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In these dark, sad, enraging times, we must turn to poetry, to music, to arts in all its manifestations. We must write and cook and dance all while imagining what is possible in radical hope. We must love as we fight, strategize, and organize. The world necessitates beauty and struggle. #resist
Someone wittier than I am could make a remark about how keeping the world uncertain about geopolitics is exactly the kind of behavior behind domestic violence. “Will this be OK today? Can I do this now?” Walking on eggshells all the time eats up your mental energy.
I strongly recommend this, an excellent analysis
"Law’s pretensions to objectivity, neutrality, and universality conceal its dealings in injustice and its social (re)production of inequality on a global scale."
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) for qualitative research. We hold the position that analytic approaches such as reflexive thematic analysis are human research practices requiring a subjective, positioned, and reflexive researcher and therefore the use of GenAI in such approaches is not methodologically congruent. We additionally reject GenAI for reflexive qualitative approaches on the grounds of social and environmental justice.
I did not sign this but I 100% would if I could
"We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research"
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We really have to talk about how AI and EdTech are being foisted off as "solutions" or "accommodations" for students with disabilities as a first-line remediation of disability services offices at unis. Does the student with the disability really come out ahead here? Do other students? The prof?
1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity.
2. All you need is a pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much easier.
3. The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.
So as President Donald Trump’s unauthorized war on Iran with Israel entered into its second month, some Democratic officials were looking around and wondering: Where are the anti-war protests this time around? And why are college campuses so quiet? While President Donald Trump announced a temporary ceasefire on Tuesday evening, he did so only after threatening to eliminate a “whole civilization” and destroy bridges and power plants—which are war crimes and, by definition, genocide. Hundreds of civilians have been killed. Hospitals have been attacked. An entire elementary school was wiped out—killing more than a hundred children and dozens of adults—after the United States struck it with a Tomahawk missile. Keep up with all our newsletters, articles, podcasts, and livestreams—and decide which ones show up in your inbox: Type your email... Join However understandable the downward trend in campus protests might be, the dynamic has become a point of frustration for some parts of the Democratic coalition who feel that anti-war and pro-Palestinian activists are tougher on Democratic officials than on Republicans. They note that even though Harris is out of office, she still gets interrupted at public events by pro-Palestinian protesters.
These Democrats remain so offended by the fact that they were criticized by people who thought genocide was unacceptable--imagine whining about this now.
And students protested Democrats because they (mistakenly, idealistically) thought they could change your minds.
Lots of stuff to add to the reading list.
Usefully makes the seemingly obvious but somehow also very difficult-to-explain point that imagining oneself in a future where power and/or comfort is possible for people who look like you is empowering and/or comforting.
I'm estranged from mine, and definitely not a parent, but not our sons, not our brothers.
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For non-scientists, LTER programs run for decades, so scientists can learn how ecosystems change over time. These programs cover ecology, evolution, systems biology, and it includes animals, plants, even microbes, and more. We learned so much about how our world works with LTERs. This sucks :(
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Apr PBS
In an unprecedented move, the US Education Dept is terminating agreements reached by previous administrations with 5 school districts and a college to ensure they uphold civil rights protections for trans students.
“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
Hey unless you plan to have kiddos soon, it’s time to seriously consider an OB/Gyn appointment to discuss long-acting birth control.
Links in replies for
- docs in the US who will sterilize you even if you haven’t had kids prior
- docs in the US who will offer pain control for IUD insertion
Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch
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Some of you may have heard me rant about “movement lawyers” who can’t/won’t/don’t have the skills/experience to do what movements need us to do which is fight & defend people when the state deploys legal machinery to wage war on resistance.
This is your chance to get skilled up & get in formation 👇🏽
Permanent supportive housing doesn’t only solve chronic homelessness, saving lives, it literally saves taxpayers money by driving down emergency medical costs. You know what doesn’t save money? Setting conditions and time limits on housing.
ICYMI, this week Evan Urquhart wrote about the central place of trans and queer activists in the movement against ICE.
Activists told Assigned the solidarity we see today is the result of years of coalition building rooted in the movement for Black lives.
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This includes many, many increasingly-less-rare pathogens, some of them with no clinical test available *in the US* anymore. CDC always provided those rare pinch-hit testing services that weren’t available (or affordable, or reliable, or) anywhere else. Now what?
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals.
And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked.
And then the DEI office was killed.
And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.
A reminder to check out our Block It! Don't Build It toolkit to disrupt the ICE kidnapping, detention, & deportation machine! It's updated monthly; check back regularly for new resources & campaigns. ⬇️
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
Additionally, we are urging every single American with a federal student loan to open a case file with their member of Congress’ constituent services office to request all data in regards to your individual student loan balance and payment history. Now.
There are the workers hidden behind Waymo cars to get them out of jams, workers behind the Tesla robots teaching them how to do tasks (and actually doing them when necessary), and ...
The idea that AI doesn't deeply depend on actual human intelligence (usually badly paid) behind it is just hype.
Before you go through the scanner, the TSA agent inputs your perceived gender. The scanner checks your groin area, and if it doesn’t match with your perceived gender, they flag you for a pat down. Imagine ICE agents operating those scanners. Now do you get why trans people are afraid to fly?
