Adam Moore

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Geographer studying political violence, war, peacebuilding, U.S. military, geopolitics, empire, Bosnia. UCLA professor

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Really hope we can dispense once and for all with the notion that Trump voters are suffering, misguided, and misunderstood when they’re being so vocally and insistently like “we want ethnic cleansing.”

I've seen a lot of one-offs of people holding these signs, but what is truly chilling is a sea of these being held up by delegates.

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All the calls for “everyone” to “cool down the rhetoric” etc feel like how families so often put the burden of keeping the peace on the family members who are already working hardest at that, since the difficult/abusive folks are unfixable/cannot be reasoned with.

And for the 22% of republicans that believe this it's a feature not a bug

The most important result in our new national poll of registered voters is that a majority of 53% of all voters believe that Donald Trump and his administration would represent “a grave danger to democracy continuing in the United States,” if he wins the election www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

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New Popular Front's program to simultaneously support Ukraine in its war for national defense and Palestine in its fight against apartheid is, and should be, the standard for the Left.

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If the right is fighting a "second American Revolution," as Heritage's guy put it, it's worth identifying what they are rebelling against. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said “we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Me: wow, I can’t believe I made so much progress on this draft of my new chapter. I consulted two history manuscripts, a doctoral dissertation, four journal articles, and finalized the chapter outline for real this time the entire written progress on my draft: “The cultivators ______”

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feels extremely american to be like “we need you to keep running your stochastic terrorism business so you can pay back the victims of your stochastic terrorism”

NEW: Alex Jones gets to keep broadcasting on Infowars, with the judge finding it is "in the best interest" of Sandy Hook families for the company to avoid bankruptcy so Jones would be better able to repay his massive debt (via Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman)

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The Palestinian exception to academic freedom, a continuing series. jewishinsider.com/2024/06/univ...

University of Minnesota rescinds offer to academic who alleged Israel was committing ‘genocide’jewishinsider.com Raz Segal had been tapped to head the public university’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies

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Those of us engaged in research w/ human participants and/or sensitive materials need to be alert. Corporations like Adobe and Microsoft are injecting AI everywhere. It violates confidentiality & steals data. Will they offer carveouts for university licenses? Are ethical boards examining the risks?

Absolutely insane that Adobe created a situation where anyone using their products under an NDA or in a profession under privacy/confidentiality restrictions simply cannot legally use their products. Corporations are stupid.

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This whole situation is grim and fascinating. I've noticed a couple of shifts in the last two years. One is a downturn in some students' ability to craft coherent, logical sentences. When I talk to those students, they tell me they use grammar checkers. Without them, their work actually improves. +

“A bottleneck of writing is sentence generation—getting ideas into sentences…That is a big task. That part is really costly in terms of cognitive load.”

How can students use AI to improve your writing?- Fast Companywww.fastcompany.com The professors call their approach “restrained generative AI,” and they’ve already built a prototype software tool that is being piloted in 10 courses at the university this semester.

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Not for nothing, Alito's flag is the same Christian nationalist flag Mike Johnson's got outside his office.

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UNC Chapel Hill bureaucrats secretly record professors' classes, without notice or consent, "using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom" to investigate "reports concerning class content and conduct"

Letter says UNC Chapel Hill secretly records professorswww.insidehighered.com A business school professor was startled to learn that the university had recorded his classes as part of a ‘review’ he didn’t know about. The university says it has no formal policy on filming classe...

As predicted no confidence vote fails 79 to 103. Basically vote split between stem/medical faculty (noes) and rest of university (yeas). Not surprising, but deeply disappointing.

Or in the case of UCLA: Faculty calls for vote of no-confidence. Vote fails because majority of faculty are reactionaries that support Gene Block. My prediction for the Legislative Assembly discussion and vote scheduled for this Friday.

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It won't get the attention it deserves because it happened here and it's decidedly un-sensational, but the UWM administration's response to our student encampment is an object lesson in the virtues of restraint and non-escalation, and should be a national model

UW-Milwaukee strikes deal with pro-Palestinian protesters to take down encampmentwww.jsonline.com Protesters have until Tuesday morning to take down the tents. They also agreed not to disrupt commencement, which will be held May 19.

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Again: cop violence was a choice.

UW-Milwaukee and UW-Madison leaders reach agreements with students to end pro-#Palestinian encampments via @bspears.bsky.social wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/05/13/u...

UW leaders reach agreements with students to end pro-Palestinian encampments • Wisconsin Examinerwisconsinexaminer.com UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee protest organizers have said that the agreements are just the beginning of work towards divestment.

Despite these abject failures to protect UCLA students from outside violence by the administration we could not pass a no confidence resolution on Gene Block's leadership last night. Could not be more disappointed.

Faculty had raised alarms in the days before the attack on pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA. That night, one witness called emergency services 11 times before police intervened.

Despite warnings of violence at UCLA, police didn’t step in for over 3 hourswapo.st Faculty had raised alarms in the days before the attack on pro-Palestinian protesters. That night, one witness called emergency services 11 times before police intervened.

Really wish I had been wrong about this

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The UCLA athletics department has run a $127,000,000 budget deficit since 2021, which is about double the annual operating budget for all the Humanities departments combined.

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Really interesting statement from UCLA Hillel. @alttext.bsky.social “We can not have a clearer ask for the off-campus Jewish community: stay off our campus. Do not fund any actions on campus. Do not protest on campus. Your actions are harming Jewish students.”

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An annoying hot take with a niche market, maybe in the Chronicle, would fuse ridicule at the NYPD waving around their found copy of Townshend’s “Terrorism” with solemn head-shaking at how Ivy League Kids These Days are subsisting on Oxford Very Short Introductions instead of doing any real reading.

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Amanda Marcotte

2) As I noted in this piece, UCLA really did have an outside agitator problem — the right wingers who attacked the encampment. What we need to focus on: In both cases, it's the right, not the left, causing the violence. www.salon.com/2024/05/03/d...

Donald Trump is using campus protests to stoke right wing violence for the electionwww.salon.com Disinformation about leftist "violence" is used by MAGA to justify their own, very real crimes

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UC Riverside demonstrated that a peaceful resolution was always a possibility. What happened at UCLA was a complete failure of Chancellor Block (and the Regents) to protect students and the university.

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Add Minnesota to the list of schools that have found a peaceful solution.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/02/university-of-minnesota-protests-divestment-agreement

Pro-Palestinian protesters, University of Minnesota reach agreement to end encampmentwww.mprnews.org Organizers of pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus and university leadership announced Thursday morning that they’ve reached an agreement to end the dayslong enca...

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Sarah J. Jackson

Anyone who lives or works on a campus can tell you that yes, there have been a lot of these outside agitators in the mix, they just definitely aren’t on the side they want you to believe

This editorial by student journalists at the Daily Bruin is spot on. UCLA is failing to protect students from non-community members who are coming to campus to instigate violence. dailybruin.com/2024/05/01/e...

Editorial: UCLA is complicit in violence inflicted upon protesters, failed to protect students - Daily Bruindailybruin.com It began with ear-piercing screams of wailing babies loudly emitting from speakers. Counter-protesters tearing down the barricades. Laser pointers flashing into the encampment. People in masks waving strobe lights. Tear gas.