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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you are currently a member of the American Political Science Association, and you follow me here on the butterfly app, please consider voting for me for the APSA council. One thing you can be sure of, I will not be shy and retiring.

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Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

New interview on women, gender, & France’s revolutionary civil war: the Paris Commune! youtu.be/DG7rTrLrAi8?...

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#17 France - The radical Women of the Paris Commune

YouTube video by Putschcast

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Finally a Mary looking as tired as your average new mother

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It seems a little unfair to make saints Catherine and Barbara spend their lives carrying around things meant to remind them of their own torture and murder.

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I’m enamored with this lil’ guy

St Catherine holding something the size of a cat but which looks like a pocket chicken with a dragon face

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kennan @kennan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I wish there was a book that covered all three of those areas

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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Under the common law, the arguments that aliens had no rights, that alienage was heritable to the children (Butts v Penny, 1677) had justified slavery in the colonies. The 14th amendment was intended to secure, by constitutional amendment, against any resurrection of these claims.

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Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core

Creating a Common Law of Slavery for England and its New World Empire - Volume 39 Issue 4

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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing. Half-mast, my ass.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

NEW: Judge Jenkins ruled that the Trump administration’s effort to force states to assist their mass deportation efforts was a violation of the 10th Amendment and states’ rights. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

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Judge throws out Trump’s lawsuit against Illinois over sanctuary policies

The case is just one in a series of lawsuits DOJ has filed against blue states and cities.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago and Gov. Pritzker over the state’s sanctuary policies, saying it’s an effort to encroach on state sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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djjohnrichards @djjohnrichards.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Why is public media important? Turn on KEXP and you’ll see why, 24 hours a day, human curation, humanity, creativity and never ever compromising. Right now, the station is all Ozzy all day. Anyone who isn’t should shut down.

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Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Speaking today on “Up Against the Patriarchy: Louise Michel & the Embodiment of Resistance,” at the Global Consortium on French History Conference “Resist!” 🗃️ @sfhs.bsky.social @thewsfh.bsky.social

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

When Joe Biden referred to "shylocks" in 2014, the ADL admonished him. I look forward to seeing the group similarly criticize President Trump for using the term today.

@ADL on X: We welcome @VP @JoeBiden’s admission he erred in describing those who take financial advantage of American servicemen & women as #shylocks.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

The shocking thing about Trump tossing off a “shylock” slur is he pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories, said he needs accountants with “funny little hats,” does dual loyalty smears, openly speaks of Good Jews and Bad Jews, hired neo-Nazis, and more, and media still says he’s opposing antisemitism.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We are only going to see more of this thanks to the USAID draw down

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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

This is "Brady". He targeted our client #BrentEfron by false dating profile on #Tinder. He claimed to share same liberal values but was actually undercover operative for #ProjectVeritas secretly filming w/o consent during private date. If you can identify him, please contact me.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

In ALL wars leadership oft slips into hyperbole. In this one we will be in a constant state of bold-faced lies. There is a difference.

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

The Cut article from 2018: Cuomo halted investigation into Weinstein case after $25K donation from his former lawyer

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

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Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Shocked and saddened to learn of Joshua Clover’s death.

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Ami·e·s de la Commune 1871 @aacp1871.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Le 27 avril 1871, la Commission du Travail, dirigée par Léo Frankel, publie un décret interdisant les amendes et retenues sur salaire. Ces prélèvements arbitraires étaient une arme aux mains des patrons pour affaiblir la résistance ouvrière. #vivelacommune #vivelasociale #commune1871 #communards

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

From the Department of Things Columbia Could Have Done

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

keep it up big ten

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Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This is obscene. I hope USC will do something to support this student.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 20/04/2025

A top White House official says Jews "deny the existence of objective truth" but tell me more about college campus protests being antisemitic

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Aaron Hoyland @aaronhoyland.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Almost 10% of the entire Canadian electorate voted on the VERY FIRST DAY of advance polls because we’ve spent the last 3 months watching what happens when you elect a populist windbag who vilifies journalists and shits all over people’s fundamental rights. Thanks America. You really did us a solid.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Well, it took 200 years but France has apologized for forcing #Haitians to pay reparations to their enslavers for the crime of freeing themselves. 🇭🇹🇭🇹 Will they actually pay the money back? I’m not holding my breath! 🗃️ www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f...

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France's president says making Haiti pay for its independence was unjust

Emmanuel Macron's statement comes 200 years after King Charles X recognized Haiti’s independence and imposed a massive debt on the country to compensate France for the loss of slave labor.

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

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Obearwan_Kenobi @obearwan-kenobi.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

@schumer.senate.gov where the fuck are you?

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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

ICE should be charged under RICO.

Criminal RICO
To violate RICO, a person must engage in a pattern of racketeering activity connected to an enterprise. The law defines 35 offenses as constituting racketeering, including gambling, murder, kidnapping, arson, drug dealing, bribery. Significantly, mail and wire fraud are included on the list. These crimes are known as "predicate" offenses. To charge under RICO, at least two predicate crimes within 10 years must have been committed through the enterprise

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all. 5/

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