Reposted by KaretTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2hA real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk. 330371
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Well, I'm a college professor. Your story is unlike anything I have ever witnessed (or my kids, who are in college). 110
Reposted by KaretMr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comA Reckoning in SpringfieldA truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become. 37053181828
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026“This is a valid criticism of liberal arts colleges across the country.” LOL, no need to engage with this nonsense. (Beyond the belly laugh I hope we all shared) 110
Reposted by KaretJacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.” 31371486
Reposted by KaretNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist. 5846851397
Reposted by KaretBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners. 212038380
Reposted by KaretCharles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Experience running a school wasn’t needed. No one from any of the states asked us about our backgrounds or qualifications. No one questioned what we plan to teach or how we would measure whether students are learning.propublica.orgAlmost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur... 1228
Reposted by KaretPrincess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026October is #breastcancerawareness month. Did you know: Mary Claire King discovered the BRCA1 gene. In the 70s, she told people that one gene might be responsible for inherited breast cancer. No one believed her. In 1990, she found proof. It created a paradigm shift. It saved millions of lives.🧪 26934338
Reposted by KaretElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 01/10/2026Today we’re launching Opt Out October, our guide for opting out of certain features and finding alternatives to products made by big tech companies. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgHappy Opt Out October! Let’s Find Real Alternatives to the Tech GiantsOver the years, the major tech companies have found all sorts of ways to embed themselves into our lives. We often use their software, their AI tools, their social media, and their operating systems 6316166
Reposted by KaretDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.” Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...startribune.comPerry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic... 16758296
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026She lost me a long time ago, when she said Tara Reade's allegations were "credible." Not a great judge of character. 2110
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026LOL. I would say The Coldplay Guy though, and apparently they have lots of fans…. but that might just be me. 000
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That’s true! Bono, David Byrne, and Michael Stipe are in that club too, I guess. 110
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026LOL, I refer to most lead singers that way. The Pavement guy. The Big Thief lady. The Replacements guy. The National guy. (even though I know their names, hmmm) 100
Reposted by KaretCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There 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... 11571732055
Reposted by Karetnick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This 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...web.archive.orgI returned home a few nights ago after being away for almost 2 weeks to… | Christina LiangI 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... 555558
Reposted by KaretRachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026With 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/ 16217
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It is nice the way hatred of Rahm really brings Chicago together! Cubs / Sox fans united. 112
Reposted by KaretSimon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 28/09/2026Historic 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? 8238131
Reposted by KaretDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 26/09/2026This 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. 0188
Reposted by Karet𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Antique anti-suffrage posters. So what they feared most was being treated the way they treat women. 361338331
Reposted by KaretDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I commented on this “partnership” already, and this is not good news. Keep commercially acting AI firms out of our cultural heritage. 311736
Reposted by KaretAP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.apnews.comhttps://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d 5542401630
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Tangential to your point, but: Have you seen the Kapow mutual aid guide that KatAbu put out this week? This is the funniest part: 140
Reposted by KaretMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Todd Achilles, a veteran running for U.S. Senate in Idaho as an independent, has a new ad about starting wars. 19856260
Reposted by KaretTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It 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. 8488138
Reposted by KaretGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 20/09/2026with Halloween approaching with increasingly louder and more menacing footsteps, here are some lists of spooky movies I've compiled over the years 📽️letterboxd.comTop Ten Horror Movie Recommendations for Spooktober '25I'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 411723
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Still annoyed that in Rooster, the Steve Carell character is called in for reprimand by a committee every time he makes an off-color joke. There is no "woke police" at colleges! This is a right-wing myth! The ONLY higher ed speech-policing is done by conservatives. 0101
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I don't even know how to watch a Twitch streamer. Is it an app? A website? I do not know, I do not need to know. 121
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I am writing a biography of a poet from the 1920s and learned that she had to contact the New York Times and other newspapers to dispute the news that she was engaged. The man had reported it to the papers! Even though he had never proposed to her! 192
Reposted by KaretGargarin @gargarin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Watched 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 4144
Reposted by KaretLisa 🇨🇦 @pinkmouse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Several 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 #SheShednytimes.comNew 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. 35413
Reposted by KaretRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026PSA: 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! 320555
Reposted by KaretSaeed 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.”theankler.comPrivate Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The AnklerLike music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP 58559338
Reposted by KaretDr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own 10065501391
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Did you know that The Pit inspired a hit card game? americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...americanhistory.si.eduPit Card Game, Bull and Bear EditionParker Brothers developed The Pit card game in 1904, with this Bull and Bear edition dating between 1912 and 1915. 120
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 13/09/2026All Chicago, all the time: Sister Carrie, The Pit, The Jungle, So Big, Native Son, Man with the Golden Arm, Humboldt’s Gift, House on Mango Street, Crossing California, Divergent. 181
Reposted by KaretBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026Once 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... 231183430
Reposted by KaretMatthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Important and insightful thread 181
Karet @kleick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reminds me of the nuclear war discourse of the 80s. “The Day After” was such incredible propaganda. (My family watched it together, like everyone else). 020
Reposted by KaretChicagoans Who Bike @chiwho.bike · 11/09/2026We 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 🧵chiwho.bikeWard Map | Chicagoans Who BikeA photo project documenting the stories of the wide variety of Chicagoans who bike around the city 912654