and clever. What is problematic about this position is that it continues to operate as if the rule of law coupled with acts of governance accurately explains utter disregard for the law and intentionally abusive misreads of governance.
There is an important point about time and getting some as one in the difference between immediate complete compliance and future compliance to loss of rights, possibilities, and movement. However, it seems as though many uni (and, apparently, a bunch of Senators) think this strategy is long term
Am interested to hear how the idea that any uni can create conditions for actual knowledge, care, inquiry, and innovation through incremental forms increasingly less surface compliance until some magical line is crossed and actual, forceful defense is suddenly triggered.
Make America Healthy Again!
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
This, for example.... bsky.app/profile/deni...
They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.
It is what it looks like. Perhaps it's time to act accordingly.
On the plus side, many of us have the knowledge, resources, and communities to do the work. Also, we are watching eugenics in action without its cloak of neoliberalism. Eugenics is of course also a financial model as well as a system for falsely naturalizing fake science and hate.
It looks like we'll wake to a world where the United States has no Dept of Education. As have been saying for a min, Brown v Board is likely next and then there go the protections. What an awful set of decisions from a truly shit group of people.
Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.
Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.
It is helpful to keep this in mind as there seems to be some confusion about intents, purposes, and end game.
This is also the pecking order so that those who aren't on top must come at each other for increasingly lesser positions of self/value in personhood. It is the (often) implicit taxonomy of our society that plays out in explicit expressions of injustice, lack of care, and oppressions.
As I've written elsewhere, neoliberalism is *just* a mode of eugenics. Or, stated in its inversion, eugenics is as much about money/labor as it is about the pecking order of who is worthy to be human enough and awarded the work of non-humans/animals.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Bluesky folx, please help us in our search for friend/colleague Prof. Yecid Ortega who is missing. Please boost/share as you can.
There's nothing else to say at this time except that it's clear this is happening across the nation, at this moment, right now
Faculty at an institition with which I am familiar just received an email from the University Senate chair stating that uni lawyers confirmed that web managers have been tasked with identifying content that might violate the Dear Colleague letter by Friday but they do not have to scrub it.
A Schrödinger's crisis is created so that the person who made it a) can be understood as reasonable when rescinding that action but also b) a crisis that was entirely meant and would have been brought to fruition if not for resistance/defense that made the crisis-maker rescind that crisis.
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a racist/sexist/homophobic/anti-Indigenous/anti-Muslim/antisemetic/etc statement that a xenophobic/racist/sexist/etc asshole then replies, I'm just kidding.
This kind of action, then, Can be understood as Schrödinger's manufactured crisis or Schrödinger's crisis.
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www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
This is what a manufactured crisis looks like in action. However, as I think about it now, it's closer to a version of what was recently called Scrhödinger's joke--
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BREAKING: A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans.
U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan blocked the action Tuesday afternoon, minutes before it was set to go into effect. The administrative stay pauses the freeze until Monday.
Sad update:
The Senate just passed legislation with a voice vote to fund pediatric cancer research, known as Give Kids a Chance Act, a provision that House Republicans had stripped from the government funding extension. Then at 1:16 am, Rand Paul objected to it.
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or is there perhaps another way to go? again, more just exhausted by watching smart people do iteratively stupid shit that somehow is divorced form their critical scholarship, also not the folx who will read this).
rant done
I'm not a luddite and do like tech. For those thinking I'm on about something that is not real or too theoretical, a common phrase among the "practical" crowd who "just want to help kids," ask yourself this: is education best served by creating anxiety and tension so you can be the solution
This said, as fiction and experiences continue to tell us, there is significance in work and that we are pressed to labor that is beyond the pale is perhaps the issue of our time. AI to solve the problem is marching to yet another manufactured crisis made on the backs of our lives
Maybe it's time for educators to stop trying to get on the next hip thing, making it inevitable, and instead do that teaching thing we do so well.
rant done.To be clear, most reading this are already here and are aching to just fucking teach again.
For my education colleagues who think AI is going to be a thing if we just use it ethically (tho this isn't wrong per se), here's how it will come home to roost. If standards with associated procedures and correct answers are what we do, then we are already obsolete.
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