If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Wednesday morning, 7 ICE agents in Salisbury, MD, smashed in windows & violently dragged a mother out of her car while she was dropping her daughter off at elementary school.
These abusive tactics are absolutely unacceptable.
www.baltimoresun.com/2025/12/17/s...
I think people really struggle w partially consolidated authoritarianism, either understating our problem or understating our power
It's like we're in a liminal fascist space. And not recognizing how far gone we are or thinking we're simply too far gone are both grave errors we can't afford to make
Just in case anyone forgot which sphere we get to influence
15.08.2025 17:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Were Aime Césaire alive to conduct a structural analysis of the advancing militarization of American law enforcement since 9/11, I suspect he would have understood DHS as a template for how Imperial Boomerangs operate in the 21st century.
Me for @zeteo.com on LA, and what led to it.
Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (Sarah’s name, like those of other current students in this article, has been changed for privacy.) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”
Teachers have tried AI-proofing assignments, returning to Blue Books or switching to oral exams. Brian Patrick Green, a tech-ethics scholar at Santa Clara University, immediately stopped assigning essays after he tried ChatGPT for the first time. Less than three months later, teaching a course called Ethics and Artificial Intelligence, he figured a low-stakes reading reflection would be safe — surely no one would dare use ChatGPT to write something personal. But one of his students turned in a reflection with robotic language and awkward phrasing that Green knew was AI-generated. A philosophy professor across the country at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock caught students in her Ethics and Technology class using AI to respond to the prompt “Briefly introduce yourself and say what you’re hoping to get out of this class.”
Whenever Wendy uses AI to write an essay (which is to say, whenever she writes an essay), she follows three steps. Step one: “I say, ‘I’m a first-year college student. I’m taking this English class.’” Otherwise, Wendy said, “it will give you a very advanced, very complicated writing style, and you don’t want that.” Step two: Wendy provides some background on the class she’s taking before copy-and-pasting her professor’s instructions into the chatbot. Step three: “Then I ask, ‘According to the prompt, can you please provide me an outline or an organization to give me a structure so that I can follow and write my essay?’ It then gives me an outline, introduction, topic sentences, paragraph one, paragraph two, paragraph three.” Sometimes, Wendy asks for a bullet list of ideas to support or refute a given argument: “I have difficulty with organization, and this makes it really easy for me to follow.”
Once the chatbot had outlined Wendy’s essay, providing her with a list of topic sentences and bullet points of ideas, all she had to do was fill it in. Wendy delivered a tidy five-page paper at an acceptably tardy 10:17 a.m. When I asked her how she did on the assignment, she said she got a good grade. “I really like writing,” she said, sounding strangely nostalgic for her high-school English class — the last time she wrote an essay unassisted. “Honestly,” she continued, “I think there is beauty in trying to plan your essay. You learn a lot. You have to think, Oh, what can I write in this paragraph? Or What should my thesis be? ” But she’d rather get good grades. “An essay with ChatGPT, it’s like it just gives you straight up what you have to follow. You just don’t really have to think that much.”
Don't have anything new to say about AI here. One thing I will say is that higher ed has long been broken. If elites had spent more time thinking through the point of education and how well we really do it than stoking woke panic, maybe we wouldn't be staring at this abyss. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Room set up with seating in a square
Great room for a Security Council simulation btw
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University signage for a room scheduled to hold a UN simulation and a bible study group
Campus life - something for everyone
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I'm delighted that Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, the book I co-edited with Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí, has officially been published!
It is available at in paperback, hardcover and eBook almost everywhere. See: www.routledge.com/Authoritaria...
I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.
19.02.2025 15:56 — 👍 445 🔁 164 💬 16 📌 58Taking back the Canal” would indeed be a violation of treaty, actually two treaties! It would undermine US relations with one of our closest ally in the region & piss off every other country in Latin America! And would be a gift to Chinese pretensions in the region…other than that…a great idea! 🙄
20.01.2025 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Reminder that the US didn't lose "38,000 lives" building the Panama Canal, or even the estimated 5,600 who died on America's watch. Almost all who died were underpaid Afro-Caribbean workers living in U.S.-imposed conditions of segregation.
Also China doesn't control the canal.
In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a violent 13-year civil war in El Salvador.
24.11.2024 16:37 — 👍 859 🔁 197 💬 29 📌 19
Short-term: Lots about November 5 was poli-sci-normal and not a particularly sound impetus for massive intra-Dem recriminations.
Long-term: The party's central crisis remains class dealignment and there's no quick or easy way out of it.
democracyjournal.org/arguments/th...
If Trump is keen on adopting 19th Century policies, then one that I encourage is a streamlined and open immigration policy.
www.worldpoliticsreview.com/immigration-...
It took me eight years to write something about the Fascism Debate, so let me say this: what is most exasperating is that no one (save Paxton) seems to be willing to change their mind. Well...
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Today in Good Authority, @profsaunders.bsky.social interviews Kelly Greenhill, author of Weapons of Mass Migration, about how states and non-state actors can use mass migration as a tool of war. Greenhill offers context for the current crisis.
goodauthority.org/news/how-sho...
