Once again, its faculty protecting the university, the students, and the very idea of education FROM administrators and boards. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

AAUP@aaup.org · yesterday

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

Child throws caution on the Santa story but sees promise in Tooth Fairy

I’m excited to shared draft AI Guidelines for the CUNY Graduate Center community @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Importantly, they embed a right of refusal for faculty, staff, and students where reasonable alternatives exist.

Joel@sentantiq.bsky.social · last mo.

thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social and Chief librarian Maura Smale @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for developing these draft AI Guidelines www.gc.cuny.edu/research-fac...

shocked...SHOCKED, etc.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last mo.

(Bloomberg) - SpaceX’s blockbuster bond sale is weakening so quickly in the secondary market that traders say they can’t recall another recent deal that widened this sharply. @bloomberg.com $SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde

A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths

theguardian.com

My "all trillionaires deserve the guillotine" shirt is raising a lot of questions answered by the shirt

Economy and Space Vol. 58, No. 4 is now available online! Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/58/...

In the not too distant future, private schools will be advertising themselves on the basis that their pupils are taught to think, read and write without the use of AI. Being able to use your own brain will be treated like a commodity, and a privilege for the elite.

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Keir Starmer announcing AI tutors for schoolchildren, and AI Jobseekers tools that will write CVs, How many millions/billions are we spending on this trash when we could actually be hiring more teachers and creating jobs to get the job done properly?

“The Trumpian deployment of the economic tactics of state capitalism will reshape the struggle for green development in the global South and the terrain of progressive politics in the US itself.” NEW from @iliasalami.bsky.social & @triofrancos.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

phenomenalworld.org

A robot car will drive your kid to soccer practice. A disembodied voice will comfort your child at night. A glowing screen will teach your child; a matrix on a GPU will calculate their worth. They will learn morality from a conglomerate. And you will be free.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

“The feature uses a combination of bedtime stories, relaxing sounds, and guided meditations along with scheduling and customization options accessible only to adults.”

My U of MN department has launched a scholarship fund to honor Alex Pretti (BA '11) who got a Geography degree before becoming a VA Nurse. Here's how to give. The money goes to support students in our department. Thanks! makingagift.umn.edu/give/fund.ht...

New paper with @jmigozzi.bsky.social! What kind of financial subjects emerge at the intersection of investment platforms and social media narratives of financial freedom? Come for our critique of fintech's 'democratization', stay for our innovative computational+qualitative methods!

Platform freedom: Financial subjectivity at the nexus of investment and social media - Desiree Fields, Julien Migozzi, 2026

Platforms enabling individuals to invest in stocks, cryptocurrency, real estate, and other assets have proliferated globally. Meanwhile, narratives of financial...

journals.sagepub.com

If you needed a twitter thread to learn that Palantir is a fascist company, that's okay with me, but you could also have read Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social already last year inthesetimes.com/article/pala...

I expected more from someone so knowledgeable about groceries.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Meta removes ads from its platforms targeting attorneys who recruit plaintiffs for social media addiction lawsuits. The move follows recent courtroom defeats in New Mexico and Los Angeles that challenge Section 230 protections. Meta cites competitive interests for the removals.

Meta Is Pulling Down Ads That Seek to Recruit Clients for Social Media Addiction Litigation

Two landmark social media addiction trials opened the floodgates and Meta is officially afraid.

gizmodo.com

“Looking forward to its next conquest”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Trump: "All US Military Personnel will remain in place in, & around, Iran, until the REAL AGREEMENT is fully complied with. If for any reason it is not, then the 'Shootin’ Starts,' stronger than anyone has ever seen...our great Military is Loading Up & Resting, looking forward to its next Conquest."

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

This is excellent: a fifty year history of muscle cars, mass cruising, and sideshows in Oakland. On a minor note one of my favorite things about Oakland is that Oakland rap fans listen to Oakland rap.

Oakland Review of Books@oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 4mo ago

Cops and media go the other kind of dumb at the sideshow.

I had a whole unit on TP supply chains! And a great final project from a student who collected and analyzed memes about the Ever Given.

Xander Lenc@xlenc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As a geography teacher, a weird upside to high-profile supply chain blockages is that they tend to make my job easier in the classroom. That ship getting stuck in the Suez Canal, the invasion of Ukraine, TP shortages in the 1st year of COVID, and the Strait of Hormuz: all perfect teaching tools.

Leading candidates for new AG: -- Alex Murdaugh -- That Nazi ICE prosecutor in Texas -- Aaron Schlossberg -- Kevin Lomax -- Some lady lawyer Trump finds attractive -- The corpse of A. Mitchell Palmer -- Nicki Minaj -- Inspector Javert -- Alan Dershowitz

adam says it much more succintly. the american right will happily impoverish the united states and make it an oversized backwater if it means they can dominate women and minorities and play act as a master class

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

The first sentence is "I am beginning to worry that geographers might be some of the nicest people in the world." 🙋‍♀️ Pure AAG spirit @geographers.bsky.social

Rahawa Haile@rahawahaile.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For COYOTE, I wrote about hanging out with a bunch of nice geographers during a decidedly terrible time for academia.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4mo ago

Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral (Wall Street Journal) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1

If this wasn’t such a tragedy there’d be a funny movie with whoever the Iranian Seth Rogen is where he’s the guy who picks up the ringing phone and becomes the accidental head of Iran in communication with the Trump admin

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo ago

Trump: "The leaders are all gone. Nobody knows who to talk to. But we're actually talking to the right people, and they want to make a deal so badly."

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

BREAKING: Federal Court Finds Columbia U May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy – in Violation of the First Amendment www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...

BREAKING: Federal Court Finds Columbia U May Have Acted as Government’s Instrument to Suppress Palestinian Advocacy – in Violation of the First Amendment — CAIR NY

(NEW YORK, NY, 3/19/26) –  A coalition including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR National), CAIR-NY, Dratel & Lewis, Project TAHA, and Main Street Legal Service...

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