things i'm thinking about right now: Thomas Jefferson understood UVA as an institution w/ slavery at it's core. UVA rented human beings, who literally built the university, as a cost saving measure in the 1800s. at any given time before abolition, there were 125 to 200 enslaved people on campus.

many congratulations you guys! So well deserved!!

All of this makes me feel disconnected from those I'm communicating with, whether close friends or people I've never even met. It's the mere possibility of AI mediating interactions. I can't see how we go back, either. 4/4

And now my new iphone uses AI to summarize text threads. But I want to hear my friends in their authentic voices! I want to feel them in the room, and notice the nuance with which they write. The AI summary takes that away in the name of efficiency. 3/4

It's made me realize just how much I value and appreciate the way that words connect us. I didn't realize this until AI was constantly in the backdrop, whether or not someone has used it. 2/4

@soceducation.bsky.social @asanews.bsky.social @scholars.org @annualreviews.bsky.social

My hope is that the piece will help some make sense of the success of the attacks on affirmative action and the problems with the diversity frame. I hope many scholars are developing studies to understand the short- and long-term impacts of the decision, which I believe will be profound. 4/4

The reverse discrimination frame has proved even more powerful than I understood when I finished the piece pre-inauguration. Note today's White House discussion about white Afrikaners, despite every other refugee/asylum-seeking group being rejected and some even removed. 3/4

Who knew that even the diversity frame--which many, including myself, critiqued--would come under systematic attack by the federal government. And that Trump would rescind Johnson's 1965 EO requiring affirmative action in firms with federal contracts. 2/4

This is the book that lays out just world theory with evidence (lots since then, too): a.co/d/6iPNTJE