Hannah Alpert-Abrams

Hannah Alpert-Abrams

@halperta.bsky.social

Here for the humanities. Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative. east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands halperta.com

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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tuck woodstock
@tuck.bsky.social

The 12th(!) Gender Reveal grant cycle is now open for applications! As always, these funds are for organizing / community projects led by trans people of color. We are particularly interested in funding existing projects that materially support trans folks, queer people of color, immigrants, etc.

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Cathy Davidson
@cathyndavidson.bsky.social

Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...

educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.orgSunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years: Farewell and Appreciation From HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley – Educational and Cultural Institutions
Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

I have a feeling that a new consulting role is opening up: boutique consultant who doesn’t use AI, to be contracted by AI-dependent organizations to provide specialized (human) services

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

For corporations this is work that used to be done in house by employees, but is now being outsourced. For small orgs, I think this might be an attempt to expand services without expanding or asking more of staff.

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

This is totally speculative but I think there is a feeling that if an outside consultant is using AI, they’re doing work that could be done by anyone. whereas when existing staff use AI, they’re expanding what they are able to do.

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Ruth Ahnert
@ruthahnert.bsky.social

DH friends. Anyone have ideas for publication venues for outcomes of smaller bits of exploratory work? We have some fun outcomes but probably don’t want to spend time working them into something big; but feel they are interesting to the community. I know I’m forgetting something obvious!

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

Sorry to have a take no one asked for this morning, but while the "physical and psychic toil" of the chinese production line is undoubtedly real, factory jobs can be good, fulfilling work. The most soul killing work I've done was in the knowledge economy, not a factory.

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social

What does factory life do to the creative mind? Michelle Chan Schmidt explores this question in a review of Xiao Hai’s Adrift in the South. www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...

publicbooks.orgThe Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

Meanwhile I listened to the entire lord of the rings trilogy on CD and was part of the process of building medical equipment that is probably now inside someone body! Helping them walk!

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

(this is really just about the opening paragraphs to this book review, which is very thoughtful overall, and definitely not an apology for coercive production work under dismal and demeaning conditions)

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

Sorry to have a take no one asked for this morning, but while the "physical and psychic toil" of the chinese production line is undoubtedly real, factory jobs can be good, fulfilling work. The most soul killing work I've done was in the knowledge economy, not a factory.

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social

What does factory life do to the creative mind? Michelle Chan Schmidt explores this question in a review of Xiao Hai’s Adrift in the South. www.publicbooks.org/the-life-of-...

publicbooks.orgThe Life of the Mind of a Factory Worker - Public Books“Beware to those who read ‘Adrift in the South’ solely as a cautionary tale about the Chinese state without considering the international flows of goods and power.”

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Courtney Milan
@courtneymilan.com

I do not think we should have a death penalty. I don't think it is any kind of deterrent. I think it's barbaric. I think it makes us all worse people. All of us. And we just don't have to do this to ourselves. We could abolish it, and we should.

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Patricia Hswe
@pmhswe.bsky.social

Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

mellon.orgMellon FoundationThe Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Erin Grievances
@erinbartram.bsky.social

would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

What do you think "go all in" means? Here are some things on my mind: ✨ Tuition-free ✨ Education not entertainment ✨ Real vocational training ✨ Real liberal arts education ✨ Reinvestment in research ✨ Disinvestment from corporate pipelines

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

Here are some things I fear: 🙅 Multiplication of credentials that go nowhere 🙅 Ongoing or escalating student debt 🙅 Total focus on wealth generation 🙅 Total disinvestment from research that does not serve corporate or private philanthropic interests

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

not to state the obvious but if you teach aspiring writers, like as a history or literature prof, it’s worth knowing the state of the industry. It’s also worth knowing what labor organizing looks like in this field.

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

Checked my medical bill for my most recent extremely necessary procedure and feeling very outraged and unsettled, send good energy my way please. (at least, I suppose, I have my health)

Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

reading this story and thinking about Sara Ahmed’s Complaint! which remains one of the best books I have read, full stop. Once the incident has occurred, she writes, there will be no satisfaction. No system implemented by the university exists to offer any.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social

I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
Hannah Alpert-Abrams
@halperta.bsky.social

The editors call this a morbid pattern and they are right. Not just the acts of violence but the university infrastructure designed to protect the perpetrators. Not just Cornell but everywhere.