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Angela H.

@angelah.bsky.social
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Comparativist who fell into the long 18th-c and decided to stick around. I’m Bartleby-the-scrivner-ing LLMs and their inevitability. Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections (New Histories of Philosophy @OUP). Views expressed are mine alone.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Excellent piece
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026
To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution
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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
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Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And there it is.
ScrollEd is following a freemium model, combining a free consumer feed with a paid ScrollEd Pro subscription and annual institutional licenses. Institutions pay to deliver educationa material through the platform, in exchange for reports about engagement, lesson progress, and other data.
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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 21/09/2026
We have altered the user agreement. Pray we do not alter it further.
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI tech bro doomers are inventing a story to cause panic instead of deliberating at the polls, in Congress and community meetings. "The threat is from destructive misuse of A.I. by humans rather than from autonomous A.I. agents themselves.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My whole career the Humanities seem to have been curled up in a defensive crouch trying to justify our meaning/existence. At times it has even seemed a productive thought exercise, but I think generally whatever body has demanded the justification is not really open to being persuaded of anything.
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📣📣📣📣
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of immigrants did the hard, dirty work of clearing rubble and toxic dust and debris from Ground Zero. Many were undocumented laborers sent to work every day with no special PPE, and got cancer as a result. Now some of those same people are living in fear of ICE. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The credibility of anything that the president promises to do, no matter how plausible or implausible, if his party retains a majority of both chambers of Congress, should be viewed through the fact that his party currently has a majority of both chambers and hasn't done that thing
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
AI has not done anything to / for my job except make it worse and harder
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
AI hiring tools can reject qualified people "for reasons no one—including the employer—can adequately explain," warns NYU School of Law senior affiliated research scholar and former EEOC chair Charlotte A. Burrows. She says gutting disparate impact law makes it worse. buff.ly/5VZbkM3
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A Labor Day Prescription for Preserving Fair Employment in the Digital Age
We can’t let technological progress turn back the clock on civil rights, writes Charlotte A. Burrows.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Things happen in college in addition to "learning content" and that's why AP or "college in the high school" will never be the same as college classes
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There is an extraordinary disparity between how aggressively Florida now monitors and regulates the education of adults in public universities and the laissez faire approach to regulating kids in publicly funded private schools
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Three California college students had to be rescued from Mount Shasta on Monday during a poorly planned summit climb in which they overshot their itinerary, meandered off-route and ran out of food and water." Must've been a bad intro to prompt engineering class www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on AI chatbot to plan trip
Hikers using AI chatbots to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost and confused. In one instance this week, a group of climbers relying on them to plan their trip had to be rescued.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [wicked lute riffe] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The Secretary of the Treasury is using the IRS to advance a pro-White Nationalist agenda. That is extraordinary.” —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on @npr.org with @steveinskeep.bsky.social #highered
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Wesleyan University president on administration's efforts to revoke tax-exempt status
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Wesleyan University president Michael Roth about U.S. Treasury and IRS efforts to revoke tax-exempt status from private schools that help students based on race.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Some discussion today of institutions that want to bring AI into writing classes, which made me want to reshare this from this: writinghacks.substack.com/p/when-the-f... /1
I was teaching college during the first year that most students had access to these tools. In the future, students will arrive in college having had chatbots accompany them every step of the way. As AI developments advance, students at every level are going to need guidance on how — or if — they should incorporate these tools into their learning. We need to invest in making sure that teachers have the training to guide them — but more important, we need to stay focused on what we want students to be learning in the first place. Our students are not products to be moved down a frictionless assembly line, and the hard work of reading, writing, and thinking is not a problem to be solved.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026
Tech companies don’t understand scholarship. ‘Quickness’ and ‘efficiency‘ are not always the right values. Sometimes you don’t want to “answer your research queries faster” and when you do, existing search technology is more than adequate to help you do scholar.googleblog.com/2026/08/quic...
Answering a research question often requires reading through several papers and figuring out how each of them might be useful. You need to track down what each paper says about your question, what methods the authors used to arrive at the relevant results, and what caveats to keep in mind to understand the boundaries.

Today, we are introducing Scholar Quick Read, to help you answer your research queries faster. Search results in Scholar Labs and Scholar search that discuss your question in depth now include a “Quick read” link.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
only LLMs undergrads should be using? Library Loan Mechanism
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
For a book chapter I'm interested in talking to people who have tattoos related to specific hurricanes, floods, or wildfires.
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Kids are told AI is 'inevitable' and acting accordingly. This is harming their cognitive development and foreclosing their life opportunities. Generative AI is cognitive cancer and we are doing next to nothing to stop it from spreading."
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The 50 Percent Problem
Empirical evidence of the educational harm of generative AI
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I was thinking, fondly, of boolean search yesterday. not only is it a superior way to query Internet archives, it’s also an example of academia and k-12 being as nimble and tech forward as AI boosters claim they want us to be. We pivoted very efficiently on Google search. And now it’s dead.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Marlboro Reds for Teens is 'an experience designed to help teens learn to smoke without a filter, safely encounter the joys of nicotine and tar, and use Marlboros with the savoir-faire befitting a proficient smoker,' Phillip Morris said in a blog post published Tuesday."
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
2 kittens with speech bubbles. The left one says how are you doing? The right one replies the rage consumes me.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“A school district should not accidentally adopt an AI platform simply because nobody happened to find the right check box six months ago… The default should be permission, not adoption.” Tech companies see consent as friction to be circumvented. Our interests lay elsewhere. Opt-outs =/= consent.
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Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App (Gift Article)
Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automatically enabled Gemini in Classroom only for students 18 or older.
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I have Bartlebly the scrivenered my way out of using simple syllabus so far….
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/08/2026
Two married professors and their son are being held in ICE detention, despite being legal permanent residents and having no criminal records. All, apparently, because their mom/MIL was a translator for the Iranian hostage takers in 1979, before they were even born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
😬😭😬😭😬
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I’m used to my job making me want to cry or to vomit, but not both at once. Always a first time for everything, even after 23 years in the arena.
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Wow
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is what happens when you replace experts with techbros using AI. It’s insulting, embarrassing, and massively damaging to US reputation capital.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Content will never make you feel as alive as does this holy trinity of “yet agains”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...
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Andrea Bellemare @dreabells.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
AI companies are destroying our collective shared history to put it into their slop buckets, because the slop they push out would destroy their models if they tried to re-input it
Text reads: This bookseller said his inventory is full of rare, foreign language, and low circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they'll be even harder to obtain.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
cultural work is work the culture industries were integral to C20 growth of the middle class deindustrialization of culture is integral to C21 eviction of the middle class "an industry managing decline. for many of us, it was a good, upper-middle-class life." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/o...
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Opinion | I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.
A scriptwriter’s lament about Hollywood’s decline
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My can’t even can’t even with this shit
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A. Rascal @rascality.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Las Meninas (Spanish for 'The Ladies-in-waiting) by Diego Velázquez (1656)

with all the figures turned to look at a TV showing the World Cup final
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
It hurts because it’s true!
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Swooning over my new phone case:
Phone case with a pattern borrowed from fan marbling paper (in maroon wjth pink, beige, and a teal-like gray).
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just had a proustian moment making my brown rice with better than bouillon in it. The taste was just like to my grad school poor meal from when I tried to live on stipend with no loans: rice cooked in veggie broth with lots of garlic and some frozen peas added. Every day for weeks.
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Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Has a soccer ball ever taken out the drone filming over the field?
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The A.V. Club @avclub.com · 08/07/2026
You can, and almost certainly should, opt out of being part of Muse Image's new experiment in making the internet a worse and more invasive place.
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Instagram about to start letting internet randos "remix" your photos with AI
Instagram about to start letting internet randos "remix" your photos with AI
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