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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive…implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event & special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life.” - Mayor of Ithaca, actually doin’ shit

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Ithaca Mayor responds to reopened sexual assault case

ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Robert G. Cantelmo, Mayor of Ithaca, has issued a statement on suspending Greek life at Cornell University until certain official procedures are put into place. Below is the s…

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truth-is-truth.bsky.social @truth-is-truth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

So, ICE agents were "shocked and frustrated" that they were supposed to go after "the worst first" as opposed to cowardly and lazily rounding up landscapers, kitchen staff and maids? Did I read that crrectly?

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Wrote a pitch in New Work in Philosophy for my recent article, "Philosophy as a Normative Discipline" newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/philosophy...

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“Philosophy as a Normative Discipline” – Yao Lin (University of Detroit Mercy)

Philosophy, 2026

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It continues to amaze me that the industry/culture that so demonizes cultural theory and humanities are its greatest purveyors. Naming machine learning “artificial intelligence” is gramsci level politics. yet when we call that naming what it is, suddenly it doesn’t matter what you call it.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Ms. Rachel post:
"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

He is a 73-year personalist dictator who has purged his senior military staff & is committing genocide in Xinjiang & speaks with Putin about living until he is 150 & I really don't know why people continue to believe this.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is a good example of what @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have been warning about for years: US tech companies are uniquely susceptible to extra-legal US government pressure (Google isn’t compelled to change Lake Ontario’s name.) Because of this, they represent a direct threat to Canadian autonomy.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“This was an abusive relationship that I had fled and changed my identity. I had moved, changed my phone number, blocked his number and I’m not really active on social media.” Her cop ex used the Flock system *and* multiple other law enforcement databases to find and track her.

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My new article in APSR is out, where I engage critically with Yuhua Wang's (2022) study on the political geography of Wang Anshi's Reform, and explore the inherent limitations of quantitative history.

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My article, "Philosophy as a Normative Discipline", which was accepted by Philosophy @triphilosophy.bsky.social last year, is finally online (& open access)! It outlines my "normative" account of the nature, point & peculiarities of philosophy. Dare I say it's the best metaphilosophical paper ever?😜

Philosophy as a Normative Discipline
Yao Lin
Bernard Williams contends that philosophy is part of a broader humanistic enterprise of ‘making sense of’ ourselves and our activities, including the activity of science. Whereas the scientific enterprise purports to offer an absolute conception of the world as it is (independently of any local perspective on it), the humanistic enterprise cannot disengage itself from the contingent history of our ideas upon which it operates. While I agree with Williams that philosophy should be more attentive to history, his account of philosophy, from which he derives this conclusion, is fatally flawed, being unable to meet three perennial challenges to any principled defense of philosophy as a discipline: i.e., the questions of authority, incubativity and peculiarity. Those challenges can be met only if we understand philosophy not as a humanistic discipline that is part of the broader humanistic enterprise, but as a distinctively normative discipline that tasks itself with finding answers to explicitly or implicitly normative questions, in contrast to various scientific and humanistic disciplines of descriptive inquiry. In this paper, I argue for the equivalence of philosophicality with normativity, explicate the theoretical and practical implications of the normative account of philosophy, and defend it against potential objections.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This is so funny

Some leaders say they insist on full-time in-person work because it boosts productivity, despite clear evidence that it does not. Others claim it’s about collaboration, creativity or culture. Our new research reveals that the objection to any work from home is more likely to be driven by something else entirely: ego.

Case by case, there may be good reasons for teams to work together in person. As a general rule, though, it turns out that ordering people back to the office full time is a power and status move. It’s a signature strategy of leaders who exhibit narcissistic qualities. They see any kind of remote work as a threat to their authority and admiration. They want to be worshiped at the office altar.

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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Asked a contractor pal about the $13M paint job peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Him: I knew that was going to happen. Me: How? Him: You can't rush that kind of job. The pool bottom has to be really dry or it'll exude water. And you have to clean it like a mofo first...

Photo from Washingtonian shows some guy standing by the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool holding a sheet of blue paint--roughly 9 inches square--that peeled off the bottom a few weeks after being put on.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/06/2026

The slave power was the social power that accumulated to the big plantation owners, by extension their states, and through those states, their influence on the federal government

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Trump has his own party so absolutely flip-fucked, pretzeled and upside down over this that they're on TV arguing we actually *wanted* Iran to win the war

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/06/2026

CHOTINER oh my god

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The Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

OK... I wasn't going to do a thread about this, but after trying to draft something short and pithy, I'm going to. It's a thread from my perspective, as someone who was a student of Paul Boghossian, an analytic philosophy acolyte, who abandoned the views of this about 15 years ago. 🧵

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

One problem is that, even if this works in theory/narrow settings, in practice it faces a severe collective action/partial compliance problem: for various reasons, many people are going to engage/platform them anyway, which might make partial non-platforming ineffective or even counterproductive.

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

That's why you find a variation of this theme in all working cities (that work for people). Because there is a sweet spot for height, density that makes cities great.

Closed street for cars in Bremerhaven, Gründerzeit Mietskasernen offering the right density.

Wuppertal street, buildings with efficient city density

Building in Berlin behind metal fence, dormer with timber adds another rented space

Bremerhaven 60/70ies infill between ca 1870ies housing.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Board at chapel hill denied tenure without justification (written or otherwise) in move that cannot help but appear to be politically motivated, based on “DEI.” Add your name to a petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/hi...

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Hire Dr. Asher, Follow UNC Rules

I signed a petition calling on the Board of Trustees of UNC Chapel Hill to reverse their decision to deny hiring and tenure to a university-approved candidate. The Trustee “no” vote contradicts unive...

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

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Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media - danah boyd, 2026

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The absolute fucking insult to injury here is that he's using the language of reparations re: these traitors. THAT'S the headline. "Just compensation for people who were mistreated by their government" oh you mean like a Constitution protecting slavers? FHA's redlining? Mass incarceration?

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

That's right. Our single member districts are another anachronism that was, at the time it was introduced, a wholesome innovation. Congress forced states to use them starting in the mid-1800s to end the unfair practice of states allocating all seats to the party who controlled the state legislature.

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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Truly not a day has passed in a political science department in the UK for the last two years where we are not all turning to each other in the hallways and going "WTAF are they smoking." We are not a discipline with a lot of consensus research findings, but there is absolute consensus on this.

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

《催稿拉黑》上新 open.spotify.com/episode/41nF...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

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Doug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“The danger of Callais, then, goes beyond the VRA, too. It was not enough for the Roberts Court to kill the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement. Callais hollows out the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment in order to ensure that no other civil rights law gets the chance to live.”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

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Michael Barajas @michaelbarajas.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Cook Co prosecutors are trying to block nearly every exonerated person who is seeking a certificate of innocence, which can help w/ getting jobs, housing and modest state compensation More great digging by @injusticewatch.org on the changing approach to innocence claims by the new state's attny

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In Chicago, Prosecutors Fight to Keep Exonerated People from Clearing Their Names - Bolts

Under State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke, Cook County prosecutors have tried to block nearly every exonerated person who has sought a court declaration of their innocence. It's another stark sign o...

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Oeishik 🐸 @oeishik.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This is kind of brilliant. You know Donald's watching.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Republicans can accuse Democrats of anything they want to, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My intellectual hero is George R. R. Martin. Whenever I procrastinated, he would save me from self-pity by not completing The Winds of Winter.

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Yao Lin 林垚 @linsantu.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

上个月在纽约文化沙龙的两场讲座录音。论自由： www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69d6... 论民主： www.xiaoyuzhoufm.com/episode/69ee...

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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Every single day that I take a shift as a substitute teacher I have to look at where the emergency backpack is, where the looped chain and anchor for the door is, if the opaque internal window covers by doors are in good shape, and the safest corner of the room to huddle the children.

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Gus Bova @gusbova.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport

The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just last week, at the top of this episode, @quinnslobodian.com, @bentarnoff.com, & I discussed the challenges facing historians in the internet era, which include planned obsolescence, slop tsunamis, austerization, etc. Internet Archive is one of the few orgs between us & archive death...

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Muskism

with Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

He's been an inept mob boss for decades. A thug w/6 bankruptcies doing shakedowns. "Trump still seems to believe that negotiations he has as president are basically the same as strong-arming a small business into giving him a better deal on some new curtains for one of his hotels." 🧾 is.gd/XpBtUJ

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The world's worst dealmaker screws up the Iran negotiations

Forget the "Art of the Deal” myth.

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.” www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

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Sánchez defies Trump in political gamble as Madrid say no to war

As audacious as opportunistic, the Spanish PM clashes with Trump and revives the 'no to war' movement. Sánchez bets on a Villepin moment that can energize his progressive base and crown him leader of ...

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Roberts Court just gave Steve Bannon a symbolic win with alarming implications for Democrats, should they retake the House/Congress in the midterms. The lawless hacks at SCOTUS might be signaling that they'll greenlight stonewalling congressional oversight & subpoenas apnews.com/article/supr...

Prodded by the Trump administration, the justices threw out an appellate ruling upholding Bannon’s conviction for defying a subpoena from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Trump supporters on the U.S. Capitol.

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

This is what I'm talking about. Vince McMahon is a case study in depravity. His behavior (with his wife, now Trump's Education Secretary Linda, allegedly covering up for his predatory behavior for years), is detailed by Janel Grant in her declaration against him. 🦋 is.gd/RXX1Dp ⚖️ is.gd/Nryxax

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Affidavit Declaration of Janel Grant (with appended exhibits) – #138, Att. #3 in Grant v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc (D. Conn., 3:24-cv-00090) – CourtListener.com

Memorandum in Opposition re 124 MOTION to Compel Arbitration, 122 MOTION to Compel Arbitration filed by Janel Grant. (Attachments: # 1 Statement of Material Facts in Opposition to McMahon's 56(a)1 Sta...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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'Unhinged madman': US politicians react to Trump's expletive-laden threat to Iran
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Bernie Sanders among those responding with alarm to Trump writing 'open the fuckin' strait, you crazy bastards'

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

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