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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Took my nine year old to Coyote vs Acme. But don't worry. I gave her an hour long lecture beforehand on torts and supposed "tort reform."

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Whenever a famous poet dies, poetry readers always post something like, "Yes, he was a mediocrity, but I found a few of his poems scanned reasonably well, and I suppose I can't completely discount his contributions to the form."

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Going through Fleetwood Mac's discography, and it's absolutely insane that Stevie Nicks doesn't show up until ten albums into their existence. They have such a weird and wild evolution as a band.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Took my nine year old to Coyote vs Acme. But don't worry. I gave her an hour long lecture beforehand on torts and supposed "tort reform."

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 24/08/2026

People who talk about AI in higher ed classrooms as a pedagogical rather than resourcing problem may be well-meaning but naive, but I also suspect a segment insists on treating it as a primarily pedagogical issue to avoid drawing attention to systemic underresourcing.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Working class Midwesterners are "real Americans" until they don't go along with dictates of billionaires, and then they're very quickly knuckle dragging morons.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I teach information literacy to students, and one thing I tell them when it comes to assessing a reliable source is to start with facts and not "objectivity" or "bias." The problem with Fox News isn't that it's conservative. The problem is that it lies to its viewers.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm just now discovering that there are four books in the Practical Magic series, and the fourth book, originally titled The Book of Magic, has been rechristened Practical Magic 2 in order to take advantage of the new movie. This sounds absolutely insane to me.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's interesting how media only perks up when these tech dangers are from abroad, but seem asleep at the wheel when they're domestic. Is China shaping AI outputs any more concerning than what has happened with Grok?

NYTimes article titled "China Wants to Shape What the World's A.I. Knows"

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm not sure if this Axios writer is aware, but if you don't want to read The Last of the Mohicans, there's a pretty good movie by Michael Mann you could watch.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

There's something about students referring to homework and other class assignments as "deliverables" that rankles me.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I ran into this meme yesterday, and I'm kind of glad that people are now inadvertently complaining that the Odyssey movie is too much like the original epic poem.

A meme where a pipe pours water into the mouth of a well nourished man sitting while an emaciated figure gets drops from a leak. The pipe is labeled screentime, the man is labeled Tom Holland, and the emaciated figure is labeled The Sires, Cyclops dialogue, Scylla and Charybdis

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 10/07/2026

Commentary: “I’ve lived in Springfield, Ohio for 45 years,” writes Rev Carl Ruby. “I’ve seen the city go from an economic and population freefall to a thriving city. That miracle turnaround was thanks in part to thousands of Haitian people seeking safety.” ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/10/t...

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Trump’s attack on TPS for Haitians is an attack on Springfield, Ohio's entire community • Ohio Capital Journal

“I’ve lived in Springfield, Ohio for 45 years,” writes Rev. Carl Ruby. “I’ve seen the city go from an economic and population freefall to a thriving city on the upswing. That miracle turnaround was…

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If lit scholars were smart, then they would create a field where they studies disabilities. Too bad that's never going to happen.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

As a former Clevelander, it makes me unreasonably angry that Metropolis, IL holds a Superman festival and even has a damn statue. The whole thing is some stolen valor bullshit.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

American remake of Bicycle Thieves confirmed.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Two of my favorite Star Wars creatures is the trash can droid in the Jawa crawler and Yaddle. There's just something so relatable about being so tired you say, that trash can is a droid now or fuck it, we're putting a wig on Yoda.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

All this talk of the new Odyssey trailer and historical accents goes to show that Kevin Costner in Robin Hood was just ahead of his time.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Complete Control - The Clash The High Party - Ted Leo Ceremony - New Order Drain You - Nirvana Your Name Is Wild - Guided by Voices Sister - Angel Olsen Waking on a Pretty Daze - Kurt Vile Non-Alignment Pact - Pere Ubu I Would Die 4 U - Prince Blondie - Dreaming

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

An obvious but often not discussed impact of AI will be the devaluing of an online degree.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

What's kind of funny about Hegseth uncritically using the fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction is that when I first saw that movie when I was thirteen, I thought that it sounded really cool, but then I immediately wondered whether it was real and pulled out my Bible to double check.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

When prompted for how AI can help entrepreneurs, I had a student mention that AI helped his cousin pivot his small business ideas over twenty times. I'm sorry, but if AI is giving you 20 bad business ideas, maybe it's not the next-level business tool people think it is.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

So much of adult life is doing a task to avoid a more annoying task you also have to do.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Five nights at Freddy's? I'm pretty sure I'd be bored after five minutes.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This last week, I just up and decided to watch a few masterpieces. And Send Help shows that Raimi hasn't lost a step. #lastfourwatched #last4watched #letterboxd

Last four movies I've watched, Last Year at Marienbad, Little Women, E.T., and Send Help

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My cartoon in the first issue of Now Voyager, a new print magazine dedicated to long form international reporting, photography and art. Plus cartoons!

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The original "Nice argument. Unfortunately, I have depicted you as Satan the Morning Star..."

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I'm going to out myself as a defender of teaching kids cursive, but to make it applicable you also have to pair it with lessons on fonts, typography, graphic design, and general aesthetics. You have to put cursive in context for it to have any value to students.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I was too young for Cheers when it originally aired, but I always thought about going back and watching the series. It looks like I was really missing out.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thiel is trying to do religious lectures while Andressen is flirting with postmodernism. And both are doing so rather poorly. I think tech people hate the humanities largely because they're jealous.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

When will one of the Safdie brothers make a movie about Ea-nāṣir?

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Remember when corporations and billionaires used to call themselves "job creators"? I haven't heard that one in a loooong time.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

I just passed the living room and heard my wife explaining Traitors strategy to our eight year old.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

how it feels taking public transit rn

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

My state senator, Barry Finegold of Massachusetts, admitted to using AI to "help" write his speeches. A politician admitting something like this should honestly be disqualifying.

Excerpt from a news article where MA state senator Barry Finegold says he uses AI to write his speeches.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

It's somewhat depressing to see so much of the opposition to the War in Iran based on gas prices and not the death of over a hundred and fifty school girls, along with all the other innocent lives lost.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I am going to skeet about The Peanuts Movie again: It bothers me that Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Franklin all attend the same school as Charlie Brown, et al., because it's established series lore that the other trio lives in a different neighborhood.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Consumers who actually want to read newspapers likely care about the craft of the story. Any newspaper doing this is simply turning away people who are interested in paying for news. It's suicide.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

It's unfair that the Seahawks have a QB that's gone through puberty.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I wonder if all of the conservative pundits concerned about school closures because of COVID are going to speak out against ICE preventing kids from going to school.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I kind of like this image someone scrawled on the train seat. It improved my mood this morning.

Image of an eyes with wings or something drawn in pen on the back of a train seat.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My cats eyeing the Christmas Tree

Kevin Garnett in Uncut Gems now saying "Why the fuck would you show it to me if I can't climb it?!"

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My cats eyeing the Christmas Tree

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

One recent example of enshittification that I personally haven't seen remarked on much is that search results on Amazon bring up a bunch of adjacent products that don't meet the specification of your search.

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ᴛʜᴇ 𝕍𝔼ℝℕ𝕀𝕊ℍ𝕀ℕ𝔾 @outlawvern.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

I think if they really dump AI content onto Disney+ they'll find out real quick that NOBODY wants to see that shit. But it's so symbolic of the state of things that the name that once meant the very peak of hand drawn animation is now in league with the stock market scam anti-human garbage machine.

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DCOber @dcober.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

At my writing program's end of term meeting, one instructor shared an AI image they created for no reason and another suggested we use Claude to draft emails to our students. It was far more demoralizing than catching two students using AI.

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