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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 05/10/2026

Actually you know what? We should all plan to take November 18th off and take ourselves out of capitalism time to read the book.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 03/10/2026

Really I think “ontological difference” is a phrase I was waiting for because that’s it exactly. Thanks, Mr. Pope. Even if your people were posting on X.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 03/10/2026

“An ontological difference” — yes! 😍

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 02/10/2026

We’ve been doing a bunch of mapmaking, too — and students have been referring to their maps while making their games, which is cool.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 02/10/2026

It’s been really fun to talk to students about how they’re adapting texts into games — and the range of approaches has been terrific. Also, I’ve been getting a lot of: “Can I keep working on this at home? I want to ___”

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 02/10/2026

And I got Accessory Lab for my club, and students want to make jewelry, knit, crochet, and embroider, so I’m gathering materials and planning some mini workshops for students who want to learn new types of crafting (from each other and from me).

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 02/10/2026

We’re making board/card games in two of my classes (6th grade English for Wanderings of Odysseus and in my 7th grade elective, World Building and A Wizard of Earthsea). We’re doing some modernizations and monologues (creative writing projects) in 8/9 Humanities & in 7th grade English.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 02/10/2026

Since returning to teaching and the start of the school year, I feel like I’ve disappeared from most things. I didn’t expect to resurface until around now. Things are so busy: four preps + a club. Good stuff, though.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 02/10/2026

Went to middle school curriculum night, and it was shockingly different from the first open house we attended when we moved here. I ran into so many parents that I know from various committees, from volunteering, from soccer — it’s really nice to find people from so many circles in one spot.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 06/09/2026

Going into the new school year, my largest class will have 16 students. My smallest will have 10. I will get to know them all *so* well.

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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 love working with students at transitional moments (like middle school or first-year university students), and this is similar. The vibes are excellent.

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

We finished new fac/staff orientation earlier this week and have full faculty meetings next week. Students begin right after Labor Day. I just wrapped a planning call with one of the fellows, and it's *so* fun working with them -- such good energy.

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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 · 23/08/2026

Yes, exactly -- the time can be used for discussion and critique, of course, but it's like a lab or studio in the sense that you're making things in a communal environment.

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Anindita Basu Sempere @anindita.org · 23/08/2026

@drbibliomane.bsky.social I'm starting at an independent school, and we're being encouraged to assign reading + text annotations for homework and to do writing / projects during class time. Class becomes like a workshop or art atelier -- a space for making.

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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

Kid to A earlier today: Go touch grass, nerd. Ahhh tweens 😂

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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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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

It was refreshing and also seriously depressing that such basic, straightforward coverage feels refreshing. Like wow: not everything is subjective or governed by how some guy who knows absolutely nothing about a topic feels.

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