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Cascade Starships @cascadestarships.bsky.social · 18h

Spent some time this weekend finally finishing up the 1/2500 scale Allies and Adversaries set by #PolarLights. All that remained was the Keldon and Defiant! Yes, they're all to scale. Bonus picture of the AMT 1/720 kit to get a 2x2 post. #startrek #AMT #modelkit #modelmaking #scalemodel

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 3h

New political orders have often relied on displays of spectacular violence to signal a break with the old order, ushering in new assumptions.

Alt text: First page of a 2015 American Journal of Physical Anthropology article. Bold title: “New Dental and Isotope Evidence of Biological Distance and Place of Origin for Mass Burial Groups at Cahokia’s Mound 72.” By Andrew R. Thompson, Kristin M. Hedman, and Philip A. Slater. Black text, two columns.

Caption: Thompson, Hedman, and Slater revisit four mass graves of mostly young women at Mound 72 in Cahokia, near modern St. Louis. Earlier dental studies suggested these women came from outside Cahokia, perhaps as sacrificial offerings. Using tooth measurements and strontium isotopes, this study finds most were likely local. One group, F229-lower, stands apart and may have come from a single, narrow region.

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Alt text: First page of a 2011 Cambridge Archaeological Journal article by Massimo Vidale. Bold title: “PG 1237, Royal Cemetery of Ur: Patterns in Death.” An italic abstract fills the top half. Two columns of black text below begin a section titled “State of the question.”

Caption: Vidale reexamines the Great Death Pit at Ur, a Sumerian mass grave that Leonard Woolley excavated in 1928–29. New X-ray evidence suggests some of the dead were killed violently rather than poisoning themselves by choice. Many may have entered the pit dressed as musicians, singers, and dancers, carried in ritual groups. The careful arrangement supports reading these burials as royal funerals.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 18h

One of the best pieces I’ve read on the perverse administrative worldview that leads to things such as wide scale adoption of AI in the classroom: there is no process btw faculty & student into which a profit-seeking intermediary cannot 1st be inserted globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...

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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators

Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 10h

Compare faculty and staff salaries in the humanities, while administrators, claiming “no money!”, spend handsomely on edtech no one wants.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 18h

Reading about Mosley getting his ass kicked really makes one's day.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Academia distilled.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One must imagine the Stone of Liverpool to be happy.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Everything he is saying here is fully vindicating my belief that we need Religious Studies as an academic discipline to begin to understand the culture surrounding AI, and its millenarian fantasies.

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Dante The K9 @dantethek9.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One thing I'll always give Geoff Johns...the man knows Superman.

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There goes my pancake-flavored sawdust and prayer cloth vendor.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026

stephen kotkin said that nothing will make you appreciate freedom like studying unfreedom. for myself, these days, i study unfreedom in order to understand freedom. thus, my next readings:

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Animated Antic @animatedantic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The fact that Coyote Vs. Acme both managed to be somewhat of a box office success after all it went through really is proof that execs do not know anything about what the audience wants from films. And I'm glad it was one because it deserved to be since it was just great.

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Holodeck Four @holodeckfour.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Well, this is fun!

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Smart to piss people off who might make your tax policy. Or regulate the marketplace.

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ian says DC statehood now @wareian.com · 01/10/2026

many talented people worked very hard to make this happen and an even bigger group of incredible library workers lent their voices to talk about the field. very much worth your time, but I might be a lil biased ;) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

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Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬 @drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holy shite - a professor at Harvard who advocated for the survivors was denied tenure. She was later terminated. The same day the termination notice arrived, she received the Early Career Teaching Excellence Award.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Theckla and the Widows salute.

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McMaster Religious Studies @mcmasterreligion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Congratulations to Katharine Fitzgerald (PhD 2023) on the publication of her book, Women in Greco-Roman Jewish Novels (300 BCE–100 CE)! sheffieldphoenix.com/product/wome...

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Or check out Vaughan, Brian K., Tony Harris, Tom Feister, and JD Mettler. Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days.

Comic book cover. A man in a dark suit rests his chin on his hand, looking thoughtful. Beside him stands a figure in an orange helmet, goggles, and dark armor. Behind them stand a woman in red, a long-haired man, a police officer, and a red-haired woman.
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The cover of Ex Machina: The First Hundred Days, credited to Brian K. Vaughan, Tony Harris, Tom Feister, and JD Mettler. A banner notes the series won multiple 2005 Eisner Awards, including Best New Series. A blurb from Playboy calls the book "a two-fisted blend of super-hero action and political debate," a pairing echoed by the suited man and the armored hero in the foreground.

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In which a student journalist, editor of this student newspaper’s opinion section (the same student newspaper that broke the story to begin with), calls for the entirely justified firing of Dartmouth’s Provost Plagiarism…

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Moyse: Fire Provost Santiago Schnell

Reporting has provided ample evidence of Provost Schnell’s inexcusable actions,   which are symptomatic of broader problems with the administration’s fetishization of AI.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I would like to make an argument for the humanities.

Screenshot of a Reuters news summary page. Headline: "Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costs," by Echo Wang, dated September 28, 2026. Bullet points list Anthropic's IPO valuation, 2025 financial losses, compute spending, and industry concerns. A photo shows an illuminated "Anthropic" sign at night.

Caption: A Reuters exclusive summary reports that Anthropic's IPO prospectus could value the company at more than $2 trillion, despite a $42 billion loss in 2025 and $7.33 billion spent on compute and infrastructure. The report also notes the company's operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025, up from $2.98 billion the year before.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trapped in a time paradox. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Tomorrow's Enterprise Season 4 Episode 10

A small spacecraft flies through a large docking bay opening into space. Beyond the bay, a circular blue light ring frames a swirling orange and dark nebula. The bay's white curved walls and floor reflect soft blue light.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We're not gonna make it. [anticipates the guitar riff] No, we're not going to make it. [bread turns stale] So, how about we take it?

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...

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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan

How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even better that it's not naboo

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An Anarchist Anthropologist & an Apocalyptic Oligarch Discuss Futures of Value. I found this discussion between Graeber (RIP) and Thiel to be damned illuminating. After all, a decade on and we are living in the apocalyptic oligarch's world wants. youtu.be/xgYSMivqBNg?...

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Annotated Discussion - David Graeber and Peter Thiel - Where did the future go?

YouTube video by Some Seedbed Lectures

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Academics trying to publish a gazillion papers cannot resist the temptation of using AI cause it's not abt knowledge making for them. It's abt themselves. So far AI is just a self serving, narcissistic tool that does the "hard work" people don't want to do. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This text might help us with a language to describe the downfall of all these fascist fucks.

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Book contents list beside the red cover of The Player and the Played by Max Haiven. The cover shows two white dice with black icons: cracked phone, skull, pixel heart, crouching silhouette, rifle, game controller. Some contents phrases have white boxes; one has a teal outline.

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Table of contents and cover of The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism by Max Haiven. The teal outline marks the conclusion's title, "What Is the Antifascist Game?" The contents list five chapters, plus an introduction, references, and an index.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In "The Player and the Played," @maxhaiven.bsky.social theorizes the connections between the financialization of the capitalist economy, the gamification of our lives, and the rising threat of a uniquely 21st-century form of fascistic politics: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205604... #OpenAccess

A copy of "The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Facism" by Max Haiven. The cover is red and depicts two white dice bearing black illustrations including a skull, an automatic rifle, a sphinx, a heart, a video game console, and mobile phone.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Each episode is doing meaningful character development. Outside of that, this was a rough one. No stakes, a bit meandering, a bit confusing, and ultimately boring. #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds

La'an in an ornate gold gown holds a small brown dog. She looks startled, mid-speech, one hand raised near the dog's head. The scene is dim and forest-toned. Screen text reads "Once La'an a Time," Season 4, Episode 9.

Caption: In this Strange New Worlds episode, "Once La'an a Time," the crew returns to the Elysian Kingdom, but this time as a real fantasy planet. The image shows a woman in a jeweled gown holding a small dog, set against a shadowy, storybook backdrop that hints at the episode's fairy-tale twist.

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DEVONtechnologies @devontechnologies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Last call ⏰ Tomorrow the 40 percent back-to-school discount ends. If "getting organized this semester" is still on your to-do list, today's the day to actually do it. Grab it before it's gone. #devonthink #devonthinktogo #academics #backtoschool #studytips #notetaking #markdown buff.ly/NxTZxHt

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

"For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection" @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/steven-pin...

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From celebrity intellectual to anti-woke outlaw: how Steven Pinker lost his way

The pop psycholgist’s new book seems to betray a lurking fear of others’ criticism – about his Epstein links, his manosphere admirers and his discredited former field of study, writes Virginia Heffern...

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"I vote for unionization." Those are the four words that can make you more influential at work.

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Some Professor @anarchyhow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The space shots from this week's episode were incredible. #StarTrek #SNW

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