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The Right is trying to do what it did with 'education reform' in pre-collegiate education to higher ed: privatize everything, attack labor, turn the school into a profit center for industry

it's the same people, even

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

The Right is trying to do what it did with 'education reform' in pre-collegiate education to higher ed: privatize everything, attack labor, turn the school into a profit center for industry

a beautifully dressed man: yasuto kamoshita

[in the criterion closet] We can be here all day. I don't care. But I ain't leaving without a copy of The Rock.

aric@aghastronaut.com · 3w ago

[in the Criterion Closet] I don't see it. Did someone already check it out? I don't understand how this works. You didn't file it under "The," right? It should be, "Mask, The?"

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

If we promise not to bring an iced coffee into a job interview, will you promise to pay us a living wage?

i bring an iced coffee to the interview. only it’s not for me, it’s for the interviewer. and it’s laced with a sedative. when she comes to, she’s wearing my clothes and i’m in her office. her car keys don’t work. i’m with her husband. her kids don’t recognize her. coming soon from A24.

it used to be a core political truism that there was a gas price threshold, above which people would riot. Or, at least, become very very activated. we have seen some analysis of other such truisms like inflation. I need someone to explain this one, stat.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4w ago

Well, damn 😳

the deprofessionalization & undervaluing of disciplinary subject knowledge that's so hot right now in academic libraries bums me out

has there been much discussion around how anti-faculty some academic librarians are?

Publishers have gotten the Authors' Guild to back up their anti-Library ebook rhetoric again. Authors, please come get your gal: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

“This month, Alpha opened the doors of its ‘Founders School’ in New York City, which charges $150,000 a year and promises that students will graduate with both a diploma and $1 million in profit from a business they started.“ read a book read a book read a book read a book read a book rea

Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · last mo.

I suspect Alpha School leadership is already regretting their decision to force their students to use Twitter. New story from the SF Standard on what's happening in boot camp. sfstandard.com/2026/09/16/7...

Why the "It's okay to use it to get started" story about AI consumer products in research education bugs the hell out of me: 🧵

Inaccuracy. Lost learning. Yeah, those are good reasons. But do they not also apply to the processes of getting started with a new topic, brainstorming ideas, refining your topic, identifying keywords, and summarizing readings?

It's frequently also noted that if you are using genAI products to automate your searches, your source evaluation, and the production of your paper, then you are missing the learning that is embedded in these processes.

yes....YESSS.....

CD and vinyl sales are surging as frustration with digital media keeps growing

News of the latest increase in physical media sales comes from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It revealed that recorded music revenues for H1 2026...

techspot.com

Just realized that boro and kantha — the Japanese and Indian techniques for repairing cloth or creating new material from scraps by connecting them through a series of running stitches — looks a bit like the peeling bark on an aging tree.

Weird movies 🤝 Me

Everything can’t be reduced to a network effect. I feel like I’m losing my mind. I mean we just watched the almost complete fascist capture of data and the internet. Surely that's a reason to reconsider.

I really struggle with the idea that all we need is love and the internet to build community. I don’t know how we failed the next generation so badly on this but yall materiality matters. Very much.

resegregation www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/b...

Trump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

nytimes.com

logging on to the earnest high-info neurotics website every day during the everything going wrong decade: 'you know, the vibes here could be better'

omg I love people who love learning

maybe this goes against what most folks do now in teaching and in conference presentations -- but the more a session involves "active learning" or lots of interaction and engagement with the audience, the less likely I am to attend. I have zero interest in doing an activity in a learning environment

I've known this for a long time, but I wish I had known it earlier: the older I get the more I realize most people have zero idea about what they're doing. ESPECIALLY people in power. I naively used to think people got into powerful positions because they were... I dunno, smart or something.

The Trump administration arrested and deported a record number of immigrants in July, according to newly released government data – apprehending an average of 1,500 people and removing 1,100 people daily. 🧵

Remember how we were all supposed to learn computer programming, or else we would become illiterate in the computer-dominated future?

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

6. the extremely unhinged series of claims that without training them on how to be users of such systems that we somehow fail as teachers — truly ludicrous, utterly bizarre, and in fact directly contradicts other industry selling points. (Section 3.6 here doi.org/10.5281/zeno...) 8/n

4 year old: “mom. If you have a baby in your tummy, and you eat a lot of food, the baby will eat the food. In your tummy.” pause “It’s so funny.” “I’m so smart.”

I feel this. I’ve organized my life around thinking, writing, learning, teaching, and I’m very worried about the future. I comfort myself that my “job” as a human is to “witness the universe” and understand its beauty and that won’t change. But that doesn’t protect me from social disruption.

Julian Togelius@togelius.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...