Shout out to the kid who got misgendered at every summer camp & turned it into a game: “if I get misgendered and correct them, I choose dessert and you buy it.” Fam, we ate many pastries this summer.

“Damn! Let him cook.“—My 12 year old’s response to Odysseus killing the suitors at the end of the film. We were also the only people in the theater who thought of this as “family night” evidently.

I’m late to this, but this is definitely worth your attention if it slid under your radar. Thanks @gabrielh.bsky.social for this!

Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · 3w ago

My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...

Modernism and Environment enthusiasts! Check out the TWO latest installments of our “Letters from the Field" blog series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print+ "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog! Do read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

This Is the sort of thing I need to see when I wake up.

地獄へようこそ。お出口は左側です@smolizzyhands.bsky.social · 3w ago

holy shit being an insomniac pays off youtu.be/e81LZCHhNKQ

Ohio State professor brings awareness to Gaza crisis through boat convoy relief efforts

Ohio State professor brings awareness to Gaza crisis through boat convoy relief efforts

Maju Brunette, a global health equity professor at Ohio State, participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla — a citizen-based initiative to sail to Gaza in hopes to provide humanitarian aid.

wosu.org

We played Gilman Street with old friends Reversal of Man last week, conjuring up the ghosts of 90s DIY screamo/hXc & fulfilling a lifelong dream to play a venue I have admired as long as I have been aware of punk.

Before I finish this damn book, I’ll be in CA & AZ for a mini-tour en route to the King of the Monsters fest next week. We (Prevail) will be with old friends Reversal of Man to conjure the spirit of chaotic, noisy 90s DIY punk/hardcore. If you’re in SF or LA, come say hi.

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

The Harvard Crimson@theharvardcrimson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SCOOP: Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish endowed professorships in a bid to reshape faculty under the banner of “viewpoint diversity,” according to two people familiar. Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

A new book from After Oil drops this fall. I had the great luck to write the chapter on "fuckedness" (that's three syllables) with some other awesome After Oilers. www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

The Renewable Normal - Nebraska Press

The Renewable Normal confronts the aesthetic, affective, and political dimensions of the transition to renewable energy. Written by the After Oil Collective,...

nebraskapress.unl.edu

As the Ohio State University Board of Trustees meeting begins and makes the news official, here’s @osuaaup.bsky.social’s statement on the selection of Provost Ravi Ballamkonda as the new permanent president of OSU

Now available! Johanna Winant's eagerly anticipated, LYRIC LOGIC: HOW MODERN AMERICAN POETRY REASONS. Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%! tinyurl.com/4e7vphwa @johannawinant.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

From the Tehran Times - photos of the school CHILDREN killed by an AMERICAN tomahawk cruise missile. The headline: TRUMP, LOOK THEM IN THE EYES (Ht @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social )

What I am seeing from within my university's (coercive) "AI Fluency" initiative, is growing student pushback. As the profs in this piece note, students grasp that they are being deskilled & enlisted into something without their consultation or consent (faculty too!).

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

The more we hear about all of this, the more batshit it seems. I'd push back on the "these kids" language. Nathan Cavanaugh owned (& sold) multiple tech businesses & was connected already w/ the Silicon Valley world that got him to DOGE. They are willingly part of an ideological project.

Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

““It’s just ridiculous. You have these kids being told just go in and cut as much as you can,” Mary Rasenberger, CEO of the Author’s Guild, told JTA about the DOGE maneuvers. “They were given no real instruction.””

Well, well... "The president recently disclosed to trustees that he had an inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business and offered to resign. "

Keith Naas@knaas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Holy shit. Ohio State President Ted Carter resigns over inappropriate relationship

In what feels like a fever dream, it turns out my old band will be playing Gilman St in May as part of a short west coast tour. If anyone on here has Bay Area recs—food, bookstores, practice spaces—I’d love to hear them.

Our local NPR station WOSU did a much better job with the headline. Of course, this is a professor at the Chase Center, which was established by state law & is supposed to be the anchor for "viewpoint diversity" and "civility." The stories write themselves...

Ohio State Chase Center professor placed on administrative leave after assaulting cameraman

The Ohio political blog, The Rooster, published video showing Chase Center Assistant Professor Luke Perez hitting a cameraman and then throwing him to the ground.

wosu.org

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Mad Libs Chronicle of Higher Education headline. www.chronicle.com/article/a-pr...

The degree to which both of these people are so completely full of shit, name checking things they have no understanding of, free associating “deep thoughts” & yet so perfectly confident in their half-assed knowledge, helps clarify why the entire elite class is so desperate to get us all on ChatGPT

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“The interview also becomes an exercise in intellectual peacocking as they invoke Socrates, Isaac Newton and quantum physics but pay little attention to Epstein’s crimes. Epstein reveals himself to be a living museum of racial prejudice.”

All of this!!! For example, Ohio State (not an Ivy but big deal R1) has... Wexner Medical Center Wexner Center for the Arts These are named after Les Wexner, who made his money on Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie, etc. + employed Epstein as his financial manager for 20 years + bankrolled his abuses.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 6mo ago

It's easy to see these men as individual bad apples. But I'd argue--the bigger problems are "elite" universities' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name bad actors, and the fact that, societially, we let "elite" universities play such a big role in determining who can get ahead.

I am planning Thursday’s class on climate anger as a form of political anger ( & using a wonderful piece by @doctorvive.bsky.social ) & thinking through different methods for analyzing emotion, extractive violence, & historical specificity and I think this is basically my whole pedagogy:

O-H ICE-OUT!

Reviews of my no tech, analog seminar were all positive: “this class gave me room to breathe,” “I loved not having screens in class,” “writing in our attention notebooks gave me space to think,” “this was the most immersive class I’ve ever taken,” “I felt like I could think freely,”l loved Sebald.”

It is worth noting that so many of these universities mandating AI are in states that liquidated DEI programs & made them illegal. Just in case you were unclear about the trajectory of “intellectual diversity” in higher ed, this is what it looks like.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8mo ago

They're not just requiring that students learn how to use the bullshit machine. They're requiring students to "defend" the decisions made by AI. Remind me, which one of them is supposedly getting the degree there?

We are under one of these impossible demands & I can tell you that one of the outcomes is backlash from undergraduates who will tell you (& Reddit & the school newspaper & anyone who will listen to them) that they don’t want the uni forcing AI on them (including the pop-up ChatGPT cafe on campus).

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: "Ask Jeffrey": Epstein Ran Wexner's Pro-Israel Philanthropy Machine, Emails Reveal The Wexner Foundation has long claimed Epstein had "did not make decisions regarding the use of Foundation’s funds.” New emails show that is...false. open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

"Ask Jeffrey": Epstein Ran Wexner's Pro-Israel Philanthropy Machine, Emails Reveal

The Wexner Foundation has long claimed Epstein "did not make decisions regarding the use of Foundation’s funds.” New emails show that is flagrantly false.

open.substack.com

These are the new state mandated questions that will appear at the end of our student evaluations. Just in case anyone was curious about the effects of right wing higher ed legislation in Ohio:

The AAUP at Ohio State encourages all to attend this Tuesday event by Jewish Voice for Peace - Central Ohio @jvpcentralohio. We stand in solidarity with our colleague Tom Hayes of Ohio University who was removed from his teaching position after being detained in the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza.

Homemade costume for Jevil from Deltarune for my 11 year old. His friends also went as video game characters & we saw some amazing Hollow Knight costumes.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

happiest best day! show us your babies and ghouls and eyeball meatballs and neighborhood support whistle patrol; more incoming, steal the joy!