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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The kids are alright.

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The UT-Austin Core Curriculum Task Force is requiring that Gen Ed courses draw 50% of their readings from this list of 50. Unfortunately, it seems to think that the “Great Questions of Human Life” can only be explored through the canon of Western civ (token exception: Confucius).

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In another example of how student journalists are doing excellent work, here are my wonderful Trinity students clearly articulating the value of a humanistic liberal arts education and critiquing its erosion by the use of AI (by professors, in this case) trinitonian.com/2026/10/08/t...

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Trinity students seek AI regulation for professors - Trinitonian

Multiple students alleged that Jonathan King, professor of biology, used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate exam questions for his Cells and Cell Systems class. Many students reported seeing Kin...

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

MY MAN. Knicks fans are allowed to hate him for obvious reasons but he is our French Woke Alien and I love this dude. Doesn't give a fuck about upsetting the league. Spoke out on ICE and the murders in Minnesota when he wasn't 'supposed' to.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 26/09/2026

Breaking News: Peggy Wong Pik-kiu, the district councillor at the centre of the Wang Fuk Court disaster who served as an adviser to the owners' corporation during the promotion of the renovation plan, announced her resignation due to health reasons www.info.gov.hk/gia/general/...

The Government received today (September 26) a written notice from Tai Po District Council (DC) member, Ms Wong Pik-kiu, pursuant to the District Councils Ordinance (Cap. 547) (the Ordinance), to resign from office as a DC member due to health reasons. Ms Wong also resigned at the same time from her duties as member of the Tai Po South Area Committee and captain of the Tai Po Kwong Fuk and Plover Cove sub-district Care Team. The Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs, Miss Alice Mak, said Ms Wong has served in the district for many years, and respects her decision.

The Government will, in accordance with the Ordinance, publish in due course a notice in the Gazette to declare the relevant office of the DC member as vacant from September 26.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you guys broke watergate

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 26/09/2026

Domestic workers called for an increase in their Minimum Allowable Wage from HK$5,100 to HK$6,172 at a rally outside the Labour Department on Friday. In full: hongkongfp.com/2026/09/26/m... Photo: AMCB.

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Otalp, MBBS @otalp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

7 years ago, in Vancouver.

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mid-Autumn Festival, 7 years ago

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Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mid-Autumn Festival, 7 years ago

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 24/09/2026

in a rule of law regime, judges rule once and the government abides by orders

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is really the only one that makes sense to me too-- someone trying to win some easy points or stand out to higher-ups (interestingly, a striking parallel with how outlandish local policies often happen in the Mainland too). bsky.app/profile/defr...

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The policy was quickly revoked and waved off as a draft that got published before revision, but as someone who studied this for a decade, even I find this one bizarre since it banned Cantonese but not English?

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John Carpenter's dEF0G 🌁 @defrog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The obvious question for me is WHY such a thing would be required in the first place. The most likely answer (and indeed the only one I can think of): someone in the production chain thought it would be more patriotic. Or would make the "patriots" happy.

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Always appreciate your thoughts <3

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I read in an essay, and it really stuck with me, the crushing realization that if our students could easily just forego learning and cheat, a shockingly high number of them will. And while I agree with you on the whole, I also don't want to completely negate the choice aspect of it all.

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I'm also a little less sympathetic with the "using AI for a tight deadline," even if I think its toxic work culture. Students do have choices. When students struggled with deadlines in the past, they talked to professors, maybe turned in a less-than-stellar essay, etc. They didn't, on whole, cheat.

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So maybe instead of crushing workloads, its that the ends justify any means, and the ends is never learning for learning's sake. Its adjacent to what you're saying: there is a belief that anything <100 is failure, and thus using AI is smart-- but I dont think students now have more work than before

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So the amount of work isn't increasing (and I don't think its crushing). BUT they have an increasing STRIKING intolerance for anything besides As and 100s. So it can feel like the workload is crushing, since they want perfection, but there's an unwillingness to triage and prioritize.

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I see this slightly differently. I agree with the main point-- my students tend to prioritize efficiency and results over self-care, taking time to think through things or dealing w/ the friction of learning. But my students arent taking more classes than 20 years ago (actually they're taking fewer)

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Yuen Chan @yuenchan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

That's some funky-ass Cantonese she's spouting there.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Massive human suffering is acceptable if I like the outcome” is exactly why the last few centuries have had so much suffering in them.

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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 18/09/2026

Put another way, _people_ promoting the urgent use of “AI” in the military and offloading their responsibilities to a machine … could have started a war. Per reporting, a chatbot (predictably) produced false output. An analyst translated it into a claim, and some number of others didn’t check.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Israel literally uses surveillance technology in the West Bank that was originally developed by the PRC for racially profiling Uyghurs (they explicitly advertise this as a feature)

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How Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank

Cameras made by Hikvision, which is blacklisted in US, blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty International

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gift link of this great article on English language learning in China (thanks Sakura)!

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A first for me-- I was quoted in the NYTimes this morning! Thanks to Tiffany May for including me in this important story on English language learning in China in the age of AI www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/w...

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In the Age of A.I., Some in China Wonder if Learning English Is Worth the Trouble

A math teacher’s viral post prompted a debate over the language, which some see as an optional skill — and a symbol of Western dominance.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Upcoming conference at Columbia University on Thursday, September 24: "Animals Across Borders." Free and open to all, but you need to register ahead of time. Details on poster below.

A n i m a l s Across B o r d e r s
A Multidisciplinary Conference
L o c a t i o n
The Lehman Center
for American History
Columbia University
Ti m e
9 am - s pm EST
Thursday
September 24, 2026

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Tristan Brown @tristangbrown.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What can southern Chinese languages teach us about Chinese and global history? Join us in person at MIT or online for Laikwan Pang’s “A Short History of the Cantophone,” with Wing Chung Ng as discussant. Oct. 2, 2:30 PM ET Hybrid: MIT + Zoom mit.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And yet, we resist.

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RazvenHK @razvenhk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At least 3 activists have been detained by police outside Hong Kong's Prince Edward MTR station tonight on the anniversary of the "831 Incident", where police indiscriminately attacked passengers and activists returning from protesting on HK Island.

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We loved this one! (But for us its mama drives pink car dries ponyo with towel, for whatever reason). Yours is more of a poet

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 28/08/2026

Texas has suspended over 1.2 million voter registrations. Many valid voters in Texas have found their voter registrations were somehow canceled when they checked. Check your registration here and fix it immediately - Texas doesn't always honor provisional ballots cast on election day.

goelect.txelections.civixapps.com

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Also just an absolute goldmine for gender studies-minded TV watchers. An incredible portrayal of the complex, volatile fragility of American masculinity

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thinking a lot about my courageous college friend, Felicia Sonmez, today, who also lost her job as a national reporter at the Washington Post—for speaking out about the toxic sexism in the newsroom back in 2023.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I am so sorry to have to tell you all this but Dolly Parton has passed away. A true queen has left. www.youtube.com/shorts/AOxsQ...

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Dolly Parton & Patti LaBelle play 'Shortnin' Bread' on their Acrylic Nails

YouTube video by Happy Mag

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5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And if I ever get to heaven If I ever get to heaven If I ever get to heaven And Lord I hope I do I will walk the streets of glory I will walk the streets of glory I will tell my Lucy story And walk with her in red shoes

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Dolly Parton - Red Shoes (from the Dumplin' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Audio])

YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO

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Alys Brooks @alysbrooks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Great day for research methods professors who need to fill up some slides with bad examples before classes start.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just out: a special issue on decolonial thought and the implications of Soviet colonialism. Immense thanks to Nodira Kholmatova, Olga Burlyuk & Gulnaz Sibgatullina for bringing us together and special appreciation to Diana Kudaibergen and Selbi Durdiyeva for the synergies brill.com/view/journal...

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Asian Studies Folks: Delighted to announce I've just stepped in as Associate Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies. I'm so looking forward to reading all of your amazing research! read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

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Editorial Board | Journal of Asian Studies | Duke University Press

Editorial Board | Journal of Asian Studies | Duke University Press Editorial Board Editorial Office: Journal of Asian Studies University of Pittsburgh 4107 Wesley W. Posvar Hall 230 S. B...

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Lets even set aside the broader societal harms. Its existence sucks for me personally. Teaching is less joyful. Reading student writing is less joyful. I waste so much time reading AI slop and then meeting w/ students about it. I've never felt this kind of despair teaching. Its not worth it

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Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I'll respond to this in good faith. I'm sure this person could find a new way for an AI subscription to improve my life. But its existence has already made my job and my teaching DEMONSTRABLY worse. I do not believe this hypothetical improvement will offset the way it has destroyed my pedagogy

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