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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This morning I read about “AI firms gambling with our lives,”then this about the Thiel-backed “truly global defense company” whose “mission was to deliver a strategic weapon affordably in huge quantities to help the west deter its adversaries,” and that’s enough for today, tyvm

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Thiel-backed start-up to mass-produce ‘deep strike’ missiles in Europe and US

Covenant to open factories in US, Germany and Israel as it looks to disrupt market for long-range weapons

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’d like some investigation into the class element of this. What parents can afford to buy these for their kids and which kids have the money to buy them (or dupes as the article mentions below) for themselves?

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

@theathleticfc.bsky.social guys it seems like the headline writers are phoning it in a bit!

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Liberal Studies Program at CUNY GC @liberalstudiesgc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Incoming MALS students: Mandatory Fall 2026 group advising sessions are Aug. 11 & 12. Attend one session and complete the MALS Student Questionnaire to register and have your advising hold lifted. Registration links + questionnaire are in our bio. See you there!

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"While the letter, unlike the earlier compact, makes no explicit threats, comments from members of the administration have made clear that the penalties for non-cooperation remain." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

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Linda McMahon’s Trojan Horse (opinion)

Don’t kid yourself: This administration is not letting up its attacks on higher ed.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Avignon FIFA

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 01/07/2026

The collective journalistic freakout over someone disliking a cafeteria sandwich at Oberlin or some Yale students asking their peers to be less racist at Halloween has generated far more copy and uproar than multiple universities illegally firing faculty for nonconservative speech they disliked.

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U Tennessee to Pay Millions to Prof Fired for Kirk Comments

The University of Tennessee System will pay $1.9 million to settle a lawsuit brought by a former professor who was fired for comments she made about the late conservative pundit Charlie Kirk, Knox New...

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It's not creativity, collaboration, or productivity, it's fragility at the leadership level: "Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/o...

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Opinion | The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of the Week

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Susan @suziqleathers.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Fck Data Centers!!

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/06/2026

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."

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Doc Sportello ❌👑 @digyoursoul.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Michigan just permanently protected 73,000 acres of land in the Upper Peninsula and opened it to the public. The deal, which was 5 years in the making, protects the land from habitat fragmentation and oil and gas exploration www.mlive.com/environment/...

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Michigan permanently protected 73k acres in the U.P. and secured public access

$20 million conservation deal protects wolf, moose and brook trout habitat while opening the land to hunting, fishing, hiking and off-road recreation.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

AOC: This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 20/05/2026

“We need a powerful people’s movement to fight for the strong safeguards that American workers, the American public & the world will need to protect against the vast potential dangers of AI.”

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

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Intellectual Publics @intellpublics.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended "Writing & Publishing Now: Strategies for Turbulent Times" and made the event so special. In particular thanks to Kandice Chuh & Ken Wissoker for sharing their insights, advice and experience! We are excited to share the recording and will post here once it is up.

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Constantly looking at the job market and wondering what direction your life can possibly take is so toxic. The pressure starts in grad school and doesn't end... perhaps most especially for folks who end up permanently contingent (many people know they might be). www.chronicle.com/article/high...

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How the Higher-Ed Workplace Fuels Addiction

Career pressures and culture fosters substance abuse that can stay hidden.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 17/05/2026

Well, it happened. A client disregarded my advice about using generative AI and guess what? It gave them bad advice AND the judge ruled that by using it, Client waived confidentiality and ordered us to turn a bunch of private stuff over. STOP USING GENERATIVE AI FOR LEGAL THINGS. I BEG YOU.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/05/2026

if i was going to give a college commencement speech i would make sure to start with something the students could rally behind. something like "we will mechanically suck the youth from your bones to feed a mechanical eschaton, which my generation will use to climb heaven and become new gods"

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New York Mets @mets.com · 17/05/2026

SUBWAY SERIES SECURED IN QUEENS 🗽 #LGM | #MetsWin

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

unfurling a "white replacement" banner should get you permabanned from MLB stadiums

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Since redistricting and the VRA are rightfully getting attention, here‘s info about prison gerrymandering. If unfamiliar, prisoners are counted as part of population of area in which they are held captive and not where they’re from, despite felony disenfranchisement. www.prisonersofthecensus.org

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Prison Gerrymandering Project

Legal and factual research to support advocacy campaigns to end prison-based gerrymandering focusing on the Census Bureau, and state and local redistricting.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I don’t think Americans with hypertension and various other treatable conditions deserve to die. Sorry to get so partisan, but that’s how I feel.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

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Mamdani Win Could Be The First Step Towards Seizing The Means of Knowledge Production

Let CUNY socialize EdTech for all of us.

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Seven master's programs and five advanced certificate programs have June 1st deadlines, and two master's programs have June 15th deadlines. There's still time to apply to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for Fall 2026! #CUNY @cuny.edu www.gc.cuny.edu/admissions-a...

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Application Deadlines and Requirements

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David Bowie News @davidbowienews.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

David Bowie as Jareth the Goblin King in Labyrinth.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/05/2026

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A further certificate program, Film and Media Cultures, has extended to June 1st. Questions about programs, applying, or anything else? Contact us admissions@gc.cuny.edu and we'll be happy to assist.

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🚨DEADLINES ALERT🚨master's programs in Black, Race, & Ethnic Studies, @gcdatavis.bsky.social, @gc-dh.bsky.social, & International Migration Studies have 5/1 deadlines. A number of other @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social master's & certificate programs have 6/1 deadlines: www.gc.cuny.edu/admissions-a...

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger. Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality. They own the digital infrastructure of thought

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"Old Man Sleeping," c. 1640-42, by Flemish painter David Ryckaert III

Painting of an old bearded man in the foreground sleeping, his head tipped to the left onto a pillow resting on a surface, another figure yawning in the background

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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 24/04/2026

@mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social proved himself a champion of students, faculty and staff once again today when he vetoed Intro 175-B. Read our full statement here: psc-cuny.org/news-events/...

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Fortunately (or un-), the next @psc-cuny.org + CUNY contract will be up for negotiation sooner than later. What do you want to see in it? How can we make bargaining more participatory, in a meaningful way? Come chat with fellow union members next Friday! bit.ly/TownHall424

A yellow and red flyer with a bull horn that reads:

You are invited to a PSC-CUNY Contract Town Hall

April 24, 6-8pm
WOW Cafe Theatre, 59-61 4th Street, 4th Floor

Let’s not wait until the current contract expires to start building for the next one.

RSVP at bit.ly/TownHall424

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

"As institutional leadership drifts towards anticipatory obedience [to tech evangelism], students will begin to reconstruct education around the living, embodied world of meaning and experience they feel has been stolen from them." We can only hope. @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/high...

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Higher Ed Is at a Turning Point. 11 Scholars Predict What’s Next.

AI, enrollment, finances, politics, and the turbulent road ahead.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

"People want to be known for what they do, and that becomes their only identity. That is who they are. You are your job, you are your position, or you are your clothes... In order to do that, one's interior life must be hollow, truly frail." Well, damn, Toni Morrison, lol.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I guess this is why it's so hard to see Ivy League universities cut deals with the administration or the NYT frame every single political issue as a good faith debate between two equivalent sides. Your whole existence depends on not living in an authoritarian state. Act like it.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The media and academia have an obligation to not remain neutral in the face of authoritarianism. These institutions need liberal institutions to exist in any meaningful way. Authoritarianism is an existential threat. Our devotion to "neutrality" will keep us from fighting for our own survival.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 25/02/2026

AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

first in my line of critical universi-tees

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I'm currently poisoned, restrained, and grappled, which sounds like it could be hash brown order at Ye Olde Waffle House. #DnD

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Gerry Martini @gerrymartini.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"What emerged was not simply that AI reinforces cultural norms or ideological polarization. It also amplifies personal traits and disguises them to look like professional best practices." @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/ai-s...

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Opinion | AI Sycophancy Is Making Academic Bureaucracy Worse

What happens when our technology consistently tells us we’re right?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

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