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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 5h

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression organization, the ADL, and others. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 22h

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grinnell has a required writing class for first-year students. As part of the class, we have to teach about academic honesty and avoiding plagiarism. Easy enough, I thought, until I got the first student question: "Why does Grinnell seem to take this so much more seriously than it does Title IX?"

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 29/09/2026

AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR THEE: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! AMERICANS WHEN STUFF IS FOR ME: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

an approximate graph of a poll saying that ~80% of americans think "america would be better off if more americans worked in manufacturing" whereas ~25% believe "i would be better off if i worked in a factory." the republicans polled were slightly higher in both before somebody gets mad at me for not making this about that

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a headline, lmao. Two of every fact!

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Actblue messaging me: "Wow... just wow. ActBlue's CEO got subpoenaed." Me: "Thank God."

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Obviously, I am not going to click on this link, but it cracks me up and speaks to how professional pols view the world, that "quitting the Democratic party" means also voting for Trump. Also, yes, just selling a book etc.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I'm out of touch, because I've only seen five of the top 10 shows, and Curb Your Enthusiasm is the only one I didn't give up on (although I'll never get around to watching them all).

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"If you bring an iced coffee... you're disqualified." "How could you say that? I actually offer people coffee!" This discourse is engineering to drive me, specifically, crazy. OP is right, ofc.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg, the most stereotypically Tory conservative man of the 21st Century, responded to Suella Braverman with a long-form video criticizing her position and rejecting a race-based theory of Englishness, and in response has been ratioed by the increasingly feral British online far-right.

Jacob Rees-Mogg
@Jacob_R...•22h
The English are a mongrel people, not an Aryan master race.

Underneath is an extremely English-looking man in a suit sitting in front of a large bookshelf.

There are 6.2 thousand comments compared to 6 thousand likes.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My plan to go to bed every night before 10pm is going swimmingly...

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another example of someone's public persona winning out over their private persona. This 100% tracks with who she is (public figure), but maybe not who she is (private life).

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The response in Israel to Naza is beyond unhinged. Mobs have shown up at the house of co-director Rachel Szor's family. All over social media the directors are being branded traitors and "not Jews". There is a frenzy of incitement to violence against them online www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify

Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just finished Widow's Bay episode 5. I don't get it/contemporary TV. The episode ends on some kind of a big cliffhanger, I am just allergic to that, ew.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Greek specialists! A question from the trenches of copy-editing! I referred to the act of handlessly producing an image (that is, the NOUN referring to the act of miraculous production) as acheiropoesis. Wonderful copy-editor asks whether I mean acheiropoietos. Help please

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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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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every time I teach Gilgamesh, I mention the Darmok episode of Star Trek: TNG, which is somehow inspired by Gilgamesh. Anyway, I always recommend it, but never watch it. I'm feeling very proud of remembering "Darmok and Jalad at Teneggra" yesterday in response to a student question.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Job: The Department of Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania seeks a historian of sub-Saharan Africa at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. Special interest in research focus on religious and/or sociocultural practices in sub-Saharan Africa. Deadline: October 16, 2026

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Is there a book out there that offers a conceptual history of "philosophy?" Like how the meaning of this term has evolved over time? Doesn't have to cover pre-Socratics through 2026, but I'm not opposed to reading 4,500 pages.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

and also the other side of this is, if i'm not sure whether i liked a movie, that isn't necessarily a state that needs fixing. it is not necessary to send me four hours' worth of a lady giving me the answer to my inner experience

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 14/09/2026

Unambiguously the right thing to do, obvious at the time, and that is true even if you thought whatever the bushies were planning next was correct

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Donut shop owner wearing a University of Iowa themed "In Kirk We Trust" shirt today really took me out until I realized it was obviously about Kirk Ferentz, head coach of the football team.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

That guy really redeemed himself becoming Casper Babypants.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

He had so many great articles on ESPN. I cannot believe they let him write this kind of thing; but I needed it. It often felt like he was the only other person who saw things as I did. I read Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 as a 16 year old in 2002. That's how much I loved him.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I understand this is stupid, but why does James Talarico spam me incessantly asking for money? More than any other campaign and I don't live in Texas. I just want him to go away now.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can't imagine this war ever ending. Trump is not going to end it. A republican present won't betray Trump's legacy by ending it and a democratic president won't want to be seen as weak (a la Biden) by ending it.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Really feels like we're in a competition to see who can cause the most economic and social harm to themself.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Endless arguments in high school with people about how it was bad politics to watch this show.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Incredible that they put up sexy Hasan @ the RNC in Texas. What a year he's had. Barely knew who he was in January, now he's at the top of the world.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It is a bit funny to me that the field of math went all in on AI and is now upset that AI does plagiarism.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

FWIW. seems like it has a nice steel knob that can withstand real oven temperatures unlike the regular le creuset lids that come with some kind of a plastic knob that wilts in the face of serious heat.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Looking forward to going back to visit my family in Lima this Christmas!

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

WMU disappointing me not going for the TD. Who cares if you turn it over, Michigan gets shit field position!

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

RIP Witkam had such a passion for manuscripts. He spent three or four days with me in the Leiden University Library teaching me how to look at and use Arabic manuscripts, for no real reason. I know he was sometimes difficult, but he was very kind to me when I was starting my dissertation research.

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jaywallace1.bsky.social @jaywallace1.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just realized I could now post the entire Wigan Kebab video.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

fun part if you ask me: higher ed institutions in secular democracies are the closest approximation of a 'marketplace of ideas' as you are likely to find this side of a global revolution and a lot of people who claim to like that idea do not seem to love its results

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I finished my article and am ready to submit! Let's do one last spell-check. Wait, what is this paragraph: "hey look, the two texts are organized very differently — as fiqh book, as a naḥw book— but wowza look’it! They’re largely the same" Seems I still have more to write.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever.

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“What kind of country are we living in? Is this civilisation? They don’t care about human rights. This is a European country, but it looks like Sweden is like somewhere like Afghanistan,” she said.

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Particularly proud of my department for our jointly written policy statement on AI usage, which affirms so much of what we do / why we do it in English and Creative Writing rather than merely condemns or punishes : www.kenyon.edu/academics/de...

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Statement on AI Use

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I read this piece to my family the other day at dinner. I think my wife really appreciated it, but my 7 and 4 year-olds found it a bit boring. Philistines!

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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Can't believe the to-go dining option on campus stopped selling chips because they are unhealthy. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

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