Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public. 75150365625
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 14/10/2026A new study from Flanders, Belgium found that social media users really do learn true things about current events from political content—but that the people doing most of the talking are, on average, less informed than those staying quiet. Tim Bernard on what that means for democracy.buff.lyWho Participates in Politics on Social Media, and Why?People really do learn about politcs on social media says a new study from Belgium, but the loudest voices are often not the most objective, writes Tim Bernard. 084
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Academic institutions are terrible at valuing their people. I asked Columbia for a raise and was told I would need an offer from another institution. I got one from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Columbia responded with a 40% raise and a bunch of other things. I left for Hawaiʻi anyway. 1432833
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 575216514224
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialMin Hyoung Song @minsong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026But weirdly AI is also making me question digital technologies all together. Holding a physical book in my hand feels like a luxury. I want to subscribe to physical magazines again and touch the smooth paper they come in. I want to hear the scratch of the needle make contact with vinyl. 1289
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Could the "LLMs can't do anything" crowd and the "LLMs can do everything" crowd go somewhere private to yell at each other so the rest of us can have a normal "this new tech can do things previous tech couldn't but is limited in various ways, let's figure out best uses and regulations" conversation? 1322037
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialSusan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 30/09/2026To recap: three GOP-led states that wanted the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in order to "send abortion back to the states" are now asking the Court to strike down abortion protections in blue states 125341165
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"A.I. tools condition people to expect immediate responses and deny them the experience of working through challenges, the authors say, which is crucial for skill development and one of the strongest predictors of long-term learning." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comWill A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy?We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us. 2206
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20652451426
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialLarryLegend @bwtrainer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026if someone tells you you don't need a union, you 100% need a union 13832263
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It’s very annoying to read this story again and again. The companies that train & task agents should be liable for the hacking. Same as if you’re operating heavy machinery & you destroy something. You can’t say “the tractor did it! It rolls so fast! Had no idea it would do what it was made to do!” 34111
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7259802001
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Upon graduating medical school in 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle did a doodle of himself waving his diploma over his head. The caption reads: "Licensed to Kill." My new book SLEUTH-HOUND is about Conan Doyle's professor, Joseph Bell - the real-life Sherlock Holmes. Out Oct 20! linktr.ee/drlindseyfit... 330982
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Americans shrugged as invasive tech was normalized. So why the national resistance to data centers and Flock cameras? "The answer is salience," write RIT professors Evan Selinger and Divya Ramjee. Once harms are visible and local, "the spark for change gets lit."buff.lyAmericans Shrugged Off Surveillance. Then Came Flock and Data Centers.Opposition to data centers and Flock cameras tells us something important about why normalization isn’t inevitable, write Evan Selinger and Divya Ramjee. 073
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A point @annakornbluh.bsky.social has frequently made about labor intensification is that colleges cut support staff, offload essential work that support staff did onto faculty, then wonder why faculty aren’t being as “productive.” What once took our Asst. Dir. an hour, easily takes me twice that. 46214
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Well, I'll be damned. They finally found a spine. 992635240
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialSheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026NEW- For the first time, groups in Iran, China, and Israel have used open source AI models to run start-to-finish influence campaigns. They told the models to create fake accounts on social media, find an agenda, and push it. Some are already targeting the US. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/t...nytimes.comIran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence CampaignsThe countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, foreshadowing future online manipulation. 68961
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDanielle Spratt @dlspratt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Happy publication day to Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction! So grateful for my brilliant collaborators, Kat Alves, @katalves18c.bsky.social, Nina Moon, Susan Greenfield, Tim Black, Adela Ramos, Colleen Tripp, and Jodi Wyett! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...taylorfrancis.comReading Jane Austen | An Introduction | Danielle Spratt | Taylor & FraReading Jane Austen: An Introduction captures the dynamic range of scholarly, popular, and pedagogical conversations that characterize contemporary Austen 1125
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Dolly Parton Facts are like Chuck Norris Facts only they’re real and involve being a good person 19721
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026arstechnica.comBoston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contractCity: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled. 7130351213
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJohn Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026Ed Sheeran's tour bus. 76148822903
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10/09/2026Heads-up everyone in digital humanities and/or cultural AI: this is a hugely valuable resource. It does the systematic cleaning and segmentation — of a million books — that we have always wanted to have, for computational research, and have never quite produced in a way that stuck. 18027
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...404media.coA Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime. 461283795
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings @c21literature.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Chuffed to announce our online event to celebrate the republication of our first three volumes! Please do join us to hear from some our early contributors in discussion with those from more recent issues. 30th September 5-7. Details below: 01513
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026I think trade policy should be set by someone who has literally any understanding of how trade works, like any understanding at all 27887109
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialBrian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Breaking: Someone appears to have hacked the Republican National Convention website and it now redirects to the Epstein Files website. 53093852464
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026And they say it’s hard to find new music. 12777140
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialBen Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Happy 250th birthday, America! To celebrate the occasion, we're closing your oldest natural history museum. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/a... #scicomm #Philadelphianbcphiladelphia.comAcademy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University to close museum on Sept. 30The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University will close its museum in Philadelphia on Sept. 30, 2026, NBC10 confirmed. 111974
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Asking your AI chat bot to “please roast” your perceived adversary is the most Loser Shit in the entire recorded history of humanity 291527218
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/08/2026Millions and millions of dollars are being poured into all kinds of Left organizing right now, but not into higher ed - despite the fact that it was cultural knowledge produced IN UNIVERSITIES that paved the way for Left social movements in the 20th/21st centuries. We need to recapture this! 271
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Lotta people this weekend are gonna have a karaoke mic in their hand when they find out that Dolly was a SINGER singer and even the songs she made sound easy are very hard. Keep your head on a swivel. 864350544
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialMike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/08/2026If you read any history about dictatorships or countries that, e.g., perform unexpectedly badly in a war, a common thread is that the people surrounding the leader are afraid or unwilling to tell the leader the truth. It's a universal failure mode. 419339
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This week Historians At The Movies celebrates the life and legacy of Dolly Parton. Join us this Sunday, August 30 at 8pm eastern for THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS. You'll need to rent or buy this one, but that’s pretty easy to do. Share this post and come out Sunday night with #HATM 811232
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026Dolly Parton was one of pop culture’s most prolific philanthropists, supporting causes like early childhood literacy, wildlife conservation and the development of the Covid-19 vaccine. She became so effective at distributing her own money that the ultrawealthy asked her to distribute theirs.nyti.msDolly Parton’s Other Legacy: A Fortune Given Away, Dollar by DollarThe country star supported early childhood literacy, disaster relief, the development of the Covid-19 vaccine and more. 223148
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialNaughton Braun aka Stacie Yuhasz, PhD @naughtonbraun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026PREACH 022
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Even Dolly Parton’s work supporting children reading isn’t “neutral in the culture wars”—God, how sad that is—and Republican officials have worked against it. And you know what, Dolly being a rich person who helped people rather than horde money and power isn’t neutral either. 126554
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialEmanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I talked to one of the people who works at the facility where Amazon destructively scans books for AI training data www.404media.co/inside-the-w...404media.coInside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI TrainingAn interview with one of the Amazon employees at Amazon’s AI training facility VGT3. 24119
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJohn W Buaas @johnwbuaas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Just recalling hearing Dolly Parton saying once that she doesn't take herself seriously but takes what she does very seriously, and thinking that's not a bad way for anyone to live their life. 114027
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialKristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 25/08/20269 to 5 is still one of the funniest antiwork films, and easily the best soundtracked (nails on a typewriter! Feminised labor as percussive spine of the world!). Rest well queen 229856
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago. 219239325926
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialSo Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social · 25/08/2026There are so many donations happening right now that the site has crashed. 2641911142
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Project 2025 says to kill wild horses and Trump is doing just that.nytimes.comUnder Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter (Gift Article)A legal loophole allows the government to sell mustangs on the cheap, stripping them of protections and clearing their path to destruction. 1219992
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/08/2026DJ Quik is the greatest producer in West Coast rap history. 2525066
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.thelancet.comEvaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysisUSAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a... 5435181808
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Post45 CFP Alert: Super excited to announce this special issue, edited by Michelle N. Huang and Carlos Alonso Nugent. If you've ever thought that our periodization (or ASAP's!) needed fixing, now is your chance. submissions.post45.org/journal/CFP/...submissions.post45.org Why45? (or Why68?) | Post45 Journal Submissions 11916
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 19/08/2026“Science fiction is an anti-inevitabilist literature. Science fiction is only incidentally about thinking up new gadgets & explaining what they do. Far more important than what the gadget does is who it does it to & who it does it for.” - Cory Doctorow 1279
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/08/2026New: We found cops who misused Flock to spy on their wives. Their bosses at the police department had no idea. Three are being investigated and one was arrested after we asked about their searches. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @douglasmac.bsky.social @aaronschaffer.comwashingtonpost.comWe found cops who misused Flock. Their police departments didn’t know.Police departments have powerful tools to track how officers use Flock’s license-plate cameras. But across the country, agencies often don’t perform oversight, leaving potential abuse to be uncovered ... 925384
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialmichael veale @michae.lv · 17/08/2026given Amazon provide the 'Sidewalk' infrastructure that makes Tile trackers work via Alexa and Ring devices as detectors, they don't exactly have a leg to stand on when investigative journalists slip an AirTag in a book 061
Reposted by dejablue.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/08/2026"Why do the kids hate the filterless sociopaths who are destroying the environment and the economy and who monologue like James Bond villains?" 773764975