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Martha Lincoln
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Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
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“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
I hope Usha Vance has an incredible prenup
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AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:
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Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights
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"Under the plan... the Recreation and Parks Department would pay the estimated $4.4 million cost to have the 710-ton sculpture disassembled and moved to off-site storage for up to three years, while the artwork’s permanent fate is determined."

$4.4 million to think about it! [gift link]
Exclusive: New plan seeks to remove controversial fountain from S.F. Embarcadero Plaza within months
The Vaillancourt Fountain could disappear from Embarcadero Plaza within months — at least temporarily — under a plan by San Francisco parks officials revealed exclusively to the Chronicle.
www.sfchronicle.com
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"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"
Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.

He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."
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"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
New preprint alert! 🚨

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
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"It took imagination to build Alligator Alcatraz in five days, and it took imagination to terrorize communities in the way that they are now being terrorized. It’s not about realism versus imagination. It’s about competing versions of an imagined future, an imagined present."
I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.
Profiting off precarity - Chicago Reader
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America, by Brian Goldstone, is an account of five Black families forced into homelessness.
chicagoreader.com
This is a beautifully written piece whose formal elegance underscores the author’s thesis:

”Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think.”
A.I. could deprive students of “indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought,” Anastasia Berg writes. “This means they will lack the means to understand the world they live in or navigate it effectively.”
Opinion | A.I. Threatens Our Ability to Understand the World
Artificial intelligence threatens students’ most basic skills. If they lose their ability to understand what they read, will they lose their ability to think?
nyti.ms
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This piece is excellent.

“Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them.”
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
www.nytimes.com
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guarding food from hungry people i hate it here!!
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
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They called the “winking mechanism”:

Israeli officials “created a secret warning system: the companies [Google and Amazon] must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators.”
Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders
The tech giants agreed to extraordinary terms to clinch a lucrative contract with the Israeli government, documents show
www.theguardian.com
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
TY Aparna! We are indeed incensed—it is such insult to injury.
I’m connecting with some colleagues at different campuses who want to organize around this — please LMK if you might like to get looped in!
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Super kind of you to say this! Yes, this drives us mad also. We got an email in Feb from our chancellor informing us of the decision to $17M of mystery funds for “ChatGPT Edu,” a product no one had heard of then. We have many, many CompSci and other experts in CSU who could have advised!
A colleague and I (also furious about this very thing) have a new preprint on genAI in higher ed:

“Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”
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https://osf.io/6z5pa
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Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.

Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.

academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
Oh wow, so nice to reconnect here at last!!
TY for sharing with your folks at AAUP; we are so glad if this work can be helpful. Also importantly I hope you are, amid everything, remaining well 🙏