Jeffrey Insko

This is what ecocide looks like.

Two minutes seems long

Murphy has been waiting for me to come home from my trip ever since I left on Wednesday

Had a great time this week talking infrastructures of abolition at Franklin & Marshall, which looks like a college should look. Also, a cool coffee joint and paying-of-respect to the under-appreciated badass Thaddeus Stevens.

Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.

Tomorrow, Thursday, whatever man

In case you’re going to be in Lancaster, PA tomorrow, me and @jessagoldberg.bsky.social are gonna be there talking about stuff.

Know what universities should not concern themselves with? “Increasing productivity.“

A joyful thing I get to do is help some hs speech/debate students prepare for competition because I have friends who coach the team. They are fabulous kids and today the young man was just casually talking about colonialism and Marx, as if that’s just what one does. Made my day, maybe month.

might as well have been

Our Center for Civic Engagement kicked off a new speaker series a couple years ago with Rick Snyder

The reason you go to school is so you don't say shit this stupid.

What’s the Point of School When AI Can Do Your Homework? The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

sometimes the founder of a company says something that simply stops you in your tracks and haunts you. There's one those in here from the creator of Einstein, an edtech AI that will go to school for you

Shoutout to Rashida Tlaib wearing a Fuck ICE button on national tv.

Appropriate that this gets misspelled as the horrible chicken corporation. .

Students know what’s up with AI. Just sayin’.

I really like the AI summary feature in gmail because it tells me what the email says in roughly the same number of the same words as the email itself.

tomorrow's lecture

“once the whitefish are gone from waters that can’t sustain them, they won’t be coming back.”

There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes.

Man, we burned through a lot of Frederick Wiseman films on VHS and DVD 20-25 years ago, in the pre-binge era. RIP to a great one.

It's the Climate, Stupid The real threat to the Great Lakes isn't an oil spill. It's the daily carbon spill.

The only thing more dangerous than a leaky pipeline is a safely operating one. thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/its-the-cl...

Made some falafel

I read that astonishingly stupid slavery article today and what's most hilarious to me is how it's completely lost on that guy that what makes the story of abolition "inspiring" is that it was led by people who had no patience for the kind of cowardly, insipid centrism he loves to peddle.

Glad to see this, but I also just want to say once more, like a broken record, that I feel like most debates about AI are just ways avoiding the issue of energy consumption. I mean, this piece appears on the same day the Trump administration made climate change denialism official US govmnt policy.

Glad to see this, but I also just want to say once more, like a broken record, that I feel like most debates about AI are just ways avoiding the issue of energy consumption. I mean, this piece appears on the same day the Trump administration made climate change denialism official US govmnt policy.

Trump cancels federal climate regulations. Here’s what it means for Michigan - Bridge Michigan Despite scientific consensus on the harms posed by climate change, the administration no longer views greenhouse gases as harmful to public health. That sets the stage to stop regulating them.

Just straight-up sociopaths. Ecocidal maniacs.

The best adaptation of Moby-Dick is 2010: Moby Dick.

bad adaptations of literary classics are the best!

Bad Bunny rewriting my lesson plan for the Petro-lit class on Tuesday…