So Jesse Brown emailed The Hill Times like the Karen he is to try and get me fired by saying my tweets were “stoking racial animosity”. First off, have you met me? Second, my thread was an observation on the racial constructs of power and…🧵

When people lament how disorganized the left is in this country, do they understand the role that rightwing forces have played to make it nearly impossible to do broad-based organizing in this country? Let's start with the concrete wall within mainstream media

More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…

This absolutely wild post unintentionally highlights something very real: Silicon Valley has specifically designed information technologies as a *retreat* from material concerns, not a way of addressing them

I was raised Catholic and went to mass every week for 18 odd years. In that time I never saw religion used as performatively as Russell Brand has managed in the handful of months since his conversion.

This whole bombshell story is so good. Shows that the whole right-wing outrage machine is a sophisticated grift

Very true - enabled by capital hoarding and friendly tax codes, private billion $ endowed universities are able to provide better financial aid than many other institutions. This is a blight on society, not something to be celebrated.

More Jewish vigilante groups roaming the University of Toronto campus today. This one calling themselves J Force.

It's been said too many times but the amount of work on our plates as professors is absurd. Johanna Mellis is exactly right that we should work less and rest more. Yet this TT prof (me) cannot figure out how to cut enough things to come up with a manageable workload!

Once again and as always: FIRE surveys are custom-tailored to cultivate fearmongering and reactionary impulses.

Q: What's message to Americans concerned you're providing aid to a country killing US citizens + is there any point that’d lead to policy change? Blinken: We extend condolences + deplore tragic loss. Important thing is to gather facts. No higher priority than safety of Americans.

At Brown University, Black freshman enrollment drops 40% browndailyherald.com/article/2024/0…

Any educator who embraces AI on the basis that students will need to engage with AI in the world of work has missed the point that AI is a fundamentally anti-worker technology which will immiserate students' prospects of getting work and their experience in workplace itself

correction: it's not "power shifting from humanity to alien intelligences" rather it's shifting power away from the masses towards big corporations and their share holders

I don’t know, Damian. These terms continue to be quite meaningful even though you personally dislike them being used. And the story you say doesn’t interest anyone? It’s in all the news.

This is true and I hope more people notice this. When Ravid tweeted about Aysenur, she’s “Turkish American”, but when he tweets about Hersh, he’s just an “American”, not other identity, despite Hersh serving in the Israeli military, not the American one…no hyphenated identity.

Classic strawman: "A surprising percentage of ppl I speak to think" AI will go away. I've probably seen way more critiques than M, yet have never met ANYONE who thinks it's going to "go away" or that a bubble would end it-which would signal ignorance of historical tech bubbles+