andré carrington
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
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Pinned
Make a place for me on the Ark of Bones.
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I wonder if we can learn anything from the increasing resemblance between reality and comic books around supervillains being two-dimensional avatars of malevolence while going unpunished by The Law
Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain.
But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.
We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.
Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.
February 15, 2026 at 9:32 PM
I wonder if we can learn anything from the increasing resemblance between reality and comic books around supervillains being two-dimensional avatars of malevolence while going unpunished by The Law
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Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
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so you can't trust the output, there's no way to fix it so you can, and using it to replace people who know how to do things will result in people relying on it more with less ability to know when it's wrong
OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”
You can’t trust chatbots.
You can’t trust chatbots.
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:14 PM
so you can't trust the output, there's no way to fix it so you can, and using it to replace people who know how to do things will result in people relying on it more with less ability to know when it's wrong
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And yes, I know that higher ed has been under attack for decades now, I’ve ranted about it often enough but please let’s not pretend what Trump and his administration is doing is not distinctive in its scope and method. For the love of god, stop nitpicking, this is not a journal article.
February 15, 2026 at 9:23 PM
And yes, I know that higher ed has been under attack for decades now, I’ve ranted about it often enough but please let’s not pretend what Trump and his administration is doing is not distinctive in its scope and method. For the love of god, stop nitpicking, this is not a journal article.
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University of Texas Austin announced it was closing its American Studies Department just as Harper attacked one of the few foundations left willing to fund American studies research
In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 9:00 PM
University of Texas Austin announced it was closing its American Studies Department just as Harper attacked one of the few foundations left willing to fund American studies research
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Verdin were everywhere I went in Las Vegas, but were still hard to get good looks at. They were also busy seemingly getting their nests ready.
#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR
#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR
February 15, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Verdin were everywhere I went in Las Vegas, but were still hard to get good looks at. They were also busy seemingly getting their nests ready.
#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR
#birds #birdphotography #photography #nature #wildlife #birding #TRAHR
Birds I saw in & around Joshua Tree National Park: Phainopepla!
🦉
🦉
February 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Birds I saw in & around Joshua Tree National Park: Phainopepla!
🦉
🦉
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Also, by reducing professorship to just the teaching, that makes it much easier to replace with contingent labor. After which it's that much easier to tell them what to teach.
What I need people to understand is when legislators argue that professors should teach more and research less, it's not because they think our research is actually worthless. It's because they don't want anyone to be able to develop or disseminate expertise that goes against their party line.
February 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Also, by reducing professorship to just the teaching, that makes it much easier to replace with contingent labor. After which it's that much easier to tell them what to teach.
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Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.
Reposts appreciated!
Reposts appreciated!
February 12, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Does your university use ChatGPT Edu? Please send me a DM if you do. I have identified a potential data breach affecting students' data that has not yet been fixed and I'm trying to compile further examples from other universities.
Reposts appreciated!
Reposts appreciated!
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California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond Sponsors #SB48 to Keep ICE off of School Campuses, Protecting School Attendance and Funding Amid Deportation Threats
www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/y...
www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/y...
SPI Supports SB 48 to Keep ICE Off School Campuses - Year 2024 (CA Dept of Education)
State Superintendent Tony Thurmond sponsors Senate Bill 48 to keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement off of school campuses, protecting school attendance and funding amid deportation threats.
www.cde.ca.gov
December 19, 2024 at 10:21 AM
California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond Sponsors #SB48 to Keep ICE off of School Campuses, Protecting School Attendance and Funding Amid Deportation Threats
www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/y...
www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/y...
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Also, fascinating that- among benefit societies and mutual aid societies* in NY state in the 1910s, the only ones that codified maternity leave for women workers were run by Black women (Hoffman 2001; discussion in Chapter 1)
*frequently segregated by race and sex, BTW
*frequently segregated by race and sex, BTW
February 15, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Also, fascinating that- among benefit societies and mutual aid societies* in NY state in the 1910s, the only ones that codified maternity leave for women workers were run by Black women (Hoffman 2001; discussion in Chapter 1)
*frequently segregated by race and sex, BTW
*frequently segregated by race and sex, BTW
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this scene gives me chills each time I watch it. Casablanca was a contemporary film: it was set in 1941 and released in 1942. They were celebrating neighbors and compatriots across the globe. It'd be like releasing a film next year about what's happening in Minnesota
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
February 15, 2026 at 6:19 AM
this scene gives me chills each time I watch it. Casablanca was a contemporary film: it was set in 1941 and released in 1942. They were celebrating neighbors and compatriots across the globe. It'd be like releasing a film next year about what's happening in Minnesota
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeF...
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I wrote and @palletgx.bsky.social illustrated a comic! We're both trans.
Ash & Saturn is about trans and queer heroes in the 1880s fighting Vampires using alien tech and info from the future!
Check out this page.
Launches on Kickstarter March 1st:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
Ash & Saturn is about trans and queer heroes in the 1880s fighting Vampires using alien tech and info from the future!
Check out this page.
Launches on Kickstarter March 1st:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
February 14, 2026 at 6:30 PM
I wrote and @palletgx.bsky.social illustrated a comic! We're both trans.
Ash & Saturn is about trans and queer heroes in the 1880s fighting Vampires using alien tech and info from the future!
Check out this page.
Launches on Kickstarter March 1st:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
Ash & Saturn is about trans and queer heroes in the 1880s fighting Vampires using alien tech and info from the future!
Check out this page.
Launches on Kickstarter March 1st:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/jam...
I had the good fortune to visit Joshua Tree National Park with bae. Some nice views. (I have to get my camera lens cleaned!)
February 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I had the good fortune to visit Joshua Tree National Park with bae. Some nice views. (I have to get my camera lens cleaned!)
OK. "Regents of the University of California Retirement Plan" should not be invested in the company that flies people to/through torture prison.
Sigh.
Sigh.
It probably is. I have a list here, and I recall some California university pensions are there. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/more-on-omni...
More on Omni’s ICE Flights
How to help the deported people in my Mother Jones story, and which blue states have public funds and public-employee funds invested in ICE flights.
gillianbrockell.ghost.io
February 15, 2026 at 2:28 AM
OK. "Regents of the University of California Retirement Plan" should not be invested in the company that flies people to/through torture prison.
Sigh.
Sigh.
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
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call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again
She fucking killed an entire family while speeding in her Mercedes SUV and they’re not going to even take her license away??
February 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
call me a carceral urbanist or whatever but i think that if you murder an entire family with your SUV, at the very least, you should never be allowed to drive again
Futurism was literally invented by fascists, then communists and Black people *specifically* took it to task -- why do these people not read?!
First line of the introduction: “‘Conservative futurism’ might seem to be a comical oxymoron.”
SIGH.
James, let me stop you right there. Alvin Toffler was conservative. Herman Kahn was conservative. I have trouble thinking of a single brand-name futurist who WASN’T conservative.
SIGH.
James, let me stop you right there. Alvin Toffler was conservative. Herman Kahn was conservative. I have trouble thinking of a single brand-name futurist who WASN’T conservative.
February 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Futurism was literally invented by fascists, then communists and Black people *specifically* took it to task -- why do these people not read?!
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When there’s a feud going on and you have no idea what’s going on.
a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' .
ALT: a black and white dog is sitting on a couch with its tongue out and says `` wait ! what ?? '' .
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February 14, 2026 at 7:23 PM
When there’s a feud going on and you have no idea what’s going on.
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
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a fair amount would ride on whether you classify people as high/middle/low income relative to national income distributions or something more local but it would come with the perk of more honestly talking about what we're talking about
February 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM
a fair amount would ride on whether you classify people as high/middle/low income relative to national income distributions or something more local but it would come with the perk of more honestly talking about what we're talking about
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a good question that I wanna give my two cents on here: look I don't expect either regular folks or pollsters to use a Marxist definition but I'd be immensely more sympathetic grouping people are working class based on their income or self ID
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A reasonable meta-question, what is an actually useful definition of the American working class these days? Definitely feel like the 20th century categories have broken down and 19th century are irreparably antiquated. And what does cross class solidarity imply?
flagging that the definition of "working class" Marquette used here is "non college graduate" here, but in any case the analysis here seems plausible to me
February 14, 2026 at 5:21 PM
a good question that I wanna give my two cents on here: look I don't expect either regular folks or pollsters to use a Marxist definition but I'd be immensely more sympathetic grouping people are working class based on their income or self ID
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Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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AND STAY DOWN
BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding
February 14, 2026 at 5:30 AM
AND STAY DOWN