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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

For those that have taken on learning and studying a different language, if you decided to work with a tutor, I’m curious to hear about your experience. What was your intention? Did tutoring help or did you learn through a classroom setting? If you’ve done both, which one was more effective for you?

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 29/06/2026

come do something weird in the @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social! Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live and the theme is Creative Misuse. 1) Read the full prompt (drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-...). 2) Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I’m at my mom’s house, checking in on her. I took a walk and saw two trans inclusive Pride flags on her block here in Biddeford, ME. It’s hard to be far from friends tonight on Pride, but it helped to learn community is near—just one of the ways these flags work. Thanks to everyone who flies them.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

spotted in the wild - artifacts of three dying communication systems

Photograph of a sidewalk on which can be seen a mail box, a phone booth, and a newspaper box

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The librarian in me is always sharing resources, lol. I wanted to alert those of you who aren't aware to the IDNYC Identification Card: www.nyc.gov/site/idnyc/i... It's free and children are also eligible. I recently helped a teenager access the ID and we did it in a couple of hours on a Thursday.

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IDNYC

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

There's a lot you can do to fight the harmful impacts of large-scale generative AI (this is why we compiled The Resist List after all). Maybe refusal isn't what you're going to do. Okay. Find your piece of the work, and go do that. airesistlist.org

airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List

A living directory of ways communities resist AI harms—and build alternatives worth fighting for.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

New York, 1970. Gay Liberation Front Protest.

Female protester with the sign - GAY POWER BLACK POWER WOMEN POWER STUDENT POWER ALL POWER
TO THE
PEOPLE

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Join us tomorrow!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026

I spent a year under investigation by a professional society in part for tweets about my rapist (that another man was certain were about him) You all have no idea how dangerous things are for survivors of gender discrimination and sexual misconduct, even when we have not named our abuser

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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

We are living in the zombie apocalypse 🫣(I mean, we’ve been, but eeesh) 😩

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I referenced Anjali Nath's work in my redaction project a few years ago. I see that her book — A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War — is out this month!

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A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Horrifying. This didn’t have to happen. History books should be filled with the names of the enablers. We should construct plaques with them in the cemeteries.

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Robin Kelly, Ph.D. @robinlynnekelly.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Nenko Gantchev should still be alive—home with his family. After 30 years contributing to Chicagoland as a small business owner and taxpayer, ICE detained him, ignored his medical needs, and he died in custody. This system is cruel, reckless, and must be held accountable.

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Better questions: Has misogyny failed women? Has gendered violence failed women? Has chronically unequal pay failed women? Has inadequate childcare failed women? Has the end of SNAP failed women? Has transphobia failed women?Has inadequate healthcare failed women?

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Absolute catnip for media studies / fan studies folks!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/12/2025

For readers who are about to lose care, I have been told that the Trans Youth Emergency Project is helping the families of trans youth contingency plan to access that care. www.transyouthemergencyproject.org

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Trans Youth Emergency Project: Supporting Families of Trans Youth

Supporting families of trans youth nationwide through the logistical and financial burdens of navigating bans on gender-affirming care.

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The Objective @objectivejournos.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

ICYMI: How can journalism create hope and shift narratives? The last of @lewispants.bsky.social's column on movement journalism offers some clarity: objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/move...

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Movement journalism can transform narratives

When we accept that we are powerless, we foreclose our own radical potential. Stories can change that.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

it's incredibly lovely to see that CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY is on the year-end list for @publicbooks.bsky.social not once but TWICE!! thank you to @njdames.bsky.social and @leahprice.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy!! and among such amazing books!!! www.publicbooks.org/public-picks...

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Public Picks 2025 - Public Books

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 18/12/2025

4 Republicans voting against is significant. There's leverage there. Somewhere. There's concern that this isn't a winning move in swing districts. Echoes of the Virginia election.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

hammerandhope.org

War at Home

A record of ICE’s assault on immigrants and the people’s resistance.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 17/12/2025

More or less done with the reading list for History of the Database. You could take a lot of different approaches, but this is the one I went with.

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Reading List – History of the Database

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/12/2025

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I’m so proud of @aphid.org for making, not one, but two artworks this year. A year that has been extremely challenging and filled with grief, loss, and deep sadness (for so many of us). Yet A found it in themselves to make deeply challenging and beautiful work. 😭🥹🥲 stegi.radio/show/transmi...

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.

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Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. @drs.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Sooner or later (if not now, really), friends will have nothing to talk about. Thinking of the Betazoid character, Tam Elbrun, who would get irritated talking to people because he knew what they were thinking so he would just say it or interrupt them mid-sentence. Yet again, 💩 nobody asked for. 🙄

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I read this piece 👆 after I had one of these incidents 👇 last week. Citation is *not* merely "academic." It's about honesty and honor and responsibility and generosity. And there are ways to do it that aren't clunky and intrusive!

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Operation Metro Surge is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation. But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back. We don’t cower to bullies.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

What this study found is that AI is pretty good at adopting formal linguistic analysis that treats language as a set of disembodied linguistic structures unique to humans, which is not surprising since it relegates the complexity of human language to “performance” outside of the scope of linguistics

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

His name is Ahmad Al-Ahmad and we can all choose to highlight him instead of the murderers who committed a massacre bsky.app/profile/impl...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 14/12/2025

Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.

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Jason Li @jasonli.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Second session runs this weekend! Free ticket here: www.eventbrite.hk/e/zine-yo-fe...

A pixel art post with a person in shades and a squid in shades. Big text says: "Come hang out with us at our 90s style internet zine party 來我地網上小誌派對一齊同我地玩" and then in smaller text: "Let us show you how it works on our platform! 我地示範一下我地平台功能吧！"

Screenshot of a very basic character selection screen. Text above says: "1. Choose & style your character!"

Three stacked screenshots of pixel art person standing in different rooms. Text above says: "2. Explore different rooms."

In a grey room, a pixel person and squid chat. The former says, "do you like squid?" and the latter says "yes i love myself". The text above says "3. Talk to other partygoers."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11/12/2025

There’s a lot of talk about the Hitler youth types who are turning in their professors and not enough discussion about the ones who are feeling intense despair because they're going to school with the Hitler youth types and immigrants are being kidnapped and trans people are facing genocide &etc

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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Increasingly wondering what will be left (aside from like Palantir) when the regime finally crumbles gothamist.com/news/the-new...

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The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization

The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.

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aphid @aphid.org · 11/12/2025

M (@blinkpopshift.com) is the lead artist for the Leonardo CripTech AI Lab of the and they're an amazing being. I got a lot out of their instruction, facilitation, questions, and reflections. M provided important framing for thinking through, with, and against tech with thoughtful &embodied care.

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M Eilo @blinkpopshift.com · 10/12/2025

Y'all I got to work with aphid this year and let me tell you the banger lines they were handing out were such a snack

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

This. It can happen to anyone. That’s where we are.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/12/2025

"The thing is, even if you're just thinking in terms of fiscal value, having gone through a degree program and being able to put it on your resumé/CV isn't the most significant return on your investment: the way you have further developed your mind is."

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Knowledge Is Worth Your Time

A few thoughts about why we must embrace the hard work of learning.

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