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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Important breaking news update

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Something I think about often is how the reward for promptly responding to emails is receiving more emails.

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

Four high school championships. An NCAA champion (and MOP.) and an NBA final in her third season. Angel Reese is a WINNER.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

bring back ass whoopings

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

well said

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026

Holy shit.

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

your *fourth* moment of calm (sound up)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

Oh hey look: exactly what a bunch of us said was already and would keep happening— data centers being placed in spaces where their harms will fall on those already most marginalized— is, in fact, happening.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From a discussion of updating a department website...

A photo with baby Yoda and adult Yoda with the caption "Could it be time for a new photo?"

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

If you ruin the ~ bright futures ~ of Ivy League rapists, who will you rely on when you need a wet signature for state-sanctioned murder?

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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 01/10/2026

i am having trouble articulating this but a system that excuses gang rape as a youthful error on behalf of college men with ~ bright futures ~ does so because it is served by producing older men who are comfortable with, even enthusiastic about, torturing people at the system's behest

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/09/2026

One of the most harrowing things about academia, when you're a grad student, is how vulnerable you are to how you're perceived by more senior researchers. Your career advancement depends on confidential letters of reference & private discussions amongst faculty. You have no information or control.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

“The Department of Health and Human Services informed congressional appropriators earlier this year that it was moving about $12 million from its Office of Minority Health to help cover the ballooning cost of security for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

wsj.com

Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office

The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Evergreen skeet

Marisa Kabas • @marisakabas.bsky.social

i'm not reading what that dumbass wrote

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

The scream. That I SCRUMPT.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

When Black people that do not like black people are lending you credence You are in the ideological endgame

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 20/09/2026

If Thomas Chatterton Williams agrees with you there is something foundationally wrong with your argument

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

orlandosentinel.com

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have a cousin who was constantly putting me on game with ways that I could get out of my J-O-B and not do all that “smart shit cuz.” I finally explained to them that I LIKE all the smart shit, did in fact choose to do it for a living, and I am very good at it. They never really believed me.

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.

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CNN @cnn.com · 05/09/2026

Local health departments in North Carolina have evaluated hundreds of people for rabies after they interacted with baby goats that were part of a mobile petting zoo, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. cnn.it/4qSsRHy

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026

look you already had me at "statham does die hard on a boat" but I'm sold

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Wendell Berry is gone after a long life. I dare you to read or listen to this and not be overwhelmed by something

onbeing.org

The Peace of Wild Things

A poem by Wendell Berry.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

Look: if your solution doesn’t account for the material conditions of the problem you’re trying to solve, you’re dong some flavor of ideal politics or ideal theory. Problems exist in contexts and situations and pretending otherwise is a fucking problem.

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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ok so, the D major chord Dolly’s playing in is notoriously difficult. And this young lady makes it look easy—in full acrylic nails. This is 1979. #Dolly #DollyParton 🖤✨🙏🏽

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As I wrote for @fastcompany.com , women are sounding an alarm about AI. But they are not rooted in a fear of change but in the unequal risks of AI: From bias to privacy to environmental costs to job exposure to competence penalties to emotional labor. www.fastcompany.com/91584377/wom...

fastcompany.com

Women are sounding the alarm on AI. Leaders should listen

Their concerns aren't rooted in a fear of change but in understanding the unequal risks AI presents.

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Dan Larremore @danlarremore.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🎉 New paper (and data) on editorial & peer review at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. With a wonderful team! @samzhang.bsky.social, @nicklaberge.bsky.social, Quinten and @aaronclauset.bsky.social. 1/ www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Elite general science journals shape scientific discourse, public policy, and scientific careers. However, expectations of confidentiality in most editorial proceedings has limited efforts to understand and improve the review process. Here, we describe and release deidentified data on 110,303 manuscript submissions over 5 years at Science and Science Advances, two elite general science journals. Analyzing evaluation dynamics across the initial editorial review and subsequent peer review stages, we find strong selective effects associated with higher institutional prestige, larger team size, and certain topics and countries. Corresponding authors who are men exhibit a small but significant advantage at Science, while authors based in China have a significant disadvantage. These associations are generally stronger in editorial review than in peer review, even as final editorial decisions correlate strongly with reviewer advice. These patterns highlight the complexity of multistage evaluations at elite journals and the importance of open data to better understand them.

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Dr. Lorgia García Peña @laprofelgp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Since its inception the American university (which is yet another colonial bequeath) has made sure that Black, brown and indigenous people stay out. And by out I mean as students, faculty and admin but also out of history, literature, philosophy. 1/3

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

They want to shield racists, and make it out of line to describe people as racist, because they believe in racism and would like to proliferate racist ideas with as little friction as possible.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

these people really want to make "racist" akin to a slur rather than what it is, a straightforward label for a set of beliefs and views. if you don't like the label because you, correctly, associate it with degenerate chuds, then get better beliefs

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The learning center taught faculty how to teach, how to design accessible assignments, how to use archives in the class — useful things we don’t learn in graduate schools and that benefit student learning. For blogs.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.

Graph of student exam scores correlated to homework completion time for to groups, students using AI and those that did not. There is a slight spike for studens using AI who also maintained extensive homework completion time. As described in post, the number of students falling into this bucket was 20 out of 26,000.

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Another must-read thread from Rabbi:

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

ABSOLUTELY NOT. Speaking as someone who got into the study of religion as an academic discipline by way of the study of philosophy and religion IN literature -- THIS is simply another way for Christian nationalists to break 1A (Also! "Old Testament" = a different read of the Hebrew Bible) AND!

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

every online wnba fandom space has been completely overrun by chuds who basically openly despise women’s sports

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

i’m not sure whether normies and non-sports fans understand the extent to which right-wing weirdos are waging their culture war through the WNBA right now

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

The almost immediate response from everyone upon learning about them was to clearly recognize the inhumanity in their use and design. The fact that they’re already out in the field and being used, even at schools, should lead people to consider what else they don’t know about our carceral system?

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

I think the response to seeing these weapons deployed by ICE while they’ve been in use for policing, even at schools, is an excellent demonstration of how effectively policing is propagandized here in the US.

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Ambrose @ambrosia-engine.blacksky.app · 18/08/2026

Yes, it feels like sometime in the past few years it went from twice to quadruple for me. I relate a lot to @ismatu.bsky.social in her essay "I kinda wanna fuck excellence." But it feels like there walls I cannot smash through anymore, that the bar is unattainable perfection or death.

Excellence is the state, quality, or condition of excelling. A state of
superiority.
Herein lies my first big gripe: superior to what? Excelling over what
bar, by whose metric? It’s hard not to taste capitalism forming the
word in my mouth. Excellence, by definition, implies compari-
son, which grates on my spirit. My word. I will be honest with you at
the risk of sounding conceited: I did not have many peers growing up.
K-12 education was spent around white kids that, for the most part,
only ever performed as well as I did, which was always pretty… deeply
unimpressive to me since I had half the resources they had and I knew
that. I was regularly the standard of my craft (which has always,
always been writing). My pen moves and the world does with it.
Writing feels like breathing. I have always been excellent in that
regard.
The problem with comparison is that kids are vicious— especially
white kids that feel like they deserve an A more than you. Comparison
was always isolating at best; it’s a rather lonely fate, becoming the
benchmark of someone else’s success.

Excellence always felt to me like a losing game— either I pass
with flying colors and I have no friends, and see the bar raised imme-
diately after with no time to celebrate your victory. Or I fail to clear the
bar. I meet my own standards with metal to bone and I crack.
Brutal. Brutal and unsustainable.
By the time I got to college, I’d really married myself to the idea of
“just good enough.” Do as much as necessary to get what you want.
You don’t have to be Excellent, you only have to be Enough.

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