If I were a bot that wanted to sow discord and division, this is exactly the kind of message I'd promote

Nextdoor post by [redacted]: “I think we are over building these things. I understand rents have come down significantly in many of them. We own student rents and charge affordable rents that are now competing with those high rises so that we as independent landlords are having trouble getting tenants in our houses. We have enough high rises, please.”

You love to see it #A2Council.

Austin’s Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents After decades of explosive growth, Austin, Texas, in the 2010s was a victim of its own success. Lured by high-tech jobs and the city’s hip reputation, too many people were competing for too few homes....

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

Why do we want them to save money instead of us saving money

Your now-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress are okay with all of this...

Happy Public Domain Day 2026! Each January 1st is Public Domain Day, when a new crop of works have their copyrights expire and become free to share and reuse for any purpose. Here's our highlights for 2026.

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It’s crazy to have SIX dedicated security lines at LaGuardia airport just for Clear & give them priority at the THREE general boarding lanes. This is a tax-payer funded airport that seems to be trying to force people to give their biometric info over to a private company or get squeezed & squeezed.

Why is startup culture always “I am inventing a coffeeproof phone you can put in your coffee cup to keep it warm with cell radiation” and never “I’m inventing a new library wholesaler to replace the single company that is shutting down and sending libraries into crisis”

Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.

Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting

mayor taylor dressed as laa-laa the teletubby with a bunch of candy

BREAKING | Mayor Taylor seen preparing to distribute candy in order to corruptly influence future voters. #a2council

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

UVA now deserves to stand for "University of Vichy America."

is there any reason to believe they won't just auction off everything in the ransom center to the highest bidder, or outright destroy whatever they regard as degenerate?

Is Ann Arbor’s housing market actually ok? To find out, I interviewed a real estate agent who is on the Pause The Plan steering committee and who publicly describes student renters like they’re a disease. #a2council

by Bryan Cranston

Good union job here for an archivist! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”

1. What is the total amount of funds we have allocated to genAI so far, and how much money have we budgeted for it in the future? If the exact amount is difficult to calculate, a ballpark figure would be useful 2. What peer-reviewed studies on the pedagogical benefits and learning outcomes of genAI use in the classroom have informed our AI strategy? 3. which measures are in place to guard against the harmful effects of genAI, specifically effects on our students' mental health and de-skilling effects? Are we conducting such studies ourselves, and if so, who is conducting them? 4. have we done a sustainability study regarding our AI use, and can you share it? 5. what safe-guards are in place to protect students, faculty, and staff against implicit ideological bias as well as direct ideological interference in genAI programming? 6. Has the administration discussed the political aims of the most influential proponents of AI (Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, etc), who appear to be aligned with the Trump administration's goals?

In my capacity as the chair of the provost's senate-appointed advisory committees, I emailed the questions below to @umich.edu's CFO and CIO. Our bylaws entitle me to request information from any officer of the university. This was weeks ago. I have yet to receive a response.

kept on asking my colleagues when hearing "AI literacy" being repeated all the time: literacy of what?

the whole point of ChatGPT is that you DON'T READ

UC employees, not waiting on leaders, sue Trump for 'financial coercion' over UCLA cuts University of California faculty, students and staff on Tuesday sued President Trump over a $1.2-million penalty against UCLA and federal demands over campus changes. They argued that the actions are ...

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a *historic*, WALL TO WALL coalition of national & California labor unions, *including* the Faculty Associations and led by the AAUP

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Excited for the Miller Ave project to be completed later this year.
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We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

Ann Arbor, do not fall for another disingenuous campaign to “save the parks.” It isn’t an anti-tax effort this time, it’s an anti-library AND anti-housing effort. Don’t let another generation go by to save a parking deck. Support the best public institution in this city. Vote yes on Props A & B.

ann arbor deserves a main public library branch that is a shining beacon to our community. a place that can flourish as an essential and thriving communal space, that is a crucible for our grand ideas, that helps mitigate our housing crisis, *and* that continues to be a bulwark against fascism.

It was great to meet you both at the parade yesterday! Congratulations!

Has Bozeman’s rental market finally flipped? A glut of new ‘upscale’ developments is driving prices down from pandemic highs; city officials hope the surplus will have far-reaching effects in one of the state’s most expensive places to live.

They started building a bunch of apartments in Bozeman. You'll never guess what happened next.

The applause says it all. Thank you, Dr. Carla Hayden. #ALAAC25