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Christopher Julian @chrisajulian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I reanalyzed the CDC data behind the LGB “free fall” headline. It rests on a change in bisexual identification among one grade, in one wave, of one survey. Gay or lesbian identification did not change significantly. Calling it a "free fall" is sensational and just gives bad actors talking points.

Six small line charts showing the percent of U.S. high school students choosing each sexual identity response option by grade (9th to 12th), 2015 to 2025, with 95% confidence intervals. Heterosexual falls from about 85 to 90 percent before 2021 to about 73 percent in 2021 and 2023, then rises to about 78 to 80 percent in 2025. Gay or lesbian stays between about 2 and 5 percent throughout. Bisexual rises to about 12 percent in 2021 in every grade, then among 9th graders falls to about 7 percent in 2025, its 2019 level, while other grades stay near 10 percent. “Some other way,” added in 2021, falls from about 4 percent to about 2.5 percent. “Not sure” stays near 3 to 5 percent. A dotted line marks 2021, when CDC changed the response options.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026

Saying the war "never would have happened" if Donald Trump was president is not only a lie, it's possible that by signaling that the US was weak on Ukraine--by demonstrating that a president could illicitly halt aid, and that our government wouldn't actually hold him accountable--he helped cause it.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The discourse on antisemitism in the country is such that Mike Rogers can simultaneously attack Abdul El-Sayed *as* antisemitic, as a scary foreign Muslim critic of Israel, and also *with* antisemitism, as a tool of the foreign-born Jewish puppeteer.

"LEAKED: Footage of Abdul El-Sayed fundraising last night in the California home of the far-left Soros family.

Abdul’s education was paid for by the Soros family and NOW they are funding his campaign to make him a U.S. Senator

The Soros family is funding Abdul because he will carry out their agenda of:

➡️ defunding the police
➡️ emptying prisons, and letting violent criminals & sex offenders back onto the streets
➡️ gender transition surgeries for minors
➡️ allowing illegals to vote in American elections

Abdul is too extreme for Michigan."

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bonedoctor.bsky.social @bonedoctor.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

If I had to hazard a guess - it’s the food equivalent of great replacement theory… 🫠

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This whole thing is why the Butlerian side is so attractive—people who could have been doing something else instead have to do actual work to try to prove that an insultingly inherently absurd use case is in fact worthless

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was never a heavy NSF user. I invested my NSF development time in working with students who applied and received funding for excavations like the ones documenting the sequence of continuous occupation from 1150 to 1821 CE at Ticamaya, a first effort to understand Indigenous survivance in Honduras.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Even so, much of the fieldwork I carried out would never have happened without NSF. Now equally promising projects will be throttled back or abandoned for absolutely no reason. It’s a tragedy, and evil.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And then consider the grants for people with PhDs. The Research Opportunities for Women grant to direct survey in Yoro, leading to two PhD dissertations, numerous articles and a book by the postdoc who co-directed the project and our first use of heterarchy theory. Long gone but impacts remain.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NSF GRFP funded a huge number of those amazing applicants. That loss alone is a tragedy. And so are the doctoral dissertation improvement grants no longer being made: modest funding that has supported generations of field and lab projects for doctoral candidates.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The threat to eliminate all social science graduate fellowships (added to already cutting off postdoc funding) destroys the single most valuable thing NSF did: ensure that promising scholars wouldn’t be lost due to financial limits.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

They want to live as *their* authentic selves, and they want to stop *us* from living as *our* authentic selves.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

It's tempting to see this all as mere hypocrisy, but I think it's something far weirder and more disturbing. These men understand completely that scrutiny is antithetical to living as your authentic self.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

In other words, for Ellison, our authentic selves are a problem to be solved. We refuse to behave in ways that make the world optimal for Ellison, so he will create a world of continuous scrutiny, judgment and punishment.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026

While this is certainly a *kind* of surveillance, I think it's better to call it *scrutiny*. It's something worse than the sense of being watched: it's the sense of being *judged*. Inducing this feeling of being judged has long been a (sociopathic) desire of wealthy and powerful people.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

They aren’t just stealing everything that is left they are making sure only men can hoard it. I don’t know what else to tell you.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

we are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Stabs this whole interview with a copy of The Caliban and The Witch.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

one of the exhausting things about modern antisemitism is antisemites insisting that perfectly normal behavior like diaspora nationalism is a sinister conspiracy, and then diaspora nationalists insisting that describing the same perfectly normal behvior is blood libel

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is child abuse masquerading as due process.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For a very clear comparison, emulating Magyar would be removing all the MAGA justices and judges from Federal Courts in the first 100 days. That is the scale of democratic chemotherapy we are discussing.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US Democrats need to look at their next Presidency as an endless sprint to obliterate MAGA, every day for years. Until the cancer is gone then there should be no time wasted on MAGA tears or conciliation. Only endless justice and rebuilding the democracy. Govern like every day is the last day.

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 03/10/2026

the NEH is a ghost of an organization. the NEA's budget is $29 million. I'm not saying this to be pissy, but simply to say that when we rebuild - and we will rebuild - I expect solidarity from my STEM colleagues as we robustly expand research in the arts and humanities as well.

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美国🇺🇸二百五“250” @francisregan1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have to say that the rest of the T-shirt is still a little bit suspect though. The pine tree & "An Appeal to Heaven" is literally the flag that Mike Johnson has at his office. Saying "Free Palestine" with that kind of a wink might carry an altogether different meaning

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Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Universities have been going for the “insiders strategy” of trying to lobby quietly without making public waves. Counterfactuals are hard, but I would say the strategy has been a complete failure.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

David’s essay reveals clearly that this is not the priority of OpenAI. The “alignment problem” here is that the values of human wellbeing and humility are misaligned with the risk culture and social indifference of some in Silicon Valley. This is the first order problem.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this is by far the best "I quit my AI job over safety concerns" essay yet because it is the first one that is able to talk about safety concerns in practical terms and that understands "safety" as a topic with extensive literature in analogous fields www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Two changes are urgently needed. First: AI companies need to rely more on the safety expertise that already exists in other fields. And second, before we create systems significantly more capable than the ones we have today, we need new science to ensure that more capable models (and their successors) will make safe choices when we aren’t looking.

Given today’s risks, frontier labs need to run like nuclear-power plants or busy airports, with layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning, so that the occasional and inevitable human error does not open a door to disaster. Right now, AI companies don’t know how—but other people do. In a nuclear-power plant, the technical systems and rules people follow are set up so that, if equipment breaks or someone pushes the wrong button, we still won’t risk a meltdown. OpenAI and other labs are growing and deploying frontier AI with far less redundancy and rigor than this, even though the harm from an irreversible loss of control would be much greater than the harm from any single meltdown. Even short of a full loss of control, we could see autonomous swarms of AI agents that act without human permission. Imagine “rogue” agents that work like teams of hackers (for example, holding hospital computer systems for ransom) but never need to sleep.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'll never understand how "a lot of mostly/potentially/probably incorrect metadata is better for digital discovery than accurate but sparse metadata" became a popular idea than "we will put things online more slowly, but we will do it with accuracy"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

OK, but it's been six years since CV was used to add metadata to these photos of LA, and 1100+of them still have "snow" in them. 12sunsets.getty.edu/contact-shee...

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12 Sunsets: Exploring Ed Ruscha's Archive

Explore Sunset Boulevard through photographs by Ed Ruscha tagged with 'snow'.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm skeptical because I've seen this happen too many times now. Computer vision is used in historical archives & image collections, we're told it's imperfect and creates errors; but don't worry, people will go back and correct them.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

An interesting report of a project at the Hertziana includes this note. I would argue that access to historical archives is actually hindered when you throw chat at something to transcribe handwritten metadata, which produces errors. But let's say you're willing to make this compromise. +

The second axiom of Nygren / Drimmer 2023 has been considered carefully, and although the folder transcriptions are sometimes erroneous, they still support the access to images better than the previously available, unreadable OCR data. The known issues in those transcription are then taken care of continuously.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

What is most mind-boggling, to me, is that the right is spending this much on an intellectual project that is (a) largely discredited (this is why they had to invent the concept of viewpoint diversity, because their ideas don't withstand peer review); and (b) something very few people want.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

ACLS fellowship budget is roughly $3.5 million last cycle. God bless them, but the truth is that the peer-review-based humanities community is being outspent by 10s of millions of $ by the right-wing civility / intellectual freedom industrial complex.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The thing about Bayes’ Theorem is that while you can use logic to propagate probability distributions through chains of thought, doing so without data just makes the result a new set of priors. The result is just belief expressed as a degree of surprise.

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Folks, you have to observe B for this to work!

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BOOtolo Colon @bigfatbartolocolon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

bring back the Thirty Years High Trust Social Cohesion!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It happens so often it can be hard to even see. Men having the same experience I am, but I hit a place where the attention becomes unpleasant. Inuendos start. I have to wiggle out of something I did not start (cautiously! trying not to upset any dangerous egos!) so I leave, while the men get to stay

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 01/10/2026

it’s become so normal for people to disclose their rapes to appeal to people’s humanity around rape cases that we don’t think about how disgusting the need to do that is put the worst moment of your life out for public consumption, so that half the comments can call you a liar.

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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So if I'm going to seriously ask the question if the government is using its R&D resources wisely, it makes sense to spend a lot of time focusing on business and federal internal expenditures, as opposed to relentlessly focusing on less than a quarter of the overall pie.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To be more direct about it: OMB's budget-level cuts to science are not really about science. It can be very difficult for people (especially scientists) who are harmed by these cuts to grasp that science is really just collateral damage.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026

The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, which leads … you get the idea. H/t UKHE

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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone knows that staff are the biggest source of prison contraband, but banning books is way easier than pissing off the correctional officer unions.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I try to help people understand this so we don't just automatically suggest lowering tuition as a silver bullet college affordability remedy when lots of public institutions already have low tuition

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