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Glad someone else remembered this.

Apparently Burnham hasn’t seen the analysis suggesting Everton were the team to lose out the most from City’s malfeasance 🙄

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Isabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 5h

In 2023, Change.org integrated an AI-assisted writing tool into their platform. We found that access to the tool changed platform trends in petition text, but that outcomes (signatures and comments) did not improve... Excited that this paper is out, check it out! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Introducing AI to an online petition platform changed outputs but not outcomes - Nature Human Behaviour

Corpus et al. examine how the introduction of an AI writing tool impacted Change.org petitions, finding that it increased petition homogeneity but did not improve petition outcomes.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 6h

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 6h

1) my wife wanted me to make this recipe: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/7570... 2) she also does the bulk of the grocery shopping 3) she ALSO believes vanilla yogurt is always and without exception an improvement over plain. Fortunately we were able to work out a substitute 😂

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Pili Pili Shrimp with Braised Cannellini Beans (Published 2025)

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 8h

Grateful, as always, to get the covid & flu vaccines before the season really takes a turn. One of em, I will say, is a sore one this year. As ever, it’s infuriating that we can’t get the combo covid/flu jab here in the States.

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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"humans will use these responsibly" no they wont. humans do not use a single goddamn thing responsibly. are you a fucking idiot

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I talk to my parents every Sunday, and they always ask after the 23yo. This week, I had nothing particular to report (they would not be interested in recapping soccer banter). My mother TEXTED THE 23yo HERSELF to say “your dad didn’t have enough updates, what is going on” This feels very chaotic

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Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Working on some slides and uh whatever algorithm is running the powerpoint design suggestions has taken a *dark* turn

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trying to comprehend the self-delusion required to accuse a literal genius grant recipient of “engagement farming” on a platform with about 150 people.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m not going to say I’m ‘proud’ of Copilot, but considering all the things it openly refuses to do I can’t believe it took this webinar email and successfully made a calendar event for it. (It could not, however, either extract the URL from the email nor, despite offering, edit the event.)

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Ice is ai, ice is facial recognition" goes so hard

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We used to observe the onset of the holiday season with tons of catalogs; now there’s just a subtle change in the tenor of insta ads. Both are crass commercialism, but only one feels like it’s actively monetizing your year of bad choices.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don’t know why insta even bothers to recommend songs to go along with stories if every time I post one of Beckett the rec is boygenius “Me and My Dog”

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Is it too late to sue Richard Hughes?

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am confused by people saying “City’s fans trusted the club.” What? The club’s defense has been “Fck you, the evidence is real but is time-barred or stolen.” They do not protest their innocence but rather the Prem’s ability to punish them. Trusting them *means* supporting cheating.

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Neil Atkinson @knoxharrington.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's very important to make the argument City shouldn't be relegated but should be expelled. The EFL should get to choose whether it takes them and at what tier. The bad faith dealings have impacted many sides that are currently EFL teams.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hard to beat academic hotel room interviews

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Justice is delayed is justice denied, but it is still funny as all get out

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Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The MLA Framework for AI-Resilient Assessment and Grading is now public! It offers guidance for human-centered assessment cultures that support motivation, validity, agency, & connection. Grateful to have helped create it with the @mlanews.bsky.social AI & Pedagogy Working Group:

Screenshot of the first paragraph of the framework

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Sam @sammc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

nasa employee: oh hey you guys are back early astronaut: moon's tasty

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Jeff Dubner @dubner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's time for 'p(doom) or MF DOOM'. As always, you'll be asked to decide whether a phrase is a lyric from rapper MF DOOM, or the mad ramblings of a Rationalist thinkfluencer. Today's first question: Who defined 'super-villain' as 'One who is well-skilled in destruction, as well as building'?

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I would say this differently, that institutions should think carefully about who their students are and what their culture is/aspires to be, and go from there. Many schools would do well to default to “no.” Other schools will feel like it’s “all-in or bust.” Students will largely find their home.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

How can you tell if it’s an international break in soccer? The Athletic: We got you

Why are footballers allowed to wear such small shin pads?

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Me: why am I tired? My Messages app: “look at that timestamp, ya dummy”

Screenshot of an eero timestamp at 4.19am

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There is a Reddit user who made went 🏺 to the Met and polycam 3D scanned various Greek amphorae. Now they are making one to scale completely out of gingerbread. This is truly delectable reconstructive archaeology. www.reddit.com/r/blender/s/... Greeks did love imported ζιγγίβερις from India!

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From the blender community on Reddit: we used blender to make a greek vase out of gingerbread

Explore this post and more from the blender community

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.

A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/09/2026

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

Free-text evaluation of answers to character modeling and constrained generation questions. This is just one of several scores Chronologic-EN can produce; we focus on it here because it's both the hardest test and the one most relevant to simulation of the past. Frontier models reach 72%; Talkie-1930 is stronger than several larger competitors, but not at the frontier by this measure. Note that this score has improved ~45% in the last two years, but still falls perceptibly short of ground truth.

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Bill Childs @billchilds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also here’s that video of Sleater-Kinney and Liz Phair covering Elastica that you might not have realized you were looking for, but you were: youtu.be/oAnYhz0N9Y4?...

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Liz Phair & Sleater Kinney "Connection" (Elastica Cover) LIVE | Boston, MA | September 21, 2026

YouTube video by Concerts Hub

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 22/09/2026

I’m surprised that instead of “renaming” Artificial Intelligence to “Super Intelligence” he didn’t just assert that from now on the “A” in “AI” will stand for “American”.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tfw you’re listening to a Liverpool-related podcast and the presenter has to interrupt and ask “are you saying flaw or floor?”

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also, if your ad blocking went to hell with iOS 27, go into Settings: WiFi and turn off Connectivity Assist 🤦‍♂️

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Unclear whether the league or the referees are higher on their own supply www.nytimes.com/athletic/761...

The Premier League believes that its product is the best to watch because of the way it is refereed. Fewer free kicks and

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The new watchOS may be the worst software product Apple has ever shipped.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is no way on god’s earth people spent time with Khanmigo and concluded it produced some of the strongest benefits for learning.

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Amazon has already lost a lawsuit about this, when they blocked Perplexity’s agentic browser. Keep suing until you find the right venue, ig

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pleased to mention that Exit Party, Emily St John Mandel’s brand-new one, absolutely slaps (as expected)

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Heyyyyyy … we’re in the Europa league places 💪🤦‍♂️

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oliver having his worst game this season, inclusive of the Manchester derby

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Warnock: “all Isak does is score—this goal is Gakpo’s” 🤭

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I guess the one thing you could say, if you were scraping the barrel, is that last year we’d have found a way to concede in that half

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Bournemouth camera angles are so bad Oliver missed an obvious corner

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What the hell is going on in City - Sunderland?

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Michael Oliver doing Michael Oliver things again I see

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