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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hello I regret to inform you that this has not been true of philosophy since at least the 1960s Do you know when the first large scale generative algorithmic syndicated photo service debuted? The 1970s. Textual illusions aren’t meaningfully different from visual illusions.
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nicole @excaliburss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
personally I find the human chain protecting the kennedy center & celebrities showing up almost repulsive actually. hey guys maybe we do this for people and not for buildings? hey guys! literally use any of this energy for trans people or immigrants or muslims for five fucking seconds
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Christ, the anti-piracy frames on Hulu, Netflix, even Kanopy are obnoxious as hell
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Das Doak @dasdoak.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm assuming that most of them meant "a durable pro-us administration whose continued survival required absolutely zero investment of US resources to remain stable and in power" to which the appropriate response would be "...what color do you want your dragon to be?"
The "I want a dragon for Christmas meme" with the "be realistic" response as "I want a durable pro-US government in Afghanistan that requires zero US support to remain in power."
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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You can make that argument that a lot of Syrian civil war death tolls are the result of Obama NOT joining the war
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Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tapping the sign
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We do not apply this reasoning - that you are responsible when your enemy in a war decides to kill civilians (which is not just some, but most of the deaths totaled here) - to any other war. People have agency and are responsible for their choices, including groups and countries other than the USA.
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The truth: He’s got the juice!
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
joyce carol oates and menswear guy should tape a special together
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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olive consumer @machete.gay · 19/09/2026
I would advise against viewing this particular cultic milieu as some new emergence of the modern era and, instead, for seeing it as the inevitable and historically consistent outcome of people being seduced by the allure of shallow gnosis.
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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 22/09/2026
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins is out here taking literal bribes for government contracts but you know what the real story is? gossip from a few salty Troy Jackson staffers! this is some axios-level nonsense. the only thing it’s missing is an “anonymous” quote from Josh Gottheimer complaining about progressives
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 22/09/2026
Calling an ADAS lane assist feature “autopilot” is a clear case of consumer fraud and I’d love to see Tesla prosecuted for it.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.
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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Do the reading" from a prof (or lecturer 🙃) is really "there are relevant ideas and information that you should know if you want to talk about this" not "shut up until you get a degree"
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's not 'gatekeeping' to say that an uninformed, overconfident averment is uninformed and overconfident
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
To complain you’re politically homeless to genocide denying Free Press is also a choice.
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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I keep an eye on Twitter to see what the far right are up to and to keep track of LA politics since local commentators, for whatever reason, still post about it there. But there is no “cultural conversation.” Musk is a straight up Nazi and the site is a fascist cesspool.
@creatine_cycle
X.com
"i think X is better now than ever" -
@TaylorLorenz
"twitter was falling apart so i'm glad @elonmusk took over but i was like elon has never ran a social media product"
"he banned me by the way. first major mistake"
"i was very skeptical and i thought this would be the end of X but my controversial take now is that X is better than ever. especially for technology and for the cultural conversation"
"we got jensen tweeting, we got zuck back on. they have all come crawling back"
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Like a very fundamental concept you should keep in your head is that the open rate for letters is something like 3%.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22/09/2026
Unironically, we need more polling asking liberals what kind of vengeance they both want and just how far the state could go for it to be acceptable.
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Vincent Van Dinsky (Don't rank Kellie Torres) @maxttb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They could have avoided the Hugging Face exploit by adding one line of code: don't hack the sandbox. The reason it hacked the sandbox isn't because it's intelligent, it's because it's NOT intelligent. It does what you tell it to do and if you're not careful, it will do something bad. 2/x
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026
serious question whether noah could even identify the text of the 14th amendment or name a single provision of the CRA.
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Brittany @sameoldstory.co · 20/09/2026
I think Will Stancil basically has oppositional defiance poster’s disorder and that it’s a condemnation of this website that this has led to him in the last several years into assuming a ton of plainly just rational and correct positions
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 21/09/2026
"We asked 683 Democratic voters who they might support in the presidential primary that seems set to start any month now, whether Democratic senators should end the filibuster, and how they would feel if Trump died overnight, plus dozens of other questions." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-are-dem...
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What Are Democrats Thinking?
Democratic voters want to end the filibuster, nationalize artificial intelligence, and prosecute every Trump toady.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20/09/2026
This is an amazing and powerful essay. What I am moved by is the number of people who are trying to do the right thing within a public school system that is hard to change.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 20/09/2026
if you are a Dem who for whatever reason does not feel comfortable actively defending trans rights (which you should) you have two good response options: 1. ignore it! just keep running ads about the economy 2. “I am focused on your pocketbook, my opponent is focused on children’s genitals”
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/09/2026
"My opponent wants to hire creeps to inspect your daughter's genitals if she wants to play soccer. I wouldn't trust him or any hired weirdo from his pedophile-protecting party alone in a room with any kid." Go on the offensive, you cowards! It's not that hard!
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil?
Exiled dissidents and an unsealed indictment suggest Kremlin may have abandoned longstanding taboo on attacks on its rival’s territory
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쏨이시대 @missom.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Engage in any discussion about fast fashion/clothing prices and you can see this real quick. "Worker solidarity" disappears real quick when you point out that in an ethical system, we the consumers would and should be buying less clothing at higher prices.
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Kip Williams sort of @kipwilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Too many people confuse sentence completion with complete sentience.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.
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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In claiming the left needs to embrace economic issues and appeal to conservative values of patriotism and the family, the report does not embrace class politics over culture wars, it just embraces one side of the war over another
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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 17/09/2026
Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
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Why Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?
We can do better than this.
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Fuck new Slow Horses is cyan/orange unsubtle like west coast IPA circa 2004
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When Marxists tell me there’s no such thing as human nature
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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Asher Lubotzky joins us on @askhistorians.bsky.social today to discuss African perceptions of Israel and Palestine for his book, Shifting Solidarities, new from @uvapress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I am Asher Lubotzky, historian of African perceptions of Israel and Palestine, Ask Me Anything!
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026
there's almost always some level of work politics based on 'go to this event, hang out with these people if you want to get ahead' and it's never great but it's how social dynamics work that gets a whole lot worse when the event you need to attend is a sex party
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Super Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"The President ordered it so it's legal" is just the Nuremberg defense.
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
BlueSky dot app mercifully refreshed while I was trying to use Wikipedia to estimate the per-pound death average to dunk on Zeteo (10k vs 350m)
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We heard you bowl on Sundays
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“AI” is a stupid category that is functionally meaningless and just denotes whatever computers someone loves or hates at the moment
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
To reiterate, "Only white people are capable of empire, slavery or atrocity" - that only white people can do the worst of sins - is itself still a form of white supremacism that imagines white people as the unique protagonists of history rather than recognizing that all people have agency.
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If I had a variable that explained the vibecession, I would simply add it to the regression model and demonstrate the residual moving to 0.
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is fucking stupid. “Transgender ideology”? Fucking Ohio, man. If you’re going with weak sauce like Dirty Derek, & complaining about distractions, DON’T GET DISTRACTED BY HIS FRAMING
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Did you know you can preorder @aprilwolfe.bsky.social ‘s “Bury Me in Vegan Leather” from Bookshop.org? bookshop.org/p/books/bury...
Receipt from Bookshop.org purchase of a pre-order of April Wolfe’s Bury Me in Vegan Leather for $27.91
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Kierkegaarden Cop @joshsteich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yes
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Colin Wood @californiawood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
😏😏😏
Bret Stephens NYT opinion headlines juxtaposed to show how much of a tool he is. "20 Years On, I Don't Regret Supporting the Iraq War" dated March 21, 2023 versus "Yes, Woke 1.0 Was Crazy. Now Where's the Accountability?"
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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