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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Given the Manosphere / fascist "my dad can beat up your dad" energy out there, it's interesting to note that 71% of Democratic women think they could kick Trump's ass, and only 46% of Republican men think they can. The TDS of thinking Trump could even stand up to a stiff breeze is amazing.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Recent weeks has ASU teaching us about appropriate EdTech like the current regime has taught us about constitutional rights. This isn't how red teaming is supposed to be done.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I would be more enthused about this if it didn't fully misrepresent the work of my colleagues and I. Here's the link, if anyone wants to know what our white paper actually says: doi.org/10.33767/osf... Spoiler: It's not "Gen AI is okay-dokey as long as you acknowledge the down sides."

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Who else's canvas is hit? Maybe having a single university (or many, many universities and schools) centralized learning system isn't the security boon we imagine...

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Over the last week, everyone who knows I am on faculty at ASU has wanted to talk about ASU Atomic, a new effort to create "personalized learning modules" by cutting up existing course materials—including lecture videos—and reassembling them into AI-generated... alex.halavais.net/atomized-prof

A GenAI image of a monster prof created out of stolen video clips.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I propose that we call a word that is nearly a palindrome a "reverb."

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I don't know. Being spread thin also reduces the fucks I have to give about pissing people off. Zero fucks (which is what my license plate reads) is not a bad starting point for a fight.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu

The Coming Out of a Transgender Scientist

"I know that I am making the right decision because whenever I think about changing my gender role, I am flooded with feelings of relief."

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/03/2025

Incredible news on TDOV. The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

It’s time

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Katie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

California’s world-class public universities and promise to protect people’s rights should be an example for the rest of the country. But Trump is attacking both. I’m running for governor to stand up to his bullshit

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

"You’ve got to just band together and say an attack on one university is an attack on all universities. And maybe you lose that fight, but you’re certainly going to lose this one if you give up before you fight."

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Cartoonists Rights @cartoonistsrights.org · 23/03/2025

The full statement from the family of R.E. Burke clarifies that there were no grounds whatsoever for the British cartoonist to be detained by ICE for almost 3 weeks – she held a valid ESTA, had broken no rules or laws in the US, and was ready & able to return home. downthetubes.net/comic-creato...

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Comic Creator RE Burke: Her Visa Story

Full family statement after her welcome return to the UK

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Rep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Insulting. Navajo Code Talkers were American heroes whose unbreakable code helped carry the U.S. to victory in WWII and saved countless lives. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

X post by Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW
), featuring a verification badge. The post reads, "The USA is weird now. If you're a person under 30, you probably think it's normal but that's because you don't know. Trust me. It's weird."

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I was bummed when this came on the market for so much (let alone the costs to maintain it). I really wish ASU had bought it to use as a meeting space, but alas, no luck.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A 10-year-old U.S. citizen girl recovering from brain cancer, was detained at an immigration checkpoint while heading to an emergency medical checkup and promptly deported. Thanks to Trump and Musk. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

A child in a hospital bed, wearing a teal shirt with an uplifting message, surrounded by soft toys and cozy blankets.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Was looking for images of the X ddos, but all I can find is this...

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This includes reclaiming university as key to building better citizens, and not better employees. We need to prioritize intellectual investigation and critical thinking, even when that is uncomfortable.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I am concerned with efforts to out-simplify the right: embracing patriotism and simplistic solutions. We need to do the hard thing: Make America Less Stupid. Draping the left in the flag is easy. Encouraging critical thinking and raise the importance of improving intelligence.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This poster, which was designed in 1939 to be posted should an occupation occur, is available as an SVG on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fr...

"FREEDOM IS IN PERIL: DEFEND IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT"

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

This is our new deputy FBI director: internet troll threatening liberal "pussies" who are going to "find out" what comes next.

Post from Dan Bongino calling libs "pussies" who are going to find out what "comes next."

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

"... and the rules of the game are made from instant to instant by the arbitrary decree of the Queen. It is a world like this that the scientist must conform to in totalitarian countries, no matter whether they be those of the right or the left." - Norbert Weiner, 1950.

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Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies @ieet.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Red Accelerationism (R/acc) seeks to rapidly advance technology—AI, automation, and biotech—to dismantle capitalism and create a post-scarcity, post-labor society for all. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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AI Is Not the Enemy—Capital Is

Luddite Reactionary demands a return to the cave..

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DrJessieNYC @jessienyc.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Another great opportunity for #NiceWhiteLadies (incl those w/ freckles) to wake up!

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

If there is budget stalemate, they might not have to choose to do this...

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Federal workers should stage a massive strike, shut down the government, and push back on Elon‘s bullying.

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Sara Humphreys @saraventure.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ok. This site is a super cool way to inform and resist www.wethebuilders.org

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We are the builders

We find the truth and tell the truth

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

They've already fired a bunch of immigration judges and magistrates, right? I wonder if they would go after SCOTUS staff...

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

ATF has recently vastly decreased the processing time on licenses and tax stamps for NFA items (silencers, SBRs, etc.). If you reduce the ability to process those, it means a very noticeable effect on access by gun owners. Will be interesting to see how that is received.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Can we assume that Stephen Miller's "Operation Second Look" has verified that both the First Lady and Elon Musk at no point violated immigration law before obtaining their citizenship?

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Mixæl Laufer @mixaelslaufer.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Fuck... We have so much more work to do now. Please volunteer if you can; we need the people: fourthievesvinegar.org/join-us/ If you can't, you know, there's the other thing too, but I hate to ask... fourthievesvinegar.org/donate/

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Join Us!

We want YOU! (but not in a creepy way) We need a whole bunch of people for a whole bunch of things. If you have skills in science, technology, organizing, designing, posting, crocheting, or if you jus...

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

There needs to be a shadow reporting structure as a browser add-in.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

They have no honor. Celebrating Douglass is not because of his "immutable characteristics" unless indominatable will is one. The administration is evil but let's not excuse the craven cowards who comply.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I would really like to see some Democratic-affiliated think tank or strategy group start putting together a Roadmap for Reconstruction or Trump Accountability Project or some kind of concrete plan for how we rebuild the state capacity and legitimacy that's being gutted right now.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

it's so darkly fascinating that America is simultaneously doing: - Hooverism-Trussism-Milleism as econ - Showa era factionalism - NatCon driven social policy - 90s Russia stealing of the state by DOGE - 80s LatAm hybrid regime shit with law

Musk absurdly suggests his reforms can push economic growth to 5% next year (which requires tripling productivity growth in one year) and that this would add $1 trillion in additional growth tax revenues over baseline (it would bring in $180 billion). He's just making up numbers.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

To be fair, it is never healthy for Americans to look to their president with reverence, and few have been role models.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

NYT claims it "stands in support." It, and other legitimates mate news sources, can do so by pulling reporters free m the WH pool until AP is permitted to return.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#ValentinesDay, not just about romantic love. Copper engraving from the wonderful Le Centre de l’Amour (ca. 1687), a French emblem book on the subject of love. More here: buff.ly/2l3z2Yj

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I mean, this has to be the most Orwellian version of this process, right? Watching government sites engaged in widespread self-censorship is sickening.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

And not in the Web Archive :(. Someone needs to be doing some really heavy archiving right now. The oubliette widens.

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

FWIW, I don't get a correctable correction. BUT, if I search directly on Google it produces the Wikipedia pane for "Gulf of Mexico"--in a "private" window, I get the Wikipedia pane for "Gulf Coast of the United States."

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Alex Halavais @halavais.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Eldest was giving tours for prospective parents at his arts-oriented HS today and the common question came up "Is the school LGBTQ+ friendly?" To which the obvious answer is "Um, it's an arts school," but he admirably answers more directly. This isn't fascism, it's just fash-friendly...

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