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Three days from now, my new short book on youth activism in Thailand, Hong Kong & Burma in the 2010s & 2020s comes out—& on that day I’ll launch the @columbiagr.bsky.social volume at JF Books in DC www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Charging $90,000 annual tuition for a chatbot subscription sorta feels like blasting bad music when you want people to leave the bar

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Relying on other people in the short and long term is a POLITICAL practice that puts you in relation and solidarity with others. It creates and nurtures things like shared interests, which motivate collective action across differences and disagreements. Your Own Private AI blocks that political life

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This makes me want to teach by candlelight in a cave

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It’s just important to generally remember that one of the alternate jurors for the Whitewater trial wore a Star Trek uniform to court every single day.

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Just wanted to rec this beautiful book, a graphic novel about pretty much capitalism, work, and disability in Bangkok. Empathetic and visually lovely.

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There's nothing cooler than trying really hard to be cool; I think the party might finally be breaking this thing wide open

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Absolute gut punch

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Oh um, you know what Elon could do to really escalate things right now? The single most painful thing? $30 billion gift to public university gender studies programs. Then Trump could bring back USAID and then Musk builds a giant Judith Butler statue in Palm Beach and so on; cmon fuck each other up

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The details are especially lurid here, but remember that this kind of surveillance has become standard practice at universities, since 10/7/23 and even a bit earlier. Emergency Response Management (ERM) means precisely this kind of link to local militarized cops.

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Oh um, you know what Elon could do to really escalate things right now? The single most painful thing? $30 billion gift to public university gender studies programs. Then Trump could bring back USAID and then Musk builds a giant Judith Butler statue in Palm Beach and so on; cmon fuck each other up

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In the history classes that used to exist, we once taught about the perils of something called Mutually Assured Destruction

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I'd almost forgotten good things could happen

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You can see it as a distraction or a steam-valve or whatever, but driving wedges into the other side — while your side sticks together — is exactly how movements win. My point here is keep posting

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It’s back to LinkedIn for Big Balls I suppose

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BlueSky was built for today; enjoy it

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Doing a "Bangkok after Dark" book talk at Book Culture (Manhattan location) on July 9, with Rianne Subijanto who also has a new book. Details/register: www.bookculture.com/event/112th-... Thanks to @sunycunyseac.bsky.social for setting it up!

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If you have a foot in Asian studies, and feel able, please consider signing this petition generated by the Association for Asian Studies "against the recently announced U.S. visa restrictions on Chinese students." It's wisely worded and a meaningful show of dissent. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Doing a "Bangkok after Dark" book talk at Book Culture (Manhattan location) on July 9, with Rianne Subijanto who also has a new book. Details/register: www.bookculture.com/event/112th-... Thanks to @sunycunyseac.bsky.social for setting it up!

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The Diversity and Equity committee will have two designated sessions at #AAS2026: "Pedagogy Under Threat (in the U.S. and Beyond)" and "Democratic Strategies Under Threats of Fascism" 📄 Apply by June 30!

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Even if you choose to ignore his conduct, Andrew Cuomo has never served the left. He attacked the democratic state senate, rather than taking the easy wins that were available. He angled for infrastructure that he could put his name on, even if it was expensive and pointless (eg LaGuardia link)

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Even if you choose to ignore his conduct, Andrew Cuomo has never served the left. He attacked the democratic state senate, rather than taking the easy wins that were available. He angled for infrastructure that he could put his name on, even if it was expensive and pointless (eg LaGuardia link)

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OUP's new AI editorial assistant will help in the 'assessment' of manuscripts, apparently. This strikes me as a very bad idea. Peer review is something academics do for free as a service to their discipline, and last time I checked 'Alchemist Review' is not my scholarly peer.

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Queuing up tonight’s Classic puzzle email, with a wholehearted plug for sites.google.com/view/transxw... , the hot new trans crossword collection edited by @canterlope.bsky.social and @adanicklmao.bsky.social

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The republicans running for nyc mayor are a trip, man. I love how many of them more or less explicitly say “I have no reason for running; check out my uncentered selfie,” or else they’re like “it’s time to drain the swamp at the Office of the Actuary.”

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Who can afford to be curious anymore?

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“A bandcamp moment” for academic books — well-put, and urgent too.

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“A bandcamp moment” for academic books — well-put, and urgent too.

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Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

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That he is an antisemite.

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It feels like anger at the fact that Caitlin Clark only makes $78,000/year could unite Americans across party lines

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Great collection by friends! Get at it

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