It's "I Stand with Immigrants Day" and there's a whole slate of amazing activities scheduled @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Check them out www.gc.cuny.edu/events/i-sta.... Our team @gctlc.bsky.social put together this teaching resource: "Creating Sanctuary Classrooms" cuny.is/sanctuary-classrooms

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Is Less Bad Still Good Enough? | Defector

In the 1957 drama The Three Faces of Eve, Joanne Woodward plays a woman with a split personality. By day, she is Eve White, an uptight housewife with a whisper of a voice, but sometimes, White is over...

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shout out to one of my amazing film history students, whose first response to ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL WAS, "they had Karens in the '70s, who knew??!" 😂

maybe I’m naive but I really didn’t understand how many people hate using their own brains

nobody wants this

it‘a all happening (Goblin playing the live score)

did Law and Order steal the John Carpenter font

Halfway there

Here’s something you should know about minks: They have lungs and airways remarkably similar on a cellular level to those of people. They’ve spread flus and infected humans before with COVID-19. Right now, bird flu is spreading on a Utah farm filled with thousands of them… 🧵

this tree knows things

As @biblioracle.bsky.social says, "Either scholarship, research and publishing are human enterprises or they aren’t." We need to talk about why four years in, the conversations that get the most oxygen are about what LLMs can do and not about why we would want them to.

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 4d ago

LLMs aren’t “peers” so it makes no sense for them to do peer review. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

so you’re supposed to eat these little cheese cannoli and then what, scoop the greasy center up with your hands? is this AI’s idea of optimizing pizza?

all I can say is that I ate some this summer, and it did indeed rock my world www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/d...

It’s Sliced Cheese on Bread. And It’s Rocking Copenhagen’s World.

The Danish capital is obsessed with this stripped-down snack, and the city’s top bakeries won’t stop until they’ve perfected it.

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dang I love Betty Gilpin

"By tasking us with AI assignments, professors do us a 'favor' by removing our agency in school, rather than in our future workplace." Brilliant and depressing essay by a current college student about AI, agency, and the classroom. dailycollegian.com/2026/10/chat...

ChatGPT is my new TA, and I’m scared

“It feels as though everyone in charge of our education has already accepted that, at the pace we’re moving, we’re all going to have to use AI at some point in our careers. By tasking us with AI assig...

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got on the train last night to find the woman next to me also a reading On the Calculation of Volume (IV vs III), a micro-monoculture grows in Brooklyn

randomly delighted to see that NORTH OF NORTH has a second season coming next month, the first season was a treat

never a good sign when the bus driver gets off the bus

autumn is beautiful

IMPORTANT AI on campus is cognitive theft, data theft, job theft, healthcare destruction (universities ARE healthcare) AND it is also spectacular risk to campus retirees connect the dots, grasp the whole picture, learn from AAUP, get in formation

Britt Paris@hellobrittparis.bsky.social · last wk.

Join TODAY at 3pm ET and tell your colleagues! our 5th installment of our AI toolkit series about how the AI bubble affects us in higher ed and what to do about it. We will be joined by leaders from TIAA Divest!, Majority Action, and Make the Road. Register here www.aaup.org/event/higher...

"The adoption of an agentic AI platform should require a faculty governance review equivalent to that required for changes in tenure policy or the curriculum." 👏

The Academic Panopticon Arrives

Agentic AI is not a student plagiarism problem. It is a faculty surveillance problem.

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only loosely following the “scripted teaching” discourse, but am just generally so done with educators being subjected to a level of contemptuous scrutiny no other profession contends with, can you imagine if lawyers and doctors were regularly instructed by non-experts on how to do their jobs?

Join us online on Friday, October 23 at 12:30pm ET for this cool event w/ @shelleystamp.bsky.social, @garloso.bsky.social, @marshagordon.bsky.social, @hahumiaomiao.bsky.social, @cinemiasma.bsky.social, Liz Czach, and Carolina Cappa!

"[W]e argue that the appropriate response to AI hype is not literacy, but contestation: undermining hypers’ legitimacy and building collective power to pursue alternative trajectories for AI," write @shreyachowdhary.bsky.social, @tisjune.bsky.social, and @benzevgreen.bsky.social.

Student journalists get it again “the USC administration laid off workers in departments not largely responsible for the deficit. Rather than making cutbacks in management — one of the main contributors in overwhelming costs — USC cut its core programs.” www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/10/16/u...

USC slashed jobs as administration size expanded

Investigation shows management of USC grew despite deficit.

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Happy to see this essay out in the world, part of a fantastic special issue of Feminist Theory co-edited by @samanthapinto.bsky.social and Gayle Wald! My piece considers two recent films that challenge & reimagine discourses around women's creativity, SHOWING UP and ANATOMY OF A FALL (link below)

My department, the Department of Art & Art History @huntercollege.bsky.social, has a position now open for Gallery Curator & Deputy Director. Review of applications begins November 16; please circulate widely, thanks! www.nyfa.org/jobs/job-inf...

Gallery Curator & Deputy Director - Hunter College - Department of Art & Art History / Hunter College Art Galleries | NYFA

Reporting to the Chair of the Department of Art & Art History with a dotted line to the faculty Director of the Hunter College Art Galleries (HCAG), the Gallery Curator...

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my writing process

Hourly Garth Marenghi's Darkplace@hourlydarkplace.bagpuss.org · last wk.

tfw where you have done all the conference things and can retreat to the private comforts of your hotel room

ok you got me what is a beer hike