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Academic angst. Angry political re-posts. Religions from the margins. Theater in a Crowded Fire once upon a time. Kalapuya land.

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I am gobsmacked by all my fellow college teachers who think they can Neville Chamberlain AI. Find some kind of compromise. They think it's just about cheating. They don't get it's about our *jobs.* They tell themselves they can't be replaced. Yes, that's why colleges are investing in teaching bots.

10.03.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 169 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 6

The Democratic party is as unpopular as it is because its own voters find the party feckless and weak.

10.03.2026 20:00 πŸ‘ 1730 πŸ” 285 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 0

So, uh. In disability studies we call this a "disability dongle" or a techno-utopian solution to a problem that appeals to the able-bodied imagination rather than the actuality of disabled life itself.

Deploying a LLM to translate a legal notice for an asylum seeker functions similarly.

10.03.2026 23:56 πŸ‘ 479 πŸ” 129 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6

"Operation Lethally Fragile Masculinity"

11.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

new from now that’s what I call music, it’s the greatest hits of post-9/11 discourse remastered for today!

10.03.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve so often been disappointed in the CSU administration that this is most welcome surprise!

10.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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San JosΓ© State University Sues Trump Admin Over Anti-Trans Threatsβ€”Refusing to Capitulate The Trump regime said San JosΓ© State had to break state law to discriminate against trans students, but the university said it isn’t budging.

1. Major news out of San Jose State University.

The University has REJECTED Trump's demands to ban trans people from bathrooms, dorms, and other facilities.

This comes after Trump threatened them for once having a trans student athlete.

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09.03.2026 22:59 πŸ‘ 1712 πŸ” 417 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 30

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, very complete is the beginning

09.03.2026 22:32 πŸ‘ 217 πŸ” 48 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Given how often I have been disappointed in the CSU (& SJSU) administration, consider me pleasantly surprised:

www.calstate.edu/csu-system/n...

07.03.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 30330 πŸ” 7525 πŸ’¬ 224 πŸ“Œ 238

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

05.03.2026 03:02 πŸ‘ 12743 πŸ” 3549 πŸ’¬ 255 πŸ“Œ 93

Yes. The adoption by higher ed institutions of AI is moral injury, as surely as if they asked me to permit in my classroom a student who had assaulted me.

05.03.2026 03:28 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline

05.03.2026 03:29 πŸ‘ 1476 πŸ” 293 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 8

Religion in the U.S.

U.S. Foreign Policy
Christian Zionism.

04.03.2026 20:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

23.02.2026 19:49 πŸ‘ 1868 πŸ” 488 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 45

β€œWe’ve invented a service that will do every substantial piece of human activity so you can focus on being slowly lowered feet-first into an industrial shredder”

23.02.2026 21:56 πŸ‘ 218 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK 
JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS.
WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK.
AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE.
SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS.
THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES.
IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

IF YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED IT'S NOT BECAUSE THERE ISNT ANY WORK JUST LOOK AROUND: A HOUSING SHORTAGE, CRIME, POLLUTION; WE NEED BETTER SCHOOLS AND PARKS. WHATEVER OUR NEEDS, THEY ALL REQUIRE WORK. AND AS LONG AS WE HAVE UNSATISFIED NEEDS, THERE'S WORK TO BE DONE. SO ASK YOURSELE, WHAT KIND OF WORLD HAS WORK BUT NO JOBS. IT'S A WORLD WHERE WORK IS NOT RELATED TO SATISFYING OUR NEEDS, WORLD WHERE WORK IS ONLY RELATED TO SATISFYING THE PROFIT NEEDS OF BUSINESS. THIS COUNTRY WAS NOT BUILT BY THE HUGE CORPORATIONS OR GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACIES. IT WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO WORK. AND, IT IS WORKING PEOPLE WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE WORK TO BE DONE. YET, AS LONG AS EMPLOYMENT IS TIED TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PROFITS, THE WORK WONT GET DONE.

the Black Panthers were right

15.02.2026 17:47 πŸ‘ 14956 πŸ” 5414 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 42

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

15.02.2026 17:30 πŸ‘ 41468 πŸ” 14038 πŸ’¬ 657 πŸ“Œ 593

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within β€œWestern Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

15.02.2026 01:53 πŸ‘ 4154 πŸ” 845 πŸ’¬ 170 πŸ“Œ 54
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Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

β€œYoung people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

12.02.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 331 πŸ” 124 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 18

I'm revoking the scientific finding that gravity keeps us anchored to the earth. See you losers later; I'm going gliding

12.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

11.02.2026 19:56 πŸ‘ 12092 πŸ” 4188 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 190

It’s 1853 & people are in hiding from slave catchers. It’s 2026 & people are in hiding from slave catchers.

11.02.2026 03:49 πŸ‘ 781 πŸ” 259 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

Uhoh those the were load-bearing witches.

09.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 871 πŸ” 210 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

This, I think, was really the point.

Inasmuch as he dialed in the intersectional history of colonialism across the Americas (the diversity of performers wasn’t an accident and you can’t convince me otherwise) he REALLY dialed in the history joy as a revolutionary act.

09.02.2026 02:27 πŸ‘ 229 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Commenting on energy injustice is now the floor for any halftime act.

09.02.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 1385 πŸ” 235 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 10

There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

09.02.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 8366 πŸ” 1467 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 24

"The border is a factory for making racism and racist violence."

08.02.2026 01:44 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 45 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0