Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 14hHappy Birthday to the best software ever written, and thanks to all those who created it!! 010
Reposted by Clare SammellsAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026A tiny bit of gentle advice for the men: before you try to explain or pontificate anything about the Cornell 7 to a woman, please remember chances are she’s already an expert 🙏🏻 371111042228
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My dogs want a word with you. They know a diss when they hear one! 110
Reposted by Clare SammellsMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is awful. More outlets are doing things like this—not limiting reporters’ recordings to their intended purpose. I was contacted by one publication, years after an interview, telling me—not asking—that that recording was going to be used in a new, unrelated podcast the publication was doing. 312136
Reposted by Clare SammellsJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 03/10/2026It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out. 5446133
Reposted by Clare SammellsNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5846891399
Reposted by Clare Sammellsalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026every time i get suckered in by a "but what about all the useful stuff AI does in my life??" argument the useful stuff is either "something you could google in two seconds" or "highly-skilled labor you don't have and therefore can't fact check" 10705138
Reposted by Clare SammellsMark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis. 151450529
Reposted by Clare SammellsM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026They Better Be........! 6750541160
Reposted by Clare SammellsIain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Summer in UK academia. A play in two acts. 292
Reposted by Clare SammellsKevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/10/2026As is the case in higher ed, calls for civility are actually demands for docility. 643150
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This rhetoric sounds so, so familiar -- and it rings just as hollow here. The people making cuts to university budgets fundamentally do not understand how universities work, nor what they do. Death spiral indeed. 0184
Reposted by Clare SammellsMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 44867341842
Reposted by Clare SammellsBridget 🦋 🐸🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Please share widely 055
Reposted by Clare Sammells🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 122123525253
Reposted by Clare SammellsAri Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This means eligible voters will be wrongly labeled non-citizens due to faulty and unreliable data and be purged from the rolls 33478259
Reposted by Clare SammellsProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)propublica.orgHow Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood PlaguesThe health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back... 862173853
Reposted by Clare SammellsFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/09/2026Big names in AI and Silicon Valley tech announced yesterday that they're launching a boarding academy for 16 to 22 year olds. (Would you trust the people in this scene with keeping an eye on minors?) theacademysf.com 1971236352
Reposted by Clare SammellsGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Awful: Trump's Office of "Remigration" has just been exposed making sordid payments to authoritarian governments to take third-country deportees, leading to serious abuses. Dems tell me they will try to defund the agency if they win power. They should. 1/ New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2157...newrepublic.comStephen Miller’s MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New LeaksSordid revelations about the white-nationalist-themed Office of Remigration should galvanize Democrats: If they win power, they must try to shut it down. 13127771320
Reposted by Clare SammellsPeter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping. 1665767958
Reposted by Clare SammellsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare. 427126564306
Reposted by Clare SammellsMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with. 8443451334
Reposted by Clare SammellsGwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Just encouraging all Mac users to contact Apple and tell them it's BS that Siri and Apple intelligence can no longer be fully disabled in the latest update (OS27). Reports vary by device, but between 10G and 30G of AI garbage models downloading. I just wiped and will be staying with 26 for a while 😡 17381137
Reposted by Clare SammellsAida 🇵🇷🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦🐾🌊🦋🗽💙🐸 @latina4jesusdshw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Exactly! #Pinks #USDemocracy 6331166
Reposted by Clare SammellsIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 20/09/2026Amtrak didn’t tell us about this exposure, so heads up: if you took an Amtrak train last week through Chicago or anywhere on the Southwest Chief, Coast Starlight, or California Zephyr routes like we did, you may have been exposed to measles! Please let the train people in your life know about this 3813331153
Reposted by Clare SammellsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Democracy depends on a fearless and free press. Without press freedom, we do not truly live in a free society. This is why I urge the news media to boycott the White House in response to Trump's ban on CNN, MS Now, and Politico. Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it. 812060630
Reposted by Clare SammellsEoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs? 25882381643
Reposted by Clare SammellsSteven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise. 161191463868
Reposted by Clare SammellsProPublica @propublica.org · 20/09/2026ProPublica’s analysis of CDC data found that the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies has nearly doubled. The spike alarmed many experts. One said it should “be a never event.”propublica.orgEctopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ... 6019761057
Reposted by Clare SammellsCheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hands off Kennedy Center!wapo.stThousands rally outside shuttered Kennedy Center, chanting ‘Hands off!’The vigil took place at the end of a week that saw the doors to the marble building locked shut. 5968301991
Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This. I thinm we should all be very suspicious of any news source that decides to stay in the White House after this. 000
Reposted by Clare SammellsScott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 19/09/2026We don’t need our journalistic watchdogs to have “access” to Trump Everyone in the press room should walk out in protest … and source up. 1563554809
Reposted by Clare SammellsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Remember: Telling lies that everyone knows are lies is a classic tactic of dictators to force their followers to side with them over the truth itself. But the public will not be gaslit. We will continue to spread the truth to our communities. Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. 13059311766
Reposted by Clare SammellsBill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson. 7544211048
Reposted by Clare SammellsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $8 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of American households is worth just $4.27 trillion. Read that back. Remember: Wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. 351103254267
Reposted by Clare SammellsKevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Who will show more commitment to, and solidarity in support of, First Amendment values: members of the White House Correspondents Association, or opening acts for Ed Sheeran? 371670366
Reposted by Clare Sammells"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm quoting the conclusion rather than the opening - this is a good thread on the closing literary horizons of a conservative subculture, through the shrinking pool of Harry Potter, Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. There's an irony that Lewis and Tolkien, at least, would scream at them to read more widely! 719115
Reposted by Clare SammellsSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If you’re in DC, come defend the Kennedy Center tonight from 6:30-8:00! 16814
Reposted by Clare SammellsSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Tonight! Hands around the Kennedy Center is Friday 6:30-8:00pm. 10501191
Reposted by Clare SammellsKJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/09/2026I was looking at the website of a dedicated romance bookstore in Devon and saw they had a section called "Books written with AI that are actually worth reading", and when I tell you I was inhaling deeply as I clicked. Should have known better. Props to Moonlit Chapters in Barnstaple, good work. 533070
Reposted by Clare SammellsSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026If I was in charge of an educational institution and learned that a technology fostered “cognitive surrender” in young people, I’d like to think I would do everything in my power to keep it away from the young people who pay my institution to educate them. But I guess I’m just a weirdo. 19397124
Reposted by Clare SammellsAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"publicnotice.coRetire in peaceMcConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go. 1720258947943
Reposted by Clare SammellsYoz Grahame @yoz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026USWDS was created and maintained by people who genuinely care about making government websites work as well as possible for as many people as possible. It was an amazing thing to watch on its own. But then to see the adoption and contribution by teams all over the world - that was incredible. 13615
Reposted by Clare SammellsAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation. 66891653215
Reposted by Clare SammellsWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent” 1821759391
Reposted by Clare SammellsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026AI advocates say we have no right to stop innovation in the free market. Hogwash. We don’t allow corporations to come up with new nuclear weapons or varieties of cocaine or biological pathogens. We protect the public from certain kinds of innovation. We need guardrails on AI before it’s too late. 932368764
Reposted by Clare SammellsRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system. 520153165867
Reposted by Clare SammellsAlan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Who knew Trump was such a terrible businessman that he could destroy multiple cultural institutions in Washington DC within a couple of years? 021
Reposted by Clare SammellsJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 561995986