Columbia Daily Spectator The American Association of University Professors didn’t like that: “President Shafik’s public naming of professors under investigation to placate a hostile committee sets a dangerous precedent for academic freedom and has echoes of the cowardice often displayed during the McCarthy era.” nytimes.com/2024/04/17/nyr…

My campus, my neighborhood- Columbia under police control today - sacrificing everything a university stands for to satisfy a bunch of right wing politicians.

12 minutes into Alice’s Restaurant, 12yo asks: “Is this a song or a podcast?”

Since AI already has states selecting populations for violent death the same way companies select social media accounts for Wish ads I think talking about its “potential” for massive harm in the future is a bit stupid, as is pretending that the danger lies in the tech

Really excited that my first trade book will be coming out this year with The History Press - Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates. You can preorder a copy here: lnk.to/enemiesofallEM

I wrote about two new books exploring the origins of our ideas about the environment and their entanglement with technology, bureaucracy, and above all politics Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/invent…