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Matt Gold

@mkgold.bsky.social

Associate Prof of English and Digital Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center. Director @cunycommons @cunygcdi @cbox. Co-Editor @dhdebates. Co-PI @ManifoldScholar. http://mkgold.net

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Jonathan@jsench.bsky.social · 2w ago

A few hours ago a Madison Police officer shot a man three times, point blank, in the face. The man was being restrained by three other MPD officers at the time. It happened in an intersection I cross every day, less than a mile from my house. When will the executions stop.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3w ago

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.

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 4w ago

If ICE can kill anyone it wants with impunity, then none of us have any meaningful rights. It’s that simple.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Nick Sousanis@nsousanis.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is horrific & a powerful article by @willbunch.bsky.social - we can’t look away. Gift link in replies…

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE desperately wants you not to care about this story But we must. The killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican national striving for his American Dream, is a moral outrage, and a warning. ICE hopes you won't notice that mass deportation is back My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Matt Gold@mkgold.bsky.social · last mo.

CUNY Graduate Center Provost Joel Christensen @sentantiq.bsky.social on @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social’s approach to AI, which “center[s] human ways of thinking and being . . . emphasiz[ing] collaborative development rather than compliance and punitive approaches.”

Image of text reading: “We are interested in developing guidelines that reflect our values and institutional mission, that could help us continue to center human ways of thinking and being, and that would also emphasize collaborative development rather than compliance and punitive approaches.”
Luke Waltzer@lukewaltzer.bsky.social · last mo.

More context on @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Draft AI Guidelines in this letter to the community from Provost @sentantiq.bsky.social. I remain grateful to work at an institution whose leadership vigorously centers our values, mission, and humanity. gc.listserv.cuny.edu/scripts/wa-g...

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty. The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry. What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change. Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets. The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing. We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report. We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them. Vanderbilt University AAUP vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com Wa…
Law Murray 📘@lawmurraythenu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The San Antonio Spurs had an 81-52 lead with 9:40 left in the third quarter From that point on! Knicks outscored Spurs 55-25 Spurs missed 29 of last 35 shots (17.1% FGs) Spurs missed 13 of last 15 3s (13.3% 3s) Spurs scored only 4 paint points Spurs had 4:9 AST-TO ratio

Alan Liu@alanyliu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For a gorgeous use of Manifold for a book with extensive digital assets, see @whitneytrettien.bsky.social's Cut/CopyPaste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork, 2021 manifold.umn.edu/projects/cut... @uminnpress.bsky.social List of digital resources in the book: manifold.umn.edu/projects/cut...

Cut/Copy/Paste | Manifold@UMinnPress

**How do early modern media underlie today’s digital creativity?** <br/><br/> In *Cut/Copy/Paste*, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collabo...

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