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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 11h

A rip off degree is when the government forces everyone to go into debt for 30 years to get educated. Claiming any form of education is a rip off shifts the blame for joblessness and low wages onto students and colleges instead of the evisceration of federal funding for higher ed.

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 12h

America has been stealing labor forever. That's literally what it does. This country is rich because it steals land and labor. That's not new.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 1d

Just monitoring a fake crisis that will require federal troops with weapons. America is super fun.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 1d

Every single professional development session this term is about AI and it's so annoying. It's just a bunch of people overreacting to the implementation of AI and rushing to be on the front line even though all of this is so terrible for students and the environment.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 1d

The privatization of school loans has been absolutely devastating to student debt, keeping people chained to interest rates for decades. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump administration weighs selling parts of $1.6T federal student loan portfolio

The discussions have taken place among senior Education Department and Treasury Department officials.

www.politico.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 2d

The news will not cover ICE brutality.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

It's not even recognizable from those good ole days.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

contingentmagazine.org

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

I have concerns abt students going into classes that allow & promote AI use & then going into classes that do not. I'm not sure they will fully understand those mixed messages.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

And then there are like 20 assistant coaches making at least 6 figures, and a lot of it is tax money too.

Kara Jorgensen @authorkaraj.bsky.social · 3d

That moment you realize you could pay over a thousand adjuncts' salaries for a semester with the money a title I university spends on their football coach 🫠

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

No one in higher ed wants this garbage, but they continue to shove it down our throat. To suggest AI can replicate what professors actually do is the real joke. They think higher ed is a Disney Resort and faculty are just activities directors who need to smile & serve.
www.forbes.com/sites/nichol...

Meet The AI Professor: Coming To A Higher Education Campus Near You

The integration of AI in higher education is explored and considered in relation teaching and learning. Meet the AI avatar professor

www.forbes.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 3d

It's wild to hear all the conservative college grads complain abt higher ed without acknowledging that they entered college as a conservative & left even more conservative. But somehow college is now a place for liberal indoctrination, except for all the people who graduate and become neoliberal.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

ICE gives a $50,000 sign on bonus and loan forgiveness. Now imagine if they did that for educators and spent our money on education instead of terrorizing US citizens.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

Another really annoying part of this is it's just vocational additon. An English or Comm degree will give students knowledge abt rhetorical and design theory and teach them how to think abt and create textual communication forever.

Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 4d

THIS IS AN ENGLISH OR COMMUNICATIONS DEGREE! JUST DO THOSE INSTEAD JESUS IN HEAVEN

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 4d

It's wild how university admin undermines teaching. Faculty across the nation are asking students to come to class & write in a blue book to avoid AI while the university signs a deal w an AI company to embed AI across its platforms. 1 entity impedes the other from doing its job.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 5d

Their idea of government transparency is releasing UFO files.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 5d

If your university signs that White House pledge to never acknowledge the existence of the people they hate, then you can have the gold club status to higher ed funding. A new level of public extortion with our tax money. This is exactly where we're at and many universities will sign the pledge.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 5d

Oh look, it's the WH extorting higher ed. apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money

The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

apnews.com

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 6d

The NFL is wild. They won't let players kneel for social justice but they'll troll their primary audience w a Bad Bunny super bowl concert.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 6d

Just AI sucking up all the energy and water. people.com/meta-builds-...

Meta Builds AI Center the Size of 70 Football Fields. Residents Near Similar Facility Say They're 'Scared to Drink Our Own Water'

As Meta builds its largest AI data center in rural Louisiana, residents living near a similar facility in Georgia are having issues with their water supply. The parent company of Instagram has promise...

people.com

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 8d

The NFL is such a wild company. They literally cater to alt right audiences and won't let you take a knee for social justice but they'll also bring Bad Bunny in for halftime.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Right on the prediction.

Right about the reaction.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 8d

So the people in charge of these garbage tariffs are going to stop the tariffs on a product they consume regularly because the tariffs are hurting their pockets.

Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 10d

42.3 million people have a student loan. That's how unaffordable higher ed is and how predatory 5%+ interest on the loan is. Free public higher ed for all.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 11d

The administration said all the prices are down now so they're down.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 11d

University presidents move to ban all thinking in the classroom and limit discussions to praising the current regime.

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