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It's a shakedown in the classic rightwing manner. They torment and discourage the workers. The workers quit. Republicans say "see, govt workers are inefficient. Let's privatize this and give the contracts to our buddies!"

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He coulda been a Broadway producer or nfl owner too but he is so irritating that only politics would have him!

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

His 9/11 tweet was like an all timer. He has good comedic timing. Terrible person and the jokes often ugly. But anyone denying his comedic timing and adeptness as a poster is lying to themselves

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lol it’s politically bad for them to disparage the third reich! They know in their bones not to do this.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think there are a lot of wealthy people in tech who hate actual, real people and much prefer a philanthropy that only deals with hypothetical people of the future. We used to call this eugenics

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Jesus Zoidberg: Panic in Philly, I asked for an autograph @jesuszoidberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was a dirty hit and if Hurts wasn't you know, there wouldn't have been the debate among the announcers.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...

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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s a great essay! But really admire the courage to write it bc when you go viral it is probably scary to say anything bc it might just increase the harassment you already endured

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think I might read this essay with my students to help them think about using personal experience as evidence in their writing. Also: was a matter of time for someone to write something like this. I’m glad this essay is in the world bc it will do much good for people in future viral stuff

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“The benefit of the doubt is more than an expression. It is a life philosophy that asks us to be curious before we are certain, to leave room for an explanation, and to remember that the person on our screen has a life beyond the moment we are watching.”

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Michael Jordan of being the shittiest streaming app interface

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Every stitch tells a story of love, community, and remembrance. Volunteers across MN created the "Stolen Neighbors Quilt" with 11,000 squares to honor Minnesotans detained by ICE. Each fabric square represents a neighbor, a family member, and a life impacted by deportation. We stand for Justice!

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Nika @nikavia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Transphobes have been very open about the fact that they view sports as a wedge issue; if they can get people to agree that trans women aren't *really* women in the context of sports, it's much easier for them to extend that to toilets and other public services.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But I do wonder about weird baggage from Clinton’s impeachment and too much consultant/horse race politics poisoning the well to the point that they see duties to constitution and constituents as too “risky” or “naive” or “unrealistic” or something else. That and power, money, etc

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yeah admittedly I was trying for a “least cynical interpretation “ but probably more complex and disappointing as most likely hefe

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is it simply “I was trained how to do this job as if it were still 2006 and it sounds like too much effort to do things differently.” Is it just inertia of middle aged and geriatric desire for comfort and familiarity?

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Such a simple thing and so helpful

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Who gives a shit what gamblers think about polling? I know journalism is dying (heard it all my life at this point) but how gamblers react to polling is not news

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just sounds like it’s a name for a Pokémon after the OG 150

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Every time I hear this name I think they are talking about a Pokemon for like half a second. Always disappointed when I realize it’s not a Pokemon and instead some weirdo and I guess also probably rapist now

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wish there were a single sentence that could simultaneously encapsulate and explain every single problem we have in modern society.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Yes this is that exact game, which was also early in the year during the preseason period of the regular season

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You have so many options and yet many dems do “we gotta protect girls in sports.” Why? One option is to call out culture war nonsense and pivot from that. Another is to appeal to values of civil rights and mental health above all. Rhetorically, why lean into rightwing culture war talking points?

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m not saying it was good for New Dealers not to pass anti-lynching legislation nor do I support modern day dems caving on trans legislation. Only that I understand legislative caving in ways I do not understand campaigning in ways that shit on trans rights…who is it for?

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bc there’s evidence of dems having backbone on trans rights in legislation (not enough of it) but there is also a move to campaign as a “realist” in ways that appeal only in the most niche ways that probably don’t affect votes

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Like sort of cultural tradition of politics to actively seek out and accept as reality a rhetorical position emanating from something that only makes sense in the material reality of political legislation. Campaigning and legislating just aren’t the same things but do they get seen this way?

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

New Dealers constantly acquiesced on stuff like anti-lynching laws bc of the power of Southern Dems to muck up passing legislation. There’s lots of stuff like this through modern day but I wonder if it weirdly grafts onto political campaigning like with trans rights. A sort of instinct to give in

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

a lot of people act like there's a trade being offered where we give up trans athletes in sports and in exchange fascism is defeated forever

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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@ncte.org and Emily Kirkpatrick have A LOT to answer for. I have said all along that NCTE's arguments have been wafer-thin. Now they look downright duplicitous. This is why I don't support the transition. We cannot be in league with people so committed to unaccountability.

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The Organization Formerly Known as CCCC

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Godspeed You! Woke Moralists @dashwallkick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh this sucks. Iconic speculative science fiction reduced to a Buzzfeed headline.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

This is worth remembering because many of the exact same people are now advising the best path forward is quietly accepting this newest phase of mass deportation and sticking to “kitchen table issues” once the midterms happen.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I remember thinking “we go to church for God and we do worksheets at school, why do I have to do more worksheets and more God on Tuesdays?” And I actually was pretty religious for a long time, still didn’t appreciate this schedule

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I can never forget when CCD was (Tuesdays, 4:30), probably because it was my first experience of being in a meeting that could have been an email. Cults are for people who don’t realize they are in unnecessary meetings

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“AI will kill us all” is how the tech industry, especially rich people in it, avoid talking about real world problems—ones they’re causing, exacerbating, or neglecting—while still thinking themselves good. “I’m better than all that,” they say. “I got high with my friends and BSed about the future.”

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just talked about this elsewhere but this is how we end up with shitty chromebooks locking students into Google and locking them out of useful computational skills

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“This technology is fucking annoying to me personally” has always been the strongest argument basically everyone agrees on.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is this desperation and if so from where? Debt at the foundation but who are the adversaries they see? Anti-Data center people? China? A cranky workforce?

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Still see this also as possible way to lock out other competition too. But they probably are also catching on to how unpopular they are outside of software dev circles and even there they have some blowback.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This stuff is fascinating. I think maybe they see a slowdown in development coming anyway and they are getting ahead of it with an attempt at some PR wins.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

My guess is that this might be an anti-competition move against China or smaller companies in west. They should not be trusted to have input on how they are regulated. Huge conflict of interest

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

They should not have any control over how they are regulated. Not totally sure why this is a big press push for them, but I’m sure it’s not in the public interest and we should agree about regulation while keeping them far away from any control over how that regulation is instituted

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CAP'N @capncook.nl · 13/09/2026

Tired: Fact Checking Wired: Frame Checking

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Ken Mayer @uwkenmayer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

With generous assumptions, a new faculty line costs about $180k a year (salary, fringe, overhead). $47 million annually would pay for 250 tenure lines. According to the UMass 2025-2026 fact book, the university has about 1,100 FTE tenure-line faculty and spends about $430 million on academics.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1/9 Father Mychal Judge — the first recorded death at Ground Zero on September 11 — could become the first known gay saint in Catholic history. www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/father-myc...

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Father Mychal Judge, Gay Franciscan Killed in the North Tower, Could Be 9/11’s First Saint

The first recorded death at Ground Zero would become the first known gay person canonized a saint in the Catholic Church’s history.

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

No one seems to care about the nuts and bolts of learning something it seems but only vague gestures at “experimentation” but certainly not in the IRB responsible way!

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Dan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I sincerely believe sometimes these requests are not in good faith and just try to paint skeptics as close-minded. For instance, you never hear “it would be great to add AI components when you teach source use since AI is now such a big part of search now”. No, you hear only “yay innovation!”

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