Sam Ginsburg
@samgins12.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, WSU
Caribbean, Latin American, and Latinx science fiction.
The Cyborg Caribbean: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-cyborg-caribbean/9781978836228/
Caribbean, Latin American, and Latinx science fiction.
The Cyborg Caribbean: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-cyborg-caribbean/9781978836228/
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Sam Ginsburg
@samgins12.bsky.social
· Nov 22
The Cyborg Caribbean - Rutgers University Press
The Cyborg Caribbean examines a wide range of twenty-first-century Cuban, Dominican, and Puerto Rican science fiction texts, arguing that authors from Pedro ...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
If you are interested in Cuban, Puerto Rican or Dominican science fiction, check out THE CYBORG CARIBBEAN at the link below or through your local library/indie bookstore:
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-cyborg-c...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-cyborg-c...
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
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This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
May 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.
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You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
April 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
You guys don’t need to try to convince me that any form of AI has merit. It doesn’t. It is boring and half-assed. I am fine getting by with human brain power. If the world nears its end and AI has one hater left, good news! I am still alive.
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Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.
BREAKING: The FDA has officially announced they will be banning artificial dyes in the food supply by the end of 2026
This includes Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3
This includes Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3
April 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.
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Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed.
Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:
• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies
And…
• Spanish
Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:
• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies
And…
• Spanish
April 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed.
Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:
• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies
And…
• Spanish
Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs:
• Africana Studies
• Asian Studies
• Disability Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Philosophy
• Religious Studies
• Women's/Gender Studies
And…
• Spanish
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love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish
SCOOP: Trump's Equal Opportunity office is investigating Barnard's employment practices. Professors received texts to their personal phones on Monday, linking to a survey asking if they were Jewish and if they had been subjected "unwelcome discussions" theintercept.com/2025/04/23/t...
Trump EEOC Texted College Professors’ Personal Phones to Ask If They Were Jewish
“Barnard was not given advance notice of this outreach,” the college’s general counsel wrote in an email to faculty.
theintercept.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish
NEW TODAY: 200 college and university presidents band together to condemn “unprecedented government overreach” in higher education and reaffirm the “essential freedom to determine, on academic grounds, whom to admit and what is taught, how, and by whom.” www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...
A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U
A Call for Constructive Engagement
www.aacu.org
April 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists
March 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists
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Remember when the U.S. government declared a citizen — a Puerto Rican man from Chicago — an “enemy combatant” and proceeded to absolutely brutalize him and trample his constitutional rights under the guises of fighting terror? No? Seems like it might be relevant. www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/1...
Jury finds Padilla guilty on terror charges - CNN.com
Former Chicago gang member Jose Padilla was found guilty Thursday of supporting Islamic terrorism overseas.
www.cnn.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Remember when the U.S. government declared a citizen — a Puerto Rican man from Chicago — an “enemy combatant” and proceeded to absolutely brutalize him and trample his constitutional rights under the guises of fighting terror? No? Seems like it might be relevant. www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/1...
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trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
April 14, 2025 at 2:10 AM
trump’s reaction (or lack thereof) to the attempt on the lives of gov. shapiro and his family ON PASSOVER is why it’s journalism malpractice to credulously report ANYTHING he does as being in service of fighting antisemitism.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
jews are pawns in his nazi game and don’t ever get it twisted.
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Exactly. This is why they want to ban Ethnic Studies from schools — to keep people ignorant of this history and to keep alive the myth of American exceptionalism. This isn’t just stuff that happens “over there.” If you want to talk about Nazis you need to talk about what they learned from Jim Crow.
It's as American as chattel slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, and Indian Boarding Schools. Project 2025 really isn't relying on any other history than America's. I need y'all to tap into what has been happening here all along.
The Trump administration is saying that they can deny due process to anyone they want and deport them to dangerous foreign prisons.
This isn’t even Project 2025.
This is Nazi Germany 1933.
This isn’t even Project 2025.
This is Nazi Germany 1933.
April 14, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Exactly. This is why they want to ban Ethnic Studies from schools — to keep people ignorant of this history and to keep alive the myth of American exceptionalism. This isn’t just stuff that happens “over there.” If you want to talk about Nazis you need to talk about what they learned from Jim Crow.
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60 MINUTES: “75% of the men sent to the El Salvador mega-prison had no criminal records… the only evidence Trump’s government presented against Andrys (a gay makeup artist) were pictures of his mom & dad tattoos…”
Horrific. In all of our names. 🇺🇸
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Horrific. In all of our names. 🇺🇸
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April 7, 2025 at 3:08 AM
60 MINUTES: “75% of the men sent to the El Salvador mega-prison had no criminal records… the only evidence Trump’s government presented against Andrys (a gay makeup artist) were pictures of his mom & dad tattoos…”
Horrific. In all of our names. 🇺🇸
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Horrific. In all of our names. 🇺🇸
www.facebook.com/share/15wy7b...
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Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention—
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention—
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
"Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."
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A devastating assessment of the state of Columbia offered by one of their own, Shana L. Redmond
The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A young woman with a dog, absent-minded scarecrow, heartless tin man, and cowardly lion walk into a city of green seeking a singular wizard who stuns his constitue…
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April 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A devastating assessment of the state of Columbia offered by one of their own, Shana L. Redmond
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DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
April 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵
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Our movements are facing compounding and intersecting horrors at the hands of the US and Israeli governments. And our power comes from our ability to keep organizing — and that’s why we’re not stopping.
April 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Our movements are facing compounding and intersecting horrors at the hands of the US and Israeli governments. And our power comes from our ability to keep organizing — and that’s why we’re not stopping.
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“They were killed by Israeli forces while trying to save lives.”
The Gaza paramedic killings: a visual timeline
A week after contact was lost with a team of Palestinian rescue workers and medics in southern Gaza, their bodies were found in a mass grave
www.theguardian.com
April 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“They were killed by Israeli forces while trying to save lives.”
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Donald Trump is withdrawing medical research dollars from some of our top universities. This is a disaster for medical breakthroughs. He says it is about Anti Semitism, but criticizing Israel’s policy in Gaza is not per se Anti Semitism.
April 1, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Donald Trump is withdrawing medical research dollars from some of our top universities. This is a disaster for medical breakthroughs. He says it is about Anti Semitism, but criticizing Israel’s policy in Gaza is not per se Anti Semitism.
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Kickass statement from Dean of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design
Full text at link
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Full text at link
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March 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Kickass statement from Dean of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design
Full text at link
mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c...
Full text at link
mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c...
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One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Dereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wisconsin Appeals Court Won't Stop Musk's $1 Million Payments To Voters After AG Sues
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, ju...
www.huffpost.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
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This is your regular reminder that if Trump actually cared about anti-semitism he would be advocating for more, rather than less, DEI since it is DEI staff who have always been on the frontline of challenging all forms of bigotry on campuses including anti-semitism.
March 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This is your regular reminder that if Trump actually cared about anti-semitism he would be advocating for more, rather than less, DEI since it is DEI staff who have always been on the frontline of challenging all forms of bigotry on campuses including anti-semitism.
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Institutions can close every office/end all initiatives. They’ll do harm and it’ll lead to setbacks, but I know as a DEI professional that institutions have dedicated staff, faculty, and students who will fight for DEI even in the face of institutional cowardice. That gives me hope during dark days.
NEW: The University of Michigan will end its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives campus wide, the president said in an email
New story from me: Imani* was in class when she discovered a scholarship program she relied on had been shut down.
“I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"
“I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"
March 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Institutions can close every office/end all initiatives. They’ll do harm and it’ll lead to setbacks, but I know as a DEI professional that institutions have dedicated staff, faculty, and students who will fight for DEI even in the face of institutional cowardice. That gives me hope during dark days.
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.