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Meechy Dorko @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.online · 18h

just had a beautiful vision of the state taking over Cornell and turning it into a SUNY campus

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We're All Going to the World's Fair I Saw the TV Glow Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

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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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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.

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Rev. Prof. Matthew J. M. Coomber @mjmcoomber.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“If only I could generate the social stigma of driving a Cyber Truck with a simple hand-held dev…”

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 14/09/2026

Some Dems are running away from trans people. Abdul El-Sayed, Dem Senate Candidate in Michigan, is running towards them. When asked, he fully and unequivocally support trans youth care as a matter between parents, patients, and doctors. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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"The Decision Ought To Be Between A Patient And Their Doctor," Says Michigan Senate Candidate El-Sayed On Trans Care

Even conservatives “agree that the decision about healthcare ought to be between a person and their provider,” El-Sayed said.

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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“As we act, let us not become the evil that we deplore” — 25 years ago today, Congresswoman Barbara Lee cast the sole vote against giving George W. Bush a blank check for war. Three days after 9/11, Lee warned Congress that it could “spiral out of control.” History has certainly proved her right.

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xatharine @xatharine.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This whole AI is going to kill humanity discourse is frustrating to see because measles and ectopic pregnancies and carbon-driven heat waves ARE killing us and we don't need super intelligence to save us. We just need to remove from power the people responsible for these unnecessary deaths.

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tomorrow! Tuesday, the 15th, the call for papers closes for the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference at UCRiverside!! Finish up your proposals— you cannot miss this fabulous hybrid conference: online or in person in California, in February!! studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...

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UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion - February 12-14,2027. The UCR Conference on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion (UCR-QTSR) is proudly celebrating its ninth year as the leading i...

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

What if Emily Dickinson came back like Fruma Sarah to attack ChatGPT for appropriating the em-dash

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

l’shanah tovah to all my beleaguereds and beloveds celebrating! To sweeter days ahead, so desperately needed

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

just a few more days until the call for papers for the annual Queer and Trans Studies in Religion conference at UCRiverside closes — on September 15! You can enjoy southern California in the winter or join us online! studyofreligion.ucr.edu/holstein-cha...

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Being a gay person of theatre experience, sometimes I have to remind myself that my life is not literally Les Miserables.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Get the laptops out of the classroom!! No internet!!! Print readings for the students! Use real books, pens, & paper! We are doing a “low-tech” classroom this semester, and just a week in, I can tell it has made all the difference

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maxel tov! @max3000.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

got four jobs again this semester lads 😩 anyone want to give me a single full-time job with benefits?

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

ok, hear me out all weekends are three-day weekends a few times a year employers get a five-day workweek, as a treat

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Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Remember when we teachers and professors used to tell our students not to use Wikipedia? Its standards are now higher than the many teachers and professors (and university admins) who promote the use of AI.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Good morning, periodic reminder that I have written and co-written a number of books etc. Some are here: www.haymarketbooks.org/authors/854-... - I see that a number of new people have followed me so I need to remember to share this more regularly.

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Mariame Kaba

Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian/archivist, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba co-leads I...

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Dr. Liz: Life in the Aftertimes @lgkatzphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If Hitchcock made films today.

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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I need an animated cartoon about Emerald and Ocean and all the hijinks they got up to 1,800 years ago in this massive Roman villa. 🏺🧪🐈🐕

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Stunning Roman-era mosaic discovered in Turkey features 'Emerald' the cat and 'Ocean' the dog

A cat named Emerald and a dog named Ocean were memorialized in a Roman mosaic over 1,800 years ago.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Has any technology been so AGGRESSIVELY sold to the public as AI? I can't think of any other example in my lifetime.

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cageyratfish (UTC-7) 🐟🏳️‍⚧️ @cageyratfish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

can we even say "sold" anymore when they're just shoving "AI" into everything we use without even giving us a chance to say no? this feels more like an invasion than a sales pitch. they're not selling a product. they want us to stop thinking for ourselves.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/09/2026

I often talk about how the narrative of an "AI race" is actually just a bunch of people aimlessly running without a plan for direction or destination, so thank you to China's robotics industry for this visual metaphor

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

What’s terrifying is these people telling us we need fo put their technology in education at all levels or perish

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I teach this as the essential first step in reading (what was sometimes called pre-reading previously) Indeed, very helpful!

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

this is a helpful skill for everybody! if you're reading humanities research: - read the intro - read the conclusion - identify the author's argument, what evidence they're using to support it, and why they think it matters - skim headers and topic sentences it's a word find, not a novel

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Ahana the Sun Goddess ☀️ 🌞 @antisanitygirl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

AI is not posthuman—it’s anti-human, and anti-animal and anti-plant and anti-earth. it’s anti-life.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

humanities education is for all, for the common good. we’re in the trenches these days, i know. but we keep doing the work of teaching our students how to imagine and build better worlds.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

BOSTON! It feels like we need to gather outside somewhere and belt out Dolly Parton songs together, so we’re doing exactly that on 9/25 (9 to 5!) in Davis Square. Spread the word and come sing with us!

Dolly Parton Tribute
Sept 25
5pm - 7pm
Statue Park
Davis Square
Somerville

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Was talking to a friend today about the value & lack thereof of citation metrics, not only about the ineffability of “impact factor” & the inability to account for impact on communities, but also, who still has a research-heavy position in the field to do any citing in the first place?

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/09/2026

We are told that humanities majors are dropping; hence universities don’t hire tenure line humanities faculty. Yet, computer science has lost colossal #s of majors; by the logic applied to humanities, one would expect a corresponding drop in tenure-line positions. But is this happening?

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

OpenAI is now facing more than 50 consumer harm and wrongful death lawsuits alleging that extensive use of ChatGPT resulted in psychological harm, physical injury, and even the deaths of users and/or those around them. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits

OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For OpenAI, settling wrongful death lawsuits is probably a line item in their budget, built into the business model

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Joseph A Marchal @jamarchal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

any other authors get an email notification about the Anthropic copyright settlement this afternoon?

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Tara Baldrick-Morrone @tbmorrone.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This makes me think of John Boswell's photo on the back of his 1980 book Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

A photo of a man wearing a white dress shirt with several buttons undone on the back of a paperback book

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 02/09/2026

"Should we mention the candidates' positions and ideology to better explain why this election went this way?" "No, this is political news, that would only confuse people"

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

Someday I hope to have more rights than AI generated child sex abuse material

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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 01/09/2026

in the 90s it was nearly impossible for an out trans woman to have a career in academia. thank god we have equality now (it is nearly impossible for anyone to have a career in academia)

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

DA Miller had his guns out waaaaaaaay before gay academic twitter

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/09/2026

AND ITS CALLED IN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES! Ed Markey, incumbent, beats the anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton in the primary race for Massachusetts Senate. Congressman Moulton had made targeting trans people part of his repertoire in the immediate aftermath of the 2024 election. He goes down.

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The Crossroads Project @xroadproj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We are excited to announce the new projects added to SPIRIT HOUSE, @xroadproj.bsky.social's gallery of work by Crossroads Project Fellows exploring Black religious histories, communities and cultures. The site, designed by @mpgphd.bsky.social, now hosts 48 projects. A thread of what's new:

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home. | SPIRIT HOUSE

SPIRIT HOUSE invests in and celebrates the richness and abundance of Black religions as they manifest through scholarly research, artistic expression, and community building.

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Judith Weisenfeld @jlweisenfeld.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Four years in the making! Check out the amazing projects hosted on the Crossroads Project's SPIRIT HOUSE website. I couldn't have done it without @mpgphd.bsky.social's expertise in design and public scholarship. She's accepting new commissions (and continuing in @xroadproj.bsky.social phase 2).

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Hot Take Saturday: I think we are on the cusp of a MASSIVE humanities revival. I’m talking handmade, craftsmanship, maximalism, art collection for everyday folks, rich music, unfettered written masterpieces, deep thought experiments…all in rejection of AI and our corporate overlords.

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