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2600 - The Hacker Quarterly @2600.com · 18/11/2025

HOPE has been banned from St. John's University. www.2600.com/content/hope...

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HOPE CONFERENCE BANNED BY ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY | 2600

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Erika Melder @erikavmelder.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I hardly post on microblogging apps despite writing about them constantly for the past several years. Something about the tweet format just doesn't register as a conversation in my mind. It feels like yapping into the void in a way that Discord, Cohost (RIP), and even phpBB forums don't.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Moreover, these funds serve the public interest. Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good. And the rewards have been enormous. Everything from the internet to pharmaceutical and health care innovations evolved from such investments. We are richer and healthier for the investment.

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celli @aliascelli.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

#tech for those of you who do now or might someday upload content to YouTube, h/t @pantsawe.bsky.social

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Sarah Kate Ellis @sarahkateellis.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

72% of the book challenges are coming from organized pressure groups and politicians they work with to falsely claim inclusive books are offensive or inappropriate, according to the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social. (1/2)

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff

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Alyssa Smith @cetaceanneeded.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.

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adina @adinagit.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

have you ever lost sleep wondering how hashtag activism campaigns unfold over time??? in a new paper with @erikavmelder.bsky.social and @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, we look at the temporal evolution of 7 years of #StopLine3 on twitter more here: doi.org/10.1177/2056...

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404 Media @404media.co · 11/02/2025

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies 🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/02/2025

"Making extensions under MV3 is much harder than making extensions under MV2. That's just a fact. They made things harder to build and more confusing," EFF’s Alexei Miagkov told @theregister.com.

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Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers

Makers of content blockers, privacy add-ons say promises weren't kept

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/01/2025

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

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White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion

The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Gritty continues to be a real one

Gritty holding a pride flag with the message "love is luv"

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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Friends play a key role in the lives and wellbeing of adults 50 and older. CID Faculty Affiliate Sarah Patterson @spattersearch.bsky.social contributed to the National Poll on Healthy Aging @um-src.bsky.social. Read the press release: isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

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Poll shows role of close friendships in older adults’ health | Institute for Social Research

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/03/2024

Hell. You are describing hell. Nobody wants an “interactive and engaging” dishwasher. They just want their dishes cleaned. www.forbes.com/sites/bernar...

Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become even more human and more personal.
Imagine, for example, asking your washing machine whether it’s safe to wash a beloved item of clothing on a certain setting – literally, asking it out loud or via an app. Or you could say to your fridge, “Hey, when am I going to run out of milk?” and it’ll tell you. Integrating generative AI into everyday products could lead to a new era of smart appliances that are not only more adaptive to our needs but also more interactive and engaging.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 30/12/2024

Just to share something cool... I was looking for pixel fonts for my neocities and like, I keep getting all the usual font sites on google and like... Sometimes you want like.. a REAL website like no I need a page where some weirdo wrote the HTML!! int10h.org/oldschool-pc...? So I found THIS!!!

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The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack: Font Index

Full index of the world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles

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Erika Melder @erikavmelder.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I get the game design argument for contact damage but it's just not very fun. Actual attack hitboxes add so much to any action game. I'm supposed to believe my guy is a cool powerful hero and yet he loses half his life bar and is flung across the screen simply by touching a snake? Yeah, sure.

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🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Recently talked to a student who admitted to using ChatGPT as a study device - by feeding it all of the class lecture slides and having it generate summaries. So now OpenAI has ownership of all the slides my co-instructor and I created from scratch…

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Happy 💾 @happychoice.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

I cant believe Cave Story is 20 years old.. Such an amazing and formative game for me, what better way to enjoy it than on a fully restored IBM ThinkCentre that also happens to be from 2004! ( ^ ^)

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Alison @finger-post.blog · 17/12/2024

You do not need to be an academic to visit an archive. You do not need a degree to visit an archive. There is no terrifying Don at the door grilling potential visitors. If it's your first time, a nice archivist will help you. It's our shared history, our preserved records. Go explore it.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

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Erika Melder @erikavmelder.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Don't forget: Just like most awards shows, The Game Awards is entirely an industry operation designed to advertise games, mostly AAA games. I was happy to see Balatro nominated, but it felt like an appeasement. There's hundreds of fantastic indie games with awesome devs that go ignored by TGA.

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Erika Melder @erikavmelder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just got two commercials in a row that featured teenagers coming of age and immediately desiring to sell <cars/insurance> as part of their newfound identity and purpose as an adult. They're working overtime to bake perpetuating capitalism in as our default goal today, huh?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/12/2024

I’m gonna be real …. I’m not paying $5/month or more for 20-30 individual newsletters We need a better media ecosystem

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Erika Melder @erikavmelder.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I just stumbled across a drama response youtube video that was sponsored and had a 90 second ad read in the middle of describing allegations against another creator. I don't think I've ever seen the quiet part spoken so loud. They're profiting off of manufactured outrage.

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Erika Melder @erikavmelder.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

A reason students struggle with functions: they aren't taught the difference between a parameter and an argument. If I tell a student f(x) = 2x + 1, and then ask them what f(x + 4) is, they don't realize the first x is a placeholder in the definition and the second x is a variable in an expression.

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Erika Melder @erikavmelder.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this and tell me: 1) a project you're working on and 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about 1. Shared blocklists and walled garden social media affect online mutual aid 2. The loss of dedicated forums/niche sites

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon. Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

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