Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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If ever there were a policy failure, it’s the existence of 8 flights a day from Greensboro to Charlotte

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

Very happy to share that my new article, "The Lie of Genos Gunaikōn: Maternity, Nurturing, and Philosophy" has been published (open access!) in Hypatia! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Lie of Genos Gunaikōn: Maternity, Nurturing, and Philosophy in Plato’s Noble Lie | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

The Lie of Genos Gunaikōn: Maternity, Nurturing, and Philosophy in Plato’s Noble Lie

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It’s increasingly difficult not to conclude that higher ed leaders, regardless of the wealth at their disposal, are now actively committed to undermining their institutions’ pedagogical missions. Whatever these leaders think their institutions ought to be doing, it’s something other than education.

The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · last wk.

The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated, prompting backlash from current and former tutors. Abigail S. Gerstein and Amann S. Mahajan report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

There is a straight line from Thatcher ‘s “there is no such thing as society” to the Wall Street Journal’s question “should we liquidate sociology”

Laura K. Nelson@lauraknelson.bsky.social · 2w ago

I haven't read this yet but come on with that headline. The study of sociology. The study, of soci-ology.

The fruits of government censorship policies. (The picture doesn't do it justice, but UNC Pembroke's compliance actually makes the inclusion/diversity theme *more* visible to passersby. The removed letters gloriously glisten in the sunlight.)

The absence of critical thinking skills exhibited and increasingly celebrated by the leaders of many of our colleges and universities does indeed make it difficult to defend the value of these institutions to the wider public. ai.uncg.edu/resources/pi...

ChatGPT Edu | AI at UNCG

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing higher education, research, and the workplace. During the coming year, UNCG faculty and staff will have the opportunity to explore ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s hig...

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the exit strategy from the bubble is selling this malware to public institutions

ChatGPT Edu | AI at UNCG

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing higher education, research, and the workplace. During the coming year, UNCG faculty and staff will have the opportunity to explore ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI’s hig...

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Futurism@futurism.com · 2w ago

It's a bloodbath.

"Here’s the reality: If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you."

Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 3w ago

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

One key reason universities shouldn't subordinate themselves to market trends is that they do an absolutely miserable job identifying market trends.

Louise Amoore@amoorelouise.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

Running for president, or really any federal office, without a plan to deal with this out of control institution is pointless. You might as well play pretend

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

The Democrats should add 15 seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. If the GOP comes back and adds 15 more of their own in 2033, the resulting institution would still be more democratically responsive than what we have now.

Any Democratic presidential candidate who doesn't have a clear and comprehensive plan along these lines is not worth listening to. Fixing the judiciary is a prerequisite for pretty much everything else.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

Fuck the Supreme Court and long live our trans friends and family

Any Democratic presidential candidate who doesn't have a clear and comprehensive plan along these lines is not worth listening to. Fixing the judiciary is a prerequisite for pretty much everything else.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last mo.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

One of the more dispiriting rituals of contemporary academia is the end-of-the-year emails announcing the new crop of mostly unimpressive faculty who have been appointed to high-profile, well-paid, and largely meaningless administrative sinecures for the year ahead.

Conversations about the future of higher education in the US need to start from the unfortunate, basic fact that both Democrats and Republicans agree with Reagan that government should not subsidize curiosity driven learning and inquiry.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

A baseline for determining the seriousness of any 2028 Democratic candidate is whether or not they have an answer for what to do about the Supreme Court. If they don't, their candidacy should simply be ignored.

Highlights from the MPSA "Town Hall" on US democratic collapse, featuring leading scholars in political science. 🧵 (1) Moderator, @nazita.bsky.social , starts off with a plain description of democratic decline in the US with an impressive list of illiberal activity and rapid decline. 1/

I want the discussion of “declining trust in universities” to incorporate some acknowledgment of the increasing number of censorship policies being enacted in higher education.

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 3mo ago

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

A smart Democratic Party would have used the Jake Tapper book tour as an occasion not to complain about the DC press (which, to be clear, absolutely deserves our scorn), but to very publicly, shamelessly, and ruthlessly run the bus over Biden & his enablers as many times as was humanly possible.

Michael Caley@michaelcaley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

this from the new @gelliottmorris.com Strength in Numbers poll gets at the core problem for Democrats in winning over swing voters swing voters hated Joe Biden, they hated the inflation, they hated him running again and then hated how he dropped out www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-23...

Previous hypes 1) Completely online colleges (no more residential campuses) 2) MOOCS 3) Interdisciplinary programs only (no more silos/disciplines) 4) Enrollment cliff (as if there wouldn’t be enough people for colleges to exist) 4) Coursera will replace lecturers 5) AI What else?

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The story of ed tech is a repeated loop of massive hype and massive disappointment See MOOCs, and now AI Evidence can interrupt this unproductive cycle The Stanford SCALE Initiative, led by rock star Prof Susanna Loeb, brings evidence to the conversation scale.stanford.edu/sites/defaul...

Absolutely exhausting, but also profoundly morally corrosive, to live like this.

Really hoping for the best on this revise&resubmit because I honestly don't think I can ever bring myself to look at this thing again.

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...