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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's like you want to be on the side of the people but Americans have given up on caring about themselves the way they gave up on caring about others during lockdown. We won't get a better future because we don't care enough to build it.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can't get over how beef prices went so high that no one could afford the $90 briskets, then the US imported tons of carcinogen-ridden beef from Argentina that would have been illegal a year ago and now grocery stores and fast food are advertising big deals on beef and no one is talking about it.

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Patrick Nunnally @landh2oplaceumn.bsky.social · 20h

Great question, and encouragement of us to get out of our "content boxes" and think about process, technology, and how we work.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20h

they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Brad Batt for Tennessee State House @bradbatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Flock data + Axon body cam footage + facial recognition, "in one searchable platform." That's the pitch VIDIZMO emailed to Johnson City PD's deputy chief. Its tech also claims behavior prediction and racial and gender analysis on live camera feeds. www.404media.co/surveillance...

404media.co

Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras

A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Anyone else thinking about the future in terms of what skills you can bring to help de-enshittify all the datasets unjudicious use of AI has contaminated? I keep thinking about everything I know how to do and enjoy doing in terms of rebuilding.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I miss back when I could meet friends for a nice patio brunch and not learn that only the first two rows of the parking lot were free and the next two were owned by a scam company with signs eerily similar to those in the first two rows whose charges start at $20.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Opportunity Vanderbilt is one of my most favorite things about working here. In a time of federal student loan corruption, universities with endowments stepping up is more important than ever. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

forbes.com

Vanderbilt To Pay Tuition For Families With Income Of $200,000 Or Less

Vanderbilt University has announced it will cover the full cost of tuition for undergraduate students from families with incomes of $200,000 or less beginning fall 2027.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You know this is my third or fourth go around with this kind of technological innovation for consumers and citizens. And a lot of it is the same. Same pattern of exaggerated benefits, underestimated challenges. What’s new this time is the sector isn’t even pretending to care about the consumer.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“The administration is able to essentially hide a multiplied ICE force not only in unmarked cars, and not only behind masks, but also within local law enforcement through the 287(g) program. I call it the invisibilizing of immigration enforcement.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

theguardian.com

Gone in 90 seconds: an ‘invisibilized’ ICE is arresting more people than ever

After public backlash, the Trump administration changed its tactics from ‘siege’ to ‘soft feet’. Now, ICE is everywhere

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As fallout from the Cornell story continues, do you want to hear some history about the rape-on-campus/false-accusation panic from someone who was starting college as it took shape? Because this isn’t new, and it’s going to get ugly

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If this city's hundreds of multi-millionaire (and one billionaire) musicians won't save our symphony I wish them all a decline into obscurity.

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Climate Andy @andycorney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bloody hell, look at the Matterhorn in 2003 & Today.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 27/09/2026

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

trib.al

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

Headline: Battle of Hospital AI vs. Insurer AI is Pushing Medical Costs Higher.

The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.

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NakedPastor @nakedpastor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Often an image comes to my mind that I feel just needs to be drawn. In many ways, this cartoon doesn't make sense. In many ways I wish it did. There aren't seven men by accident.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

theguardian.com

ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If by doctors, you mean medical doctors, then I would predict that it won't affect numbers much at all because there is so much excess demand for medical school slots. It will change *who* goes to medical school.

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And making this policy without legislation to fund colleges and drive costs down means it's an attempt to prevent people from going to college and majoring in anything this administration doesn't like or thinks is a threat to its power.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder that federal loans are now capped at $65k total for undergrads, $20.5k/year for grad students & $50k/year ($200k lifetime limit) for professional programs (med, law). These limits change which programs remain financially viable without family wealth or private loans.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Every time bird flu crosses over into mammals it becomes a pandemic threat. That that is doubled when officials stall and let it rip through a population. And now we have no pandemic teams and a deeply limited CDC. I hate this math.

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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"While some #NEH funds have resumed, no retroactive #NEA money was restored, and the Trump administration has appealed both rulings." @drangelasutton.bsky.social @revealnews.org @alletson.bsky.social

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I just saw a tweet that said if you don't want old rapists running things, you have to normalize ruining young rapists' futures.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The text went out to every member of the frat. The "good guys" who didn't participate in the rape did nothing to stop their friends. Throw the whole frat into the trash.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have you seen the list of our colleagues in the Epstein files? Entries can be sorted by who visited Epstein's Island, who accepted his funds, and how often. Tinyurl.com/EpsteinSci

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ScientistsInTheEpsteinFiles

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Have you seen the list of our colleagues in the Epstein files? Entries can be sorted by who visited Epstein's Island, who accepted his funds, and how often. Tinyurl.com/EpsteinSci

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ScientistsInTheEpsteinFiles

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

“Everyone hates cameras in smart glasses. But if the camera is contained in a charm you wear around your neck, it shifts the agency. Suddenly, you’re not recording people. It’s just a cute little animated avatar looking out on the world.”

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‘Charming and disarming’ … how Meta’s technology-packed Muse harnesses the power of cuteness

The tech giant has launched a cute ‘little guy’ that can answer emails, book travel or do your weekly food shop

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Legal Defense Fund is calling for accountability in the investigations of suspicious deaths of Black people across the country. Over the past year, at least 10 Black people have been found hanging from trees, with some deaths ruled suicides that families question. bit.ly/3SOrltz

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A Series of Hanging Deaths Has Black Families Demanding Answers

Over the past year, at least 10 Black people have been found hanging from trees, with some deaths ruled suicides that families question.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When I visit Civil War sites, I wear a John Brown shirt because I need the ghosts to know what side I'm on. Just stay invisible if you didn't like him.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well this is a surprise. @thetimes one of the first papers to bring the damning Church of England’s “slave Bible” to the broader public’s attention, after Black scholars have long proclaimed its significance. What will anti-Spire activists do now? www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

thetimes.com

The butchered Bible that promoted slavery

Published in 1807, the Slave Bible was a distortion of Christianity that remains the Church of England’s guilty secret

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'The records have been digitised and indexed by the genealogy company Ancestry, which has partnered with the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery at University College London.' Leaps and bounds forward in our understanding of the histories of the British enslaved. #Skystorians

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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Co-founder of Anthropic accidentally argues the only people with sufficient brainpower to "think through the response to the situation" are AI haters. 😂 And he's just wrong: if you want to understand "the situation" with LLMs, "stochastic parrots" will point you the right way. "AGI" won't. /1

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"stochastic parrot" was a mimetically-fit cognitive virus that spread from 2021-2025; it temporarily blinded many gifted people to the nature of AI progress, burning up crucial years in which they could have helped think through the response to the situation.
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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I was looking for a citation for an image that is at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and none of the collection materials or exhibits appear to be accessible online. The old link forwards to a page to get tickets. Other SI sites are weird too. nmaahc.si.edu

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Feral Human Rights Lawyer @natcad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

But we should also be empowered to speak out domestically and internationally. If your loved one has been disappeared, report it to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. They want to hear from you. The process is very easy. Instructions here: www.ohchr.org/en/special-p...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%. 80%! A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's always so embarassing to meet a big shot high on his own supply who believes merit got him that Guggenheim/Pulitzer. Sure, merit is real, but so is the fact that many who worked just as hard alongside him never had a chance.

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Patrick Nunnally @landh2oplaceumn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This cannot be said too many times.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AI is dangerous because the people running AI companies are dangerous.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Captain D's just opened a franchise location in the UK because of how much British people love fish & chips. What's next, Chipotle opening locations in Mexico because of how much Mexicans love burritos?

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I once took beautiful shells home from TN's Duck River. When I learned that river was protected, I felt so bad I brought them back the next time I went kayaking. It makes me so mad that I have to share a world with people who would drain the whole river just to profit from a data center.

River tax: pearlescent green mussel shell

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And the winner of the biennial book prize is 🥁 🥁 🥁 Chloe Ireton and her book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic! 🎉 Congratulations @chloeireton.bsky.social!! Find authors’ videos and our judges’ comments for all shortlisted books here: rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)
Rigorously researched, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is a model for how to excavate the archive and how to find and reanimate the lives and hidden voices latent in letters, trials and petitions. It uncovers the rich and varied experiences of those whom European legal codes racialised as Black in the Iberian world. Ireton attends sensitively to the violence and trauma of the history of slavery while unearthing how those with African heritage negotiated the legal ecologies of enslavement and liberation in Spain, its colonies, and other Atlantic colonised spaces. The book brilliantly uncovers a conceptual and intellectual history of Black thought in the evidence of these legal and logistical documents. Its command of materials is impeccable and its blueprint for approaching archival research will be felt across disciplines for many years to come. The committee were unanimous in its decision to award this book the prize.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hackers found the encryption keys stored on the stolen Flock camera despite company's denials. They extracted more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images of cars, bikes & people captured in a span of 21 days from the device. Mass surveillance lying to us all again.

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Angela Sutton (she/her) @drangelasutton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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