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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Here it is, my 273rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

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#ScholarSunday Thread 273 (4/26/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 273rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! No...

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Thanks for including us in such great company!

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I don't understand why researchers have to come up with new specialized terminology like hallucinations and “mirage reasoning" when "making shit up" is right there

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m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

hello hi yes so this makes sense when you understand that the sucess condition for an LLM is the production of a text-base, genre-bound performance of a plausible and acceptable answer to a given question. the question defines the expected genre.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

AI illiteracy is the real threat to civilisation. Not the “robots are taking over” sci-fi panic. It’s this

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Scene of Mario jumping around to avoid all the spinning fire sticks in the original Super Mario Bros game

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Troels Runge @runello.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Ragebait, toksiske posts og fake content fylder meget i debatten om sociale medier, men tilsyneladende drejer det sig kun om 3 til 7 procent af indholdet. Og det kommer fra få brugere. Ifølge academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Findes der tal fra Danmark? cc @m-b-petersen.bsky.social

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Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content

Abstract. Americans can become more cynical about the state of society when they see harmful behavior online. Three studies of the American public (n = 1,0

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Colin McMillen @mcmillen.dev · 16/02/2026

Sent from my iPhone

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

a reporter could get trump to confess to everything by asking him if he just wasnt famous enough to go to the island, just say youve heard he “never had the juice”

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✨chipzel @chipzel.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 31/01/2026

Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

This applies to at least a handful of people just off the top of my mind

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I know lits of people that aren’t going. I’m not either.

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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Today is the day! Closing of the SMIDGE project in style

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”

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Andrew Zolides, Ph.D. @zolides.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I watched the video. I usually have an extremely strong stomach and temper and encourage people to watch distressing reality to witness it… I don’t think you should watch it. I’m absolutely shaken

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Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

"So, Mr Huang (and you may call me *Dr* Seeadler), I have yet to see a convincing argument in favour of outsourcing thinking to something cognitively inferior to Cliff from Cheers. Do you have one, or have you not yet engaged with or even noticed the problem?"

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang doesn't want "well-respected people" like PhDs and CEOs to criticize AI, especially in front of governments.

He labeled concerns about the AI technology a "doomer narrative": https://80.lv/articles/nvidia-ceo-doesn-t-want-well-respected-people-to-criticize-ai

The screenshot includes a color photo of Jensen Huang wearing his typical leather jacket. He is an Asian man, with glasses and silver hair. His overall affect is smug.

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Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Psst! Hey you! The FSNNA Organizing Committee is recruiting new volunteers to bring fresh perspectives & ideas to the committee, and we'd love it if you applied! Applications are open till Jan 31, 2026. Don't miss out!

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FSNNA 2026 Committee Application

FSNNA held its first conference in October 2018 to gather fan studies scholars in one place to meet, share new research, and promote the study of fanworks and fan cultures. During the Covid-19 pandemi...

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Roger John @rogerjohn1102.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

And the same in Aarhus Aalborg Odense and Esbjerg. ALL around the entire country

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

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Athena Gabriel ❌👑 @athenagabriel.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

From the people in Denmark… hello #congress is this your legacy?!

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Yes, hello politico. It is possible that that was never the bare for success. Denmark has understood the volatility of electing a madman for a long time. It did diffuse tensions. At least for a minute. But thanks for doing Trump’s bidding. How helpful.

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Tore Keller @torekeller.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

🚨Frankrig sender soldater til Grønland, oplyser den franske hær til AFP La France va participer à une mission militaire européenne au Groenland, annonce l'armée www.franceinfo.fr/monde/groenl...

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La France va participer à une mission militaire européenne au Groenland, annonce l'armée

L'Allemagne aussi doit participer à cette mission, dont l'objectif est de soutenir le territoire menacé d'annexion par les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump.

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

That was never the goal of the meeting though.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 14/01/2026

You don't solve the problem of non-consensual porn and CSAM by banning kids on social media. The kids aren't the problem, the lawless influence cartels are.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

me every single day

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 10/01/2026

For what it's worth... In 1916, the United States and Denmark signed a treaty in which the U.S. formally recognized Denmark’s sovereignty over all of Greenland in exchange for Denmark's relinquishment of the U.S. Virgin Islands. history.state.gov/historicaldo...

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Any other product that called itself “MechaHitler” and produced CSAM would be immediately withdrawn from the market, discontinued, and its creators facing legal consequences. But for some reason, the guy who gave the president a quarter of a billion dollars is not worried.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/01/2026

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
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January 2, 20267:40 PM GMT+1Updated 1 hour ago

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xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab
Jan 2 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
Screenshots shared by users on X showed Grok's public media tab filled with images that users said had been altered when they uploaded photos and prompted the bot to alter them.
"There are isolated cases where users prompted for and received AI images depicting minors in minimal clothing," Grok said in a post on X. "xAI has safeguards, but improvements are ongoing to block such requests entirely."
"As noted, we've identified lapses in safeguards and are urgently fixing them — CSAM is illegal and prohibited," Grok said, referring to Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Grok gave no further details.
When contacted by Reuters for comment by email, xAI replied with the message "Legacy Media Lies".
In a separate reply to a user on X on Thursday, Grok said most cases could be prevented through advanced filters and monitoring although it said "no system is 100% foolproof," adding that xAI was prioritising improvements and reviewing details shared by users.

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

@smidgeproject.bsky.social has been looking at extremism in middle age these past three years, but is lots of more work to be done in this field.

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thealgebralien.bsky.social @thealgebralien.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Who thought monetising social media was a good idea?

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Noémie Bouhana @noemiebouhana.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

For all those who still think susceptibility to radicalisation is caused by economic disadvantage, I hope they're getting it. The susceptible wealthy used to go off the rails in ways appropriate to their own environments, but digital ecologies are a great equaliser. Just not quite how we'd hoped.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

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Line Nybro Petersen @linenybro.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

I have written a very mediocre analysis of a tv show with Monty Python that’s been cited ten times. Eight of those are by papers in data science…. about the programming language Python. Some of those articles were “written” by big name scientists with thousand of citations.

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a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

ALT: a woman in a hijab says shame in front of a crowd of people

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