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I can think of colleagues, all presumably bright academics, who even after 2016 legit thought that "cancel culture" among *undergraduate students* was the leading threat to free speech and inquiry. They also thought this POV meant they were edgy free thinkers and not the dupes they actually were.

Maher really is a useless, incurious piece of shite

So basically they are rolling out chatgpt to capture and eventually monetize the remaining time we spend talking to actual humans online and off. Social media is bad enough, but at least most of the time a human is somewhere at the other end of the interaction.

Yes but it would take years to come to fruition. This is about the end of the postwar bargain between organized labor and industrial capital under conditions of economic crisis and restructuring. The memo is part of the same ideological ferment of this period, though, for sure.

I don't think Mary Whipple is the voice of the future

Above all Trump needs to be seen as a winner. Mamdani is smart to capitalize on this moment.

Yes, only faculty and students are rising to defend the university.

This is HUGE! THANKS FOR FIGHTING!