Jac
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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 2:00 AM
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
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One my absolute favorite pieces to assign. I will recommend this to reporters, editors, strangers, etc.
I’m teaching this on week 5 this semester (among other academic things) and boy it’s gonna be an wild class, let me tell you.
www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/...
www.hcn.org/issues/52-4/...
Land-grab universities - High Country News
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
www.hcn.org
January 5, 2026 at 4:11 AM
One my absolute favorite pieces to assign. I will recommend this to reporters, editors, strangers, etc.
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The congratulations to our newest billionaire articles are wild. Please applaud the newest member of the class of people that wrecked your air, or your water, or your wages, or your right to walk down the street.
December 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The congratulations to our newest billionaire articles are wild. Please applaud the newest member of the class of people that wrecked your air, or your water, or your wages, or your right to walk down the street.
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Visual Arts Grants Open January 1, 2026
Apply for up to $17,500 for creative works to be installed in Emeryville
For more info, please visit www.emeryville.org/News/Visual-...
Apply for up to $17,500 for creative works to be installed in Emeryville
For more info, please visit www.emeryville.org/News/Visual-...
December 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Visual Arts Grants Open January 1, 2026
Apply for up to $17,500 for creative works to be installed in Emeryville
For more info, please visit www.emeryville.org/News/Visual-...
Apply for up to $17,500 for creative works to be installed in Emeryville
For more info, please visit www.emeryville.org/News/Visual-...
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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The number of Harvard faculty who show up repeatedly in these Epstein files . . .
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
The number of Harvard faculty who show up repeatedly in these Epstein files . . .
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Just within the past hour, nearly a dozen YouTube accounts have posted the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT story. CBS and Google can keep trying to take them all down, but it's sort of pointless now.
December 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Just within the past hour, nearly a dozen YouTube accounts have posted the pulled 60 Minutes CECOT story. CBS and Google can keep trying to take them all down, but it's sort of pointless now.
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Thomas Chatterton Williams is Thomas Chatterton Williams' idea of what a smart person sounds like; he's the act of sniffing your own farts under the covers, in literary form.
December 22, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Thomas Chatterton Williams is Thomas Chatterton Williams' idea of what a smart person sounds like; he's the act of sniffing your own farts under the covers, in literary form.
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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This will require an entirely new and cumbersome administrative layer to even begin to enforce. They think they will do this cheaply because AI — which they invoke like a wizard — but I invite them to the world of IP enforcement and labor law at scale. I wish them the best.
December 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
This will require an entirely new and cumbersome administrative layer to even begin to enforce. They think they will do this cheaply because AI — which they invoke like a wizard — but I invite them to the world of IP enforcement and labor law at scale. I wish them the best.
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We ran into these issues during the MOOC days and ended up just sort of giving up on enforcement because of this boondoggle. I sincerely hope that every professor sues their outgoing institutions on these very grounds. May the legal morass bog us down for a generation.
If syllabi are UNC IP, does this mean that a faculty member who leaves Chapel Hill for another university would be barred from teaching the same or a similar course at the new institution?
December 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
We ran into these issues during the MOOC days and ended up just sort of giving up on enforcement because of this boondoggle. I sincerely hope that every professor sues their outgoing institutions on these very grounds. May the legal morass bog us down for a generation.
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“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
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Ding ding ding
My sense is that the “male loneliness crisis” is not really about addressing men’s emotional needs but rather the relatively newfound absence of having someone to perform domestic labor for you quietly in the background now that there is a longer gap between your mother and your wife doing it
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ding ding ding
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I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
American Cant | Defector
Dante Alighieri thought he could write himself out of exile. In 1300, while serving on a governing committee in his beloved Florence, the poet was involved in a factional dispute among city leaders. T...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk
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Who else is missing from our remembrances?
"We have to consider how the norm governing who will be a grievable human is circumscribed and produced in acts of permissible public grieving, and how this differential allocation of grief serves the aims of violence." — Judith Butler, Precarious Life
"We have to consider how the norm governing who will be a grievable human is circumscribed and produced in acts of permissible public grieving, and how this differential allocation of grief serves the aims of violence." — Judith Butler, Precarious Life
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Who else is missing from our remembrances?
"We have to consider how the norm governing who will be a grievable human is circumscribed and produced in acts of permissible public grieving, and how this differential allocation of grief serves the aims of violence." — Judith Butler, Precarious Life
"We have to consider how the norm governing who will be a grievable human is circumscribed and produced in acts of permissible public grieving, and how this differential allocation of grief serves the aims of violence." — Judith Butler, Precarious Life
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For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
There's no hard data, so it's impossible to know for sure, but I suspect the number of adult children cutting off their parents isn't significantly higher than it used to be, and what's actually new is that the children are now explaining it in therapy terms rather than simply ceasing contact.
December 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
For generations people “cut off” parents by moving away and mailing them a card once a year. Travel and long distance phone calls were expensive; distance effectively cut people off w/o being so explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
The difference now is that communication is cheap so cutting them off requires being explicit.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Canvas has enabled me to do exactly nothing more than I did via email and a very basic, open source LLM I could post pdfs to back in 2010. Instead, Canvas has gotten between me and my students in multiple ways and created days worth of extra work for me each semester.
December 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Canvas has enabled me to do exactly nothing more than I did via email and a very basic, open source LLM I could post pdfs to back in 2010. Instead, Canvas has gotten between me and my students in multiple ways and created days worth of extra work for me each semester.
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My zines got a mention in @us.theguardian.com today! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Gen-Zine: DIY publications find new life as form of resistance against Trump
Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:45 PM
My zines got a mention in @us.theguardian.com today! www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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lol you mean @prisonculture.bsky.social & i sold more copies of our zine on consciousness raising than olivia nuzzi sold of her “if i did it” doorstopper @marc-fischer.bsky.social
even if you’ve never written a book you only sold 1200 fewer copies last week than Olivia Nuzzi
Olivia Nuzzi’s Much-Hyped Book—With RFK Revelation—Sells Just Over 1,000 Copies
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
lol you mean @prisonculture.bsky.social & i sold more copies of our zine on consciousness raising than olivia nuzzi sold of her “if i did it” doorstopper @marc-fischer.bsky.social
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Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
May 27, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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With three weeks left in the year, Oakland is on track to have among the lowest, if not the lowest, violent crime rate in decades, while it had one of the fewest number of officers in OPD's history.
December 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
With three weeks left in the year, Oakland is on track to have among the lowest, if not the lowest, violent crime rate in decades, while it had one of the fewest number of officers in OPD's history.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service