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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 7h

"Hey GUYS GUYS GUYS, WE'VE TAKEN THE BASTILLE" Followed by the roar of the crowd. (can't tell you how moving this is) via @LucAuffret

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 5h

How can I try to explain? When I do, he turns away again It′s always been the same, same old story From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away I know I have to go...

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No two words send AI industry advocates into fits of rage more than "stochastic parrots." The question is: Why? Why do they get so worked up over this particular critical framework time and time again? I sat down with @emilymbender.bsky.social, one of the coauthors of the original paper, to discuss

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The two words the AI industry hates more than anything

I talk with computational linguist Emily M. Bender, co-author of the influential 2021 “stochastic parrots” paper, about why AI industry leaders can’t stop seething over the term.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This isn't about inventing books as much as schools.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Screw Alito. His book comes out today, same day as mine, but my book is about the brilliance of Black women, power of community action, resistance to racism & oppression, & world-changing impact of books. Oh, and music. Which one do you think should be a bestseller? bookshop.org/p/books/free...

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Freedom's Daughters: How a Generation of Black Women Resisted Oppression Through Literacy and Education

A stirring contribution to America’s historical narrative.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)From bestselling author Celeste Headlee, an urgent and eye-opening story of the women who risked everything t...

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goodevil 🍉 🪁 @goodevil0562.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

At 4am this morning, Israeli Forces raided a building in Al-Tur, occupied Jerusalem, forcibly removed its residents, and proceeded to demolish the 5 Storey building (10 apartments)❗️ They didn't even allow them to pack belongings ~70 residents made homeless in Jerusalem #Judeo-Nazis ##Westbank

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

The before and after it's even more haunting.

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wonderful to see that Helen De Cruz has won the International Society for Science & Religion's General Readership Book Prize for her work, Wonderstruck! This illuminating book reveals how wonder and awe are catalysts that can help us reclaim what makes life worth living. Learn more: buff.ly/IYNfe0Q

Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They are going to make me use faraday bags to confiscate student devices when I'm teaching, like I'm some stand-up comedian making risqué jokes when all I want is to talk about things privately with students.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Giving up on one small group first is exactly how fascism starts.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Could stopped at the ”first they destroyed the planet and economy“ part tbh

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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Southern Ontario businesses are facing tariff and trade challenges. The expanded Regional Tariff Response Initiative is now accepting applications to help eligible businesses strengthen supply chains, improve productivity and reach new markets. 🔗 Learn more and apply: bit.ly/4h7w01Q

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵

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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Really blinkered editorial here, blaming late retirements for the lack of young professors rather than blaming those who refuse to hire or fund new hires. Many layers to this, and the problem is real, but not in the ways this piece thinks. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

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Globe editorial: The grey (time) zone of academia

The growing cohort of aging professors is raising intergenerational tensions on campuses

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Teaching is the very thing that’s been degraded and underfunded and is the very thing that we know across k-16 is the most important aspect of student learning and outcomes – well beyond the classroom. Yes, this is now my checklist for any essay/ pod abt "higher ed." 10/

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The man who cares about election integrity.….

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stop watching football and the NFL. You'll get more time on saturdays and sundays with your friends and family, and you'll be able to respect yourself more.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

American terrorists murdered another 4 people today, bringing the total deaths due to US actions up to 227 since Trump announced his state-sponsored campaign of international terror. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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US military kills four in strike on alleged drug smuggling boat in Caribbean

Number of people killed in boat strikes rises to 227 since Trump administration began controversial campaign

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

At the end of this piece, Perry notes that students want a real education. This is powerfully true. They don’t want just job training. They deserve and desire true education.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Given their examples and umbrage, this person seems to know as much about Canadian history and politics as Trump. Both are shocked that Canada is or could be an actual different country and not just a “vassal“ state.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Frustrating that no one seems willing to do anything about an obvious troubled person because on one day a vote happened. Democracy does not mean elected kings.

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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force.

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The System From Nowhere

When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡I recently spoke with Dr. Zena Assaad for her podcast, Responsible Bytes. Video is above, below is an essay adapted from the conversation. "The system from nowhere" i...

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Trump administration has ended Temporary Protected Status for more than 1 million of the 1.3 million people who had it at the beginning of last year, with Venezuelans, Haitians and Hondurans the largest groups affected. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Table showing the countries whose Temporary Protected Status designations have been terminated by the second Trump administration so far. The table is based on an August 2026 Pew Research Center analysis.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

His conclusion is: "[Academia] was not a good place to work, nor a moral one." The evidence & conflicts echo those of June Jordan at CUNY in the 60s & so many places since. The tone of surprise, surprises me. Moten says the subversive prof will come out of love; he seems to have been confused.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Updated for the fall semester - my bibliography of readings, both academic and popular, about the many problems with and pitfalls in using Generative AI. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

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Against Generative AI – Cate Denial

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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These Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.

More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This should remind us all of exactly what it reminds us all of: a deeply seated kind of evil infects the country.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Bad news. There's a war that Trump's winning...on higher ed in America Now they want to end student loans if they don't think you'll earn enough money. Americans are anxious our kids aren't learning, so why don't Dems make an issue out of college? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Should Democrats campaign for more English lit majors? | Will Bunch

A new Trump attack on student loans is part of a push to crush the liberal arts. How can the humanities fight back?

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

$4:32 = Average national price of a gallon of milk. $2:14 = Average national price of a dozen eggs. source: st louis fed

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This guy would win in a landslide if he ran for office. I promise you there are SO MANY voters waiting for the "Were going through every file and we will find all of you" candidate to take on the New Gestapo. Establishment Dems will never hold anyone accountable. They had their chance and blew it

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Agree with @jamellebouie.net that it's pretty clear Elon Musk wanted to eviscerate USAID *for the purpose of killing as many African people as possible.* Mass death wasn't an accidental byproduct of his "deep state" paranoia; it was a key mission of DOGE. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/o...

One might even see his destruction of the United States Agency for International Development — responsible, so far, for an estimated 700,000 deaths worldwide — as consistent with his concern with falling white birthrates relative to those in places such as sub-Saharan Africa, where U.S.A.I.D. was active. After all, one way to secure a future for Western children, in this zero-sum view of the world, would be to starve African ones.

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Carter Neal @carter-neal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I haven't watched 60 minutes, like, ever. I do read the NYTimes, so to me, this is good news. I won't see his name in print, and I won't see his show, and I no longer have to try to achieve the former; it'll just happen.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 25/07/2026

Emmett Till was born right here in Chicago on July 25, 1941. And it is with deep humility and great pride that I signed legislation this week at Roberts Temple to declare his birthday as the Illinois Day of Reflection and Remembrance of Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.

Governor Pritzker, Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., Dr. Marvel McCain Parker, and others at the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ.

Governor Pritzker holds the bill designating Emmett Till Day in Illinois.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Unjust social arrangements are themselves a kind of extortion, even violence, and consent to them does not bind." — John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

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Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest

America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.

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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Watch: One of the most anti-Canadian things you’ll hear being framed as patriotism.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

More war crimes: In its fourth strike on water infrastructure, the US has destroyed two water tanks in Sirik, Iran, completely cutting off water distribution in all villages of the Bemani district and the city of Kohstak, the Hormozgan Water and Sanitation Authority says.

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