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S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social · 10h

“Your students study astrophysics… philosophy, artificial intelligence, and something called Operations Research and Information Engineering, which I do not understand but assume is more complicated than calling 911.” Congrats, Cornell, you’ve killed satire on top of everything else.

mcsweeneys.net

An Open Letter to Cornell University from the Mother of a Prospective Male Student

“Seven former Cornell students are accused in a civil lawsuit of sexually assaulting another Cornell student who says she was incapacitated. Messages alleged...

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Uncle Lonny @unclelonny.bsky.social · 16h

#USDemocracy

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 13h

To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19h

The press will do stories on Republican sex creeps, but it will never, ever point out -- much less make an ongoing narrative out of -- the fact that the GOP has been *ridden* with sex creeps for decades. You have to be blind not to see the pattern.

nytimes.com

Dennis Hastert, Powerful Politician Disgraced by Child Sexual Abuse, Dies (Gift Article)

The longest-serving Republican speaker of the House admitted in 2016 to abusing teenage boys decades earlier. He was 84.

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Aaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · 05/10/2026

I agree with the conclusions (see linked piece) but this article uses unconvincing strawman arguments. All of the supposedly human-only procedures he describes can be formulated in a computational manner with computational motivations. aaronhertzmann.com/2026/07/13/b...

aaronhertzmann.com

The Brain Is Not Just A Computer, and Cannot Be Simulated by One

Digital computers perform fixed logical operations on clock cycles; brains are biological systems of staggering complexity.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 03/10/2026

Absolutely wild to me that mathematicians can't be bothered to use their own brains to write a statement about AI use in math education. maa.org/wp-content/u...

This statement was developed with the assistance of AI tools used by contributors for various
purposes including drafting, note-taking, and summarizing, and was human-reviewed and
approved by the MAA Board prior to publication.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And note how many of the Republican pundits and elected officials saying these things are white guys with Ivy degrees. Their kids aren’t getting blue collar jobs. They’re unlikely to enlist in the military either.

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 01/10/2026

It’s going to be really interesting when the civic center right and the AI right start to go to war against each other over the future of public higher ed. One wants you to misread Edmund Burke; the other doesn‘t want you to read anything, just debate AI Socrates.

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Most of the time I am very happy to tell people why I chose to get a tattoo of Judith with the severed head of Holofernes. Occasionally, I instead want to just gesture at The Entire World. This week has been a lot of "occasionally."

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Cat Alyst 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) @catalystmeow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes. We have existed before words could describe us... Just like the Earth existed before we named it the “Earth” Existence precedes definition.

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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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S.E. Danesti @seedanesti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Artificial Intelligence is now Super Intelligence. Pedophile Trump is now Super Pedophile Trump.

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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 29/09/2026

Damn Yeah. We can love the promise of our country. We can love the good and build better. "I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"—James Baldwin

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The reason there is lower "ROI" from a college degree now than in 1970s is women made up about 40% of the college population in 1970 and over 60% now... and the five top fields women go into (teaching, nursing, social work, librarianship, arts/nonprofit administration) are all underpaid.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm all for ruining the lives of rapists. Who's with me on that?

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Steve T PhD @thelasttheorist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"If you learn these four words you can become chair." "If you tell me what the words are, I will punch you."

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Caroline Baxter @convergingriskslab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Such assumptions are the equivalent of the medical GoFundMe - heartening at a distance, a symptom of the real disease up close.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“ME TOO went too far” said the country that re-elected a rapist.

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Physghoul 👻 🎃 @physgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just needs alt-text:

How to avoid sexual assault! A QUICK AND EASY GUIDE*

sexual violence centre cork

1 DON'T PUT DRUGS IN PEOPLE'S DRINKS

4 WHEN YOU SEE A WOMAN WALKING BY HERSELF, LEAVE HER ALONE.

3 WHEN YOU COME ACROSS SOMEONE WHO IS DRUNK OR ASLEEP, THE BEST THING TO DO IS NOT RAPE THEM.

6 CARRY A WHISTLE. IF YOU THINK YOU MIGHT RAPE SOMEONE, BLOW THE WHISTLE UNTIL SOMEONE COMES TO STOP YOU.

2 USE THE BUDDY SYSTEM! IF YOU CAN'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SEXUALLY ASSAULTING SOMEONE, ASK A TRUSTED FRIEND TO ACCOMPANY YOU AT ALL TIMES TO STOP YOU.

5 IF YOU ARE IN A LIFT AND SOMEONE STEPS IN, REMEMBER NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT THEM.

*for perpetrators.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 30/09/2026

How many times must we say this? AI* software does not “go rogue” any more than your printer “got religion” when it stopped working Sunday. Software does not have intent or agency. People do. And this feels like some people might be exposed to liability. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/t...

Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue, two employees raised an alarm with top executives. They were ignored.

In emails, the employees said they worried that OpenAI’s newest artificial intelligence models were not being appropriately monitored during testing to gauge the technology’s sophistication and to secure the models, according to messages viewed by The New York Times.

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TommyBoy @tampatom69.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She’s right.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

These precautions aren’t paranoia. They’re lessons passed from mothers to daughters about navigating a world where women can face harassment, stalking, assault, and violence simply for existing. The responsibility should be on all of us to challenge the behaviors that create that danger.

Harrison James ®
@itsharrijames
Women have spent generations changing their behaviour to stay safe from men. Don't walk home after dark.
Cover your drink. Don't fall asleep at the party. Keep one headphone out.
Carry your keys between your fingers.
Text when you get home. Let him down gently. Don't be too friendly, but don't be too rude. Give him a fake number.
Have an exit plan. Screenshot the threats before blocking him.
Here's a radical idea: maybe the people creating the danger should be the ones expected to change their fucking behaviour?!

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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paveltomancak.bsky.social @paveltomancak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

No true scientist will outsource the fun of the creative process to a machine. We must focus on finding and eradicating the science operators who will stop at nothing to get more recognition & power. The impostors can be identified. We need to rely more on the good old human interactions.

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snoobles @snoobles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Call it Trump intelligence - it’s loud, wrong, and stealing everything it can.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.

engadget.com

Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget

Sure, seems safe.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Cornell gang r*ape case has me wanting to burn down everything. An ESSAY?! For drugging and r*aping a woman for SEVEN HOURS and advertising it on the fraternity group chat? And no one stopped it, called security, did a damn thing? ARE YOU FCKING KIDDING ME?

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.

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Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee @janeroehopeful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MEN stand up and be men. Stop raping women & children. Stop your male friends & relatives from doing these things. Men: raise your sons not to rape. Teach them to intervene, to stop their friends from this behavior.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

And to be honest, though the systems are so complex you can never prove causation, the fact that our descent into the dumbest politics follows on four decades of systematic, institutional disinvestment from the liberal arts seems almost too on the nose and yet here we are.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.

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greencentaur.bsky.social @greencentaur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

THE DEMS NEED TO OPPOSE AI! In a nutshell AI is about doing our thinking for us - that is a Fascist idea. Why go to university when you have AI? Why use the library when you have AI? Why read books when AI will do summaries for you? Teachers are already noticing our IQ and vocabulary are dropping.

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tmoney2007.bsky.social @tmoney2007.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I think we need a law assigning liability for the actions of agentic programs to the companies themselves. They're obviously trying to cement the idea that these programs aren't controllable or predictable.

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hurry up and do it 💥

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Academics trying to publish a gazillion papers cannot resist the temptation of using AI cause it's not abt knowledge making for them. It's abt themselves. So far AI is just a self serving, narcissistic tool that does the "hard work" people don't want to do. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

washingtonpost.com

One professor’s AI-assisted output: 200 papers and 14 books this year

An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.

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James Andrew Smith @drsmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

These Apple spy watches will be used by students in exams to cheat. I wish my employer would help instructors and exam invigilators by outright banning them, along with Meta spy glasses and other creepy wearables. youtu.be/pOX1l1edBME?...

youtu.be

The Apple Watch Has a Problem

YouTube video by Marques Brownlee

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Robert Rubsam @robrubsam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My friend who works in education always says that we want education to solve all our society's problems, when we should see those problems as something we must solve in order to have good education

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not ‘shape’ they want to destroy and pervert education as a project. They make it very clear that teachers and professors are their enemies and that schools and universities cannot exist as they do now. They want complete control of education; as their fascist desires necessitate that.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is the next step toward murdering people en masse.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/09/2026

As Alex notes in this thread, AI doesn't "democratize" science. Rather, it compels scientists to rely on anti-egalitarian means of directing their attention.

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