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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me: (driving car into wall) My car has gone rogue! Me: (dropping phone into tub) My god, my phone has gone rogue! Me: (tripping over table) The table! It's gone rogue!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think of the climate harm AI poses the same way: the threats are not theoretical or in the future, but unfolding all around us now.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The extreme societal inequality to dumb elites pathway…

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful.

Review process

As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking.

This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it.

Feedback on your application

Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Nichole Hiltz
The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This case is particularly alarming for several reasons, not only because it's illegal to deport anyone for political speech—the First Amendment protects everyone, not just citizens—but because ICE has become an ideological police. Columbia faculty should be rioting over this.

Quote tweet: Columbia Professor Shai Davidai collaborated directly with the Trump administration to get Mahmoud detained by ICE. We have been begging everyone to understand the severity of these doxxing campaigns. Campus zionists can literally call the shots on what happens to us.

Shaiu Davidai: Dear @SecRubio
,

Thank you for your strong statements.

Now we want to see strong action.

Illegally taking over a college in which you are not even enrolled and distributing terrorist propaganda should be a deportable offense, no?

Because that’s what Mahmoud Khalil from @ColumbiaSJP
did yesterday at @BarnardCollege

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s wild to me that 6 years ago people were absolutely apoplectic about schools using Zoom. They INSISTED that schools needed to be open, despite the health risks, because it was so important for kids to be in traditional classes. Now they are promoting this.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

First off, there have been 5 measles deaths (3 last year, 2 so far this year). That aside, it is medical fact there are not 1.2 million deaths from "food-induced illness" whatever TF that means. In fact, most of the food-induced illness, like dying from #Cyclospora in #lettuce, is from...you

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Norzola @norzola.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Pro-zionist bias in report. "amongst anti-Zionist Jewish respondents, a whopping 92 per cent said their campuses were safe and inclusive for Jewish students.(...) Zionist Jewish students conflate hostility towards Israel with hostility towards Jews, whereas anti-Zionist Jewish students do not."

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NYC: this winter we're reimagining the Jefferson School--a radical labor school--alongside an exhibit about McCarthyism at NYU. We are looking for one-off study groups on study (including what we need to do it), academic unionism, & speculative futures for learning. Short application due 9/1!

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Call for Study Groups

This fall and winter (November-March), we are excited to host a reimagining of the Jefferson School of Social Science—a radical labor school—at the Espacio de Culturas gallery at NYU in New York City,...

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Carey @careylikemariah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hell Gate reporter Katie Way is not exaggerating when she says that "this video has the potential to become a certified NYC politics cult classic along the lines of the Eric Adams teenage room search PSA." It's cuckoo bananas from start to finish:

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I grew up in a hypercapitalist household and was told that The Left wants to destroy the beautiful and good in the name of equality. That's not true at all, but the sentiment does lurk in certain other corners Like, I cannot overemphasize how much this sounds like an Ayn Rand villain

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David, just David @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is easily the best book I've read this year. It's not 'new' information but rather the way it is contextualized; so damned good.

"How to Hide an Empire" by Daniel Immerwahr

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"The left does not need to pursue its own exoneration in this moment. There is no reason to indulge the fantasy that we governed the nation during these recent, disastrous years, or that our country's brief flirtation with racial justice was an unthinkable disaster with countless innocent victims."

organizingmythoughts.org

Woke What? Let's Be Fucking Serious

Our politics are not the politics that have detached this country from reality, or normalized increasingly inhuman policies.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/08/2026

This should be illegal.

Speaking in a promotional video for Compliant Technologies published in 2024, Adam Glueck, then-assistant chief of the Cape Girardeau Police Department in southeastern Missouri, explained why his officers had grown so “attached” to the devices.

“In today’s society, you know, everybody’s filming everything, everybody has a cell phone,” Glueck said, adding that the glove “looks better on camera, and it looks better to those witnesses. With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.”

Bob Couey of the Floyd County Sheriff’s Department recommended the glove for “anybody that’s looking for a utility they can use that is conducive to not leading to lawsuits.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"hmm maybe this whole Arday affair shows that we need to have a Serious Conversation about whether Woke 1.0 overreached in manner X, Y, of Z" motherfucker you are generally in Fascism 487.0, as is this particular affair you're talking about. worry about *that*. /Final

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I sincerely believe they could have ridden “They Weird, Yo” all the way to the White House.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

So, Benjamin Ryan has deleted posts re Arday on Twitter, AND here. Why, Ben? You seem to be having so much fun? Were you having too much fun?

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I happen to do some training with ultra athletes. Every serious runner logs his runs with a GPS watch and uploads them to a training platform, like Strava. That not being there is such a huge red flag!!
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Noted!

ninjaquoll.bsky.social
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This crazy professor's antics is worth a book, if not a movie.

Alan Fresco
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Of course if this was 15 or 20 years ago things might have been different but if he did do 100 mile runs day after day other ultra runners must have known about him.

Benjamin Ryan
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I want photos of so many things, in partial the pig’s head and his broken, swollen leg.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

it's just objectively true that of the statements "children should not die of preventable diseases" and "black guys should not be allowed to have smart guy jobs" the media cares about and believes much more ardently in the latter

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

i encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice

FORTUNE
Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, 'willing to do anything, says Squarespace
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July 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM PDT

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

“She forged a trailblazing career… In the early 2000s, she was credited as the first researcher to show definitively that the human papillomavirus, or HPV — the most common sexually transmitted infection — caused so-called oropharyngeal cancers of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongues”

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Dr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61

She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

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Elizabeth Hernandez @lizzy-hernandez.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New: Universities (CU, CSU, others nationwide) are partnering with AI giants like ChatGPT to roll out university-sanctioned AI Hear from the students resisting & why some liken their opposition to wartime conscientious objectors www.denverpost.com/2026/08/07/c... via @denverpost.com #EdColo #AI

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As Colorado universities align with ChatGPT, student AI resisters take a stand against the ‘plagiarism machine’

“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026

When tech oligarchs own the platform, you have no rights. That's why I decided to start my newsletter on a non-profit platform (Ghost) instead of Substack. It took a tiny bit more effort, but worth it. Sign up (free!) to keep up with my real work! www.thenerdreich.com

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The Nerd Reich | Silicon Valley Tech Extremism

Silicon Valley tech billionaire politics: authoritarianism, fascism, plutocracy, weirdness

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/05/2026

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 09/08/2026

Holding WorldPride in a country with a trans bathroom ban is a bad idea

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Sky News Reporter: “Donald Trump says you’re a gift to the Republican Party.” Abdul El-Sayed: “I’m a gift to the state of Michigan, God-willing.” Reporter: “He says you’re full of shit.” El-Sayed: “At least I don’t let mine go in the middle of the Oval Office.” ~ This is the energy I want to see.

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 03/08/2026

Faculty senates passed mutual academic defense compacts and resolutions to reject loyalty compacts, but admin rolled their eyes. AAU has engaged in active betrayal and every member institution that does not attempt to censure AAU leadership should be presumed complicit. Unionize and join @aaup.org

The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition.

In contrast, the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges.
AAU’s president, Barbara Snyder, described the letter as a kind of olive branch. She told Bloomberg that the administration’s outreach opened communication channels between university leaders and the White House that have been largely shut since Trump launched his pressure campaign last year. She plans to call on member colleges to support the initiative.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

i'm sorry what the fuck. gillibrand attends a church which teaches that COVID was God's punishment for permitting gay marriage?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I sincerely believe that men cannot handle this. women may be falling in love with their chat bots, too. But I don't think they are categorically attached to its flattery to the same degree.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.

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Aren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you reposted the below, share this mutual aid fund for Alexio, who was arrested and detained by DHS during Operation Metro Surge. He is facing political repression for his actions during the ICE raid in north Mpls on January 14. chuffed.org/project/alex...

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Mutual Aid Fund for Alexio, who resisted ICE during Metro Surge

“I spoke the truth against immigration officers and stood for Mexico.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Months I put up with these people’s nonsense. Months.

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Wow this is incredibly vile but also just embarrassing. This woman has zero self-respect.

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Boise Autonomous Solidarity Hub @bigbash.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Today you should send love to your trans friends. Tomorrow, too. Maybe every day for a while.

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In an era of a fascist takeover, unlimited corruption, death squads waging war on American cities, aggressive wars of choice, endless war crimes, a child sex ring involving the president, etc, centrists are finally taking action: to attack the left. The only centrist goal is to suppress the left.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/07/2026

There's an irony in the fact that, to make her argument that Sociology has sacrificed science for activism, Ms. Paul cherry-picks quotes that support her views. 1/

THE SATURDAY ESSAY
Is It Time to Liquidate'
the Study of Sociology?
Sociology has long been tasked with
investigating society's most pressing
challenges. But these days, sociologists
greatest obstacle may be themselves.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

‼️ ICE goons kidnapped a U.S. citizen in Passaic, NJ ‼️ Prior to this video being taken, he was confronting ICE for trying to kidnap his neighbors. Video from 8:25am on 7/23/26

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Jess Hardie @jesshardie.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

And it’s not all on you to find out how. At least in my experience, when you join, an existing member contacts you and walks you through the org and how to get involved.

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Pacific Antifascist Research Collective @pacantifa.is · 22/07/2026

Since 2020, at least 51 ICE and CBP officers, agents, and contractors have been convicted or accused of sexual misconduct — 34 of them for crimes against children. These are the masked men kidnapping women and children off the street into unmarked vans and disappearing them into concentration camps.

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