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I hope @velshi.com devotes some time to this. That 1-hour format seems to be digging into his book conversations. (One exception was Exit Party a few days ago.) #BannedBooks #reading #libraries

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 4h

Then somebody asked, “Which article made sure you never subscribed to The Atlantic?” And I said,

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 14h

BTW my favorite bit player in this was Joanne Jordan, recognizable from about a million TV episodes #Loophole #NoirAlley #TCMParty en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_...

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Joanne Jordan - Wikipedia

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 14h

I hate to interrupt the movie finale but holyyyy… White male exec resigns from #OpenAI, maybe now y’all will listen to the women forced out of #BigTech?

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 15h

It’s always the same time of day in that police station, if the light from the Venetian blinds is any indication… #Loophole #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 15h

Saxophone alert! Femme fatale CONFIRMED! And twice as blond as Dorothy Malone ever was! #Loophole #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 15h

I’ll admit I wasn’t ready for a brunette Dorothy Malone. #Loophole #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters

The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Eavesdropping Meta #glasses won't be any more popular than panopticon Meta glasses. One hopes. But they're gonna keep trying, one wearable at a time—so stay alert. As Mike says (slight spoiler), Meta has long since lost our #trust. So why trust this tech? That's rhetorical, don't go there.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm fascinated from afar by the Manhattan Institute, home away from home for John McWhorter and such.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can magazines be hanged in effigy? Let’s try it on The Atlantic.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My dad had the same “best fork in the house” and now I’ve got one, but it’s not the fork he had. His is lost in the mists of time…

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sharing because it's Python-esque (as in Monty Python, youngsters) and I think this Pope would be down with it. (I don't get an AI vibe but correct me if need be)

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David Chapel: Creation of Adam Fist Bump

Alt: David Chapel: Creation of Adam Fist Bump

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AGAIN, we told the Nikki Haleys, Vivek Ramaswamys, Harmeet Dillons, Usha Vances, et. al where their white adjacency games would lead to. The majority of Desi Americans understand the reality. They understand Wilkerson's "Caste" and how a familiar system works here. These outliers?

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Indiana Jones: You Have Chosen Poorly

ALT: Indiana Jones: You Have Chosen Poorly

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

She brings it on herself, every time

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

“Users will soon be able to engage, for instance, with Count Dracula’s rat-eating manservant, Renfield, through a new interactive story.”

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Audible Will Soon Let You Use AI to Talk to a Book Character - CNET

Amazon's audiobook service is rolling out new AI-powered features to make listening to stories more interactive.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Irony has arisen from the dead, if you recall that 1984 was one of the ebooks Amazon recalled back in 2009. They just can’t help messing with Orwell.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/10/2026

Ahead of a pivotal midterm election defined by concerns around surging rent and gas prices, student debt is emerging as an affordability issue some voters say is being overlooked.

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Soaring Student Loan Bills Add to Voters’ Affordability Squeeze

More than 9 million Americans are at least one year behind on their payments.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last month, “a 20-year-old Haitian man in Springfield, Ohio, walked into oncoming traffic after the Trump administration ended his Temporary Protected Status and ICE fitted him with an ankle monitor.” His name was Pierre Damas Bel.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Data center construction has migrated to places of low resistance: poor, often Black areas where corrupt deals are commonplace and the harms to residents invisible. Lowndes County, Alabama, in the heart of the Black Belt, is one of those places. 🧵 prospect.org/2026/10/01/d...

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‘I Know I Couldn’t Live Here’: Standing Up to a Data Center in Alabama’s Black Belt - The American Prospect

Faced with little transparency about a mammoth facility, Lowndes County fights back.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

"There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction." WOW. 🥹 Grateful to The IMPACT Magazine for the kindest profile of #TheDoubleTax and me. Black-owned media FTW. #blacksky

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The Cost of Being a Black Woman in America Is More Than a Pay Gap: Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Is Measuring the Double Tax

There are economists who study numbers, and then there are economists who ask what the numbers are hiding. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman has built her work around that distinction. A doctoral candidate …

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’ve often used the word “unethical” and I may have to reconsider

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"For many Black scholars, academia is a burning house. If we cannot extinguish that fire, Black scholars will always bear a greater risk of being burned–& therefore have to insulate themselves against the risk more than others." @cydneydupree.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/blac...

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Black academics face extra scrutiny. Our research shows its consequences

Scholars of colour told us they engage in strategies to make it harder for them to be dismissed as biased or lacking rigour, says Cydney Hurston Dupree

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Of all the OP replies, this one is cracking me up. I think it’s the neutral journalism tone of “Many commenters are saying…”

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don’t always think of creative writing and Harvard Medical School together, but when I do… a thread 🧵

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lately I've been thinking a lot about Terry Pratchett's "Reaper Man" and AI. He was so ahead of his time in so many ways - or maybe squarely in his time but so many missed the very obvious signposts of where we were heading. Gonna be spoilers in this thread for a 25-year old book.

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The senator isn't even taken out of context. No "gotcha" here. Anyone in #academia #HigherEd who saw their research grants, budgets, campus websites, and job titles change throughout 2025-2026 gets what Scott is saying. The "AI Accord" is now in the driver's seat.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.

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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We shouldn't be surprised at the Newspeak at this point, but let's see how our campuses handle #superintelligence. Will this go as well as #DEI changes did in 2025?

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Accord” is often used in diplomatic circles… 🧐🤔

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Important to know re: media and press about #AI, especially for educators trying to navigate all this with their students

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

they should invent a google maps integration that detects if you're trying to run errands when a nearby school is letting out and slaps you in the face

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You went to law school specifically so you could hold a nonsense placard behind a jetski dealer, in the hopes of maybe, one day, getting the bribes he gets

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely the worst campaign message I’ve ever seen

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

#AcademicSky, it would be interesting to ask the athletes in your classes what they think of the attempt to regulate them in the Kalshi era. #ShesWorkingHerWayThroughCollege #sports #athletics #HigherEd

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Randi’s Bluesky staffers must know that educators remember her AI deals…

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 29/09/2026

Opinion | Political cartoonists are a dying breed, with publications slowly waiting for them to leave before bricking up the door behind them, writes New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/c...

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We cartoonists are a dying breed. It's a canary in the coalmine for a dysfunctional democracy

As New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield writes, staff cartoonists used to be the only ones in the building paid to point at the building. Everyone else eventually answers to the owner, but they…

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George S @harmonygritz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Your #campus probably has a #BasicNeeds office (or similarly worded equivalent) and they already knew this was coming

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