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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ET

As the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Astonishing the Cornell faculty haven't launched a Vote of No Confidence against their various executive administrators.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Woke up, made coffee, and sat at my laptop where companies gathered and shared information about my news consumption, entertainment preferences, shopping habits, and more. When I left the house, my departure time was recorded by my smart lock and my doorbell camera captured what I was wearing. 🧵

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Rebecca Ruth Seidel @caseinmicelles.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I think one of the very practical reasons not to jump on the AI train is that as soon as you start to rely on it, companies who are already underwater are going to jack up the prices, and you'll either have to go back to the old way of doing things or pay out the nose for it.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Dude looks like he could be mayor of Adventure City and Foggy Bottom.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure bill had so much grant funding for organizations to upgrade cybersecurity.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sunday scaries, a whole month of them.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Between this and the week's news about NCTE and CCC, your friendly neighborhood comp people could use some solidarity.

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Ralph Wiggum: HA HA I'M IN DANGER Meme

ALT: Ralph Wiggum: HA HA I'M IN DANGER Meme

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Not to be an intolerable wordsmith about it all, but it might help if we stop saying "protect" when the more accurate verb is "control."

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I cannot express clearly enough how immediately I would buy and read this historical fiction. Shah Sylvia, Vigilante.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Lol I don’t have the know-how to directly take care of any facilities nor do I have the on-demand executive functioning to run a busy kitchen. Sorry everyone, your omelet is ruined and the AC will be broken forever.

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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yes and apply the same logic to higher education.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It’s not from a show but mine is Daja Kisubo from Tamora Pierce’s Circle of Magic books. I read them as a kid and forever loved her courage, discipline, and vast empathy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Walnuts. And bless our children, they hate them too without my ever saying a word about it. Per the littlest, “NO dis is jucky. Don’t WIKE it.”

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I’m constantly telling my students that half the battle on writer’s block is giving yourself enough time for unstructured subconscious idea processing. (The other half, per Marilyn Kallet, is lowering your standards enough to get something on the page because you can always revise.)

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A devastating loss. Her work was brilliant and so necessary. Her storytelling made the world better. What a legacy.

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I cannot relate to people who struggle to meet a word count. I am relentlessly cutting words. I am endlessly finding creative ways to say less.

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

It is worth every American’s time to read what Trump’s system of “justice” has been up to. Rampant misconduct, unrepentant deception.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Data centers remind me of fracking. It’s like when a small number of rich energy guys were like This Is All Completely Safe and Fine but you knew people in the next town whose tap water was catching on fire.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The extortionists promised no further extortions. Everything’s fine!

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We need to have a long conversation in higher ed (and ed in general tbh) about our dependence on proprietary software platforms, especially learning management systems

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There is not enough discussion of the EEOC's lawsuit against @nytimes.com for discriminating against a white man. Here's a gift link. Let's get into it.🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

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U.S. Sues The New York Times, Claiming Discrimination Against a White Man

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Listen, college seminars are full of 18 year olds. Are you smarter, more capable, more literate than an 18yo? Then you can handle the level of discourse in a college seminar. People need to grow up and take responsibility for their own indifference to listening, thinking, and learning.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

By orderly they mean everything canceled effective immediately, no customer service, and other airlines price gouging stranded travelers.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

An eagle lets out a powerful ear-splitting screech at a pivotal cinematic moment. Me, “Actually you’re hearing a hawk right now—“

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 28/04/2026

The administration that normalized cruelty is now demanding a talk show host be fired for a joke. This isn't a stand against toxicity, it’s an authoritarian attempt to label all mockery of the President as "hate speech." They’re banking on you forgetting their last decade of vitriol. Don't.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I’m listening to seasoned reporters talk about how frightened they were during the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night and imagining how much worse it is for America’s children. If there’s ever been a time to pass sensible gun control laws, it’s now.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/04/2026

Exactly. Blanche is the one who cut a deal with Maxwell to waive her sex offender status. He got her “out custody” and moved her to club fed. He’s the Michael Cohen of the Epstein era.

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yes, absolutely. It's frustrating to listen to people who don't understand how to do something explaining that the computer is better than people at it. They don't know what is supposed to be occurring and they don't have the humility or expertise to recognize that the computer output ain't it.

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Xaviera ANTIFA Barganski @lavenia.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This guy says what I've been trying to say, only he's better at laying it out. I know Hegseth profited *right before* things went sideways.

I can't alt text all of this, but it's about insider trading running rampant in the WH and friends and family

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Congress is completely useless at this point.

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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The reality is that foreign students are the ones investing in the US: they invest their money and their skills. That allows us to have stronger higher Ed, more slots for domestic students and a better economy.

"This idea that American citizens don't have the talent to do great things, that you have to import a foreign class of students...to do these things? | just reject it. I just think should invest in our own people."

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Laura Jones-Pettit @jonespettit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Bragging about wrestling creative control from an elementary schooler then taking two hours to make a "pretty decent" flyer and the color, layout, and kerning still suck? Lol

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

NYTimes Headline: The Women Who Believe That Women Should Lose the Right to Vote
Subhead: Adherents to biblical patriarchy support household voting: One household, one vote--the husband's. They say the idea is catching on.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender. Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....