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We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know - Avidly

What is a good question? And, how do we teach students to work at writing good questions? In my feminist and queer theories class, a core course in the Gender

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Bit weird that the “moral imperative” is to train your members to use a technology that the companies you’re taking money from say is going to replace them.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h 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 think it's good and cool, actually, that Anders Folk is running to be the guy in charge of prosecuting ICE agents while taking money from the lawyer defending ICE agents.

Awooo We live in a failed country Awooo we can't let our city fail Aaaawooooo

again stevens losing with $60 million in ad spend suggests to me that she might actually have been a very weak general candidate

#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 16h ago

Unfathomable

One thing that makes me feel insane is that the primary use of AI is to mass produce the pornography that they are trying to make it illegal for humans to make. But also, the AI isn't even good at it. None of it is hot!

i love these posts because it imagines like none of us can remember a time before this tech. we all remember 2023! the only people who don't remember 2023 are literally six years old!

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 16h ago

I have one answer.

MPD has defunded the city of Minneapolis.

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com · yesterday

More than 100 city employees could be laid off in Minneapolis in the first major layoffs in 16 years as the city faces a $33 million budget gap.

El-Sayed has received more raw votes in Dearborn than Harris did in the general 2024 lmfao

Not a single long lens pic of kayaker above street near submerged stop sign this used to be a real country 😡

Photos: Mass flooding seen in Norfolk as storms drench Hampton Roads

Heavy rain and slow-moving thunderstorms brought flash flooding to parts of Hampton Roads on Tuesday, prompting multiple flood warnings.

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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.

they really made maps say gulf of mexico and all they got was this

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12h ago

Google - a thrice-convicted monopolist - is the gateway to the internet, with more than a 90% search market share that it attained by buying out all its competitors and bribing Apple more than $20b/year not to start a rival search engine: www.democracynow.org/2024/8/6/goo... 3/

The signatories to this letter start with Stiglitz and Rodrik and go on to encompass pretty much everyone brilliant and decent in the economics field worldwide. Prof. Reddy’s scholarship is deeply grounded in human dignity and wellbeing — in the direct lineage of his teacher, the great Amartya Sen.

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School

Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School We, the undersigned, write to express our concern regarding recent restructuring decisions at the New School, includin...

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Sarang Shah@sarangshah.com · 11h ago

An urgent and important read on the unjust circumstances regarding the dismissal of my dear colleague and friend Sanjay Reddy. I hope our takeaway, in part, is a redoubling of our efforts to protect social inquiry and academic freedom against what's coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

An urgent and important read on the unjust circumstances regarding the dismissal of my dear colleague and friend Sanjay Reddy. I hope our takeaway, in part, is a redoubling of our efforts to protect social inquiry and academic freedom against what's coming. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway. (Gift Article)

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

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You could say Abdul El-Sayed won despite $64 million being spent against him… one may also wonder if he won *because* of it

Everything is risograph and cyanotype and fermentation. It's clear that AI slop and accelerationist destruction are prompting the seemingly ubiquitous resurgence of interest in these slow, organic, manual processes.

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 · 10h ago

Congratulations 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...

Choosing to go forward with this violence against the wishes and best practice understanding of every other portion of local government and every field expert is shameful and the Mayor should be ashamed.

MPR News@mprnews.org · 11h ago

Kat Donnelly, a nurse with Healthcare for the Homeless, spent Tuesday scrambling to refill medications and make sure patients knew where to find her ahead of the Pig's Eye Park encampment closure Wednesday morning.

In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname

THE PROBLEM ISN‘T THAT AI CAN GENERATE A-QUALITY WORK THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE BELIEVE IN “A-QUALITY WORK”

Seriously tho, in the Year Of Our Claude where literally everything is being hacked what do you think is going to be mote secure: sending a check, or typing in your full ass bank details and authorizing god knows what into a system built by Tata Consulting devs paid $8/hr

really seems to me that top-down reforms and programs are being advertised in legacy outlets as Rigorous

profpolisci.bsky.social@profpolisci.bsky.social · 11h ago

“Show the world that academic rigor is not just for conservatives” is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long, long time. Not funny ha ha but funny strange.

The raw turnout for this race is bananas. It dwarfs previous senate primaries. It’s higher than two of the last three presidential primaries in Michigan, and equal to the third, 2020, with over a dozen candidates on the ballot.

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 20h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

CoreCivic is in many pension and 401k portfolios. If you have funds in Vanguard or BlackRock, you are an investor in private prisons. Check with your union leaders or HR about divesting.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social · yesterday

CoreCivic expects Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainees to start arriving at the 1,800 bed Appleton, Minn., facility as early as this fall. with a ramp up to full capacity by mid-2027. The contract kicks in next week. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

So... Haley Stevens is only winning Oakland County by two points

You should be very concerned with an establishment candidate blowing 50 million dollars of pac money on a campaign only to bungle it by 15 points. Like we talk about why and how Kamala or Hillary lost and… motherfucker that’s how. These people fucking SUCK at their jobs

You know what, shout out to the 3% of people who decided to just vote McMorrow anyway, it’s hilarious Stevens couldn’t even get those voters

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 22h ago

DDHQ Race Update (est. 5% in): Michigan US Senate Democratic Primary Abdul El-Sayed (D): 48,536 (61.6%) Haley Stevens (D): 27,661 (35.1%) Mallory McMorrow (D): 2,587 (3.3%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/283906