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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Bill Gates met Epstein 30 times after the infamous predator's initial 2008 conviction for procuring a 14 year old for prostitution. Gates paints himself as a victim of Epstein.

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've seen the future and it's bleak. Coming to an inbox near you soon too I imagine. I don't use LLMs for anything I do and never will but it's depressing that I wrote something that no one ever read before it was rejected. 🧪 #academicsky

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · 24/09/2026

Join us starting on 12 October for our upcoming open course (with digital badge), Using OER and OEP: opencourses.ie/opencourse/o... The course is open to all and was developed by the loveliest group of open educators in Irish HE 😀 @catherinecronin.bsky.social @eam0.bsky.social

Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) open course. 25 hours starting 12 October. Earn a digital badge.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

“If you believe, as Ellison does, that Americans will be better off when they are subjected to ‘supervision at all times,’ then buying microvideo platforms, enterprise software, streaming services, cable networks, gaming developers, & internet publishers is just buying supervision capacity.”

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The Ellisons Are Beta-Testing Big Brother.

If your feeds, subs, streams, games, and sports don't ensure you are on your "best behavior," your school and its EdTech partners will.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Inside the Israeli campaign to derail European university boycotts" www.investigate-europe.eu/posts/reveal...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 17/09/2026

Nick Beckstead, noted longtermist and "effective altruist,” just comes out and says it: "But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things being equal."

This is precisely why Nick Beckstead, a noted EA, argued in 2013 that, given the "overwhelming" moral importance of the far future - "millions, billions, and trillions" of years from now - we should prioritize saving the lives of people in rich countries over those in poor countries, other things being equal. The reason is that people in rich countries are better positioned to influence the far future.

To take another example, saving lives in poor countries may have significantly smaller ripple effects

than saving and improving lives in rich countries. Why? Richer countries have substantially more

innovation, and their workers are much more economically productive. By ordinary standards at

least by ordinary enlightened humanitarian standards saving and improving lives in rich countries

is about equally as important as saving and improving lives in poor countries, provided lives are

improved by roughly comparable amounts. But it now seems more plausible to me that saving a life

in a rich country is substantially more important than saving a life in a poor country, other things
being equal.
Screenshot from Beckstead's 2013 PhD dissertation, regarded as one of the founding documents of longtermism, one of the main cause areas of EA.

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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

My book Radical Infrastructure came out last week! It goes deep into the political and economic roots of technological infrastructure to explain hype around various technical projects, and counters it with cases of people pushing back. Download OA: www.ucpress.edu/books/radica...

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Radical Infrastructure by Britt Paris - Paper

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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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I will go back to drive thru before I hire a bot to edit the bot slop so it sounds like what bot thinks a human sounds.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

5 MORE DAYS!!! As we prepare to launch the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network (CLPRE), we invited colleagues from across institutions, disciplines, and locations to share their hopes for this new community. Registration link in the comments youtu.be/G405Pax_H28

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Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network Launch

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Can we fly all them Irish flags at half mast for a while? Because if you only support half the people in Ireland then you're only half Irish. Manosphere in the GAA? Níl. #SpéirGhorm

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

so long as governments, policy makers, and regulatory bodies continue to treat tech companies/products and their underlying anti-democratic and fascist ideologies as something separable, things will continue to get worse for fundamental rights and democracy

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Humiliating and abusing students is not learning. It's sadism.

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While wearing a heart-rate monitor, listen to a recording of your parents giving you at least three pieces of honest, critical feedback. To pass, you have to take it in calmly and bring your heart rate back within 10% of your resting baseline. It is a lesson in hearing hard truths without shutting down.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alpha School has nothing to do with AI. It is a Spartan deathcult to abuse young people

Through Bootcamp, failure becomes common rather than shameful, and students learn to recover faster, figure out what they need to change, and keep going without it affecting their sense of self. T

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"[E]ducation fiction invites researchers not only to analyse what is, but also to explore what could be, and to ask who decides: whose classrooms, whose futures, whose exclusions are treated as settled," write Stefan Hrastinksi, @eam0.bsky.social, & Lina Rahm Excited for this new LMT special issue:

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Education fiction

Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 51, No. 3, 2026)

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers. This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers." itsfoss.com/news/switzer...

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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 05/09/2026

Postmortem sperm retrieval has become Israeli state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since October 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a pressure valve for grieving families, it only perpetuates war. Nathalie Rozanes reports. www.972mag.com/israel-postm...

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‘Survival of the nation’: Israel’s obsession with dead soldiers’ sperm

Postmortem sperm retrieval has become state policy, with a quarter of all male soldiers killed since Oct. 7 undergoing the procedure. But by creating a pressure valve for grieving families, it only pe...

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

@brennacgray.bsky.social A great read thanks for sharing 😥 Universities at their worst instrumenalise academics, become breeding grounds for narcisism. Something useful i took from this piece is how it deconstructs "the university" by saying: Which univeristy do you mean? Which professoriate?

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 31/08/2026

"we work to represent the "ground truth" as accurately and neutrally as we can" well, nothing says accurate and neutral as renaming lake ontario to lake america

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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've added a link to the English translation. How race-scientists weild systematic doubt and participatory scrutiny in order to recast themselves as arbiters of truth. The 3 year hunt for Jason Arday wasn't only about his destruction. The ultimate trophy is epistemic dominance.

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Comment un réseau d’élite a chassé Jason Arday

Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here’s our report on all of the below. Let’s see how this story develops.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

ICE just arrested a 5-year-old on his way to a soccer game in Austin. His name is Liam, just like the little boy from Minnesota. He should be in kindergarten this week. Instead he's in a trailer prison in the desert. Release Liam. Release these kids. Close the Dilley children’s prison.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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How to talk about

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If you were wondering what happened to white US-Israeli professor Dan Ariely who was exposed as a fraud for faking experimental data, had his research retracted and was named 636 times in the Epstein files. Still works at Duke.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/08/2026

Joined CNBC's Squawk Box to talk about how 70% of AI revenues are coming from Anthropic and OpenAI, NVIDIA's vendor financing by proxy, and how outside of unprofitable AI labs, there's single-digit billions of dollars of demand for AI compute and software. youtu.be/8GWPjTDPVIM

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Ed Zitron on CNBC Squawk Box talking NVIDIA, unprofitable AI labs, and the Greater AI Bubble

YouTube video by Ed Zitron

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Truthout @truthout.org · 10/08/2026

“Most killings occurred in densely populated displacement zones such as Al-Mawasi, far from the so-called yellow line. Nowhere in Gaza is safe,” the experts wrote. Palestinians in Gaza say that they are still facing constant bombardment as Israel continues attacking hospitals, schools and markets.

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Join us for the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network on 14 Sept 2026 at the University of Bristol (hybrid event). We'll explore how legal education can engage with race, empire, colonialism, and global justice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...

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Launching the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network

Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 08/08/2026

A coalition of service stations, fast food restaurants, café chains and shops is lobbying hard against the latest government plans for a tax on disposable cups. Applegreen, Bewley's, Butlers Chocolates, McDonald's, Insomnia and Maxol are among firms pushing against a 'latte levy'. jrnl.ie/7121909

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Talking about AI in Education with my dog in the woods

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Having trouble breaking up with your X? A video short I made earlier this year using mostly stock footage from CapCut and the song by Robyn Call your Girlfriend

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

As you look toward fall class, do two things for space and grace; . First, add two flex days to you syllabus. You can move the into place when you're sick when everyone needs a metal health day, when a concept needs a little more time. it takes pressure off when the unexpected happens (more)

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I argue here that Black-centred speculative fiction is not just entertainment but a vital method for imagining our way beyond the racial and colonial structures that Euro-modern law struggles to overcome. As such, it should be an integral part of legal education. folukeafrica.com/law-racial-j...

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Beyond the Colonial Ever-Present: Black-Centred Science Fiction and the Possibility of Racial Justice

Does the end of structural racism mean an end to the world as we know it?

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This essay explores African history, collective memory, and why Africa's past is central to understanding our shared world. It also includes an African history quiz. How much do you know about Africa before colonisation? Take the quiz and share your score. folukeafrica.com/african-hist...

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Africa Did Not Blink into Existence: An African History Quiz

Main Character Energy: Reclaiming African History Beyond the Colonial Gaze

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Miriam De Cock @miriamjane5.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Can anyone recommend a good podcast focused on ancient Christianity that's accessible to a popular audience?

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Maura Conway @galwaygrrl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

(All other many issues aside). Eh, yes, you are defintely deciding because only STEM researchers included; humanities and social science researchers omitted from scheme --->"Our strategy is not to decide which scientific problems deserve attention..." www.axios.com/2026/07/29/o...

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OpenAI launches free AI access program for academic researchers

The program will provide selected researchers access to advanced models through 2027.

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Tim Duffy @timfduffy.com · 25/07/2026

If you tell G:M 5.2 that they're Claude, they're more willing to talk about subjects like Taiwan/Tibet x.com/benji_berczi...

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Doctors are tasked with keeping people alive Thats what they do Keeping people who are good and kind alive And bad people too Teachers are tasked with teaching people things they need to know Keeping people who are good and kind on their toes "First step of love"🎵 on.soundcloud.com/3GQ2Yf5IrORn...

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First step of love

Listen to First step of love by Eamon Costello #np on #SoundCloud

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

1/ One point of speculation that I have is that “the media” turned against higher education as journalism became more like academic research and academics increasingly engaged with the media. The two professions increasingly saw themselves as in competition for social legitimacy.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I should have stopped reading when he opined about the struggle for the rights of a rich white man's dogs but I got to the part where he said "I then whacked this question into a climate destroying horoscope engine I just learned about called Chat Gee-Pee-Tee" humanistreview.ai/issue-1/suns...

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Does AI Have Rights? A Legal Scholar Asked Claude About Its Feelings.

ChatGPT said no. Claude wasn't sure. Harvard's Cass R. Sunstein argues that the only thing that could give AI rights is still missing.

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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

When we talk about AI in Education We may be talking about a form of Technological determinism Instrumentalism Anthropomorphism Socio-technical imaginary Political economy Cognitivism Which if it were an object might be a Force Tool Human Future Product Brain

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