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Karet

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Chicago. Higher Ed. Modernism, Professional Writing, Gertrude Stein, middle-brow writers, periodical studies, DH. Always happy to see your pets. she/her

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 21h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This LinkedIn post was deleted after I posted about it on the other website, but it’s archived here. I guess Christina cares now web.archive.org/web/20250411...
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I returned home a few nights ago after being away for almost 2 weeks to… | Christina Liang
I returned home a few nights ago after being away for almost 2 weeks to celebrate Lunar New Year with my NYC family, attend one of my favorite Cornell events, the annual Pan-Asian Banquet hosted by th...
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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 19h
With both the Cubs and the White Sox playing in the MLB Wild Card Series today, here's a baseball-themed cover from CTA Transit News, the CTA's employee newsletter, from March 1968. www.instagram.com/p/Dd674z8Grkw/
Cover of March 1968 CTA Transit News, with a baseball-themed illustration of a runner sliding into base with the baseman about to catch the ball. An inset photo shows signs reading "BASE BALL WRIGLEY FIELD TODAY" and "BASE BALL COMISKEY PARK TODAY."
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is misleading in a way that the genAI pushers are keen maintain. Machine learning models trained on manuscript images can be very useful for historical research, e.g. they can match disconnected scribal hands. But the 'AI' in this story is using Bodleian material to train fake image generators.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Antique anti-suffrage posters. So what they feared most was being treated the way they treat women.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I commented on this “partnership” already, and this is not good news. Keep commercially acting AI firms out of our cultural heritage.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/09/2026
with Halloween approaching with increasingly louder and more menacing footsteps, here are some lists of spooky movies I've compiled over the years 📽️
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Top Ten Horror Movie Recommendations for Spooktober '25
I've done the Spooktober challenge (watch a horror movie a day for all of October) the last several years, here are my top 10 recommendations from that run
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Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Watched this last night and it's everything I'd heard and more . Koji Yakusho is just wonderful , it's perfectly shot, the music which could be a bit obv just sort of works .#FilmSky
Perfect Days 2023 Dir Wim Wenders
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Lisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Several other cat species have gained recognition after previously being considered subspecies. The tilcayo found in the cloud forests of the Andes Mtns. in Bolivia, is the 1st brand-new feline added to the cat family tree since the pampas cat was described in 1923. #TimelineCleanse #Blues #SheShed
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New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century (Gift Article)
The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”
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Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own
Dude on Threads: If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Important and insightful thread
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Chicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 11/09/2026
We are so excited to announce the launch of a brand new tool for getting engaged with biking in Chicago - our new ward biking map! It'll show you bike routes in your ward, which ones were built this latest aldermanic term, and more. Let's break it down 🧵
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Ward Map | Chicagoans Who Bike
A photo project documenting the stories of the wide variety of Chicagoans who bike around the city
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 09/09/2026
The reason I don't like the "It's the phones!🤡" analysis, is that it's lazy and wrong. I don't care that much if people pick on smartphones. I don't. It's glass and metal and sand. It doesn't have feelings. I care because that lazy analysis causes people to stop caring about poor rural students.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Lizzie Keenan the artist with wood plank inspired crow with hidden owl in eye and salamander on foot!! Rose garden.
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Reading about past White House renovation projects + stumbled across this story about a tough Washington Post series that prompted JFK to call The Post’s publisher (with whom he traded girlfriends) as Jackie Kennedy wept in the background
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is beautiful: Local Photographer Honors Chicago Street Vendors In 1-Day Exhibit. Story by @franciagarciah.bsky.social blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/04/l...
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Local Photographer Honors Chicago Street Vendors In 1-Day Exhibit
Jesus "Chuy" Reyes, known on social media as CR Films, is raising funds for street vendors through a photo exhibit and sale Sunday.
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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
sure man, whatever’s comfortable for you #Cat #Caturday 0l
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Lesbian Death Bed: The Bed that Eats Pussy (pro orph) @bitterkarella.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"in light of jk rowling being a terf, list some kids fantasy authors who are allies" lmao it's all of them, like literally all of them except rowling. like literally
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Do not be saying feminism is over or got overturned or women are worse off when it comes to rights than they used to be if you're talking about the bad old days before second wave feminism. Thread below:
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JD Vance told El-Sayed to stop invoking Usha after AES said: "Do we think JD is taking Usha with him back in time to meet Papaw, or no." But it turns out AES offered this *in response* to something vile that JD previously said about how Papaw would have viewed AES: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Women buried with swords actually used them (how shocking! But also—seriously cool analysis). “These princesses were active practitioners of hunting or athletic skills rather than merely symbolic owners of the weapons found in their tombs,” says Zeinab Hashesh” ⚔️ www.snexplores.org/article/egyp...
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Ancient Egyptian princesses may have been skilled warriors
A study of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the weapons buried with some royal women were merely ceremonial.
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Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 27/08/2026
THREAD: College football teams as Columbo screenshots Oregon
ducks.It's beautiful.
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stevethdemocrat @stevethdemocrat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is horrendous and not one damn life has improved by attacking brown people.
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Ethan Freedman @ethanpfreedman.com · 26/08/2026
Here's my honest question, for any Chicago transit enthusiasts who want to chime in –– why would this train be necessary? Yeah, it can some time get ORD-Loop via the Blue Line, but there is *literally* already a train that makes this trip. All of this to shave 45 mins off a trip with no other stops?
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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)
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r o o @jakepaulsartre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
found out Larry David just starts verbally abusing Alan Dershowitz whenever he sees him, this is very good
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Medieval Military Medicine @medmilmedicine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Soooo distracting - You're trying to read and someone is looking over your shoulder while nibbling your ear - 13th century, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 229, f. 133v
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Jen Rice @jenrice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I am obsessed with this finalist in this year's Michigan “I voted” sticker design contest
Cat saying "I voted now let me sleep"
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16/08/2026
Very strange. The link in the final sentence goes to a polling database, updated the day before this article was published, that includes a poll showing El-Sayed up 6 points. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.
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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"But literacy researchers have long argued that literacy involves far more than reading novels or parsing Victorian prose." Add to this that Victorians themselves exchanged books as objects, had fan communities, read in parts, excerpted in commonplace books, did not "read" in just one way.
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Marcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 11/08/2026
I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?
An old dot-matrix display at the platform of Bay Area Rapid Transit near San FranciscoA license plate in TaiwanA house number in San FranciscoAn old street sign in Szczecin, set in a distinctive typeface
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Linda Yaccarino “Hot dog” tweet
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's a good story, this. Really is.
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I Wrote A Famous Musician A Fan Letter. Decades Later, I Got A Response That Rocked My World.
“Maybe he didn’t have a stamp and then forgot about it. At any rate, it was there, waiting to be found.”
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ConcentratedAndi @concentratedandi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Alexis @alexispace.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Next Senator from Minnesota btw
Peggy Flanagan wearing a "Protect Trans Kids" shirt
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