Shaun Morgan
@shaunprof.bsky.social
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
Shorter Sunstein: “I wanted to write a nice book, and if I addressed the things you bring up it would have been…not nice.”
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Shorter Sunstein: “I wanted to write a nice book, and if I addressed the things you bring up it would have been…not nice.”
Taboo
Everyone has a 1-2 season TV show they sorely miss and not enough people knew about that you are always praising the heavens about.
What's yours?
What's yours?
September 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Taboo
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“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall
An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.
www.thestar.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black”
So I guess trading away your best player is just a Dallas thing now.
August 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
So I guess trading away your best player is just a Dallas thing now.
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People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
August 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/
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This Cracker Barrel business is a perfect example of how the right wing can manufacture culture wars outrage over absolutely nothing.
Referring to a mediocre breakfast restaurant as your culture and heritage is one of the whitest things I've ever read.
August 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This Cracker Barrel business is a perfect example of how the right wing can manufacture culture wars outrage over absolutely nothing.
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Tr*mp made them choose what he makes everyone choose: what to them was real and what was nice to have, but kind of ornamental. Foreigners, lefties, homos, POC were nice to have. The core of the university was the money and the research done by people who resemble our upper administrations. (3/4)
August 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Tr*mp made them choose what he makes everyone choose: what to them was real and what was nice to have, but kind of ornamental. Foreigners, lefties, homos, POC were nice to have. The core of the university was the money and the research done by people who resemble our upper administrations. (3/4)
This whole thread. Damn.
There's an ad for Smarty Pants vitamins--a parent says to another "raising smart kids isn't a competition" then to the camera "except it totally is."
It's so over-the-top it could be parody. But it's real. So we need to talk about what's driving this competition, and why it's apt to get worse. 1/🧵
It's so over-the-top it could be parody. But it's real. So we need to talk about what's driving this competition, and why it's apt to get worse. 1/🧵
July 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This whole thread. Damn.
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The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
July 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman
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It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
July 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:
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What a horrific act of vandalism targeting a formidable set of public institutions. Solidarity with faculty and students.
So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...
Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.
www.ipm.org
June 30, 2025 at 9:51 PM
What a horrific act of vandalism targeting a formidable set of public institutions. Solidarity with faculty and students.
It wasn’t until I became a professional that I realized how much college financing has in common with used car sales.
College financing is a statistical shell game of tuition, discount rates, fees, endowment restrictions, rate swaps, overnight lending, arbitrary enrollment ratios, bullshit demography, & FAFSA arbitrage. This complexity is designed for narrative flexibility & Ponzi austerity.
Free college for all.
Free college for all.
June 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
It wasn’t until I became a professional that I realized how much college financing has in common with used car sales.
1/2 Looking at all the memes comparing trump’s stupid little parade to the much larger ones in other authoritarian countries, I can’t help but notice the lack of fascist architecture and infrastructure
June 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
1/2 Looking at all the memes comparing trump’s stupid little parade to the much larger ones in other authoritarian countries, I can’t help but notice the lack of fascist architecture and infrastructure
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Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
Close Reading Is For Everyone | Defector
In Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like...
defector.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all.
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI.
Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...
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Being a Mavs fan right now has to be insane. Like you’re 99% happy, but 1% mad that they’re getting away with it?
May 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Being a Mavs fan right now has to be insane. Like you’re 99% happy, but 1% mad that they’re getting away with it?
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My opinion piece in @coloradosun.com is live--I ask when people will speak out against the fascist authoritarianism of this current administration:
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
Opinion: As a professor with non-native parents, I ask — When will you speak out?
We must have the moral and ethical courage to speak out and say the things we know to be true.
coloradosun.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
My opinion piece in @coloradosun.com is live--I ask when people will speak out against the fascist authoritarianism of this current administration:
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o...
If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.
This thread from @mattseybold.bsky.social is a great rundown of how AI preys upon already existing problems in higher ed. I’d only add that these are all exacerbated by precarity and the performance metrics associated with teaching in higher ed which boil down to retention and student satisfaction.
The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared
This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently
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This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently
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May 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This thread from @mattseybold.bsky.social is a great rundown of how AI preys upon already existing problems in higher ed. I’d only add that these are all exacerbated by precarity and the performance metrics associated with teaching in higher ed which boil down to retention and student satisfaction.
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Latest episode of the pod.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Latest episode of the pod.
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Not hard at all.
I may be biased. I have a lot of friends in English. But the AI admin push feels really targeted at how much English courses bedevil their funding models. They’re inefficient, they cannot shuttle it to professional schools, & weirdly students want it.
I may be biased. I have a lot of friends in English. But the AI admin push feels really targeted at how much English courses bedevil their funding models. They’re inefficient, they cannot shuttle it to professional schools, & weirdly students want it.
100%. When did my unit start getting institutional nudges to incorporate AI into our work? When they increased our teaching load and we protested that the new load (4/5) was unmanageable for the teaching of writing. It's not hard to figure out!
April 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Not hard at all.
I may be biased. I have a lot of friends in English. But the AI admin push feels really targeted at how much English courses bedevil their funding models. They’re inefficient, they cannot shuttle it to professional schools, & weirdly students want it.
I may be biased. I have a lot of friends in English. But the AI admin push feels really targeted at how much English courses bedevil their funding models. They’re inefficient, they cannot shuttle it to professional schools, & weirdly students want it.
I took Díaz off my syllabi for a period of time, but have since brought him back. I feel a bit more conflicted about that than this piece suggests, but it raises some useful frames for thinking about Diaz’s place in literary history and literature curricula.
I've been uneasy about Junot Díaz's treatment by the mainstream media for a while now, but seeing him get nixed from the Norton anthology was the last straw for me. I've put my thoughts down here. Thanks, as usual, to my editor, Len Gutkin!
www.chronicle.com/article/juno...
www.chronicle.com/article/juno...
Opinion | Junot Díaz’s Forced Disappearing Act
The great writer has been exiled from the Norton anthology.
www.chronicle.com
April 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I took Díaz off my syllabi for a period of time, but have since brought him back. I feel a bit more conflicted about that than this piece suggests, but it raises some useful frames for thinking about Diaz’s place in literary history and literature curricula.
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Very thoughtful piece on Junot Diaz by @rafaelwalker.bsky.social .
I've been uneasy about Junot Díaz's treatment by the mainstream media for a while now, but seeing him get nixed from the Norton anthology was the last straw for me. I've put my thoughts down here. Thanks, as usual, to my editor, Len Gutkin!
www.chronicle.com/article/juno...
www.chronicle.com/article/juno...
Opinion | Junot Díaz’s Forced Disappearing Act
The great writer has been exiled from the Norton anthology.
www.chronicle.com
April 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Very thoughtful piece on Junot Diaz by @rafaelwalker.bsky.social .
Having spent much of my 20s and early 30s working on a dissertation focused on Said, I’ve had a distantly romantic - naive, sure - admiration for Columbia. That is no longer possible.
Opinion: A betrayal at Columbia? "It is not really betrayal when those committing the action have no investment in the principles betrayed." chroni.cl/3Esga2p
Opinion | Columbia Is at War With the Legacy of Edward Said
The university is abandoning its intellectual inheritance.
chroni.cl
April 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Having spent much of my 20s and early 30s working on a dissertation focused on Said, I’ve had a distantly romantic - naive, sure - admiration for Columbia. That is no longer possible.
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You know, when they describe the Jackie Robinson story as "Woke cultural Marxism" maybe normies will start to notice how insane they are
March 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You know, when they describe the Jackie Robinson story as "Woke cultural Marxism" maybe normies will start to notice how insane they are
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10/ If this is happening at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the top university in the bluest state in the country, then I can only imagine how bad it is elsewhere. We need to protect our academic freedom and civil rights. We need to protect research and knowledge that helps EVERYONE.
March 2, 2025 at 2:09 AM
10/ If this is happening at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the top university in the bluest state in the country, then I can only imagine how bad it is elsewhere. We need to protect our academic freedom and civil rights. We need to protect research and knowledge that helps EVERYONE.