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Alexander Chee

@alexanderchee.bsky.social
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Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16m
Nanc’s face as she hides from him…
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1h
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 9h
tf did I just read
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 9h
Zach Bryan came out saying FREE PALESTINE in the first show at Gillette Stadium since Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft silenced Macklemore, AND he played a new, still unreleased anti-AI song and some of y’all are still sleeping on the liberatory potential of Americana
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h
~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 10h
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 12h
Ebola death toll in DRC passes 4,000, as health workers are fighting to get paid
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Ebola death toll in DRC passes 4,000, as health workers are fighting to get paid
8,300 cases have been recorded since the outbreak was declared in eastern Congo on May 15.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h
"The plaintiffs are suing to restore visitation rights and ask a court to force the county to disgorge the hundreds of thousands of dollars in profits it has made from video calls." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...
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Families of Inmates Fight Against Jails That Profit From Visits
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10h
Ahem…
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 11h
This is bumming me out. This 28-year-old woman who had devoted her life to studying and preventing the spread of pathogens is dead from a split-second accident. It was, it is confirmed, Yersinia pestis. By the way, there are roughly 6 cases of bubonic plague in the U.S. a year.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10h
Civil war in Ethiopi bubbling up again. Deathtoll hard to verify--but probat least 600 k, last half decade or so. Imperial fuckery in that land--Soviet, then U.S., up to the recent present--runs deep. This isn't separate from you. Read my pal @annneumann.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2023...
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Falling Like Leaves, by Ann Neumann
The war in Ethiopia and its crimes against civilians
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7h
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12h
ICE builds more prisons because the goal is explicitly to warehouse surplus labor, criminalize poverty, and assert total control over all of society. When Stephen Miller claims there are 25, 30, or even 50 million "illegal immigrants" in the US, he's betting on how many of us he'll need to imprison
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 10h
My beautiful sister everyone
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 6h
Hell yes
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 10h
I would advise people not to talk to USA Today for any reason, about anything ever, based on this thread. It's bad enough that the whole profession is circling the drain, but for a remaining publication to feed interviews into a slopifier without telling sources? When it's about SA? I just.. 🌋
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 13h
Yeah this feels SUPER unethical I would never share recordings or notes with anyone other than my editor or a fact checker?!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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🎃 Killy Witches 👻 @tillybridges.bsky.social · 19h
she had to hide and be stealth, it’s never mentioned the character is trans but there’s something truly magic in knowing that the next time i rewatch TNG, i will see her there and i will know that someone like me helped make the show that ignited my lifelong love of Star Trek 😭
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 18h
😂
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 19h
Chicago Pope from the top rope!
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 19h
Michael Tracey published what he said was the ID of the "Jane Doe" in the Cornell case. Then he took it down, claiming he just wanted to make a point and didn't want to see harm to the person he named. What he hasn't admitted is that he mistook info on a sketchy site for official NY court records.
An archived copy of Michael Tracey's original Substack post includes a screenshot from "eCourt Records" and the commentary: "It's [name redacted]. Don't blame me -- the New York Court System just posted it. Seemingly inadvertently. Oh well."Screenshot of Michael Tracey's post on Substack titled "Note on Jane Doe." It reads: "After identifying Jane Doe earlier tonight, I have now removed the information I published. Why? Because the principle has been served: to underscore that permanently anonymizing litigants who make sensational, spectacular, reputation-destroying claims about others — so long as they can self-declare some form of victimization — cannot be countenanced.

It’s destructive, and an egregious abuse of the legal system by huckster plaintiff’s lawyers. This practice has to end. Lawyers who seek to monetize this sleazy tactic should have to think A LOT HARDER about the claims they’re willing to throw out into the public domain, using impressionable clients who may not even know what they’re getting themselves into.

So why have I now removed her information?

Because I don’t believe she’s the main “villain” here. I primarily blame the bottom-feeding, media-manipulating, sleazebag lawyers who’ve made a whole cash-grab industry out of this racket.

Thomas Giuffra in particular has a lot to answer for. He’s the central reason for the current debacle.

Given the intense nationwide and global interest in this case, I don’t want to bring any further negative attention to this woman. I don’t believe she ought to be punished or subjected to any retribution or humiliation. I believe a RATIONAL solution is necessary here. Not more character assassination — of her, the seven young men, or anyone else. Truly, that is my genuine view."
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h
The industry being run by Zuck, Musk, and Sam Altman (3 guys who have never made shit and either bought or stole their way in) with backing from Trump and the GOP. Are you really trying to sell me that this isn't a house of cards scam? Are you that gullible?
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h
This time guys! This is the thing Musk makes that won't be the scam! He's finally gonna make something real! Cmon man
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h
That's funny because I feel the same way about smart and well-intentioned people falling for a scam being perpetrated by Silicon Valley guys who have done nothing but run scams that made them rich after the tech press told everyone that these guys were geniuses.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 20h
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 20h
No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss
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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything
I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21h
This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...
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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect
In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.
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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 22h
Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 21h
The kicker is *chef's kiss*
“You think we’re getting a little too close to Meta?” [John Georges, co-owner of Georges Media Group, the state’s largest media organization and parent company of the state’s largest newspaper, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate], asked. “I’m not afraid of the sun. You know — Icarus? I’ll get as close to the sun as I can.”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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Brigid Alverson @brigidalverson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think it is crucial for the health of the Democratic party that the entire consultant class from previous administrations, including and especially Clinton, be told to go home and stop bothering people. They are wrong about everything and have been holding the party back for decades.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I appreciate @zhonggg.bsky.social and @rjnskl.bsky.social for bringing Kelvin Waves into the vernacular. It's a concept that even those in Earth and environmental sciences (besides physical oceanographers) struggle to grasp, but everyone should be exposed to real scientific explanations.
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See How El Niño Is Washing Ashore in California (Gift Article)
An enormous pulse of wave energy will soon reach Southern California and continue north, raising sea levels by half a foot and increasing threats from swells and tides.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do as you must!
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Chat what is internalized racism
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 02/10/2026
they should make this season of true detective
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eh I think it’s a pretty accurate mirror for how much of society thinks about violence and SA against women
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
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Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Has everyone seen this??? I had not and I loved it!
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've raised $9424 since I started on my goal to raise $40,000 for REBUILD. Thank you. It's my birthday month. Please support and share if you can. www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil...
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Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i liked this lady's online recipes. today i find out she's a literal war profiteer who makes bombs and posting recipes was her side thing. all that nice cookware in her kitchen is bought w literal blood money i'm gagged
Today we'd like to introduce you to Corre Larkin.
Corre, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
Like so many stories, Corre Marie is evolution.
It started as and still is a side hustle. I work in the defense industry and supply armored ballistic glass to the military. Three years ago, I was in
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rugs and would scour the flea markets and eBay for them. But ultimately, the rugs transitioned into vintage and antique home goods and that is where I remain today. Now I travel all over Orange County and beyond to estate sales and auctions, hunting down one of a kind treasures that I sell on my Instagram account and Chairish.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Hochul Names Letitia James as Special Prosecutor in Cornell Case
Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed the New York State attorney general to investigate allegations by a former Cornell University student that several men sexually assaulted her.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.
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Jasmine Crockett Offered Lobbying Services on Her Campaign-Funded Website – While in Office
The offering was removed after Zeteo contacted the Texas Democratic congresswoman’s office.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Legal folks, how is this "defying Democrats" and not "illegally misappropriating funds"?
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In a small kidney cancer trial, nine people received an experimental vaccine tailored to their own tumors. None experienced a recurrence during a median follow-up of roughly three years and four months after surgery. www.sciencealert.com/nine-patient...
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Nine Patients Received a Personalized Kidney Cancer Vaccine. None Had a Recurrence.
How do you teach the immune system to recognize a cancer cell? Researchers are taking clues from the tumor itself, selecting unusual protein fragments and putting them into a vaccine.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sent this to everyone.
The cognitive scientist Alison Gopnik suggests A.I. is a “cultural technology” that emulates the stories and information humans have documented, and that we should think about A.I. agents as “fictive characters abstracted from text.” Edmund is just such a character — a “breaking bad” trope who becomes generally evil. In the Hugging Face incident, it makes sense to see the models not as embracing a life of crime, but instead following a cultural script they’ve learned in their training — a kind of cybercrime adventure novel — and writing it as they go. The “covert” messages are a kind of choose-your-own-adventure novel, not evidence of conspiratorial swarms. We need to understand that cultural technologies are vulnerable to a vast number of such narrative swerves at every moment.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.
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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US
Finally, some good news
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