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Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 20h

Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant

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Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

every business has been taking over by the same PE chuds who hire the same MBA chuds who have the same plan as every other company and none of them know what the fuck they're actually doing

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026

The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_...

Jailors were forbidden to move prisoners from one prison to another or out of the country to evade the writ. In case of disobedience jailers would be punished with severe fines which had to be paid to the prisoner.[5][6]

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This is like arguing we must ensure that our graduates are the best biomass they can be, for benefit of the worms who are the "ultimate customer" of the human experience. We need these people to not run universities.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is.

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 19/05/2026

Have you identified a pervasive societal problem or was one person weird to you

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'd be OK fighting a holy war on behalf of the libraries.

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 07/09/2026

Last week, I got to teach my first year students about why the US has its own super special Labor Day and why it isn’t in May. They were, rightfully, unamused.

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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

[guy who can’t fully remember that Gramsci quote] it’s Monster Time

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 05/09/2026

As with school vouchers, this program will not incentivize a broad adoption of regime-sanctioned behaviors, so much as reward those people for whom such choices were already viable with public money. This is patronage, not policy.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Adding to this thread: it’s a common mistake (I’ve made it myself, many times) to think of the motivations of the capitalist elites as essentially mercantilist: that is, that they are largely still motivated *entirely* by profit and loss, selling product, etc. This has not been true for a while.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Death by intentional neglect is the characteristic method of murder in concentration camps

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 31/08/2026

I guess we're talking about data centers a lot today? I want to recommend @parismarx.com's fantastic series Data Vampires which gets into what hyperscale data centers are and why they're becoming so huge and prevalent -- and why they're not like data centers of yore. techwontsave.us/data-vampires

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 24/08/2026

Wild (though not in a surprising way) to see Buckhead arch-secessionist Bill White defending a racial chauvinist and eugenecist. As I’ve shown repeatedly in my work, urban secession movements cannot be divorced from broader white supremacist currents.

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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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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026

Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026

Our analysis shows that the measles virus seen in Utah as recently as May is very closely related to one that circulated in Texas a year ago. Given our findings, one expert said it’s going to be difficult for the U.S. to prove measles isn’t endemic: propub.li/3QAKxK1

A comparison of eight measles virus DNA sequences with 12 genetic letters each. The first sequence is labeled "Texas, May '25," and the rest are labeled as Utah and dated between June '25 to May '26. The sequences for "Texas, May '25" and "Utah, June '25" are identical, and the first five letters of all sequences stay the same. After the "Utah, June '25" sequence, each sequence gains one to two mutations from the previous sequence listed.

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/06/2026

I really worry we are moving towards a research landscape where actual interviews, in which a human talks to another human, are going to be seen as too expensive and slow to be worth doing. Chatbots are not interviewers, in no small part because the transcript is not the interview.

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 20/06/2026

Two famously elastic categories of demand

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Your regular reminder that the 'middle class' is a construct of structural and specific consumption patterns; a lexicon designed to keep working people who earn decent money from achieving class consciousness and to distance themselves morally from the poor.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

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Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

daaaamn london

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 11/05/2026

Really neat to have some of my poetry rendered calligraphically and featured in this exhibition. Lovely work, @ergative-abs.bsky.social!

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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The rural petit bourgeoisie is not the working class. Like categorically those things are very different.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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AI Slop Is Flooding Academic Journals. A Top Journal Measured It

A top management journal measured AI’s impact on submissions and reviews. Submissions rose 42%, writing quality declined and AI reviews proved uninformative to editors.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

thinking we maybe should have been a little meaner to the confederacy after the war

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 01/05/2026

I taught Andor as part of my seminar on authoritarianism this term. The aesthetics, the psychopolitics of the show are so perfect when read alongside, e.g., Adorno’s work on authoritarian personality

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Screenshot of a paper's title page. Title: "The Difference Between 'Replicable' and 'Not replicable' is not Itself Scientifically Replicable". Authors: Berna Devezer and Erkan O. Buzbas, both at the University of Idaho — Devezer in the Department of Business and the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation, Buzbas in the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science. Authors contributed equally. Corresponding author: bdevezer@uidaho.edu.
Abstract: Replication studies estimate the replicability rate of scientific results by aggregating binary verdicts of experiments. Exact replications are rarely attainable, so most replication sequences are non-exact. Experiments differ in ways that matter and do not share a single common data-generating process. We formalize two statistical interpretations of this non-exactness. In a shared latent rate model (benchmark), experiments are exchangeable and depend on a common random replicability rate. In a conditionally independent rates model (operational), each experiment has its own replicability rate drawn independently from a population distribution. Under the shared latent rate model, even small variability among replicability rates induces an irreducible variance floor on the estimated mean replicability rate that cannot be eliminated by adding more replications. Under the conditionally independent rates model, the degree of non-exactness is not identifiable from standard replication data, because one binary verdict per experiment contains no information about between-experiment heterogeneity. Researchers therefore cannot tell which precision regime they are operating in or whether high- and low-replicability sequences can be distinguished in principle. As a result, the usual data structure of one binary verdict per experiment cannot support reliable demarcation between "replicable" and "not replicable" results and systematically understates uncertainty, making high- and low-replicability sequences appear discrim…

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

The thing is, I think these are all fundamentally correct & completely reconcilable political economies of the contemporary.

Technofeudalism (Varoufakis, Durand)
Too Late Capitalism (Kornbluh)
Muskism (Slobodian & Tarnoff)
End Times Fascism (Klein & Taylor)
Vectoralism (Wark)
Gutenberg Parenthesis (Sauerberg, Jarvis)
TESCREAL (Gebru & Torres)
Neofeudalism (Dean)
Tech Fascism (Duran)
Platform Capitalism (Srnicek)
Surveillance Capitalism (Zuboff)
Klepto-Keynesianism (Seybold)

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I feel like Cop City is up there with Gamergate in the number of canaries it killed in that coal mine.

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 27/04/2026

Really pleased to see this poem out in the English Journal—grateful for friends and colleagues continuing to do the work to resist the narrative of AI inevitability in education. publicationsncte.org/content/jour...

Teaching in the Age of Artifice
All the banks I love are fog and all the work worth doing doesn't pay.
I'm here another year.
But now the creature
in the corner of the classroom—not feathered, not soul-perched-begs me show it to these young ones, let its shining body blind them, its claws mangle and rend, quick before it rusts away (surely it must).
I call out for the otherwise.
Give me mist
to hide us all from the seeking cyc of enterprise. The here and now need not be only hell.
-COLEMAN ALLUMS

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This is straight up, Nazi "dual state" shit. If a naturalized citizen commits a crime, we have mechanisms in place to hold them accountable. It's called the legal system and it applies to all of us. This extra targeting of only *some* people accused of crimes is part of a broader, expulsive project.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/04/2026

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 21/04/2026

Barragán on so-called traditional architecture and social totality

Photo of a book titled “A Conversation with Luis Barragán”

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Let's see if I can manage to explain the mistake of using the words traditionalist architects.
This is generally understood as an architect who does architecture in the style of the place where he is, but of a different time. In philosophical terms, that should not be considered traditional, because the architecture he is copying from that age, when it was made, was contemporary. Which means that true tradition consists of continuing to make contemporary architecture. For example, in the colonial period, if they had made Mayan architecture, they would not have been traditionalists either, because then the Maya would have made architecture of a previous age, and so on indefinitely. I don't know if I have explained this clearly. Tradition is to do architecture of its age, in accordance with the life and culture of the age.
In the history of our architecture, we have always made architecture of our age. The Americans are not traditionalists; the tradition of the American people is not like ours. The Americans have a tradition directly imported from Europe and they have alwaysat least until 1940, with slight exceptions done architecture of other ages, and thus they are called traditionalists.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

this is awful for many reasons, but IHE's framing suggests a frictionless market for academic labor where tenured faculty who dislike the terms of their job can leave for "bluer pastures" anytime. This recodes a functionally collapsed market for humanistic expertise in terms of free market fantasy

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

normalize premium vegetables sincerely believe that Rancho Gordo is doing some of the most effective climate work out there right now, and I don't know anything specific they're doing besides selling excellent beans

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Coleman Allums @colemanallums.net · 15/04/2026

Perhaps the triumph of exchange value was not so foregone as we imagined. A small victory--still, amazing what is possible when we begin to imagine a world built for people and not for capital.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026

As wealth concentrates, so does power — the power to influence elections, shape policy, tilt markets and define the terms of public debate. Taxing billionaires is not radical. What is radical is allowing a system where extreme wealth exists alongside widespread hardship.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In March, renewables produced more than a third of US electricity for the first time ever, even overtaking gas generation! Wind and solar combined reached over a quarter (26%) for the first time.

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