Dan Greene

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

We're not waiting for our bosses to defend our schools. AAUP, UAW, AFT, AFSCME, and more have joined together to defend UCLA just like we did Harvard. We won that and we'll win this. Your dues pay for these cases so join today!

The bear hug in practice meant "those kids are ok to kill because they're different from regular kids"

24 years ago I was both upset I couldn't go to the mall to buy The Blueprint, and terrified that my dad had been killed downtown. That mix of momentary consumer frivolity and ambient dread would go on to become the millennial structure of feeling.

Beans here

Michelin-starred Mita is going to get evicted because of unpaid rent and that's pretty much all you need to know about the commercial real estate market rn

Inflation doesnt exist if you know how to cook

"What's your favorite thing about being small business administrator?" "Haha seeing how many eggs I can swallow before their mothers return to the nest--and matcha!"

My lump, my lump, my lovely labor lump. Check it out: I see you have a fallacy...

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: “howdy folks, i’m the maintenanc manager for the largest flower nursery in the midatlantic. Those osha rules about who should climb tall buildings and with what equipment? Mere suggestions."

My understanding is this is basically what's going on in the heads of an Andreessen or Ellison or Musk at any given time, but only one of their drug habits has passed the point of no return

"Do you think that in the second quarter of the 21st century, reporters walk the Earth, observing concrete reality and assembling truth from scratch? We don’t have the resources for that. Just like everyone else, journalists look at their phones..."

Update: still true. The work is there to be done and you will do it or you won't and that's it.

Really excited for this. Mike Davis called the HOA the most successful social movement in US history.