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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026

the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026

This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026

Yes. In general I think consensus view of AI should be not as objective digital substitutes for knowledge, work, experience & thought but rather as output devices engineered to filter data through the worldview of their owners. And I think this should be obvious. That’s why every rich guy owns one.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care.

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Miscreant Meow Connoisseur @bankuei.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It's an unintentional meta commentary on the power of white men to destroy everything because POC & women got an ounce of opportunity.🤷

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Spooky Neighborhood Spider-Menace @icanfly42.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Where I am the UNC system (which includes NC State, ECU, and App St on top of all the UNC schools) is one of the reasons this state is as nice as it is and all of those schools are really great and the political system HATES them and is actively dismantling all of them

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Anyone who opposes this really does just believe if you break the law you deserve to be tortured

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Heather Bryant @hbcompass.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Universities allowing or encouraging students to use consumer AI products for their coursework aren't creating future thinkers capable of critical evaluation and thoughtful application of AI technology, they're creating future customers of consumer AI platforms.

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I kinda wonder how cis people who feel comfortable abandoning trans people would feel if, theoretically, they were subject to forced transition against their will on pain of torture and potentially death by a political party? Because that's the mirror of what they expect trans people to be ok with.

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Feral Horseshoe Crab @feralhorseshoecrab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Same people heard about being judged "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" and correctly perceived it as a terrifying and direct personal threat of social demotion.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The conflation of AI-critical with technophobic is tactical & infuriating. While accusing us of just knee-jerk hating tech, they’re enshittifying search engines, degrading digital archives, sundowning or enclosing popular tools, etc. We were all happily using that tech!

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Jack Stack @jackstack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Couldn’t agree more. The skill that will last any student the longest is being able to solve problems and adapt to new information. We must also remember that billion dollar industries exist to prey on people without critical thinking skills.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

i promise you there’s a grad student right now who’s more impressive than that famous abuser on your payroll, universities.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

they've been pushing "AI in the classroom" for years now and while the studies of its detrimental effects pile up, and *student* as well as instructor resistance builds, the arguments for it haven't gotten any better or even changed from this tired, greasy attempt at giving orders

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Getting people to remember how to care (or teaching them for the first time) is the most burning issue humanity faces. I am deathly serious.

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 04/09/2026

“What if the court rules against you” order the bulldozer drivers to keep going. Preemptively pardon any (contempt) charges. Call in a fucking airstrike and say military action is non justicable under Trump v US. Dare them to stop you.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/09/2026

This is the crux of it. We can't have nice things because too many Americans would rather make life harder for themselves than let go of the belief that they're inherently superior to anyone lower on the ladder than they are (especially if the person lower on the ladder has darker skin).

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Top-tip: if anyone wants to give you the kind of "mentorship" that you being unionised would prevent, get a new mentor fast.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026

"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5

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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault

You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...

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The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It’s so interesting to be at a moment in human history where the overwhelming majority of the problems are in how we interact with each other rather than what our tools will allow us to do.

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Garrett Ruley @garrett-ruley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's somehow straight out of a children's morality tale. The wealthiest man in the world, but all he desires are unattainable fantasies.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"Young people cannot be expected to develop a firm allegiance to the democratic faith they are taught in the classroom if their campus life is carried on in an authoritarian atmosphere." Ok Truman Commission, you're spitting one too many hot truths.

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

The irony of ASA being one of the least physically accessible of past ASA conferences. Not an escalator available? Elevators taking forever? You'd think we would have this sorted.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

a huge part of why we are here is because people in positions of power, including at ostensibly liberal institutions, wanted either themselves or their friends to be able to grope women again.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026

I don’t understand why people who clearly not only hate the world but also hate themselves insist on inflicting themselves on the rest of us Not just this guy but all these people who try to assume power or garner attention just to make things worse You hate yourself bro. Just go live in the woods

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026

There's a lot in this thread & its multiple & various reply/quote offshoots that i disagree with, & am exhausted by, but i want to focus on 1 that i keep trying to press on: Let's stipulate LLMs *Can* do grad- & even expert-level math & we should prep for a revolution in the field… So what then?…

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

To a hammer everything looks like a nail etc, but I do think that gender is the first and primary hierarchical division of human beings, and that much of the passion of the transphobic project comes from transphobes (correctly) assessing trans people’s threat to all other hierarchies.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/07/2026

The death penalty remains an unbelievable moral stain on America. But that’s not my main takeaway from this piece. My main takeaway from virtually every piece about someone who’s terribly harmed others is that society should be throwing every possible resource at children.

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The children who loved a killer

The Carr family took in Steven Judy, hoping to ‘save’ a troubled teen. They didn’t know he would become one of the most hated men in America

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 24/07/2026

Teachers should be some of the best-educated and best-paid workers in the country, instead of fighting for scraps. Daycare staff should be professionals with advanced degrees and the salaries to match, instead of randos making $20/hour.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

appears the US war apparatus is pivoting from general war crimes to a more openly genocidal strategy

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The idea that masculinity and male identity are ontologically evil is fundamentally TERF shit and we have a moral obligation to reject it

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15/07/2026

"I am a humble man. I made my fortune the old-fashioned way, through grit, determination, and a small multi-million-dollar loan from my father. And now I’m trying to achieve something beyond what humans have ever imagined: a giant toxic goo pit."

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A Case for the Giant Toxic Goo Pit I Want to Build in the Center of Town

“I am a humble man. I made my fortune the old-fashioned way, through grit, determination, and a small multi-million-dollar loan from my father. And now I’m t...

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

i actually think most men havent broken in to a woman's house and raped her. i dont think most men have done that

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I hear everyone on their use cases for tracking themselves. I’m just telling you that convenience is why we are very seriously at the cusp of living in this guy’s fever dream youtube.com/shorts/vxsFy...

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Palantir C.E.O. Says Any Suggestion That Trump Is a Fascist Is ‘Stupid’

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Like no sorry actually there are a lot of women in the working class and also a lot of men who are not fucking assholes. The working class is not the cultural and moral lowest common denominator and the fact that you imagine it as such tells us exactly what your politics actually are

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/07/2026

there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

an election is a job interview to become one of the most powerful people in the country. he is “innocent until proven guilty” in that no one can throw him in jail without a trial. it doesn’t mean “you are legally obligated to give him the job he wants and he can’t ever face a single consequence”

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Re: Graham Platner, I felt like I was being punked when people acted like he wasn’t obviously dishonest and untrustworthy this entire time. Starting with the unbelievable defense of his tattoo, which I was shocked to see people fall for

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

He's out. Everyone who continued to push Platner after the Nazi tattoo revelation should resign from Democratic politics along with him. They damaged the movement and set us back, potentially losing us the Senate in the most consequential election in U.S. history. No place for them in this party.

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Every Dem Senator who publicly called for Al Franken to resign needs to call on Graham Platner to drop out of the race. And he should drop out immediately, while the Maine Democratic Party can still designate a replacement.

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Eeek Polybius Unum @striderhlc.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Wanna add that while there’s something to be said for small class sizes etc, a big and under-recognized part of why private schools are so much better on paper is that private schools have ways to remove kids who aren’t performing, often without nominally expelling them.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The obvious points here: *there is no problem that the cops are solving. Some staff are negotiating fan access to players. No need for a govt official to jump in *their natural instinct is to escalate rather than defuse the tension, to demand obedience rather than manage the situation

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 24/06/2026

This is a fight between the volunteers of the Democratic Party and the consultant/billionaire class of the Democratic Party. That's what it is.

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