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the irreducible @anguilline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'the purpose of a system is what it does' remains undefeated

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Rosemary Johnsen @johnsenrm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why is Jake Butt doing the commentary at an MSU game? Thanks for nothing, B1G Network. 😑

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’ve been upset about this for hours. Do they mean Old English? Which ended in the 11th century? Is he adapting it to sound like Beowulf? This play published in Early Modern English in 1597? Do they mean Olde English, the malt liquor? Old English, the floor cleaner? Are words real anymore?

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A fancy provost allegedly using AI to write papers and op-eds is a big problem, but a bigger problem is why we all have no problem believing a fancy provost used AI write papers and op-eds. I should find that hard to believe. I don’t.

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John Voorheis @johnvoorheis.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine. But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.

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Rosemary Johnsen @johnsenrm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thi Bui makes a significant contribution to Vietnamese-American literature. This book is absolutely tremendous. Multi-generational memoir infused with accurate historical context. Wisdom and insight on every page.

Cover image of The Best We Could Do, by Thi Bui

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Wife: How was football yesterday Me: Largely terrible. One game came down to a Zapruder film conspiracy hail Mary though Wife (very Minnesota Gophers alumni voice): Was Michigan involved

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That pro-Notre Dame call by ACC refs—Notre Dame is in the ACC for most sports—is the reason folks think college football is rigged and becoming meaningless. Western Michigan got robbed. Wisconsin got robbed. The higher-ranked team always gets the call. I can't take much more.

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Ghost of Lepa Radić @ghostofdonknotts.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Remember when the NCAA let Michigan win a national title after being caught cheating? Me too.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/09/2026

"At our core, we are devoted to learning. Specifically, we want to learn how to extract as much value as possible from everyone and everything we interact with." buff.ly/DUbh42r

mcsweeneys.net

We Are Not a “School”—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team

“At our core, we are devoted to learning. Specifically, we want to learn how to extract as much value as possible from everyone and everything we interact wi...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

startribune.com

Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Democratic states have not particularly covered themselves in glory when it comes to higher ed. There’s no counter-movement in blue states that offers a robust counter-vision for higher ed — that it might, first of all, be actually good for society, or provide the kind of education students want."

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Rosemary Johnsen @johnsenrm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Capturing one of my #WITM reads before August ends. Fragmentary narrative infused with historical context. Highlighted for me the similar endings of large scale psychiatric institutionalization internationally in the late 20th century.

Cover of Beckomberga, by Sara Stridsberg. Translator Deborah Bragan-Turner.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And if you’re in or near Stillwater Oklahoma in October, come on out and hear some thoughts related to this book and more!

A poster for a talk I’m giving. Key info from the poster is as follows:

FUTURE-PROOFING THE PAST: A POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
THE HUMANITIES WITHOUT AI
Humanities Week Keynote Lecture
with Dr. Sonja Drimmer, UMass Amherst
Thursday, October 8
4-5:30 PM
Helmerich Browsing Room
OSU Library
Why has Google invested so much in
art museums? What is OpenAI doing
in its partnerships with academic
libraries and archives? How has it
become popular for tech CEOs to
author manifestos in the guise of
historical treatises?
This talk offers an account of how
the political project of inserting
artifical intelligence into every civic
institution has depended, and
continues to depend, on the
technology industry's exploitation of
history.
Dr. Sonja Drimmer is Associate
Professor of the History of Art &
Architecture at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research
interests include premodern notions of
authorship and authority, media
theory, book history, and the
aesthetics and material culture of
politics. She is the 2026-2027 W. Ford
Schumann Distinguished Visiting
Professor in Democratic Studies at
Williams College.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

ICE literally murdered constituents in broad daylight and Democrats were like well I really want to hear about the investigation and maybe we should talk about bodycams while the people they represented were still lying dead on the street. Absolute lot of cowards.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/08/2026

Someone made this point before but is there any other industry where the paper of record absolutely hates the people who do the grunt work in said industry? Because that’s the Chronicle of Higher Education.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

eliot looks a bit angry, woolf suspicious

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

(lying to myself) i'll just get up earlier tomorrow and do it then

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college football enthusiast @tacoenthusiast.swifties.social · 17/08/2026

Michelle Tafoya thinks getting rid of Sam Darnold to start JJ McCarthy was the right decision

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

my weekend is gonna be cake and books, everyone should be jealous

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The thing that really gets me about this era is how much our national political media are bunch of suckers and rubes perfectly happy to go along with getting themselves taken for a ride and be used as hapless tools for the regime. Like FFS.

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the takeaway is minnesota fucking hates an ICE bootlicker and they’re not gonna forget that just because you spend a ton of filthy PAC money.

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BunnyBadgerGames 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇵🇸 @badbabybunny.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

To be fair to AI it's ridiculous ideas are less shit than theirs.

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Sam Kamin @sjkamin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Option a: say some dumb shit Option b: say some different dumb shit Option c: avoid addressing dumb shit IF ONLY THERE WAS ANOTHER CHOICE

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Hare 🍉 @haredurer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah man, when people say stuff that’s stupid and bigoted, they should get flack for it.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Spent all day researching in an archive, & just want to say: I'm so tired of academics trashing archives on ideological grounds. Ugh, so reductive. The compiler of these papers wasn't a household name, but managed to create a fascinating record of Black art & culture through much of the 20th century

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Everyone is wondering who caused this! The platform literally has a "Write with AI" button...

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Susan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

it's wild how quickly we went from encouraging people to maintain their mental acuity through crosswords, reading, physical activity, etc. to heavily promoting & accepting genAI use that causes cognitive atrophy.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

You have to understand the cultural context of the original and the culture of your intended audience. You have to understand the feelings that are intended to be inspired as well as the meaning of the words. Translating a long work means understanding the whole as well as the parts.

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This government obsession that somehow schools and universities are in any way responsible for employer choices has to stop

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 25/07/2026

Yeah this "pervert glasses in the classroom" thing is bothering me enough that I emailed both my departments asking if we can get practical guidance from the chancellor & IT. What I'm really, increasingly wanting is a Wi-Fi kill switch for each classroom, but i don't know that that's in the offing.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.

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Mike Karpa @mikekarpa.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I hope they mention that her translation is really good, and that her articles about the translation have also been excellent, and that’s she’s a highly skilled and accessible writer and communicator. Nolan, yes, but also her. She didn’t stumble into this.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 24/07/2026

I would like to RETVRN to the Early Bluesky Era block-and-walk ethos on anything remotely related to Alex Fucking Berenson, whose name I had legitimately blocked out

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Dems spent a generation believing that if they gave Republicans some of what they wanted on immigration (strict enforcement of bad laws, "tough" rhetoric that conceded the argument to the GOP), then the GOP would be willing to make a deal.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

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Chris Scullion @scully1888.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

If you haven't seen it yet, BBC's montage at the end of the World Cup was fucking tremendous www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Fi...

youtube.com

BBC FIFA World Cup 2026 Closing Montage

YouTube video by Pick Six Productions Xtra

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19/07/2026

Yea, dost thou jeer

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"Is this the first game you've watched?" No, I've been watching Argentina since 1986. That's why I believe this. Don't come into my mentions and pretend I'm a newbie. Or that I said something I didn't say.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This administration, supposedly representing the “real” salt of the earth Americans, is filled with people like this who have no idea how Americans actually live. For context, each Taco Bell outlet serves about 900 people PER DAY and there are over 300 Taco Bells in Michigan.

Katie Miller *
@KatieMiller
X.com
4,300 people ate at Taco Bell just in Michigan?
This summer's outbreak of cyclosporiasis has been largely concentrated in southeastern Michigan, where more than 4,300 cases have been reported and at least 100 people have been hospitalized as of Thursday.
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Investigators have linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants by Taylor Farms as a potential source of contamination in the cyclosporiasis outbreak, according to a report washingtonpost.com/health/2026/07...
3:39 PM • 7/16/26 • 283K Views

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PPG1 @paradigm317.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Why is he dressed like my aunt from 1974

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

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Sen. Lemon Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts

HEADLINE: Taylor Farms pulls iceberg lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak (CBS News)

IMAGE: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I am losing my mind. Chat isn’t a search engine. this isn’t normal. framing it as normative is slimy. Tone, vibes all bad.

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