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Nik Janos

@nik-janos.bsky.social

Writing a book about Northwest hydropower and writes about AI and higher ed. Professor of Sociology, California State University Chico. nikjanos.org

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EdSource@edsource.org · 3mo ago

California State University's $17 million contract with OpenAI has been met with criticism, but canceling it would create fragmentation and inequity. Instead, the focus should be on finding a constructive path forward for AI in higher education.

COMMENTARY: Canceling that Cal State ChatGPT contract does not solve the AI problem; it might make it worse

California State University's $17 million contract with OpenAI has been met with criticism, but canceling it would create fragmentation and inequity. Instead, the focus should be on finding a…

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Nik Janos@nik-janos.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Fantastic thread on nationalism as a social thing and historical process but also on the dubious ways that social scientists and the rest often practice a “methodological nationalism” to interpret social forms of all variation (networks, scales, places etc).

Dan Nexon@dhnexon.net · 10mo ago

🧵 As an academic whose formative college and graduate experiences took place during the 'modernists' vs. 'neo-primordialist' debates about nationalism, I find the causal ideological & methodological nationalism of even left-wing social media shocking.

Numbers Fuckstein’s Monster@drwalpurgisnacht.bsky.social · 11mo ago

An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.

ae@aelkus.bsky.social · last yr.

people wanted a luxury belief presidency that would give them the means to live out the indulgences they craved while making them richer. They got a bunch of meth tweakers ripping everything out of the walls

Nik Janos@nik-janos.bsky.social · last yr.

So deglobalize textiles but globalize American prisons. They’re gonna offshore human rights abuses of Americans if they can.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Trump says he'd like to deport US citizens to El Salvador: "I'd like to go a step further. I don't know what the laws are, we always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways... I'd like to include them in the group of people to get out of the country"

James Medlock@jdcmedlock.bsky.social · last yr.

The message from the Left should be: tariffs bad, industrial policy good. Sure, there are niche cases where tariffs might be useful as part of industrial policy, but it really weakens the message to add qualifiers. Fight unreservedly against the thing destroying the economy.

𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗@charlescmann.bsky.social · last yr.

This NYTimes story exemplifies one of the stupidest aspects of DOGE's crusade to "cut government spending." DOGE fired a NOAA employee who supervises a dozen NW salmon hatcheries to ensure they comply with the Endangered Species Act and other laws and it may screw up salmon harvests for years. 1/14

NOAA Staffing Cuts Threaten Years of Salmon Harvests (Gift Article)

In Washington, where salmon is a multibillion dollar industry, government staff terminations and budget freezes may put salmon production at risk.

nytimes.com

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · last yr.

We're tracking student visa revocations at Inside Higher Ed. If you know of any that aren't on our map--or want to report numbers from your own institution--email me (liam.knox@insidehighered.com) or @amowreader.com (ashley.mowreader@insidehigered.com) www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked

The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wrecking havoc on the system.

insidehighered.com

Nils Gilman@nilsgilman.bsky.social · last yr.

I want to tear my hair out when I see people cheering charts like in this skeet. From a climate change mitigation perspective the ONLY thing that matters is ABSOLUTE carbon emissions — not the ratio of renewable to hydrocarbons, not the energy intensivity per unit of output, or anything else.

Ember@ember-energy.org · last yr.

NEW | World surpasses 40% clean power in 2024, driven by a RECORD rise in renewables 📈 Solar has DOUBLED in just three years, remaining the world’s fastest-growing source of new electricity and the engine of the energy transition ⚡ ember-energy.org/lat... #GER2025

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · last yr.

We're gonna do a covid supply shock to ourselves, I really think this needs to be the message, because we all lived through that and nothing makes the complete disruption of global supply chains more visceral

Danny Groner@dannygroner.bsky.social · last yr.

"On a recent visit to Shoprite, where Collins bought chopped meat, her typical 3 lb meat purchase cost $16, forcing her to take the $8 version instead. How would the younger generation cope, she wondered. "They are just getting out into this world where it has become so tough to survive."

Chris Murphy@chrismurphyct.bsky.social · last yr.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · last yr.

The environmental impact of AI is entirely overblown. There are a lot of reasons to decry AI. AI’s energy use isn’t one of them. All computation (across every type of computer) uses less energy than aluminum refining.

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · last yr.

It's not knee-jerk. It's an environmentally-destructive technology designed to fetishize idea over effort and excise artists from art in order to make techlords richer by plagiarizing pre-existing material made by *actual* creative people and not quote-unquote "prompt engineers."