Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

Join @cjdenial.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and me for a free webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education on October 13, 1:00-2:00 pm ET. Register now! olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I was on a panel with immigrant women yesterday and one of them explained how it felt to first be elected and be celebrated for your identity, and then for the institutions to turn on you when you actually bring your perspective and ask for change. She described it as going from “pet to threat.” 😮‍💨

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

pham’s law: for every problem in oregon there is a khanh pham bill that would have fixed it

Rip City Not Rip Off@ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oregon almost asked. A Senate amendment by @senkhanhpham.bsky.social required exactly two things: private capital and a share of gross revenue. It died in the rush of a short session. The idea was never refuted — it wasn’t even allowed to be considered.

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Is it just me or does Dundon seem to have near disdain for this city? He acts like keeping the Blazers here is a sacrifice. Like Portland isn’t called Sportland for a reason. This is a mind game. He wants us to grovel. #ripcitynotripoff www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

Dundon Offers Brief Remarks and Elected Officials Urge Moda Center Renovation at Business Summit

As Dundon spoke on Wednesday afternoon, the Portland City Council across the Willamette River held a work session on the Moda Center’s future.

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This was rough to read because it’s clear the CSU system is one of the places that could make a huge difference in a ton of lives but is struggling and they’re hoping that AI will be the miracle they need, when the real problem is they’re chronically underfunded.

May-lee Chai (she/her)@mayleechai.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Subhed from the NYT article on CSU adoption of ChatGPT: “California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos.” Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kids should be learning that AI output isn’t trustworthy, where it really comes from, and how it’s disrupting our ability to tell what’s real. They shouldn’t be learning that AI will make them more efficient or do their work for them because it can’t. That would be propaganda, not education

To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script.

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

What cities should do: - Double down on active transportation infrastructure and transit, not roads and highways. - Fund e-bike rebate programs. - Switch municipal fleets, where possible, to cargo bikes. (Parks department vehicles, for example.) - Expand commuter tax credits to encourage cycling.

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Kyle Cassidy@kylecassidy.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m constantly astounded at the sheer level of artistic production coming out of Iceland. Novels, movies, music. Amazing.

Letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

one of the things i hate most about this persistent line of argument is the implication that any of these actions would be fine if groceries were cheaper

Amy Klobuchar@amyklobuchar.com · 9mo ago

The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland. Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?

the real doom loop is service cuts to our transit system. if you cut frequency on an already infrequent system, it’s going to hurt ridership, which will lead to more cuts and fare hikes, which further hurt ridership. all of that of course adds future liabilities to the rest of the transport system

Proposed 2026 Transit Service Changes

Weigh in on proposed service efficiencies and cuts for Aug. 23, 2026, as TriMet reduces spending.

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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life