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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Hey Cambridge people (and others) I proposed purchasing cross country ski grooming equipment for the Fresh Pond Golf Course. Go upvote it or comment if you think it's a good idea! pbideas.cambridgema.gov/place/757375

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City of Cambridge Participatory Budgeting

In order to provide more recreational and fitness opportunities in the winter, purchase small snow grooming and track setting equipment (<$10,000) which could be towed behind existing Parks/Police AT...

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Can we have some sort of bounty system so that people who block traffic and endanger people on bikes (in this case, with their kid!) get fined for stuff like this? Or is that too hard? @wutrain.bsky.social

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

As I keep explaining to my students: federal judges have law clerks who pull the motion and immediately begin pulling the cites to read them. So, you will find an AI cite pretty quickly. The same thing is happening in law review land as well.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Down with Bibi

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 03/09/2026

A lot of humanistic fields focus on "understanding, synthesizing, and deciding what is valuable." And I think it's under-publicized right now that this is a role whose significance may be growing. As our power to do stuff increases, the task of evaluation becomes harder & more important.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In 1957, a T ride cost 20¢. Adjusted for inflation, that's $2.40, exactly what the T costs today (well, $2.41, but close). The Turnpike from 128 to New York cost $2.45. Adjusted for inflation, it would be equivalent to $29.64. Driving the length of the Pike costs $4.25 today.

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Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The slop is winning.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So apparently Dolly was just constantly sending love notes to people saying how important their work is and how much she appreciated them. People she'd met and people she hadn't, basically anyone who did anything she liked. Be like Dolly.

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Mirac Suzgun @msuzgun.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1/ Today, @jameszou.bsky.social, Professor Shieber, @jurafsky.bsky.social and I are releasing string2string Studio: an open-source, in-browser platform that brings alignment, comparison, search, and evaluation into one interactive, visual environment for strings and sequences. See: string2string.org

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Maine, Connecticut and New York all banned religious exemptions to vaccination. But Massachusetts doesn’t because our do-nothing legislature does nothing. Who chairs the public health committee? Marjorie Decker. Vote sept 1.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Do you think that if we have an overpass for cars to skip an intersection, we should have one for bikes too (especially if it doesn't add any additional climb to the route)? Me too! My concept for the Reid Overpass BU Bridge … docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

There are basically two types of AI users: (1) "I delegated all my thinking to the AI, I assume that's for the best." (2) "After 350 hours of coding I finally have a decent self-evolving harness loop that forces the model to actually follow the instructions in my prompt. It works 53% of the time."

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Why is Massachuetts' economy not doing well? If you ask Beacon Hill's Chip Elfner: "My mayor in Boston cares more about bicycle lanes than public safety." Hey Chip: why don't you ask the Gag family if bicycle lanes have anything to do with public safety? www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/06/b...

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‘The party is over’: Readers sound off on why Massachusetts has lost its mojo - The Boston Globe

Once a star performer, Massachusetts is losing ground to other states on job growth and new business creation.

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Lior Steinberg @steinberg.nu · 03/08/2026

Here’s a study that will change the way you look at public space. Literally. Researchers from Brigham Young University asked participants to imagine walking through different nighttime environments and click on what drew their attention. The results?

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/07/2026

"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."

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Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

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20's Plenty for Us @20splenty.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

For the 5th consecutive year child casualties have flat-lined at around 13,000 road casualties of age 16 and under. In what other area of life would the death or injury of 13,000 children be "acceptable"? The government has a Road Safety Strategy that aims to reduce child KSIs by 70%.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 30/07/2026

We already do this and companies who want them are happy to pay for PhD student interns. Why do precious and limited NSF funds need to be deployed for this? Most PhD student pursue industry jobs anyways - that has always been true. Use NSF funds to support basic science that industry wont support!

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Lmao this is as close as you'll get to "everything that guy just said was bullshit" from the chief economist at JP Morgan talking about the Fed chair

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Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Really enjoyed returning for another AI and the news panel discussion on the Curiosity Desk @wgbh.org with Hiawatha Bray (The Globe) and Kathy Pham (HKS)! www.youtube.com/live/FYvdkj0...

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Tuesday, July 28, 2026

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

There is something zen-like about entering data, figuring out how to check on issues in stata, writing the code, fixing any issues, checking it again, and then having it all work. Even if I had 15 grad students, I would still want to do this.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 10/07/2026

After a months-long occupation, Minnesota is still recovering from a retribution campaign waged by the federal government. Now, Minnesota stands with Houston in demanding accountability for the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. This bloodshed cannot be normalized.

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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

S22 is the hero we need, but don't deserve

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’m going to need some time to process this but … fuck.

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StreetsblogMASS @mass.streetsblog.org · 10/07/2026

“Everyone adored Louisa, and we’re all in shock and in disbelief and angry,” said BTD planner William Moose, one of Gag’s colleagues in City Hall. “She just cared so damn much about this city and was so invested in the work she did.” mass.streetsblog.org/2026/07/10/l...

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Louisa Gag, Longtime Street Safety Advocate, Identified as Thursday's Homicide Crash Victim - Streetsblog Massachusetts

Family members have identified the victim of Thursday morning's homicide crash near Roxbury Crossing as Louisa Gag, a longtime street safety advocate and transportation planner at Boston's City Hall.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

it’s kind of ironic that the French government better understands and captures the true aesthetics and ideals of America than the groyper weirdos at the White House posting cringe anti-American MAGAslop

White House posting Christian nationalist slop

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Samuel Bagg @samuel-bagg.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Basic idea is to build a library of institutional models, drawn from a wide range of historical, cultural, geographic, disciplinary, & organizational contexts, which serve goal of "anti-corruption" in a very broad sense: i.e., helping keep institutions tethered to purposes they are meant to serve.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I’m out of town but please go support street safety in Cambridge.

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Hila Peleg @hilacodes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I love well-supported unsurprising results. Truly.

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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Good lord France is going to be hot this week. The only hotter spot on the Europe map on TT is in Iraq (which is, shuffles papers, not in Europe)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The "Trump Kennedy Center" acted like Trump himself; they outright ignored binding contracts, bullied subcontractors, and seem to have outright stolen millions of dollars that pursuant to a binding contract they were only managing for the benefit of the WNO.

40. The result was chaos. Gifts went unprocessed or unacknowledged, donor benefits went unfulfilled, and donor communications went unanswered. WNO staff had to perform work the Kennedy Center had agreed to provide, trying to protect donor relationships and to preserve WNO’s fundraising pipeline. WNO employees performed multiple job functions at once and worked extended hours to maintain basic operations. 41. WNO also lost all visibility into its own financial activities by fall 2025, when the Kennedy Center implemented new financial-management software. Under the prior system, WNO staff had direct visibility into most of the WNO Financial Accounts. After the transition, WNO could no longer see posted revenues, expenses, contributions, fund balances, and other entries. WNO repeatedly requested that the Kennedy Center restore that access, but it never did, forcing WNO to create and maintain its own spreadsheets and attempt to reconstruct its own finances. 42. At the same time, the Kennedy Center’s financial reporting became delayed, incomplete, and largely inaccessible. For months, and despite repeated requests, the Kennedy Center failed to provide the regular financial reports and fund-balance information required by the 2024 Agreement, forcing WNO to operate on stale and incomplete information last provided in March 2025. As a result, WNO could not reliably track new donor gifts received by the Kennedy Center on WNO’s behalf or confirm that such contributions were properly credited to the WNO Financial Accounts

F. The Kennedy Center Does Not Return WNO’s Financial Assets or Provide an Accounting Consistent with the 2024 Agreement 57. However, despite repeated requests made in the course of meetings, calls, and emails over the following weeks and months, the Kennedy Center did not return any of the funds in the WNO Financial Accounts and did not provide a complete accounting in accordance with the 2024 Agreement. 58. Based on financial information previously provided by the Kennedy Center and WNO’s internal records, and after accounting for WNO Direct Expenses not yet offset by WNO revenues and other support according to the terms of the 2024 Agreement, WNO estimates that the Kennedy Center is withholding at least $17,101,186 in WNO financial assets. Those include funds held in or attributable to the WNO Endowment, the WNO BSRF, the FFIE, and other earned and contributed income that the Kennedy Center collected or maintained for WNO’s benefit. 59. In the months since the January 9 termination—which the Kennedy Center’s Board of Trustees unanimously confirmed on March 16 by resolution authorizing its Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel to negotiate the terms of the disaffiliation on behalf of the Center— the Kennedy Center has not returned any of WNO’s financial assets, has refused to state whether it intends to return any of those assets, and has not provided an accounting consistent with the 2024 Agreement.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

ICE's flight taking persecuted people from safety into a civil war is on its final leg to the Central African Republic, a country so dangerous the United States recommends all Americans avoid traveling there for any reason whatsoever. So much for supporting the people of Iran.

Reuters: US deports Iranian pro-democracy activist to Central African Republic, lawyer says
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Beyond gutter size bike lanes, here are other reasons why they aren’t used: - painted lanes along a busy, dangerous road - lanes disconnected from a network - lanes going to no meaningful destination (eg in industrial areas) - some painted lanes in very low density residential areas

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/06/2026

The World Cup could see racial profiling and discrimination by law enforcement, invasive social media screenings, searches of electronic devices, suppression of speech, and more. Fans, players, journalists, and everyone must know our rights and the risks.

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The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup: Know Your Rights, Know Your Risks | American Civil Liberties Union

If you’re attending the 2026 World Cup in areas impacted by the Trump administration’s militarized immigration crackdown. Know your rights — and your risks — before you go.

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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 07/06/2026

A bike planner died on his community’s streets, and I wish that this was a unifying moment for the transpo practitioner community to come together to demand networks of all-ages facilities for people on bikes. Not ITS or robocars or bulbouts. All-ages bike facilities. RIP Riley O’Neil.

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After driver doored CDOT planner Riley O'Neil, 35, on bike in Bridgeport, causing his death, advocates demand City install protected lanes to prevent such killings - Streetsblog Chicago

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Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A rare uplifting story: “How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

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How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives

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Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The @wgbh.org Curiosity Desk show is great. I can't believe I just found out about it. Only in Boston? Thank you for hosting me to talk about human-AI interaction! Archived on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/live/oYI5usI...

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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live Tuesday, June 2, 2026

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A big shout-out to Michael Correll (is he on Bluesky...?) for this blog post which is ::chef's kiss:: as a bridge to HCI from my work on ethics education in the context of "hey maybe let's re-think what it means to be good at computer science." mcorrell.medium.com/the-othering...

“HCI is an ‘other,’ a less-serious place to be shunted aside or begrudgingly included for marketing reasons so the serious men in real computer science can get on with the actual work. HCI as ‘bless your heart’ patronized computer science, peripheral, marketing fluff ... I was asked to make sure that my work was “legible” to CS departments by including little winking asides that, sure I primarily do HCI work ... but in
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learning guy or otherwise
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Ari Ofsevit @ofsevit.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The New York Times, in a national editorial, endorses Massachusetts housing policy. Hub of the Universe, indeed. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/o...

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Opinion | How to Stop the Affluent From Rigging the Housing Market

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

“Anti diversity stance” there’s a shorter way to say that www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

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Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Hip hip hooray! Preliminary injunction has blocked the dismantling of a premiere institution, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), headquartered in Boulder, Colorado.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Trump administration proposes all scientific research grants must be approved by political apparatchiks, not peer reviewers, must support Trump's policy priorities, can't include scientists from China, and you can't speak at a conference without approval elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social @elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“What OMB is proposing is not a reform of grants management,” Elizabeth Ginexi, a former program officer at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), writes in a Substack post. “It is a vehicle for complete political control of science … ” www.science.org/content/arti...

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White House seeks to tighten political oversight of grantmaking

Sweeping proposed rule, now open for comments, would also restrict foreign collaborations and remove federal funding for open-access fees

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This right here is very telling. The OMB proposal directly dismantles the post-WWII system used by NIH, NSF, DOE, NASA, and nearly every science agency, in which independent expert peer review was the primary measure of scientific merit. 🧪 elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

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Elena Glassman @elglassman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

There's an contradiction I'm holding right now: I get increasingly uncomfortable feelings in response to the really sensitive raw things (e.g., their baby dying during birth) that folks are sharing, seemingly unprocessed, online and yet... I don't want folks to feel like ... (1/5)

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