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Dmitri

@ddmitri.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University. English language teaching, labor, and identity in higher ed. All cats are beautiful (ACAB). He/They.

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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the US economy & our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable… that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more than you spend…“
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
People are on here talking wild reckless to trans people. And it is very annoying because trans people have done everything they needed to do. They educated the public about candidates who were against civil rights. They pointed people towards viable alternatives. They came through in primaries.
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think to be so shaken by the idea that a computer can think is a sign that you’ve never reckoned with the intelligence of animals and the fact that humans have never been quite as special as we’ve historically thought we were.
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Prism @prismreports.org · 06/09/2026
Scientists have found when bees are forced into isolation, they exhibit trauma responses similar to incarcerated people subjected to solitary confinement, Carolyn Bick reports. Could new research on bees end solitary confinement in Washington state?
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How bees could end solitary confinement in Washington state
Scientists have found when bees are forced into isolation, they exhibit trauma responses similar to people incarcerated in solitary confinement
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Dmitri @ddmitri.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Joke answer but not really: Lavinia, by Ursula Le Guin! It’s fantastic and I’m surprised it’s seemingly not as widely known as her science fiction works.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The computer may have been the bicycle for the mind, but the iPhone is the car. Everything the car did to the built environment, the smartphone did to the social/relational sphere.
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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Anti-intellectualism is a bipartisan project and in both cases it’s basically market protectionism for one’s artisanal shoddy, boring ideas that cannot find an audience.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026
Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
despite Vanilla Ice’s clear desire to collaborate, he listened and stopped
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
if youre not on the race riot app you are living in a bubble, you have to contribute financially and provide free labor to the race riot generator or else you are in a bubble
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Yiannis @yiannisbab.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nobody asked for this but I've done it anyway - on the Odyssey and why this sort of thing is particularly annoying. A few key points will follow in the thread.
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On the Odyssey, because
Christopher Nolan filmed the Odyssey in Greece without a single Greek actor. Here are almost 3,000 words on why that's not surprising.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Meowie Antoinette
A cat with its head turned creates the appearance of headlessness. Next to them is a basket with a second cat’s head poking out the top.
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Joseph M. Pierce @pepepierce.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
New post alert. The University Will Never Love You indigiqueerconfidential.ghost.io/the-universi...
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The University Will Never Love You
After twenty years in higher education, I know the university will protect itself over its people. Rather than explain the value of the university, we have to refuse the language of the market and def...
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Getting a PhD is a lot like the Odyssey except you’re one of the suitors and the throne of Ithaca is the only job in your field.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...
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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 21/05/2026
i've been thinking about the work we're doing at varying levels to organize against AI, and maybe i've also been in the headspace of gardening and getting rid of weeds. i can't shake the feeling that AI takes up space opportunistically where people's needs are not being met. a little like weeds.
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Ali Alkhatib: Weeds tend not to grow where they can't take root
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
academics trying to normalize acceptance of AI hallucinated citations in their field: do you seriously expect me to show my work and check my work me, baffled, a naïf, a fool: yes that’s why it’s called *your* *work*
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
There’s a point in every enterprising graduate student’s life when he or she realizes that a lot of the senior academics hate reading and writing. As in, they chose a career defined by written communication and they are livid to discover that they’ll be expected to conform. Blows your mind.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 18/05/2026
one of the most interesting things to me about the current political moment is that it's essentially a conflict over who gets a stake in the settler-colonialist plunder the 2010s Dem/liberal platform is more or less that settler colonialism is an ideological project, the GOP sees it as racial
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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026
“The reviewer’s job is to assess whether a piece of work makes a genuine contribution to the field and has been conducted ethically and rigorously. Checking whether the references exist is arguably quality control which ought to sit with the organisation that profits from the work.”
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
THE WOKE MOB WANTS EVERYONE TO BE BLACK: HOT SWAN EGG GOD KIDS, MERMAIDS, AT LEAST ONE STORMTROOPER, I THINK AN ELF OR HOBBITS OR SOMETHING, THAT GUY GARY MY MOM SAYS IS “SERIOUS BUT NOT REAL SERIOUS” WITH, THEY DO THIS TO POISON OUR CULTURE AND HURT US
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
OUR CULTURE IS BEING DESSICATED BECAUSE THAT GIRL WHO GOT HATCHED FROM A SWAN EGG IS A BLACK BUT GREEKS ARE WHITE EVEN IF THEY ARE FROM SWAN EGGS THAT’S JUST SCIENCE AND THE BATMAN GUY HATES CULTURE AND WHITES AND SCIENCE
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 17/05/2026
Not to contradict this but people have also been nonstop talking about the “Odyssey controversy” over here too, but instead of seriously debating the merits of the argument directly, they are seriously debating the unseriousness of the argument remotely *when they could be ignoring nazi debate club*
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Aaron King @aaronmfking.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Every time I open Bluesky,
Text from Ulysses reading (A crowd of sluts and ragamuffins surges forward.)
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/05/2026
billionaires repeatedly buy and destroy communications platforms to dominate information flow this week's 🙄 Bluesky silo redux discourse downplays that people of sense and empathy were chased here unwillingly and are focused on survival and connection, not revolution
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Once again, I am not the Cat Czar of bluesky. I do not control how many cats you see. I’m afraid you’re just going to have to learn how to use this incredibly simple platform instead of whining at me.
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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I have metastasized breast cancer that resulted in two brain tumors, since removed. I've lost vision and get chronic migraines. All my books are written solely by me, with 10 fingers and 85% of a brain. No AI needed. The answer to disability isn't AI, it's community.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 02/05/2026
hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation
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Dmitri @ddmitri.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Gonna save this for my grad students doing capstone presentations and oral defenses.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I don’t understand how they thoroughly messed up the widely used software that opens PDFs? Like as apps go this one is pretty close to “you had one job”???
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13/04/2026
Acronyms are pronounced as words. -scuba -laser -NASA Initialisms are pronounced as individual letters. -NFL -TSA -TGIF 'Acronym' is frequently used for both kinds of abbreviations, so it's ok to call an initialism an acronym.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Being into cats feels so debasing. You give everything over to this animal — time, labor, money — but when you want them to sit next to you, they refuse and jump away. When they finally sit on your lap, you sit motionless to the point of physical pain, afraid to disturb them. Humiliating.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵
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Disappointed But Not Surprised @heliocide.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/04/2026
You know whose fault it actually is that bluesky is dying? the reply guys, who consistently let down power users with substandard riffs and slightly off-topic GIFs
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Dmitri @ddmitri.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Surely no one would deprive Merlin of his precious packing papers! He must save them, there may not be another shipment for some time.
Petite silver tabby cat sitting composed on some crumpled sheets of packing paper on the floor. His expression says, if the papers are removed there will be trouble.
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Every cat owner has garbage laying around the house and you have to explain that its the cat's favorite garbage and so you can't throw it away.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
Oh did the leftists say that? Maybe time you lefthis app and went to the gym.
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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I’m at ICE HQ
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I drove around for hours, I drove around for days, I drove around for months and years and never went no place Jack Bishop c. 2020
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