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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 20d

Lol while this was blowing up i was in a paper archive looking at ashes from a previous domain of human experience that was discarded in the slag heaps of automation

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 21d

n+1 comes out swinging www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 22d

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · Sep 8

Next Monday & Tuesday, Sept. 15 & 16, I’ll give two talks in Baltimore, one at the Bird in Hand bookstore about *Freedom Ship*, the other at Johns Hopkins University about “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below.”

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 24d

Join us

Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 26d

Tuesday, Sept. 16, 10:30 am, I'll give a talk/workshop at Johns Hopkins entitled "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." The event is sponsored by the Tidewater Initiative and the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Join us!

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29d

... and on 9/16 @ 10:30am, "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker"

In partnership with the Maritime Committee of the Maryland Center for History and Culture @mdhistory.bsky.social

@marcusrediker.bsky.social

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

“How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative

Marcus Rediker visits the Literature and the Sea seminar at Johns Hopkins to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." This event is co-sponsored by the J...

sites.krieger.jhu.edu

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29d

Next week! Marcus Rediker will be at the Tidewater Initiative in Baltimore for two events. First up: a conversation about the new book "Freedom Ship" at Bird in Hand, 6:30pm 9/15
@marcusrediker.bsky.social

sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

Humanities in the Village: Marcus Rediker, in conversation with Nadia Nurhussein and Harris Feinsod | The Tidewater Initiative

The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute will launch its fall 2025 programming with a special additional edition of Humanities in the Village, an event series dedicated to making scholarship publicly ...

sites.krieger.jhu.edu

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 29d

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29d

Reading a copy of a book I’ve been teaching since the age of the course pack. Bring pack the course pack.

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · 29d

Amazing. Also, love the letterhead program. My close reading is that it faintly and ironically echoes the residual genre of the campus visit itinerary.

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 30

"Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me"

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/c...

Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects

www.nytimes.com

Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 17

Proudly remembering the time I held my ground on “cahoots.” Be troo to yoo!

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 9

We got you, Steelkilt

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 9

And a follow up on Sept 16 in the seminar on Literature of the Sea: “How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

“How to Write (Maritime) History from Below”: A Talk and Workshop with Marcus Rediker | The Tidewater Initiative

Marcus Rediker visits the "Literature and the Sea" seminar to lead a lecture and workshop on the topic "How to Write (Maritime) History from Below." This is an "open classroom" event. The JHU communi...

sites.krieger.jhu.edu

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 9

We’re kicking things off Sept 15 @ Bird in Hand with Marcus Rediker in conversation about his new book Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery at Sea @marcusrediker.bsky.social
sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/ev...

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 9

Thanks, Nathan! We’ll reconnect soon!

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Aug 8

We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/

Home | The Tidewater Initiative

We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...

sites.krieger.jhu.edu

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Jul 29

My poet friend told me all I do is talk about ports these days. Can’t wait to tell her about this interaction. 😂

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Jul 29

Recusatio?

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Jul 28

“So long, Mom,
I'm off to drop the bomb,
So don't wait up for me.”

Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97 | CNN

Tom Lehrer, the popular and erudite song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and other uni...

www.cnn.com

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · Jul 23

AI is the intellectual equivalent of styrofoam: it’s cheap and easy for the individual user, but poisoning the ecosystem for everyone forever.

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Jul 23

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Jul 23

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · Jul 23

Friendly reminder that Instructure, parent company of Canvas, is owned by KKR, a private equity firm that purchased it for $4.8 billion last November.

Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Jul 23

“…faculty members will be able to click an icon that connects them with various AI features…, like a grading tool, a discussion-post summarizer… Canvas’s parent company, Instructure, is also in partnership w/ OpenAI… so instructors can use generative-AI technology as part of their assignments.”

Instructors Will Now See AI Throughout a Widely Used Course Software

New features integrated into Canvas include a grading assistant, a discussion-post summarizer, and even a way to pair assignments with generative AI tools.

www.chronicle.com

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Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · Jun 27

I’ve never seen that Robert Bechtle before :)

Harris Feinsod @feinsod.bsky.social · May 20

RIP Alice Notley whose poems are a Grave of Light

Anselm Berrigan @wystandoll.bsky.social · May 20

Alice Notley passed away Monday night in Paris, where I'm writing from. This will come as a shock to many, but she was battling a number of maladies in recent months, and things had gotten difficult rapidly. Her work is out there. Please feel free to spread the word.

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