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John Sundman

@jsundman.bsky.social
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Biodigital novelist, mover of heavy objects, volunteer firefighter (retired), national treasure. "Sundman figures it out!" johnsundman.substack.com (Circle: firefighter coat, 'Sundman' name stipe. Banner: bookshelf w 'Acts of the Apostles')

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h
If you're wondering why schools like Cornell sweep this shit under the rug it's because they are afraid of opening up the rape and sexual assault can of worms at a place where the faculty itself is often packed with pedos and perverts
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 4h
Alas.
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 4h
The subject under discussion is 'communicative intent,' something I care about not just because literary theory is one of my hobbyhorses & I've been writing about 'AI' since 2002, but because I'm a novelist & being a novelist really wears me out, so I like to think 'a novelist' is worth being.
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Entangled in Mimesis and grounded in communicative intent
Ontology, epistemology, AI psychosis, Cheap Complex Devices, and sex
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 4h
Reading, and writing, are holy. I love reading novels because they tell me something. They say: "this is what someone believed enough to dedicate months or years of their life to say." This is just as true for the trashiest pulp as it is for the highest literature.
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Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social · 5h
Thrilled that Aster.id has launched, and very happy for the Modal Foundation to be supporting in an incubation role. modalfoundation.leaflet.pub/3mwqgvxl5a22a
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Incubating Aster
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 18h
Camera zooming in on Britt like it's a skit from SCTV.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.
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A New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against Them
A mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump’s Title IX regulation went into effect in 2020, where it received almost no media coverage during the pandemic. There were also few students on campus to participate in or protest the process. Schools went above and beyond in implementing hostility toward survivors.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6h
2 years later this article aged well, especially considering the boundless incompetence and malevolence of MAHA/MAGA.
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 6h
The problem I have with so many AI evangelists is they are fundamentally anti-human
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h
THIS WAS MONEY FOR CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE. A Florida grand jury found $10 MILLION meant to help provide health insurance for poor children was misappropriated for political purposes. Moody & DeSantis took money meant for kids. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 6h
Nepo baby
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Amid outcry, NY prosecutors have reopened the criminal investigation into the 7 Cornell gang rapists, a case that was covered up 2 years ago. These assholes would’ve been punished if they had written “free Palestine” instead of “free p*ssy.” Cornell leadership should be investigated too.
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 7h
Where this snarky cascade will end, knows God. 1/2
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Fucking slimeball.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.
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Stock Buybacks, Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 17h
When my younger daughter was a student at St. Lawrence U 20 years ago she resided in a house run by a group called Male Athletes Against Sexual Violence, pronounced 'massive.' I don't remember much about it other than that for her it was a positive experience.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 22h
WE LOVE STUDENT JOURNALISTS IN THIS HOUSE
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John Sundman @jsundman.bsky.social · 17h
When I was a freshman at Hamilton College I answered a knock on my dorm door & was met by two guys from the Honor Court who told me I had been accused of cheating on an exam in German 112. This was Very Serious. If convicted I could be expelled. Fortunately for me I did not take German 112. Ooops!
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 19h
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 19h
"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."
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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 17h
This is the way.
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earrow.bsky.social @earrow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The so-called "humanitarian response" boasted by Anovaeon, LLC is a mere patina when it's used to warehouse human beings denied due process. This is yet another no-bid operation, bulldozed through without public transparency.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 18h
The thing about having a radiologist friend like @gammacounter.bsky.social is that you will learn, in incredibly well-documented detail, how dangerously life-threatening swallowing button batteries are to kids. [link via @pazsays.bsky.social, who also got to hear about it]
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h
Dems are very tempted to chase voters who are alienated by Trump. I get it, but winning long term means destroying the GOP's reputation. When they humiliate themselves, double down on that. Make it THE story. Make it emblematic of the crisis.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19h
You know that scene in The Godfather where Michael goes to the trattoria bathroom, retrieves a pistol, and shoots those 2 guys in the head? This is 100X better. Maybe more.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 22h
If we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Imagine being the worst Senator from Missouri when your only competition is Josh Hawley…
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 23h
It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 19h
Listen to Iris
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 19h
This fiasco was not just embarrassing. It was also revealing, demonstrating that Republican Senators actually believe the kind of paranoid, and just plain stupid, conspiracy theories that Trump peddles.
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Jack Smith Defends Trump Charges as Senator’s Perjury Claim Falters
A Republican eager to prove the former special counsel was dishonest appeared to instead demonstrate his own confusion over basic facts.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23h
Best Sen Schmitt meme yet
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23h
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Project True North @projtruenorth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Lisa Fights and Wins for the MAGA Agenda” — that’s how her own campaign describes her. That’s not what Minnesota needs in our next governor.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation.” apnews.com/article/jack...
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Ex-special counsel Smith tells senators he won't 'be silenced' by Trump's threats of prosecution
A former Justice Department special counsel who brought two federal indictments against President Donald Trump has told lawmakers he “will not be silenced by continued threats of prosecution” from the...
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Bort @senatorgiggity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Would you like to send your child to the Academy for Child Sexual Assault and Coding
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:
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Larry Colvin @larrycolvin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“I Have No One, I Have Nothing”: The Cruel Reality of Putting Children on Trial Without Representation #Blues open.substack.com/pub/eyesonic...
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“I Have No One, I Have Nothing”: The Cruel Reality of Putting Children on Trial Without Representation
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wait, the cult-like, billionaire-pushed school that has driven kids to mental health breakdowns and that families have fled in droves? Read the Wired story about it here www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...
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pablo @morepablo.com · 28/09/2026
friends with a professional woman here who posted a close friends-only IG Story something like "why do so many of these events have a shibari showcase"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Sen. Eric Schmitt asks Jack Smith to tell him what he's writing down in his notes, but then even he realizes he went too far and says, "never mind"
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. HAHAHAHAHAH. Eric Schmitt just accused Jack Smith of lying about going to an Atlanta Hawk's basketball game. Smith went to see the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was a precious moment.
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Tiffany⸆⸉ @tiffanyclay.dev · 29/09/2026
I’m gonna catch the highlights later because GOP posturing makes my blood boil and I’d rather not have a stroke today.
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Meredith Lowry @meredithlowry.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. No one should have to verify their identity (much less send their ID information to a tech company) to access patents. <END RANT>
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