Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis? 302103221368
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialpixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026 Australopithecus 3 million years ago: 4590041735
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Every ad for Microsoft Copilot is "you know you're a complete fuckup at work, but we can make you look like you actually know what you're doing" and, uh, I guess they know their customer base? 1746647
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialI am furious, but I am sailing @stcaffeinated.bsky.social · 09/10/2026hello??? police?????????? 631330111
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJason Takes Man-Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 09/10/2026What a grotesque misunderstanding not only of the story he was adapting but, like, HORROR ITSELF 913339
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJohn Breen @breen.tech · 08/10/2026“Everything the U.S. empire does is bad, so everyone who does something against the U.S. is good” is a really silly political ideology 5766
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7070411927
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialMuseum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026 3767661072
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 05/10/2026The SPEAKER implies. The LISTENER infers. The DUDE abides. 6548321128
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialCount Draugula @artd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026the abolitionist's dilemma 452761604
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives 1851991384
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialTim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026if claude is concsious it's also enslaved 1421543
cyclopsdoc.bsky.social @cyclopsdoc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026@amccrary.bsky.social For your classes' data visualization coverage. 050
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialdan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right 63113322574
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things 471432195
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.social(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026an extremely important thing to remember about Patriarchy is that it's not just rule by men, it's rule by *fathers*. By necessity, it creates a massive surplus of extraneous "secondary" males that have to be accounted for in some way: 843689
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Personally I think it's fine to point out that policies intended to harm minorities also harm the majority! People respond to messages rooted in self-interest and it also emphasizes that we're all connected. "Trans bathroom bans harm cis people" isn't the only argument, but it's true & worth noting 511194114
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJames Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I try not to whinge about AI too much here bc I feel like bsky has that covered, but when I see people sharing AI-generated music... that is so fucking depressing Making art is the best thing humans do and music maybe the purest form of that--if we're outsourcing that we should just pack it in 243373
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJames Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026LOST was the single show that gave me the most pleasure to watch in my life. I also am depressed by the mindset that a show's finale constitutes the final-exam grade determining its value--which Lost may bear some responsibility for, but which is an impoverished way to look at art 39811
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026fundamentally, it appears very difficult for people to recognize 'hey it's good that the person i don't like is saying this' because they seem to understand it as 'this person is good' 2868781
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor. 8488138
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It takes place on the one night of the year where Godzilla is allowed to have sex 191050221
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 429103811921
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this. 352163174186
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026great art articulates eternal truths 1048511482
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir. 5737252
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Lukewarm take: I feel a lot of pessimism about the present is built on not realizing just how bad the past was. Like if you just read a book about poverty in a first-world country in the 1950s it's staggeringly worse than now. 501154156
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialjay Dragon 🔜 Metatopia @jdragsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026so my village has been having a lot of issues. rather than deal with any of them, i grabbed a goat and had all the villagers pile their blame and hate onto the goat. while we were getting ready to drive it into the woods (and absolve ourselves) the goat BIT ME????? RUDE?!? 72139561
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/ 10459184
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialDr. Donna Bowman @donnadb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’ve heard accomplished academics and creatives say that they use genAI to brainstorm or throw together outlines or other stuff on this list. And I’m sure for them, this seems like they're getting past speed bumps or less interesting parts of their work. 1132
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I'm Jewish and if a candidate triangulated on antisemitism to win an election, I would most certainly pressure him to do better *right now* and would hope my fellow Americans would do the same. I see no reason why our trans siblings and those who support them should demand anything different. 51314248
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialWitch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Look. The reason university administrators want to force LLMs into everything—and are willing to pay for the privilege—is that their ideal institution has no faculty or academic staff. They’re probably actually willing to pay MORE for that. 47026
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lone Progressive Dissenters have the highest batting average of being correct in history, yet that does nothing to change the widespread conviction that today’s Lone Progressive Dissenters must be crazy wackos. 261647401
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Future me watching temporary -productivity-burst me commit to meetings and calls. 2255351126
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is the "Charlie Brown had hoes" of the center now. You didn't experience this. It didn't happen. This wasn't real. 694021541
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026the whole point for me of becoming an academic was to get to spend my life reading the thoughts of other weird little minds, and helping those other weird little minds find their own way, and AI has largely stolen that from me, and I will never be okay with it. 227951
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.” 12561091621
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 08/09/2026RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. 0335256
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socials. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker. 72191539
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026a lot of ppl with expertise in education have pointed out why this is a fake anecdote but as an expert in being mentally 15 years old I want to point out that this is also a fake teenager, this whole post is the result of an AI prompt written by a man squarely in the middle of midlife crisis 311176139
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialJulia Gfrörer @thorazos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If you don't say "you're a kitty" to your kitty he won't know! 933299
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialPam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm. 231667434
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Trump’s best business insight is realizing there’s a huge market of people who want to let everyone around them know that they’re a giant asshole. 712642486
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/09/2026Convincing young people that America is poor & no one can afford anything & everyone is living paycheck to paycheck & their economic future is doomed ... IS NOT GOING TO LEAD TO MORE PROGRESSIVE POLICY. People who feel anxious & under threat do not respond with openness & generosity! Look it up! 551662269
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/09/2026Do other industry newsletters habitually berate workers in said industry as stupid, incompetent, and evil? Does "Inside Sinks" routinely call plumbers idiots? Does "The Chronicle of Auto Repair" publish 10 pieces a day blaming mechanics for America's demise? Or is it just a higher ed thing? 1020958
Reposted by @cyclopsdoc.bsky.socialAndi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What in the condescending misogyny is this, @wired.com? “Perimenopause” isn’t a “buzzword” invented by pharma startups — if you haven’t heard it much until recently, maybe that’s because women’s health in midlife was almost completely disregarded www.wired.com/story/inside...wired.comInside the Perimenopause Industrial ComplexHow an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy. 23987194
cyclopsdoc.bsky.social @cyclopsdoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I'm glad you can find bliss in the not knowing. My brain is not that healthy. 110
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