Reposted by E MTK @archivedspork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A crazy thing about all this is UMN saw what cuts like this did to the UW system and benefitted from being the upper midwest public university that was still well funded 22110
Reposted by E MStrangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You know in kids' media, where the villains are like "I love being mean! I hate smiles and laughter! I like things that are bad and ugly!" and you're like well that's fine for little kids but when they get a bit older and start reading YA they'll realize villains can actually be complex? Welp. 26310
Reposted by E MDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it. 11041811443
Reposted by E Msamuel @quilombo.eurosky.social · 26/09/2026A new protest demonstration has been called for today in Madrid. 11913
Reposted by E MDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. 18872133005
Reposted by E MNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What's a good way to visualize how the AI boom/bubble is propping up the economy? Ah, thanks. 12706190
Reposted by E MMarielza @marielza.bsky.social · 27/09/2026New assignment dropped: spread this info to every Brazilian. Nova tarefa, gente: espalhar essa noticia para a brasileirada toda!!! 11710
Reposted by E MAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.* 21419405
Reposted by E MMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 684249145522
Reposted by E MSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“She nearly lost her home to foreclosure and her teenage daughter was entrusted with running her household. Her college-age son left a football scholarship to return home and help with costs around the home. Mason has three children and also raised four of her brother’s children.” 13935351
Reposted by E MLinnea Hartspooker @linneaharts.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Probably most of you are better at taking care of yourself than I am around certain subjects but exercise caution reading that Cornell story. I probably wouldn't have read it if I hadn't gone there and grown up in Ithaca 261
Reposted by E MMaya Dukmasova @mdoukmas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026IT'S HERE! The @injusticewatch.org #CheckYourJudges guide is back to help you feel informed when you hit that looong judicial retention portion of the ballot! 61 Cook County judges asking for another term on the bench. You can find everything we dug up on them here! 2026retention.injusticewatch.org2026retention.injusticewatch.orgCook County November 2026 Judicial Election GuideInjustice Watch's guide to the November 2026 Cook County judicial elections. 01711
Reposted by E MPanamerican Dispatch @padispatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Meta pulled down President Lula’s Facebook page and blocked his campaign from running political ads. @brasil247.bsky.social www.panamericandispatch.org/p/meta-block...panamericandispatch.orgMeta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign AdsThe page is now back online, but Lula's electoral coalition says Meta's actions harmed the president’s campaign. 02311
Reposted by E MDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say 6437521482
Reposted by E M🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 123123385251
Reposted by E MBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/08/2026My theory on this is that most people aren’t mad at “woke” or whatever, they just experienced an upheaval of society through COVID and its aftermath and can’t actually put their finger on what’s bothering them. Woke is just a scapegoat for “I want things back the way they were”. 111087142
Reposted by E MEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@afp.com Man Shot By ICE Agent In Texas Detained With Bullet Inside Him: Lawyer 0249
Reposted by E MCaroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Ideally, we would have nailed down what "human control" really means in AI before "soft-launching" an AI system to manage air traffic. "The FAA stresses SMART will not replace human air‑traffic controllers, who remain responsible for keeping planes safely separated." www.fox5dc.com/news/faa-set...fox5dc.comFAA set to test AI air traffic system at DC area airports, reports sayBig changes are coming to the region’s airports as the FAA launches a cloud‑based artificial intelligence platform designed to help get planes to their destinations on time. The system is expected to ... 33111
Reposted by E Malec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good. 8940321
Reposted by E MStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 21/09/2026It's official: Starbucks is gutting DEI policies company-wide to curry favor with Florida politicians as our union's call for a boycott grows. Vote with your dollar. BOYCOTT STARBUCKS. 3417071154
Reposted by E MMass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Remember this iconic cardigan? Well PhD researcher Neve from @manchester.ac.uk has written us an excellent blog post looking at this, and lots of other creative submissions, to our 1988 directive on clothes and personal appearance! massobs.org.uk/2026/09/21/e... #skystorians 0144
Reposted by E MDheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This seems bad. www.denver7.com/news/local-n...denver7.comUS Postal Inspection Service sends security guards to facilities nationwide, including DenverNew security guards are now at postal facilities across the country, including Denver. The Postal Inspection Service calls it a long-term plan. Colorado officials call the timing suspicious. 024
Reposted by E MLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026A problem I have about the pervasiveness of GenAI outside of the basic ethical nonstarters is that I… I don’t want to live in a world where I have to doubt, scrutinize or investigate everything I see that isn’t happening right in front of me. I find it horrible, exhausting & time consuming. 837564
Reposted by E MAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.apnews.comAP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal ordersU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an... 18845982952
Reposted by E MJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...thedartmouth.comOp-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector PangramSchnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.” 711481490
Reposted by E MHenry Brannan @henrybrannan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New: Rented e-scooters are increasingly threatening blind Portlanders as companies' safeguards fail. @streetroots.bsky.social tests found the apps’ safe parking verification tools allow users to park the motorized devices entirely blocking the sidewalk. www.streetroots.org/news-stories...streetroots.orgRented e-scooters, e-bikes increasingly threaten blind Portlanders as safeguards failStreet Roots tests found the apps’ safe parking verification tools from parking e-scooters and e-bikes entirely blocking the sidewalk 085
Reposted by E MJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying 854126842
Reposted by E MKathleen Lenihan @kathleenlenihan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The entire article is fantastic, but the writer's definition of a trad wife is *chef's kiss* perfection. "Those are conservative women who dress like the women in The Sound of Music, but without the opposition to the Anschluss." 241408349
Reposted by E MMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility 12539183
Reposted by E MCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The most important task of democrats is not to change the minds of far-rightists — they are a minority and hard to change. The most important task of democrats is to change the minds of people who believe “the left” or “the establishment” are worse than the far right. 020564
Reposted by E MBethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Academia in the unregulated AI era. We need boilerplate language specifying draft manuscripts cannot be uploaded into an LLM @aaup.org @local6741.bsky.social Adding to list.. 26322
Reposted by E MStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots. 15786392557
Reposted by E MAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I say this both as a disabled person and as someone who does disability studies, we don't get to be uncritical of the technologies that use our bodies and identities to silence dissent around Big Tech, even if they are useful for some of us. Thats not how any of this works. 712346
Reposted by E MDave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing. 222574322
E M @ecmcgrath.bsky.social · 17/09/2026She's from Madison, so I assume she's grown up in a housing coop converted from an old fraternity house and normally spends her summers making puppets and practicing her stilt walking for the Willy St Fair 010
Reposted by E MJason GRIZZLED Bittel @bittelmethis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: New cat species just dropped! 🧪 What is a tilcayo, exactly? Well, it's a small wild cat in the genus Leopardus and a member of the tiger cat species complex, but it is NOT a tigrina, oncilla, kodkod, Geoffroy's cat... www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...nationalgeographic.comMeet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 yearsA small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species. 10656274
Reposted by E MChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir. 5735253
Reposted by E MCitizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Liliana Hassaine wrote a novel from POV of Bertha/Antoinette from Jane Eyre and I've yet to see any mention of Jean Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" in the breathless French-language coverage. The coverage is a recreation of the erasure and invisibility of women from the margins that Rhys depicted.. #Lit 143
Reposted by E MHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026unsolicited advice to other mid-career folks: set aside a few hours each week to sit down and read new text, or old theory. I'm doing it to prep for my PhD course, and I missed this SO much. 223723
Reposted by E MPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.stringinamaze.netDon't Surrender On Trans RightsMany Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be. 383843881
Reposted by E MRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Quiznos is partnering with Blackwater to crush insurgencies in their supply chain. 221580346
Reposted by E Mscwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This man won his primary by 30 points. 4590011880
Reposted by E MSurprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Eels weren't the only eels sold in pre-modern London...the city also ate lots of small saltwater fish called sand-eels. In 1373 William Fisshe became London's official "Meter of Eels." He had to measure all imported sand eels using "a bushel set aside for the purpose as of old." 🗃️🧪 413314