Hi there, an educator here. We don’t need training on AI. We know what it is. We’re holding on for dear life until private equity decides to move on to the next shiny thing. I just hope there are enough of us still around to pick up the pieces.

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.”

Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

insidehighered.com

If & when you see someone making bigoted arguments about Muslim Americans running for office, feel free to tell them that there is literally nothing more fundamentally un-American than such sentiments. My thread: 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 4h ago

Obviously this is a blatant, bigoted dog-whistle for Islamophobes & xenophobes & white supremacists. But it’s also quite literally the opposite of what the Framers intended, brought into the Constitution, & argued for as our founding ideals. A quick thread: 🗃️

Delighted to put together this curated collection for French Historical Studies, enhancing our recent INCARCERATION special issue with these fantastic articles from the archive – all deal with issues of race and the carceral in French history @sfhs.bsky.social 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

S. 4814 update to #ProtectOurHaitianNeighbors & #ExtendTPS: @schiff.senate.gov & @rosen.senate.gov have finally signed on as cosponsors!! But that's still only 33 Senators willing to do what the courts have refused. Please call your Senator ⬇️ if they haven't signed yet! ☎️ #Haiti Script in 🧵

Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 7d ago

Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊

Academic flees Turkey abt a decade ago (bc of political pressures), settles down in New School, and now advocates the firings of his colleagues www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

Couldn't resist sharing this, from Voice of San Diego. Not the world's best sentence. (unless he literally studies homeless people who stay on campus!)

NYC Civics for All Comics Group’s KNOW YOUR RIGHTS comic by @alexsegura.com @davidhahn.bsky.social @elllewrightart.bsky.social & @tayloresposito.bsky.social is now available FREE in 14 languages (including Traditional Chinese)! Download here: www.weteachnyc.org/resources/re...

no one making $ on scholarly books, certainly not academic presses, which are being starved by unis who once supported publication but now totally devalue research. from friends/editors at university presses, book sales are down 25% this year & the forecast is bleak. now no libraries buying books.

Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)@tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h ago

Greetings, Psst, most academics aren't making much money from their book publications. They can't use their royalties. This means we are not popping our collars and purchasing prosecco or NA prosecco. The few scholars who are making bank are not publishing with university/academic presses.

Very important 🧵 from my friend @tnflorvil.bsky.social. YES. Academics who publish books with university presses don’t get rich. We often LOSE money for the process of doing the research and the time of writing. We write because we care about our subjects! My next book could be a trade press/

Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026)@tnflorvil.bsky.social · 8h ago

Greetings, Psst, most academics aren't making much money from their book publications. They can't use their royalties. This means we are not popping our collars and purchasing prosecco or NA prosecco. The few scholars who are making bank are not publishing with university/academic presses.

“Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland’s Eastern Shore after #TPS ends for Haitians. As Temporary Protected Status expires, many Haitian immigrants in Salisbury retreat from daily life, fearing arrest and deportation." haitiantimes.com/2026/08/05/m...

Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland's Eastern Shore after TPS ends for Haitians

Haitian immigrants on Maryland's Eastern Shore face fear, canceled community events and possible deportation after Temporary Protected Status expires.

haitiantimes.com

Here's my Cosmo piece about how segregated bathrooms have impacted my own health www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a6...

Avoiding Public Bathrooms Damaged My Bladder—Now, As a Trans Man, I’m Finally Letting Go

Inside the emotional and physical toll of holding it in.

cosmopolitan.com

Sandy Ernest Allen@sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 13h ago

Efforts to police bathrooms are evil and will impact peoples' health. Segregated bathrooms themselves must be done away with, it's the only solution. I reported this question out, years ago for @99pi.org 99percentinvisible.org/episode/wher...

He's electable if we elect him.

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Ahhh… I didn’t realize the Jennings Affair was continuing this week. He could still say: I made an Oopsie. But he‘s just mass-blocking?

Rook Saproling@tcolahan.bsky.social · 21h ago

Someone should tell him Alex Trebek would be ashamed of him.

Was it kind of mean? Idk man what constitutes mean when someone took your life’s work and made a movie you hated???? What if we interrogated what the demand for niceness has gotten us in art spaces 😐

A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

***Letter-Writing Campaign Against National Archives and Records Administration Closures in San Francisco (San Bruno) and Chicago*** Save Our National Archives has launched an immediate letter writing campaign and is asking writers to CC their Congressional representatives. Thread - 1/3

they finally earned their most evil gaming company trophy after all these years. congrats and rest in piss, ea!

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · yesterday

EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

With the AI stuff it’s literally just, “Come on man, but everybody’s doing it. Why are you being such a buzzkill?” but in more words than necessary.

For the past five months the only refugees the USA has accepted are white South Africans fleeing equality & safety meanwhile they are disappearing or strapping ankle monitors on any Haitian they can get ahold of. It needs to be understood how thoroughly connected these two things are.

Hooray! Congrats to all the organizations and volunteers and neighbors who worked so hard to dispell the false advertising backed by dark money that was poured into the "yes" campaigns for amendments 4 and 5. Now on to defeat Amendment 3 in the November elections! #StopTheBan

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 21h ago

These Republican amendments went down in flames. WE WON!

I'd forgotten about this document. An interesting thing for her ex-husband to have saved, a single glimpse into their marital dysfunction when otherwise all their post-divorce correspondence is friendly!

Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 21h ago

On the other hand 🤣 (this is a letter I'm rediscovering from Wife #1 before they get divorced. Homegirl is at a hotel). I mean: she seems mad. Drunk ("scarcely" LOL) and mad 🤣. But they didn't have no-fault divorce & the fault was officially hers, so 🤷‍♀️

(she actually described her ex-husband to the FBI as very scholarly, the "St. Augustine of Marxism" 😆)

Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 22h ago

Also, when the McCarthyist FBI came to visit Author #4's ex & said "did you know he was a COMMUNIST then??" & "are YOU??" She said: I'm not but we shared "an interest in victims of police brutality"🔥. He's very peaceful, a kind of sage of Marxism, not someone who wants to overthrow the govt. 😆

Good news. I found an interview with Author #4's 1st Famous Intellectual Wife. She states she was the reason for the divorce (she must have cheated). And he was true to his Famous Intellectual Wife #2, til she died of cancer. I can handle Stalinists today - not serial cheaters!

Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 23h ago

I think I'm going to organize some archival photos which are from my CPUSA official... who may have been a doctrinaire Stalinist & obnoxious to people who weren't - but at least seems to have been a feminist & supportive of his intellectual wives (not concurrently - widow!) rather than a dickhead.

When the handwriting problem from the archives is.... my own! 😭

Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · 22h ago

Back to the topic of file labels. So HERE I actually wrote a little file label & put it in every pic from this file. BUT: WTF did I write? what IS that last digit? I know this is b. 21, - but is this folder 347, 8 or 9? It looks like 342 or 345 - but those files had nothing! Hoping I meant 9!

"I did an OCR conversion of all my PDFs to text files" --> ...considerea the mos7 impor7an7 docomen7 of i7s 7ime, signed by Æ®nĩ MįzeȽz...