okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
"Knowledge becomes data; teaching becomes delivery. What disappears are precious human capacities—curiosity, discernment, presence. The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"There was something sweet and intimate about a communal space that welcomed people from all backgrounds, though joy can feel jarring at a time like this. Yet as a Palestinian, I also know that joy can be a form of resistance."
hammerandhope.org/article/colu...
Going low with @libankerdc.bsky.social at @naas2025.bsky.social ⬇️
#NAASpirations #NAASpirations2025
I have received great feedback from friends and colleagues on this. Everyone at ILSA Conference 2024, students at the University of Augsburg, where I first developed this idea, Dave Gaertner, my mentor at UBC, where I wrote the first draft during rainy days in Vancouver. Many thanks to all of you.
I have an article out and I am quite happy with this one. I read Indigiqueer speculative short stories from "Love After the End" as refusals of colonial terraforming to pose the question: What would it mean to not extract from but truly encounter a planet?
orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...
i mean
Sometimes, you don't find texts but they find you when you really need them. This is one of those cases. Truly grateful for Hanif Abdurraqib's words.
All day, every day.
Donna Haraway, elder intellectual white woman, speaking before a tight group of people with save science signs amidst the redwoods at UCSC.
Donna Haraway leading #StandUpForScience at #UCSC. Situating science in helping us live together in better ways. She's giving deets on cuts to science, incl #Indigenous science, ag, USAID, medicine, dangers to farm workers, dangers of data loss. Donna's a master at connecting all the relations. ❤️
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
"The short-termism of university administrators, the instinct to ride it out, isn’t going to work. The Trump administration is going to run through us like a pack of wolves on a flock of sheep."
shorturl.at/K4RPq
"His beliefs are sincere, the product of being told again and again by rabid sycophants that his crappy cars, fraudulent tunnels, exploding rockets, lobotomizing tweets, and now wholesale capture of the federal government aren’t merely good, but virtuous and even world changing." shorturl.at/7txUe
- Al Overview "Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production" is a phrase attributed to Karl Marx.
There is nothing crazy about this. This horrific video epitomizes the logic of current meme-fascism: it's a colonization of the imagination that precedes and aestheticizes real neo-imperialist violence, dressed up in the glossy looks of stock imagery, influencer content and online scamming
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CFP: 52nd Austrian Association for American Studies Conference on "Ruptures, Fractures, Discontinuities: Troubling American Studies"
✨University of Vienna, Oct. 3-5, 2025
📆Abstract deadline: April 30
🔗event info: aaas25.univie.ac.at
Keynote speakers: Carole Boyce Davies and Robert McRuer
"So legt sich auf den realen Wahnsinn der Ereignisse eine dicke Schicht aus tonal beruhigender Berichterstattung."
Weil's immer noch und immer mehr passt: Mein Text über 'Sanewashing'.
uebermedien.de/99494/sanewa...
maybe don't let the guy and company whose whole approach to testing rockets is "if they blow up that's fine that's how we learn" do air traffic control!
And all of this while another plane crashed upside down at Toronto airport. abc30.com/post/emergen...
Oh my god, this is terrible. Space X has repeatedly lied to the FAA, fails to meet standards, dispossesses Indigenous people in Texas and pollutes the Caribbean, the place where resources for the rockets are extracted. This is the continuation of colonialism, on Earth and beyond.
The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.
Cover der neuen an.schläge-Ausgabe: Hope & Resistance – Was es jetzt für den feministischen Kampf braucht
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The new fascism will "exploit the specific possibilities of data analysis and AI technology to eliminate the rule of law and replace it with a lean apparatus based on automation and preemption."
thebarbedwire.com/2025/02/13/e...
Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
In 1955 the founders of BAAS agreed that the independence of American Studies scholars was more important than any funding that the State Department could offer, and this is a principle that we are proud to maintain today. 6/7
