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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 11h

How it’s going

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 15h

So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images. Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 20h

"All of the World’s Beer Brewed in 2025, by Country" www.visualcapitalist.com/all-of-the-w...

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22h

Gentoo penguins propose with pebbles. If she accepts the stone, the bond is sealed or strengthened, so Edinburgh Zoo scatters colored pebbles every breeding season for males to court their mates.

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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Like the lady said: the psychotic criminal in the Oval Office is a puppet for the murderous Russian dictator and war criminal, Vladimir Putin.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"The whistleblower says FBI supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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FBI whistleblower says White House pushed unconstitutional probe of protesters

The former analyst says supervisors were told not to put things in writing, so many of the directives came in face-to-face meetings.

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/10/2026

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...

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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified

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Elisabeth Van Every @e-van-every.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A sideways HEATED RIVALRY joke in the season premiere of ELSBETH, involving a middle-aged woman and two gay men, and yet the NHL *still* can't figure out how to market this.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Very dystopian that on the article about a A.I. data center poisoning the air, there's a little rainbow A.I. chatbot button just lurking at the edge, waiting to poison the air some more to answer your banal question

The article below with a rainbow tab on the side which initiates a chat bot
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Gadget Revieu_

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EMERGING TECH / AI

Virginia Data Center Ran
Diesel Generators for 24
Hours. Residents Fled Their

Homes

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Sterling residents had no legal recourse as
189 of Virginia's 197 data-center air permits
allow emergency diesel runs without public

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Stefan Popenici @popenici.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"We go to school from 8 am to 6 pm, we give everything, all for *a computer program to decide our lives*" - which is now applicable to virtually everything. A tech-enhanced dystopian reality, courtesy of Silicon Valley (and its useful idiots)

lemonde.fr

Why French students are so angry about Parcoursup, the higher education access platform

Criticism of France's admissions platform for higher learning institutions is one of the main drivers of student protests, where demonstrators want it reconsidered or removed entirely.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

🧵Hidden for over 1,300 years, the Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery tells the story of an enigmatic 7th-century elite community. In a time when England wavered between pagan traditions and a rising Christian faith, a woman frequently referred to as the "Saxon Princess" was laid to

Beads from the Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery (graves 10 and 70) near Loftus, North Yorkshire Image Prioryman CC BY-SA 3.0

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wow, if the Justice Department still existed, Kimberly Guilfoyle would be in so much trouble.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As he evolves in is second childhood, Trump spews vulgarities and racist and misogynistic insults with abandon. And US corporate media cleans up after him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The central issue of our times is that the President of the United States is certifiably insane. Nothing else really comes close.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

“The gift of a $400 million aircraft from Qatar’s royal family stands apart because it involves a transgression the framers identified by name and for which they prescribed impeachment as the remedy: violation of the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause.”

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The Case for Impeachment: In a sea of graft, the gift of a $400 million aircraft stands apart | Opinion

The founders were crystal clear that accepting gifts from foreign governments was constitutionally prohibited and should lead to impeachment.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 08/10/2026

🧵 The Wehrmacht was a CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION responsible for mass crimes against humanity and genocide.🧵 🔥The mother of threads.🔥 Click below for an exhaustive discussion of the criminality of the German Army during WWII as I try to once again kill the cockroach that is the Clean Wehrmacht Myth!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

'Pumpkin fields' by contemporary UK printmaker Louise Stebbing #WomensArt #AutumnWeek 🍂

Print with a view iver a field filled with growing orange pumkins and their green stems and leaves under a purple dusk or dawn sky

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I don’t have to believe everything my brain tells me is also a helpful reminder. Maybe I’ll tuck that in my pocket and try for another hour of sleep. 🫶🏻 I’m grateful to you!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

25 years ago today, the U.S. launched its war in Afghanistan. Weeks earlier, Barbara Lee was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, warning it would be a blank check for forever wars. History has proven her lonely and courageous vote right.

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

THAT’S the perspective shift I need! It’s just waking me at 3AM, mired in self-doubt and -loathing, right now. Thanks for the reminder, very much.

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Experienced the same kind of gutting, casual cruelty as a student, or as an ECR, or even while working on subsequent projects. He doesn’t even know what I’m doing; why would it come so naturally in an offhand conversation with me? And jeez, WHY is it stuck in my head? #mentoring #acwri #history

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’ve written a dissertation, I said. I’m aware of the difference. He just kept laughing. And that’s the feedback I keep remembering. Not the folks in my paper sessions who’ve been ecstatic about the project. Not other profs who have been, too. But the sneering dismissal. Surely my former prof 3/x

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I described the project to my professor. They laughed, and kept laughing as they said, “That’s no book. That’s a paper nobody’s seen yet. You haven’t done anything.” The casual dismissal was not what I expected from someone who’s mentored hundreds of students, and it stung. 2/x

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This week, while working on my book proposal, I was talking with a former prof I thought highly of as their student. Maybe that’s why their comment has prompted such a response? After having gotten great feedback on my paper and having talked with two interested publishers… 1/x

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Mike Wendling @wendling.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It’s odd to be an American speaker at #disinfo2026 after the US government has pressured its allies to drop support … while I’d conservatively say half of what I’ve heard on panels concerns *Russian* disinformation 🤔 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

theguardian.com

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Excellent post (I especially like how the uncertainty of what is actually happening is discussed).

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Today is the 64th anniversary of the London premiere of Dr. No, so it’s time for the story of the theft of not one but two portraits of the Duke of Wellington—because Goya’s portrait of him had been nicked from the National Gallery the previous summer, just 19 days after it went on display

Sean Connery in Dr No’s lair, about to go up a short flight of stairs when he spots a portrait of the Duke of Wellington on a stand. The original had been stolen from the National Gallery the previous year, and this was a joke by the Bond production team

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Stewart Smith @stewartsmithradio.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Honestly though, Jefferson Davis was truly Trump-coded. Loved a crony, no clue how government really worked, only presidential qualification was hosting White House balls, obsessed with ideas like "Army should use camels in American deserts," thought he could tariff everyone into being his friend.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We murdered four more people in a boat today

U.S. southern Command: On October 4, under the direction of #SOUTHCOM, Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere executed a lethal, kinetic strike on a go-fast vessel operating along established narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean. Confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel's active involvement in narco-trafficking. The operation killed four narco-terrorists. @DeptofWar

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Because really lots of these issues are moral, they're ethical they are about policy or regulation". (George Williamson, head of the Alan Turing Institute) Good to see this penny finally drop, but better to have hard-wired Humanities & Social Sciences into the Turing's approach from the outset.

ft.com

UK urged to embrace cheaper AI models

Head of Alan Turing Institute calls for wider debate over technology’s rollout as fears over risks grow

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

FFS… Is it really an accident anymore at this point?

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🟡 From This Month’s Magazine Finding the Right Energy to Tackle Our Existential Climate Dread By @johnmitchinson.bsky.social John Mitchinson finds an inspiring warmth in the reality-checking work of climate justice activist Mikaela Loach

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Finding the Right Energy to Tackle Our Existential Climate Dread

John Mitchinson finds an inspiring warmth in the reality-checking work of climate justice activist Mikaela Loach

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Y'all know Bean Soup Theory? How someone can post a recipe for bean soup and the replies will be "BUT WHAT IF I DON'T LIKE BEANS?!" That is sometimes annoying trolling but it's predominantly people failing to understand how to read for context, understand intended audience, etc.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026

As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore.

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Excellent! I think I’m going to go for “typing passages I like” today, because all the words are rolling around in my head!

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dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I have two conferences propping up a week of work on research and my book proposal. The first is done, an excellent & generative presentation. Though I’m excited, I feel a bit of a pinch: there’s SO MUCH TO DO. What are your favorite tools and tricks to get started on big projects? #acwri #history

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No one can fill this void left by the theft of basic research funding.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Again, <only Republicans> ever get to talk like this. If a single municipal level Democrat ever did, it would be a national outrage &spark a wave of “civility” discourse, & op-eds about how Dems must Respect Real Folkz & talk across difference. Democracy is incompatible with this double standard.

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Andy Burge 🇬🇧🇪🇺 @andygjburge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ninety years ago today, Oswald Mosley tried to march his Blackshirts through the Jewish East End. He had thousands of uniformed fascists behind him and 6,000 police trying to clear the way but the people of the East End got there first.

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