Alex Trimble Young

Join us tomorrow, when Charles Murray discusses the lack of Aristotelian unities in Riverdale

It’s fascinating (tho challenging) will look forward to hearing how it shapes your work!

Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession

Have you read Jodi's new one yet? www.dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

Don't know whether "high density of Scandinavians" or "over-empathizing" is my favorite bit

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed.

Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

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The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing. All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.

For anyone who missed it or was procrastinating like me, this @mattseybold.bsky.social article is an absolute must read. ASU folks - I'll be talking about it in my talk at the "Humanities as the Horizon of Responsibility and Freedom" symposium at Barrett tomorrow! www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

Did the anti-woke university run by morons and other, richer morons crash out? That's crazy. That is unexpected my dude

surely he would never violate THIS norm, i think to myself, as i sign my “Trump Is God-King Except This One Special Thing” ruling

11 days into the new year and we've got a new illegal war of plunder with an abducted head of state, full administration backing for executing moms driving near ICE, and the chair of the federal reserve recording proof of life videos to explain the threats he's recieved from the president

1.) Bringing down international enrollments & (by other means) enrollments by all students of color is imperative to manifesting the "enrollment cliff," which is not so much demography as policy prescription. Making it true underwrites the next cycle of austerity (which is actually social control).

Yarvin’s books were being sold and advertised at AmericaFest two weeks ago where a grip of Trump regime stooges appeared, including Vance + basically every face in the American right.

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

why are there rarely articles written about liberals in red state urban centers (e.g. Salt Lake City) being gerrymandered into some rural conservative representative?

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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans.
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At home and at school, AI is transforming childhood It brings many benefits, but also hidden dangers

"Not everyone is keen on edu-bots. Only 22% of American school-district heads believe that AI harms students’ critical-thinking skills, but 61% of parents [and] 55% of high-school students believe so... the least happy with AI are those whose schools use it most" www.economist.com/briefing/202...

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

ANALYSIS | ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less | CBC Radio Bob McDonald’s Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we’re not gaining much knowledge by using it.

“Those using chatbots all wrote similar essays, and had the lowest level of neural activity through the process. … [E]ngagement in the brain reduced more with each subsequent essay. … [Those] who used no technology at all… [were] more creative, curious, engaged, and satisfied with the end results.”

Which is not to excuse anything, but rather to say I see solidarity and organizing as the only way out of (gestures broadly) all this.

I dunno. While terrible, I would argue that kind of viciousness is hardly unusual. I’ve been working as a contingent scholar 10 years and have witnessed shit that would make your toes curl. A lot of folks hounded out of the profession or at least hounded into silence by the right.

Due to my lack of desire to engage with opinion havers on the controversy who have neither read your book nor taken the time to understand the realities of academic labor conditions. Congrats on the book!

White Dudes in Smoke-Filled Rooms A Review of David Austin Walsh's Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right

Sharing this, against my better judgment, out of my frustration with the interminable and uninformed debate about this book and its author, @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social alextyoung.substack.com/p/white-dude...

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them