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(Self) Regulators, mount up! @bankuei.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here's the thing; they had toddlers signing away their rights to see their parents through the Bush & Obama years. These atrocities have been happening the whole time.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the article I most vividly remember. A sympathetic portrait of mothers defending their sons who were “not falsely accused” but “wrongly accused.” They were fighting for impunity for rapists. It ran the week #MeToo went viral.

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‘Willing to Do Everything,’ Mothers Defend Sons Accused of Sexual Assault (Published 2017)

Some of the mothers met with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos before she changed the rules on how colleges should handle accusations.

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The only path forward is an openly antagonistic press. No more delicately navigating access. No more attending press conferences or avails. All investigation. All amplifying Trump admin defectors and detractors. Call out the bullshit. Stop being polite.

Trump truth social post: I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant “reporting” FAKE NEWS! Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

macklemore calling kraft's bluff is so good

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Ash Gravestoneman 🎃 @ashstoneman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Time to burn my Ed Sheeran cd

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation. I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide…” — Aaron Rowe

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All supporting acts withdraw from Ed Sheeran’s tour in solidarity with Macklemore

Four openers and live band for Sheeran’s tour depart after removal of Macklemore over ‘free Palestine’ comments

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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026

Ed Sheeran's tour bus.

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fun fact: Hiro Murai directed the iconic music video for “This Is America” by Childish Gambino #Emmys

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itsonlyzach @itsonlyzach.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The deep loser behavior of asking ChatGPT what you would have looked like in the 80s.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Listen, I know the main goal is trolling and the WH intern in charge of coding the games probably used AI… Still, these total self-owns are pretty remarkable: (1) the “ICE agent” is a fat balding white dude; (2) if you build the highest “wall” possible, you lose! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The White House made an arcade game out of deporting people

It’s part of a long American history of gaming as propaganda.

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The White House made an arcade game out of deporting people

It’s part of a long American history of gaming as propaganda.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

i love that this has had literally no impact on my day lol

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism June 28 – 30, 2027 University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.console-ingpassions.org

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CONSOLE-ING PASSIONS

We've renamed our travel grant! Formerly the Jane Feuer Travel Grant, it has been reimagined as the CP Founders Memorial Travel Grant — now honoring all five feminist media studies scholars who...

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 31/08/2026

NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...

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‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect

On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.

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@DHSgov
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
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Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Things have gotten so bad with American food safety that now they're recalling the food they imported to replace the food that was previously recalled.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/08/2026

“Viewpoint diversity“ is not a time transcendent concept but rather one specifically developed by the conservative movement in the 2020s as a reaction to Black Lives Matter, trans liberation & Palestinian activism

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Forcing people to live in power outages in 100+ degree weather for days while feeding energy to data centers is a form of political violence.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If teachers could convince students to change their gender like Republicans claim, they'd convince Republicans to govern competently, with empathy, and have starting salaries equal to Senators. Maybe even get students to turn their homework in on time, and not use AI for writing essays. As a treat.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 24/08/2026

The problem is that the vast majority of American universities are putting the full onus of AI policy onto individual instructors—sure, we can write “no AI” on a syllabus, but then we have to become the AI police (& judges), which hurts relationships with students & pulls us away from instruction

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Aside from everything else, this is not what peer review is for. If you send me something that argues something that has already been shown to be demonstrably wrong for peer review, then you shouldn't be an editor. We don't have endless time to redebate terrible and discredited ideas.

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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

And I'm not arguing with people who say it's not about defending race science, but about defending some abstract principle. Because I didn't see this level of principled objection around Iván Chaar López. Or any other number of cases. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.

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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's about academic integrity and freedom, in exactly the same way Gamergate was about ethics in journalism.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

where are the 500 professors signing an open letter about a professor being fired for talking about gender?

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Angela Mitropoulos @mitropoulos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A key, heritable determinant of academic careers at prestigious universities is not race. It's inherited wealth. And the less true that becomes, by even the smallest of increments, the more entitled grifters and intellectual mediocrities will peddle "race realism."

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Six months ago, Susan Ostermann was forced to withdraw from an appointment at Alexander Kustov’s own university, Notre Dame, because of her pro-abortion-rights advocacy. The role, leading Notre Dame’s Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, had nothing to do with abortion. No letter.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Watching so many people in the last 48 hours across the ideological spectrum insist that gutter racism is an intellectual position open to debate rather than a toxic belief has certainly been clarifying. People lose their lives & you continue to treat this as an intellectual exercise.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Look, are we the laughing stock of the world? Yes. Are we losing a war we should’ve never started? Yes. Is all our food poison now? Yes. Are all the jobs going away? Yes. But the important thing is a blue-haired college student I made up in my head feels bad about memes.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026

There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.

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Adam Schiffer @adamschiffer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is why I get so annoyed with university admins who insist we must teach AI or our students will be left behind. Fine, then require one class and leave the rest of us alone. (After about two weeks in the class, they’ll be like, “shit, what do we do now?” but that’s not my problem.)

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It's humanity or billionaires

Oxfam reports billionaires emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average person does in a lifetime

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026

I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The utility of Luigi Mangione isn't that he put a stop to anything it's that he exposed that almost the entire country, regardless of politics, understands the concept of social murder. With three key exceptions of course: politicians, columnists, and posters who think they're on The West Wing.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Reminder for those who might not remember that a scholar in my subfield was, c2013, credibly accused of plagiarism, found guilty by an independent committee, had the book revoked by the press—& was not fired or dragged in the press but (over objections from 13 of her own colleagues) made into a dean

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After plagiarism allegations, prof. was named dean

Serving the Brown University community since 1891

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