Destined to be a classic

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

The Metaphor Society is BACK! This post is all about the metaphors that shape our workplace. We question whether things like "balance" and "boundaries" help or hinder transformative change. ✊ Always free, always human-made, always turning toward justice. #metaphor #labor #solidarity

Balance, boundaries, and burnout: workplace metaphors in the time of alienation

The current threats to jobs and livelihoods posed by AI, whether real or imagined (my bet is on real), expose deeper issues with our relationship to work and the role it plays in our lives. When posit...

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Translation of this technocratic brainwash: since we've already killed public education, we're going to use the scraps that are left to make your kids real tasty for the lions. Anyone going to public school at this point has basically no hope for a meaningful future anyway. So 🤷 🍽️

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov · 3mo ago

AI is reshaping industries and our economy, and it’s crucial that young people and our workforce are equipped to succeed in this landscape. Proud to introduce a bipartisan bill with Sen. Rounds to ensure students and educators have the resources they need to harness the power of AI.

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

Fascinating new initiative. Anyone can participate! globalconstitution.org

More vaporware Luddites. 3rd photo is first pull (usually lots to fix after test printing your typesetting for the first time, unless you've got brand-new type & luck) & 4th photo is final print. #DHmakes

Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Not feeling well today, but I did recently do a quick print per @plach.bsky.social & @quinnanya.me's suggestion (see Pam's 🧵 on uni-corporate-admin "ethically" ramming corp brand use into our work)... w/a bit extra against anti-human tech, courtesy of my infinitely reusable beckoning Luddite block:

Added to "AI Haters". I feel seen and honored. #StopAI

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

Feeling hopeless? This is worth a listen. (And if you're *not* feeling hopeless, where have you even been?) Worker-ownership is the future (if we humans are going to have a future at all). So proud and excited for this movement to be gaining momentum in #Cascadia rss.com/podcasts/new...

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Join Roger and Tom as they explore the benefits of Worker-Owned Businesses and how this concept fits into the New Story Spokane Pattern Map to strengthen Local Economies through the promotion of Local...

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I just read the phrase "progressive billionaire" in @theguardian.com and laughed out loud. "Liberal" I'd accept with a smirk. But hoarding money and assets while the rest of the world burns is just not compatible with progressive values. Like, at all. Smdh

Need some food for thought today? youtu.be/eKlEeKC8qLk?... Martin Hilpert has you covered. 👇 #BLinguistik #linguistics

Is Academia broken?

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Starting from next year, my current department will have a mandatory "Writing with AI" course for first year students. And in a way, I'd like to thank them. Because if I still had any whispers of regret about leaving academia, this silenced them for good. Byeeeee

I've never been so amused and horrified simultaneously. Recommend reading with a cat on one's lap for emotional resilience. #CliFi

A kind quiet stranger on the train gave me this tiny duck. Shortly after, I snagged the last ticket on the last Eurostar to the Netherlands that wasn't cancelled for the day. Free upgrade to first class no less. So, I believe I've finally met my fairy godmother. And this duck is my glass slipper.

The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK

Supreme court makes ruling after Swedish firm’s long-running battle with trade association Dairy UK

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If you think about a PhD not as a step in a career, but as your last real chance to get paid (a teensy tiny bit) to think and be creative and do something that actually interests you, getting a PhD still makes sense. Admittedly, in a very very sad way.

How are we still doing the "no first person" thing in academic (humanities/social science) writing? The researcher exists. Their interpretation is a part of the research, and their experience as an individual contributes to that. Own up, be honest. Grumble positivist delusions grumble grumble

Should you use AI for that? Our new post is about how and when to use AI in arts and culture work (and why the answer is almost always no). It comes complete with an AI decision tree for cultural workers to help you make hard choices! sidracollaborative.com/2026/01/29/i...

Hard to find a more fitting metaphor for the state of the USA than the federal government murdering a VA ICU nurse on the street

This is why organizing that reaches for relationality is central, not secondary - it breaks the capitalist idea of us as atomized, individual consumers and compels us to act in solidarity with others. And, perhaps more than anything, it's a politics more rooted in cultivating belonging than ideology

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

As academic publishing seems more and more pointless, at least poetry still feels alive and meaningful (perhaps to the detriment of any chance I have left at an academic career. Ah well) Excited to contribute to this eco-poetry project 🌿🌳🌞 natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org/the-live-oak...

The Live Oak's Defiance - The Nature of Our Times

Language does two things  too well —   it categorizes and organizes.   I walk out and say, this is a tree.   That is the sky.  A rock, a dog, a child.   And in adhering this string of symbols to a thi...

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The government is shooting unarmed civilians in the streets. We’re gonna hear from the NRA any minute now, right?

If you're in need of something nice, just something easy and good, a kind of spiritual hug, an existential cup of tea, I recommend Becky Chambers' Monk & Robot. Ideally read with a cat on your lap, in a comfy chair, with a real physical cup of tea within reach.

New year, new windows! outsidemywindow.org/everyone-eve... Today though, Lexy's window reimagining feels especially important. Undocumented immigrants are our neighbors, friends, lovers, and helpers. The domestic terrorists are the ones shooting us in the head in broad daylight on the street.

How do classic stories teach us to read certain bodies in limited ways? Drawing on Paulo Freire, this new article examines how narrative traditions keep reinforcing narrow interpretive paths. Read it here: doi.org/10.25189/267...

Yesterday we sent physical copies to our wonderful zine contributors - artists, activists, and academics across 3 continents and 7 countries! It feels very special for this little mycelium network, grown from a random idea with a couple of friends into a small conference last year, to reach so far.

Schuyler Laparle@schuylerlaparle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Feels pretty incredible to have our #ClimateHope zine finally out existing in the world. Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action! 🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳

Feels pretty incredible to have our #ClimateHope zine finally out existing in the world. Here's to hope, not as a passive state, but as a call to collective action! 🌳🌻✊❤️🌻🌳

I was a mature and independent 15 yo. So when I started hanging out with men in their 30s, family and friends thought "weird, but that must be what she wants". I don't blame my family and friends. I blame people like Megyn Kelly who perpetuate discourses that excuse men groping their way to power.