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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“A lawyer for Christa Pike said executioners have administered two syringes of lethal injection drugs to Pike but that she remains alive and breathing.” It’s been over an hour.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Not quite, I think. It certainly doesn’t help that very few jobs are both personally meaningful and socially necessary. I optimized for this combination — and it took first spending my 20s in relative (and actual) poverty as a graduate student.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

I think students should read full books.

Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech," from "The Four Freedoms," 1943
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I work at CUNY. Can confirm we have amazing students. The defunding though is taking a heavy toll on everyone

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I often find myself explaining to people that Hunter College, just one of a long list of senior colleges in CUNY, educates more undergraduates (~17,000) than Columbia University, even if you include all the Barnard students, too (~13,000).

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I read in the Inquirer today that UPenn’s endowment *increased* by $6 billion last year. The FY27 executive budget for CUNY is $6.4 billion.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tag yourself. I’m PROMPTS* & POSSIBILITIES * handwritten essay prompts

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s easy to keep them straight! One of these creates elaborate escapist fantasies and the other is a games company.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My view of self-driving cars has steadily changed over the past few years. Human drivers have collectively lost their minds, between anger problems, insane risk-taking behavior, and terminal levels of phone/screen distraction, in recent years. We’d be better off with a LOT more of these vehicles.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Approaching China or Australia levels of time zone incoherence

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 20/09/2026

“As you finalize the plan, we urge you to adopt metrics tied to affordability, liability and the freedom to move,” reads the letter, which was provided to The City Reporter.

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Mamdani, Here’s How to Do Better on Street Safety, Advocates Plead

After failure by the Adams administration to meet bus and bike targets, safety activists want a lot more accountability from the current mayor.

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 19/09/2026

Last night, at the intersection of 14th Street and First Avenue, a truck driver hit a Citi Bike, injuring one 16-year-old rider and killing a 15-year-old rider. The riders were crossing First Avenue with the right-of-way to turn onto the protected bike lane heading north.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This image makes me question some of my most cherished values and ideals (the Platonic forms).

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Truly astonishing that all any world leader can think to do is keep inviting the same guys into a room to give their considered advice on how we can protect ourselves from all the harmful, unsafe things deliberately done by the guys in the room

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King Charles warns of 'existential danger' of AI falling into wrong hands

The comments were made at a summit in Ayrshire with participants from AI giants including Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1. Bowling Green 2. Sheepshead Bay 3. ? Broadway 4. ??? Toilet Lion House

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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

quite something this paragraph.

After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026

"AI" - chatbots that wake up, "set their own goals," and "spontaneously" start hacking servers - is fake. It doesn't have "a 10% chance of ending the human race." The Hugging Face hack isn't a mysterious, supernatural occurrence.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I know this complaint is boring by now but I just read a bunch of research proposals that mostly all read the same, blandly competent but intellectually hollow and samey (guess why) and I so miss the weirdness in our writing but even more in our thinking.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

As a general rule, I don’t enjoy being more literate than a word game dictionary.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No fewer than four students in my lecture class pulled out their phones (against my classroom policy) during a group activity this morning. Texting, watching videos, even reading the Wall Street Journal. And yet not a single group handed their assignment in on time.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

As someone in the midst of their very first year of recognized* union membership (PSC-CUNY), I am delighted by this fact. * caveat required since I spent 5 years as a member, including a spell on the organizing committee, of an unrecognized graduate student union

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keep calm and Carrie on @neoraven.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it is Labor Day, and you know what that means

DS9 meme o'brien saying "He was more than a hero. He was a union man."

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It’s the first day of classes for me, so two more opportunities today to give a spiel to students that I call (h/t @philipchristman.bsky.social) “Just Say No to the Bullshit Machines”.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

it’s hard to describe how bereft stuff like this makes me feel

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hey Restaurants! If you use AI images of food instead of actual pictures of your actual food in menus and promotions, I will not be eating there. Period.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A good chance to ask: what's the most absurd thing you've seen someone do on a group trip? My high school made it to the National Science Bowl in DC and we were flying out of our tiny local airport. We got held up at security because one kid had a huge pair of *gardening shears* in his backpack.

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sometimes, when someone dies, what helps me is thinking about how wonderful it is that they were even alive in the first place. Dolly was the closest you could get to an American saint. We all loved her.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

An underrated virtue — and one I struggle with! For as long as I can remember I’ve had Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 as my alarm clock in the morning. I’ll listen to it tomorrow with some extra fondness. A great singer and a magnificent person.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you live in New York for long enough, no matter your background, you absorb a fair amount of Jewish and Italian culture, and this is an excellent thing.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This trend makes zero sense to me. The point of food illustrations in a restaurant no matter how humble is to make the food seem appetizing. These pictures are self-evidently revolting. They are worse than having no pictures at all. Why??

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 23/08/2026

I think the class of school administrators (not just in higher ed) who act fast to insulate core pedagogical functions from AI will reap major rewards for their trouble. In a few years, there will be an extremely stark difference between people who used AI in school and people who are competent

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

How the academics in your life feel when they realize it’s one week until classes start

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm baffled by the ratio'ing of this thread, which seems quite reasonable to me. There's a reason that the required reading list in Columbia's Core Curriculum includes Genesis, Exodus, The Gospels of Luke, Matthew, and John, Romans, and Galatians (not to mention Inferno, City of God, Luther, etc.).

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I have a mental high street of restaurants with punny names and the newest one just popped into my head, serving piquant offal dishes from around the world: HARUSPICY

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This is the (only) integralism we need.

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Dhananjay Jagannathan @dhananjayj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I’ve mostly arrived in Paris by train (via the Eurostar) over the years, and the first thing I do is buy a baguette and a round of the real Président Brie, which is not technically single-serving but which I serve singly.

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