actualham
@robinderosa.net
public university library director; prof & pedagogue; exhausted by all this, retaining my humanity by hanging out with my dogs. NH, USA.
Join me on Mastodon, the water is nice: https://social.coop/@actualham
Join me on Mastodon, the water is nice: https://social.coop/@actualham
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Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Sorry to be Radical Left but I don't think we should put people who haven't committed a crime, and aren't even accused of committing a crime, into any sort of "Detention"
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Together, we are America.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
February 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Together, we are America.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
Well done, Bad Bunny.
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If you needed any more proof that joy is a powerful form of resistance, this was it.
February 9, 2026 at 1:45 AM
If you needed any more proof that joy is a powerful form of resistance, this was it.
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Bad Bunny “together we are America”
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Bad Bunny “together we are America”
Mike Tyson in a MAHA ad against processed foods. In 1992 Mike Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old. Eat more apples though!
February 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Mike Tyson in a MAHA ad against processed foods. In 1992 Mike Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old. Eat more apples though!
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This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.
How do you not view this as a gorgeous expression of Hispanic culture in the U.S.?
Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.
Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.
February 9, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This is a love song to what the Latino community brings to the US - protest in art in its purest form and its widely entertaining. Well done all the way around.
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Woohoo! Comic syllabus for my superhero class is live and students were geeked! It was a mammoth effort to make it but so worth it to be able to give to them! Pleased & excited for the term! And you can have your own too - all on my site for printing, sharing! 1/?
spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-sy...
spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-sy...
January 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Woohoo! Comic syllabus for my superhero class is live and students were geeked! It was a mammoth effort to make it but so worth it to be able to give to them! Pleased & excited for the term! And you can have your own too - all on my site for printing, sharing! 1/?
spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-sy...
spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-sy...
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they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
The Super Bowl halftime show, with Bad Bunny showcasing Latin music before a global television audience expected to top 100 million, will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star delivers an explicit political message.
The enthusiasm — and scorn — surrounding Bad Bunny’s star turn at the Super Bowl
The halftime show will illustrate the nation’s immigration divide whether or not the reggaeton star makes an explicit message about Trump’s deportation drive.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:25 AM
they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American
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Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?
This looks to be an extraordinary overperformance for Dems. With more than three-fourth of the vote in, the Dem leads by more than 20%.
February 8, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?
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1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
February 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater?
It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts.
Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome!
www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...
It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts.
Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome!
www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...
February 5, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Guess who is once again displaying their ability to hyperfocus on being a hater?
It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts.
Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome!
www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...
It's me, I spent all evening writing my own compilation of all the reasons I think AI sucks so I can post it under genAI-made FB posts.
Work-in-progress, suggestions welcome!
www.skwinnicki.com/single-post/...
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My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.
This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.
Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.
February 5, 2026 at 4:53 AM
My actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.
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🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"
February 4, 2026 at 9:30 PM
🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"
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Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...
prospect.org
February 5, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.
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thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍
February 5, 2026 at 1:58 AM
thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍
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"The student becomes a suite of data points that the teacher or chatbot can nudge, track, and optimize. The university, meanwhile, is less the site of critical engagement than yet another platform for productivity enhancement."
“All things considered, ‘Teaching with AI’ is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization.”
Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.
February 2, 2026 at 2:29 PM
"The student becomes a suite of data points that the teacher or chatbot can nudge, track, and optimize. The university, meanwhile, is less the site of critical engagement than yet another platform for productivity enhancement."
“All things considered, ‘Teaching with AI’ is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization.”
Nothing I love more than a scathing, borderline-petty academic book review. Truly the best tradition in the genre.
A Pedagogy of the Inevitable
Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...
read.dukeupress.edu
February 2, 2026 at 12:51 PM
“All things considered, ‘Teaching with AI’ is not without value; it is a case study in how even well-meaning educators operating in good faith can become inadvertent agents of a pedagogical de-skilling and institutional dehumanization.”
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet, says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet
Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet, says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes theconversation.com/when-science...
#OpenAccess #OA #HigherEd
#OpenAccess #OA #HigherEd
When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes
Academic publishing system often allows scientific errors to persist because it prioritises profit and prestige over timely correction.
theconversation.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:58 PM
When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes theconversation.com/when-science...
#OpenAccess #OA #HigherEd
#OpenAccess #OA #HigherEd
WELCOME TO THE AMERICAN WINTER
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening...
Read this excellent Atlantic piece (gift link) by Robert F. Worth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening...
Read this excellent Atlantic piece (gift link) by Robert F. Worth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 PM
WELCOME TO THE AMERICAN WINTER
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening...
Read this excellent Atlantic piece (gift link) by Robert F. Worth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening...
Read this excellent Atlantic piece (gift link) by Robert F. Worth: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Please vote to defund ICE. It’s long past time to stop this state-sanctioned terrorism.
January 25, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Please vote to defund ICE. It’s long past time to stop this state-sanctioned terrorism.