Had to give a talk about Eli Whitney of all people and anyway now it's an article on Common Place commonplace.online/article/how-el…

Public transportation is so much safer than driving wsoctv.com/news/local/cha…

The labor theory of value is wrong. Labor-time does not determine the price of goods in most cases. Still, almost everything that is produced is produced by workers, that fact is unavoidable. We can look at the built environment and say this world was built by labor power.

Canvas was down today because , you know, internet monopolies and because it was down everyone’s life improved 400%.

There have been complaints from inside & outside the academy that there is not enough intellectual diversity at colleges & universities. This criticism has often been a ploy to legitimize pseudoscience & anti-science. This is a dangerously slippery slope. pbs.org/newshour/healt…

It was easy for Truman to say "The buck stops here" because, as the post-war US president he was one of the least resource constrained people in the world. All of the rest of us are very resource constrained and that's often not our fault.

This makes too much sense.

I asked 80 freshman "Should workers get to decide democratically the conditions of work? What about pay?" They overwhelmingly thought that workers should have a say in conditions BUT NOT pay. Very interestingly the reality is the exact opposite of what my students thought.

Let’s be real. There is no reason to have a clean desk cuz everything you do it on the computer anyways. If you have room to type you are fine.

The arc of history is long but it bends towards a lethally hot supercontinent 250 million years from now

Let’s see how legit crypto is when this AI bubble pops and everyone liquidates useless crypto to get some useful currency/treasuries. Also, for all the bots that are going to like and retweet this: IM SAYING CRYPTO IS DUMB AND DANGEROUS.

The university wants us to teach classes for the new #AI major and I was thinking about making a critical history of workplace automation and AI called "Do bosses dream of electric workers?"

Build build build doesn’t work. Charlotte lacks affordable housing even though we built more units than expected. YIMBYism = plausible in theory, wrong empirically issuu.com/docs/f945e82a5…

Honestly I think we are having a moment with housing like the Card & Krueger moment with minimum wage. The supply and demand orthodoxy just doesn’t hold up here.

I didn’t know Eilish did gospel, Gospel of Wealth that is.

*mic drop*

I kinda wanna get all ahistorical and pull a Dinesh D'Souza and make a doc about how the Republicans were the original nanny state party (cuz of their moral crusading)

That’s probably one of the most amazing charts about the US ever. How did it happen?

Say what you will about broken American institutions but you can get those Amazon items super quick here!

Our @aaup chapter put out a statement on CPHE accreditation. Please read, share, and join AAUP! ninertimes.com/opinion/letter…