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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s definitely illegal. If it’s found to be legal, the problem is with the judicial system more than the law. The thing we need to do is establish terrible consequences for Hatch Act violations.

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Forced myself to read some synopses of the rape incident at Cornell. It's yet another example of violent criminal behavior by undergraduate men, who are then able to avoid the most serious consequences of their actions. We have to force the higher ups at every university to stop protecting rapists.

Because reading and writing *are* thinking, people who are bad at reading and writing and thinking will read and remember the headline, which does the work of AI corporations, and will not bother to understand Cruz's argument, which is only ancillary to AI expansionism.

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The problem is that, in making this point, and making it in this way, and making it in this publication, Cruz provides argumentative fodder for those who would wish to defund and diminish the spaces where people have time and space to explore writing (and thinking).

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It is not true that idea that "writing is thinking" only dates to the 1970s. Orwell wrote about it quite explicitly in the 1940s, and the idea has much deeper philosophical roots than the curricular reforms in the Cold War era.

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More to the point, the title is disingenuous because the actual argument is that "speech" is *also* important for thinking. The argument is not that "writing isn't important for thinking," just that "writing is not the only way to learn to think."

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This is not the first time I've heard someone link the LLM crisis to Plato's articulation (through Socrates) of the superiority of speech over text. If the oral communication is superior, why is Dr. Cruz publishing his musings in the NYT rather than shouting from a soap box on the quad?

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“In Roman belief, a place struck by lightning was immediately considered religiosus, having been consecrated by the deity itself.” Big storm in Phoenix last night. Hmm.

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Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

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This attack appears to single out specific disciplines (like my own!) but its real aim is higher ed as a whole. This is an assault on the idea that learning can be about anything other than job training. Higher education is *also* about self understanding and the advancing the common good.

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Tomorrow is liberation day 2.0 (diesel export ban)

Amazing material. Humanity is a deep font of wonders.

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The average American of 2015 cannot comprehend what is on the other side of the portal.

The Queen of Outer Space (1958)

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“Withdrawing federal funding does not free universities from external influence: it deepens their dependence on private donors who operate outside public oversight.” 🔥🔥🔥

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This whole thread slaps. We all need to be honing our ideas today, because the work of (re)building the humanities lays ahead of us.

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This is nominally the way that online courses at my institution are organized: the same course can be listed under the same number for "on ground" or "online" with one key difference being measured in terms of average hours of work per week.

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Maybe the issue here is that many Christians don’t want to acknowledge that Jesus, like his mom, was black?

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What if we made “max out your credit card to convert the truck to roll coal” the national motto?

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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Worthwhile reading for religion and politics wonks: “Bolsonaro’s allies wanted to end Brasil’s practice of celebrating the Saint Day of the patron saint of Brasil, Nossa Senhora Aparecida, a Black saint…a move designed to decrease the influence of the Lula-friendly Catholic Church.”

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Cyber crime enthusiast and recent child given access to the entirety of USG digital records.

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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fund the humanities in public universities, or we'll theorize the hell out of you.

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I think the point is the fabulism.

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We refinanced during the pandemic and have a 2.625% rate. That basically means that moving, ever again, is economically inadvisable.

Bob Smietana @bmietana.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

77% odds of 3C warming is very not good

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Been working on this for a while about pastors who see the racism and antisemitism of America's past as a feature, not a bug. Meet the Jim Crow Theobros religionnews.com/2026/09/24/t...

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The rise of the Jim Crow theobros

(RNS) — A group of Reformed pastors and influencers has wedded old-school segregationist theology with the hypermasculinity of the manosphere and the savvy of the attention economy to preach and sell ...

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Everything is gender. But that’s like top secret info they don’t want you to know.

Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For people who loved our “pervert glasses,” we’re rolling out a new product. Introducing the “putz amulet.”

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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A bag of wine, a clutch of breadsticks, and thou

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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ministry of silly walks but it’s all just goose stepping

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Data Centers, AI, and Extraction – AAR

The Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar invites scholars, advocates, and the public to a panel conversation about religion, energy, water, and extractive imaginaries. (Thanks to @aarweb.bsky.social and Christiana Zenner for organizing) aarweb.org/event/data-c...

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Hosted by AAR's Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar The Energy, Extraction, and Religion Seminar (EER) invites scholars, advocates, and the public to a panel conversation about religion, energy, ...

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ASU Atomic Beta 2.0 is now here, and in response to faculty concerns, appears to be sloppier?

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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Would be interesting to see analysis of voting behavior correlated to the type of fuel people use for everyday transportation. The diesel caucus gotta be intensely red.

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Petroculture giveth and taketh away... www.editorialboard.com/diesel-is-th...

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Diesel is the new covid

Only much worse politically for Trump and the Republicans.

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