Reposted by LauraLady D @ladydisdain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I don’t understand why fraternities weren’t abolished years ago. This is not new. On second thought, this is exactly where many of the Epstein Class get their start. 764134
Reposted by LauraRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The U.S. owes $40 trillion in debt. Everyone has an opinion about why. But there’s one question you almost never hear asked: Who’s actually getting paid? 23477443091
Reposted by LauraMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The way "random private citizens can just come in, violate all federal security/privacy laws, & dismantle large swathes of the government that Congress created & funded" has been both memory-holed & normalized simply cannot happen in a constitutional republic. People need to go to jail forever. 112736
Reposted by LauraBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.gizmodo.com71% of Americans Say They're Completely ExhaustedA CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States. 1401267026704
Reposted by LauraJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Turns out I've been hammering on this exact points for months in a row now. Here's my attempt: bsky.app/profile/just... 933466
Reposted by LauraRyan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Not sure if people know Wakefield was trying to sell a competing measles vaccine when he made up his fraudulent study about the MMR. It was only after that failed (because he is a complete fraud) that he started grifting off opposing all vaccines. It’s all just a grift. Antivaxxers are their marks. 291927724
Reposted by LauraMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Again, all of this renewed obsession with THE DEBT is a media/elite precursor to obsessively covering Dem proposals on everything in 2029 through the lens of WE CAN’T AFFORD THAT, after not asking a single question about how we can afford DOGEing the govt & losing a war under the far right party 614949
Reposted by LauraJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out. 351441412
Reposted by Laurapcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Step one towards asking trump and the federal government to bail them out and pay for them to stay in business. 003
Reposted by LauraCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/09/2026This directly will raise your future electricity bill. Like directly raises it. 529578
Reposted by LauraBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A Labor Day reminder: having a job is no longer enough to protect millions of Americans from homelessness. For many workers, the greatest threat isn't losing their job. It's that their job will never pay enough, never provide enough hours, never offer enough stability to keep them housed.nytimes.comOpinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity. 5032471228
Reposted by LauraBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026In assembling this novel, high-quality data-set, the researchers on this paper have performed an important service, capturing a vast number of sworn confessions of highly paid enshittifiers, and then showing how their hostage-taking wrecked competition, prices, wages, jobs and innovation. 09911
Reposted by LauraBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026That's why Tim Wu named this "the age of extraction." "Growth" no longer means "making something new that people want" - now it means "finding ways to take a larger share of the pie, even if that makes the pie smaller overall": www.wired.com/story/tim-wu...wired.comWelcome to Big Tech's ‘Age of Extraction’In his new book, antitrust scholar and former White House adviser Tim Wu argues that tech giants are bleeding you dry—and lays out a plan to stop them. 17819
Reposted by LauraBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026As a famous NBER working paper showed, when a family business is handed over to a professional manager with an MBA, the company doesn't become more profitable overall; it just finds ways to pay its workers less: www.nber.org/system/files...nber.org 18530
Reposted by LauraNicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026An excerpt from Gloria Steinem's forthcoming memoir, published today in @TheAtlantic. RIP. buff.ly/INsvOmG 096
Reposted by LauraBoz Bochner @bozbochner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u... I had such respect and admiration for her. I read all her books...If you can get your hands on a copy of The Beach Book, you won't be sorry.nytimes.comGloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large. 01112
Reposted by LauraNicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"There have been many articles about how promiscuous use of AI will affect intellectual development, but I’m far more interested in its moral consequences...I’m aghast at so many young people seemingly habituating themselves to cheating as a way of life." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comA Society of CheatsStudents’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps. 31714
Reposted by LauraJeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Yes, study humanities. Technologies come and go. Humanity remains. We hope. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...nytimes.comOpinion | College Students Worried About A.I. Should Study the Humanities (Gift Article)The future’s a riddle. Shakespeare isn’t. 4458
Reposted by LauraMemnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026President who thinks a hardball business strategy of squeezing contractors, small-business suppliers, and workers by threatening expensive litigation, which he learnt as a real estate developer, can be applied to a nation with a $2.5 trillion economy. 15313
Reposted by LauraSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 08/08/2026sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/covering-c... 19860365
Reposted by Lauraex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich. 11957021016
Reposted by LauraJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States. 12433261240
Reposted by LauraThe Book Club @the-bookclub.bsky.social · 07/08/2026"powerful forces are aligned against the practices of reading books, listening to researchers, and discussing why this period in our history is the way it is (and why maybe the next one doesn’t have to be)." 💙📚💬 1114
Reposted by LauraGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/08/2026The business of "A.i." is based on a lack of consent. The corporations pushing it don't ask if anyone wants it; they force it on us. They use it to surveil. They offer it to creeps to create nudes of others without permission. It's a business run by creeps with the ethics of creeps. 125372
Reposted by LauraJulie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026“What AI actually does is accelerate access to the common answer, which means the students who’ve been trained to go past the common answer are the ones with the real advantage.” (I wish @chronicle.com had gift links!) www.chronicle.com/special-proj...chronicle.comArts Grads Are Doing Just Fine, ActuallyWith AI driving algorithmic sameness, these students often have skills and creative perspectives that set them apart. 094
Reposted by LauraEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/202610. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities. 122341172
Reposted by LauraJustin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026As Trump returns to tariffs, it's worth checking out what we've gotten from the trade war so far. 11032741276
Reposted by Lauramaryburns.bsky.social @maryburns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Eliminate the cap and this Social Security trust fund fear is no more. 66048
Reposted by LauraJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Envy is poison to the workplace. The university employees most likely to be targeted with exclusion & sabotage are the highest performers, and the driving emotion is envy. High performers who were identified with their work group got targeted far less open.substack.com/pub/toddkash... 1467
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social · 08/07/2026www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... “We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK,” he said. “That leads to a declining society, to a failed society … We cannot choose to become idiots.”insidehighered.comBrown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to CheatBrown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said. 020
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social · 08/07/2026www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgTelling Old Stories Anew: Homer’s Odyssey as a Tale of Our Times | Public Humanities | Cambridge CoreTelling Old Stories Anew: Homer’s Odyssey as a Tale of Our Times - Volume 2 011
Reposted by LauraLauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026futurism.com/future-socie... lol 178105212958
Reposted by LauraLisa Harding @lisaharding.bsky.social · 02/07/2026According to Forbes "In a future where data is ubiquitous, a company’s competitive edge won't be based on access to information but the ability to analyze it—precisely the skills sharpened through the study of literature, history, philosophy and the arts.” www.forbes.com/councils/for...forbes.comEssential Intelligence: Why The Age Of AI Still Needs The HumanitiesBy seamlessly merging the “technical” with the “human,” employees will be more prepared to navigate complex challenges in AI-driven environments. 086
Reposted by LauraThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2026In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “We don’t agree on everything,” write Senators Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren, “but here’s one thing we do agree on: Congress must act now to save Social Security for generations of Americans to come.”nyti.msOpinion | Social Security Is Running Out of Money, FastTo save the program, we need to eliminate the payroll tax cap. 69622
Reposted by LauraEarly Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern 05551
Reposted by LauraCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o... 229119673098
Reposted by Lauraauntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊 277130384447
Reposted by LauraDemocratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026"We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics." trib.al/J9GmkNU 085
Reposted by LauraRobert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 31/05/2026The final solution for AI in academia is a scenario where students are submitting AI-generated homework to be graded by AI-generated faculty using AI agents, all of which is being overseen by highly paid administrators who are extracting money from the students in exchange for a degree. The end. 22761198
Reposted by LauraBrooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Please don't forget that there is a very solid second candidate running on the Democratic ticket, and to the best of my knowledge he doesn't even have a Nazi tattoo. he's a career USAID guy from an ACTUAL working class familywmtw.comMaine Democrat David Costello makes his second bid for US SenateTwo years after he tried to unseat independent Sen. Angus King, Democrat David Costello is now running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Sen. Susan Collins. 22937322
Reposted by LauraChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 30/05/2026Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran. 281916546
Reposted by LauraJake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t. 4965552357
Reposted by LauraShaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 29/05/2026this. other potentially tough decisions include: cutting admin bloat and/or salaries; looking for admin "redundancies"; not launching costly and untested "initiatives"; spending less on ed tech (e.g. contract renegotiations with instructure); no chasing billionaire clout. 14411
Reposted by LauraRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026See also: “Our generation’s upcoming battle…is going to be people with substance versus people with shallow knowledge, it’s going to be mastery versus faking it, it’s going to be people with good taste versus tacky. I trust you will put in the work necessary to be on the right side of those battles” 2384
Reposted by LauraWhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026"Wealthiest country in the world" www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...npr.orgMore people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemicFood insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. 061
Reposted by Laurabethred.bsky.social @bethred.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Yes and more specifically it is children starving. 39% of SNAP recipients are children www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...ers.usda.gov 001
Reposted by LauraPer Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Indeed... bsky.app/profile/perd... 053