@jwjepsen.bsky.social
This is straight 🔥
"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 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is straight 🔥
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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
Informational Autocracy, per Guriev & Treisman?
“Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image”
“Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image”
Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public imag...
apnews.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Informational Autocracy, per Guriev & Treisman?
“Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image”
“Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image”
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Thanks, Jon, for amplifying. We are profoundly concerned by HUD's plans to gut permanent housing funding with this year's NOFO. It isn't too late to get it rescinded and revert to their original plan to provide a second year of funding.
endhomelessness.org/action/stoph...
endhomelessness.org/action/stoph...
ACT NOW: Congress Must Stop HUD
Your community’s federal homelessness funding is in jeopardy, and the very backbone of the nation’s homelessness response is under attack.
endhomelessness.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Thanks, Jon, for amplifying. We are profoundly concerned by HUD's plans to gut permanent housing funding with this year's NOFO. It isn't too late to get it rescinded and revert to their original plan to provide a second year of funding.
endhomelessness.org/action/stoph...
endhomelessness.org/action/stoph...
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Support the University of Iowa’s Annual Powwow!
Every gift helps keep this tradition alive and accessible for everyone.
Let’s come together to celebrate culture, community, and connection. Your generosity ensures this tradition continues for generations to come.
goldrush.uiowa.edu/university-o...
Every gift helps keep this tradition alive and accessible for everyone.
Let’s come together to celebrate culture, community, and connection. Your generosity ensures this tradition continues for generations to come.
goldrush.uiowa.edu/university-o...
University of Iowa 29th Annual Powwow— Here: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow
Join me and make a gift to GOLDrush
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December 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Support the University of Iowa’s Annual Powwow!
Every gift helps keep this tradition alive and accessible for everyone.
Let’s come together to celebrate culture, community, and connection. Your generosity ensures this tradition continues for generations to come.
goldrush.uiowa.edu/university-o...
Every gift helps keep this tradition alive and accessible for everyone.
Let’s come together to celebrate culture, community, and connection. Your generosity ensures this tradition continues for generations to come.
goldrush.uiowa.edu/university-o...
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I've had the privilege to attend powwows and other Indigenous events throughout my years and they're always powerful, spiritual. The Nations have much to teach us, we need only listen.
Support the University of Iowa’s Annual Powwow!
Every gift helps keep this tradition alive and accessible for everyone.
Let’s come together to celebrate culture, community, and connection. Your generosity ensures this tradition continues for generations to come.
goldrush.uiowa.edu/university-o...
Every gift helps keep this tradition alive and accessible for everyone.
Let’s come together to celebrate culture, community, and connection. Your generosity ensures this tradition continues for generations to come.
goldrush.uiowa.edu/university-o...
University of Iowa 29th Annual Powwow— Here: Yesterday, Today, & Tomorrow
Join me and make a gift to GOLDrush
goldrush.uiowa.edu
December 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I've had the privilege to attend powwows and other Indigenous events throughout my years and they're always powerful, spiritual. The Nations have much to teach us, we need only listen.
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it won't get as much attention because the U.S. press doesn't care about infrastructure, but the Trump admin is also threatening to withhold billions of dollars in infrastructure bill broadband grants if states pass laws focused on making broadband affordable or try to enforce net neutrality
Yesterday, an Executive Order designed to prevent states from regulating AI within their own borders was leaked. If signed, this Executive Order would establish an AI litigation “task force” at the Justice Department to threaten, harass, & sue states that pass any bill deemed “unlawful.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
it won't get as much attention because the U.S. press doesn't care about infrastructure, but the Trump admin is also threatening to withhold billions of dollars in infrastructure bill broadband grants if states pass laws focused on making broadband affordable or try to enforce net neutrality
Glad to see my home state keep doing good.
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
Follow AP for live updates.
Follow AP for live updates.
Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power
One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Glad to see my home state keep doing good.
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Something I had to explain the other day:
I work neither for the governor nor the president. That's what I meant when I said the governor has no juice.
I work exclusively for the people of Johnson County.
I work neither for the governor nor the president. That's what I meant when I said the governor has no juice.
I work exclusively for the people of Johnson County.
September 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Something I had to explain the other day:
I work neither for the governor nor the president. That's what I meant when I said the governor has no juice.
I work exclusively for the people of Johnson County.
I work neither for the governor nor the president. That's what I meant when I said the governor has no juice.
I work exclusively for the people of Johnson County.
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COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
September 3, 2025 at 12:59 AM
COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.
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'“Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct,” Vallata said. “It is not a tool for mountain advice, for routes, or for planning.”'
AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest….
except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
Why Are the Italian Alps So Deadly This Summer?
On average, three hikers have died every day throughout the summer in Italy’s high peaks. Experts explain why.
www.outsideonline.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
'“Since about one year ago, many people have begun to think everything on ChatGPT is correct,” Vallata said. “It is not a tool for mountain advice, for routes, or for planning.”'
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so.... this feels anti energy-independence and then some... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/t...
Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects
The president's comment comes after the administration tightened federal permitting for renewables last month.
www.cnbc.com
August 21, 2025 at 3:21 AM
so.... this feels anti energy-independence and then some... www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/t...
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A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
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Please consider donating to the new Sand Creek monument for the Colorado statehouse, memorializing the massacre of over 200 Cheyennes and Arapahoes in 1864. The project is guided by descendants of the effected Indigenous communities.
www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org/memorial
www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org/memorial
Colorado State Capitol Memorial - Sand Creek Massacre Foundation
Descendants of the massacre are leading the effort to install a bronze memorial at the Colorado State Capitol honoring the victims & tribal resilience.
www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org
July 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Please consider donating to the new Sand Creek monument for the Colorado statehouse, memorializing the massacre of over 200 Cheyennes and Arapahoes in 1864. The project is guided by descendants of the effected Indigenous communities.
www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org/memorial
www.sandcreekmassacrefoundation.org/memorial
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Please sign this petition to save SHSI in Iowa City!
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Save Iowa History 2025 Redux
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July 29, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Please sign this petition to save SHSI in Iowa City!
Please sign this petition to save SHSI in Iowa City!
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Earlier this week, we concluded our symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan's new book *Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.*
ICYMI, here's a brief run-down of the five excellent posts in the series! 🧵
ICYMI, here's a brief run-down of the five excellent posts in the series! 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Earlier this week, we concluded our symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan's new book *Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.*
ICYMI, here's a brief run-down of the five excellent posts in the series! 🧵
ICYMI, here's a brief run-down of the five excellent posts in the series! 🧵
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
June 29, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
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It is hard to overstate what snarky, heartless assholes the writers of National Review were. This is from the December 31, 1960 issue.
June 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It is hard to overstate what snarky, heartless assholes the writers of National Review were. This is from the December 31, 1960 issue.
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Grok the @raygunsite.com "We are all going to die" shirt.
Who said it: Anne Frank or someone in America this year?
June 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Grok the @raygunsite.com "We are all going to die" shirt.
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*New on First View!*
The first article from 8.2 is “Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s by George Washington University PhD candidate Molly Henderson.
Read the article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The first article from 8.2 is “Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s by George Washington University PhD candidate Molly Henderson.
Read the article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s | Modern American History | Cambridge Core
“Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s
www.cambridge.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
*New on First View!*
The first article from 8.2 is “Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s by George Washington University PhD candidate Molly Henderson.
Read the article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The first article from 8.2 is “Put Your Money Where the Kids Are”: Mobil Oil, Social Responsibility, and Cultures of Privatization in the 1970s by George Washington University PhD candidate Molly Henderson.
Read the article here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Read the 2024 Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips prize winning essay from John Miles Brach, titled "Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976."
Early career scholars, see below for details on how to submit your own piece for consideration for 2025!
Early career scholars, see below for details on how to submit your own piece for consideration for 2025!
May 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Read the 2024 Brooke L. Blower and Sarah T. Phillips prize winning essay from John Miles Brach, titled "Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976."
Early career scholars, see below for details on how to submit your own piece for consideration for 2025!
Early career scholars, see below for details on how to submit your own piece for consideration for 2025!
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An important report with concerning findings.
littlevillagemag.com/silurian-aqu...
littlevillagemag.com/silurian-aqu...
'Relatively minor' and decreasing: Supervisors receive report on the status of Johnson County's main groundwater source - Little Village
The title of the report presented to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors during its work session on Wednesday was very technical: “Simulation of Groundwater Flow in the Silurian Aquifer, […]
littlevillagemag.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
An important report with concerning findings.
littlevillagemag.com/silurian-aqu...
littlevillagemag.com/silurian-aqu...
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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.
The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains?
By Judith Roberts * As an attorney I’m deeply alarmed by an incident that occurred just this week and feel compelled to share it—to raise aw...
weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com
April 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
A co-worker of mine (who is a judge), traveled by train from Montana to North Dakota for work this week. The train made a stop in Havre, MT, where ICE agents—armed and dressed in full military-style tactical gear—boarded the train.