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Linda Voris

@lindavoris.bsky.social
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Stein scholar, professor, American University. Book, "The Composition of Sense in Gertrude Stein's Landscape Writing," link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-…

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.
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Tech Hype is Cannibalizing the Future
Every day, we are told that we live in the future—but hype is eating the future and leaving us the bones," writes Sun-ha Hong.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This Is Fascism
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A cycling route between Daejeon and Sejong includes sections covered with solar panels. The installation generates electricity, provides shade, and separates cyclists from traffic using barriers. It offers protection from rain during journeys by bicycle.
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More Perfect University @mpuniversity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@aoc.bsky.social: The best thing that we can do to rein in runaway costs at private institutions is by having tuition free public colleges and universities. “For anyone who wants to say that that’s pie in the sky and unrealistic… this is literally what baby boomers gave themselves.”
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyway I have never really read a voice's like Dorothy West's before. she was one of the very few women recognized in the Harlem Renaissance and rightly so. Her two novels are about Black and mixed-race people in the 1940s and 1950s who are either part of or adjacent to wealth
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“So the bottom line is Trump doesn’t do the show anymore.” “Yeah.” That time Dave Letterman said Trump stopped doing the show unless he apologized for calling Trump “racist” — and Dave wouldn’t do it.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Quite remarkable, what a coincidence
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💙🪄 Keep Rising 🪄💙 @keeprising.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
♥️ anyone else weeping happy tears ❤️💛💚💜🤎🧡🤍🦋🕊🌱
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This 1930s European porcelain piece IG: @barhat.home www.instagram.com/barhat.home?... www.tumblr.com/tagged/parap...
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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🧵 Really worth reading. And following @olivia.science if you aren’t already. Especially if you want thoughtful consideration of the current AI models.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/09/2026
The history is also informative.
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
a white man, a jamaican woman, an african man, and a black man walk into a restaurant....
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It's Still Autocomplete @itsautocomplete.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And there it is, the whole reason we've out of the blue been subjected to National AI Psychosis Week
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 19/09/2026
Hundreds are at the Kennedy Center right now with one message: Trump, this center belongs to the people, not you. WATCH LIVE: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
THIS!👇🏼
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/09/2026
It’s easy to see why the AI companies wanted to hide this from the public. The statements are some of the most damning indictments of the ways LLMs were trained, how they work, and the immediate threat they pose to human labor. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026
"AI folks have spent a long time talking to one another, and their explanations not just for what they’re attempting to build but why they have to build it are layered, heavily contingent thought experiments, rich in metaphor, full of prediction, and articulated in terms of game theory."
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Why Everyone’s Talking About the AI Apocalypse
The AI-safety people finally have the public’s attention. Now what?
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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
All of these things require well-compensated faculty with small enough teaching loads that they can devote considerable time to each class.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is wild.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Sam Altman said as he raised safety concerns over artificial intelligence
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OpenAI IPO Will Not Happen In 2026 Amid AI Safety Fears, Altman Says
The tech firm’s CEO told Fortune it would be “an ill-advised moment to go public.”
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kristinekenyon.bsky.social @kristinekenyon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The business model that they have embraced is uniquely antithetical to shared human existence” 🤯 @naomiaklein.bsky.social is speaking the terrifying truth, we are witnessing it happen. This isn’t just “pr” and those saying so are in denial. Get mad and demand accountability.
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Lane, actually 🥄⚧️✊ @laneactually.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Timeline cleanse: remember, we are but one of the species on this rock ❤️
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you need to watch two normal human beings after watching this convention tonight, here you go.
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Kamala Harris on public service and if she’s going to run for president in 2028
YouTube video by Megan Rapinoe
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🎶🎶 Gas is still high 🎶🎶
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
OpenAI set $22M on fire just to steal $1M from a human who did the actual work, and that’s the business plan our economy is betting everything on? Lol.
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Kristine ❤️>$ @knaturegirl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sing along...if you dare....
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
But other than that ...
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 08/09/2026
She was only six years old. In 1960, Ruby Bridges helped desegregate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans, escorted by federal marshals. That little girl turns 72 today. Happy Birthday, Ruby Bridges. ♥️ #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Side-by-side photos of Ruby Bridges as an adult and as a six-year-old child. The childhood image shows Ruby smiling in the doorway of William Frantz Elementary School in 1960, wearing a plaid dress and light-colored jacket.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It matters because of the narrative spun round the mathematical results. But some folks are so deep in that narrative I think they can't even see it. Thankfully, mathematicians (not all, but many) aren't: bsky.app/profile/emil...
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Gimmie.
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Mexico launches its own electric car to show it can do more than build for other countries
The Mexican government has launched its own line of electric vehicles, with technology from China under the hood.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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phoenixrising @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Romare Bearden (1911-88) : Circe, 1977 Collage on paper mounted to fiberboard 15 × 9-3/8 inches The Chazen Museum of Art Bearden created a cycle of collages and watercolors, Black Odyssey, based on Homer’s epic poem, “The Odyssey.”
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/05/2023
Sharing this paper from 2021 with @abeba.bsky.social for bluesky to check out! 😌 Birhane, A. & Guest, O. (2021). Towards Decolonising Computational Sciences. Women, Gender & Research. doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v29i2.124899
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If "Get Low" was a musical. Person applying lip gloss and doing dance routine while singing in bathrobe 🎶🎼
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 05/09/2026
sharing again for the weekend crowd. the humanities aren't in crisis, they're under attack -- because they're dangerous to people in power, because they ask their students to imagine possible worlds.
from the article: "Our tendency to see religion as a matter of personal, interiorized belief has led us to view its study as intellectually niche—or, to put it in neoliberal corporate speak—as a “low-skill” distraction. This is true of how we view the Humanities in general, of course—that, as Lauren Horn Griffin has so well explained, they’re seen as little more than “personal enrichment.” But that, she continues, is a right-wing act of controlling unruly ideas, of pushing to the margins disciplines that ask difficult questions of “invisible” power structures—say they’re irrelevant, deny them resources, call them “unprofitable,” make them disappear. But faculty, especially but not exclusively in Religion and other Humanities disciplines, often work directly against these forces. Because the discipline of Religion is attuned to issues of (presumed) interiority as well as actions in the public sphere, it’s these faculty who are some of the best situated to ask uncomfortable questions of those in power—be they federal policymakers or university administrators. 

At (regional) public universities like ours, this means highlighting a population that is quite different by class, race, gender, and sexuality than found at, for example, the Ivies. Humanities education, including Religious Studies, helps inure students to authoritarian thinking. At their best, the Humanities are attentive to the frictions that create lived experiences—particularly those that are oftentimes marginalized. The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds."
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Wrote a thing about Gloria Steinem and how profoundly feminism changed and continues to change the world.
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Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone
To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists, and to live among peers who sometimes remember that country and among younger people who mostly don't know how different the p...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: Devastating new report from @humanrightswatch documents the dismantling of civil rights enforcement in the year and a half since Trump took office. “This report documents what was lost and what it is costing the victims of discrimination.” www.hrw.org/report/2026/...
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Remedies Abandoned
The 112-page report, “Remedies Abandoned: US Civil Rights Enforcement Under the Trump Administration,” documents the administration’s efforts to unravel the work of four key agencies between January 2...
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A doc for teachers and parents who want to push back:
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026
If you are still asking why regular people hate ai, you aren’t paying attention.
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Federal judge rules that AI-generated child sex abuse material is protected under the First Amendment
A Wisconsin judge dismissed charges against a man accused of creating and distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material, citing First Amendment precedent.
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Jodi Pickens 🏳️‍🌈🖖✨ @jodipickens.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Some kindness is obvious. Some is holding the door, making room, sending the text, giving someone your full attention, or choosing not to make their difficult day more difficult. The little stuff isn’t little to the person receiving it.
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Madison @madison8.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
THIS! 👇
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/08/2026
Jesus Christ: UC Berkeley international students will no longer be allowed to complete internships or co-ops for course credit unless they form an “integral part of an established curriculum,” following repeated threats from ICE. This is going to send shockwaves across SF and Silicon Valley
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The costumes of the Notting Hill Carnival, London, which celebrates the Black British Community, are designed months in advance #WomensArt (image by P.Jordan)
Person walking in a street wearing an orange and yellow costume with huge fan like detail
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
During the Ottoman Empire, elaborately decorated miniature palaces for birds were carved into the exterior walls of buildings. This example is found at Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, and is still used as a home for birds today. Original post
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Hopeful Chump @cousins.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Was recently at an art show wearing these Uniqlo culottes and counted 5 other people wearing them too. It's a movement. www.uniqlo.com/us/en/produc...
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The size difference is what’s so adorable 💕
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