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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 18h

Lots of things are bad right now but apples are *good*. What's your favorite variety? Mine is Ever Crisp. www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...

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Apples Have Never Tasted So Delicious. Here’s Why

Apple experts divide time into “before Honeycrisp” and “after Honeycrisp,” and apples have never tasted so good

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

college for all, college for all

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Some things about a trippy, psychedelic-adjacent childhood in the '60s and '70s were pretty great. Peter Max art is one of them.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My dog is just really pretty. There. I said it. Also: that's a household favorite, the old Mile-High Chocolate Pie from Bon Appetit, back in the day.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

*whispers in analysis of political economy and science and technology studies* Frankly, no. If your technology relies on massive capital consolidation to function at all, then the problem is the technology, not simply who wields it.

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Lovely piece by @msroth.bsky.social in the NYT today. Remember when we could just celebrate the opening of the school year? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/o...

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Opinion | This Is the Real Point of College (Gift Article)

It’s all about the practice of freedom.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

we have immigrant concentration camps, diarrhea lettuce, zillion dollar gas, suicidal soldiers, measles resurgence, national park land sold to the highest bidder and teachers crowdfunding school supplies, but the real problems facing our country are a muslim senate candidate and an influencer

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If you signed up to work with me this coming year, these 2 are going to be sitting at the center of pretty much everything we do. I cannot get enough of Juliana Spahr's Ars Poeticas. What an accomplishment. #booksky

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I made this specifically with teaching in mind. It not only links the pages (with bibliographies) of the pod episodes I've done on technofeudalism, but it includes some shorter suggested readings which might make good pairings (but would also work on their own).

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What is Technofeudalism?

A landing page for teachers, students, and scholars.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It would perhaps be warranted that we take a sociological, or even occupational ethnographical approach to the question: Why has reading been chosen as the first thing commercial AI developers will try to automate out of existence?

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 28/07/2026

“it crashed the LRB site” just sounds like something someone made up five replies deep on bluesky and yet

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Every faculty association needs to be prioritizing new collective agreement wording that addresses AI.

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Jeff Kassouf @jeffkassouf.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If you are having World Cup withdrawals today: The Women's World Cup in Brazil kicks off in 338 days. The final will be played one year from Saturday.

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Good piece on the components of Spain's football powerhouse, women's and men's. PSA: re living in the present, looking to the future, the world can do worse than to look to 21st c. Spain for a model (despite marketing that focuses on the v long ago 17th c empire...) www.nytimes.com/athletic/745...

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Spain are worthy World Cup winners. It's a victory for method over madness

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

This one is by someone on IG named pedro dolcefoto...and his AI, I'm sure. But I still love it.

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Mixed feelings about the tendency to lead w/ the "Golden Age" at these kinds of moments. 21st c. Spain is so, so not this. That country does so much, so well, and it would be nice to be showing the world more about that. But hey: it's a truth universally acknowledged that Miguel is #10. Stone fact.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

it's a friday afternoon in mid july so of course we're writing syllabi! against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, please send!

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AGAINST AI -

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

A New York Post editor left one tiny word out of a headline — and completely screwed up the story. Donald Trump, JD Vance and Fox Business took it from there, broadcasting an obviously false statistic about immigrants to millions. My latest, via CJR. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

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Laurels and Darts: Documenting as protection.

A Getty intern gets the picture—and the subject’s trust. Plus: irresponsible innumeracy at Murdoch outlets.

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LJHands @ljhands.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Excellent thread on the Atlantic article regarding the “end of literacy.”

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Once again : What women on the left already knew before the Epstein files + Platner is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Thank you, Mayor Mamdani. This is how you act when you are national leader. Sigh.

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Given the now-that-we-think-about-it-inevitable mucking up, this gem from 2014 might be a good rewatch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUkj...

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World Cup Excitement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I've been meaning to read this one for months. And the airport bocadillo is always the tastiest—bcs seasoned w nostalgia. Con el amor de siempre, Madrid, y hasta la próxima.

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Maybe we just all stay in our lanes now, Gael? ¡Uuuuf!

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Can't stop thinking about this painting, encountered at a temporary installation on textiles at the Galería de las Colecciones Reales. It's so bizarre and unsettling, I don't know what to do with it. Also: look at that work with white. Now quite curious about Joszy Arpad Koppay (1859-1927). #artsky

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Bird watching in the Patrimonio Nacional...saw quite a few hoopoes and a common snipe, among other critters... #birdsinart #artsky

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A new Scottish tartan memorializing the (mainly) female victims of the Witchcraft Act has been officially registered, created by Claire Mitchell and Zoe Venditozzi, founders of the Witches of Scotland campaign #WomensArt via Smithsonian Magazine

Image of a tartan design with a cross in red abd green thread lines against a dark background

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I haven't seen Cape Verde put a beating like that on Spain since the 1640 dissolution of the Iberian Union

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The legendary jazz musician and composer from South Africa, Abdullah Ibrahim, has died... www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzPs...

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African Market

YouTube video by Abdullah Ibrahim - Topic

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

That first Monday morning of summer break. Fellow quarter-system faculty and GEs, I salute you from the land of ahhhhh...

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

First brilliant summer read: Dahlia de la Cerda, Perras De Reserva. I am hesitant to pick up the translation bcs her prose in Spanish is so good, but it exists in English as Reservoir Bitches (trans Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary), longlisted for the Booker. #booksky

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It's the point in the term when I just want to reason with them: Why NOT quote the text to support a claim? What are you going for with that? ~sigh~

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Most (all?) things @isanchezprado.bsky.social writes reward settling in with, cup of coffee or tea in hand. This one is especially wise. Great shout out to @mattseybold.bsky.social 's American Vandal, too. #teampopeleo - no Babel A Year of Teaching Analogically open.substack.com/pub/ignacios...

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A Year of Teaching Analogically

What a paper notebook assignment taught me about teaching in the era of AI cheating

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Run, do not walk, to see Lisa Yuskavage at the Zwirner Gallery in NYC. It's up until June 26. Downright cathartic. Fuck patriarchy. (Then zip across the street for some Leonora Carrington.)

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Leah M @empawsebskysocial.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Great fun and also nerve-wracking to take the Resonant Niña out of my head and out into the public for some sunlight, fresh air, and conversation. Many thanks to @albertlloret.bsky.social and the New England Siglodoristas for the opportunity!

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Really appreciated @benpatrickwill.bsky.social and others who first called attention to this retracted study about ChatGPT's impacts on student learning. I ended up writing about it for @arstechnica.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

"The list of platforms that now mediate the basic functions of education ... is almost comically long ... most schools are running 10–15 different EdTech products that all promise efficiency, but in reality create confusion, frustration, and complicate what was once much simpler." 🎯

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