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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Not often do we get prompted to really reread a classic like this with new eyes.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 13/09/2026

is this a rhetorical question? study after study shows that white people oppose their own economic interests if they believe advancing them will also help minorities and immigrants.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If McConnell resurfaces on Monday and sees his own shadow...

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Reading Ira Shor's work on 2-year community colleges in 1980 and it largely holds true of my 4-year regional state camps today

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 23/08/2026

In Gary, Indiana, without refrigeration insulin supplies are being spoiled, and people who depend on oxygen cannot pump it from their tanks due to lack of electricity. A public health disaster.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Started vol. II of Capital, and I've got to say, it's a weird decision on Marx's part to announce that all the events of vol. I were "just a dream."

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Just finished reading Capital, vol. I. I need some time to digest it, but it's an impressive document.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property... Laws of trespass are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that if the whole area of terra firma is owned by A, B and C, there will be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to exist."

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 15/07/2026

A new year, a new goal! Help us raise $180,000 before Rosh HaShanah for the Gaza Soup Kitchen, which provides food and medicine to thousands of displaced Palestinians each day.

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High Holy Days 5787 Tzedakah Campaign

By Gaza Soup Kitchen

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 03/05/2026

Damn y'all, we watched the first chapter of The Elements of Mutual Aid last night for May Day and it was incredible. Gather some friends and stream it now at www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0sp.... Additional chapters are being released weekly through the end of the month!

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Chapter 1: Fire | The Elements of Mutual Aid

YouTube video by The Elements of Mutual Aid

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Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We will make a new law.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 25/04/2026

i could really use some freelance work if anyone is looking to hire a web dev

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 18/04/2026

It's a mathematical probability engine. Not a thinking machine. The fact that everyone just keeps saying it's an thinking machine when it's just a spicy predictive text machine is the biggest marketing win of the century. youtu.be/0vvVo0Um1HY?...

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Amazon is regretting AI

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/04/2026

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

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Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity

Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

My new book is getting published!

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This capitalist and statist world is so intolerable

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 27/02/2026

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Somebody should buy Mamdani a copy of Travis Linnemann's _The Horror of Police_. archive.is/e3g8I

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

"Your freedom begins where mine begins, and ends where mine ends" -- yes, as opposed to the old liberal cliché that "Your freedom ends where mine begins, and mine begins where yours ends."

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This doesn’t even have to be about cheating. If you make it about what the tech companies are taking from all of us, you’ll be surprised how many students support no-tech policies.

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Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

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EmmaTK55 @emmatk.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s latest is a must read. She is one of the reasons I keep my NYT subscription. Democracy Dies by Database www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

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Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database

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Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/01/2026

I know you all love The Fartlantic today because of that one article but please try to remember that they played an instrumental role in the rise of fascism in the US and you do not, in fact, have to hand it to them.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Norman Solomon had Adams' number long ago.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

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Stephanie Feldman @sbfeldman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

SFWA is doing a survey on LLM use in the industry. You don't need to be a member to submit. Writers/artists/humans need all the advocates we can get, and I hope we can encourage SFWA to take a strong stance. www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...

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SFWA Survey on LLM Use in Industry - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association

Thank you for participating in this survey. The data collected here is preliminary, not definitive, but it will help to […]

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The president is about to start a war for no real reason. All of the things he has blamed on the country he’s targeting — fentanyl distribution, “emptying the asylums” and sending patients to the U.S., alignment with Tren de Aragua— are provably, obviously false. Lots of people are going to die.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

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Howard University AI Panel

YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley

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Wayno® @wayno.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Lynda Barry is a genius and a treasure. Her full page in today’s @nytimes.com is a perfect example.

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Opinion | The Real Horrors of America

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Did anyone record or make a transcript of Hortense Spillers' June 9, 2021 talk at the New School? fb.me/e/1rDQKo6x1

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Yes. This kind of persecution is unacceptable.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I think capital-S Stoicism is poisonous -- a doctrine for philosophical emperors and their submissive slaves, absolutely inimical to any kind of social justice. Lowercase-s stoicism is sometimes useful, though, for justice-seeking people trapped in Empires.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

In my reading, fiction and non-fiction, I am always looking for allies. I suppose that entails looking out for my enemies as well.

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Just wondering why I would want a technology whose "grandest promises" include destroying the need for human creativity and creating a new class of enslaved people trapped inside data centers controlled by oligarchs

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Do I know anybody who might be willing to speak to my two composition classes about their experiences as a worker and union member/organizer? Deets: ideally, you'd come in on Tuesday, Sept. 16, live or via Zoom, say about 10:30-11:15ish AM, if that's convenient. All dates and times negotiable.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It's telling that at the very moment the majority of the public starts to recognize that Israel is committing a genocide, Israel's last defenders only want to talk about Hamas.

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Jesse Cohn @jessecohn.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I keep hearing that the rule of law is dead, but new oppressive laws are being heaped up before my eyes. It is important to keep Wilhoit's Law in mind: lawlessness is for the powerful only.

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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I will entertain zero discussions about the environmental impacts of air conditioning until we deal with energy-obliterating scourge that is AI. People need to stay cool when it’s hot. What we don’t need are plagiarism machines flooding our lives with more lies and slop. And we can’t have both.

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