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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦

@alexanderjustice.bsky.social
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Doing my little part to build up student and faculty information literacy for 25 years. Theological studies librarian. 🎓Crafton Hills [Community] College, LMU, UCLA. 🏳️‍🌈 ☸️ ☕️

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Hoon @hoon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Guess who’s pissed off by the loss in right wing bot traffic?
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EngagedPureLand @engagedpureland.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Shambhala exerts a strong influence over Anglophone Buddhism. The myth of Trungpa's enlightenment and teaching prowess is continually reproduced by some of the most powerful Buddhist media outlets, despite the rot at Shambhala's heart being repeatedly exposed andreamwinn.com/buddhist-pro...
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Buddhist Project Sunshine
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Vatican please take note. Very hard to focus on encyclical content when Oxford commas are missing.
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hello @twotimesjohnny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
they’re also getting pr & marketing value out of it. From us. As we type and post have you heard about the marketing campaign that created the concept ‘jaywalking is bad’ ? when cars were new and people objected to being run over? this ‘ai morality’ schtick isn’t trivial
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Virginia Woolf also studied, and loved the study of, classical Greek. maybe this nobel prize is a little bit of vindication.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I can’t keep up. Is AI god or just a little scrappy company trying to revise its terms and conditions? Anyone have the latest on that?
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026
NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
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WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.United States
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"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
lol - being an utter fool is great until your friends see you doing it
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Plays guitar" mmmm nope
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Prefers unbleached, natural, or sensitive-formula household consumables" Guilty #AmazonAboutYou
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This week I have discovered "Older Testament" and "Newer Testament" and I'm fascinated and want to explore the ramifications and opinions from all quarters
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 07/10/2026
Looks like a blatant case of unauthorized pedestrian activity. youtube.com/shorts/P7Ltm...
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NYPD cop runs red light, hits cyclist in unmarked car #nyc #news #crash #brooklyn
YouTube video by Streetsblog NYC
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"That last night, for some reason, he left his hat and his Red Bull at the restaurant. He always drank Red Bull at work. The last thing he told me was, 'I’m gonna leave my Red Bull. I’ll drink it tomorrow.' I still have it at the restaurant. That’s what kills me."
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A year without Silverio - Chicago Reader
A Portage Park restaurant owner remembers Silverio Villegas González, the quiet, hardworking cook who was killed by an ICE agent.
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I keep lists on my phone of: women who have recorded the Beethoven sonata cycle women mangaka and anime directors because my memory sucks, and also just because.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Using surveillance software is also very much a sign that management has no appreciation for the actual work their employees are doing. Books don't get made like widgets get made. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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S&S Staff Balk at AI Performance-Tracking Software Talks
Employees at Simon & Schuster are circulating an open letter objecting to the potential use of AI software to track their work. In a memo, CEO Greg Greeley said there is currently “no company-wide rol...
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Dr. Jorts, MD @alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A MAN FROM CHICAGO IS BRINGING THE NEW RENAISSANCE!!!!
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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Indigenous languages are often hidden to LLMs, for good reason. We speak with Keoni Mahelona about his work on Indigenous data sovereignty, and why it’s worth being skeptical when the “AI" industry says it cares about preserving Indigenous languages. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
if one replaces "Old Testament" with "Hebrew Bible" out of sensitivity, doesn't the same sensitivity suggest setting aside "New Testament" as well?
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I hope that the public broadcasting services of the independent Scotland to come will not lock Gàidhlig programs behind paywalls.
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
personally, I think there's a huge difference between a landowner and a householder #parables #LostInTranslation
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wow. so were the plagues visited on the Philistines in First Samuel bubonic plague dysentery or hemorrhoids? fascinating stuff, and apparently the original text was and is a hot mess, despite translators making it somehow legible to us
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"...as reports of AI agents being misused mount." #FixedIt
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
a Vatican theologian recently wondered if Thiel should be burned at the stake true story!
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mild consideration & curiosity might lead one to think that putting Peter Thiel at the heart of 🇬🇧’s NHS and military logistics might not be prudent…
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So there is a Gen Alpha? I thought they were mythical.
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Hans E. Offerdal @hofferdal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Norwegian Foreign Minister, Mr. Espen Barth Eide, opened his speech at UNGA by quoting Antonio Gramsci! "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Today is European Day of Languages I've a good friend who spoke Ulster Scots until he went to secondary school and was beaten by the teachers until he spoke properly Here Liz Berry recalls her & her father’s love of Black Country dialect before school robbed her of language #poetry #poemoftheday
Poem - 'The Sea of Talk' by Liz Berry
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m currently writing about the chair of the OR GOP in 1978-9 who was a Christian Identity adherent. At the time it made him sound like a weirdo to most of his contemporaries. Today, he would just sound like yet another one of these MAGA bro preachers. rightlandia.ghost.io/basically-ch...
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"Basically Church Type Stuff:" Old Timey Christian Americanism and the Rhizomatic History of American Fascism
Or, the crucial but sometimes fuzzy distinction between a) being a White American Christian, and b) being influenced by a violent, White Christian Supremacist variety of conspiratorial, antisemitic Am...
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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Following the news that Manchester City FC has been found guilty of 114 breaches of the PL's rules and regulations, @josimarfootball.bsky.social has lifted the paywall on articles of ours focusing on MCFC and its commercial partners since 2018. Links follow in this thread.
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The Men Behind Manchester City: The Dark Side | Josimar
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
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Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled'
Mistral AI's co-founder believes the sector's American giants are manipulating the discourse around the technology's risks. He also defended his strategy, as critics are accusing his company of fallin...
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
first they came for the cinnamon...
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇳🇴 Scotland & Norway have drawn similar amounts of North Sea oil since the 1970s As a result: 🇳🇴Value of National Oil Fund : €2,100,000,000,000.00 (Generates €250 Bn per year in interest alone) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Value of National Oil Fund : £0 (Scotland’s share uk National Debt £545 BILLION) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Are you YES yet ?🇪🇺
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EngagedPureLand @engagedpureland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#buddhism #buddhist #jodoshinshu #shinbuddhism #engagedbuddhism #liberationtheology
Liberated Pure Land Buddhist Ethics, with Rev. CJ Sokugan Dunford. All sessions in-person at the Buddhist Temple of Marin. Suggested donation $20. Session 1: Sunday, October 11, 1pm, Systems Theory and the Problem of Individualism in Ethics. Session 2: Liberation Theology: History and Buddhist Reflections. Session 3: Ethical Praxis: Theory Living as Practice. (The advertisement also contains a QR code that can be scanned for registration or more info)
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
still working on my list of women LvB sonata interpreters. anyone missing? Melodie Zhao Annie Fischer Angela Hewitt (finished yet?) Mari Kodama Maria Grinberg Idil Biret H.J. Lim Tatyana Nikolayeva Anne Oland Yamane Yaeko Tamami Honma Hieyon Choi Yu Kosuge
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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Spent some time exploring the #LucasMuseum library and pulled out a couple of Los Angeles titles, incl'g Eric Avila’s "Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear & Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles" & @lynellgeorge.bsky.social's “After/Image: Los Angeles Outside the Frame.” #librarysky #booksky
A color photo of the Lucas Museum library shows the three levels of bookshelves in the library. Patrons can be seen sitting at tables looking through the various art books.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's a neat thing! My mom retired after 25+ as a children's librarian at public libraries yesterday. (It was very cool! Hundreds of former Story Hour kids arrived, some as adults!) I let Ed Markey's office know in case they wanted to send a nice email back and they sent this! He's still got it!
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
new (and more) rain gutters going up today #DoingMyPart #ElNino
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
seriously unfortunate that there was not an Industrial Counterrevolution
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
want to look at Guardini's Der Heiland but can't find it and I can't ask the librarian because I am the librarian
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
some are now grateful, I think, that they now have cheap, automated adminstrative assistants for everyday life others, I hope, are wondering how the bloody hell our lives became so complicated that we feel we need them (I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with the capitalist mode of production)
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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦 @alexanderjustice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"rogue AI hacks national medical system" or "owners / programmers of an AI product allow it access to..."
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