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David Shumway
@nearleft.bsky.social
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Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.

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David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 7h
Before social media technologies, people knew how to read.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 1d
This is what they hold theologically, but they don’t believe in kindness to anyone they do not consider a Christian.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 1d
Are they learning how to interpret the Times’ sanewashing of Trump?
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 1d
Can the Times reinvent itself as Fox News?
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 2d
This is a different but also valid point: sometimes it’s better to mince.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 2d
But right on brand at the Atlantic.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 8d
Sorry, but you don’t get that studying “digital humanities.” You get by studying the humanities.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 10d
Otherwise known as a Nazi.

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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 12d
“As nearly every business sector adopts artificial intelligence into its core operations, creating a growing demand for workers with basic AI skills, look for more colleges and universities to place a new emphasis on how best to educate students about artificial intelligence tools.”
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 12d
I favor making this experiment mandatory.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 13d
Confessions of a Nazi Spy; The Great Dictator

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13d

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 16d
The Great Gatsby

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 16d
Commentary: Because the assaults on academic freedom are well underway within state capitals and inside university administrations — in Ohio and across the nation — few institutions will be spared. But alumni have to speak up now ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/12/09/i...
It’s past time for alumni to step up in the fight to defend academic freedom • Ohio Capital Journal
Because the assaults on academic freedom are well underway within state capitals and inside university administrations — in Ohio and across the nation — few institutions will be spared. But alumni…
ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17d
"The rapid, largely unregulated rise of datacenters to fuel the AI and crypto frenzy is disrupting communities across the country and threatening Americans’ economic, environmental, climate and water security."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19d
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d
Presumably Alabama will be suspending fraternities and sororities too.
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
www.nytimes.com

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Pittsburgh Review of Books @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 21d
“But if the Rabbit novels are obviously realist in most of their aspects, their representation of the social may be less apparent.”

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social on the work of John Updike. pghrev.com/updikes-real...
Updike's Realism - Pittsburgh Review of Books
I have chosen to focus on Updike’s Rabbit novels because they demonstrate that print fiction continues to represent society in the complexity that we find in
pghrev.com

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d
What legitimacy?
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 21d
When was it that they were trying?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21d
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22d
"AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22d
Good work, @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social, now I gotta get @nearleft.bsky.social’s book.
Updike's Realism - Pittsburgh Review of Books
I have chosen to focus on Updike’s Rabbit novels because they demonstrate that print fiction continues to represent society in the complexity that we find in
pghrev.com

David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 24d
The best possible outcome of this future is that driving will become so boring that everyone will want to take public transportation.
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 25d
Jets in 1945?
David Shumway @nearleft.bsky.social · 27d
Boycott complicit institutions.
mattheweadie.bsky.social Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 27d
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 27d
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?

"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
www.nytimes.com

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 27d
How many Supreme Court justices have been redacted from the Epstein files, anyway?

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Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 27d
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university

Full statement from NU below:

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 28d
AI generated content of any kind undermines the credibility of whatever is being communicated
astrokatie.com Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28d
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.