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Non-innovator; teacher; writer in @teenvogue and @tnr and elsewhere

Philadelphia, PA
Joined June 2012
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Came back to Twitter for the first time in 2 years to get mad about an orgy of uninformed blowhards opining about public education in response to an article I didn’t know existed, about to AbeSimpson.gif the fuck outta here
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my policy has become no quarter, scorched earth: not only forbidden, but i tell them if they ever plan to use AI for any human intellectual work in the future, they need to admit to themselves they are a mentally self-enfeebled person, morally weak, and a disappointment to god
My students are now becoming openly upset with me for upholding my AI policy because “none of my other professors care.” This demonstrates the importance of both faculty solidarity and administrative support, but those are both pipe dreams.
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Ireland's prestigious Trinity College Dublin said it will cut all links with Israel in protest at the war in Gaza. u.afp.com/SGAp
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Four days after Mahmoud Khalil was abducted Schumer bucked his own party to keep the government running (and bump up ICE’s budget). But now that Trump is doing something Israel doesn’t like it’s pedal to the metal, you just have to laugh
BREAKING: Sen. Schumer says he is placing a hold on all of President Trump's DOJ nominees in response to the 'deeply troubling' plan for the administration to accept a luxury jet from Qatar to be used as Air Force One. nbcnews.com/politics/congres…
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Bombing a burn unit to assassinate a prominent journalist who is in the unit because you bombed his tent is reaching new depths. Very few governments in the last 100 years would be willing to commit crimes like this, and certainly many fewer with the world watching
.@hassaneslayeh’s corpse right now inside the mortuary of Nasser Hospital after Israel bombed the burns unit where he was being treated. From covering the news to being the news: Hassan Islaih was first injured and then killed in two different airstrikes.
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It has been clear for a long time that if we do not figure out how to actually cobble together a coalition for a butlerian jihad against the tech sector, its financiers, and their various reactionaries, then we will lose what remains of our culture, politics, ecology, and minds
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Imagine having 24 hours to live and having to spend one of them with JD Vance
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I've only seen the first ep of Dope Thief, and the jury's out, but it's a good thing that the corny white character with lines like "This jawn? In the 215?" was killed off early
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that which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art?
A troubling paradox: iconic aesthetics from artists like Hayao Miyazaki & Studio Ghibli, crafted over decades, are now commodified into quick, consumable, even vapid content.
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the conclave has chosen a new goofy
A fire broke out backstage at Disney’s Epcot theme park yesterday evening.
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Ron Washington banning phones in the Angels clubhouse. When he said “I just want some goddamn focus” I felt that deeply
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Last week, I was expelled from @Columbia for protesting the U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza. As president of @SW_Columbia , Columbia’s student workers union, I was also fired from my job. The Trump administration is pushing their narrative. Here’s the real story. 🧵
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Struggling and failing to comprehend the student who uses chat GPT to answer this throwaway question on a classwork assignment “Rate Karl Marx’s beard ?/10”
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“Many would rate Marx’s beard 9/10 for its iconic style and historical significance”
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It’s really so vile that @Columbia can’t even bring itself to say a word, or make a statement as toothless as this one about the kidnapping of their own student by ICE agents
March 9, 2025 Further Statement on ICE Reports: communications.news.columbia…
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The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.
This extreme escalation is an egregious violation of first amendment rights. Now is the moment for everyone to speak out and oppose this as fiercely and loudly as possible.
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Looking up images of the Haitian Revolution for a teaching thing and really into this hilarious AI photo-reproduction image
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