Very pleased to see this, and also, cool shirt 🫡

Opinion | There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate

This all makes sense to me but it is one of those things where if you find it persuasive the responsible thing to do would be to log all the way off www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

I’m done ceding my brain — the core of all that makes me who I am — to the financial interests of a small number of technology billionaires or the shortsighted conveniences of hyperactive communication styles. It’s time to move past fretting about our slide into the cognitive shallows and decide to actually do something about it.

What he said

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

dinosaur village rv mobile home park, dinosaur statue and sign, route 40, jensen, utah, 1991

dinosaur village rv mobile home park, dinosaur statue and sign, route 40, jensen, utah, 1991

Are we all agreed on “end”?

Library of Alexandria nbd

To understand these dynamics of intensified inequality or splitting, we have to shift away from whether ChatGPT can or can’t write good papers or how bad the “hallucinations” are, and toward an analysis of the political economy of higher education and the accelerating role of corporate interests, and their proxies in boards of directors and trustees, in defining the scene of learning. On this understanding, AI products are best understood not as technologies of information (as their backers prefer them to be discussed) but of labor management and the accelerated concentration of wealth.

To my surprise I got invited to be on a panel here called "The Problem of AI" and took the opportunity to try to shift the discussion from boosterism & normalization, however "thoughtful and deliberative," & toward the political economy of higher education

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"We will not forgive you motherfuckers for all you're doing"

Opinion: Project 2025’s Quiet Weapon Against Universities The fight over accreditation is really about who controls higher education.

The fight over accreditation is the fight over higher education. And that is the fight between multiracial democracy and Christian nationalist authoritarianism.

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It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children.

And they will never forget it.

Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968 In the two decades following the Nakba, Palestinian writers faced an impossible task: preserve their language, culture, and heritage under occupation. This groundbreaking anthology, edited by legendar...

Now available for preorder - Palestinian Resistance Literature Under Occupation, 1948-1968 by Ghassan Kanafani, with an introduction by Rashid Khalidi

Photo of a protest on the steps of City Hall

New Yorkers gathered on the steps of city hall today to say NO to buffer zones, NO to censorship, NO to empowering the cops to violently policing protest they disagree with. @nyclu.org @aqeny.bsky.social @nycforabortion.bsky.social @legalaidnyc.bsky.social @palestinelegal.bsky.social

This archive is produced by a group of academics to honor and commemorate these lives and those of the many other teachers and researchers in higher education murdered in Gaza during the genocide perpetrated by Israel and its patrons, especially the United States. They were members of the global intellectual community, and we are all impoverished by the loss of their contributions that would have enriched the worlds of the humanities and sciences. The liquidation of these colleagues squandered the many years of higher education and training they embodied, often acquired with great personal and collective effort. The death of so many of our colleagues is a massive blow to higher education in Palestine: they were the teachers of the rising generation who were to take their places as the writers, theologians, social scientists, engineers, and doctors who would help to weave the social fabric and develop the world of knowledge in Palestine. We record their lives in a spirit of grief for their loss and admiration for their accomplishments and to demand that their killers face accountability for their crimes.

REMEMBERING GAZA SCHOLARS A group of academics have spent the past 18 months creating an archive that commemorates the lives of Palestinian scholars killed by Israel. 83 of our colleagues, so far, have bios; the group's work continues rememberinggazascholars.org

Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI Electroshocking the Past: Art History and the Political Project of Non-Generative AI

I'll be speaking at Princeton on April 14th. If you're in the area, please do come on out.

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Two samples of text in moon. The top piece has the English moon alphabet, with tactile and printed letters, and the text "god is love". The bottom piece also has the alphabet plus a paragraph written in moon.

Hi, folks! I'm looking for books embossed in moon. I'm particularly interested in finding as many copies, editions, and variations (even incomplete sets) of "The Gospel of John" that are in moon type, but if your library or archive has ANY moon books, please let me know? Example of moon type below.

Manhattan Hospital Ends Medical Treatment for Transgender Youth NYU Langone Health cited the "current regulatory environment" in its decision to discontinue its gender medicine program for minors. NYU Langone Health in New York City had stopped accepting new patients into its transgender youth medicine program a year ago, GHI/UCG/Universal Images Group, via Getty

Gothamist NYC parents say Mount Sinai has cut off services for trans kids ahead of federal rule

hi, cis folks!

it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG.

care has *not* resumed!

there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

News --> More than 100 Jewish faculty and staff members at Harvard write an open letter saying Trump's attacks on the university, done in the name of fighting "antisemitism," are actually contrary to the interests of Jewish people:

organizing gets the goods

The Real Cancel Culture: NYU Has Put an End to Live Student Graduation Speeches Though New York University contingent faculty’s ongoing strike is the biggest news of late from campus, the institution’s  suspect labor practices aren’t the only recent damning headlines: NYU is a…

1 NEW from me in @literaryhub.bsky.social: I go deep on what it means that NYU has ended live graduation speeches lithub.com/the-real-can...

the thing that gets me about this stuff is that "how students can use AI to support their academic work while maintaining academic integrity and ethical standards" is a thesis, and a pretty doubtful one, not a question, much less a subject; even academic "AI literacy" is delivered as advertorial

It’s very bad and everyone is overwhelmed

Nope!

This is one reason teachers and editors should not rely on these detectors. It’s an unwinnable arms race or a closed system depending how you look at it.

This has never, ever, ever worked in workers’ favor in the history of labor automation and it’s incredibly foolish and self-destructive to think you’ll be the exception.

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT owner’s links to US military and claim tools are ‘looking to replace knowledge workers’

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk. The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship. Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it.

From the Penn student paper:
www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Is it the praise of Kent you object to or the rest of it?

AI Slop and the Cultural Elite Recently, Hachette recalled a novel because it had some AI content.

Making fun of writing on bluesky is a way to create a cultural elite! My weird, quick take on Shy Girl, AI Slop, and wine-dark seas