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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · Jul 22

Privileged to be a part of this project, led by the incomparable Britt Paris.

AAUP @aaup.org · Jul 22

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates.

www.aaup.org/news/new-rep...
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New Report Calls for Faculty Control in AI Decisions

Today, the AAUP released a new report, Artificial Intelligence and the Academic Professions, sharing survey findings and calling for the establishment of policies in colleges and universities that pri...

www.aaup.org

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 6m

At last, institutional cowardice pays dividends! No one wants to be the first to refuse, but no one wants to be the first to sign either

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"I'd buy that for a dollar" lookin' country

Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 8h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 11m

"Edit my thrussy" quoth the emperor

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 41m

Trump is not too pleased with the photo they used of him in TIME Magazine

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13m

For all that's wrong with Guns, Germs, and Steel, it's better than 90% of pop anthropology in this regard

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 14m

Do their digital subs look better?

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 8h

this is not quite an anti-trust tragedy but it's certainly some kind of capital market regulation problem if people can buy assets that provide huge public goods specifically in order to destroy the public good provision

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 14h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 15h

the anxiety of time passing is one of the materials out of which the novel is built, or should be

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 12h

They used the words but managed to use the worst photo, kudos

Low angle to give the appearance of dominance but also to highlight the labial neck folds and barely there comb-over, good work

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 11h

Professor

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 12h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 12h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 12h

No I think the difference is slavery

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 12h

Yep

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

The good news is the bad news: it's not so much that they're our future, it's that their project is winning right now.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 13h

Sir, please, this is dooming.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

Should probably f around and put on a conference or special issue or something about the 21st century south

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

Damn

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

Oh man the licorice is all yours. Bitter cocktail, bitter greens--absolutely. But not my treats.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

Same people say Coates couldn't possibly understand segregation and apartheid -- it's foreign territory

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

The way some people in Boston (the most racist city in which I ever lived, no contest) talked about the south...it was like they thought Georgia was just getting color tv

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

What would it look like for a bunch of jetski dealer jihadists to secure the monopoly over the legitimate use of force while they rewrite your kid's textbooks to show Jesus invented dinosaurs with the help of Prime energy? I dunno man ask Florida and stop thinking they're backwards. They're ahead!

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

As always--the south is the nation's weathervane. Very good chance we don't get a real budget for the rest of this presidential administration.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h

North Carolina still does not have a state budget:

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

BREAKING: North Carolina Republicans announce plans to vote on a new U.S. House map as a nationwide redistricting battle unfolds.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 13h

Larry Ellison seems to be ahead of the curve on all of this but I really can't find any good profiles of him and his politics

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 17h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 15h

one thing LLMs have revealed is that the belief that there is a magical incantation that will give you what you want is not just confined to pick-up artists and freemen on the land

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 17h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

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