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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Heritage Foundation laid out how they were going to rescind Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education, by first targeting trans people's participation in sport. Capitulating on the human rights of transgender people is catastrophically falling at the first hurdle.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 26/09/2026

A historic milestone for New York’s youngest learners: Universal 2-K is here. Our two-year-olds are ready to learn, explore and build a strong foundation from day one. This is what it looks like when we invest in our kids.

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The Look Book Goes to the First Day of Preschool

The city’s universal-2K program launched September 10 as an inaugural class of 2-year-olds joined Friends of Crown Heights Educational Center.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

It's amazing how the rationalists have basically just re-invented Calvinism for the AI age.

john calvin thinks you're the elect of the machine god probably

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Hackney Cyclist @hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eerste van der Helststraat, Amsterdam, in 1982 and today. A street once dominated by parked cars to a car free place for people, with children playing, greenery and cafés making use of reclaimed outdoor space. This is what’s possible when we choose to redesign our streets for life, not storage.

Split-screen comparison of Eerste van der Helststraat in Amsterdam in 1982 and today. The historical black-and-white photo shows the street with parked cars on both sides of the street, a cyclist and pedestrians. The modern colour photo shows the same street transformed into a car-free public space, with trees, plants, outdoor seating, pedestrians and children playing hopscotch.

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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Tapping the sign

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026

i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the fact that the NTSB is conducting a federal safety investigation of the helicopter crash, but nobody is going to do anything about the original deadly car crash, really shows just how few fucks our country gives about every day traffic violence that kills 40k people every year

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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 16/09/2026

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 13/09/2026

If the Speaker feels they don’t have enough expertise there’s a way to bring it back - The Office of Technology Assessment! www.liberalcurrents.com/congress-nee...

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Congress Needs Its Tech Experts Back

If Congress is to tackle issues from DOGE sabotage to AI to social media, it needs to resurrect its Office of Technology Assessment.

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Jeremy Sheff @jnsheff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The first element of this strategy (external private monitors against systemic social risk) was tried in the aughts with credit rating agencies in the mortgage-backed securities market. It failed. darioamodei.com/post/we-must...

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Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

May I politely suggest that the correct response to people voting for fascists is not, "how can we feel their pain and listen?" but "what the hell is wrong with these arrogant fools?" The latter is still a quest for understanding, but in the correct frame, I think.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I am often told that I "have it". But students' perception of a good teacher is not always predictive of good learning. Not by itself. Like essentially everything else, there are people who have a big edge in talent but a little structure and a lot of practice are still needed for excellence.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Ty for references that's exactly what I was looking for!

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I'm amateur in this field but I think it's very interesting and would appreciate references about this question if you know any.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

That is, to what extent is "black race causes harsher policing" more like "earth's weather causes the rain" than it is like "the switch turns on the light"

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

one possible critique that has percolated in my head now and again is the extent to which even hypothetical interventions on race violate notions of mechanistic composability: whether you can swap a node without affecting structural relations, whatever you call that.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I liked it fwiw. a little surprised it's controversial (in the mainstream, I mean. obv the hard interventionists complain about everything)

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

These are people whose goal is to publish, not to help patients.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Blue state AGs should be warning postal officials that they will face felony prosecution for election interference for any legal ballots diverted and not delivered. Separate felony counts for every single ballot mishandled and not delivered. We would expect no less if private citizens stole ballots

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I can't say what I want to say, but I'm just noting the ongoing attempts to "take down" Black academics with plagiarism accusations, while *gestures* this seems to have minimal career or reputational impacts

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The authentic relationship comes first and the mentorship follows, not the other way around. The contract makes it *easier* to trust since *both parties* have protection *in case* of abuse.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When professors say they are scared of contracts they are telling on themselves: revealing that they are unable to be vulnerable even in the slightest way, unable to have normal human relationships based on mutual trust. Afraid of their students. Honestly very sad.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I could find many ways in which my students are not exactly satisfying terms of employment, and I'm sure they could dig up ways to burn me too. But we don't bring it to a legal battle because we have trust, give grace, and communicate feedback. And this is normal! Normal human relationships!

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We wrote it that way anyways (under advice of counsel) because the purpose is *to have something to appeal to in case of abuse*, not to actually enforce an arbitrary limit none of us care about precisely.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

My wife and I co-own our 2-unit house with another couple. We have a contract that says we each can't have more than one pet. When we wrote that contract, we were already in violation of it.

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

If you establish mutual trust, good intent, and two-was communication, there is nothing to fear from a contract. And if you are not willing to extend trust, why should you expect it in return? (Or why are you working with people you don't trust?)

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The argument that unions destroy this relationship misunderstands that a contract is a *backstop*, not a prescription.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

yeah we have departmental meetings

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I think it's bad that the Democrats' House leader is having secret chummy meetings with a guy doing a domestic ethnic cleansing operation and funding a genocide abroad, then spending his entire week going on cable news to complain about a lefty Twitch streamer who nobody knows. Sorry for offending.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Muckrack search, U.S.-based high domain authority news outlets over the past seven days: “Max Miller”: 256 articles “Hasan Piker”: 1,348 articles

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

but unfortunately it does not work that way

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Alejandro Schuler @aschuler.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Some people would rather lie to themselves and others about everything, in a desperate attempt to make the wish true, than accept what we are and play the hand. If self-aware (rare), it's easy to see where they are coming from. Collective self-delusion is powerful and might be used for good.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This chart will figure prominently in a future historian's best-seller, "Self-Destruction: The End of the American Era."

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/08/2026

I'd read the stories, but you really have to see it to believe it... Paris was already a great place to walk around, but now you hardly need to wait for a light, and you can look up an entire road and it will be empty for blocks when you really decide that cars and cities don't mix, it's obvious

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

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BRAK AND BLUE @yinkadoubledare.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

why won't universities let me spout off about how diseases are caused by ghosts and goblins and witches instead of the germ theory, that's a violation of academic freedom

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 23/08/2026

If you think this can be reformed, I don't know what I'm supposed to do with you.

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