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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1h

... but there actually is a secret third option: we could agree to no longer treat "continued astronomical rates of AI investment" as an unimpeachable good, and implement regulatory -- as opposed to monetary -- policy that slows AI investment rates.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1h

This is exactly the same grotesque moral logic as Sam Altman's "the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology." We have choices. We don't have to accept punishing interest rates (or anything else) in exchange for AI-led growth.

“The problem for the Fed is that there is usually a built-in correction mechanism in the U.S. economy in which interest rates rise and at some point, the rate-sensitive parts of the economy, led by housing, slow down hard, and that then propagates to the rest of the economy,” said Ajay Rajadhyaksha, global chairman of research at Barclays.

“But if a large part of the economy is just less rate sensitive and that is what is pushing the economy to grow faster, then the Fed, unfortunately, has to hurt the part of the economy that is more rate sensitive.”

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 40m

It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A white woman with dark hair holds a book called Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics, by Miriam Posner

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 3h

Even as we protect basic rights, we also need to enjoy them when we can. Yesterday at sunset, I opened up @science.org in the @rad-institute.bsky.social quad to read the print edition of my letter w/ @rebekahtromble.bsky.social & @ubiquity75.xyz on academic freedom www.science.org/eprint/CBDR2...

Picture of a copy of Science Magazine, with a sunbeam shining on the page outside on a fall day, with green grass and autumn leaves dotting the ground.

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Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 15h

#BookBans 101 If a School Board deems a book unfit for the students in the schools they oversee and forbid it from being made available anywhere on school property we say that the Board has banned that book from their institutions even if it is available elsewhere! Here endeth the lesson

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19h

The approved 2026 Chicago Public Library (CPL) total budget request is $169,257,813, which includes an operating budget of $103,966,346. [Just thought I would leave this here]

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Amy LaZerte @amylazerte.bsky.social · 16h

That’s why so many teachers were horrified when you dragged AFT into bed with Microsoft, Open AI, and Anthropic a year ago for your poorly thought out “National Academy for AI Instruction” a little over a year ago, Randi.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 16h

As Chris Rufo considers "the Indian question" and X users debate if it's woke to study for spelling bees, I'm reminded of this moment from 5+ years ago I included in my book. Even before the backlash to "CRT" and DEI, suburban white folks were complaining about South Asians outdoing their kids.

Being new to the story, the backlash was what I still didn't under-stand. The story Jones was telling didn't match West's description of a hostile Black Lives Matter takeover of the school district. I'd gone back and watched a video of the 2018 school board meeting when parents of Black children came forward with painful stories similar to the one I was hearing from Jones. Back then, people appeared to be listening to one another, and everyone seemed genuinely committed to addressing the problem. What had brought things to the point of backlash?
Jones began to offer up her theory. Over the course of two decades, she'd watched as Southlake's population had grown ever more diverse with an influx of high-achieving South Asian immigrants. Over time, she said, fewer and fewer white Carroll students were graduating at the top of their class.
"I think," Jones told me, "this has a lot to do with preservation, and I believe_"
Just then, I cut her off mid-sentence. Throughout our hour-long conversation, I'd been keeping an eye on an MSNBC live feed on a computer monitor in my home office. I was suddenly distracted by the images flashing across the screen.

"I don't know if you've noticed your TV," I told Jones, my voice shaking slightly. "The MAGA protesters just stormed the Capitol.
There's shooting in the Capitol right now."
At the urging of their president, people had come by the thousands to stop Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election.
Some were members of white supremacist extremist groups. Others you might have thought of as regular folks. A realtor from a wealthy Dallas suburb. A West Virginia state lawmaker. A retired New York City police officer. One man, a construction worker from Delaware, marched through the besieged U.S. Capitol with a Confederate battle flag slung over his shoulder.
I told Jones I had to get off the phone to help cover the attack. But first, she wanted to complete her thought about the demographic changes that she believed were driving the unrest in her adopted hometown.
*There's complaints now that the valedictorian and salutatorian are…

no longer white," she told me. "That's really what's happening. They feel their children are being displaced."
Jones was, in effect, describing a hyper-local version of what's known as the Great Replacement Theory—a once-fringe belief by some on the far right that white Americans are being demographically, culturally, and politically replaced by non-white people through mass migration.
I couldn't say whether Jones's assessment was accurate; I'd only just started my reporting. But in time I would begin to realize that, at a certain level, the story I was pursuing in Southlake, and the one unfolding that day in Washington, were both part of the same long, messy
American narrative.
"T'll be in touch," I told Jones before hanging up.
Then I got to work.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17h

Look at this precious baby 😭

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19h

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 22h

It’s Monday afternoon. You can do it.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 23h

Teacher curiosity goes, too, with constrained curriculum. AND, this stance has devalued teacher expertise by outsourcing it to 'standardized' and 'objective' tests. Root cause of so much that's wrong with education is the very test that purports to tell us students and schools are failing.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026

This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We built a modern information ecosystem on an infrastructure supported by inflicting unimaginable invisible trauma of third world data processors and now wonder why its outputs and manifestations feel life and meaning destroying

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Banned Books Week @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's finally here! Are you ready to join us in kicking off #BannedBooksWeek?! This year's event is too big for just one piece of art, so we have THREE! #LetBooksBe bannedbooksweek.org

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

First Monday in October. The Supreme Court returns.

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Cat Winters @catwintersbooks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Here's an article that discusses books that aren't getting published or promoted due to challenges and bans. bookriot.com/queer-books-... If you're planning a book conference or festival, reach out to @authorsabb.bsky.social. Make sure the topic of book bans and how to fight them is a top priority.

bookriot.com

Queer Books and Authors are at a Breaking Point

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Let books be inspiring. Let books be thought- provoking. Let books be strange. Let books be funny. Let books be childlike. Let books BE. @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

NEW: The Catholic Church is commanding global attention and global influence on a scale not seen since the Second Vatican Council. The revival rests on Benedict XVI’s humility and Pope Francis’s courage, and Pope Leo XIV now carries it to a world hungry for his witness.

thelettersfromleo.com

The Catholic Church Is Back

Sixteen years after a Vatican cardinal dismissed the abuse crisis as “petty gossip,” Pope Leo XIV sat with survivors at Lourdes. Benedict and Francis made the American pope possible.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I need this word in my life. Thank you.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This episode is doing big numbers &, so far as the feedback I'm getting, for precisely the reason I recruited Lauren Goodlad (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social) & @jeffjarvis.bsky.social: They are both able, in their own ways, to situate the AI boom as more continuity than disruption. They draw...

theamericanvandal.com

Critical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College)

with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Jeff Jarvis

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh, yeah, it’s a real thing. But, I’ve never had an issue until now. As long as you kinda keep an eye on your yarn and where you store it is on the dry side, you’ll be fine. It’s an issue that my storage is the laundry room, but it’s what I’ve got.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thx. It was all in fabric sided boxes. It’s worked for 20 years. Now will be sealed plastic bags. The locking lids bins we’ve had ended up off gassing more than I’ve ever liked. So bags in totes.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

When you see the third tiny moth in a week in your craft room (which is also the laundry room), it’s time for the year to take a trip to the freezer. Thankfully no evidence of bugs in this stash, but better safe than sorry. Btw, advice appreciated. Also, gift scarf finished! #knitting

A room with red carpet. There’s a fabric cutting mat covered with skeins of yarn in all the colors. A table has more chaotic heaps of yarn. And there are some plastic bags of yarn too. Open fabric sided containers sit to the side.

This is a scrappy log cabin-ish scarf I finished in stockinette and double moss stitch in fall colors of heather green and green with a matching gold. It’s sitting on a grey fabric with old timey lettering.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*whole Remember: typos = real human

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oct 7, the Tx Senate Ed committee will hold a hearing regarding SB13's impacts. (and other bills also). Last session, book banners were ther, but we want to show real world impacts on teachers, librarians and parents. If you want to testify, please reach out to @txfreedomread.bsky.social or to us.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026

the idea that rufo has, at any point in his public career, been a sincere advocate for “colorblind meritocracy” is brain dead

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A while lot of folks need to read up on Popper’ paradox.

en.wikipedia.org

Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Now I want to hear biologists thoughts. Well, women biologists. Who read romance.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Enjoyable watch! Very silly, great chemistry, maybe 2 people working on this have been near graduate school and they kept getting shouted down.

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 29/09/2026

In Texas, the State is removing climate change courses from the core curriculum. They have decided that climate change is just too dangerous to teach the students. This is indoctrination. I wrote an oped about it in the SA Express-News. Gift link: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

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Texas can’t hide from climate change by stopping students from learning about it

Texas has removed climate change courses from core curriculum at public universities. Ignoring climate change will not serve the state.

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John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thinking about school integration and some of the good stuff I’ve read about it over the years—thought I’d share here on the reader app:

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The cracks in the Texas public ed system are so visible and most ppl are pointing directly at Abbott and the Lege. Families want their schools back. They want the state that brags about the Rainy Day fund to fund public schools. They don’t want endless testing. They rightly blame the GOP.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

nytimes.com

National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)

The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The implication here being the Texas GOP has ever believed in meritocracy of any kind. Which, I’ve been here 20+ and, gotta say, not so much. Want to know about Texas? Read/watch/listen to local Texas media, y’all.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 03/10/2026

Relatedly: if you’re refusing to use AI for religious reasons, I want to hear from you. There are multiple ways to reach me via the link in my bio, or you can hit me up on Signal: jackmjenkins.60

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Chicagoland folks! John Wilson's once again put together a massive roundup of Banned Book Week events going on in the city and suburbs. Check 'em out here: www.facebook.com/events/87208...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pope Leo XIV said that to artists gathered at the Vatican this morning. This week the New York Times reported that Anthropic spent months wining and dining theologians, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.

thelettersfromleo.com

NYT: Anthropic Nearly Walked Out on Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical — Then Lobbied His Advisers

Chris Olah saw an advance copy of Magnifica Humanitas days before the Vatican launch and proposed withdrawing over its stance on machine consciousness. The pope held his ground.

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Fated Mates @fatedmates.net · 02/10/2026

Tomorrow, Saturday, October 3rd, Fated States is calling Ohio for Sherrod Brown. Register now: fatedmates.net/fatedstates

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read the ending and I wanted to koolaid man through a wall!!

Screenshot of article which reads: To restore a functioning and
pluralistic democracy in the United States, reversing over a decade of
democratic backsliding in the world’s oldest democracy, the thing to
“fix” is not polarization. Polarization is the country’s immune response
to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success,
reputation, and democratic self-government. Tamping down that immune response only allows this minority faction to have greater control.

Screenshot of article which reads: But the fury of the argument shows the importance of the outcome.
When we focus on polarization as the problem, the solution is for ev-
eryone to quiet down and be “civil”—an outcome that benefits those
who are willing to grab as much power as they can without concern
for legality or civility. When we see the problem for what it is, the
solution is to defend the most robust social progress in American his-
tory—progress that has already been codified into law and enjoyed
by everyone alike. U.S. democracy needs leaders who are willing to
defend those rights and voters who are willing to hold accountable the
leaders who will not defend them. It does not need everyone simply to calm down.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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