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Philosophy & politics. #Technology, #Edtech, #Linux, & #highereducation policy.♥️📚🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇺🇸
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I think presentations like this one will help—like, there are genuinely non-code things here.
(That said, having to have multiple Claude.md files will be a barrier to A Lot of folks, and rightly so)
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nm...
(That said, having to have multiple Claude.md files will be a barrier to A Lot of folks, and rightly so)
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nm...
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link.mail.beehiiv.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I think presentations like this one will help—like, there are genuinely non-code things here.
(That said, having to have multiple Claude.md files will be a barrier to A Lot of folks, and rightly so)
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nm...
(That said, having to have multiple Claude.md files will be a barrier to A Lot of folks, and rightly so)
link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/u001.nm...
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A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:09 PM
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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I'll answer one last time for the sake of clarity & not to honor any sealioning: my goal was to provide a tactical map for those currently inside the "wood chipper" who wish to continue their work without being shredded. Not all of us in Texas higher ed hold endowed chairs at a Texas university.
January 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I'll answer one last time for the sake of clarity & not to honor any sealioning: my goal was to provide a tactical map for those currently inside the "wood chipper" who wish to continue their work without being shredded. Not all of us in Texas higher ed hold endowed chairs at a Texas university.
I think the only way out is in: the steelman move—not the strawman move, that’s for sure. Demonstrate that you value truth above loyalty to any in-group. Usually, it takes religious figures to do that, e.g., MLK. The goal being to un-fracture social reality.
January 10, 2026 at 3:58 PM
I think the only way out is in: the steelman move—not the strawman move, that’s for sure. Demonstrate that you value truth above loyalty to any in-group. Usually, it takes religious figures to do that, e.g., MLK. The goal being to un-fracture social reality.
What if Trump becomes a Maduro, and America a big version of Venezuela?
January 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM
What if Trump becomes a Maduro, and America a big version of Venezuela?
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I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b...
If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.
If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.
January 8, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b...
If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.
If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.
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sharing once more for folks who might have missed it at the end of last year, here are slide decks, resources & other materials from my talks & workshops from last year on #GenAI, #Teaching #HigherEd, #OER (all with #CreativeCommons licenses, of course)
aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/sharing-20...
aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/sharing-20...
Sharing 2025's Talks & Workshops
A collection of materials and resources that I've been creating over the last year...
aiedusimplified.substack.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
sharing once more for folks who might have missed it at the end of last year, here are slide decks, resources & other materials from my talks & workshops from last year on #GenAI, #Teaching #HigherEd, #OER (all with #CreativeCommons licenses, of course)
aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/sharing-20...
aiedusimplified.substack.com/p/sharing-20...
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The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?
January 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
The whole lot of them spent Jan. 6th lying about what happened 5 years ago. Why should anyone expect them to start telling the truth on January 7th?
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The digital editor of the National Catholic Reporter has written the most cogent and hard-hitting critique of JD Vance I've ever read, worth a thousand couch jokes
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
January 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The digital editor of the National Catholic Reporter has written the most cogent and hard-hitting critique of JD Vance I've ever read, worth a thousand couch jokes
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
www.ncronline.org/opinion/ncr-...
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ICE’s ideology is great replacement theory. If you want to understand how this organization could project its terror as protective, then it is important to understand great replacement theory.
January 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
ICE’s ideology is great replacement theory. If you want to understand how this organization could project its terror as protective, then it is important to understand great replacement theory.
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So, correct me if I’m wrong, but all you have to do to abduct a woman now is dress in camo, cover your face and have a gun and we have to submit or risk death? How are we supposed to know if you’re ICE or not?
January 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
So, correct me if I’m wrong, but all you have to do to abduct a woman now is dress in camo, cover your face and have a gun and we have to submit or risk death? How are we supposed to know if you’re ICE or not?
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Every paragraph of this describes a situation that just gets more and more bonkers. Texas A&M is not a university. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Plato Censored as Texas A&M Carries Out Course Review
A&M officials have also instructed English faculty not to teach books in core classes that have major plotlines concerning gay, lesbian or transgender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Every paragraph of this describes a situation that just gets more and more bonkers. Texas A&M is not a university. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Hat tip to @biblioracle.bsky.social for working the word "somnambulant" into his IHE column this week. And for all the really cogent thoughts John shares here, too. (see comment) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
We Have Something Important to Offer Students: Agency
If higher ed becomes the transactional model, only now with AI, we’re in big, big trouble.
www.insidehighered.com
January 8, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Hat tip to @biblioracle.bsky.social for working the word "somnambulant" into his IHE column this week. And for all the really cogent thoughts John shares here, too. (see comment) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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“If tenured faculty can be dismissed without a hearing at which the administration has to make the case before an elected body of peers, then that’s effectively the end of tenure in South Dakota."
— Mark Criley, AAUP Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance
— Mark Criley, AAUP Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance
South Dakota Adopts Post-Tenure Review
While the South Dakota Board of Regents says post-tenure review is a move toward increased accountability, critics say the policy will effectively kill tenure in the state.
www.insidehighered.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
“If tenured faculty can be dismissed without a hearing at which the administration has to make the case before an elected body of peers, then that’s effectively the end of tenure in South Dakota."
— Mark Criley, AAUP Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance
— Mark Criley, AAUP Department of Academic Freedom, Tenure, and Governance
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I also previously thought amoral but rational capitalists used rubes by cynically deploying vicious / silly right wing ideologies. But I now think I underestimated how many true believers there are, some of the previously rational got internet brain poison, and there's been change in who's in power.
i had sincerely thought that sexism was a dying prejudice because, in all honesty, up until 2025 i also sincerely believed on at least some level that powerful capitalists with rational but amoral priorities controlled everything and understood the value women bring to the workforce
January 10, 2026 at 8:10 AM
I also previously thought amoral but rational capitalists used rubes by cynically deploying vicious / silly right wing ideologies. But I now think I underestimated how many true believers there are, some of the previously rational got internet brain poison, and there's been change in who's in power.
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Your priority is the public naming of injustice; mine is the private preservation of the teaching. You see tactical silence as capitulation; I see it as the only way to ensure that a philosopher, & not a state appointed replacement, is the one actually teaching Plato's Symposium to students.
January 9, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Your priority is the public naming of injustice; mine is the private preservation of the teaching. You see tactical silence as capitulation; I see it as the only way to ensure that a philosopher, & not a state appointed replacement, is the one actually teaching Plato's Symposium to students.
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We covered pros and cons of a range of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation strategies for reducing AI misuse in today's panel for
#MLA26, sponsored by the @modernlanguage.bsky.social Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The chat was lively!
Slides: mlaai.short.gy/2026 (The polls are open)
#MLA26, sponsored by the @modernlanguage.bsky.social Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The chat was lively!
Slides: mlaai.short.gy/2026 (The polls are open)
When do we need to know what is AI and what is student writing? How can we know?
Anna Mills, presider Elizabeth Losh, Holly Hassel, and Leonardo Flores, speakers Sponsored by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching Modern Language Association Convention, January 9, 2026 ...
MLAAI.short.gy
January 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
We covered pros and cons of a range of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation strategies for reducing AI misuse in today's panel for
#MLA26, sponsored by the @modernlanguage.bsky.social Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The chat was lively!
Slides: mlaai.short.gy/2026 (The polls are open)
#MLA26, sponsored by the @modernlanguage.bsky.social Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The chat was lively!
Slides: mlaai.short.gy/2026 (The polls are open)
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To read
Religion as Political Capital: Conservatism, Nationalism, and Populism in Democratic Strategy
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Religion as Political Capital: Conservatism, Nationalism, and Populism in Democratic Strategy
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Client Challenge
link.springer.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:53 PM
To read
Religion as Political Capital: Conservatism, Nationalism, and Populism in Democratic Strategy
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Religion as Political Capital: Conservatism, Nationalism, and Populism in Democratic Strategy
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Defaming a murdered woman and shrugging off her death with a lie is about as evil as it gets and no journalist who gets within shouting distance of this vicious troll should let him have a moment's peace about it.
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Defaming a murdered woman and shrugging off her death with a lie is about as evil as it gets and no journalist who gets within shouting distance of this vicious troll should let him have a moment's peace about it.
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ICYMI the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has developed resources and language around academic freedom to use in your course materials. See more in this newsletter post from our director, @isaackamola.bsky.social academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/your-sylla...
Your Syllabus and Academic Freedom
Making an affirmative case for the values that underpin our work.
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
ICYMI the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom has developed resources and language around academic freedom to use in your course materials. See more in this newsletter post from our director, @isaackamola.bsky.social academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/your-sylla...
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The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession
January 9, 2026 at 6:57 PM
The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession
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The purpose of this thread is to document this regime & connecting their actions to the principles of abuse. You can combat the firehose of abuse by recognizing the principles - they organizes!
Don't be overwhelmed!
Be educated by a survivor
raised by a violent republican
pedophile rapist.
Don't be overwhelmed!
Be educated by a survivor
raised by a violent republican
pedophile rapist.
January 9, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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"That heaviness you feel, that drag on your mental health, that drain on your emotional energy and lethargy in the face of world events, like yesterday, is real. We are all carrying a lot of new weight..." —Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...
The physical weight of Trumpism
That heaviness you feel, that drag on your mental health, that drain on your emotional energy and lethargy in the face of world events, like yesterday, is real.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
"That heaviness you feel, that drag on your mental health, that drain on your emotional energy and lethargy in the face of world events, like yesterday, is real. We are all carrying a lot of new weight..." —Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-physic...
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A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.