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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When you have no concept of how people engage with music

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I am not joking when I say this.
Spotify, Apple Music, and streaming in general is over.
Al music is now very, very good. You just don't know yet because all Al music circulating today is from ~2-3 generations ago.
Suno v6 pro et al has solved infinite personalized music.

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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited. n.pr/4hzKO9J

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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them

Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/09/2026

Not really sure where a bunch of liberals got the idea that they can’t win without throwing trans people in the garbage, but they’re stupid and cruel and wrong. If you want a human sacrifice so damned bad put gavin newsom in the wicker man

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

we've never had much reason to articulate this before a.i., but a reason we enjoy literature, art, music, etc. is that we know it is one human mind trying to express something fundamentally human and otherwise inexpressible to another human mind

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026

Universities are subsidizing internal AI tools that are, from the perspective of the humanities, enabling cheating & cognitive outsourcing. The cost in resources is certainly an issue, but the fact that these tools undermine the work we ask students to do is ridiculous www.umass.edu/it/genai/pla...

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GenAI Platform : UMass Amherst Information Technology : UMass Amherst

The UMass GenAI platform is an intuitive and user-friendly platform designed to provide the UMass community with equitable access to leading generative AI models, including OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic...

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 10/09/2026

As a higher ed finance person, I keep emphasizing that more students are enrolling in high cost of educating fields like health and engineering and fewer in lower-cost fields like the humanities. This squeezes institutional budgets as cross-subsidies disappear.

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Report: Humanities Majors Disappearing

Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The fixation on college majors continues to be one of the great bait and switches of modern education. Core curriculum classes, distributed across the subjects and comprising the bulk of course credits taught in any given year continue to be *most* of college education.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

You are not better than academia because you have monetized our culture’s grievances with academics and intellectuals. You are using your periphery to universities to be an intellectual parasite and launder the right wing goal to dismantle higher education.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

Some people handling African indigo-dyed fabrics. The fabrics have circular patterns on them.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/05/2026

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 08/09/2025

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The “Person who wants a political party to lose describes what that political party must do to win” genre of article is just incredibly insulting to everyone’s intelligence yet it will persist until the end of time

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

This is the thing about student course evaluations—they were never originally intended as measures of teaching quality. That purpose was stapled onto them later.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Absolutely brilliant.

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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

People living under fascism didn’t survive by giving up joy—they protected it. They held onto the things fascism tried to erase: art, friendship, jokes, rituals, language, memory. Not as escapism but as resistance. As proof they were still human. Joy isn’t frivolous under fascism. It’s strategic.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thank you @washingtonpost.com “Once it was mostly a taco website. Now it's covering L.A. ICE raids. L.A. Taco has become a formidable media outlet amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the resulting protests.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Once it was mostly a taco website. Now it’s covering L.A. ICE raids.

L.A. Taco has become a formidable media outlet amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the resulting protests.

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I know it seems obvious to a lot of people that an academic department without many majors must be struggling so it makes sense to cut them. But that's just not how it works. The people in that dept are the only people who can teach the classes they teach - a dept is struggling if no one takes those

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

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Iran

Join Rick as he explores the most surprising and fascinating land he's ever visited: Iran. In a one-hour, ground-breaking travel special on public television, you'll discover the splendid monuments of...

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Polling data from Harris & Associates 1966.
Q: Do you approve of what Freedom Riders are Doing? 22% approve 61%disapprove18%no opinion.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Them: “LA is a full on insurrection” Us at the protest:

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 03/05/2025

It’s funny because I grew up as a Black kid during the 90s and if “people think we’re bad” was as determinative as it’s being depicted me and everyone I know should be dead by now.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

A photo of the Southwick manufacturing plant before it closed. The photo shows a bunch of people at various sewing stations. This was located in Massachusetts.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/03/2025

1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.  I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Just on a vibe level, you are likelier to convince people to vote for you if you clearly stand for something. The people who agree with you will rally around that; the people who don't know if they do will at least see that you're capable of standing for something. It's been like 20 years of this.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

This is flatly illegal. The plain text of the law says that any person who works for any 501(c)(3) nonprofit is eligible. There is ZERO authority for limiting eligibility based on the work such nonprofit does. They WILL lose the lawsuit. Even so, this is making so many people’s lives harder.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Thank you, DOGE, for clearly visualizing what incredible value the American people get from their national parks. 17,700 permanent employees making an average of $81,000 a year serving 325 million visitors annually. Is there a better value in the entire federal government?

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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

So many smart people seem to believe that higher ed. should be job training, explicitly. The rise in business (undergraduate) majors is one byproduct of such a perspective. And watching universities cut humanities is another. I find this approach incredibly shortsighted, and ultimately defeating. 🧵

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A.J. McCaffrey @ajmccaffrey.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I’m so happy with how this collaboration turned out - my solo cello piece for Erica Wise, streaming now! open.spotify.com/track/5fgxIy...

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