Educator, researcher, scholar of religion | Jews, Christians & Samaritans | Mediterranean and MENA | https://xitter.cf/t.co/MpoJyW8mpk
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I won't patronize you with a long explanation of why the "despised enemies of the Jews" reading is bad
But I will point you to some of the work of the last decade - since this column was originally written in 2012 - that steers us toward a better understanding (1/4):
Who were the Samaritans? biblicalarchaeology.org/dail…
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
"For fascist ideologues who glorify violence, AI’s tendencies towards epistemic, structural & administrative violence are not flaws but features. The disruptive potential of AI will become entangled with the more savage disruptions of a fascistic social vision." Resisting AI, p97
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
This looks like a great report, but I'd rewrite the postulate: it's not so much that carceral AI shouldn't exist (it shouldn't, of course) but that AI _is_ carceral, and therefore AI shouldn't exist (i.e. should be abolished)
New - and ever more crucial report - on carceral AI, a growing class of algorithmic and data-driven practices designed to police, incarcerate, surveil, and control people.
Recommendations, report, and beautiful artwork too!
carceral-ai.com/ Spearheaded by @dasha_pruss
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
“innovation” under capital is nothing more than the privatization of public goods. this is essentially a tram, reconceptualized through private ownership
Or to put this another way: think how different college would look if alongside mandated 2-3 hour labs in STEM they also had 2-3 hour English or History or whatever labs built into the curriculum
This is the completely correct take on the moral panic about how "the kids don't read"
Everything about how most of Higher Ed is structured by its leaders and management, including their rush to embrace AI, excludes anyone dedicating lots of time to reading
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Working through editorial feedback for a book review for a Classics journal (not something I do often) and golly
Classics is the only discipline I work with where positive comments about how a book helps redirect the field get read as an attack. *So* much defensive gatekeeping
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
back in 2018: tenured profs suck but they aren’t the problem, admin is
2024: admin is the problem. tenured profs are also very clearly the problem
I've been contingent for five years. It's been manageable; sometimes good. Even then, I've been replaced on courses without notice, told there's no courses at the same time that people chase new hires
Failure to see contingent faculty as real or priority colleagues is chronic
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
I remember talking to Van about job precarity as I was about to graduate from my MFA program. He told me he'd painted houses, worked in a prison. And yet, here we are.
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this attitude is all over the place, especially with tenured folks: understanding or even having class solidarity doesn't mean squat if you don't think of contingent folks as equals, as "real faculty" yet
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
Early career academics should unionize in recognition that their institution is their common nemesis
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
once I was on an academic job search for a one year appointment (!!!) where a committee member said one candidate wasn’t deferential enough to our institution and was too on their high horse — just a flagrant projection that had no basis in evidence. people are fucking nuts
Matthew Chalmers retweeted
academia is so brutal to ECRs. my current job ends this month & my email is vanishing that same day, which is causing havoc with the journal portals where Ive got articles submitted / accepted / in production. mayb Im naive, but is it rlly that hard to give us a few months grace?
Yep, this stuff is nonsense. They end access so abruptly
I've started listing a professional gmail address as my contact for all articles. Also, debating just writing "contingent scholar" as my affiliation in the absence of someone paying me for my research time
