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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 50m

do any of you have a million dollar grant you can give me

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder if my university would allow me to teach a class simply titled "Shitty Movies"

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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

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Bigg @bpbigg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Anyone else ever sit very still and think about the Cambrian explosion of people wandering around with actual semi-permanent-to-permanent brain damage causing measurable declines in cognitive function from a highly-contagious, imminently-preventable disease that's socially illegal to acknowledge

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What do you mean the new season of Slow Horses is only six episodes??!!! (Watches the first two episodes) Oh, right. Okay

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...

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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily

Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Disabled people endured & fought against Centuries of paternalistic & outright draconian treatment, eventually making Section 504 a livable, workable reality. Rolling it back will hurt & kill people, & that is not hyperbole. This country's increased anti-disability push is eugenicist to its core.

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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Cookies have very few vitamins. That’s why you have to eat so many of them.

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit

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◬ 鹿「 A S T R I N G E N T 」鹿 ◬ @astringent.online · 23/09/2026

I do not recommend doing this

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Taught the Fugitive Slave Act for the first time in a few years. Man, my head was spinning as I uttered my familiar refrain about how the FSA radicalized Northerners who maybe never thought much about slavery until they saw people being snatched off the street right in front of them...

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Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

Alt: Euphoria Wait Is This Fucking Play About Us

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The unfortunately-named Gypsy pepper is a real superstar. Six inch long fruits and multiple flushes! These kick the crud out of Bells and do great in containers 🌱

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the cool things in #histmed is how human organs are not natural kinds but instead, in part, the result of conceptual frameworks and thus change over time I know, weird!

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Even Jay Bhattacharya realizes that Jay Bhattacharya’s embrace of fascism went “too far” & I guess he is now on PR drive to cleanse? For the @bmj.com, I coauthored a piece with @jonshaffer.bsky.social about Jay & other MAGA/MAHA physicians aiding & abetting fascism: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

About as strong a statement of "Fuck Talarico, but also vote for him" as you are going to get. Worth reading, whether or not you agree

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New from Lauren Supplee at Can We Still Govern? The US government had gradually become better at producing and using evidence. This evidence-based infrastructure is largely invisible, important, and one more thing gutted by Trump. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-system...

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The System for Using Evidence to Improve Federal Programs Has Been Gutted

Here’s How We Fix It

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People have been trying to align our tools and our dreams for a very long time. Sometimes we can, sometimes we can't, but we have never been fully in control of our creations. They make us as much as we make them. This why the idea that tools have agency doesn't bother me. Of course they do

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why is there no "excused" option on the Canvas attendance tool? One of the great mysteries of life. And why am I using this f'ing thing? Another riddle. A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, as they say. Who really knows?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19/09/2026

teaching myself to ask "why are you picking this fight right now" before posting has made my overall bluesky experience a lot more positive

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I had my students do an exercise where they looked up newspaper advertisements for the buying and selling of enslaved people c. 1780-1820 and, while I am grateful for how seriously they took the assignment, I am also sad to be the guy who showed this to them. A lot of them had no idea.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In general, if people could stop acting like DC is a theme park where the only residents are in Congress that would be great, thanks

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026

Share if you agree

Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of my students wrote this absolute banger of a sentence: "The past is the taste that lingers after a fatal bite of expired American cheese." I'm done. Nothing can top that.

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Andrew Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Enabled by the same functional advantages that once made it the medium of choice for universal digital communication, text becomes increasingly estranged from us as it is made into fuel for the models and machines." — @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/tex...

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When Words Are No Longer for Us

Matthew Kirschenbaum announces the arrival of the “textpocalypse,” and considers what it will mean for liberal societies.

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The Last Visible Dog @thelastinstance.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I think this picturing is inadequate to the technical reality, and explaining why might help to clarify why I have different intuitions about what's going on.

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Gemini inserting itself into my search results to explain what a meat proxy is so I don't have to read Ghrun's essay to understand what Dr. Scales is saying is some next-level bullshit that makes my head hurt

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I'm usually mostly okay with separating the art from the artist, but not in this case

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sometimes I like to think I know something about popular music, and then I'm like "hey, who is this Ed Sheeran guy anyway?" That's also how I learned about someone named Taylor Swift

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is very good, of course, but we really need priority #1 to be A) structural reform (SC reform, DC statehood, national ban on gerrymandering, etc.) B) Nuremberg 2.0 Without these we are just kicking the fascist can down the road

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16/09/2026

Kids today... are wonderful, in my experience.

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This, from a researcher at OpenAI, is worth reading. I think? How would I know, really? But I will say that it is, um, interesting docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Personal Statement on AI Risk

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Working under this man in an appointed leadership position should be an automatic blackball from academia and public health broadly.

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 15/09/2026

Pennsylvania just announced the fourth death from measles this year. All patients were unvaccinated. This is so sad.

Pennsylvania Department of Health Confirms Two Additional Measles-Associated Deaths

Pennsylvania Department of Health has recorded four measles-associated deaths in 2026.

Getting vaccinated remains the best protection against measles, providing 97% lifetime protection after two doses.

Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) today confirmed two additional measles-associated deaths in Pennsylvania. Both individuals were unvaccinated. One individual lived in Jefferson County and the other lived in Mifflin County.

To protect the privacy of both individuals and their families, DOH will not be releasing any additional details that could personally identify them. While local officials in the respective counties where the deaths occurred may release more details about the deceased, DOH is bound by different laws that strictly limit what it can share publicly. The two additional deaths will be added to DOH’s measles dashboard Wednesday, as part of the regular update.

The best protection against measles remains getting fully vaccinated. The MMR vaccine, administered over two doses, boosts a person’s immune system and provides 97% lifetime protection.

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j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Subscribed to a list that messages you every time someone blocks you Not completely sure how I feel about it, to be honest

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

by the end of a good four-year degree in history you will be aware of the contours of a range of different methodological, geographical and temporal subfields; you will have had lectures in several of them; and you will have read current monographs and perhaps done rudimentary research in one or two

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026

I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026

This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t.

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