign Abdul as a non-Democrat. But it’s fine & party line to support people funded in millions by donors entirely agnostic to their party & only concerned with a foreign country.
There’s no way to spin this. “Big yech”—actually a nice typo (slip?) in the article—was able to buy off the leadership of the nation’s second largest teacher’s union for a paltry $12.5 million.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
I'm old enough to remember when the 2023 Cop City RICO indictment felt like a harbinger of worse things to come. It's getting even worse y'all. Very important piece on how it works.
Hannah Riley Fernandez@hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · yesterdayi think that everyone should know about the ways this government is trying to criminalize dissent and protest -- not because it should scare us into inaction, but because understanding how it works is how we stop it from working. wrote about it for @thenation: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The largest funeral in Gaza history is being held today as the remains of 112 people from a single clan are laid to rest after being buried in rubble for three years. More than 300 people were killed in the strike by Israel, including 44 children and 37 women. The others were vaporized.
Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes
Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza
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“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake ‘public opinion’ for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.” -Lenin, tapping the sign.
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2d agoShameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
The idea that it's a sign of *privilege* to not use generative AI for things you have the ability to do yourself and buy new smartphones when those things are the biggest drivers of genocide in Congo is going to drive me up a wall.
“One way to shower off the fascism, if not also the microplastics… is to go analog [in the classroom]” Got a full day of syllabus writing ahead. Colored me inspired.
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d agoOne of my favorite ideas in this episode & in @mckenziewark.bsky.social’s contribution to the e-flux issue is that escapes (real & virtual) from totalitarian supervision are as tactical as confrontations. Not being where you’re “supposed to be” - whether place, platform, or occupation - is radical.
The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...
2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey
The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...
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Yes. In retrospect, it was naive to hope that the AAU would not get back to their roots of carrying water for McCarthy-era censorious purges and Jim Crow.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d agoMe on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social when she writes that AI is "the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation” - and then teach about and against the technologies with the help of the books she cites:
Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.
A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.
nytimes.com
“Before algorithms, there was the land. And the land remembers.” Support the Basandja Coalition and @friendsofthecongo.org.web.brid.gy
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · 3d agoEvery time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.
An utterly persuasive, if also utterly harrowing, account of how rape is Israeli eugenicist policy: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/israel-rap...
“Everything Is Legitimate”: How Israel Uses Rape as a Tool of Genocide
The rape of Palestinian detainees is so commonplace that it’s no longer hidden. It’s filmed, joked about, and celebrated in parliament. This is no mistake; it’s core to Israel’s colonial project.
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The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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New piece by Jared Loggins and me in the Boston Univ. Law Review. Wide-ranging conversation on the uncertain role of the university in end times fascism, campus worker complicity in genocide and scholasticide, and missed opportunities of the Black University movement. www.bu.edu/bulawreview/...
Malick Doucouré argues that the recent anti-LGBT crackdowns in pro-Pan-African governments are about elites manufacturing unity against a fake external threat to absolve their failure to fix the economy. He argues it's time to reclaim the Pan-Africanism of Nkrumah & Sankara. buff.ly/hOFlOzV
The homophobia of Pan-African regimes | ROAPE
West Africa has experienced a series of significant geopolitical developments in recent years, with the potential to reshape both its political landscape and economic trajectory. These are, in many…
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*whispers* seize it under the Defense Production Act and pack the Supreme Court until the court acquiesces to nationalization and overturns/hollows out Youngstown
Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.And it arrived
A Minnesota professor (and many others) faces SIX YEARS in prison for protesting, organizing a community meeting, and being in a Signal chat following the murder of Renee Good. That's really all there is to the indictment. But "Antifa." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
This is utterly brilliant: "This is a moment in which what we most need is the humane intelligence of free human minds. It is a time for academics and faith leaders to maintain a fierce independence from the AI industry." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...
Just a reminder that Congress can pass a law removing the “temporary” part out of the “protected status.”
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
Post a perfect album from the 90s.
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s.
Key thing to understand about "remigration" is that it doesn't mean "send immigrants home." He's an immigrant, Peter Thiel is an immigrant, etc. It's not even a white nationalism project, it's a trans-Atlantic white continentalism project, nations themselves aren't important, only race matters.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoElon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
All of the signals and pressures, politically and economically, are trending toward a major escalation against Iran and no part of this situation lends itself to any kind of positive outcome. Shit feels like it’s about to get much worse.
