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Sy Islam

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PhD IO Psychology, professor, people analytics consultant www.talentmetrics.io

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19h
some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 9h
Pew tested AI synthetic surveys against actual survey data. Conclusion: “This experiment taught us that, at this time, AI models are not an adequate replacement for traditional polling on topics of broad public importance.” This is an all time bad idea. No need to hedge with “at this time.”
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Can AI Stand In for Human Survey-Takers? Not Really
Synthetic surveys using digital twins do a poor job estimating the public mood and are especially error-prone for some subgroups, including Republicans and Black adults.
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Odie Henderson @ NYFF @odienator.bsky.social · 13h
Whenever I'd get stuck on a coding problem, I'd say in my best James Earl Jones voice: "Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe. Crucify him!"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 14h
This a perfect little clause summing up our very very strange times. "to learn how Anthropic — which could be valued at $2 trillion — might apply centuries of human moral wisdom to its models, as rapidly as possible" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Good morning 🌞 I really need coffee ☕️
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Sy Islam @iosyislam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Subway takes doing #iopsych takes now youtube.com/shorts/3KhA0...
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Employees don't want pizza parties, we want the day off once in a while!! @bklynjamila
YouTube video by SubwayTakes with Kareem Rahma
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Dr. Rachel Boehm, PhD @rbstrategies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hey #iopsych ppl and #leadership #business ppl. We launched a Beyond the Research podcast: lnkd.in/eGSbtUFY And if you are short on time, we do have shorts! #consultingpsychology #leadershipdevelopment #teamdevelopment #organizationaldevelopment
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: Meta found a way to turn massive data centers into “pilot models” and cash in on a 1980s tax credit. The result? Meta avoided nearly $4 billion in taxes last year alone. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Counterpoint: It would be great if people read some of the things that have been written about AI surveillance of workers! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilke... www.cambridge.org/core/books/q... www.ucpress.edu/books/uberla... jacobin.com/2026/09/amaz...
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Data Driven
A behind-the-scenes look at how digital surveillance is affecting the trucking way of life
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I suspect there is a lot of extrapolation from one’s own work experience to other domains being trafficked in the concept of “white collar” and “professional services” and to a lesser extent in “productivity”.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The gaps between job roles, job descriptions, and the work people actually do is pretty vast. I don’t mean the work that the procurement person who hires vendors does. I mean the work that people do across orgs.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I research teachers' work. There is a known gap between public perception and the actual day-to-day experience of teaching that sociologist Dan Lortie poetically described as coming from "the apprenticeship of observation." This imagination/reality gap creates lots of problems in ed policy.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Sy Islam @iosyislam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Mahmoud Khalil on his detention by ICE: 'It is a stain on the U.S. consciousness'
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On.
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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We are now TWO weeks away from the release of Serling, still available for preorder wherever books are sold: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alan-...
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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I struggled to finish reading this important and horrifying reporting www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Toronto Man @fucklandlords.com · 27/09/2026
no race or class discussion just straight to hating your boss more than anything else in the world
Office Space cast
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Sy Islam @iosyislam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Get him to the Greek which in retrospect is a cursed movie full of bad people
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Jonah Hill's Scared Reaction in Get Him To The Greek
ALT: Jonah Hill's Scared Reaction in Get Him To The Greek
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This story brought me back to Kara, one of the mothers in my book, There Is No Place for Us. She was homeless with her four kids while driving for DoorDash. They had to pee in bottles so bathroom stops wouldn't make her late. After gas, she earned $6.50 an hour—75 cents less than the minimum wage.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I could do this all day, but you get the point(s). Trust in higher ed ≠ trust in Ivy Leagues. Budgets are moral documents and if you want to examine trust in higher ed, look at how states prioritize public higher education.
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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can workplace democracy exist in practice or do democratic organisations inevitably devolve into new hierarchies? @timchristiaens.bsky.social argues channels for plebeian contestation from below are needed to withhold the formation of new hierarchies. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/c0RacFk #polsky #polsci
Abstract
Worker cooperatives are often lauded as the ideal institutional form of workplace democracy. While the traditional firm subjects workers to hierarchical authority, cooperatives establish workers as owners and managers of their own venture. However, since 1911 Robert Michels popularised the phrase of an “iron law of oligarchy” to argue how nominally democratic institutions, like worker cooperatives, often fall back into hierarchical patterns. I claim that this criticism against workplace democracy is based on a misreading of Michels’ philosophy and a misrepresentation of today’s empirical research on cooperative management. Both present worker cooperatives as hybrid institutions torn between oligarchic and democratic pulls. By counterbalancing tendencies towards a concentration of power at the top with countervailing institutions that help rank-and-file workers contest managerial decision-making, worker cooperatives can safeguard themselves against degeneration and the iron law of oligarchy. This proposal of instituting workplace democracy through constant anti-hierarchical conflict, I call “plebeian cooperativism."
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My latest paper in Political Studies 👇 how can worker cooperatives retain a democratic culture if there are pressures to re-establish managerial hierarchies?
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 25/09/2026
So many low-wage workers ALREADY had to work until they died; this economy, wages failing to keep pace with inflation, and the widening wealth gap make this even worse.
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She Leaves Home Before Dawn to Get to Her Low-Wage Job. She’s 83.
Salud Garcia’s struggles echo those of millions of low-wage workers across the nation, where mounting costs erode their already precarious footing.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A new trailer for Alex Gibney's documentary about Elon Musk was just released. gizmodo.com/elon-musk-do...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I think the "debate" about bringing iced coffee to job interviews is effective at distracting people from the really bad job market, the high unemployment rate for Black women, ongoing mass layoffs in tech and media, and how Gen Z workers are refusing to adopt many toxic aspects of corp work culture
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
you guys broke watergate
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Sy Islam @iosyislam.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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What painter Sliman Mansour told NPR about Palestinian rights and art before he died
Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour spent his life painting the faces and landscapes of Israeli occupation. His sons say NPR was the last media to meet him before he died in August.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New ACLU and Amnesty International report on repression on American campuses www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
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How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Jeffrey Saltzman (he/him) @hineni24.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Trust has become one of the most valuable yet at-risk assets that organizations possess, as employees are increasingly skeptical in today's world. So how do leaders build and sustain trust in this...
Trust has become one of the most valuable yet at-risk assets that organizations possess, as employees are increasingly skeptical in today's world. So how do leaders build and sustain trust in this env...
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
These refugees have been stuck on base for 5 years. You may have read that the administration tried to repatriate them to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They've also been facing missile attacks from Iran. Our govt has set a Sept. 30 deadline for dealing with them. afghanevac.org/cas-facts
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CAS Facts — #AfghanEvac
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I work with Afghan immigrants in Virginia. Thousands were promised visa, vetted, and ready to come to America after our military pulled out and the Taliban retook the country. The Trump administration ended this last year. This includes the 1039 Afghans stuck at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hi folks. If you saw this, you know the administration plans to only accept white South Africans next year. Tomorrow is Congress's formal say before the determination is signed. Please check this brief thread on why I'd like you to speak out for the Afghan people still in limbo...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026
We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.” This is what Microsoft’s director of applied science had to say about training their AI model on copyrighted content from our newsroom and many others, according to new docs revealed during our lawsuit against the company.
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AI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”
Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 22/09/2026
"more spending on AI tokens means less money left for salaries and so—even without any clear sign that AI uptake is paying off—employers are forced to weigh AI against their own workers." www.theideasletter.org/essay/syndic...
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Syndicalist Valley
The tech-worker movement that emerged in the 2010s has been transformed by layoffs, higher interest rates, and the enormous investment flowing into AI, which have eroded the bargaining power of…
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Frankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 18/09/2026
I’m on NPR’s Code Switch this week talking about the trans panic that’s hit the WNBA. You can listen here:
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Why can’t people be normal about the WNBA? : Code Switch
The WNBA is more popular than ever, but the growth has come with a lot of unwanted attention, like protests at games and death threats directed towards players. This week, we talk with independent jou...
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New Interview: I talked to the analyst Jaser AbuMousa about what life is like in Gaza today, and the devastation of his own family. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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What Life Is Actually Like in Gaza Today
Nearly a year after the ceasefire in Gaza, the analyst Jaser AbuMousa explains the impediments to rebuilding, and the devastation of his own family.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”
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Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See
5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.
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Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
From here, good reporting! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law despite public call for climate truth Carney is no environmentalist (despite the flood of ads he puts out that lead us to believe the opposite) www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...
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Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law despite public call for climate truth
Most Canadians want the federal government to do more about climate disinformation, especially during extreme weather, new research shows, even as the Carney government scraps Canada's laws against gr...
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's #BatmanDay, so in preparation for #TheDayofDredd on 3 October why not grab a copy of his greatest crossover ever – when he meets the ultimate lawman of the future... 2000ad.com/news/the-bat...
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price
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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ISAAC CHOTINER: well mr. cruise, im impressed. you've given me absolutely nothing TOM CRUISE: [weirdly aggressive handshake] its been a pleasure. what was the name of that series you mentioned? ISAACH CHOTINER: dragonball z TOM CRUISE: goku, right. excellent, thanks for having me
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