Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

I do think that petromasculinity would (and in many sectors will) go bankrupt first to protect itself.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d ago

i started this train of thought as a joke but now i do think there's something to the idea that the way to sell the green revolution to the US public is that we're being denied Good Deals on cheap chinese cars and solar panels and there's nothing more unamerican than saying we can't have a good deal

"Our role as academics is to protect this one institution. This is why we receive tax money; why we're basically civil servants. The role of the university is even lost on many, so bears repeating: produce knowledge and educate at the highest level. AI destroys both at their core"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4d ago

If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

I feel like the whole world got a taste of what it's like to sit around a grad seminar table.

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d ago

SUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS

Germany to ban Meta’s Pervert Glasses? ​Hamburg’s Data Protection Office warns that recording people in public with smart glasses violates privacy laws. The tiny LED indicator light isn't prominent enough to prevent secret filming in public spaces. 1/2 www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragter: Verbot von Meta Glasses möglich

Der Hamburger Datenschutzbeauftragte Fuchs warnt vor Meta Smart Glasses: Die Brillen, die kaum von normalen Brillen zu unterscheiden sind, ermöglichen heimliches Filmen. Ein Verbot sei nicht ausgeschl...

tagesschau.de

I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.

Through extraordinary efforts, @windbornewx.bsky.social successfully navigated a controllable balloon above powerful Typhoon Dolphin, descended into its eye, then collected multiple vertical profiles as we circled inside its eye. A first of its kind type of hurricane data collection.

That was fast. Google sent me a statement saying it is now “rolling back“ this AI feature after our demonstration and others from OSINT researchers www.404media.co/google-earth...

This is ... horrific

Lady Yapper (KJ Colt)@moistenedtart.bsky.social · last wk.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Excuse me while I go cry

Egregious, destroying books that have been preserved through wars and disasters @shannonmattern.bsky.social

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

“Sometimes I read a print book because a print book can’t read me back.”

Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · last wk.

New article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.

What a scrumptious feast. It’s reads like this that make me feel lucky we still have folks who like to geek out, write and share it with us all www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

lrb.co.uk

“all the food looks horrible” is an absolutely devastating critique

Yes. Once again thinking about Kate Losse’s work: modelviewculture.com/pieces/the-m...

The Male Gazed

Surveillance, Power, and Gender

modelviewculture.com

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.

FWIW, Meta was fully aware of how these glasses would primarily be used. The glasses were designed to erase consent, and that is why they exist. Anything that they do that suggests they want to ameliorate this use is an attempt to win the PR battle and manipulate public opinion.

"In 1970, Kenneth Koch published a groundbreaking book about writing poetry with kids. Half a century later, Jess Shane tracks down his students to ask what it meant for their lives" ❤️ - "What's Inside the Moon," Signal Hill Issue 3

Issue Three

Where we're coming from and where we're going.

signalhill.fm

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

Signal Hill — a new audio documentary magazine — has just released its first issue! Featuring pieces on kite festivals, Robin D. G. Kelley’s oral histories, sheep farms, caterpillars, protest sounds, and more

The state of the world, 2026: Kicking back on the beach, watching the apocalypse

A major unlock for me was when I discovered that if you can articulate the hypothesis in an assertion, you’ve found a way forward. You can clarify decisions to be made. People who already think this way automatically align on the activities you engage in to come up w/the proof.

Faraday cage classrooms in the pipeline.

Dr. Damien P. Williams has to go the way his blood beats@wolven.blacksky.app · 2w ago

Yeah this "pervert glasses in the classroom" thing is bothering me enough that I emailed both my departments asking if we can get practical guidance from the chancellor & IT. What I'm really, increasingly wanting is a Wi-Fi kill switch for each classroom, but i don't know that that's in the offing.

I don't suppose there's anyone here doing some work in the Archives nationales (Paris, not Pierrefitte) right now who wouldn't mind grabbing a couple of photos for me...?

@shannonmattern.bsky.social thought you might enjoy

Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pulling the lever: a look at past voting technology

claude catholicism vs digital shintoism

Vanquished by the baby you washed is some Athena bullshit

CRIME SIMONTE

I’m so embarrassed that I started this book like, “UGH a canon text, let’s see what’s the fuss,” and now I’m quietly weeping with joy to myself and filled with goodwill and optimism toward humanity and its capacity to love. How dare you, Jane Austen!!!

God. Every chapter I’ve read recently has made me crave a cigarette. I don’t even smoke!!!

After being cooked indoors in my apartment (and bearing it for more than a few summers), I finally gave in and decided to get a portable AC. Only to find that there is not a single model available, in any shop, in whole of the city. I mean I know Oslo isn’t big, but W-O-W #Oslo #heatwave

Figure out how to be an artist in such a way that you get to live in the bountiful world of great people that want to learn from you and share with you and make things with you, not tedious people with only power and/or money who have nothing meaningful to contribute.

Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.