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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 20h

Doubly ironic to insert AI slop in a Wikipedia page about pragmatics 🫠

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Honkey Kong @henrygoeldner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the only non-negotiable for writing is you have to read. doesn't matter if you're writing comics, prose, screenplays. read. read books, articles, scripts, comics. fiction and non-fiction. read lots of 'em and never stop reading.

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Chet Scoville @chesterscoville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Mr. Jewish Safety is using what’s left of his platform to promote and validate conspiracy theories about an elite cabal secretly poisoning the world. Who do you think the shadowy, child-poisoning cabal is supposed to be, Jesse?”

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rad uncle @raduncle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

when the far-right piles on other rightwingers for not being racist enough, that's called getting reesmogged

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

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The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.

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Miles, knitting screaming agony werewolf @queermedieval.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nothing brings me more joy than how much my students LOVE Bisclavret. We once again had our "who's in the wrong in this text" discussion and they did SO well

A whiteboard absolutely covered in close reading commentary about Bisclavret and his wife's wrongdoings in the text

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“It’s 2026, and the number-one consumer technology trend seems to be devices that constantly listen to and record everything and everyone around us at all times — with or without consent — …”

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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.

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Giorgio Strafella @gstrafella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is also true and important in teaching, and I hope we teachers find a way to really valorise the work of students who are not afraid to search for their own voice in their writing so they can see one more reason to avoid using LLMs for writing and proofreading.

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/09/2026

Just a wild celebration of an unprecedented fossil fuel infrastructure explosion for data centres. Climate does not exist for these people. 75 gigawatts of gas, and nothing but wide grins all around. archive.ph/6H3OZ

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/09/2026

This post from SemiAnalysis is well worth reading, to get a direct insight into how the AI industry is completely disconnected from the climate consequences of what they're doing.

Stacked bars showing cumulative onsite generation by quarter from Q1 2024 to Q3 2026 rising to ~75 GW, with a line indicating named suppliers reaching 22; colored segments represent gas turbines, recip engines, steam turbines, fuel cells and other.

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Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists @thebulletin.org · 11/09/2026

Media reports leaned into describing the Hugging Face incident as a case of AI agents breaking free of constraints. That narrative risks obscuring crucial points of failure, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

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Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did

At the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

we tracked months of rent payments to an estimated 13,000 families. the expected cost of rehousing those families, had they entered eviction, would be north of $218 million dollars. keeping them housed cost around $38-40 million

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Jules @jaysfanj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Great thread on how things that People In Charge insist Can't Possibly Be Done, can in fact be done quite easily and successfully.

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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This follows research from the Tech Transparency Project (@ttp-updates.bsky.social) that found more than 350 ads on Metas platforms in recent months that contain AI-generated child sexual abuse The TTP says that even today—after its report yesterday—more abuse ads have appeared on Meta's platforms

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Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids

Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

People are responding to this as though it is self-evident that politics is to blame. Ok, but WHAT politics? This is OECD-23. What political policies do the OECD countries share that would be at fault?

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For the past two years I've been tracking every bill proposed in state legislatures across the country to figure out what Republican plans for the future are. The answer, based on these 1,182 bills, is that they want to repeal the 20th Century heartlandsignal.com/2026/09/09/b...

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Proof from the states: the right wing attempt to repeal the 20th century – Heartland Signal

Republicans are in Dallas this week making the case that the other side is the extreme one. We read the legislation they introduced in all 50 states and built a searchable record of what we found: 1,1...

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Banning electric cars, abortion, gay marriage, fluoridation, chemtrails and vaccines, promoting the gold standard, corrupt giveaways, water pollution, tax cuts for the rich, quack medicine and child labor - this is the GOP vision for the country based on the legislation they've actually proposed

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/09/2026

This "so dangerous it has to be useful" narrative is tedious, and highlights how little these companies have fear regulation in the current US environment. But it's worse. If and when the technology actually gets dangerous, the boy will have already cried wolf so many times we'll ignore him.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

People have bought so hard into misleading right-wing talking points about how they “cut red tape” that when a leftist cuts red tape they think he’s a crypto-republican 🙃

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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The only party that's down from their 2025 election result is the Conservatives

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It's also worth noting Democrats could use this moment to assert how much they care about the diplomatic relationship between Canada and the US, and how much this trade war hurts American citizens and businesses. But I haven't really seen a strong counter-message from Democratic leaders.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I understand what these words mean but I cannot possibly assign them a contextual sense

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

higher education is the LARGEST employer in 20 states and in 60 of the 100 top cities; when the regime attacks students and faculty it is sabotaging local economies, local restaurants, local services, local real estate.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Update: I stopped getting in car crashes but did not stop getting concussed af. BUT THIS YEAR IS THE YEAR I SWEAR i really do not recommend trying to finish a phd with brain damage u guys

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think a lot of people don't really understand that the reports of Russian forces looting museums in occupied Ukraine (particularly Kherson prior to liberation) were not just "soldiers being soldiers" but rather an extremely intentional occupation policy meant to steal cultural heritage

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

As economic pressures gut local newsrooms across the country, white nationalist figures see an untapped opening: stepping into media deserts where there are few journalists left to sound the alarm.

“Local media has been dying all over America, which means that there’s essentially no real way to hold local governments accountable—and they can do whatever they want,” Kevin DeAnna told an invitation-only gathering of approximately 50 white nationalists in Rome.

Breaking into a broad smile, he excitedly added: “You should be fantasizing about this. This is a good thing.”

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 17/08/2026

Preserved remains of ancient Chinese pastries from Tang Dynasty (mid-eighth century CE) Xinjiang. Probably made of wheat flour and originally part of non-Chinese cuisine imported from the west, they help tell the story of interconnections along the Silk Roads 1/2 🏺 #Archaeology

Six dried and conserved baked goods of various shapes such as knotted pastry and leaf shapes, decorated with elaborate patterns.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for equality, that we are living through. It does not bode well for the future, even if the GOP is routed in the next couple of elections.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

“Abolish ICE” now the mainstream Democratic position

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Medievalists/Europeanists: if these two historic years of flooding are not already on your teaching timelines, they need to be. New narratives of the climatic & epidemiological histories of the late Middle Ages are forming, & this kind of evidence will be central. #MedievalSky #ClimateHistory 🧪🗃️

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13/08/2026

now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/07/2026

I have previously written about one reason that billionaires find the AI story so compelling: at root, many billionaires just don't believe most other people are actually, fully real. How could they? Achieving billionairehood requires that you inflict pain on vast numbers of people. 13/

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

When the people you hire to do a 3-day rush job vetting just before launching the campaign recommend that you pay for more in-depth on-the-ground vetting and oppo research due to how much they found in just three days, is it good to ignore them and never reply to their email or do any more vetting?

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

A few days before Christmas 2016, a grey Land Rover paused in front of a bank of mirrored windows at this checkpoint on the border between France and Switzerland. What happened next revealed just how looted art worms its way into museums. A 🧵 about my article: hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...

Screencap from a "Chasseur de Trésor et Fouilles Illégales: Genève au Cœur d’un Trafic d’Antiquités,” RTS, February 12, 2023, www.rts.ch/info/regions/geneve/13760278-chasseur-de-tresor-et-fouilles-illegales-geneve-au-cur-dun-trafic-dantiquites.html

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Ok I agree that sounds incredibly luxe but the thing is, in practice, travel agents really sucked at this and you had a way better vacation if you planned it yourself.

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

My first reaction was somehow “finally!” and “wow, already?” at the same time.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Extremely encouraging results in a space normally full of discouraging ones.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I called the cops plenty as a kid, believe me it only made things worse.

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C. E. M. Henderson @cemhend.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

You know it’s bad when *finance* people think their ideas are shallow…

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🚨Job! 🚨 Open-rank, tenure-track position in pre-1800 history of medicine at Johns Hopkins #histmed #histstm apply.interfolio.com/182469?fbcli...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The coverage of Exeter's cuts rightly points out that there's no financial need. The coverage of Edinburgh's - for which there is also no financial need - was framed as 'even Edinburgh' being in financial trouble. This is very frustrating. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

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