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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 17h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Anastasia Salter @anasalter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great thread, terrible article 🤣

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John Tomlinson @johntomlinson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A "2025 survey found that 35% of undergraduate women who responded reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact during their time at the university, compared with 23% in the 2023 survey." Neither % surprises me. The increase is beyond appalling. www.lawcommentary.com/articles/cor...

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Cornell Sued After Student Says 7 Fraternity Members Drugged and Gang-Raped Her, Some Faced ‘Essay’ Discipline | Law Commentary

A former Cornell University student has sued the school after alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped her at a fraternity house, accusing Cornell of responding inadequately af...

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 17/09/2026

Annie Dillard died??? What the heck?!

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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s astonishing to see this, even though we saw it coming months ago. White = 10°F + above normal in the El Niño regions. Its immense! In the air, a regional warming of 10° is no big deal. But in the ocean it’s immense! Think about how hard it is/ how long it takes to cool/ heat your pool. 1/

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pause talk coming from the tech barons (which is not new, they've played this tune before) sounds to me like hedging for a shift in power after the midterms more than anything else. We should regulate them, but they should not be rehabilitated.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 08/09/2026

TFW you run into a login issue on your insurance company's website, but you'd dealt with so many login issues as a PM that you spotted the problem in the URL redirect and were able to fix the URL and access the site...

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Happy birthday to the mother of SF, Mary Shelley

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 28/08/2026

I just realized that I haven't done a professional news update here yet -- which is that I'm now Grade 6-9 English faculty at a tiny & progressive independent school (which has some junior boarding, too). I'm heading their English program and mentoring teaching fellows.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 22/08/2026

On my way to the grocery store today, I drove past a flock of about 20 turkeys that were in someone's front yard. About half a mile later, I saw a flock of about 30 geese -- 5 of which were in the middle of the road (of course). Note: Geese don't care if you honk at them. They will take their time.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 21/08/2026

🎶We live on a mountain right at the top there's a beautiful view from the top of the mountain every morning i walk towards the edge and throw little things off🎶

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 19/08/2026

Completely unsurprising and gross.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 18/08/2026

I officially transferred a committee role yesterday, and it felt so good. There’s a meeting today, and I don’t have to attend 🥳

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 16/08/2026

Oof. Listening to someone who was a software engineer for 31 years. Got laid off in February. Now he has 5 part-time gigs and makes half what he used to (Amazon warehouse, local PD, small web support gigs). And works 60hrs/wk. So rough.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If Claudine Gay can be hounded out of her position without even having plagarised then "plagarism" doesn't mean plagarism. It means something else.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The true crisis of higher education is the adjunctification of labor. So much else flows from this structural reality.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 15/08/2026

1) “Accidental alchemy” is a great title. 2) Of course this was in Switzerland.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 13/08/2026

One of the other reasons: many third spaces in the US have closed. My undergrads in Europe went out more often than my US students did — it was easier to get around without a car, and they had more options re: where to go.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 13/08/2026

Literally the plot of Tank Girl. Well — taking down the evil Water & Power megacorp because these dystopians are supposed to be warnings not instruction manuals.

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Tank Girl

Alt: Tank Girl removes a mask

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/08/2026

it's maddening. and not only this, renewables are now the cheapest form of electricity AND fossil fuels have suffered repeated severe price shocks AND EVs are now price competitive with gas cars

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Schuyler @mrtowne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Enjoying all the dunks but good god "the robot agreed" is just so bleak and sad. Agreed with @brandonfriedman.bsky.social's follow up that this stuff is, more than gross, pitiable.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 11/08/2026

Decided to listen to French news while driving today, and the difference in coverage is remarkable. They describe the new anti-vax EO as “Crazy and with no basis in reality.” They went on to describe what science has demonstrated re: vaccine efficacy.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 11/08/2026

Eww. I don’t even like how much new cars try to drive for you — I want to feel connected to the road, not like I’m navigating a boat. Touchscreens are already annoying. This is so gross. The only “new” car tech I love -> seat warmers in the winter. And dual climate zones.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 11/08/2026

“A blockchain-backed cheese loan collateral program”

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 11/08/2026

This is a really interesting paper on what it means to make a scholarly/critical edition of a poetry reading/performance — of marking interactions between poet and audience — with three examples of readings with annotated audio. #DigitalHumanities #DHn

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Dumb Runner @dumbrunner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

What a time to be alive.

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 06/08/2026

Written into the record. The researchers jumped through the usual hoops and then ran a gauntlet of flying dumpster fires to bring you this paper.

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Blue the Science Dude @science-dude.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Brain drain rocks US science community; Impact on our ability to innovate will be felt for decades. More US-trained PhDs are fleeing after graduation than any time in past 30 years. This does not bode well. We not just passing the torch; We’re yeeting it. 🧪🔭 doi.org/10.1063/sr.2...

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 03/08/2026

We need the rain but it’s absolutely disgusting here — when the rain doesn’t cut the heat and humidity, and you’re just treading through it.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 31/07/2026

Received an email this morning that US mail is so messed up that our French magazine subscription is suspending delivery of paper copies while they try to figure out other solutions 🫠

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 30/07/2026

I was on LinkedIn yesterday, and I genuinely couldn’t tell whether half of the posts were AI-generated or not — AI output mimics LinkedIn voice, and many posts use the structure LLMs were trained on.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 30/07/2026

🧵 There's an entirely relational aspect to teaching that's often dismissed or ignored. Why is teaching devalued? It's care work. And the way AI is currently being used in educational spaces (for speed, for scale) takes the care out of the work of both educators and students.

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Mary Valante @medievalmaryq.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Where fiber history meets Pride. This is a large piece (10x28') of one of the two original 30x60' pride flags, the only known surviving section of either. They were designed, hand dyed and sewn by a community of queer artists. The colors are slightly different from most rainbow flags today.

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Long-Lost Fragment of First Rainbow Pride Flag Resurfaces After Four Decades

The brilliantly colored banner—now on view in San Francisco—flew on "Gay Freedom Day" in 1978

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

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