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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026

anyway in a just world a giant cartoon piano would fall on hanania and tracey in the middle of their pro rape podcast

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Cornell Police and the County Prosecutor's office seem intent on saying, in barely concealed terms, the other is to blame. It's a system where they're both happy to be able to pass off any responsibility while preserving their authority / power / territory; something fundamental has to change.

cnn.com

Mood at Cornell University darkens amid mounting pressure on investigators of alleged sex assault | CNN

At first glance, the Cornell University looks like a picture-perfect college brochure. But students say the mood on campus has turned somber amid allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.

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

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

"The US has grown used to the swift and dramatic erosion of women’s health and status that has followed Dobbs," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social, "to the horror stories and upward ticking body counts, grown into ease, and even a kind of compliant boredom, with women’s death and indignity."

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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan

The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This thread is so important because it gets at the AI industry’s central failure of imagination. While I’ve met exceptions to the rule in Silicon Valley, most human beings do not reduce their sense of being alive to a stream of successive task completions, and find it a truly alienating vision.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

the whole point of LLMs is to add another layer of separation between the people doing the social harms and the harms themselves like hiring a consultant, the point is for it to do what you always wanted while you go "haha that thing has a mind of its own"

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 24/09/2026

Access to Special Ed should not depend on effective parent advocacy: "When schools rely on parents to push for services using sophisticated advocacy skills, that widens inequities for children whose caregivers lack time, resources or English proficiency." www.the74million.org/article/why-...

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Why Access to Special Education Depends Too Much on Parents

Richards: The biggest predictor of whether children receive special education services shouldn't be how effectively their parents can advocate.

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026

Increasingly, “U.S. jails are moving beyond periodic checks of people in custody toward continuous physiological and video-based monitoring, creating a new layer of correctional technology before common rules have emerged for how the resulting data should be stored, accessed, retained, or reused.”

biometricupdate.com

U.S. jails expand continuous biometric monitoring as data rules lag | Biometric Update

Wearable sensors and AI camera analytics are spreading across U.S. correctional facilities as rules on consent, retention and secondary use remain inconsistent.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine if the WH press corp had banded together 18 fucking months ago

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last week, the world lost an extraordinary scholar and person. Alexander Reyes, a PhD student at UCI and my advisee, died after a severe illness. Please considering contributing to this fundraiser for his family, who have incurred tremendous expenses this summer, in his memory if you can.

gofundme.com

Donate to Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander, organized by Elizabeth Sandoval

Our family is reaching out to ask for support for our beloved cousin, Alex… Elizabeth Sandoval needs your support for Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 21/09/2026

lol when a military coup polls better than the president

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 07/07/2026

> “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural condition. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Human communication involves not only internal
coherence but also reference to shared reality, and
communicated words, thus, carry extensions, relations to
the actual nature of things in the world, which calculated
words do not (Bunz, 2026). Two terms may share the
adjacent intension in a high-dimensional vector space while
differing radically in extension, a phenomenon impossible in
communicated language, but routine in calculation. The result
is writing that is relevant without being reliable; contextually
proximate, but not anchored to the things those words
ostensibly name. “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting
a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural
condition. When users treat LLM outputs as communications
of “meaning” rather than calculations of form, they engage in
“human hallucination”, anthropomorphizing generated writing
by conceptualizing it in the image of human expression
(Bunz, 2026), producing a systematic over-attribution of
understanding to systems where none exists. Training critical
thinkers to recognize the mode of production underlying a
text, rather than reasoning solely from its surface fluency, thus
becomes a pedagogical obligation.
Of note, this argument does not claim that LLMs are
useless.‡

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The cool thing about complicity is that it goes away if you just tell people you don’t have it

Ed Sheeran breaks silence on Macklemore's tour exit: I am not complicit'

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What if AI neither saves nor destroys humanity but takes the enshittification of the internet so far that I finally log off forever... and thereby AI saves me?

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The fact also that the product in question seems to produce a dangerous dependence that leaves students lacking confidence in their own minds and abilities is enough for us not to be testing it; but the fact that the tech is driving some vulnerable young people to suicide is even more alarming.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once you notice this, it's the most obvious double standard in the political press. Democrats have to answer for the smallest voice even if it has no actual tie to them, but Republicans never have to answer for the insanely racist billionaire donor driving their entire party.

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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Massachusetts law forbids providers from withholding care based on gender identity, but Fenway Health ended lifesaving gender-affirming care for 400 young people almost a year ago and so far has gotten away with it. So much for our "progressive" state. Solidarity with the arrested activists.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/09/2026

As someone who has been tweeted about personally by Rowling. And who spends my whole life trying to fight the damage caused by the litigation she funds. I think, personally, I would be less harmed by you giving me an actual kick in the ribs than watching the new Harry Potter & trying to justify it.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

theverge.com

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

bigotry from Bari Weiss? but how could this be! shocking

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

They don’t even have to lie well anymore.

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Not a fan of Hasan Piker but he's a guy who streams monologues to a small audience. Elon spends hundreds of millions of dollars trying to get Republicans elected and was for weeks the second most powerful member of the federal government, but oddly Republicans are rarely grilled about his views

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s wild to me that 6 years ago people were absolutely apoplectic about schools using Zoom. They INSISTED that schools needed to be open, despite the health risks, because it was so important for kids to be in traditional classes. Now they are promoting this.

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

it is incredibly noticeable here that the pretty much explicit position of cottle is “black people’s opinions don’t count, they need to accept what Real America says”

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Also: a lot of decisions have been made about AI in ed by people who had not tried LLMs, did not understand how they work, were not in the classroom, did not really understand how students were likely to use them, and were driven by FOMO rather than by data/knowlege/understanding/learning.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica...The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” -Jennifer Nelson (quoted in the linked booklet, alongside other extraordinary pieces)

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It is frustrating trying to be an honest, considerate, hardworking person, when many signs indicate it is much more lucrative right now to be a liar and a grifter with no moral core or ethical framework for daily life. I just hope these people eventually get what they deserve.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yes. They are actually angry at him for ruining their fun by injecting real world consequences. that matches my experience of targeted harassment, a lesson you can see in how I engage on here.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The targeted harassment of Black academics IS the game for them. It goes hat in hand with their grievances. They are downright giddy at flinging every kind of accusation possible. Anyone who believes they are arguing in good faith or on any actual principles whatsoever is both naive and arrogant.

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