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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Uh, ok Costco. That’s… an interesting brand deal.

Notification from Costco telling me about saving money on an Ineos Grenadier

Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Skill Issue. My Moccamasters have sent zero terabytes over my WiFi and have been dutifully making excellent coffee for 10 years

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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 08/10/2026

You're not imagining it — energy bills are skyrocketing while many households are struggling to make ends meet. 🧵

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ok, but last time they came up with trench warfare

Wall Street journal headline that starts “Germany and France Are Proposing a New Weapon to” and I cut the next line to make a joke

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Robert Wilonsky @robertwilonsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From Lawrence Wright's 2019 "God Bless Texas: A Journey Into the Soul of the Lone Star State":

An excerpt from Lawrence Wright's "God Bless Texas" about the significance of Stanley Marcus. Or, Mister Stanley, as we knew him.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Reminder that I have a spreadsheet of OER primary source excerpts paired with short articles for use in freshman U.S. history surveys available for free on my website. rmgunter.com/posts/5827-p... 🗃️

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Rachel Michelle Gunter, Ph.D. - Pairing Primary and Secondary Sources

When choosing readings for assigned readings or class activities, I try to pair short excerpts of primary sources with secondary sources. There are 2 main ve...

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Students when I make them outline their submitted midterm essays in class and they can’t because they used ChatGPT and didn’t even bother to read what they submitted

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Not the automaker in the post header; both of our current Gen4 Mazda3s are worse built than my Gen3. It’s gotta be Hyundai-Kia, right? Is anyone else actually building better products?

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Codify Baseball @codifybaseball.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander leaves the field for the last time.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Explain how that happens" is a legitimate request! And critique! I am happy to explain all sorts of ways LLMs could hurt humanity, but all of those explanation involve careless people doing careless things. Not rogue software. I do not like this moment in time where nobody cares how things work.

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Joe Ligo @joeligo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We interviewed almost 20 workers, the oldest of which started working there in 1951! Their personal stories are woven into the fabric of American Motors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=10yS...

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If you want a rational conversation about tradeoffs you should start by demanding honesty from the industry that has been lying about this technology since its inception, not to mention one of the common talking points being "You're getting this whether you like it or not"

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They could drastically improve the accuracy of this for Detroiters by adding the sentence “I parked the [car] in the [garage] and put the [milk] in the [refrigerator]

My wildly inaccurate dialect map from mydialect.us- I’m not from Minnesota or California!

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Midwestern History Association @midwesternhistory.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

CFP available for #MHA2027 Check out the post below for all the details on how to apply and join us in Indianapolis.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Southbound traffic could still get through if they weren't cowards

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I’m finally working on the actual book proposal for my dissertation (putting real words to real [digital] paper instead of just talking and thinking about it) and I’m amazed at how much better I wrote some of this than I remember it being? My introduction chapter… is kinda fine?

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bezos' WaPo has an editorial today saying data center concerns are overblown and we should celebrate all of the benefits they bring to communities. To avoid providing the outlet more clicks, I'm not providing a link but instead pasting here its deceptions about water impacts.

Washington Post editorial claiming water concerns about data centers are overblown.

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You know what? An upgrade is an upgrade and I’ll take one triple digit day over one double digit day next week. (No I’m not looking at Kokomo and getting depressed) 😂

10 day weather outlook for Dallas: it’s over 100 degrees almost every day with a low above 80

Weather outlook for Statesboro GA, high temps only hit 100 once while the lows remain in the 70s: scattered showers most days

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I suppose this would surprise a whopping nobody but man the Jeep Compass is comp(lete) ass

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Nem @nemrtvi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

not happening lol

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Real quick can someone add “ir” to the scrabble dictionary

I could play Chequer for 140 points, if only “ir” was a real word (NYT scrabble clone game)

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is a very serious problem for libraries, archives, and knowledge-keepers of all kinds. If you don’t control access to your collections, *you do not have collections.* If we do not have permanent access to records, stories, & sources of knowledge then our histories and memories are not our own.

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

T-Minus Six Days Until I Am No Longer A Texas Resident

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

T-minus 1 week until I am no longer a Texas resident 👀

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I’m currently making a new walkthrough video for my surveys for how to use Word, Pages, and LibreOffice (just say no to cloud word processing) to write and format their documents…

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 31/07/2026

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

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How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Emily Hopkins reporting for Mirror Indy @emilyhopkins.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

NEW: Indiana Historical Society layoffs hit education, exhibits teams One former worker said it feels like the organization was "gutted from the inside out." mirrorindy.org/indiana-hist...

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Indiana Historical Society layoffs hit education, exhibits teams

One former worker said it feels like the organization was “gutted from the inside out.”

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

Lucinda Williams Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

FWIW I grew up in the district Haley Stevens represents and no one talked like that. It’s an extremely cosmopolitan, wealthy, and diverse area. Our next door neighbors were immigrants from Iran and Ukraine. My friends were from Mexico and India. The put-upon “okie-dokie” accent is condescending.

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This framing is dumb for a reason I think a lot of people miss: There’s more than a salary at stake! Making $50,000 a year in a white collar desk job is more “lucrative” than making $50,001 working a physically grueling job where your joints, muscles, and spine are ground to dust!

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable

Album cover photo of the Marina apartments in Chicago for Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD

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Midwestern History Association @midwesternhistory.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🚨 CFP Available for MHA Conference 2027 🚨 Hosted by the Indiana State Archives, the conference theme is "Meeting in the Midwest - Intersections and Intersectionalities" Dates: Thursday, May 20–Friday, May 21, 2027. Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Dec 1, 2026, to midwesternhistory2027@gmail.com

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Bomani-Hamlet Cook 🐈‍⬛ @bomani-hamletcook.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I find the lack of treats disturbing

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Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

Charge of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top

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Werner Herzog's Bear @jasontebbe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Always play this Steve Earle song on this day, sung from the point of view of an Irish immigrant soldier in the 20th Maine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z63w...

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YouTube video by Steve Earle - Topic

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Rory Carroll @rorycarroll.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Fireworks actually suck shit. I'd be really captivated by them if I lived a thousand years ago but my house has electricity, I've ridden in a helicopter and seen two of the Avatar movies in IMAX. Grow up.

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It’s insane how both of these franchises have just completely lost my interest; Borderlands 2 and Civ5 are beloved in my friends circle but I frankly forgot Borderlands 4 ever came out and Civ7 just doesn’t… do anything to justify its existence? Civ6 was mid but is cheap as heck 🤷‍♂️ /rant

Civilization VII and Borderlands 4, both 50% off on steam right now, meh

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Kevin Moskowitz @kamoskowitz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Walter White Memorial Shopping Center

Screenshot of a shopping center in San Angelo, TX with a “teacher store” and “House of Chemicals”

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Joe Ligo @joeligo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I don't understand how EV charging companies took a look at the millions of quick, standardized, and easy to operate gas pumps around the country, and said: "How can we make this process worse? I know, let's make it only work through a phone app, and require you to have a membership!"

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