But now I really WANT to let the duck in 😂

If AI has no haters, I am dead.

It isn’t an AI Boom; it is force, coercion, and gaslighting.

“Get with the program or get left behind.”
“It is inevitable.”
“It makes everything better and easier.”
“It is already here, there is no going back!”

Bull-fucking-shit

Bright spot of the day: nap time.

Bright spot of yesterday: grad student party
Bright spot of today: fresh bedding

Bright spot of the day: oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

Bright spot of the day: there is a Blue Jay nesting outside my office window

My big excitement of the day was I bought some nice cheese with my groceries. Is this what being an adult means?

I’ve never understood why people like city skylines. I’ve never seen a beautiful city, just a bunch of metal and concrete with little to no greenery.

Honestly had the best time at the LSA Conference, but I think I overspent my spoons for the next month 😂😭😅. Why do I feel like my whole body was beat up from three days of sitting and standing 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.

More scrutiny of data centers. www.wired.com/story/senato...

One of the things I miss about TikTok is the ability to not only have outward/public facing scholarship, but also the genuine connections I made with other scholars within the academy and outside of it.

Today, three different people approached me at the Latina/o Studies Conference to say they know me from TikTok and I had to tell them I’m no longer on TikTok 😂😭 I need another site to connect!!!

Such a good first day today at the Latina/o Studies Conference!!

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

I’m getting real tired of the students who aren’t doing the work complaining about not getting anything out of the class…

I’m on board!

Have you ever been the kind of sad where nice or mean doesn’t matter? If anyone is anything other than absolute neutral, you are going to cry?

Sometimes you just need to smoosh your face into a floofy kitty 🤷🏻‍♀️. I don’t make the rules.

Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.”

And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”

There are people who prefer Latine and others who prefer Latinx. The /x just acknowledges both.

Anyone have a must read Latine/x author that I should add to my TBR list? #books

I CANNOT with this one student who shows up late EVERY class, and when I addressed it (privately) they said just showing up should be enough 😭😵‍💫. And then ALSO blaming me for missing information and assignments.

@gabino.bsky.social My students just finished reading The Devil Takes You Home and had a long discussion on what makes a good or bad person; it was delightful! Their biggest lingering question was, “What does the elephant in the tutu represent?”

My entire life the systematic murder and incarceration of Black people has been a daily norm that just runs in the background of American life and has been perpetuated by every major institution and publication and when you talk to or about Black folks you need to take into account that context

My entire PhD has been in “unnecessary controversial subjects”

A freshly made bed with clean bedding is one of my favorite things. Maybe this is what being an adult means 🤔

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Drawings of farm workers at work with the words: AS ICE TERRORIZES OUR COMMUNITIES, FARM WORKERS ARE STILL FEEDING YOU. CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW!

We're living in a terrifying new reality. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids and terrorizing hard working immigrants - including the farm workers who feed us.

Call your Senators TODAY! Tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign!

act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun... #ICEout

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous