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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 2h

Oh no! That area is really bad right now because of homecoming. Glad to hear you’re OK but that sucks.

Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 2h

I find it kind of insulting for the BPA (and anybody who amplified their statement) to use this incident and the crash victims as an opportunity to fear monger about the need for Flock in Berkeley. Real justice would be making the streets in West Berkeley safer for pedestrians.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 2h

I love to see the police union using a driver hit and run that severely injured two Spanish tourists on University Ave in West Berkeley as a reason why we need ALPRs for “justice”. Cameras are easier to install and maintain than roads that are actually safe. BPD seems to dismiss anything else.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

<— forever miserable because I went from being an A’s fan to a Guardians fan.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Knowing my colleagues, I would not be surprised if any explicit decisions to not add that book to a state DOT collection is a result of collection development policies and narrow allocation of resources. But also I hope this is apocryphal.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Toffoli willed that goal with his whole body.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Am I finally old enough to be a KPFA listener? 🤔

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Rafael H. M. Pereira 🚡 Urban Demographics @urbandemog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you work with GTFS transit data in #rstats, have a look at the new functions in {gtfstools} 📦 v2.0 planned for late Oct - get_calendar_overlap between feeds - stop_times_to_frequencies - interpolate_stop_times - get_stop_frequency - set_ & get_route_frequency More: ipea.github.io/gtfstools/de...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 08/10/2026

And to think, we used to think it was a good idea to attract top-tier global talent to American universities…🤷🏻‍♀️

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brew Crew knocking the Padres out at Petco is 👨‍🍳💋

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

1 - it's funny to hear these students talking to an LLM and sound just like it. 2 - it's also funny hearing people talk about capital and workers, and not in a Marxist since but in a genuine attempt to calculate and extract the value of labor.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"If you change the capital, you change the workers." *mumbling from a GPT* "Go back to worker and what if you increase L? What's going to happen?" *mumblings of GPT*

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

There are some students in my library having some LLM talk to them about the value workers contribute to a company, and how to graph the capital value of workers, and it's hard to listen to.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026

They are becoming more and more explicit that creating dossiers on you and graphing your relationships is the whole point. “Agents” indeed. www.cnbc.com/2026/10/07/m...

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is taking a try-before-you-buy approach with her new photo-centric AI agent startup Dazzle, a tactic she said is important “for those occasional users or those users who are just trying to see what the service can do at the very beginning.”

Dazzle analyzes users’ personal photos to understand aspects of their lives, such as their family members or interests, and then can take actions like reminding someone that a pair of shoes they recently looked up is on sale online.

It’s a strategy she learned from her early tenure at Google
, before the company built its market-leading online ad platform.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's hard to stay up to date with AI news. So I'm going to make an agent to find the news, and then an agent to read and synthesize the news, and an agent to consume that synthesis. So I can spend my brain power on important stuff like clearing out my office.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Truly! I don't know if my brain is conditioned to spot Pat or if he is really the focal point.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The @berkeleyside.org use of this phot for Clark Kerr (far right) is intriguing. Kerr is off the the right, and they don't identify Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos (shaking hands with LBJ) or UCLA Chancellor Murphy. And then of course Pat Brown in the center, radiant as ever.

A big graduation photo. In the front row is then UCLA Chancellor Franklin Murphy, then Mexican president Adolfo López Mateos shaking hands with U.S. President Johnson, and Kerr to the right. Behind them, in the center of the photo is California Governor Pat Brown looking up into the sun.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I didn't realizes @miriampawel.bsky.social will be talking about her new book in Oakland tomorrow night, but she is. I saw her talk last night in Sacramento and it was interesting. (I will have a full review after I finish the book.) Maybe you got a ticket?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Trump says 'Let them take out Los Angeles.' Recall this map: The *entire states* with population smaller than LA County. Among them they have 80+ US Senators. LA is about 1/3 of Calif's population, which has 2.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I bought that tape the day it came out from Tower Records on Watt. The yellow cassette blew my little mind.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Jerry Brown just asked what’s the central core of the university and I really don’t know what UC is in reality.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I believe a Guardians win would do that, since Cleveland losing in 2016 set it all off.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

For real! They saw me looking for a station agent to get the code from and offered it up. Community is everywhere!

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Shout out to the person who just gave me the bathroom code at the Amtrak station in Sacramento. You are a hero.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m still trying to find a fictional book to read, but it’s hard when I see things like this and reading Capital sounds way more fun.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 05/10/2026

when emerging technologies are guided by long-termist utilitarianism, the public gets the deaths and doesn't get the benefits, while the Musks and Kalanicks get vast wealth... the current LLM/AI space is different in many ways, but utilitarian arguments should still be a massive, screaming red flag

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PEN America @penamerica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🧵 Nearly 12,000 (11,982) books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s newly updated Index of School Book Bans. #BannedBooks #BannedBooksWeek

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thinking about a possible fundraiser - if you donate to an org fighting book bans (maybe @everylibrary.bsky.social?) and show me the receipt, I’ll send you this print. Or maybe not.

A small poster that says “book bans are for losers”

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

please do not post photos of barbour jackets in early october if you're not also voting for policies to address global warming

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every East Bay suburb has its own culture, and its own kind of snobs. It’s a funny existence.

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Note to self - The Bullitt is fun as heck to ride and I need to do it more often.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's insane how many ppl even entertain the idea of data fabrication as being good for research.

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UC-AFT Local 1474 @ucaft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Check out the details from our September 24 contract bargaining session at UC Davis. Our Unit 18 table team advanced proposals to protect lecturers’ rights to fair workloads and instructional support. weteachuc.org/2026/09/30/b... #WeTeachUC

A bargaining update flyer for Unit 18, UC-AFT, dated September 24, 2026. It details proposals for job stability, member testimony on classroom conditions, and UC's refusal to respond meaningfully while proposing parking fee increases. A circular inset photo shows people gathered in a meeting room.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In this powerful piece on libraries, this comment stuck out. I went to ALA for the first time this year, and I was struck by the prominent presence of corporate vendors, many of which are sucking libraries dry… www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Photo of librarian Crystal Gates with quote: I would increase access to electronic materials. Our budget can’t keep pace with demand. The book that I can personally get on Kindle or Audible for $3.99 costs my library $80 to $120, and then we have to return it in three years. I’m limited in the number of checkouts or the number of people. I don’t mind one-copy, one-user restrictions. But telling me I’m going to spend $80 on a book that my patrons no longer have access to in 12 months? It’s not getting damaged. It’s not getting wet. It’s not getting torn up.
Crystal Gates, North Little Rock, Ark.
North Little Rock Public Libraries

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What is the new Sharks’ goal song?!??!

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When's the last time you talked about the Master Plan for Higher Education? (I did this weekend.) When's the last time you quoted Jerry Brown? (I did this afternoon.)

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How do people ride analog scooters with crocs?

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's more Florida than their traffic data analytics: hurricanes, tourism, and college football. www.fdot.gov/statistics/d...

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Datalytics

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meeting with students about their research projects is simply the best. Highly recommend it.

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My mom passed off carob as chocolate for the first five years of my life and I’m not over it.

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Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Austin Hedges: "I'm really proud of this group because boy, it wasn't easy. It never is. Just being able to celebrate with this group, to earn that bye, the division runs through Cleveland."

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Kendra K. Levine @kklevine.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

September 26, 2024 was a big day. The A's played their last game at the Oakland Coliseum. @ucaft.bsky.social librarians TA'd our contract after 10 months of bargaining. www.uclibrarians.com/ta-summary/ Remember that day always makes me cry. (Like right now.)

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Ratified Contract Summary - UC-AFT

What We Won: UC Librarians Contract Campaign The full text of the TA’ed articles is available. these versions contain markup. REPRESENTED LIBRARIAN SERIES FISCAL YEAR SALARY SCALE Challenges we aimed ...

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