Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

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I just ordered Villager and a (signed!) hard copy of Everything Will Swallow You from Blackwell's to ship to the US and it was $33 total. Amazing. Looking forward to reading them!

Say we do find valuable uses for using AI at work. Are the differential environmental impacts worth it? Can we make socially responsible choices with AI use in business when it means some people will have less access to drinking water or increased pollution in their communities?

I'm so sorry. Take care of yourselves and each other 💔

What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling: Doomscrolling turns our phones into misery machines—and makes us see the world as a mean, scary place. Here's what happened when Jennifer Mercieca's students tried hopescrolling instead
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...

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A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.

Guys, #sdjournos PLEASE help out. We really need nominations for “Journalist of the Year.” Please share. The only requirements are 1) the nominee is a journalist 2) in San Diego. 3) is not on SPJ board.

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Write the book you’d like to see someone pull from a higgledy-piggledy pile in a secondhand shop sixty three years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Check out this dossier of reflections on #ungrading from a range of Film & Media Studies faculty (including me) - thanks to @jennblaylock.bsky.social for co-editing!
quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jcms/teach...

How can we translate the real impact of DOGE cuts to voters? What is her concrete, "explain like I'm 5" message in response to something like gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau? What can we tell people? And what can we do now? (Also, thank her for me. She's remarkable)

Very worried about what this means for UC San Diego medical and Rady’s Childrens.

Higher ed institutions need to step up not just to save themselves, but because democratic institutions are an important part of a larger resistance against an over authoritarian project. The stakes couldn't be higher. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

Today, February 20th, is a day of action at UC San Diego. Join us and tell your reps what you think about cuts to NIH funding that will severely affect lifesaving University of California research: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

"It is my hope that this tool in process, which benefited from the input of many seasoned activists, helps you to connect the personal to the political. I hope that this offers the beginning of a bridge between information and action." millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO TURN ANGER INTO ACTION
Here’s advice from a high-level staffer for a Senator. I’m retyping from Allison McGuffie’s post, which she cut and pasted from a friend.

There are two things that we should be doing all the time right now, and they’ve by far the most important things.

The more of us can be awake and clear in this moment, the better we can respond with power to the horrors they are hoping to unleash. The easier to organize. To show up.

And? Even now? You’re allowed joy. You should have joy.

More on all this here, w/some practical tips:

How to find instant clarity

(no hacks or apps)

Feeling stuck? Here's the action map:

1. Overthinking spirals?
↳ Write it down. Get it out of your head.

2. Lost inspiration?
↳ Read. Others' ideas spark yours.

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