klmcshane.bsky.social
@klmcshane.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, Episcopalian, wife, mama, queer, knitter, book nerd.
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Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
August 30, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
Students: we hate that is there another option?
Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training.
It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.
We've been boycotting for months in my house, but it's time to double down.
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott.
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
August 26, 2026 at 6:16 PM
We've been boycotting for months in my house, but it's time to double down.
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I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious
that's the most important thing
pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
that's the most important thing
pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
August 26, 2026 at 5:41 PM
I think another lesson to take from the loss of both Dolly and Tim Curry is that neither of them took themselves seriously but they took the work dead serious
that's the most important thing
pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
that's the most important thing
pour all of yourself into the craft but have fun and don't get an ego.
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Two unvaccinated people have died from measles in PA.
Now would be a great time for federal health leadership to LOUDLY advise people to get their MMR vaccine.
Now would be a great time for federal health leadership to LOUDLY advise people to get their MMR vaccine.
August 25, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Two unvaccinated people have died from measles in PA.
Now would be a great time for federal health leadership to LOUDLY advise people to get their MMR vaccine.
Now would be a great time for federal health leadership to LOUDLY advise people to get their MMR vaccine.
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Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.
August 22, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.
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Yuuuup. Understanding how LLMs and generative "AI" work is not some sort of secret knowledge, nor at its heart an unenduringly complex topic, and it turns out writers, who generally how to do research, are in a good position to get a bead on them.
I’m so tired of genAI apologists telling me I only hate it because I don’t understand it.
I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
I hate it *because* I understand it, you absolute toenail.
August 15, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Yuuuup. Understanding how LLMs and generative "AI" work is not some sort of secret knowledge, nor at its heart an unenduringly complex topic, and it turns out writers, who generally how to do research, are in a good position to get a bead on them.
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If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
August 8, 2026 at 11:50 PM
If you have so much work to do that you feel you need AI in order to get it all done: you don't. You need a union.
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Daaaamn.
“AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage."
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
“AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage."
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
www.thenerve.news
August 5, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Daaaamn.
“AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage."
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
“AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage."
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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The obvious point/joke here is "ah it is so easy to imagine the work I do without AI."
But would also like to point out the vast amount of imaginative labor and energy spent trying to apply these technologies to our work. Labor and energy that could be spent in other directions!
But would also like to point out the vast amount of imaginative labor and energy spent trying to apply these technologies to our work. Labor and energy that could be spent in other directions!
August 5, 2026 at 3:33 PM
The obvious point/joke here is "ah it is so easy to imagine the work I do without AI."
But would also like to point out the vast amount of imaginative labor and energy spent trying to apply these technologies to our work. Labor and energy that could be spent in other directions!
But would also like to point out the vast amount of imaginative labor and energy spent trying to apply these technologies to our work. Labor and energy that could be spent in other directions!
THIS. All this. Especially booking yourself a lunch time.
As you look toward fall class, do two things for space and grace; . First, add two flex days to you syllabus. You can move the into place when you're sick when everyone needs a metal health day, when a concept needs a little more time. it takes pressure off when the unexpected happens (more)
August 3, 2026 at 3:55 PM
THIS. All this. Especially booking yourself a lunch time.
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Hell yes we are. My people 🙏🫡🥰📚 techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch.com
July 27, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Hell yes we are. My people 🙏🫡🥰📚 techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...
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Tripling union membership would…
-Raise the median worker’s wages by $7k+ annually
-Reverse 1/3 of the increase in inequality since 1979
-Increase the number of people with health insurance
And more.
Unions are the key to taking on runaway corporate power. Every worker deserves one.
-Raise the median worker’s wages by $7k+ annually
-Reverse 1/3 of the increase in inequality since 1979
-Increase the number of people with health insurance
And more.
Unions are the key to taking on runaway corporate power. Every worker deserves one.
🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy.
A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/
A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/
The case for tripling union membership: How rebuilding union power would strengthen workers, the economy, and our democracy
Foreword Imagine union membership tripling in the United States. It may sound radical—if you’ve forgotten history. In fact, more than 1 in 3 private-sector workers belonged to a union in the 1950s. Th...
www.epi.org
July 17, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Tripling union membership would…
-Raise the median worker’s wages by $7k+ annually
-Reverse 1/3 of the increase in inequality since 1979
-Increase the number of people with health insurance
And more.
Unions are the key to taking on runaway corporate power. Every worker deserves one.
-Raise the median worker’s wages by $7k+ annually
-Reverse 1/3 of the increase in inequality since 1979
-Increase the number of people with health insurance
And more.
Unions are the key to taking on runaway corporate power. Every worker deserves one.
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we do not neede no
Gen A.I. tooles
we do not neede no
thoughte control
Gen A.I. tooles
we do not neede no
thoughte control
July 13, 2026 at 3:47 AM
we do not neede no
Gen A.I. tooles
we do not neede no
thoughte control
Gen A.I. tooles
we do not neede no
thoughte control
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Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids
Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
YouTube video by NPR
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July 3, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids
Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
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I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question.
This day will be celebrated, but it never should have come to this. President Trump attempted to subvert the clear words of our Constitution and the traditions of our country for hundreds of years by instructing ICE to arrest US-born Americans. It was an attempted crime.
June 30, 2026 at 4:02 PM
I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question.
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Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
June 16, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.
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Universityes yn red states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.
Universityes yn blue states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.
Universityes yn blue states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.
June 3, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Universityes yn red states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.
Universityes yn blue states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.
Universityes yn blue states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.
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This already happened for the NEH.
I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2026 at 10:13 AM
This already happened for the NEH.
I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
Good job, Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. More of this for Pride month, please.
June 2, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Good job, Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. More of this for Pride month, please.
Y'all, we ended our regular choir season with Evensong for Trinity Sunday. It was my first time singing Parry's "Hear My Words, Ye People." And it is FUN to sing, and a bop! And also ran over 16 minutes, which is... very long!⚓
May 31, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Y'all, we ended our regular choir season with Evensong for Trinity Sunday. It was my first time singing Parry's "Hear My Words, Ye People." And it is FUN to sing, and a bop! And also ran over 16 minutes, which is... very long!⚓
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OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
April 15, 2026 at 7:04 PM
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
What an exciting week at our little parish. Jazz Mass! Sending Sunday for the rector's sabbatical! Vestry commissioning! Cookout so well-attended we ran out of chairs! ⚓
May 18, 2026 at 12:04 AM
What an exciting week at our little parish. Jazz Mass! Sending Sunday for the rector's sabbatical! Vestry commissioning! Cookout so well-attended we ran out of chairs! ⚓
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This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.
the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...
OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund ‘AI Literacy’ in Schools
A new bill introduced by Senators Adam Schiff and Mike Rounds would award grants to the National Science Foundation—which has endured massive funding cuts under the Trump Administration for science re...
www.404media.co
May 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.
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Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”
April 26, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”