Reposted by Chris StrauberChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14hsumma potestas diversitas est 0415
Reposted by Chris Strauberhammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“In these spaces where everyone has dirt on each other, putting skeletons into one’s own closet serves to bolster one’s loyalty to the group and vice versa, and can therefore even become the price of admission. “ See also : tech firm sex partiescornellsun.comGUEST ROOM | Cornell's Dereliction of DutyDylan Jackaway '24, M.Eng. '25 calls on President Michael Kotlikoff to answer to the Cornell community and the Board of Trustees for his mismanagement of the Title IX investigation of the alleged Chi ... 1265
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Intelligence is about making value judgments. Machines can't. 110
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Training machines to hack into systems and lie to cover their tracks is encoding a very particular set of human values. The humans are still responsible for the outcomes. Better targeting doesn't fix the moral disaster they've created. 002
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Raptor RFP! mass.streetsblog.org/2026/09/28/w...mass.streetsblog.orgWild Idea: MBTA Could Enlist Raptors To Help Make Its Stations Less Crappy - Streetsblog MassachusettsThe MBTA is seeking information from falconry experts to help them reduce pigeon populations in their facilities. 010
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 28/09/2026See, this is the kind of detail that city folk like me don't appreciate--the care and planning that goes into herd management. 000
Reposted by Chris StrauberSarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Some of the best reporting in the country is coming out of student newspapers (also the Harvard Crimson, the Daily Bruin, The Daily Orange, Daily Princetonian). The collective action 🖊️ of the editorial board banding together and standing behind this statement is bravery. 2616
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026On the NYTimes list of top 100 TV shows of the 21st century. Read the much better thread on the real problem. My little take: I don't watch huge amounts of TV, so it is telling to me in maybe a slightly different way that I've heard of all but one or two of these. 011
Reposted by Chris Strauberderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story. 381217502542
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Old school new media. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publick...en.wikipedia.orgPublick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick - Wikipedia 000
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The idea that there are a limited number of "takeaways" from any given document that are the same for every reader is a complete misunderstanding of how texts and readers and summaries work. 101
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tangenting off of a good thread: the main societal problems caused by the web and social media are about the reactions of adults to it, not children. 000
Reposted by Chris StrauberTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026show us the three existing applicable regulations or penalties you’ve enforced before you propose a new solution challenge: 315721
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Love to work in an industry where it's assumed that the experts have no expertise. "I know that educational research supposedly shows this, but...I am generally skeptical of the rigor of a lot of educational research." 020
Reposted by Chris StrauberElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"we have to be nice to AIs because what if AIs are people" no. wrong. stupid. get your priorities in order. if AIs are people, a group of human beings knowingly created a class of sentient slaves, and we must hunt the human creators down because they are a threat to our society 410823
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Quote of the day: "What's wrong with the White House beat is that it's considered prestigious...." And I am also hearing @jayrosen.bsky.social yelling "Send the interns!" 011
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I was totally clear on that by age 12. No one stops the bully but you. 000
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Also that switching to electronic assumes that everything is available in that form to libraries. It's not. Particularly in the humanities. Good thread on college textbooks. 020
Reposted by Chris Strauberthe original Aloof Wife @cpi.pinball.horse · 15/09/2026Not even joking here, we are all slowly rebuilding a social ecosystem devastated by austerity, oligarchy, and the pandemic. When you show up to events that speak to you, you are reinforcing the scaffolding of our shared reality. We build shelter for ourselves and structures for the future. 0558
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Quote of the day. If you're working really hard to avoid saying anything that attracts attention, maybe just don't. 000
Reposted by Chris StrauberClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026it must be infuriating to be a New Yorker today listening to all these 9/11 tributes from conservatives who don’t believe New York counts as America on any other day of the calendar 151251174
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Very tired of reading people's attempts to launder their own reputations with memories of 9/11. It was not about you until you tried to make it about you. 001
Reposted by Chris Straubersoleil ho @soleilho.com · 11/09/2026I rarely talk about how I was 6 blocks away from the WTC on 9/11. & it's less bc of the trauma and more the sheer shame of how the US turned that trauma into grist for more killing. here, I talk about how the attacks became a formative moment in my political life www.coyotemedia.org/september-11...coyotemedia.orgI Watched the Planes Fly Past My Classroom Window. Then Came 25 Years of GrievanceFor Soleil Ho, September 11 was their political origin story. 3504115
Reposted by Chris StrauberChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Repoost yf once upon a tyme you were a denizen of a diale-uppe BBS and wyth your entyre soule you remembir the birde-screeche-dissolvinge-ynto-static noyse 16553213
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Podcast ads have gotten so much more depressing now that they're automated. It's an endless stream of the same generic insurance and drug ads, regardless of the topic. 110
Reposted by Chris StrauberRhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Podcasts should go back to being audio only. 2267089
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Proquest Dissertations is currently using AI to summarize abstracts written by the author, which indicates that Proquest has not thought at all about what it's actually doing. 011
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I suspect it's not and that I am about to start having really uncomfortable conversations with the Apple watch wearers in my life. 12312
Reposted by Chris StrauberJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There's a site that offers a suite of ai modules "write like authors" x, y, z, including me, and let me tell you that is the devil's work. And also I don't write like me book to book, so good luck with that, fucko demon sloppers. 1140546
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Fighting is only one of the skills required to be good at war. It's also the most teachable. Democracies are better at all of it. (much smarter thread up and down from this post) 011
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I would be totally OK with returning to ancient Roman timekeeping. Computers would haaaaate it though. 010
Reposted by Chris StrauberLady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The Library of Congress can move quickly when it wants to classweb.org/tentative-su.... This is from the September tentative LCSH list. They moved swiftly to overwrite Denali and the Gulf of America, too. So much for librarians being freedom fighters. 📚 56639
Reposted by Chris StrauberDan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What's the ratio of op-eds about Claudine Gay paraphrasing someone vs op-eds about Ariely just straight up fabricating data 022052
Reposted by Chris StrauberMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“If there were a problem in our economy that tax cuts could solve they would have solved it by now.” — @kedseconomist.com 39931
Reposted by Chris StrauberDania Palanker @ipersist.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Unions undermine the traditional bespoke mistreatment of grad students. 1355
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 28/08/2026And as a bonus the entrepreneurs who end up corporate managers don't learn to manage either people or systems. 020
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Wow. This settlement is vile and dystopian and the tiny amount of money (for Meta) involved is paid out over a decade. Also doesn't address the underlying problems with the platform either for children or anyone else. 010
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 26/08/2026You probably just mean "a lot" anyway, and that's all it means in Greek. 000
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Can't believe how many people need to hear this. If you are running for office you are a politician. 010
Reposted by Chris StrauberCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 23/08/2026When Trump is finally defeated, remember that the hangers-on and the ghouls surrounding him, the JD Vances of the world, will all claim that they were trying to moderate his evil and they should be thanked. And we need to remember that this is a lie. They were willing to do anything for power. 91730457
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The market cannot. A whole bunch of businesses are about to discover what the absence of funding for basic science does to their ability to create new products. 022
Reposted by Chris StrauberChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Righte now the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard. 113334
Reposted by Chris StrauberMeatwad Bod @meatwad17.bsky.social · 19/08/2026These guys are PANICKED to see their business case crumble after billions of dollars in committed capital. Can’t wait for this bubble to pop. 192
Reposted by Chris StrauberAnna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I’d contribute to the legal defense fund of any girl who responded to this with a can of spray paint, just saying 36819
Reposted by Chris Strauberdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes 121126382127
Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Woo-hoo! Marvel has now completely replicated the insular, gate-kept world of the comics. 010
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