Matt Seybold

I seem to remember somebody arguing there is no inherent priority or order to so-called primary and secondary materials.

My dad has been reading “The Political Unconscious” to prep. His verdict:

The Jameson Tapes, Side A with Isabel Bartholomew, Anna Kornbluh, Caleb Smith, Robert Tally, & Fredric Jameson

👇 🫵 👉 🎧 👍 🫶

The elite colleges concession to the Trump administration, which is broadly unpopular, is also morally reprehensible and will cost them more than they pay in bribes to the White House. There’s no up side.

The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) Plus how American professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught, a backlash over AI models in Vogue, and more.

Common misnomer is that bubbles aren’t visible until they pop.

The invisible part is WHEN the bubble is going to pop (which you need to know to make money off it).

Anyway, @bcmerchant.bsky.social is like Steve Eisman in an empty Florida subdivision circa 2006 screaming “There’s a bubble!”

‘tis not the presence of screens so much as the absence of paper which ails us

But they confuse the lyrics with Billy Joel’s “Captain Jack.”

Your favorite microvideo folk hero got himself a backing band & made a Too Late Capitalist “Astral Weeks.” Holy fuck.

Total Hollywood dramatization, of course. A real principal would say “ELA scores.”

[piles of books literally on fire in dumpster, visible in background, classroom lighted entirely by screensavers of computers & tablets purchased with library budget, teachers huddle together tapping at school-mandated assessment apps on phones]

Principal: Why do our reading scores keep dropping?!?

Given how much tedious BS I have to deal with in academic #RDC related to #gen-LLM nonsense, I have been eagerly awaiting the bubble bursting. Am slowly realizing this will be a LOT worse than 2001 or even 2008... 🤬

And again, #fascism really is the new bailout. @mattseybold.bsky.social

That’s certainly been happening for awhile now. Maybe accelerating now.

I’m so excited for y’all to hear these.

I co-wrote something with a few people whose writing I’ve followed for years & noticed how all of us are getting a little gonzo stylistically to compensate for the flattening of critical prose in the wake of ChatGPT

Anybody want to hire me to do this fulltime?

Hallo…

I would like a repository of resources about coordinated ed tech initiatives and how to push back against their inevitability in higher ed.

you & me both

alas, you best bet is to assume that if the software isn’t transparently owned by a school (or, maybe, an npo) it’s probably part of coordinated ed tech

i will survive

I’ve been saying this forever. The whole country is getting a taste of the racist petty American southern provincialism.

People who haven’t lived here are in denial about this, the idea that a petty ruling class would deliberate keep US poor just so they can lord over us.

I check Substack Notes every once in awhile just to get a hit of BT’s wry social media style.

didn’t feel like spending sunday afternoon being called a xenophobe

And, yes, AI remains cover for class war on all the workers of the world.

The H-1B visa program remains the “outsourcing visa”: More than half of the top 30 H-1B employers were outsourcing firms The U.S.’s largest temporary work visa program is the H-1B—an important program that allows U.S. employers to hire college-educated migrant workers. However, the H-1B program is not operating as inten...

Reminded of Brandon Taylor’s response to anything that went unexpectedly viral on Twitter: “nope that’s none of my business”

I deleted previous post.

But for the six people who see this one.

Really interesting post with sources here: layoffnation.substack.com/p/the-ai-mir...

The myth around AI and productivity has always been a cover for work intensification and offshoring. "AI" is always just other people.

🧠 The AI Mirage: July Jobs Report vs. Tech Hiring Truths AI Is Replacing Jobs” they say, but it’s a cover

Friend sent it to me, so had to ask myself. It’s from here:

Of course, there may be strategic political or ideological reasons to pretend to tax-finance public programs, above all because it is legible to the electorate & MMT is scary. But it's important to recognize that such a strategy is fundamentally compromised. It creates perverse incentives.

However much of the Democratic party you think is salvageable, it’s significantly less than that.

Some enterprising neuroscientist should really study these sudden bouts of severe depression that afflict corporate whistleblowers right before they testify.

Monday: The Jameson Tapes, Side A with @annakornbluh.bsky.social @c-also.bsky.social @roberttally.bsky.social @isabelbartholomew.bsky.social

Tuesday: “Methods of Ideological Analysis” by Fredric Jameson (1977)

Thursday: The Jameson Tapes, Side B

Friday: “Ideology: Marx & Lukacs” - Jameson (1977)