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It’s going to be some bullshit respectability from the center and some bullshit bleating about identity politics from the left and some bullshit religious forgiveness from the right.
I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.
I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.
It’s very very frustrating to know that there isn’t much chance of any accountability for this behavior after Trump
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
It’s going to be some bullshit respectability from the center and some bullshit bleating about identity politics from the left and some bullshit religious forgiveness from the right.
I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.
I’m just going to expire from unrequited rage.
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Thanks to one of my mutuals, a preteen girl got a legit Mamdani t-shirt and campaign buttons for Christmas.
“Now he’s like us, right?”
That meant someone got to draw this and do an impromptu lecture to an actually interested child. I don’t know who is happier, man or child.
“Now he’s like us, right?”
That meant someone got to draw this and do an impromptu lecture to an actually interested child. I don’t know who is happier, man or child.
December 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Thanks to one of my mutuals, a preteen girl got a legit Mamdani t-shirt and campaign buttons for Christmas.
“Now he’s like us, right?”
That meant someone got to draw this and do an impromptu lecture to an actually interested child. I don’t know who is happier, man or child.
“Now he’s like us, right?”
That meant someone got to draw this and do an impromptu lecture to an actually interested child. I don’t know who is happier, man or child.
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"Metropolis does not use license plate recognition,” Morrissey said. “Instead, our computer vision platform is trained on a comprehensive and proprietary data set to recognize vehicles with a ‘vehicle fingerprint’ based on its unique characteristics..."
Two of the city's largest parking garages are now using artificial intelligence to recognize your car
The city and the new operator, Metropolis, promise a smooth experience from the technology, but customers in other cities have filed class-action lawsuits over the system.
www.cvilletomorrow.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"Metropolis does not use license plate recognition,” Morrissey said. “Instead, our computer vision platform is trained on a comprehensive and proprietary data set to recognize vehicles with a ‘vehicle fingerprint’ based on its unique characteristics..."
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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let's go girls
WNBA players vote to authorize strike if 'necessary': What it means for CBA talks
The WNBA and WNBPA remain far apart ahead of the Jan. 9 deadline to agree to a new CBA
www.cbssports.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
let's go girls
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The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus
More states are requiring public colleges to make class syllabi available to the masses. Proponents say these measures boost higher ed’s credibility, while faculty fear being targeted.
www.chronicle.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
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Finally, syllabus info has to be posted for 4 years.
This finalized policy differs a little from the draft that I and other reporters covered prior to today — but the core tensions that it raises between UNC and many faculty remain the same. Here's my story again:
www.chronicle.com/article/when...
This finalized policy differs a little from the draft that I and other reporters covered prior to today — but the core tensions that it raises between UNC and many faculty remain the same. Here's my story again:
www.chronicle.com/article/when...
When Everyone Can See Your Syllabus
More states are requiring public colleges to make class syllabi available to the masses. Proponents say these measures boost higher ed’s credibility, while faculty fear being targeted.
www.chronicle.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Finally, syllabus info has to be posted for 4 years.
This finalized policy differs a little from the draft that I and other reporters covered prior to today — but the core tensions that it raises between UNC and many faculty remain the same. Here's my story again:
www.chronicle.com/article/when...
This finalized policy differs a little from the draft that I and other reporters covered prior to today — but the core tensions that it raises between UNC and many faculty remain the same. Here's my story again:
www.chronicle.com/article/when...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
We know the students don’t read the syllabuses. So who will? Right-wing activists looking for excuses to hound profs.
December 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.
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Trade wars are good, and easy to win”
December 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Trade wars are good, and easy to win”
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A good thread.
IME, when a (former) employer threatened to challenge my copyright of a published work, the eventual decision was that the reputational damage far outweighed their willingness to enforce their rights. Today is a different day.
IME, when a (former) employer threatened to challenge my copyright of a published work, the eventual decision was that the reputational damage far outweighed their willingness to enforce their rights. Today is a different day.
In the wake of this news from UNC, I'm seeing some talk about copyright ownership and faculty scholarship.
If you're interested in the topic, here's a good explainer from from @authorsalliance.bsky.social:
If you're interested in the topic, here's a good explainer from from @authorsalliance.bsky.social:
December 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A good thread.
IME, when a (former) employer threatened to challenge my copyright of a published work, the eventual decision was that the reputational damage far outweighed their willingness to enforce their rights. Today is a different day.
IME, when a (former) employer threatened to challenge my copyright of a published work, the eventual decision was that the reputational damage far outweighed their willingness to enforce their rights. Today is a different day.
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Cornell Watson for Bloomberg in Rocky Mount last night.
December 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Cornell Watson for Bloomberg in Rocky Mount last night.
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I notice things and I record them in little notebooks and then I post them online and I do not at any point use artificial intelligence to do that. Perhaps I am already old-fashioned but it causes me joy to make things that way.
December 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I notice things and I record them in little notebooks and then I post them online and I do not at any point use artificial intelligence to do that. Perhaps I am already old-fashioned but it causes me joy to make things that way.
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Here’s the version of the talk I gave at the Albright Institute at Wellesley in 2019.
Our Age of Emergency | monicabyrne
Invited talk, Albright Institute for Global Affairs. Wellesley College, 2019.
www.monicabyrne.org
December 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here’s the version of the talk I gave at the Albright Institute at Wellesley in 2019.
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I talk about everything as risk management. It’s especially important in work because the political economy changed — sometimes literally called risk shift — while our cultural practices still assume known knowns & predictability.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
I've been talking about both doctoral study (with academic jobs as the goal) AND tenure for YEARS in terms of RISK MANAGEMENT. It is a very calculated, and increasingly speculative, risk. You have to treat it that way.
Faculty hate it when I do this. Especially about tenure.
Faculty hate it when I do this. Especially about tenure.
I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I talk about everything as risk management. It’s especially important in work because the political economy changed — sometimes literally called risk shift — while our cultural practices still assume known knowns & predictability.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
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I honestly think people got so fat on “content” that tbh forgot what art does. Because this is exactly how art works. I’m happy that people still get to see that a little bit.
December 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I honestly think people got so fat on “content” that tbh forgot what art does. Because this is exactly how art works. I’m happy that people still get to see that a little bit.
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That’s the gist of it. You are about to see exactly who has been at her dinner parties, though. So there’s that.
weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Bari Weiss’ Next CBS News Move: Town Halls With JD Vance, Sam Altman and Debates About God and Feminism
The news division is also planning a town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore in the 'Things That Matter' series, with Bank of America lined up as a sponsor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
That’s the gist of it. You are about to see exactly who has been at her dinner parties, though. So there’s that.
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The note I promised @bakerdphd.bsky.social but also to us all, trying to figure out what this regime is after
December 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The note I promised @bakerdphd.bsky.social but also to us all, trying to figure out what this regime is after
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A page from my Kanji practice notebook. I’ve been studying seriously for a year now (including kana) but, since there are approximately 2500 ‘daily use’ Kanji, I still have a long way to go.
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
A page from my Kanji practice notebook. I’ve been studying seriously for a year now (including kana) but, since there are approximately 2500 ‘daily use’ Kanji, I still have a long way to go.
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"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
December 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
"Even the term 'Artificial Intelligence' itself is widely misused, with conceptual unclarity coopted to advance industry agendas ... It is our task to demystify and to challenge 'AI' in our teaching, research and in our engagement with society."
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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People confuse profitability with reach. Cable News still has high viewership, it just isn't an enormous money maker. Which should make large acquisitions for it an even bigger red flag since that makes it clear it is a political investment and not an economic one.
December 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
People confuse profitability with reach. Cable News still has high viewership, it just isn't an enormous money maker. Which should make large acquisitions for it an even bigger red flag since that makes it clear it is a political investment and not an economic one.
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Ding ding ding. (Maybe you’ll believe someone not me.)
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ding ding ding. (Maybe you’ll believe someone not me.)
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This comes just a day after the @askamanager.org update where the letter writer’s (thankfully former) company laid off nearly the entire staff and then immediately tried to hire them back as contractors
www.askamanager.org/2025/12/upda...
www.askamanager.org/2025/12/upda...
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This comes just a day after the @askamanager.org update where the letter writer’s (thankfully former) company laid off nearly the entire staff and then immediately tried to hire them back as contractors
www.askamanager.org/2025/12/upda...
www.askamanager.org/2025/12/upda...
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If I ever write a memoir I’m gonna call it, “The trauma of putting up with the rest of you.”
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If I ever write a memoir I’m gonna call it, “The trauma of putting up with the rest of you.”
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omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?