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Allison Miller

@cliopticon.bsky.social
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Journalist | Historian | Master of Disguise | Cultural history & more | If I share it, I've read it. I block generic resistance accounts. RT = food for thought.

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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
New York’s cutest www.curbed.com/article/firs...
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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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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Honestly people accused SJWs of language policing.
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I listened to most of this yesterday. I have such rage.
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New Jersey Monitor @newjerseymonitor.com · 22/09/2026
Scholar seeks to correct the record on death of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi newjerseymonitor.com/2026/09/22/t...
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Scholar seeks to correct the record on death of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi • New Jersey Monitor
A forthcoming book seeks to correct the public record on the death of Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers freshman who died by suicide in 2010.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW BRAIN DROPPED
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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Health Care delivers the highest levels of care and compassion. SHC treats cancer, heart disease, brain disorders, primary care issues, and many more.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: MS NOW, CNN and Politico are suing Trump and top administration officials over White House journalist ban
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MS NOW, CNN and Politico sue Trump and senior officials over White House press ban
The lawsuit alleges the president violated the First Amendment by blocking reporters’ access to the White House.
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Ryan Teague Beckwith @ryanbeckwith.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I've sent this to about 5 people so far this morning. Such an important piece.
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If you're posting a screenshot of a social media post, don't forget to include the time and date stamp. And don't share screenshots without time and date stamps. It helps fight misinformation!
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 27/05/2023
ROBIN: the batmobile won’t start BATMAN: check the battery ROBIN: what’s a tery
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This was a talking point that went out to all the paid social media trolls the same day
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'll be on MS NOW at 6pm Eastern tonight/Saturday as Peter Alexander helms a special report on the president's decision to try to ban our network, CNN, and Politico from White House grounds. (Emphasis on "try"...) See you at 6.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026
eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Washingtonians are the best www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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Kennedy Center Supporters Rally Amid Fears of Trump’s Demolition
Photos of President Trump reviewing a poster board with the title “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED” spurred the largest gathering yet in support of the performing arts institution.
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James P Bennett @akjpb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A startup here, AlaskaNews, is an AI news platform that reviews sources and generates AI stories. The AI persona, Walter (named after Walter Cronkite) was interviewed by Nat Herz, a human, a Pulitzer StoryReach Fellow, and local journalist. This story absolutely blew my mind.
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This AI agent has written thousands of Alaska news articles. We interviewed it.
The AI behind AlaskaNews.com cracks jokes and acknowledges a “trust burden.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
bleak but essential read
Navarro told us that she was "shocked to see the growing number of websites in the network and the huge variety of the sites themselves - from cooking and space blogs, to small business and war news." What surprised her the most, though, was how so many of the sites under BBM's umbrella are effectively
"indistinguishable from one another, publishing the same kind of first-person Al-generated stories around self-help topics aimed at people who are lonely."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
FCC Approves Foreign Funding for Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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FCC Approves Foreign Funding for Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal
The Federal Communications Commission approved Paramount Skydance Corp.’s request to allow foreign financing in excess of 25% in its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., saying that do...
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
High fuel costs aren't just a US issue, mere election fodder www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/w...
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Rising Fuel Prices Set Off Anger and Protests Around the World
From Indonesia to Guatemala to Syria, shortages and price increases are leading to protests and blackouts.
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Sarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Macaroni and cheese, shrimp, masculinity, things of this nature
The cover of a pamphlet called Dishes Men Like published by Lea & Perrins in 1952 featuring a blue background and illustrations of dishes men supposedly love like Louisiana Shrimp, Savory Scallops and London Loaf
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Haven't really seen this get much play in the US today. We've put weapons in space www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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US confirms for first time it has deployed weapons in space
Analysts warn of an acceleration in high-risk arms race with Russia and China in Earth’s orbit
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The law already forbids it, see, but not hard enough
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Kennedy Center was legislated as a “living memorial” to JFK. That means it’s kind of like the Lincoln Memorial. Will that be pulled down? Or maybe we can get a “fight fight fight” statue to stick right in there next to Abe. And make them both gold!
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It's getting darker www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
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Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
uncompetitive primary but bizarre happenings in Delaware
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Dopamine sites: They do nothing except simulate digital pleasure hits through fake shopping and the like. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/w...
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Dopamine Sites Sell Nothing, and People Cannot Get Enough
Digital spaces that simulate indulgences like shopping and ordering food have taken off worldwide. Experts in human behavior say there are real reasons for their appeal.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After three years, today is my last day at Anthropic. They found me hiding in their bathroom's ceiling and kicked me out.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
People are weird
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Why do people hate data centers? dissentmagazine.org/article/algo...
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Life Under the Algorithm - Dissent Magazine
Algorithmic wages and prices don’t just squeeze workers in the present. They make them predictably poor into the future.
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is correct. The first time I saw an image of someone jumping was in a Time magazine special supplement that came out shortly after. But not on TV.
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New York Focus @nysfocus.com · 08/09/2026
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is canceling a contract with T-Mobile to hook up New York City public school students’ laptops with cell service. New York Focus reported last year that the questionable contract would have cost well over $100 million.
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Mamdani Ends Adams's Chromebook Spending Spree
New York Focus had spotlighted the T-Mobile contract, which cost the city $3.5 million a month to equip Chromebooks with cell service.
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We’ll be lucky to get a historian. I’m betting on a Linda McMahon type, some corporate clown who thinks NMAAHC just needs a little … pizzazz!
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The teaser trailer is batshit
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We were all so shell shocked. I was waiting at Penn Station in like October and there was some loud banging that began abruptly and people got up and ran. And the smell just hanging in the air
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
One person in this photo is named Dorothy Pitman Hughes
Black and white photo of feminists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes with their fists raised
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Happy Labor Day weekend. I’m making my last trip of the season to one of NYC’s great public beaches (actually the greatest if you ask me). Get out there and have fun!
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Honestly I hope the Dems have something more up their sleeve than "holding hearings"
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 05/09/2026
ICE has been staking out a Frederick neighborhood for 36 hours. No one knows why.
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ICE has been staking out a Frederick neighborhood for 36 hours. No one knows why.
Residents of a quiet Frederick neighborhood are watching as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles have sat outside their homes for more than 36 hours — without knowing why.
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Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 04/09/2026
Alaska appeals court dismisses noncitizen voting case against Whittier woman, reports James Brooks @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/09/04/a...
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Alaska appeals court dismisses noncitizen voting case against Whittier woman | Alaska Beacon
Prosecutors could seek a reindictment, but the decision also sets a high bar for future noncitizen voting prosecutions in Alaska.
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spooky cannoli @boner.ink · 04/09/2026
we asked bluesky's 38 most influential posters what is their secret to posting so good and they all told us to kill ourselves
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Cathy Engelbert out www.them.us/news/cathy-e...
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WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert Announces Retirement Amid Trans Athlete Debate
​“I retire knowing we have built something bigger, stronger and more enduring than we could have imagined,” Engelbert said in a statement.
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50+ Music @fiftymusic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Dream Weaver" is a song by the American singer #GaryWright, released as the first single from his third studio album #TheDreamWeaver in December 1975.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I love these kinds of stories so much
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/09/2026
Breaking News: Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader who galvanized the modern women’s movement, challenged sexist assumptions and fought for gender equality, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4cVollO
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/09/2026
Breaking News: Cassandra Wilson, an award-winning jazz singer who became one of the most distinct voices of her generation, has died at 70.
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Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70
With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Liberals say the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our democracy. They’re wrong— the Supreme Court is hastening the end of our republic.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Allison Miller @cliopticon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Another thing about Gen Z horror is its aesthetic individualism. They are all visually provocative in completely different ways. I haven't loved every one but points for trying. It Ends is full of flickering lights and lingering close-ups and also bathed in green. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/m...
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The Beginnings of ‘It Ends’
How the writer-director Alexander Ullom turned post-grad existential anxiety and a tiny budget into his breakout debut horror film.
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