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  Could not be more well-deserved!!! Huge congratulations to Julia! https://fedihum.org/@christof/117013418981990503

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  Folks, there's an account on mastodon.social that is using my name and reposting me on repeat. It's not me. Please block and report.

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  New spam account pattern to look out for, Masto admins: Overnight we got two account requests using the names of existing users whose accounts have gone inactive, with a number tacked on the end. Email addresses were unrelated throwaway accounts. #mastoadmin

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  Finally sitting still and reading MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS, and when I tell you how my breath caught at “the preferential option for the poor” (§14) nestled in amongst the standards for discernment we should develop for our collective future… I am here for liberation theology. Bring it, Leo.

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  Time to update the numbers in my book talk again. Thanks for continuing to provide the instructive examples, MSU.

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  Friends, hcommons.social is getting a lot of suspicious account requests. If you or folks you know want to create an account with us, please ensure that your answer to the question of why you want to join our community tells us something about you and your relationship to our work. And please try to avoid throw-away email addresses. We promise not to spam you, but we need to know that you're not a spammer (or scammer, or troll, or bot) too.

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  The latest fashion in bot account requests: Text lifted from a random existing Mastodon user's profile. Some of them are plausible. Admins beware!

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  @actualham@social.coop I said it before and I’ll say it again: Brilliant news! ❤️

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  If a mid-level manager is ruled to be ineligible to join the faculty union, does that preclude said mid-level manager from going on strike?

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  I wrote the paper below for an ACLA panel on re-theorizing the university, delivered in Montreal in late February. Afterward, I shared it with a... (New post from kfitz.info: "After the End" https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/)

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  I’m in the early stages of a new writing project, asking not how to fix higher education in the US but what we should do if it can't be fixed. This paper, presented at February's ACLA, represents the dipping of one toe in those waters. Comments *definitely* desired. https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/

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  Gee, I hope they remember that they need to raise a million dollars EVERY YEAR to cover this. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2026/05/19/michigan-state-president-receives-1m-raise

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  This is super cool! @samplereality https://post.lurk.org/@samplereality/116495291922799744

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  This post gets at the complexity of deploying a major upgrade to a live program, and why we’re so glad to have a team on multiple continents working to make sure everything will go well when we do it for real. Not incidentally, it also makes clear why we’re so excited about the update even though the real improvements are to off-stage behavior. Thanks for this, @mpe! https://hcommons.social/@mpe/116499773889473696

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  AHEM. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/arts/neh-grants-lawsuit-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.g1A.CeP4.OIRFkcoQk3tj&smid=url-share

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  @brentsimmons Not just you. I switched over to Alfred sometime back and this was one among several reasons.

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  Holy shit. Orbán has apparently conceded. May Hungary have a smooth and safe transition of power. And may he be only the first authoritarian to fall. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt

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  I recently finished reading Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong and How to Fix It , and as the director of... (New post from kfitz.info: "The Humanities, Philanthropy, and the Good Life" https://kfitz.info/humanities-philanthropy-good-life/)

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  I spent some time yesterday noodling about Amy Schiller's THE PRICE OF HUMANITY and the questions it raised for me about US higher education’s interpellation into the ideology behind Effective Altruism. https://kfitz.info/humanities-philanthropy-good-life/

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  Time for a new #introduction post, as much of my last one has changed! I’m Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. I’m founder and Director Emerita* of #MeshResearch, a lab building open-source interoperable tools for new forms of scholarly communication. I'm also director of Knowledge Commons, a scholarly network serving knowledge creators from across the disciplines and around the world. https://hcommons.org My...

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  Our friends at @investinopen have posted a case study of our attempts to create real sustainability for Knowledge Commons: https://investinopen.org/blog/building-the-commons-how-knowledge-commons-is-navigating-challenges-through-community-and-collaboration/ I'm enormously grateful to @lbcollister for this story and for IOI's tireless cheerleading for sustainable open infrastructure.