Hugh Curnutt

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This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College Members of the class of 2026 have been using ChatGPT since they were freshmen.

Recommend this piece by @ibogost.bsky.social on the dismal state of where we're at in higher ed teaching & learning right now. Key takeaway is that to fix what is breaking would require a wholesale overhaul that few of us have the time, energy or institutional capacity to undertake.

Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor’s Race

Two peas in a pod. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/n...

A banner week in fascism (and this is like a tenth of it)

Forthcoming March 2026

And it’s all tax free 🤩 #grocerystore #zohranmamdani #nyc #nycmayor #commisary #dod #army #marines #navy #airforce #coastguard TikTok video by AAYP

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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

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the singular message of this ad is "zohran loves new york city" and it is incredibly effective

Happy 4th

Famous The Magnetic Fields · Get Lost · Song · 1995

One time I posted about listening to Magnetic Fields and someone called them "grad student music" and I got so mad I had to turn off the record

"Paramount’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multi-billion-dollar sale of her company to Skydance, a company run by the son of the tech billionaire Larry Ellison." Hence, she hopes to settle Trump’s "baseless & far-fetched" case.

The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X The SSA’s shift to Elon Musk’s X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.

Next year we’ll be doing our taxes on X.

The final event of the UMass History Department's Feinberg series on "What Are Universities For?" will be a lecture by Prof Steven Salaita on "The Meaning of Honesty in Academe" on 4/16 at 6pm EST, live via Zoom; link emailed to those who register: websites.umass.edu/feinberg/the...

Don’t remember where I saw this library flyer a while back but it’s great

‘A Minecraft Movie’ Arrives as a Surprise Box Office Smash Weekend ticket sales will total at least $140 million, analysts said, about 75 percent more than expected, ending a Hollywood dry spell.

Surprise?!

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You. The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

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The Truth About Tariffs (w/ Lori Wallach) Podcast Episode · Bad Faith · 04/03/2025 · 1h 7m

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"This administration has created nothing but a climate of fear of on campus...we have to protect our students, faculties, and communities in this moment. We must fight back."

– Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

The End of College Life If they persist, Donald Trump’s attacks on universities will destroy a cornerstone of American life.

The American college experience—earning a degree to join the middle class while coming of age on a pastoral campus with sororities and sports—may be over.

Trump's attacks on higher ed impact much more than just Columbia or scientific research. They put the whole idea of college at risk.

My story:

Farewell to Jonathan Sterne We are very sad to learn of the death of communication scholar Jonathan Sterne, after a long battle with cancer. He was 54 years old. Sterne was James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at …

Here's a more fulsome post from the Press. So sad.
Farewell to Jonathan Sterne dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

In memoriam photo of Jonathan Sterne (1970-2025)

It is with profound sadness that we mourn the passing of Jonathan Sterne, an extraordinary scholar whose groundbreaking work transformed the fields of sound studies, media theory, and the cultural study of technology.