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Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces

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𝔍𝔬𝔢 @joeblivion.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

December 25th. The day the Fellowship departs Rivendell to destroy the One Ring. Whatever you celebrate, may you have the courage to take the first steps to defy and endure against the dark, and rekindle light into the world.

December 25 The Company of the Ring leaves Rivendell at dusk.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I teach “western civ” courses that would, on the surface, adhere to these loose guidelines, but how I cover the material wouldn’t. It’s a lot of fun. I think “the canon” is useful as an idea to teach with even at an introductory level. It’s not a perfect metaphor here, but I try to tell it slant.

Tell all the truth but tell it slant — (1263)
BY EMILY DICKINSON

Tell all the truth but tell it slant —
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind —

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

A large portion my BA to PhD was completed at a small window table at Borders, usually accompanied by a chai latte or one the delicious cheese stuffed soft pretzels they made. So yummy. I miss those pretzels. They were open til 11, 7 days a week.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

Screenshot from statement “Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers. Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.”

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I’ve repeatedly said to admin if you want me to devote SLAC level attention to my students, I need you to give me SLAC course loads and seat caps.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

“the tent shrank” translation, “the tent got bigger, AND I was asked to think about my own complicity in structural inequalities, where before I could be assured in my liberal bonafides, and that made me feel icky in my tummy.”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Indeed. LLMs are LLMs. Machine learning is machine learning. AIs are Astro Boy, Robby the Robot, Cmdr Data, the Ghost in the Shell Puppet Master, etc. I will not use the term for anything less. Don’t feed the hype machine. Don’t call it AI.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/09/2025

You also need to say this shit when people get fired for mentioning their personal gender or get roughed up for looking at ICE the wrong way. Come the fuck on. If you believe this, believe it for everyone.

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ScribbleJotterAmy @scribblejotter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Found an even better image of it on face thing:

Photograph of a screenshot of the erased banksy image with shadows of iron bars/railings projected on it posted by Lesley @lesthecroc with the comment “they removed it” quote posted by the archbishop of banterbury with the comment: “The Shadows of those bars are so Symbolic”

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I mean, everything about this thread is correct. However the shoehorning of learning outcomes or skills unrelated to a course’s objectives is something those of us in the gen ed trenches have had to do for at least a decade. I don’t teach writing but boy do I have to teach writing. So, uh, welcome.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Would read this and the series that followed.

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New Flesh 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @esedia.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Why do I follow any given account? I saw them say something funny/interesting or they liked one of my stupider/more obscure jokes.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I am to be this prof. Sometimes I succeed. Mostly I’m just 90% cringe.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 27/08/2025

NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point they’ll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. 🥪 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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Grand jury declines to indict man who threw a sandwich at federal officer in D.C.

The former Justice Department attorney who threw a sub at federal officers in Washington, and came to be known as "Sandwich Guy," was not indicted on a federal felony charge.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Since this place is new & today is the anniversary of Gettysburg, I'll re-up my periodic reminder that Union Day/April 9 should be our 2nd most important federal holiday, where we hold ceremonies at Appomattox NP & recall how Ely Parker absolutely owned the racist traitor Robert Edward Lee.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2025

To put all this much shorter: the right's vaccine denialism is not the left's fault. They didn't arrive at that skepticism because of something the left did. They SAY that, of course, because they blame the left for everything, but liberals don't have to take them at their word! They lie a lot!

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

BREAKING: Baptist minister, James Grote, was just arrested under the Terrorism Act. His alleged crime? Holding a placard outside his church in Oxford which said: "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2025

genuinely difficult for me to get into the headspace of someone so insanely narcissistic that their response to criticism and dislike is to say "everyone who disagrees with me isn't an actual human being."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

ICE, DC Police, Park Police, DHS, and HSI brutally arrested a man who refused to provide identification after being stopped for eating in public. Goons attempted to stop community members from recording his injuries during the incident.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Their memorials are history. Ours are political. Because as always, there are two sexualities - straight, and political. Two genders - male, and political. Two religions - Christian, and political. Two races - white, and political.

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

It's worth noting that the piece was naturally not popular with the commenters, and that the most upvoted one is probably as cogent an argument in favor of the reverse as you could find - which is to say, it's the clearest example of the faith in abstract math as a controlling force

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I’m disappointed in Aeon for publishing such a poorly argued piece. There’s nothing in here that directly argues against the information processing metaphor. The author gives a bad argument that he thinks lies behind the metaphor and shows why that argument is bad. But a) I don’t recognize this argument as what motivates the metaphor and b) to show that one argument for a conclusion fails is not to show that the conclusion is false. The author often points to differences between us and actual computers. No one who employs the information processing metaphor is (should be?) claiming that we are *identical* to human-made computers. Rather, the claim is that there’s some abstract sense of ‘information processing’ under which both human brains and computers are implementations. In order for both of those things to be implementations, they need not do so with the exact same kinds of mechanisms, nor must they have the exact same kinds of abilities. (This is why I find the discussion of the dollar drawing case so strange - no one is claiming that we store visual representations of objects in the way that an actual human-made computer does.) When the author writes: “To catch the ball, the player simply needs to keep moving in a way that keeps the ball in a constant visual relationship with respect to home plate

and the surrounding scenery (technically, in a ‘linear optical trajectory’). This might sound complicated, but it is actually incredibly simple, and completely free of computations, representations and algorithms.” What he describes is not a non-algorithm. Insofar as it’s a procedure that takes in certain inputs and follows a series of steps in order to achieve some goal - it just *is* an algorithm, albeit a somewhat simple one. More importantly, the author seems to misunderstand what is meant when researchers say that the brain ‘runs’ an algorithm. Of course *you* don’t consciously crunch numbers when your visual system is chugging away, trying to analyze and sort through the…data…it’s getting from the retina. But the lack of *conscious* computation is not evidence for the complete lack of computation. There are all sorts of legitimate criticisms of cognitive science - and the author discusses some of these at the end of the piece without really understanding/explaining what’s going on behind them. But the author says nothing convincing that it’s the failure of the information processing metaphor that explains the limitations/failures of cognitive science.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

TIASFU is the new TGIF

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 14/08/2025

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

To me, this is Digital Humanities

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Tense scene out here. People booing and shaming unidentified federal law enforcement as they stand in the middle of the street, posted to pull people over for random checks.

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 12/08/2025

Kim Davis going from "my religious beliefs demand that I don't facilitate a same-sex marriages" to "my religious beliefs demand that there are NO same-sex marriages anywhere" *should* make Democrats realize there is no "sincere" compromise with bigots on trans issues.

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BurnieHanders 😨🔥👐 @maypolesyrup.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

I wish I could whisper into the ear of every one of these people and tell them "using AI at work is training your replacement, and the replacement is insultingly bad"

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Duckwing Dark @publiusmaximus.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Power cannot "do whatever it wants" is the CORE TENNANT of liberalism. And it is the absolute foundation of American political theory. If power is allowed to do whatever it wants, then America is dead.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

I have read far too many LLM generated “interpretations” of poetry. They all read like they were written by a person who mistakes rhetorical sleights of hand for actual insight. “A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion.” 1/2

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Half of what gets pushed into my feed is from fake people using LLM generated content. Some of these accounts have a large subscriber base as well. It gets more unusable every time I look.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Randomly trolling through my google scholar citations, and someone referred to me as a “political scholar,” which was news to me, but it works in its own way. Not being able to place my work neatly into one discipline has always been my strength and downfall.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

“AI” is not simply creating a cognitive crisis in learners; it’s also failing to deliver on its own terms (pedagogical “efficiency”) bc it demands that those still committed to educational quality devise nonsensical workarounds, turning our classrooms into bizarre Rube Goldberg learning machines.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 23/07/2025

Hi, I'm a university administrator. I'm unwilling to pay teaching assistants a living wage so I tell profs to churn an acre of forest and a small pond's worth of water through the Labour Rights Subversion Machine every time they need to grade a paper

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Spaceweft @spaceweft.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Imma tattoo this on the forehead of every single techbro, C-Suite, and university upper admin person I can hold down.

Graphic with ribbon reading "Stop forcing A.I. into fucking everything" with the words "Nobody asked for it" and "Everyone hates it" encircling the ribbon text.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

there's an actual genre of analysis that acknowledges that for generations people used to buy and sell other humans, aided by a comprehensive system of apartheid that continued for generations later, but nevertheless blames the resurgence of open bigotry on a decade or so of cringe Tumblr posts

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

As someone who’s been a Democrat for only six weeks, I think this is such an important point. We’re either a big tent, or we aren’t. And if we are a big tent, that means progressives unite around a moderate nominee, and moderates unite around a progressive nominee. Period.👇

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

In a habeas corpus suit against DHS, Lionel Flores was arrested at his ISAP check-in. When he ask ICE agents why he was being arrested they, said "judges orders don't matter, only the President." After telling them he had a lawyer, they replied "that doesn't matter either."

3. Leonel called me and told me that he was arrested. He said immigration officers went up to him at his ISAP check-in and told him he was under arrest. Leonel said he asked the officers why and informed them he had an order from the judge. The officers said something like ''judges' orders don't matter, only the president."
4. Leonel told me that he told the officers he had an attorney, but the officers said, ''that doesn't matter either.''
5. Leonel later called me from jail in Santa Ana. He said that it was a small space, and he heard people there were being taken to San Diego or Texas. Then he had to hang up.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This argument comes from the same STEM people who’ve derided the humanities & liberal arts as easy & unnecessary to elevate their own sense of intellectual superiority. It’s equivalent of “the blue wallpaper doesn’t MEAN anything” & “I could do that” critiques of contemporary art.

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Erika @ladyoftallness.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Wait, this isn’t satire? AI shaming makes me feel bad. In this essay I will… It’s like a Reddit post.

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