Emily Steinlight

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

Columbia President with NEW details:

5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.

They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."

A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.

They ignored him & took the student.

A ‘Terrible’ Night: Harvard Custodians Say They Scoured for Places to Sleep During Latest Blizzard | News | The Harvard Crimson As a snowstorm engulfed campus late Sunday, Harvard custodians working around-the-clock snow removal shifts said they were left scrambling for places to sleep, even as the University provided overnigh...

Richest university in the world and the janitors removing snow from campus during a blizzard had to sleep on the floor and in closets when they were stuck on campus overnight. Harvard's treatment of its workers remains absolutely shameful.

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind, seriously ill Rohingya refugee from Burma who does not speak English, was found dead in Buffalo—five days after Border Patrol dropped him off on a street corner without notifying his family, who had moved away from the area.

The revanchists in the Iowa legislature are gleefully destroying education, which used to be Iowa's crown jewel. From k-12 through higher ed, one of the country's best educational systems is being gutted by small, scared white men, who don't even comprehend this is no more than a murder-suicide (1/)

Understanding Institutional Finances In accord with principles of shared governance described by the AAUP and other organizations over the course of several decades, the faculty should participate meaningfully in major decisions about in...

Thanks for this! I like how Lend & Rule provides step-by-step instructions for preparing for an institutional debt reveal. Did not know @aaup.org provided this guide until today!

www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

"One group member admitted that she followed ICE vehicles while honking loudly so often that her car horn broke."

AI billionaires are more or less overtly declaring antagonism toward humanity as such. Even to point this out risks awakening some Schmittian specter or just sounding unhinged, but it’s also barely even subtext anymore

How Wall Street’s Apollo got tangled up again in the Epstein files | CNN Business Jeffrey Epstein is once again haunting one of the most powerful firms on Wall Street: Apollo Global Management.

“Two powerful teachers’ unions that have committed at least $27.5 billion to Apollo wrote a letter to the SEC this week calling for federal regulators to investigate Apollo’s “apparent lack of candor” over its relationship with Epstein.”

Let’s get this investigation going NOW.
#academicsky @aft.org

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

“Maybe the leaders of our nation’s wealthiest universities can’t think a generation ahead anymore, beholden as they are to board members who think in terms of the next quarter….” - François Furstenberg @publicbooks.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Advocates and SNAP recipients fret over Trump administration changes to federal food program In Pennsylvania, around 144,000 SNAP recipients could see benefits cut this year — an estimated 45,000 in Philadelphia and 12,000 in the collar counties, according to the state Department

"SNAP cuts are taking a toll on the thousands of Pennsylvanians losing benefits: ‘I fell into a downward spiral’"

"In PA, 144,000 SNAP recipients could see benefits cut this year — an estimated 45,000 in Philadelphia and 12,000 in the collar counties, according to the state Department"

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence."

Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI.

Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

Graduate student union reaches tentative agreement with Penn, averting strike The agreement comes after more than a year of negotiations between the University and the union, which represents more than 3,700 graduate workers with teaching and research positions at Penn.

"Penn reached a historic tentative agreement with its graduate student union on Monday night, narrowly averting a strike that would have impacted teaching and research across the University."

📰 www.thedp.com/article/2026...

As the clock ticks on GETUP-UAW’s strike deadline, administrators are trying to intimidate dep’t chairs into strikebreaking, demanding “continuity plans” for courses. Hundreds of Penn faculty and staff are saying no by signing AAUP-Penn’s no-strikebreaking pledge [1/2]

Some very powerful people want us to believe human labor is obsolete & way too many people are buying it.

Don’t let them make you think that you are disposable.

Time to revive the idea of a job guarantee. They just created a bunch of fascist ICE jobs overnight. Imagine that for work that matters.

Slop Machine: Anna Kornbluh and Kate Wagner on the Aesthetics of Contemporary Fascism - Brooklyn Institute for Social Research From the bulldozing of the White House to the rise of ICE Barbie, the visual regime of contemporary American fascism merges violent delight in destruction with nouveau riche vulgarity, middle class me...

Chicago!

thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/events...

Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call · AFT We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers — starting on our campuses. Donald Trump’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for technology to track, places to sleep, cars to drive, planes...

Want to kick ICE’s corporate enablers off your campus? Join a mass call tonight at 7 ET with @aaup.org, @aft.org, @higheredlabor.bsky.social, @ueunion.org, @ydsa.org, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social,
& more to learn how to organize a campaign at your institution to DROP ICE www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

Schools: Drop ICE Mass Call · AFT We will cut off ICE’s corporate enablers — starting on our campuses. Donald Trump’s deportation machine depends on private corporations for technology to track, places to sleep, cars to drive, planes...

See you tomorrow night!

www.mobilize.us/aft/event/89...

appalling theft of public funds as corporate welfare for the kleptoplagiarism cognitive decapacitating machine

Police look on a faith leaders block a key road to the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International airport as part of the Jan. 23 "Day of Truth and Freedom" protests demanding an end to the ICE occupation of Minnesota.

Tens of thousands shut down work, school, and shopping in subzero Minneapolis to protest the ICE occupation.

How did January 23 happen, and what comes next?

@thedigradio.bsky.social talks with organizers on the fight ahead.

inthesetimes.com/article/the-...

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

Everything moves so fast now. It's impossible to give every event the care and attention it deserves, especially when the bar is "at least no one died."

But what happened in Portland outside the ICE building was evidence of yet another escalation—and a terrifying harbinger of things to come.

we are going to win

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires.

Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

A veto-proof majority of Philadelphia City Council members have signed onto the ‘ICE Out’ proposal The developments prompted Mayor Cherelle L. Parker to make one of her first public comments about Trump’s mass deportation campaign, acknowledging in a statement “the public’s fear of the unknown.”

In Philly, 15 out of 17 City Councilmembers have co-sponsored @kendraphlcouncil.bsky.social's comprehensive ICE OUT legislation, making it veto-proof and all but ensuring it will be written into law.

A HUGE win for all the community orgs that organized for this!

www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?

Microsoft and Blackrock have "have largely given up on organic adoption [of AI] by consumers. They have moved on to a new dream of forced adoption mandated by government and managerial coercion."

Fascinating piece here on what Davos can teach us about the AI industry by @mattseybold.bsky.social

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

That’s right