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Kate Zwaard

@kzwa.bsky.social
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have been doing too much thinking about what “Inspector Gadget” taught my generation of women…
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Glad to share that my class anxiety is now evidence based. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...
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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations (Gift Article)
Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I told Extremely Offline Husband that some of you started calling the Anthropic employees who said they might or might not be ending humanity “Sloppenheimer” and he thought that was funny and clever.
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10milestereo.bsky.social @10milestereo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
It’s super frustrating to have been an adult during the golden age of blogging, only to have (usually younger) people tell you how much blogs sucked. I much preferred my Google Reader feed to the social media endless scroll. If it were still an option, I’d abandon this app in a second.
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Library of Congress has just released a collection of first-hand accounts from 9/11 responders www.loc.gov/collections/...
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About this Collection | Benjamin Luft Collection of 9-11 Oral Histories | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
The Benjamin Luft Collection of 9/11 Oral Histories contains 484 interviews of responders to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and some of their family members, as wel...
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our model of scholarly credit relies on tacit norms learned during academic training. What happens when new major players don't know these norms and also have incentive to ignore them? www.science.org/content/arti...
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How an AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy
OpenAI spent millions to solve Navier-Stokes problem, but who should get credit?
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
President Donald Trump sent thousands of National Guard to Washington as what he has said is an effort to get tough on an epidemic of crime. They seldom actually fight crime. Soldiers have been involved in about 1.3% of the city's criminal cases since they arrived. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
If you’re going to repeat a “fact” you read on Facebook, watched on TikTok, or heard from a friend, you have to verify it with a trusted source
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Understanding the truth, as far as you are able, before forming an opinion is a moral imperative. And, even then, you must hold it loosely
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you post survey data, news articles, etc. without a link back to the source whenever possible, you are weakening the informational chain of custody and making it harder for other people to confirm that they're seeing accurate information. This holds even if you're mad at whatever it is.
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Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I put a Spotify code on my rear window. Today, at a red light, I saw someone take a photo of it and proceed to laugh their a** off. This is what the code plays. 🦭
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Quote from article explaining that the authors believe the intrusion was the AI agent independently looking for the solutions to the benchmark models they were being tested against
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I got to sit next to a very cute baby on my flight today. Felt like winning the lottery. I didn’t even pay extra!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
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We used to be able to buy things in this country
Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 13/07/2026
Hey, New Yorkers: Mayor Mamdani is recreating the city's digital service, after Mayor Adams destroyed it. They're hiring devs, designers, and product folks to work on-site in Brooklyn, starting now. You don't even have to be a city resident. Get on it!
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NYC PIT Crew
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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ideas on what to do about ticks www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/o...
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Opinion | We’re Living in a Tick Nightmare. It’s Time to Go to War. (Gift Article)
With ticks, we’ve barely begun to fight back. The longer we wait, the more territory they will claim across both our geographic and psychic maps.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 10/07/2026
Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.
Book cover for Seeing Like a Supply Chain: the Hidden Life of Logistics by Miriam Posner shows a colorful arrangement of lines that branch out as they descend.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.
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What Broke Monticello - The American Prospect
How a right-wing smear campaign tried to silence the reality of Thomas Jefferson’s life, and in some ways succeeded.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/06/2026
I, like you, am tired of I-talked-to-a-Trump-voter-in-a-diner stories. But newly published research that involved weeks of contact with conservatives and their communities offered some novel insights that I hadn't considered. So I wrote about it. Gift link: shorturl.at/3FeaO
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The mistake many people make when trying to understand Trump voters
A new study suggests concerns about democracy may not resonate with Trump supporters the way many assume.
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Visiting Boston this week, and I want #Scotland to know that the city is mourning your absence. It comes up on every conversation. I overheard one lady say, “I think it’s going to rain all week because the Scots left” #FIFAWorldCup 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇸
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I want to put this in perspective. This is how long it would take to spend $1trillion, without ever making another dollar. If you spent ONE MILLION DOLLARS every single day, it would take over TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS! that's longer than Jesus been gone
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
What a weird way to describe a hearing aid... "O’Leary... swears by the Starkey, a sophisticated Bluetooth listening device that, when tucked into the ear, is almost invisible." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/s...
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It Takes Two (or Three) Phones to Make a Thing Go Right
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slightly increase a band: They Might be Titans
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 18/04/2026
Nikyle Begay is rekindling Diné weaving techniques that have been suppressed by colonial market preferences. Begay tells us the history of twill weaving and their involvement in each aspect of their creative process, from breeding and shearing sheep to weaving long-undervalued twill patterns.
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Nikyle Begay Resurrects Century-Old Diné Weavings
As an artist and shepherd, Begay facilitates their own creative process, from breeding and shearing to weaving long-undervalued twill patterns.
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They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!
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Dr. Amy, PsyD 🎃 @dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com · 13/04/2026
Were Were those the only two options
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Lucavi @lucavi_ftw
good news everyone
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Potatoes are better than human blood for making space concrete bricks, scientists say.
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Licensed content and proprietary devices continuing to play out exactly as expected
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The average cost of daycare in DC is north of $30K a year www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"Big picture — 15 years, 25 years from now, does the Republic survive or not? I think it’s an open question, but I think we do." -- Ben Sasse www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Extend your Claude usage limits through careful prompting x.com/0x_kaize/sta...
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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.
 
it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
GWU's cost of attendance for new students will be $98K next year. It's worth noting two things: 1) The average student pays far less after aid, and www.usnews.com/best-college... 2) If you parked four years of that in an index fund, you'd have more than $2M in 20 years.
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Undergraduate tuition to climb 3 percent next academic year
The increase will bring GW’s estimated total cost of attendance to $95,155 for new students and $98,165 for returning students during the 2026-27 academic year.
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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Also in new writing today: this month's column for @prospectmagazine.co.uk, in which a brilliant student of mine and I figure out how AI can accelerate our research... which sometimes means doing dumb shit really fast: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
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Why artificial intelligence is no substitute for real learning
AI can supercharge the work of experts and those who understand it, like my “centaur” student. But it can also stop beginners from learning anything a...
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"This is part of the tech that is addictive to us by design encourages the worst of humanity. If you lace a lie with fear, anger, and hate, it spreads faster." www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYdM...
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Maria Ressa on Radical Collaboration: Why It’s the Antidote to Big Tech
YouTube video by Global Investigative Journalism Network
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 30/03/2026
I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I have invented the perfect breakfast: two glasses of metamucil, a core milk, and a sugar-free redbull. Mix after drinking, not before.
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"I look for one thing above all else: has this person built something where they were the sole reason it exists? ... is there a thing in the world, used by real people, that would not exist if this person hadn't decided it should?" www.anantjain.xyz/posts/agency
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Agency
Holding the entire loop in your head and acting on it
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Meta signals the end of the Metaverse, after a $80 billion investment www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/t...
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The Long Farewell to Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The Labor Department has launched a "Make America AI Ready" initiative beta.dol.gov/ai-ready
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AI Ready
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
AI "excels at prediction within existing frameworks, but paradigm shifts require replacing these with simpler alternatives whose implications haven’t yet been explored... We must build visionary machines rather than merely predictive ones." www.asimov.press/p/ai-science
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Designing AI for Disruptive Science
Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Like handing a toddler a shotgun www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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Anthropic's Claude Can Now Control Your Computer
The developer is boosting Claude's agentic capabilities in an apparent effort to compete with platforms like OpenClaw.
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
"This is all exacerbated by how much of the A.I. industry is led by people who see human thought as raw material, like a steel manufacturer sees ore." @ftrain.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived
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Kate Zwaard @kzwa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Videos from CNI’s Fall 2025 Membership Meeting are posted! www.cni.org/mm/fall-2025 Please consider submitting a proposal for the next meeting (April 13–14, Salt Lake City). ANYONE is welcome to submit! The form is open until February 13. www.cni.org/mm/spring-20...
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Project Briefing Proposals
CNI Spring 2026 Membership Meeting April 13-14, 2026 Hyatt Regency Salt Lake City Submit a proposal by February 13 About the Briefings Project briefings (presentations) are the heart of every membe…
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