Hugh Curnutt
@hughcurnutt.bsky.social
Media studies professor, labor negotiator, and all the dad stuff.
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Every piece of anti-faculty union propaganda that pretends to have our interests at heart
April 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Every piece of anti-faculty union propaganda that pretends to have our interests at heart
Best piece I’ve read on ai and higher ed www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Best piece I’ve read on ai and higher ed www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899) www.openculture.com/2025/11/than...
Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899)
Above, we have the menu for an 1899 Thanksgiving dinner at the Plaza Hotel in New York. If you were a turkey, you had it relatively easy. But the ducks? Not so much. On the menu, you'll find Mallard d...
www.openculture.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thanksgiving Menu at the Plaza Hotel in New York City (1899) www.openculture.com/2025/11/than...
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Recommend this piece by @ibogost.bsky.social on the dismal state of where we're at in higher ed teaching & learning right now. Key takeaway is that to fix what is breaking would require a wholesale overhaul that few of us have the time, energy or institutional capacity to undertake.
This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College
Members of the class of 2026 have been using ChatGPT since they were freshmen.
www.theatlantic.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Recommend this piece by @ibogost.bsky.social on the dismal state of where we're at in higher ed teaching & learning right now. Key takeaway is that to fix what is breaking would require a wholesale overhaul that few of us have the time, energy or institutional capacity to undertake.
Two peas in a pod. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...
Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor’s Race
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Two peas in a pod. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...
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A banner week in fascism (and this is like a tenth of it)
August 1, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A banner week in fascism (and this is like a tenth of it)
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Forthcoming March 2026
July 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Forthcoming March 2026
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the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective
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One time I posted about listening to Magnetic Fields and someone called them "grad student music" and I got so mad I had to turn off the record
Famous
The Magnetic Fields · Get Lost · Song · 1995
open.spotify.com
June 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
One time I posted about listening to Magnetic Fields and someone called them "grad student music" and I got so mad I had to turn off the record
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"Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multi-billion-dollar sale of her company to Skydance, a company run by the son of the tech billionaire Larry Ellison." Hence, she hopes to settle Trump’s "baseless & far-fetched" case.
Yet another example of how a corporate media conglomerate cannot privilege democratic needs over profit imperatives. It's almost as if this hyper-capitalist media system is incompatible with democracy, especially when the latter is threatened by authoritarian power.
Breaking News: The executive producer of “60 Minutes” said that he would resign from the long-running program because he had lost his journalistic independence.
April 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
"Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multi-billion-dollar sale of her company to Skydance, a company run by the son of the tech billionaire Larry Ellison." Hence, she hopes to settle Trump’s "baseless & far-fetched" case.
Next year we’ll be doing our taxes on X.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Next year we’ll be doing our taxes on X.
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The final event of the UMass History Department's Feinberg series on "What Are Universities For?" will be a lecture by Prof Steven Salaita on "The Meaning of Honesty in Academe" on 4/16 at 6pm EST, live via Zoom; link emailed to those who register: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/the...
April 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The final event of the UMass History Department's Feinberg series on "What Are Universities For?" will be a lecture by Prof Steven Salaita on "The Meaning of Honesty in Academe" on 4/16 at 6pm EST, live via Zoom; link emailed to those who register: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/the...
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Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great
April 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great
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