Ed Kazarian
@kazedkaz.bsky.social
Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Rowan. Teaching Faculty Coordinator for AFT Local 2373. Plays guitar for cats. Remembers the Cold War, the NEA four, and the Hartford Whalers. Opinions my own.
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They really want it to be over, don't they? That was in the past... see...
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I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
November 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I will believe in the end of identity politics when steel and lumber (28,000 jobs and 105,000 jobs respectively) stop getting bailouts, while higher education (310,000 jobs) collapses in front of our eyes because it's full of ivory tower elites
The degree to which my mom lost contact with people and things because she couldn't manage constant changes in UI was so bad. E.g., her phone died, it was impossible to find a new one she could use.
something which doesn't get enough attention: as anyone who deals with elderly people knows, *any* upgrade - software or forced hardware - is like a nuclear bomb on their existence and is enraging
yah even 'better camera' which was the selling point for higher price/newer models has plateaued. at some point my decision will be 'replace battery or replace phone' but i won't actually need a hardware improvement
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
The degree to which my mom lost contact with people and things because she couldn't manage constant changes in UI was so bad. E.g., her phone died, it was impossible to find a new one she could use.
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The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom
TPM Reader EB emailed today to tell me something that hadn’t come...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...
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Ah, I see someone has exhumed the desiccated revenant named Carville, and used a hand bellows to force air into its lungs, so as to allow it to wheeze out miasmic utterances before being lowered once more into its crypt
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ah, I see someone has exhumed the desiccated revenant named Carville, and used a hand bellows to force air into its lungs, so as to allow it to wheeze out miasmic utterances before being lowered once more into its crypt
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A W. Philly apartment building was destroyed in a suspected arson right after its tenants were evicted and the building sold to shell company. What is this, the ‘70s? Great reporting by Ryan Briggs and William Bender. www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...
Landlord Phil Pulley transferred ownership of West Philly apartments days before suspected arson, records show
Property records show the notorious landlord signed a deed transfer two days before the June 2025 fire. The new owners are now demolishing the building.
www.inquirer.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A W. Philly apartment building was destroyed in a suspected arson right after its tenants were evicted and the building sold to shell company. What is this, the ‘70s? Great reporting by Ryan Briggs and William Bender. www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...
Important stuff, and it highlights how important governance reform will be to (re)building / saving US higher ed, but it's also important to note that donor pressure has been the key lever used by the right vs. HE for a decades now, especially the past c. 10 yrs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Important stuff, and it highlights how important governance reform will be to (re)building / saving US higher ed, but it's also important to note that donor pressure has been the key lever used by the right vs. HE for a decades now, especially the past c. 10 yrs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Every University needs to reform its board of trustees. In what universe should the wealthy govern learning?
Handing the keys of governance to unqualified billionaires and allowing them to far exceed the proper role of the Executive Branch in dictating to other agencies (i.e. Musk/DOGE) or institutions of civil society (as with Rowan/ Compact) sure does not seem "populist."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Every University needs to reform its board of trustees. In what universe should the wealthy govern learning?
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The first real turning point for me after Obama's election was the refusal to prosecute those involved in the Bush era torture program
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The first real turning point for me after Obama's election was the refusal to prosecute those involved in the Bush era torture program
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
There is SO MUCH going on in this juxtaposition.
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
There is SO MUCH going on in this juxtaposition.
Wild to see Kimmel doing better than most others: "Where do we really see Trump’s ongoing proof that manhood in the fake patriarchy of decades past was a hollow shell? In the awful acquiescence of men who don’t have to obey him or bend the knee to him."
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November 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Wild to see Kimmel doing better than most others: "Where do we really see Trump’s ongoing proof that manhood in the fake patriarchy of decades past was a hollow shell? In the awful acquiescence of men who don’t have to obey him or bend the knee to him."
timothyburke.substack.com/p/hold-their...
timothyburke.substack.com/p/hold-their...
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Not to rain on the dragging of Larry Summers, but I expect we might look back at this moment with some ambivalence.
Summers was sacrificed in part because technofeudalists believe they no longer benefit from economic epistemology.
We have reached the bitter end of orthodox economic reason.
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Summers was sacrificed in part because technofeudalists believe they no longer benefit from economic epistemology.
We have reached the bitter end of orthodox economic reason.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Not to rain on the dragging of Larry Summers, but I expect we might look back at this moment with some ambivalence.
Summers was sacrificed in part because technofeudalists believe they no longer benefit from economic epistemology.
We have reached the bitter end of orthodox economic reason.
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Summers was sacrificed in part because technofeudalists believe they no longer benefit from economic epistemology.
We have reached the bitter end of orthodox economic reason.
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"When Trump says “quiet, piggy” to a woman journalist and none of the men there say, “You can’t say that, sir” back or tell him that he mustn’t threaten a female colleague because she asked a completely valid question about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi" timothyburke.substack.com/p/hold-their...
Hold Their Manhoods Cheap
Will No One Quiet The Real Piggy?
timothyburke.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"When Trump says “quiet, piggy” to a woman journalist and none of the men there say, “You can’t say that, sir” back or tell him that he mustn’t threaten a female colleague because she asked a completely valid question about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi" timothyburke.substack.com/p/hold-their...
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Coming around to the “we need to bring back shame” argument
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Coming around to the “we need to bring back shame” argument
Someone needs to immediately start a band called "Adversarial Poetry."
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Someone needs to immediately start a band called "Adversarial Poetry."
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“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
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Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans.
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans.
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
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Today I passed a CPB/ICE checkpoint on the Clara Barton Parkway—an unwelcome reminder of the administration's authoritarian aspirations.
But I wasn't surprised. A minute prior, I drove by a young man. He held a simple sign. Sharpie on poster board, written in thin, neat letters: "ICE Ahead"
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But I wasn't surprised. A minute prior, I drove by a young man. He held a simple sign. Sharpie on poster board, written in thin, neat letters: "ICE Ahead"
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November 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Today I passed a CPB/ICE checkpoint on the Clara Barton Parkway—an unwelcome reminder of the administration's authoritarian aspirations.
But I wasn't surprised. A minute prior, I drove by a young man. He held a simple sign. Sharpie on poster board, written in thin, neat letters: "ICE Ahead"
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But I wasn't surprised. A minute prior, I drove by a young man. He held a simple sign. Sharpie on poster board, written in thin, neat letters: "ICE Ahead"
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Free shovel to dig your own grave.
OpenAI made a free version of ChatGPT for teachers
OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teachers is a secure version of the AI assistant designed for school employees.
www.engadget.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Free shovel to dig your own grave.
Do you ever feel like all of this will be much less anxiety provoking to read about as history when we already know the end, or like a sports recap?
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Do you ever feel like all of this will be much less anxiety provoking to read about as history when we already know the end, or like a sports recap?
This is really, really heartbreaking news.
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is really, really heartbreaking news.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices
it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.
November 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I find this pretty striking - we're not even offered the standard "here's why Mamdani's victory is actually trouble for the left" kind of gymnastics, the strategy really seems to be to hope no one notices
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i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable