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Heather Lynn

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sibyl | cynic | crumbling academic | \m/

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 7h
Why are you making Muse accounts? Are you brain dead? Zuck is a fascist cuck and is stealing all your data for evil. Truly incomprehensible y'all.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 9h
this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 7h
Trump redirected $176.9 million from a US human-rights fund towards global right wing groups, including $40 million for an “anti-communism” consortium and $1 million for fascist groups opposing Brazil’s Supreme Court days before the presidential election.
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Trump diverts $176.9m of Human Rights aid to far-right groups; targets Europe, Canada and South America
Marco Rubio overrode congressional holds, a Democratic aide said. The money funds opponents of Brazil's supreme court days before its vote and Europeans who reject "gender ideology", as Trump official...
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7h
Wrote a thing Monday. Got held back and is a weekend read at the Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the criminal justice system should address reports of rape, we know that rates of conviction are appallingly low for a number of reasons. Although, thanks to feminist interventions, the legal system is better equipped to understand this crime and less prejudiced against victims, we will not change the world through that means.

After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men?
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Sexual assault arises in part through both the entitlement and the desire to abuse and dehumanize women, which is in part about definitions of both masculinity and femininity: masculinity in that domination, violation and degradation are seen as status-enhancing, femininity in the perception that women’s bodies are for men to use, women’s voices and rights to be ignored.

The most compelling thing I’ve read in response to the Cornell case is in an essay by feminist writer Soraya Chemaly. She cites anthropologist Peggy Sanday, who told her that there are “rape-prone” and “rape-free” societies: “She found that in rape-free cultures, women have far more authority, status, safety and freedom.”

They’re societies in which women’s rights to bodily and social self-determination are respected, and a man who violates those rights would face severe consequences. “Rape-prone cultures, on the other hand, treat rape as an entitlement in a system that revolves around masculine contests and hierarchies.”

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 19h
AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it.
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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Never before have "marketing gimmick" and "mass psychosis" so totally converged
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Ashley M. London @alondon.bsky.social · 19h
A faculty meeting story.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20h
Now he’s gone too far www.tpr.org/government-p...
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Trump tomato tariffs could spell the end of free chips, salsa at restaurants
The 17% tariff on Mexican tomato imports, combined with bad weather in Florida and Mexico, has caused the price of salsa ingredients to spike in recent months.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026
Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book.
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Book-banning GOP governor wants you to buy his book
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox is promoting himself as a "peacemaker."
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The term “remigration” is associated with the extreme right and only came into widespread usage in 2023-4. Even Germany’s AfD avoided using the term in 2024 for fear of scaring away voters. Today the US government is celebrating the “victories” it’s racked up in the “ethnic cleansing” column.
Department of Homelan... • Follow •.• X
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Net negative migration for the first time in HALF a CENTURY.
Americans are amassing victories NEVER seen before thanks to President Trump.
We will continue to grow our efforts to fulfill the mandate given to this administration.
REMIGRATION REPORT
94%)
3.3+
MILLION REMOVALS
INCLUDING DEPORTATIONS AND VOLUNTARY REMOVALS
ASYLUM DENIAL AT 94%
250,000
VISAS REVOKED
REVOKED
TRAVEL BANNED
FROM 39 COUNTRIES
2,600+
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AGREEMENTS
NATURALIZATIONS
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don’t get complacent. They’re still going to try to cheat. Check your registration. Vote early if at all possible.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
This is a very important point. The intellectual work that the right is trying to finance is shoddy and would not withstand peer review-which is why a key part of the movement is to replace peer review with "viewpoint diversity." The question is how to convince ppl to support humanistic scholarship.
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I did NOT vote for the rapist @sarahgies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your sons and daughters are
10000x safer with drag queens than frat boys btw
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.
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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 23h
If museum professionals named meetings honestly.
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 23h
I reposted an old interview I did with Bong Joon Ho about PARASITE from 2019 today and this quote hit like a wrecking ball: "I think maybe there is no borderline between countries now because we all live in the same country, it’s called capitalism."
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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Iraq Expands Effort to Reclaim Stolen Antiquities Abroad www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/942...
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Iraq Expands Effort to Reclaim Stolen Antiquities Abroad
Iraq's Justice Ministry says more than 80 stolen and smuggled antiquities have been recovered as Baghdad continues legal efforts to reclaim cultural heritage abroad.
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Celebitchy @celebitchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazon is rolling out AI smart glasses for their delivery drivers www.celebitchy.com/1000249/
celebitchy.com
Amazon is rolling out AI smart glasses for their delivery drivers – Cele|bitchy
Remember in August, when one of Amazon’s Prime Air drones used its “industry-leading Detect-and-Avoid” camera and sensor technology to carefully deliver a packa
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Tiffany Knoell, Ph.D. @tlknoell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It occurs to me that, in addition to mentoring my TAs on pedagogy, I also need to teach them how to capture and preserve online resources. BBC pulled their article on the Clean Nails trend - but archive.org captured it. While online sources are ephemeral, it seems like that's ramping up right now.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone is so tired. Exhausted. And I'm talking to so many friends and colleagues who are hoping for a functional institutional power to come along and take care of them, take the annoying work and worry away. An employer, a publisher, a big funder, an elected leader, etc. I think it's just us.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/10/2026
NYC’s PIT Crew (Public Interest Technology) is already delivering: Click to Cancel is here, with the law saying it has to be as easy to cancel a service as it was to sign up for it. The site makes it easy to report any products that violate the rules: www.nyc.gov/main/click-t... Kickass!
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Click to Cancel - nyc.gov
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Teri Rehkopf @trehkopf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chief Justice John Roberts shunned by his neighbors as backlash over Trump rulings grows www.rawstory.com/john-roberts... go jump in the lake
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Chief Justice John Roberts shunned by his neighbors as backlash over Trump rulings grows
Chief Justice John Roberts has spent more than 20 summers at his home on a small island off the coast of Maine, but now many of his neighbors there have backed away from him or even demonstrate agains...
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Tiger Pournelle, Furious Irish🏳️‍🌈 @tigerpournelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey, did you need another reason not to eat at McDonalds? www.joemygod.com/2026/10/reut...
joemygod.com
Reuters: McDonald's Uses AI To Set Each Store's Prices - Joe.My.God.
Reuters reports: McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienat...
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
oh its FINDING OUT TIME
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God @thegodshow.com · 01/10/2026
Zuckerberg thinks it's funny when Trump bullies women.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Look, we've got dumb, overconfident guys and socially inept, delusional nerds running the country. What could possibly go wrong
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pathetic…..
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The house always wins
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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In punishment of fraternity members, Cornell insisted fraternity members write heartful and apologetic essay, which they dutifully turned in five minutes later by using AI. #Satire
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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/09/2026
After watching an interview w makers of NAZA, I can't help but read this alongside a comment from a member of IDF who participated in AI warfare: mass killing/ surveillance was the perfect task for AI. "AI" is the perfect tool for humans to see other humans as inconsequential disposable items.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 30/09/2026
New York’s climate superfund law would have charged fossil fuel companies $75 billion over 25 years. Last week, a judge struck it down. That ruling could offer the fossil fuel industry a roadmap for challenging similar laws.
motherjones.com
Judges keep striking down climate laws. Some states are fighting back.
Inside the high-stakes legal battle over climate superfund legislation.
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!
Tintin cartoon
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026
The focus group has reached a consensus.
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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“American power will never recover from Trump. We’re looking at a superpower suicide.” Reposting my interview with Anne Applebaum. This time with an edited transcript!
nickcohen.substack.com
Anne Applebaum on Trump’s Empire of Grift
Podcast with transcript
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump will sign anything, if Democrats were smart they'd slip him a paper where he can sign his resignation.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026
Experimental when it's time to pay taxes.
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Celebitchy @celebitchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Costco used the $184 million they received in tariff refunds to lower prices www.celebitchy.com/999493/
celebitchy.com
Costco used the $184 million they received in tariff refunds to lower prices – Cele|bitchy
The Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump’s tariffs were illegal opened the door for companies to get a refund. Although the cost of the tariffs was passed on to co
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I spoke to @usatoday.com about data on sexual violence at Cornell. Victimization rates are increasing and reporting rates are falling. “Together… those two trendlines tell me that all students, including victims and perpetrators, believe that there is impunity for sexual assault at Cornell.”
usatoday.com
Cornell rarely expels students in sex assault cases | Exclusive
A third of undergraduate women say they've been sexually assaulted. But on average, Cornell reported expelling just one attacker per year.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“There are men who cook for him and men who clean for him. There are men who make his bed and men who do his laundry. There is even a man who gives him Chinese-style massages.”
nbcnews.com
Diddy’s pampered life in prison: Massages, nude photos, Hennessy
Sean Combs has spent thousands of dollars a month to bring his lifestyle to a low-security correctional facility in southern New Jersey, sources said.
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Posted this in 2018. Still remember the night that prompted it. Still so relevant today. 🐝 🐝 🐝
Tweet by me saying “Every woman I know has been storing anger for years in her body and it’s starting to feel like bees are going to pour out of all of our mouths at the same time.”
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 29/09/2026
I’ve been noting that one of the main use cases that everyday users had already been putting LLMs and agents to use is the compilation of dossiers for peer-on-peer surveillance and automated gang-stalking (swarm-stalking) of other citizens, so of course Meta is copying that as a feature.
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