Rusty Bee

Autocorrect is white supremacist.

Yes. That is how that person’s name is spelled. Please stop trying to change it.

That dopamine hit when you see the sun and blue sky more than twice in one week in February

The iPhone autocorrect feels like it’s gotten too eager in its corrections lately.

one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true

The view outside my office window this afternoon is pretty fucking picturesque.

Republican push for tips on Charlie Kirk posts drives firings of public workers • Stateline Hours after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Suzanne Swierc shared two thoughts on her private Facebook page — that the killing of the right-wing activist was wrong, and that his death reflected “the vio...

“It’s at a scale never before seen...it’s completely unhinged.” – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

#academicfreedom
#academicsky
#freespeech

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

One of the reasons I prefer to read print materials: I get to encounter wonderfully engaging essays like this that I would probably gloss over otherwise.

Apparently there is a whole subset of puns out there I don’t get because when I read, I don’t read the words aloud in my head.

Amy Sherald Cancels Smithsonian Show, Citing Censorship of Trans Artwork The artist said the National Portrait Gallery was considering removing the painting after Trump issued anti-trans mandates for federally funded museums.

The painter Amy Sherald canceled her exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery after learning that her portrait of a transgender Statue of Liberty might be removed to keep in line with Trump’s anti-trans mandates for federally funded museums.

This is a dramatic understatement of what UPenn agree to. They are also banning any and all Title IX protections for trans students and agreeing that trans people don't actually exist.

French Marxist theorists of (visual) culture and society keep showing up in podcasts I’m listening to and in my running notes. Makes me want to work on my French to read them in the original without translation.

Spring 2025 grades. Are. In. 🎉

i think the biggest public relations coup AI boosters scored was calling it “AI.” people genuinely think it is an intelligence, and that when they query it, it is providing reasoned answers

Classes. Are. Done.

Turning off my alarms for my classes at the end of the semester is so satisfying.

Sometimes I think: what if I became an interior designer?

A Statement from Constitutional Law Scholars on Columbia | Eugene Volokh, Michael C. Dorf, David Cole We write as constitutional scholars—some liberal and some conservative—who seek to defend academic freedom and the First Amendment in the wake of the

An open letter from eighteen constitutional scholars on the need to defend the First Amendment from the federal government’s recent threats to universities buff.ly/NXQk5ML

Today is not my day.

Tfw your students propose research projects on the bands/albums you listened to in HS.

Idk if I should feel proud. Or old. 😅

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."

Starting to read Graeber’s Debt at the same time in the middle of a re-read of The Dispossessed is proving interesting so far…

I have a backlog of political and literary publications from a subscription spree I went on ca 20/21, and it’s kind of weird to be reading this Trump commentary in a new Trump era

Nowhere near enough media coverage about the interconnection between the destruction of content moderation, the proliferation of LLM "generative AI" bullshit engines, the death of consensus reality/knowledge making, misinformation and disinformation, & the aims of Western authoritarians and fascists

Call for Abstracts: Critical Neurodiversity Studies, 24–26 June 2025, Durham, UK Submissions for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions close 28 February 2025.

If anyone hasn't seen this, here is our critical neurodiversity studies conference call for abstracts.

"We will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally."

medhumsplatform.org/call-for-abs...

Cartoon people stand below the headline: How to Resist an Oligarchy

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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis

Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.

"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis