Peter Sachs Collopy

I had been calling this the argument against so-called AI from "craft", but it seems to be broader than that.

More accurately, AI people are against "process", as if process itself wasn't a critical part of the creative method.

Me, a very light skinned Black woman in black wire glasses and big hair holding up a black poster that says "THERE IS NOTHING MORE EPHEMERAL THAN A WEBSITE" in gold ink

Now more than ever

Without the Awful Roar of Its Many Waters or: False Nonviolence Won't Save You

The state relies on us creating a dichotomy between "good protesters" and "bad protesters" and it relies on a misinterpretation of nonviolence in order to get us to do it. When we resist a fascist state, we must resist the fascist state's logic.

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“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates

We have a committee member in common! I was thinking of getting in touch with him when I saw this news.

I only saw this this morning and have been panicking about it all day since. Is Nathan on your committee, or someone else from IU?

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

So we're supposed to absorb all the social and economic externalities of AI because bro thinks his big hot computers might "cure cancer or whatever."

If that doesn’t work, I think other techniques on that page will. Worst case, you can make their current name a “nickname” for them in Signal and it will display.

I think Signal has cached contact info that was on your phone. If so, first make sure the contact name on your phone is updated (not in Signal, but in Address Book or such). Then do this: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007319011-Manage-Contacts-Nicknames-and-Notes#contacts_refresh

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

"A Columbia senior administrator said the school considered legal options ...but ... the ... government has so many available levers to claw back money, it would be a difficult fight. Additionally the school believed there was considerable overlap between needed campus changes and Trump’s demands."

A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil On March 12, at a rally in front of the New York City courthouse where Mahmoud Khalil’s hearing took place, classicist and Columbia University associate professor Joseph Howley made the follo…

“We will not take lectures on antisemitism from segregationists and neo-nazis.” @illdottore.bsky.social, a Columbia University professor, speaks out against the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil.

I have one, and a board to make it work through USB, but I was just wondering where it was the other day and I’m not even sure if it’s at work or home. I’m also kind of far away. But if you want to mail me the disk, I need to find the drive anyway and I’m happy to give it a try.

"White heritage" doesn't exist. Whiteness is the attempted eradication of heritage. "White pride" is taking pride in the destruction of your own culture. (This is true for all white people, not just Irish white people.)

whiteness is the devil's bargain. Irish Americans sold their heritage and culture in exchange for participating in the white supremacist project of the USA. Goodbye, complex and beautiful history of struggle, hello shamrocks and alcohol.

on this st patricks day, a plea for irish americans to remember that the thing we have to be proud of is 800 years of anti-colonial resistance, not green beer.

People who know Mahmoud Kahlil wrote letters to the court.

At a protest, a Jewish student recalled, when a non-affiliate began shouting antisemitic slogans, Mahmoud "was the first to intervene."

"He has committed no crime, nor has advocated for anything that I have not also stood for."

Bret Stephens in a piece published in the NYT this morning: "I’d say the lowest-quality institutions created since the 1990s have names like Columbia and Berkeley — these are essentially factories of Maoist cadres taught by professors whose political views ranged almost exclusively from the left to the far left."

Utterly unconscionable – though hardly surprising – for the New York Times to print such vile fabrications, completely untethered from empirical reality, and to keep platforming a man who would spread such extremist propaganda as one of their most prominent columnists.

the arch antisemite slated for deportation loves to go to shabbat dinner with his jewish friends

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

Full text of Jelani Cobb's 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture: Trust issues. Credibility, credulity and journalism in a time of crisis On 10 March the Columbia Journalism Dean delivered the 2025 Reuters Memorial Lecture. Here's the transcript of his talk.

"Our problem is not simply that the public does not trust us, it’s that they do trust other dishonest brokers. We are not just witnessing a crisis of credibility, we are experiencing a crisis of credulity as well." — Jelani Cobb. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/full-te...

Let it sink in.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett — who headlined an event at Columbia right before Mahmoud Khalil was detained — just joked at a Harvard event that he would give exploding pagers to students protesting his visit

“‘Activities aligned to… a designated terrorist organization’ is a construction previously unheard of in the generation-long history of tortured official circumlocutions designed to obscure lawlessness in the guise of counterterrorism.”

a lawless and cruel immigration system predated the war on terror, but @attackerman.bsky.social is always essential for pinpointing the ways in which our world is the world made by the war on terror.

State Department plan to deport ‘pro-Hamas’ students relies on a 1952 law that targeted Jews Jewish Holocaust survivors suspected of being Soviet sympathizers were subject to the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act.

the law that the state department is using to target pro-palestinian visa holders was initially implemented to target jewish holocaust refugees

the fact that people are being disappeared in the name of ""preventing antisemitism"" by a christian nationalist administration is making me nauseated and horrified in ways i cant even begin to explain

Hasn’t Vance demonstrated that no one is too terminally online for public office?

It’s mind-blowing that, in the year of our Lord 2025, the president has declared that an entire cohort of people simply do not exist. The outsized and outstandingly cruel obsession with transgender Americans – a small, vulnerable minority already targeted with disproportionate violence – is blatant scapegoating, and a serious overreach on the part of the federal government. I can’t say it’s exactly consequential, since so few lives are materially affected (which is kind of my point) but it is a shameful mark on our national conscience.

Even one of the takes expressing revulsion at the treatment of trans people also says that the administration's policies aren't consequential because they affect a small population. Would anyone say the same about the explicit persecution of an ethnic or religious minority? This is extraordinary.

Among the ways that “both sides” journalism falls down is that until a month ago, it would have been a fringe position to say “randomly fire federal employees hired in the last couple of years” …

That is to say, mechanical centrism is so easily manipulated by one side just going extreme.