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Professor of English, Carnegie Mellon. Film, popular music, literature. All opinions are my own.
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bsky.app/profile/geau... today in AI *makes* extra, useless work: now scholars, authors, and journalists have to defend themselves - their expertise, their reputations, their dignity, their safety - from hallucinated horseshit

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The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

PBS insisted on removing a 90-second segment from a documentary about Art Spiegelman that was critical of Donald Trump. Daniel Engber reports on a worrying trend in public television:

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

The GOP tax bill will significantly increase US carbon pollution over the next decade. In return, it will increase our dependence on foreign oil, blow up the deficit, raise interest rates, make the country’s energy supply more volatile, and weaken strategic industries: heatmap.news/politics/tru...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Hot off the presses I love our org. www.wired.com/story/freedo...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard’s best grad, said that it took him 90 years to become conscious of himself as a member of the working class. May we get there more quickly. Academics everywhere: join a union or build a union, and if you can’t do either, then organize your coworkers and act like a union.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

Dear Jake Tapper, No, the original sin was JANUARY 6 — and not convicting Trump immediately after. Anything else is fake outrage to gin up ratings and book sales. xoxo America

submitted 8 days ago • 66 comments

Pathetic and weak, #NYTimes. If you won't call the Trump administration "liars," at least have enough spine to say: "There is zero evidence to support their claim that the legislators stormed into the detention center." @fairmediawatch.bsky.social @protecttruth.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

submitted 10 days ago • 131 comments

humanities major hiring on the rise against the hallucination plagiarism arson machine www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/c...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

There never was an argument. Pretending there was two sides to this has been a total failure of journalism.

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

They, along with the MSM, are promoting it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and Elon's cuts to basic government functions are deadly. www.newsweek.com/kentucky-nws...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

The current White House occupant is bat-shit crazy, but this is what Times is worried about.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

In a world of Jake Tappers, be a Bruce Springsteen!

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

Emoluments Clause: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the US: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

You cannot ethically publish a paragraph that says "Trump claimed Monday that a genocide was taking place in South Africa" without immediately contextualizing it as a damnable, racist lie from a delusional demagogue. And yet WaPo did just that here: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 18 days ago • 32 comments

Fetterman needs to resign and let Shapiro replace him. apnews.com/article/john...

submitted 22 days ago • 931 comments

The American right and its wealthy backers have declared war on art and human expression.

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

Mr. Hitler is the legitimate chancellor and many of his actions are legal. Some may even prove effective. He won his office fairly, by a narrow margin, and was duly chosen by President Hindenburg. On several key issues, his views are closer to public opinion than those of the Social Democrats.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Vichy Whitmer apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 30 days ago • 20 comments