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Asst. Prof of Digital Cultures at the Rhode Island School of Design
Ph.D., Feminist Studies

Critical AI Studies, Gender and digital media
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Once again: this is not something that "threatens" academic freedom, though it will doubtless be reported that way. This is only possible where academic freedom has already ended.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
November 20, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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comrade JCO gets it completely

CHOP FROM THE TOP

(solemn vow never ever to screenshot badsite; solemn exception for this urgent story; rally against these anti-intellectuals detonating public goods for the working people of NJ!)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The Financial Times' Bryce Elder (@bryce.lol) wrote up a piece about my newsletter.
www.ft.com/content/fce7...
November 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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“I identify as a queer man today as part of a political project,” says Palestinian writer Tareq Baconi, author of the new memoir "Fire in Every Direction."

“It's not just a sexual identity. It expands beyond that, and rejects Zionism and rejects authoritarianism.”
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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i really hope i live to see a time where it again feels like education for its own sake is seen as a social good
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w
October 20, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The way that we have abandoned parents and children in the US, removed every social service or safety net, and continue to rocket toward climate collapse with no care for future generations is the context that must be added when we think about this issue.
Some parents are letting their kids talk to ChatGPT in the guise of characters. Some are using it to tell bedtime stories or create coloring books.

"My son thinks ChatGPT is the coolest train loving person in the world. The bar is set so high now I am never going to be able to compete with that.”
‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?
Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its affect on creativity
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM