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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 3h

Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 1d

In this paper I will suggest that the straw man I have just constructed is a jerk, that we should hate it, and that the possibility of any glimmer of a livable human future depends upon all of us agreeing that it sucks.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 4d

*takes massive bong rip*

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@hailey.at • 6h
an unfortunate irony about this post - and even if you are the staunchest anti-ai critic out there, i think you'd agree - is that some of the most bigoted things are being said to respond to this. copy/pasting phrasing and terminology used by bigots but replacing "dna" with "bits" doesn't make it ok
4J @dystopiabreaker.xyz • 3d
i'm completely serious when i say that much of the dismissive ai discourse on here fires the bigotry neuron
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@hailey.at • 6h
if you're writing a sentence that sounds like eugenics but you go "oh that's fine to say because it's not a real person" (whatever that means) you may want to consider what made you okay with saying that

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Patrick Jackson @pehjackson.bsky.social · 5d

UVA Faculty Senate passed a resolution strongly opposing the Trump “Compact.” We, at least, remain committed to the historic values and mission of the university.

Resolution Opposing the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education"
WHEREAS the United States Secretary of Education has requested that the University of Virginia enter into a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions antithetical to the mission and traditions of the University, and
WHEREAS the Compact contains provisions which endanger the independence and integrity of the University, and
WHEREAS the compact likely violates state and federal law, and infringes upon the constitutional rights of members of the University community, and
WHEREAS the University of Virginia exemplifies American academic values of the highest standard, including universal right to free speech and the cultivation of academic freedom; therefore
BE IT RESOLVED that the Faculty Senate of the University of Virginia firmly opposes this Compact as written and calls upon Interim President Mahoney and the Board of Visitors to also reject this Compact outright as well as any similar proposal compromising the mission, values, and independence of the University.

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 8d

He wishes

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9d

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

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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On TAP @ontappodcast.bsky.social · 14d

Episode 080 is here! We welcome Jacob Gallagher-Ross of University of Toronto and Caden Manson of Big Art Group to talk about "interface theatre." Shayoni, Miriam, and Pannill then take stock of the political attacks on higher education in recent months.
www.ontappod.com/home/2025/9/...

080 — On TAP: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast

We welcome special guests Jacob Gallagher-Ross of University of Toronton and Caden Manson of Big Art Group to talk about "interface theater," an emerging genre of works that examine the way contempora...

www.ontappod.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25d

NCCU is an HBCU. (Disclosure: my alma mater.)

Intel ends relationship after U.S. takes stake in the company.

This is the point.

abovethelaw.com/2025/08/inte...

Intel Drops Funding HBCU Legal Pipeline - Above the Law

Surprise surprise.

abovethelaw.com

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · 25d

School of Rock rewards multiple family viewings chez nous.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 25d

we are many, and our letters are many, so just repeating:

I am a Jewish UC alum and wholeheartedly oppose this federal campaign and its institutional enablers!

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 29d

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia

A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · Sep 2

“Barron is President now.”

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · Sep 2

*TRUMP TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT 2:00 PM ET TUESDAY: WHITE HOUSE

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Aug 30

One of the things that drives me up the wall is when people say students “need to learn how to use AI” to succeed in the workplace. It is EXTREMELY EASY to use a chatbot. That’s the whole point of it! You do not need training to type in the box! What are you even TALKING about?? +

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 25

I loved @vermontgmg.bsky.social's latest piece so much that I asked if I could republish it on The Handbasket and he so generously said yes.

If you haven't read it yet, please do. It's essential:

America tips into fascism (GUEST POST)

"Something is materially different in our country this week than last," writes historian Garrett Graff.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Aug 20

The reason why fundraising text read like scams is because they are. The political fundraising system has imported the tactics of elder financial fraud. These tactics are designed to filter out skeptics and specifically target and exploit seniors.

95% of scam PAC donors are 65+, costing > $500m.

Spam PACs Raise Money by Deceiving Seniors

One 89-year-old woman made 7,532 donations totaling $68,666

data4democracy.substack.com

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Aug 18

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · Aug 18

“I get all my news and opinion from Microsoft now.”

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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · Aug 16

The Josh Kraft 2025 Democrat for Mayor campaign is now sending mailers to Newton.

Josh Kraft 2025 Democrat for Mayor of Boston mailer addressed to a Newton address, posted on Reddit to r/boston

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

against-a-i.com

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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · Aug 15

grateful for colleagues doing the goddess's work

against-a-i.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

AGAINST AI

against-a-i.com

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Pannill Camp @pannill.bsky.social · Aug 14

I sure hope this isn’t true

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 13

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

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