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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 01/10/2026

Introducing Instructure's Surveillance Top 10, featuring Proctorio, Honorlock, YuJa, Turnitin, Piazza, McGraw Hill, Microsoft, Google, Perusall, and Pearson. This is a parody post.

Parody: Higher Education Surveillance Top 40 by Instructure

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 01/10/2026

If you asked me, who do you think you know on the YIMBYtown lineup, you would be my first guess.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

germainekoh.com/works/fair-w...

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Germaine Koh work

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Anna Fergusson @annafergusson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the week in my intro data science course where students learn that runif() is said r-unif not run-if, & they are like "duh" but no one had ever said it out loud before so they didn't know. Def read/watch more about this from @amelia.mn & of course @felienne.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, links⬇️

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 17/09/2026

feels kind of wild that the default great future achievement of LLMs is "someday if could cure cancer" when mRNA vaccines are in fact making progress on potentially curing or preventing certain cancers, very "we have curing cancer at home"

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 17/09/2026

WOW this is a big story, don't know how I missed it til now. Not that MTurk was perfect (it was not!) but what are people going to do to get their training data now? Are we thinking we're done training models?! And as this article makes clear, many many workers are going to be affected.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 17/09/2026

Learn more and register here! sites.google.com/umn.edu/2026... Women in AI and Data Science, October 26.

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2026 WiADS

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Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Several people at work and in my personal life are sick right now. There's a COVID surge. Repeat infections have cumulative impact. Great time to mask up again if you stopped.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 14/09/2026

This is going to be so good! Wish I was able to be there in person.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 14/09/2026

Interesting! Maybe I need to email someone in ITS and thank them.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 14/09/2026

I have many complaints about software, but I have to give Zoom kudos for prompting you to update as you are closing the program, not when you are opening it. Other tools should follow suit!

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 12/09/2026

This feels at least adjacent to the sort of nerds I know, so I'll ask-- is anyone else at Vintage Computer Fest Midwest this weekend? Mostly here because my spouse is a hardware nerd, but tagged along as it sounded interesting.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

all these years after reading it, this still remains one of the greatest pieces of journalism ever committed

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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died (Published 2002)

The last words of the men and women who were trapped on the high floors of the twin towers.

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Fifteen years ago I wrote about my work on the algorithm that helped to place the names on the 9/11 memorial. "In the days and months that I worked on the arrangement algorithm and the placement tool, I found myself frequently speaking these names out loud." blprnt.medium.com/all-the-name...

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All The Names: Algorithmic Design and the 9/11 Memorial

This post was originally published on June 10, 2011 on my blog. Since that link is pretty hard to find, I’m re-publishing it here.

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N Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is particularly relevant for the Twin Cities which has had weird weather today, but also everybody else. The reason your weather apps are getting glitchier, is bc. NOAA got eviscerated and can't sample atmospheric conditions as much. The data is worse for everybody.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 30/08/2026

I also found it on YouTube!

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Fossilized Tree Sap @amberrl.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I do actually wish crop art had a People’s Choice voting box like Christmas trees, wreaths, and some other art things. Related: did you know you can send messages to crop artists? Tell them good job, offer to buy their piece, etc. just talk to the person at the desk outside the room!

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mplsike.bsky.social @mplsike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Crop art goes hard this year, as we’ve all expected. I did my part with these five contributions. #cropart #seedart #mnstatefair #art

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

like the reason Dolly feels like an exceptional human being is because all the things we're talking about today in her lifetime of philanthropy trace back to just .... having empathy and we live in the era of "I Don't Know How to Explain to You That You Should Care About Other People"

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 25/08/2026

I will be there! Let's make a plan to connect. It has been ages! It's possible the last time we talked I was still a grad student, and now I'm tenured faculty...

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 24/08/2026

I'm so excited to learn that @merbroussard.bsky.social will be keynoting the Women in AI and Data Science conference this October in Minneapolis! www.linkedin.com/pulse/making... I love that they always seem to get someone AI-critical to kick things off.

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Making Sense of AI Together

August 24th, 2026 AI, Ethics, and the Future of Tech… Meredith Broussard is bringing it all to WiADS 2026! The featured keynote speaker for the Women in AI and Data Science (WiADS) Conference is none ...

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pumpkin spice jorbo 🍂 @bookenj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

flock shouldn’t exist. there’s no compromise to be had. my offer is no, and my counter-offer is also no

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 23/08/2026

I love Minneapolis

Jake Lang, a Nazi asshole, getting his ass picturesquely whooped in downtown Minneapolis by a person dressed as Spider-Man

I cannot overstate how much this photo looks like a comic book cover

Photo credit Chris Juhn Photography

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Tommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

but seriously this fast food situation is getting out of control

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stdlib @stdlib.io · 08/06/2026

For years, open source communities relied on visible friction: people got stuck, asked questions in public, and became part of a community. AI is changing that. What happens when newcomers are no longer visible—and neither side knows the other is there? blog.stdlib.io/ai-and-the-i...

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What We're No Longer Seeing: AI and the Invisible Newcomer in Open Source

How AI is absorbing the visible friction that open-source communities have always relied on to see—and welcome—newcomers.

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An important read.

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Ann VanderMeer @annvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sharing again because @ghoulpus.bsky.social story is just that good. Ya gotta read it!

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 26/07/2026

Pretty sure this is a local graffiti artist's tag, but it *is* kind of calling out for an #rstats package.

Lightpole covered in stickers. One reads RUINR NCG. HIGH VIZ

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 26/07/2026

Dairy Queen should be staffed exclusively by teenage humans

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Jimmi Lotts @jimmilotts.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A year or so ago this street art would have been nearly void of profound meaning. In 2026 Minneapolis? Intensely poignant and political. We had whistles. They had guns. Minneapolis.

A large posterboard designed in the shape of a whistle. It is attached to a wooden street pole next to a large park.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 22/07/2026

I also believe in the ADA! But what you've pictured looks pretty level to me. I've heard the folks going out for inspections are pretty aggressive this season, and the city is open to appeals if you don't think it's justified.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 19/07/2026

Thank you! Here she is young. There have been a few accidents in between (notably, a collision with a deer at 70 MPH) but she's still going strong.

Yellow Volvo 240 with 1980s California license plates.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 19/07/2026

Never, this is my child.

Shiny yellow Volvo 240 wearing a birthday hat that reads 40.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 19/07/2026

My beloved 1986 Volvo 240, which turned 40 this year (yes, I had a party), is a manual. It may just outlive me.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13/07/2026

ICE agents shouldn’t be executing people on the street even if they ARE the target of the warrant

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 06/07/2026

That makes total sense! Thanks for maintaining it as long as you did.

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 06/07/2026

@minedogucu.com is something up with www.learnr4free.com?

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Hannah Frick @frick.ws · 03/07/2026

A really nice data visualization and story-telling in the scrolling of this Pudding article on women's clothing sizes. They are a mess but this shows you in which ways they are messed up: pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...

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Sizing chaos

The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

from my own perspective this is one of the greatest harms done by this government and plotting a course to reverse this damage is must be a very priority in our speech and our activism

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 22/06/2026

I'm not a father but I'd love that, too.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/06/2026

I listened to the press conference so you don’t have to: - 15 defendants, all from the Twin Cities. 13 currently in custody - Direct Action MN mentioned - quotes and video from people fedposting on Instagram - lots of very obvious lies, local reporters were skeptical and they cut the Q&A off

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Sharon "Screams in Perimenopause" Z @sharonz.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I leave myself good calendar notes. Anyhoo, tomorrow is JD Vance’s launch of a book with the same title as a much better book by bell hooks. I’ve been meaning to get this one for awhile anyway and am looking forward to flat sales for him, so adding the bell hooks book to cart

My calendar reminder:

JD Vance book release date - order Communion by Bell Hooks from
Bookshop
Tuesday, Jun 16, 2026

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Amelia McNamara @amelia.mn · 16/06/2026

Just a reminder that today is a great day to buy bell hook's Communion and mess up someone else's SEO and rankings. I haven't purchased anything on Amazon in years but I went back just to do this.

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Elizabeth Davis @elizabethdavis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

To chime in as a Minneapolitan: whistles made a huge difference (and still do, ICE is still kidnapping people here, just at a slower pace). But what really helped was the pre-existing neighborhood groups from the summer of 2020, so get yourself whistle kits and start talking to your neighbors *now*

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 09/06/2026

grabbing every small business owner I can find by the shoulders and yelling directly into their faces that IF I DON'T HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT I CAN'T SEE ANY OF YOUR SHIT GET A FUCKING WEBSITE

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