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Lady D @ladydisdain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I 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.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The 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?
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The 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.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Turns out I've been hammering on this exact points for months in a row now. Here's my attempt: bsky.app/profile/just...
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not 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.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Again, 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
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The 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.
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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Step one towards asking trump and the federal government to bail them out and pay for them to stay in business.
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 10/09/2026
This directly will raise your future electricity bill. Like directly raises it.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A 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.
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Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article)
The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
In 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.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
That'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...
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Welcome 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.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/09/2026
As 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...
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sharonfisher68.bsky.social @sharonfisher68.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
An excerpt from Gloria Steinem's forthcoming memoir, published today in @TheAtlantic. RIP. buff.ly/INsvOmG
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Boz Bochner @bozbochner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Explore 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.
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Gloria 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.
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Nicholas 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...
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A Society of Cheats
Students’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Yes, study humanities. Technologies come and go. Humanity remains. We hope. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
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Opinion | College Students Worried About A.I. Should Study the Humanities (Gift Article)
The future’s a riddle. Shakespeare isn’t.
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Memnon of Rhodes @johngage1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
President 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.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Excerpt HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT in free newsletter, Sarah Kendzior, Covering Crime With Scandal https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/covering-crime-with-scandal
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
You 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.
Threads post "And then for no reason, no reason at all, they made us all learn how to play the recorder"
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Seems relevant: Canada is creating jobs at a rate that is roughly 4x that in the United States.
Line chart titled "The pace of job growth in Canada has outpaced job growth in the United States" showing cumulative percent change in employment since December 2024 for Canada and the United States. Canada's employment has grown 1.34% while US employment has increased just 0.34%, meaning Canadian job growth has outpaced the United States by nearly four to one. Canada's employment growth accelerated sharply from 0.98% in June 2026 to 1.34% in July 2026, the highest rate in the period shown, while US employment growth has remained relatively stable between 0.3% and 0.36% from April through July 2026.
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The 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)." 💙📚💬
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/08/2026
The 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.
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Julie 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...
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Arts Grads Are Doing Just Fine, Actually
With AI driving algorithmic sameness, these students often have skills and creative perspectives that set them apart.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
10. 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.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
As Trump returns to tariffs, it's worth checking out what we've gotten from the trade war so far.
Line chart titled "The United States currently has the highest inflation in the G7" showing year-ended consumer price inflation rates across G7 countries. The United States leads at 3.5%, followed by Italy at 3.0%, Canada at 2.8%, Great Britain at 2.6%, Germany at 2.4%, France at 2.0%, and Japan at 1.5%. The US inflation rate is more than double Japan's and stands as the only G7 country exceeding 3.0%.
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maryburns.bsky.social @maryburns.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Eliminate the cap and this Social Security trust fund fear is no more.
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Lyn @lynia80.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Envy 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...
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Laura @lleigha.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.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.”
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Brown Professor Suspects Most of His Class Used AI to Cheat
Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said.
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Laura @lleigha.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Telling Old Stories Anew: Homer’s Odyssey as a Tale of Our Times | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Telling Old Stories Anew: Homer’s Odyssey as a Tale of Our Times - Volume 2
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Lisa Harding @lisaharding.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
According 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...
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Essential Intelligence: Why The Age Of AI Still Needs The Humanities
By seamlessly merging the “technical” with the “human,” employees will be more prepared to navigate complex challenges in AI-driven environments.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2026
In @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.”
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Opinion | Social Security Is Running Out of Money, Fast
To save the program, we need to eliminate the payroll tax cap.
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Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern
The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2027/Volume 22.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Generations.
In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 22.1, we invite contributions on **women and generations in the early modern world**. Papers might include examinations of intergenerational relationships among and between women, how gender shapes the expression of generational knowledge and status, how women preserve and protect the generations ahead of and behind them, how representations of generations are gendered, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. 
At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum.
Submissions are due October 1, 2026 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. 
If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu.
Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about.
See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum
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Ron©️ 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @rondorland.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A liquidation sale?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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auntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A 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. 😊
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"We now observe preparation gaps so severe that instructors must reteach middle-school mathematics." trib.al/J9GmkNU
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The 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.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Please 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 family
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Maine Democrat David Costello makes his second bid for US Senate
Two 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.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 30/05/2026
Remember 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.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once 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.
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
this. 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.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
See 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”
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WhatRWeDoingHere @voteblue4vr.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
"Wealthiest country in the world" www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...
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More people are going hungry now than at the height of the pandemic
Food insecurity affects more families now than during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
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bethred.bsky.social @bethred.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yes and more specifically it is children starving. 39% of SNAP recipients are children www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...
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Per Damkier @perdamkier.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Indeed... bsky.app/profile/perd...
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