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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

i bring a sort of ‘i fear neither pain nor death’ energy to the pedestrian/driver interaction that drivers don’t really like

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h
Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

When I had students ask me why they should take US history in college when they took it in high school—“I got a 5 on the AP!”—I would tell them it was because now I could teach them things that they wouldn’t have been allowed to learn in high school because someone’s parents would’ve been mad.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"Based on the dataset you shared, US and UK responses differ mainly in tone, intensity, and wording style, even though they express similar emotional states" New post on what happened when I got Copilot to do some data analysis: kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

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Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

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Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent

The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

We were on WOSU Public Media earlier today talking about Life After Cars and what it would take to make cities like Columbus, Ohio a little less car-dependent. Take a listen!

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Can Americans get along with without cars?

Co-authors and podcast co-hosts Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon look at the damage cars have had on our society and better modes of transportation.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

we never should’ve given power to the nerds. the jocks shouldn’t have it either. we must usher in the age of the goths

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NOT A WOLF @sickofwolves.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

IT NEVER FEELS GOOD TO LIVE WITHIN AN UNSTOPPABLE BLOOD TURBINE BUT OCCASIONALLY IT DOES INVENT A NEW TYPE OF CORN DOG

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