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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's weird how the federal government is constantly being hacked after DOGE gutted the government's cybersecurity agencies.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Between this and the Tamale Guy throwing out the first pitch the other day, the vibes on the South Side are immaculate (no pun intended). Go Sox.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Athletic's soccer version of Connections isn't being subtle about following the latest headlines. #ManchesterCity

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Julian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...

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guest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociology

The following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “…

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s amazing how off-putting and minimal even positive comments about Rahm are. Even his own claim to have a “history of winning”—how did those 2006 Dem Congressional recruits fare a few years later? How about your own mayoral record, where you didn’t run in 2019 because you’d have lost so badly?

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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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

once again the actual "story" behind Tilly Norwood is how the company's PR firm continues to get these stories placed in ostensibly legit outlets over and over despite zero demonstration of the supposed phenomenon being written about ("AI movie star Tilly Norwood") being real

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pep Guardiola getting out of City before the charges dropped like Verbal Kint at the end of The Usual Suspects.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So does Liverpool get a bunch of retroactive titles or does City just have to give them Erling Haaland?

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the NYT top ten TV list is pretty good except take out Breaking Bad, bump The Wire to #1, put the egregiously underrated Deadwood in its place at #2, and move Atlanta to top five. Also the British version of The Office is obviously superior, I don't care if that's an annoying take to have.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is correct - personal experiences of needing social services makes people, including policymakers, more opposed to imposing administrative burdens (which is how they are breaking SNAP and Medicaid) academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

• When a policymaker has personal, firsthand experience navigating a welfare system or public service, their tolerance for administrative burden significantly drops. © Oxford Academic
• Conversely, policymakers without personal experience are much more likely to tolerate or actively support high administrative burdens, often driven by political ideology or a perception that the target population is "undeserving".
Syddansk Uni...

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The fact that there are thousands of people with interesting ideas graduating into an academic labor market every year with no room for them, and someone with tenure at Chicago— buffeted from the vicissitudes of that landscape— is using their perch to voluntarily work in the AI slop mines is unreal.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lester Bangs with BARS in "Where Were You When Elvis Died?" (We're talking about the death of monoculture in class tomorrow.)

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It will never not be funny to me that the first time I read "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" it was as a badly scanned PDF provided by the professor.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

Any involvement of GenAI in this process would have warped our ability to really figure out what I wanted to say and needed to say in order to get my actual perspective onto the page. I had to do all the reading. I had to do all the writing. I had to be the one to discuss it. He had to know me.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

I finished the first draft of my third book, The Cosmos is a Black Aesthetic, in January. And I had to let it simmer and get some feedback. And I am ready to push through a major revision and I'm looking at some of the work that needs to be done and it would be **IMPOSSIBLE** with GenAI involvement.

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The Royal Tenenbaums @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Well, everyone knows Custer died at Little Bighorn. What this book presupposes is: Maybe he didn't?

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not sure I’ve ever followed something so fast in my entire life. Look, I know who I am. @theroyaltenenbaums.bsky.social

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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“The irony should be palpable. We are to listen to mainstream sociology being excoriated for its lack of scientific rigor by someone who deliberately sets out to cherry pick evidence to support her predetermined conclusion.” JLM calmly and methodically tears the Vanderbilt report apart.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Javier Milei's unrelenting dedication to something that just clearly does not work-- doctrinaire neoliberalism-- in the face of millions of people pointing out he's dangerously foolish for pursuing it can't be totally disconnected from the reason he's still going with that haircut, right?

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"He came back to Boston...and became for one year an assistant (not assistant professor, he made clear) in philosophy at Harvard." Robert Park out here straight up doing the Dwight Schrute assistant regional manager/assistant to the regional manager routine at Harvard in 1904.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If I had the resources I would do this kind of trolling counternarrative all the time. Whole billboards and tv ads and influencer campaigns featuring all the scams.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Academics are going to start closing out book acknowledgments sections with “I accept full responsibility for lapses in judgment by people within my inner circle” instead of “Any remaining errors are my own,” right?

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Nolan mostly annoys me, but credit where it’s due, Trey Atwood from The OC being a traitorous dirtbag in The Odyssey was immaculate casting.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Good news, rest of the Premier League: if you can counter quickly and also not commit an incredibly ill-advised foul at the end of the game, you can probably take full points off of Liverpool this season.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Just found out someone is opening an Eastern European/Slavic/Soviet place near me, and I cannot wait because I could really use some borscht in my life right now.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

With the inimitable Mo Salah gone, I sadly had to change my fantasy Premier League team name this year. RIP Que Sera Salah, welcome to the world My Morning Jacquet.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just let Cameron Winter be the fourth member of boygenius.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Without even getting into the larger debate from the piece, I am begging the New York Times to ensure that people on their higher ed beat understand what data is. Hint: it is inclusive of ethnography and interviews.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Hearing Liverpool will not be permitted to play team defense because it infringes upon Jeff Bezos' dedication to personal liberties and free markets. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

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Liverpool owners sell stake to Jeff Bezos-backed consortium

Liverpool owners Fenway Sports Group (FSG) have confirmed the sale of a minority stake in the club to a consortium that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I know Pep is exhausted and taking a break, but if he wanted to be a legendary hater to anti-football, he should just be a free agent for the rest of the league this season. Every team gets Pep for their two games against Arsenal, and he just spends 38 games tormenting Arteta.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 01/08/2026

Major Major Major Major is real

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

But seriously, it was FINE. Beautifully shot, great performances, I will amost certainly never watch it again, which makes it like most Nolan films. Still, O Brother Where Art Thou laps it, and Bernthal's best performance this summer remains Gary. Would watch an all Bear Odyssey set in Chicago.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Look, I understand the need for poetic license in modern adaptations of classic texts, but I did think it was weird how in The Odyssey the sirens were singing "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" from Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's 2005 self-titled debut.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Wow, look at Hayley Williams’ set from Newport Folk Fest tonight. Karly Hartzman from Wednesday, Nate Amos from This is Lorelei, Jenny Lewis, Lucy Dacus. This is so well-curated I’m even willing to look past the unfortunate inclusion of Jack Antonoff, the bane of pop music for the past 15 years.

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spain also won the 2008 Euro final 1-0 with the only goal scored by someone named Torres.

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knickerbacker.bsky.social @knickerbacker.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why does it have to be tied for overtime just play another 30 minutes you cowards

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

If Mbappe ends up with the record after this WC because Messi had to play against Spain’s defense and Mbappe got to play against whatever this is, it’s going to be hilarious. Like, he was going to get it next WC anyway, but this would be a very funny way for it to happen.

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knickerbacker.bsky.social @knickerbacker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Tfw napoleon escapes Elba

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Jeffrey Parker @jnparker.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

England winning a meaningless game after blowing it against Argentina would be funny, but them blowing said game after going up 4-0 would be funnier.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

England and France are only playing for third place, but the winner does get to reclaim the North American fur trade

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