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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The new discourse of valorizing ‘human skills’ just feels like techbro collaborationist discourse. It masks the shrinking and constraining of critical inquiry by claiming its expanded importance.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Dreaming this morning about what it would be like to see a mass mobilization in the streets to defend public education in this country. Sigh.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/09/2026

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York. That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Weird times when you find yourself citing Joe Manchin in the same piece as Deleuze and Guattari.

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I hope a big part of this story is how Trans rights won. Markey wrote the transgender bill of rights. Unabashedly campaigned on that (among other things). Moulton questioned whether trans kids should play sports. Then doubled down. Dems should take big note here.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

fuck ICE, Fuck Milo. No positivity for the brown shirts just because they are kidnapping our enemies at the same time that they are kidnapping our neighbors.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thanks to Verity Mathews for having me on her show on KGNU community radio in Colorado to chat about AI encroachment into education. But don't listen for me- listen for the student interviews in the opening segment. Lots of student objectors and skeptics out there nowadays. ❤️❤️

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It’s The Economy

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Lol. This is real low for you all. And such a stretch. It is like a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of innuendo. Can’t beat Markey on policy so this is your go to eh?

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Moulton wants you to think he is a progressive. But he is not. He is just trying make himself appear to be right now.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

oh here is the legislation he introduced to protect TPS for Haitians back in June: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Folks: You don’t need to call on Markey because he spoke on the senate floor last week to encourage the Senate to pass it, with Ayanna Pressley standing behind him. Markey is a leader on this issue.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

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Miami Herald @miamiherald.com · 14/07/2026

NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

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Man dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a week

Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I tend skeptical about ‘neo-feudalism’ as a lens for this moment but hard to deny some of that as the president hosts a modern day gladiator spectacle while waging wars of choice, bombing fishermen, kidnapping, imprisoning, and deporting our friends and neighbors, and not caring about rising costs.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“We did a fair amount of research, including research using new artificial-intelligence methods to survey large bodies of text and see what was in them, and to identify themes and so on.” Lol. What a joke. www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

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Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

live by the edtech, die by the edtech

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

NY took the elitist claims pretty seriously, gave good exceptions and reduced rates for folks who needed it is it is still paying off like crazy both in financial benefit and environmental benefit for the city. That recent reporting on the Cornell study is pretty amazing.

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Julian Agyeman @julianagyeman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

“Our overall conclusion is that congestion pricing in NYC, like many other cities in the world that have implemented it, helped not only improve traffic, but also helped reduce air pollutant concentration, improve air quality and should be good for public health,” news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

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Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

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Abbott and Costello Meet MikeZilla Minus Zero (#15584) @mikeymcfilms.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Weird how we are in this moment of AI takeover and even companies who are profiting from it are saying they want more humanities people, but unis are accelerating killing humanities because they are not profitable while others who have had this at their core are closing. Total death drive shit.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

That first Spring day it is warm enough to leave the house in a T-shirt without bringing a coat or sweater after a long winter is great but also really disorienting… like, are those my arms? Outside?

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The Fort Pointer @fortpointer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

[MUST-READ includes summary of current proposal] Mass. races to regulate the "Wild West" of e-bikes and scooters… www.axios.com/local/boston...

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Mass. races to regulate the "Wild West" of e-bikes and scooters

State officials propose a new four-tier speed system to bring order to the growing wave of electric micromobility devices.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

“….as the TechTonic Justice researchers reported, “all 92 million low-income people in the U.S.…have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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We All Hate AI, but if You’re Poor, It Can Really Ruin Your Life

Debt collection. Parole decisions. Oversight of public services. It’s all being outsourced to AI, with terrible consequences for poor people.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trying to figure out why we still call them phones.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Really not sure how to teach a class when the president of this shit hole country is threatening to ‘end a civilization’ tonight.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Agree a ban is bad and should also point out proposing this kind of thing also trades on gross anti-immigrant and anti-working class sentiments given that these jobs are already incredibly exploitive and staffed largely by immigrant populations.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

One thing this moment of techbro AI takeover has taught me is that I like human writing and thinking—warts, mistakes, and all—so much more than smoothed out, no soul, LLM slop. Even in emails, even in texts, even in the smallest of writing tasks.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

So, @ehayo1on9.bsky.social & I have been receiving a wave of questions about a passage from Canvas's terms of use that we quoted in this essay from January. We did get a few questions about it then, but this surge coming months later makes me think somebody is doing some damage control. 1/

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The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.

All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 30/03/2026

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

So much this. That last part especially.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I cannot tell whether it is a failure to communicate these benefits well, or a kind of old school resistance to any change that seems to pervade Boston, or car culture (as in my original comment), or suspicion of governance (that it really can be wielded to improve peoples lives), etc etc.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Oh yes. I drive a car also and totally understand their continued necessity. Having followed these transit related fights for a while now it just continues to baffle that some folks are unable to see the massive benefit to all road users including, and maybe especially, drivers.

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Geoff Pfeifer @gdpfeifer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Wild how deeply ingrained car cultures are.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

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