David Delgado Shorter

When I was a kid we’d go on trips in the car and my dad would get us Yes and No Books, and these men’s faces under plastic where a magnetized pen would move filaments of magnets to form beards and mustaches. Anyway. Just saying.

We were lucky to spend our graduate student days in the height of scholarly theory while at the center of its negotiation.

UCLA has inked a deal to give all its faculty discounted access to ChatGPT, the same company who made it possible for their owner to give 25 million to the supreme leader Trump's campaign, the same president who has sued UCLA and ruined its campus life and damaged its reputation. That's leadership!

What if alien contact isn’t coming as a war — but we’re preparing for one anyway? The space race is essentially an extension of colonialism — a continuation of resource extraction, territorial conquest, and power consolidation beyond Earth.
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See? That’s still funny!

Epstein arrested July 2019.

December 2018 Epstein ordered 6 qty 55 gallon drums of sulfuric acid: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

March 2019: 2 qty 100lb hydrogen peroxide:
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That makes Piranha Solution -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha...
TY @sapiosimmo.bsky.social

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

Did you write it?!? I feel like no one knows more about how much an Iron Lung would suck than you.

As a current editor in chief: pretty please do this!

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Be safe up there, Kim. Thinking about and yours.

All you need to know about supposed leaders: what are they doing today? Obama, Hillary, Pete, Gavin, Harris, Biden, and who else. Strong words? Statements from their mansions? I may not know the other options. But also, I’m not a politician who would know better.

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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From the confession community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the confession community

As I and others have written, algorithmic wage discrimination combined with the myth of “independent contracting” allows platform companies to use “desperation scores” to determine how little to pay drivers.

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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

I have been working with the guest editor for a couple years on this one. Really impressive scholarship in Indigenous Studies.

Is it open access though? If someone needs institutional affiliation? It sounds like a great article.

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AI Is Not Inevitable

join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience

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On Astrobiology, Ontology, and Decoloniality Gabriel Mindel and David Delgado Shorter (Ethics and Astrobiology 4/5) on Indigenizing astrobiology.

“…alien abductions will always be one of the more fascinating subjects of inquiry because it’s hundreds of thousands of stories from multiple cultures around the globe of something happening that one segment of the scientific community wants to dismiss outright...”
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YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley Howard University AI Panel

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

YouTube video by Dr. David Shorter The Psychic Who Changed My Mind: A Skeptic's True Story

In this video, I cover a true story that turned me from a skeptic into a believer — my encounter with a psychic who predicted events in my life I thought were impossible to foresee.

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a handsome book cover: The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice ; blue at top and bottom and with ethereal black and white and rainbow edged dots evoking information transfer (shaped like a long fish's tail, perhaps). Edited by Constance Crompton, Laura Estill, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens

Out now!

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself

And better yet? It's #openaccess!
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Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

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Five Recommended Reads for Native American Heritage Month Every November, we mark Native American Heritage Month as a time to uplift the traditions, languages, and stories of Native American and Alaska Native communities, ensuring their contributions and …

Happy Native American Heritage Month! To celebrate, I recommend two recent books by @uwapress.uw.edu : Caitlin Keliiaa’s Resfusing Settler Domesticity and Olivia Chilcote’s Unrecognized in California

Take a look at the blog link here & check out these books!

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Communicating across species is more like a state one enters, not an action one has to force.
Full episode on Networking with Plants in the Anthropocene.

Any of you kids hoping to get into politics, watch a true master do his thing.