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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

After being raped by a man on my hall sophomore year, I couldn’t leave my dorm room for weeks and failed several classes. I had to take out student loans so I could retake those credits. We almost never talk about the financial toll of campus sexual assault on survivors.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If anyone is looking to better understand the horrific bigger picture around campus sexual violence, follow Dr. Bedera. I wish I could assign her book "On The Wrong Side" as homework to literally every single person in higher ed.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

All these tools are BUILT on stolen data. If you can’t trust the people who made them to respect the law, you definitely can’t trust them to respect user instructions.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Plan-Do or Do Not-Study-Act Cycles: Really, there is only try”

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This experience is part of what universities are stealing from their students when they promote GenAI. It’s called “an education.”

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

(1) the vast majority of peer-reviewed academic papers have an abstract, which is an expert summary of the research and its findings (2) I hate that this "AI companion" blocks half the page when I'm trying to READ THE ARTICLE

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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SV is riding the Interurban Queen @unwindlearning.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Preach. Same for copyright-protected, proprietary info in patient files, like the stuff I spent years developing and thousands of dollars having legally reviewed, and you are not authorized or trained to use.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

100%. That’s a particularly vile form of academic misconduct.

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Megaholt 𓅃 @megaholt.medsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exactly! It’s beyond unsafe! That’s how you end up with dead residents and dead patients.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Entirely correct. Good for him for putting it in writing so it would be discoverable.

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 16/09/2026

Happy Baby Safety Month.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Here is how Mark Zuckerberg talks about AI agents vs what they are actually doing: It doesn't take that many people's annoying little "assistants" to pollute the internet, harass people, suck up dinner reservations, hack stuff, etc.

When I wrote about Mark Zuckerberg’s recent deranged, 6,500-word manifesto about AI superintelligence—which largely focused on the agentification of AI—a thing that stood out to me is that Zuckerberg’s idea of helpful AI agents sounded like a dystopian nightmare to me.

“Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more,” Zuckerberg wrote. “It will free up time for the things you enjoy, and help you accomplish more than you could otherwise. It will have strong privacy and security options so you can trust it to handle all of your personal content knowing that no one else can access your information, similar to how encryption works on WhatsApp. You’ll be able to interact with your agent through any device, including your glasses to keep you present in the moment with the people you care about.”

Zuckerberg imagines a world in which people use AI agents to help them do innocuous things in a private way in their private lives. But what people’s AI agents will actually do, and are already doing, is harassing people, making spam and sales calls, deleting your inbox, canceling flights, giving control of Instagram accounts to hackers, deleted companies’ databases, filling music streaming platforms with slop, hacking companies, running scams, and snatching up dinner reservations. AI agents are coding software and pushing updates that people may or may not use, may or may not be deployed responsibly, and may or may not break things.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...

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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Two things are true at the same time: 1. Yes, it’s a really bad moment for food safety. 2. You should just never eat the sprouts.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just trying to catch up on emails so I can do my actual work, if I’m being honest. 😂

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You know what they say: “Play-giarism machines gonna play-giarize.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I feel like we’re really overdue for a thread of things that have changed for women in your lifetime. I’m interested in good and bad things. Any little life moment that would feel unbelievable if it happened in 2026.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hilarious and enlightening activity in today's academic orientation (I did not come up with the idea; Jered Bright did). Students wrote professional emails to profs on the board, and we brainstormed how to make them even better. Then they wrote the most unprofessional email to a prof they could.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Don’t lie to your patients, like this doctor did. If not wearing an n-95 for a few minutes is more important to you than your patient’s life and wellbeing, just say so. Don’t try to BS them with fake “new science.”

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In San Diego County (a healthier than usual community), 58% of people had comorbidities associated with an increased risk of death from COVID. And that was BEFORE long COVID/ postviral illness made so many people so much sicker.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s easier to rein in abusive labor practices in burger flipping: Got to clock in/out, your boss’s opinion doesn’t follow you long; & you can only work AT work. Postdocs (& grad students) are pressured to make work their whole identity; advisors have tremendous power—and you can ALWAYS be working.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

this is the part of my miscarriage experience that i didn't share in my piece the other day. it was so horrific to experience that i didn't want others to have to even read it. but i decided, you know what, fuck it. i tell the truth and this is the truth.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 26/08/2026

Some people on here really need to go touch graph.

A graph with a green noisy line that looks like grass. X-axis label "x", Y-axis label "y"

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Often, somebody famous dies and there’s an outpouring of love and celebration of their goodness—and I think to myself, “I hope some of them thought to say this while the person was still alive.” I’m so glad Dolly Parton got to hear it all while she was still with us.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is an important and damning study: at least 25% of *all* NFL players who died between 2016-2021 had CTE, most with advanced cases. More than *90%* of the brains examined had CTE. The actual prevalence is likely way higher than 25%. This sport is not morally sustainable.

Conclusions At minimum, nearly a quarter of all former NFL players who died during 2016-21 had CTE neuropathology at death. Among NFL player brain donors, dementia diagnosed based on records before death was common and associated with stage IV CTE.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

what's my point? coverage and access gaps could cause relapses. and we know how easy it is to end up in one of those gaps, even if you do everything right. and these aren't cheap drugs. this needs to be studied more for addiction treatment in the context of our system.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i want to get vulnerable for a sec and talk about my experience with the GLP-1 as someone who had an alcohol addiction. now, at the time i started taking it, i didn't really get cravings anymore except under extreme stress (even then they were very brief). the GLP-1 eliminated my cravings 100%. BUT

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I regret to inform you that these traditional college courses in AI are indistinguishable from the classrooms I sat in at for-profit colleges 15 years ago. Centralized curriculum & branding, technological control, “virtual” libraries, & bureaucratic alienation of labor.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Not to distract from the current catastrophe, but you might want to cut sprouts out of your diet in the best of times. They’re basically just little bacteria condos.

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Alan J. Card @alanjcard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Safety scientist: The cup is part of a system & that system has a purpose—probably more than one! The meaning of that amount of liquid in the cup depends on the actors, their goals, & constraints. We need to talk to the ppl involved.

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Lauren Kirchner @lkirchner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Consumer Reports tested 13 e-scooters to rate and review. But because of the frequency of injuries being reported - including injuries sustained by the CR testers themselves in this process - CR is not recommending ANY. www.consumerreports.org/cars/electri...

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We Tested 13 Electric Scooters. We Don’t Recommend Any. - Consumer Reports

CR doesn't recommend e-scooters because of their high speeds and rising injury rates. Two of CR's testers sustained injuries while evaluating e-scooters, too.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I love this! I feel like pop-song mashups are made especially for ADHD people, because it’s sort of like: the inside of my head, only set to music

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