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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Repeating: non-profit universities belong to their boards of trustees. Not to students or professors or communities. And those board members are VERY rich. If you want universities to "represent" other "constituencies" you must change who is on the boards. And with One Weird Trick you can... 1/

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

Goodhart's Law describes many phenomena. When Google first deployed Pagerank, they showed that how counting the inbound links to all the pages on the web let you extract a signal about which pages were most important (because there was no reason to link to a page unless you found it noteworthy). 24

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 09/08/2026

Yes, big mac sauce is made from ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. and yes, within each of ketchup, mustard, and mayo are the elements that become big mac sauce. But when you focus how much of big mac sauce is mayo or ketchup you elide the nature of each sauce as one essence within three condiments

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Rob Cyran @robcyran.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

If you go through the assumptions of perfect competition, healthcare spectacularly violates every single one. The only thing to do when someone starts talking about healthcare markets is to first ask them what assumptions they are making.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 01/07/2026

Modern factories do not lucratively employ half the men in the town straight out of high school to work an assembly line on union contracts. That was a weird blip in the 1950's when automation hadn't taken off yet and the US was the only country in the world whose factories weren't blown to shit.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Brief rant: Yes it's cool that Brunson took less money so the Knicks could build a champion under the salary cap. But he shouldn't have *had* to. Salary caps are just tools billionaires use to suppress wages, and no one gets upset because the labor (pro athletes) make so much money. 1/5

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

seeing the posts about visitors discovering that you can walk around most of our cities and just be yourself in a multicultural setting, discovering tailgating, starting impromptu block parties, my muslim mayor, etc. etc. it's corny to say it but that's our secret sauce. and it means something

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14/06/2026

the chuds do not understand what makes this country great but this country is great and we cannot give up on it

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Alan Grofield @alangrofield.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The great project of the 21st century is to get conservatives to understand politics and ideology isn’t just on TV or in your phone, it’s actually real life

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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:

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Eugene Freedman @eugenefreedman.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The difference is that Finns don't have a racial hierarchy to enforce. We accept homelessness, food insecurity, childhood poverty, etc. because of a national identity to keep Black people financially unstable. If it also affects a segment of the white population, they probably deserved it somehow.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The current 6-day Jeopardy champion works at a housing tax credit agency in New Jersey and for his banter with Ken he just looked directly at the camera and said "New York, California, shame on you, build more housing" and folks when I say heroes walk among us

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.

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The Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)

with Christa Albrecht-Crane, Angie McKinnon Carter, and Chiler Moore

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Beyond the various technical issues w self-driving vehicles, the fact that the manufacturer wants to offload all liability onto the passenger really should be enough on its own to kill this boondoggle. Spend the money on walkable urban planning, public transit, and bike-able roads plz.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

👇🎯 The key to solving ~every 21st century policy problem in 🇺🇸 is primarily just re-adopting 20th century policy solutions (immigration, higher marginal tax rates, more public investment) that we discarded/did not extend to everyone because of either Reaganism, racism, or some combination thereof.

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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The largest payment eliminated by DOGE was $38,468,659 to the American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences for transition support services to adulthood for disabled children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. The missles in this video cost more than that.

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

lol at the tourists in dubai being like ‘what do you mean i took my vacation at The Neiman-Marcus That Kills You’

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

60 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/02/2026

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

Graph showing a steep decline in the number of people employed by newspapers since 1992

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 25/01/2026

They believe they are keeping down an insurrection by bloodying observers in the streets. The idea of a massive self-organizing resistance that is about care and not confrontation is beyond them. That is why they will lose.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Only speaking personally, but today’s execution isn’t scaring me from protecting our neighbors, as some suggest is ICE’s goal. Nor am I angry with incandescent rage, in that I know such rage is unhelpful. Rather, I feel like it has forced me to truly accept that the same fate might befall me.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I am so grateful for every observer making sure ICE’s crimes are witnessed and documented. They’re immeasurably brave patriots.

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Kuba @kayes67.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t think a state that is threatening wars of territorial aggression and has random death squads wandering about its mid-tier cities assassinating civilians should be hosting the World Cup

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/01/2026

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

6. Which isn't to diminish their accomplishments. It's simply to note, as Charles Neblett once told me that "once you have a movement, you need a leader. But movements always come first". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

5. Frederick Douglass wasn't the first slave to beat up his master, get free and talk about it. Homer Plessy, Claudette Colvin and a lot of others sat down before Rosa Parks did. Lincoln pushed for "colonization" before he finally accepted freedom.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

4. The story may be more compelling, and easier to remember with singular characters but the characters we learn were the tip of a spear. Their successful "bend of the arc" didn't happen because they were the first. It was because the moment was finally ready for what they did.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

3. All of which makes for a nice story, but would come as news to anyone in the moment. There was almost a full century between when we declared all men are created equal and the end of slavery. Another 100 yrs before we'd pass consistent with the 14th amendment promise of equal protection.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

2. The world becomes more democratic. Our democracy becomes more inclusive. Douglass frees himself and writes a book. Lincoln frees the slaves. Rosa sits down. Progress happens.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

1. While never implicit, the subtext of my history classes was that progress is inevitable and history advances through the works of singular individuals.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Some thoughts on Martin Luther King today, informed by the way I learned history as a kid and the truth of how history is made I've learned in this job - and from the honor of having been able to serve with and meet many of the foot soldiers who worked along side MLK:

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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 18/01/2026

OGs know that Mamdani does actually like cats, he is as warm to the bodega managers as any other constituent but he’s really putting in the work to spread the good news about bidets, true moral leadership

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

everybody in the trump administration looks like this

the terrible plastic family from those old Duracell commercials. Just awful to look at

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

They had guys like Bovino and Hegseth in the 12th Century too, and they were smart enough to tell them "Wow what brave heroes you are, wanna do brave hero stuff?" and send them away to die outside Byzantium because the Pisans were like "Yeah sure we'll provide the ships" and didn't.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

It makes perfect sense that the idea of the Crusades appeals today to the exact kind of loud, adolescent-brained, self-aggrandizing, just-rich-enough-to-cause-problems idiot that the actual Crusades were designed to siphon out of the body politic like the snake venom they were, and are.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/12/2025

The fact that it at least anecdotally seems to be a semi-regular practice to tell white people a minority got the job in order to soften the blow of rejection really should put the elite woke panic into perspective.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/12/2025

He's also responsible for raising all the money that paid for bringing Hollingsworth v. Perry & even more importantly Bostic v. Schaefer, which created the circuit split that forced SCOTUS to take on Obergefell v. Hodges. The role he played in American marriage equality cannot be overstated.

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Mark Kelly here, reaching out one more time to test how many fake spam numbers you will allow me to text you from before you decide to block an American space hero

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Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I’m howling.

Recently, Clifford "Buzz" Grambo decided to upgrade his electric scooter. The old one he had purchased online only reached 16 mph and wasn't cutting it anymore. He needed to go faster to keep up with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement cars he chases around Baltimore. So, Grambo bought a Segway MAX G3, which features a 2,000-watt motor and can get up to 28 mph.
"The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was," he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. "They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ha-ha bitches, I got a new scooter!"

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Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

So honored to wear art by incredible kids in Gaza. I told everyone their names, their stories and showed their pictures.

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