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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's yet another way that men sabotage women's careers: enable networking events that are threatening, abusive, potentially catastrophically violent for women, and so women leave early. How convenient for men. Remember this when you compare career trajectories.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

As an expert on sexual violence, I have to add that these ethical violations are a nightmare for interviews on sensitive subjects. I would never recommend ANY survivor goes public with their story at an outlet that would do this to them.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.

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

Ironically, my original interview with the journalist I spoke with was primarily about how "inconsistencies" can come from gender bias in investigatory processes and then be blamed on survivors. It was the inspiration for this thread--but none of these points made it into any USA Today article:

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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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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16h

I also asked her what misconceptions the kids she talked to had. She said she talked to a 9th grade class recently and asked them what percentage of sexual assault allegations were false. They put it at 80%

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

It’s not a big deal at all, but my state fair operators have demolished the food stands that make the fair a fair and replaced it with a big grey box that will have a food hall. At this point, just cancel fall and cancel me. nothing matters anymore.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19h

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s do this. I’m headed back to SCOTUS. First arguments of term — in a key climate change case — are at 10a. Subscribe now to support another term of my independent legal journalism: www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Chris with a cold brew, ready to go, in a blue and white check shirt, maroon tie, and gray jacket.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 22h

First rule of going on tour: Never miss breakfast. (This, from my current favourite place, Grainger’s in King’s Cross.) I once went on tour with another author, who cancelled because she’d just started a radical diet, and had collapsed before her first event…

Salmon, scrambled eggs, avocado, some kind of delicious greens, tiny tomatoes, and a glass of orange juice with fresh ginger. Dzinnng!

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1

No Ghosts in lower left, Max Lury in lower right. White hand reaching down, two eye holes in the wrist.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 22h

this argument is so stupid on the face of it that it can only be explained by antisemitism.

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 23h

It's the weirdest feeling reading people arguing that Jews are no longer racialized or hated bc we did a genocide! This too is antisemitism! The Hutus did not stop being racialized just because they did a genocide!

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Isabella Lewis @irvlewis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On Saturday, 7 November, I will be running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon around the theme of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints. I hope that this workshop will help to improve the coverage of women and LGBTQ+ history on Wikipedia. To attend, follow this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wiki-edit-...

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Wiki Edit-a-Thon: Byzantine Women & Genderqueer Saints

An in-person edit-a-thon that aims to improve the coverage of Byzantine women & genderqueer saints on Wikipedia. No prior experience needed.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

We're in the middle of a race to the bottom, where authors use LLMs to generate more and more proposals, so funders use LLMs to screen proposals to keep up with increasing submission volumes. At some level of "LLMs evaluating LLM-generated submissions," you've gotta ask what we're even doing here.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Someone needs to stuff this guy in a locker and arc-weld it shut

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Elon Musk, who is estimated to have ensured the mass deaths of 16 million people by 2030, most of whom will be children, is also history's most prolific creator and distributor of CSAM. He has basically infinite money to avoid facing any legal consequences whatsoever for his vast, vast crimes.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/10/2026

You know a pet peeve of mine? I keep seeing think pieces and videos, even from progressives, about how at some point AI will achieve sentience and be worthy of moral consideration. We can't even give every human on this planet moral consideration.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Wtaf is she smoking and could she share with the rest of the class please? If only so the rest of the class as something to dull the nightmare that is Shabana Mahmood as Home Secretary

Mahmood says Palestine Action proscription is needed to curb support for neo-Nazis

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't need to enslave people and measure how much effort I save when they do the work. Slavery is wrong all the way down. Commercial LLM-based genAI products are bad! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As an aside, maybe you felt your high income and elevated caste status made you white adjacent enough to justify a Trump vote because they would never come for you. Looks like the joke’s on you, uncle

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And as someone who never got an iPhone, I recall the iPhone buzz and people being excited about it, but I don't remember 99% of the economy being dedicated to forcing me to use one.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Country rube stuff 101: if they talk fast, they got their hands in your pocket.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/10/2026

This might help bsky.app/profile/numb...

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

As I’ve asked many times now, what constituencies does a university president represent? Because too often, the answer seems to not include anyone who works or studies at the university, and that seems like a problem.

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Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Attacks on the humanities/humanistic social sciences are attacks on women, Black people and other people of color, poor and queer folks, and others whose presence threatens power's smooth functioning. They're an aspect of the same project that undermines libraries and public education.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026

Again, journalists, what are you doing?👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 The most mind blowing thing about these people is that they are so out in the open with their eugenics & predatory cults. Epstein wasn't as out in the open (at least from what I see now). Everything is right there for you to expose them once & for all!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We have been saved by cooler heads from all the many dangers that attend “going too far” when it comes to honesty about and consequence for abusers in a society that encourages and celebrates abuse and rewards and protects abusers. Whew! Close one. Good catch, cooler heads.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This story about a 'viral chip shop' upsetting the neighbours with litter and crowds has a photo of one of the neighbours absolutely SERVING. Look at him! He should never be upset again.

Guardian headline, people eating chips, written by Senay Boztas, Photos by Judith Jockel

Thomas van Leeuwen, who lives near to Fabel Friet. An older white man with floppy white hair and a beard, he wears a dark suit and poses on a chair in a jaunty manner

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/10/2026

I am *all for* content warnings, being thoughtful about the language & messages that we expose people to, and letting them have control over what they see. But I am violently opposed to letting Mark Zuckerberg, The Nazi Elon Musk and Larry Fucking Ellison choose the language of billions of people.

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Christopher R. Muscato @chrisrmuscato.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another book I’m eager to read is Humans: A Monstrous History by @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social A history of monster making- how do we imagine and create monsters, and what does that say about who we are? Really looking forward to digging into this one. www.ucpress.edu/books/humans...

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Humans by Surekha Davies - Hardcover

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Updated with the designer credits that I could find. If you know the three missing cover designers, let us know please!

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Ancient Rome and outer space." How cool is that?! @annaleen.bsky.social's next novel comes out *on Tuesday!* Preorder now; it really helps authors! 💙📚

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't need to enslave people and measure how much effort I save when they do the work. Slavery is wrong all the way down. Commercial LLM-based genAI products are bad! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026

Consumer-facing LLMs have a ton of limitations! They're advertised for all kinds of crap they can't do! There's a whole huge *but largely distinct* set of policy nightmares associated with them! Open-weight, specially-trained AI models do exist and are being used to do really wild research stuff!

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don’t quite understand why heroin is bad, I better try it to see why everybody thinks it’s so bad

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Ancient Rome and outer space." How cool is that?! @annaleen.bsky.social's next novel comes out *on Tuesday!* Preorder now; it really helps authors! 💙📚

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Green Apple Books on the Park @booksonthepark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEXT WEEK! Free to attend, RSVP here: thethirdplace.is/event/annale...

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Theresa Kaminski @theresakaminski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

From @draftingthepast.bsky.social, new history books for October. 🗃️ www.draftingthepast.com/12-new-books...

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12 New Books We Want to Read This October

A few of the new histories that caught our eye this month...

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026

they're my favorite of the AI cults. yhey didn't sign up to make productivity software, they signed up to make the machine god!!

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 02/10/2026

I have often wondered if there's a correlation between rightwing political affiliation and overly-rigid thinking. Specifically, high degrees of social conservatism seem to go hand-in-hand with a need for the world to be 100% predictable and pattern-matching.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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