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Matthew Kirschenbaum
@mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Critical tech and AI. Cats, letterpress printing, tabletop gaming.

Distinguished University Professor at UMD; come January, Commonwealth Professor at UVA.

I am speaking only for myself and as a private citizen here. Being a dick will get you blocked.
The “Northeast Indiana Defense Summit”? Is that like a graduate student conference?
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is the headline the normies are waking up to this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Hai
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Money quote from Gov-Elect Spanberger (now please just do it).
November 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Good morning.
November 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Just sit with this subhead for a moment.
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Friends and neighbors, I gift you . . . the internet.

Referent:
bsky.app/profile/crit...
November 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
No one reads D. A. Miller’s
The Novel and the Police
anymore but they should, and it’s very beautiful.
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Who remembers?
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I don’t know how we fix this
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Just wrote this for an abstract and, well, I rather like it. (I mean, I don’t like it at all, but it seems like something I should write.)
October 31, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Fascinating long read on possible socio-political models for the institution of the American military after a collapse of liberal order and the current governing orthodoxy of the soldier as a servant of the state: warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Look, I made a thing with AI
October 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It was pretty much one year ago that @ritaraley.bsky.social and I published “AI and the University as a Service,” a first draft, if you will, of the everyday history we’re seeing playing out all around us. www.cambridge.org/core/service... Here’s just a bit—we think we got a few things right.
October 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Tiny building I painted up. A medieval countryside church.
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Don’t know if this spam is swim-related or misdirected medical advice
October 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The closing sentence of this opinion from the illustrious Washington Post editorial board is directly at odds with everything they just finished arguing about the commendable nature of the deal . . . and they don’t seem to realize it. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
October 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
October 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
October 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
With thanks to @rcjacks.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention, note the discrepancy between the public FAQ assigning agency to the interim President alone and the text of the actual agreement stipulating the BoV as the responsible party. Maybe tip the Cavalier Daily?
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Notable that per them official FAQ, the agreement was signed off on by the interim President alone; the BoV was merely “apprised.”
October 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Not sure nos. 5 and 6 are compatible.
October 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM