Stefan Kehlenbach
@cogitoergodoom.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at University at Albany.
Political theorist, critical theories of technology.
Political theorist, critical theories of technology.
@associationpt.bsky.social bound! Let’s hope I can get home after…
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
@associationpt.bsky.social bound! Let’s hope I can get home after…
MGT being sane on Dems is like Newsom embracing transphobia. An appeal to a voter base that will never ever vote for them.
Greene: "I will praise Nancy Pelosi. She had an incredible career for her party. I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party."
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
MGT being sane on Dems is like Newsom embracing transphobia. An appeal to a voter base that will never ever vote for them.
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
Well, on the bright side at least we get a full year of discourse about how the Dodgers are ruining baseball.
November 2, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Well, on the bright side at least we get a full year of discourse about how the Dodgers are ruining baseball.
I don’t really care about either of these teams. Why am I so nervous?!?
November 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I don’t really care about either of these teams. Why am I so nervous?!?
My god this game
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
My god this game
Bichette proving you don’t need knees to baseball
November 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Bichette proving you don’t need knees to baseball
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“I find it hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation at all were Platner anything other than a fit middle-aged white guy who dresses like a stock photo of a “real man.’”
Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“I find it hard to imagine that we would be having this conversation at all were Platner anything other than a fit middle-aged white guy who dresses like a stock photo of a “real man.’”
Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
Straight to the point, as usual from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
If you read one article today, make it this one. Come for the takedown of Platner, stay for the turn to Gramsci that hits like a truck.
What job is a guy with a Nazi tattoo qualified for? defector.com/what-job-is-...
What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Me. in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us…
defector.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you read one article today, make it this one. Come for the takedown of Platner, stay for the turn to Gramsci that hits like a truck.
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If you are presenting at this year's conference (just two weeks away!), don't forget to post your paper to the paper archive for this year's conference by the end of Oct. 23. Link and instructions for the archive at this year's conference homepage: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
If you are presenting at this year's conference (just two weeks away!), don't forget to post your paper to the paper archive for this year's conference by the end of Oct. 23. Link and instructions for the archive at this year's conference homepage: associationforpoliticaltheory.org/content.aspx...
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"My name is OzyMOOCias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"My name is OzyMOOCias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Up next, @charleswlogan.bsky.social !
UAlbany political science Speaker Series started well with a great talk about place and Black political behavior by Professor Peay. I will be inviting more friends to speak. Who wants to come to Albany?!
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Up next, @charleswlogan.bsky.social !
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One of our main blindspots as a country is that we haven’t grappled with the giant predatory evil of diaper companies, preying on tired parents who can’t do math.
October 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One of our main blindspots as a country is that we haven’t grappled with the giant predatory evil of diaper companies, preying on tired parents who can’t do math.
One of our main blindspots as a country is that we haven’t grappled with the giant predatory evil of diaper companies, preying on tired parents who can’t do math.
October 2, 2025 at 5:08 PM
One of our main blindspots as a country is that we haven’t grappled with the giant predatory evil of diaper companies, preying on tired parents who can’t do math.
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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In this moment, I think we should all come together and say, as a single nation united:
“…well at least they aren’t the Yankees. Go Sox!”
“…well at least they aren’t the Yankees. Go Sox!”
September 30, 2025 at 10:22 PM
In this moment, I think we should all come together and say, as a single nation united:
“…well at least they aren’t the Yankees. Go Sox!”
“…well at least they aren’t the Yankees. Go Sox!”
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I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
September 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes
Saw Between the Buried and Me last night, and god damn if they aren’t the standard to judge all American metal.
September 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Saw Between the Buried and Me last night, and god damn if they aren’t the standard to judge all American metal.
This is what you get with AI, not your perfectly tailored entertainment, but an endless pile of slop and shit produced for the minimum money possible. Just Adorno’s culture industry taken to its absolute extreme.
So many people out here proudly announcing their plans to pollute the public sphere.
5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
This is what you get with AI, not your perfectly tailored entertainment, but an endless pile of slop and shit produced for the minimum money possible. Just Adorno’s culture industry taken to its absolute extreme.
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So if you remember that frustrating article a couple of weeks ago at the Dispatch suggesting that we ought to save the sciences by shoving the humanities overboard, I wrote a response to the financial illiteracy and moral cowardice of that position: thedispatch.com/article/univ...
How (Not) to Save the American University
Why splitting the sciences and humanities—and appeasing Trump—won’t work.
thedispatch.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
So if you remember that frustrating article a couple of weeks ago at the Dispatch suggesting that we ought to save the sciences by shoving the humanities overboard, I wrote a response to the financial illiteracy and moral cowardice of that position: thedispatch.com/article/univ...
Thank god
BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.
September 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Thank god
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The three modes of political theory:
"Would you look at this shit"
"I've got a fix for this shit"
"Do you have any idea how far back this shit goes"
"Would you look at this shit"
"I've got a fix for this shit"
"Do you have any idea how far back this shit goes"
August 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The three modes of political theory:
"Would you look at this shit"
"I've got a fix for this shit"
"Do you have any idea how far back this shit goes"
"Would you look at this shit"
"I've got a fix for this shit"
"Do you have any idea how far back this shit goes"
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For a long time, for many - on the left, in journalism - the primary gesture of holding power to account was unmasking it. That's critically inert and ineffective. Neoliberalism unabashedly proclaimed the priority of wealth over democracy. Now we face authoritarianism without apology. Nothing hidden
“We need to make McCarthy great again,” Laura Loomer told @michaelscherer.bsky.social when he suggested her effort to get federal employees fired for supposed disloyalty to Trump recalled the Red Scare of the early 1950s.
She responded: “McCarthy was right.”
She responded: “McCarthy was right.”
The Joseph McCarthy of the Trump Era
Laura Loomer declares: “We need to make McCarthy great again.”
bit.ly
August 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
For a long time, for many - on the left, in journalism - the primary gesture of holding power to account was unmasking it. That's critically inert and ineffective. Neoliberalism unabashedly proclaimed the priority of wealth over democracy. Now we face authoritarianism without apology. Nothing hidden