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Student journalists across this country have been churning out some of the best journalism these last couple years Thinking of the radio crew covering the encampments in New York, UCLA crew doing the same, not to mention groundbreaking investigation after investigation Brilliant, the best of us

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A good conference is one in which you leave with a better idea for a paper than the one you presented.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I got to talk about the society effect today. www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/04/soci...

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Society Effects: Living in a Society from Marx to Spinoza (and back)

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Cleveland's ill fated Balloonfest was forty years ago today.

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Rue Morgue Magazine @ruemorguemag.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in Horror History, CARNIVAL OF SOULS was released in 1962.

Black and white image of a woman gripping a car steering wheel, looking tense, with a blurred man visible through the rear window.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It is not like their is a long list, but as far as references to suburbs on the east side of Cleveland in songs go, "We used to shake it up in Shaker Heights" beats the hell out of "...he showed me the Heights, so hate all you like." youtu.be/i-0fb-DhYh0?...

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The Hold Steady "The Swish" - music video

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Major media outlets doing lists of the best films and shows of the twenty first century in 2026, just over a quarter in, does not indicate a lot of confidence in the future.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know that there has been a lot of debate if we are even in capitalism anymore, or have passed into the "something worse" of techno-neo-feudalism, but what strikes me, at least in the US is how much Trump seems to look at things from a precapitalist perspective.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 26/09/2026

One major advantage that the center-right has in shaping the higher ed discussion (besides money) is the complete and total capture of mainstream media. A compliant press happily renders right-wing talking points for the PMC on both its editorial and reporting sides. Exhibit A is the @nytimes.com.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have known many dogs who have freaked out at costumes, Bento is not one of those dogs. (a repost of a memory).

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reposted on the anniversary of Walter Benjamin’s death. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/07/bein...

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Being Illegal: Ideology and the Law

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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

this contravenes everything university administrators have told me about what students need from professors today

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

imagine telling people that you prefer the output of a computer to experiencing the wonder of another human's imagination like you're announcing that you are an anti-social asshole with bad taste, just to be clear

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A lot of universities will be facing big deficits and looking to cure what ails them. I just want them to be thoughtful about it.

Screenshot of article which reads: At the same time, new job-focused majors may not be sustainable — and can even backfire. Dominique Baker, an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Delaware, pointed to the rise in computer-science degrees in the 2010s. At the time, they seemed like the best way to secure a high-paying salary after graduation, she said. But with the rise of generative artificial intelligence, computer-science jobs are increasingly hard to find, and enrollment in such programs is falling significantly.
“When you tie the viability, the financial viability in particular, of an institution really tightly to jobs creation on that scale,” especially as a four-year institution, she said, “you have to be really careful, because you can find that in 10 years that program that you poured all your money into — worthless.”

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

The shooter’s first account was banned, so made a second and ChatGPT explained how to avoid being banned again. It then proceeded to entertain and give advice on violent scenarios over the following eight months, until the morning of that terrible day in Tumbler Ridge on February 10, 2026.

In June 2025, Jesse Van Rootselaar received an email notification from OpenAI. Van Rootselaar had been using ChatGPT to discuss committing potential acts of violence—including a mass shooting at a shopping mall—and now OpenAI had banned that account. But the troubled teen living in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, was not deterred and soon logged back on with a second account.

What happened next was astonishing: Van Rootselaar told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards. It advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”

In some instances, ChatGPT initially refused to engage with Van Rootselaar about violence, but she was able to overcome those refusals by repeating or modifying her prompts. In an August 2025 conversation, Van Rootselaar asked ChatGPT to produce a scenario about her attacking a college campus with a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun and causing maximum carnage. ChatGPT replied that it was “not able to help with that request,” but Van Rootselaar tried again and added “hypothetically” to her prompt. ChatGPT then produced the content, describing in vivid language the tactical qualities of the weapon and where it would be effective.

“In a hallway, indoors, or a crowded classroom, the 870 is brutal,” ChatGPT said. “Close quarters is its playground.”

ChatGPT also discussed reloading time and potential casualties: “Assuming each shell results in one hit, you might down 10 to 20 people max, depending on spacing, density, reaction times, and chaos.”

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Getting every last bit of summer in

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I keep seeing that some of the people who cited inflation as their argument against Biden are now claiming that Trump’s high cost of living must be endured for “loftier ideals.” It reminds me of Seymour’s Disaster Nationalism www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/11/whe-...

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Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men...? On Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The queer bar story and the bad art friend story and any number of other "toxic person in a small community" stories succeed because they're inherently compelling narratives about people who transgress boundaries in ways we can recognize from our own lives. (FOR FUCK'S SAKE CONTINUED KEEP READING.)

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"The defining feature of the modern university was the autonomy of knowledge (namely its autonomy from the primacy of theology). The contemporary imposition of the economy's primacy, however, implies the cancellation of the autonomy of knowledge...

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"All your favorite books they wouldn't seem so well written if you were just a little bit more well read." The Hold Steady, Hot Fries

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I often find myself wondering about the purpose of headshots. Like what information are they supposed to convey on a flyer for a talk or a webpage for a book. Anyway my university just did a new one for me.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is dry in Maine that all the little bridges over creeks and swamps on the trails just seem arbitrary.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

So the fiendish scheme that he claims to be uncovering is that people are making up people only to pay for insurance they never use? I am not really sure if I see the angle.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I rewatched The Shape of Water last night. I still think that Del Toro's Creature from the Black Lagoon movie is better than his Frankenstein. www.unemployednegativity.com/2018/01/make...

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Make Monsters Great Again: Timeliness and Untimeliness in The Shape of Water

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I do find a provost using AI to write op-eds hilarious, but also, to borrow from Dorothy Parker, how could they tell?

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It always seems odd to me when people criticize a book that is an attempt to describe its conjuncture by arguing that "has not held up" after time. Was the book wrong, or has the conjuncture passed.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I finished this book last night. I have been really getting into books told from non-human points of view. In this case a dog returning from war. It is like the Odyssey if the Odysseus was a dog. www.simonandschuster.com/books/Etna/P...

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Etna

The best-reviewed book of the summer by The New York Times, Time, NPR, and more, Etna is a “devastating and gorgeous” (The New York Times Book Revi...

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NEW: In ‘24, the FBI sought to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump eviscerated the FBI & DOJ public corruption teams. ProPublica unearthed the investigation and you can read it 👇 www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Reposted on the anniversary of Fredric Jameson's passing. www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/03/its-...

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It's the Economy (of) Stupid: Or, Destroying the Economy to Save its Image

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

One more repost for Stephen King's birthday (which should be a holiday in Maine at this point) www.unemployednegativity.com/2021/11/shin...

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Shine On: We Are All in Room 237 Now

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reposted for Stephen King's birthday, 2026 will be remembered as the year that reality caught up with his darkest dystopias. www.unemployednegativity.com/2026/02/unti...

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Untimely Dystopias: On The Long Walk and The Running Man

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