For the love of Hanuman, THIS. It's not just that a circular firing squad is unhelpful at this moment; it's also that academics of all people ought to be open-minded about ways of knowing other than their own and ought to be respectful of expertise.

Corey Rayburn Yung@coreyryung.bsky.social · yesterday

As a meta-point in the academia discourse of today, it's a strange time for professors to dismiss the value of entire disciplines. That plays perfectly for those who want to wreck higher education (and who happen to have a lot of governmental power right now).

“And so communities sacrifice water rights for promises of progress, nations race to secure minerals for intelligences not yet built, and workers breathe methane emissions to train systems whose benefits remain speculative.” We must disrupt the exploitative infrastructures behind “AI” development.

Platform Obscurantism - Limn

ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...

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Very interesting findings here. Capital rather than labor is capturing the value from AI productivity gains (no surprise there) but they’re doing it through wage compression rather than workforce reduction. www.apollo.com/insights-new...

AI Lowers Wages But Doesn't Cut Jobs | The Daily Spark

Analysis of actual Claude usage data shows workers in AI-exposed occupations are experiencing slower wage growth, while employment levels in these occupations remain unchanged, suggesting companies ar...

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I know everyone’s all down on articles and blah because of AI, but in the last week I have been reading like 5 really amazing pieces that have been or will be submitted this cycle. Slop can’t crowd out the incredibly cool work out there, if we do our job of reading/uplifting it!

This is a well-produced segment. I encourage you to watch so you can hear the noise for yourself. The professor of environmental health science that they interviewed called it an “unprecedented new noise source.”

Neighbors say noise from Michigan data center is 24/7 and upending their lives

One Michigan community has been experiencing the reality of a data center next door for a couple of years now, and they say the sound has changed their lives.

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Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic

The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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This is utterly brilliant: "This is a moment in which what we most need is the humane intelligence of free human minds. It is a time for academics and faith leaders to maintain a fierce independence from the AI industry." www.ft.com/content/bdb3...

Legal Theory Lexicon: Intersectionality Introduction The idea of “intersectionality” has played an important role in antidiscrimination law and in critical approaches to legal theory....

Legal Theory Lexicon: Intersectionality

Introduction The idea of “intersectionality” has played an important role in antidiscrimination law and in critical approaches to legal theory. But what is “intersectionality”? Here is a hypothetical that illustrates the concept. Imagine a plaintiff who sues her employer for discrimination. The employer has hired Black men for factory jobs and white women for office jobs, but it has hired no Black women at all.

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The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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"Wyoming will become the first state in the US where you cannot receive a B.A. in Philosophy." dailynous.com/2026/07/23/u...

University of Wyoming to Drop Philosophy Major - Daily Nous

As for Fall 2027, incoming students at the University of Wyoming will no longer be allowed to major in philosophy. The news was shared by philosophy professor Bradley Rettler in posts on social media....

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*militarized police beat up, arrested, and disappeared student protestors on college campuses all over the country for saying out loud what the administration already knew*

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w ago

Members of the Biden Administration struggled to understand how Israel could justify the scale of destruction in Gaza. A State Department official said, “We were all shocked at how aggressive and deadly it was, and asking, ‘What the fuck are they doing?’ ” newyorkermag.visitlink.me/aApLcv

Dear lord, what are they trying to AVOID discovery of? Cancelling grants solely because the state where the grantee happens to be located did not vote for Trump is the less damaging thing they will admit in writing?

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's part of a major federal court case over those cancelations. Here's what the government admitted as part of a process meant to avoid discovery (and perhaps spare it from sharing more damaging records):

Starting in Sept, I’m teaching a year-long series of classes on Henry James. Join for one or all as we read some of the greatest fiction in English. First up: Portrait of a Lady. Full info here: www.garthgreenwell.com/classes

Episode 5 of "Lawyering Without Law" is out now. Madhav Khosla talks with David Dyzenhaus and @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social about how repressive regimes, from Nazi Germany to apartheid South Africa, govern through lawyers, courts, and legal theory—and what that history illuminates about the present.

Lawyering Under 20th Century Authoritarianism - Lawyering Without Law

We often imagine authoritarianism as the abandonment of law, a moment of rupture when constitutions are torn up and courts are shut down. But some of history’s most effective assaults on democracy hav...

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This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

For those interested in the constitutional nitty gritty on advancing Supreme Court term limits, I highly recommend this memo from the Brennan Center published today www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Supreme Court Term Limits Are Constitutional

This legal analysis of leading proposals for term limits demonstrates that they can be implemented by statute.

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This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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Another killing by ICE, this time in Maine. That’s twice in one week. How can America keep asking immigrant workers to work as usual if they are being shot dead on their way to work? Stop killing us.

(on slow slow summer writing) And when the sun started to burn the earth, promising a long and unconquerable sultriness, everything alive, everything which had moved and made noises in the night, sank into somnolence. Chekhov, 'Fortune'

Getting Out of Blame: Excuses, Forgiveness, and the Deep Self onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Getting Out of Blame: Excuses, Forgiveness, and the Deep Self

We often feel that what we have done is somehow not in keeping with who we are. This tension, or incongruity, between the person we take ourselves to be and what that person has done seems to matter…

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Randall Jarrell, “A Girl in a Library” (1951).

Re on Unprincipled Adjudication Richard M. Re (Harvard Law School) has posted Unprincipled Adjudication on SSRN. Here is the abstract:...

Re on Unprincipled Adjudication

Richard M. Re (Harvard Law School) has posted Unprincipled Adjudication on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What is unprincipled adjudication and when, if ever, is it justified? In addressing those questions, this essay attempts to complete a project begun with Professor Fred Schauer. Highly Recommended! To receive new posts from Legal Theory Blog by email, get a free subscription to Legal Theory Stack. Lawrence Solum

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Revisiting The Constitutional Bind during the Interregnum

As the country marks 250 years, the left faces two imperatives at once: confronting a constitutional order warped by judicial supremacy, and reorienting American foreign policy away from endless war.

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Yes, and also I hate the headline the piece has on here (which is different than the headline if you click through). It’s a bad sign for all knowledge production. This fetishization of “science” is ultimately itself destructive of the academy and broader society.

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social · last mo.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

Aside from the $526.8mn he made from crypto sales, the US president also earned hundreds of thousands of dollars from the licensing of Bibles, watches and perfume, according to a financial disclosure. ft.trib.al/AIxVw8I

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

Absolutely Kafkaesque. The University of Exeter - a nonprofit - is turning a profit. Its managers say this demands budget cuts. They made everyone who knew in advance sign NDAs, waited for end of term, then eviscerated the environmental sciences during the second generational heatwave of June 2026.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · last mo.

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

I haven’t seen *any* coverage of this and worry people have just become numb (or are too distracted by the World Cup, Knicks, etc.)

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...