April Reading

The Humanities have always been the canary in the coal mine of the full knowledge industry. What information can help us understand this crisis and its implications?

Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.

No matter what financial trickery Musk tries to pull.

The country has proven itself incapable of not abducting and imprisoning people entering it—boycotting US matches avoids putting teams, their families, and fans in danger.

In this lesson we consider the ways in which LLMs are already transforming education for better or, more often, worse—and take a look at where this trend might be headed.

A dozen scholarship students at LIU-Brooklyn’s Roc Nation school say they unexpectedly owe the university thousands of dollars.

New research reveals how Americans are thinking about artificial intelligence.

Thoughts, stories and ideas.

I don’t know whether Gretchen Whitmer’s attempts to “thread a political needle,” aka criticize the Trump regime, but in measured tones that suggest that maybe he’s sort of on the right track, are good politics in terms of trying to get re-elected governor of Michigan, but I do know that this is the exact opposite […]

Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State.

Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern faculty feel their leaders haven’t done enough to curb the crisis.

Won’t someone please think about the salience?

The sweeping conspiracy and terrorism indictment of Stop Cop City activists reveals the new playbook for state suppression of protest. But we can still win.

It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shattered

It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shattered

The “Manifesto” articulates a systematically structured sequence of ten distinct propositions, enumerated from 0 to 9, each delineating the underlying principles, strategic approaches, and aesthetic manifestations that shape the critical concept of “algorithmic sabotage” within the expansive and intricately interwoven frameworks of digital culture and information technology.

Artificial intelligence technology that works well for the world’s billions of people of color was a business imperative for Google when the company asked sociologist Ellis Monk to help make its AI products more inclusive.

Bluesky has been a safe haven for users fleeing X and Threads. But while there’s less hate, there’s also fewer lolz.

What the Luddites can teach us about resisting an automated future.

Won’t someone please think about the salience?

The sweeping conspiracy and terrorism indictment of Stop Cop City activists reveals the new playbook for state suppression of protest. But we can still win.

Critics warn: it’s not just history being erased—it’s identity.

Sonja Drimmer on the empty rhetoric used to promote generative AI as an art-historical research tool for this episode of “Under the Cover.”

Artificial intelligence technology that works well for the world’s billions of people of color was a business imperative for Google when the company asked sociologist Ellis Monk to help make its AI products more inclusive.