"We are concerned about the coercive power that trustees and donors are exercising...We are disturbed by the harassment, intimidation, and threats of personal violence that faculty have experienced...We are concerned about the chilling effects of statements by trustees, donors, and univ admins..."

I use the other one just to check on news etc but not post anymore. Feeling stuck btwn 2 apps.

white* lefty academics...

Dr Seuss, still relevant 👍 Dr. Seuss Satirized “America First” Decades before Donald Trump Made It Policy www.artsy.net/article/arts...

Hahahaha Whole government investigation committees about whose job it was to update the credit card.

Peak postcolonial empire is this idea of the "end-user certificate" -- you sell/give weapons but keep a veto over who the recipient can give the arms to. This was a thing when Pakistan begged Jordan for fighter jets in the 1971 war (since they both had the same US-made jets).

Yep - digital logics r basically catching up to this: You can buy digital media (bks, music) but can't lend or share w/out permission. Eg: 2019 when the US admonished PK for using its US issued jets in the skirmish w India over Jammu Kashmir.

US writing the manual on How to be a 'PostColonial' Empire

Alot of AI related hype claims AI advances roughly in the last ~20 yrs, but none of them mention the GWOT as having anything to do with it. (Just thinking abt the Obama years line in the Wapo piece.)

Oof. Yeah - Anthro generally has had so many scandals of late (public ones, I mean).