Dan Libertz
@dlib24.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of English & Assoc. Director of First-Year Writing @BaruchCollege, @CUNY | teaching, rhetoric, quant | wooder ice (lemon) | #firstgen | he/him
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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Please join the Coalition at 1 PM (EST) on November 17th for “Generative AI as Feminist Methodology,” a Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda webinar.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Please join the Coalition at 1 PM (EST) on November 17th for “Generative AI as Feminist Methodology,” a Cheryl Glenn Advancing the Agenda webinar.
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 AM
If this is what they are doing with the AI, what do you think they are doing with the much simpler and easier to control algorithm that chooses which posts you see and which of your posts are seen by others?
This would be such an amazing, long-term beneficial thing: invest in in-house edtech production and eliminate much of or all licensing agreements with vampiric edtech companies
"[T]here is an immediate opportunity to reduce Ponzi austerity extraction by for-profit EdTech from New York City schools, and potentially to make a significant move towards socializing educational technology by providing platforms and models that can be exported and imitated anywhere."
Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production (Let CUNY Socialize EdTech for All of Us)
by Matt Seybold This essay originally appeared on Matt Seybold’s The American Vandal Substack. We are grateful for his generous permission to republish it here. An understandable response to …
moneyontheleft.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This would be such an amazing, long-term beneficial thing: invest in in-house edtech production and eliminate much of or all licensing agreements with vampiric edtech companies
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Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
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Meredith Johnson and I published a piece back in the spring about accessibility and pedagogy and table design that I'm off-the-charts proud of and I have no idea if anyone's read it 😩 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Meredith Johnson and I published a piece back in the spring about accessibility and pedagogy and table design that I'm off-the-charts proud of and I have no idea if anyone's read it 😩 dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited!
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This one time on Twitter, @lecagle.bsky.social asked ppl to link to 1 pub of theirs they loved, but maybe slipped under the radar. I got SO many good recs from that list, so I wanted to replicate it here: link to one of your pubs that you wish more people read/cited!
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
#TeamRhetoric
#AcademicSky
It’s wild that so much of Dem politics must prioritize worrying about hurting the feelings of 80 year old men.
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s wild that so much of Dem politics must prioritize worrying about hurting the feelings of 80 year old men.
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"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)."
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
Why the media (not just MAGA) is freaked out over Mamdani
Plus: Midterms success for Democrats must avoid the false choice between affordability and opposing Trump
margaretsullivan.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Mamdani has presented some sort of existential threat to the media, both on the right (full-on panic) and in the establishment press (somewhere between hostility and puzzlement)."
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
Good @sulliview.bsky.social on media and Zohran (cites mine positively!)
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/why-the-me...
“Either omniscient robots deliver utopia or we eventually get [vague future payoffs from infrastructure investment]. Every AI investment is thus justified, every crazy promise is thus rendered credible, based on a vision of our glorious future. We’ve entered the realm of faith rather than reason.”
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
Serenity now, serenity now
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Either omniscient robots deliver utopia or we eventually get [vague future payoffs from infrastructure investment]. Every AI investment is thus justified, every crazy promise is thus rendered credible, based on a vision of our glorious future. We’ve entered the realm of faith rather than reason.”
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Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
Serenity now, serenity now
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Thou shalt not falsify the AI bubble
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
open.substack.com/pub/buildcog...
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“There’s no real appetite to oust Schumer, though. Nor is there any interest from another Democrat to challenge him, according to interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“There’s no real appetite to oust Schumer, though. Nor is there any interest from another Democrat to challenge him, according to interviews with more than a dozen Democratic senators.” @punchbowlnews.bsky.social
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
Oh Sen Dems are not in disarray - they are in array - in their collective cowardice.
Have the worlds elite always been such world class losers like this and we never knew about it or is this just a sign of our times?
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Have the worlds elite always been such world class losers like this and we never knew about it or is this just a sign of our times?
A good analogy along these lines is a pro sports commissioner like Roger Goodell or Adam Silver. They do the bidding of and take the heat for powerful people who want cover for doing things people hate
Schumer is really an anti-leader, a vacuum of leadership, and as far as I can tell he draws his support from that. He doesn’t ask anything of anyone, he never squeezes anyone on a hard vote, he’s always the first to cave.
He’s the substitute teacher the kids love having because they can goof off.
He’s the substitute teacher the kids love having because they can goof off.
Every day a majority of Democratic Senators wake up and decide to continue supporting Chuck Schumer as their leader
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A good analogy along these lines is a pro sports commissioner like Roger Goodell or Adam Silver. They do the bidding of and take the heat for powerful people who want cover for doing things people hate
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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this is senate dems’ second coordinated “just enough” vote to help republicans and betray house dems of the year, remember
The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:
Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
this is senate dems’ second coordinated “just enough” vote to help republicans and betray house dems of the year, remember
So either Schumer organized this performance art to vote it thru or he is an ineffectual leader who could not sway votes to his preference. There’s plenty to work with here to oust him as leader. And to send a message that we are not as stupid as they prefer us to be.
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
So either Schumer organized this performance art to vote it thru or he is an ineffectual leader who could not sway votes to his preference. There’s plenty to work with here to oust him as leader. And to send a message that we are not as stupid as they prefer us to be.
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Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.
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The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
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John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
John Fetterman, Angus King, Maggie Hassan, Dick Durbin, Jon Ossoff, Jeanne Shaheen, Kirsten Gillibrand, Catherine Cortez Masto, Mark Warner, Cory Booker, and of course Chuck Schumer. Maybe others not top of mind. Not all responsible will publicly vote for the cave - that's not how this works.
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Really don’t care among these performance artists tbh. They all own this surrender.
Booker is a NO
As I've always said, I will not support a government funding bill that continues to raise our costs, jeopardizes our health care, and hurts the people of my state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Really don’t care among these performance artists tbh. They all own this surrender.
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To “marginally increase taxes on [those] who have benefitted most from the massive value generated by the human system that is New York..to use those revenues to fund programs that will benefit the humans in New York that generated the value” makes him “a dangerous radical” to some. Hero to most.
Today I wrote about Zohran Mamdani's historic win, the energizing power of holding to shared principles of decency, and a taxonomy of the endlessly intertwined relationship between shame and vision. www.the-reframe.com/the-extraord...
The Extraordinary Power of Standing For Something
Winning by creating vision in the positive space of shared standards, and expertly negotiating the negative space of shame.
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
To “marginally increase taxes on [those] who have benefitted most from the massive value generated by the human system that is New York..to use those revenues to fund programs that will benefit the humans in New York that generated the value” makes him “a dangerous radical” to some. Hero to most.
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“The media is so strongly influenced by the images that are its own creation” - Robert Caro in The Power Broker on how the New York Times and other newspapers spent 35 years never questioning or investigating the most powerful man in New York
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
“The media is so strongly influenced by the images that are its own creation” - Robert Caro in The Power Broker on how the New York Times and other newspapers spent 35 years never questioning or investigating the most powerful man in New York
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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JUST POSTED: some thoughts about the arguments of the past few weeks, Tuesday's election results, and where we are headed from here.
Everyone Is Wrong
The Way To Win Is Strength, Not Moderation. The 2025 Winners Proved It.
chartingthewayforward.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
JUST POSTED: some thoughts about the arguments of the past few weeks, Tuesday's election results, and where we are headed from here.