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@pinebeltblues.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈🖤💜🤍 ref librarian & law prof @ UNC law library PhD student @ UNC AmSt UE150 she/her from AL

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Mark Peifer (He, him)@peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 12h ago

Very important thread on this study revealing insights into why we lose female faculty throughout the career cycle at higher rates and about how each of us can make a difference--well worth a read!

Katie Spoon@kspoon.bsky.social · 14h ago

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

Chen Chen@chenchenwrites.bsky.social · last wk.

Here’s an excerpt from my new (prose!) book. It’s from the opening essay, which addresses 兔儿神/the Rabbit God, a queer deity from my home province of Fujian. But really it's a prose poem, an ars poetica, a manifesto. In Cahoots with the Rabbit God is out on Dec. 1. Preorder now: tinyurl.com/4mc6vnjf

DEAR RABBIT GOD, I don't believe in suffering for one's art. I believe in frolicking for one's art. I believe in eating well for one's art. I believe in farting for one's art. I believe in making beautiful friends for one's art. And making plans with one's friends for one's art, I believe in this utterly. Especially when those friends hold you accountable to making your art, revising your thought, practicing your politics. I believe that my gaysian life is integral to my art and I believe that difference should be embraced, not shunned, not simplified. I believe that poems that love earthly difference alongside or even more than spiritual transcendence are better poems. I believe in falling wildly in love for one's art and for no reason at all. I believe in orgasming for one's art.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

I assigned this conceptual paper for our reading group, along these lines papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

AI Slop

<div> The term “AI slop” has become popular to describe the output of generative AI systems seen as voluminous, low quality, or the result of little effort. Wh

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Damon Kiesow@kiesow.net · 2w ago

So “slop” is the negative externalities imposed on consumers by the imposition of synthetic communications by profit-seeking entities.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob- lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti- democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · last mo.

So glad my university paid to have shaq dj a quad party before a game against Middle Tennessee State University instead of paying faculty competitive salaries or fixing its collapsing infrastructure

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blair@blairaf.com · last mo.

Disappointing to see an increasing number of tech critics see the recent AI security events and conclude "maybe the doomers are correct and AI is an existential risk" rather than "maybe the tech execs are an existential risk"

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · last mo.

Dem strategiests, seeing this post: "hmm sounds interesting but we are busy sending the message that the DSA, which turns out high voter numbers & wins offices, is Bad, Actually"

Cheryl Lynn Eaton@cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · last mo.

What Democrats need to stress is that people used to be able to enjoy things before the Republicans made Taco Tuesdays some sort of crime against western civilization. They have become the harpies they complained about. The vibes are bad and it's all because they are repressed and weird.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The AI rush is following the money. That’s historically continuous, eg The Cold War funding model. But the AI rush is also about currying political favor and signaling political loyalty. When that aligned with the money, it was a no brainer for feckless university leaders.

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And if university leaders can't see public AI skepticism as a basis for swinging the pendulum back to a middle ground, then what are they waiting for? (not talking about research-based AI, I mean a university's core mission to teach critical and creative thinking). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Kara BOOOOOchanan 🏳️‍⚧️🎃@magicariot.com · 2mo ago

personally I think the fact that all of the companies pushing AI are hyper-right-wing fascist septic tanks whose leaders love shit like eugenics & transphobia & race science should factor into the thought process before anybody spends their free time glazing their products with philosophy exercises

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

During the Jacksonian period, the U.S. South sustained the most airtight media filter bubbles in our national history. They largely succeeded in this despite an explosion of interregional periodical circulation from 1835 forward. It is a period associated with the emergence of mass media. And…

Leonard Pierce@leonardpierce.bsky.social · 3mo ago

LIBERALS: Why do you people always say we have to destroy capitalism, all we have to do is elect enough Democrats and they’ll reform it into something that works for everybody COMMUNISTS: A company that got rich making shackles for slaves is still in business making restraints for migrant workers

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 3mo ago

Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.

Vicky ACAB@vickyacab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Everyone keeps trying to appease the nazis by being more like the nazis and all that happens is you get more nazis if only there were some sort of historical precedent for understanding this process

Isaac Kamola@isaackamola.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@higheredheist.com once again has the goods. This time detailing the conflicts of interest that abound in the corporate structure of DeSantis’s accrediting agency, The Commission for Public Higher Education, Inc. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Do You Have Any Idea Who You Are Getting Into Business With—Or What Business You're Getting Into?

For the General Counsels of the Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas Public University Systems—Et Al.

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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

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