KEW
@kidadaewilliams.com
I read, tell stories, block early/often, mind my business, and write--I SAW DEATH COMING is now in paperback.
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KEW
@kidadaewilliams.com
· Nov 18
My girl made it to the Blacksonian, y'all! And she's in great company! ❤️🔥
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Please dont let any high horse fitness person shame you from starting your fitness journey on the 1st. Do what works for you.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
December 26, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Please dont let any high horse fitness person shame you from starting your fitness journey on the 1st. Do what works for you.
Fuck them.
Fuck them.
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For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Chemtrails Aren't Real. So Why Are Politicians Passing Laws About Them?
The history and politics of so-called weather weapons.
www.rollingstone.com
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
For @rollingstone.com I wrote about the mass national movement to ban chemtrails...which don't exist. The movement is one of the ways in which MAHA is taking over the country.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
No woman I know in academia would be surprised by this, but its good to see it documented like this, I guess.
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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I once had a student tell me that it was inappropriate of me to give her a zero on a brazenly plagiarized paper because i denied her a “learning opportunity” (the opportunity not to get a zero)
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
December 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I once had a student tell me that it was inappropriate of me to give her a zero on a brazenly plagiarized paper because i denied her a “learning opportunity” (the opportunity not to get a zero)
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
the zero for dishonest work IS the learning opportunity. Choices often have consequences lol
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“Other experts suggest that while chatbots may provide short-term comfort, sustained use can worsen isolation and foster unhealthy reliance on the technology.”
‘He satisfies a lot of my needs:’ Meet the women in love with ChatGPT | Fortune
AI chatbots are becoming partners and confidants for thousands of users, but the same design features that make them so appealing may also leave users vulnerable.
fortune.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“Other experts suggest that while chatbots may provide short-term comfort, sustained use can worsen isolation and foster unhealthy reliance on the technology.”
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The older I get the more I understand it’s okay to live a life others don’t understand
December 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The older I get the more I understand it’s okay to live a life others don’t understand
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A 23-year-old CVS employee was fatally stabbed on Long Island on Christmas, the Suffolk County Police said. Police are searching for a suspect in his 40s who fled on foot.
CVS Worker Fatally Stabbed on Christmas Day on Long Island
A 23-year-old CVS employee was killed on Thursday in Lindenhurst, the authorities said. Police are searching for a suspect in his 40s who fled on foot.
nyti.ms
December 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A 23-year-old CVS employee was fatally stabbed on Long Island on Christmas, the Suffolk County Police said. Police are searching for a suspect in his 40s who fled on foot.
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Wanna see something absolutely WILD? Look up some of the video spots the National Cryptocurrency Association — yes, the decentralized technology sector has a centralized lobbying group — are placing on social media. It’s fascinating.
National Cryptocurrency Association Launches to Boost Crypto Literacy Across the U.S.
The National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) launches with a $50 million grant from Ripple to improve cryptocurrency literacy and education in the United States.
genfinity.io
December 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Wanna see something absolutely WILD? Look up some of the video spots the National Cryptocurrency Association — yes, the decentralized technology sector has a centralized lobbying group — are placing on social media. It’s fascinating.
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Fake memories is abusive
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Fake memories is abusive
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The Rev. Darryl Johnson and his brother Hermon Johnson Jr. opened the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and Heritage to tell the history of the Mississippi town.
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
Founded by Freedmen, Forgotten by Textbooks: The Men Reviving Mound Bayou
From “Women of the Movement” to “Sinners,” this Mississippi town is ready to take center stage.
capitalbnews.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Rev. Darryl Johnson and his brother Hermon Johnson Jr. opened the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and Heritage to tell the history of the Mississippi town.
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
https://capitalbnews.org/preserving-black-history-mound-bayou-mississippi/
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An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st
December 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
An NBA player learns to paint
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly has appreciated art since he was a child in Paris. Now he’s taking it on as a therapeutic hobby.
wapo.st/4b3GLRd
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Everything changed with the 2010 election. In a historic realignment, the GOP won a majority of governorships and state legislative chambers.
Now, Republican-dominated states are pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published November 2023. trib.al/RPzl4Rw
Now, Republican-dominated states are pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published November 2023. trib.al/RPzl4Rw
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
trib.al
December 26, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Everything changed with the 2010 election. In a historic realignment, the GOP won a majority of governorships and state legislative chambers.
Now, Republican-dominated states are pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published November 2023. trib.al/RPzl4Rw
Now, Republican-dominated states are pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published November 2023. trib.al/RPzl4Rw
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Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning"
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
December 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning"
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.
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This is FUCKED UP.
As someone who regularly works with people with dementia, it’s utterly unhinged to be manufacturing nonexistent memories for people who struggle with knowing how reliable their recollections are. Like that’s active cruelty, IMO.
As someone who regularly works with people with dementia, it’s utterly unhinged to be manufacturing nonexistent memories for people who struggle with knowing how reliable their recollections are. Like that’s active cruelty, IMO.
December 26, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This is FUCKED UP.
As someone who regularly works with people with dementia, it’s utterly unhinged to be manufacturing nonexistent memories for people who struggle with knowing how reliable their recollections are. Like that’s active cruelty, IMO.
As someone who regularly works with people with dementia, it’s utterly unhinged to be manufacturing nonexistent memories for people who struggle with knowing how reliable their recollections are. Like that’s active cruelty, IMO.
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For those who indulge
December 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
For those who indulge
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That @nickkristof.bsky.social piece is especially notable (and welcome) in light of the findings reported in this @jewishcurrents.bsky.social article: jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...
The Genocides The New York Times Forgot
The paper’s Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.
jewishcurrents.org
December 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
That @nickkristof.bsky.social piece is especially notable (and welcome) in light of the findings reported in this @jewishcurrents.bsky.social article: jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...
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Highly recommended & not just for NYers::
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
Samuel Stein looks at how New York City Hall is "booby-trapped to prevent progress on housing"—and how mayor-elect Mamdani and his allies can overcome the obstacles. jewishcurrents.org/zohran-mamda...
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Highly recommended & not just for NYers::
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
“If we are not to become trapped in a permanent state of melancholy, we need a careful analysis of the state’s enormous capacity for reaction in defense of capital’s interests.”
Sam Stein quoting @monedero.bsky.social
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Actually shocked that the Atlantic published any part of this snotty, ill-informed piece but the ‘could it be treachery?’ is as ridiculous as it is offensive.
The @theatlantic.com claims that Canadians will use "treachery" to make America and its media look "silly".
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
No, we are a democratic people who hate thugs and their pusillanimous enablers.
Deal with it.
December 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Actually shocked that the Atlantic published any part of this snotty, ill-informed piece but the ‘could it be treachery?’ is as ridiculous as it is offensive.
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Jake Paul is symbolic of the current state of America. All bluster, no substance.
December 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Jake Paul is symbolic of the current state of America. All bluster, no substance.
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This post is calling me out
December 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This post is calling me out
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Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Texas Universities are now like police departments who would prefer to pay out the inevitable lawsuits rather than stop breaking the law
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"They pulled her out of Clinton High and moved to Los Angeles at the urging of an uncle of hers who lived there. After finishing school, she began a long career as a pediatric nurse in California."
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"They pulled her out of Clinton High and moved to Los Angeles at the urging of an uncle of hers who lived there. After finishing school, she began a long career as a pediatric nurse in California."
Brown shows how abolitionists not only catalogued & condemned the horrific physical abuses of the enslaved w/all manner of scourges but also gave equal emphasis to the wrongs of enslavers stealing Africans & carrying them to a terrifying environment. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...
Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition
In Undoing Slavery, historian Kathleen M. Brown offers a major revision of the prevailing emphasis in the literature on abolition by insisting that rather than being focused on human rights as an abst...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
December 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Brown shows how abolitionists not only catalogued & condemned the horrific physical abuses of the enslaved w/all manner of scourges but also gave equal emphasis to the wrongs of enslavers stealing Africans & carrying them to a terrifying environment. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/art...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; Braved Mobs in Integrating a School
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Jo Ann Allen Boyce Dies at 84; She was one of the Clinton 12, a group of Black students who faced white mobs when desegregating a Tennessee high school in 1956 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...