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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 18h

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Eric Pazdziora @ericpazdziora.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Opera doesn't make money. Opera’s what you spend money *on*.” “But . . what do you get out of it?” “You get opera. You put money in, you see, and opera comes out,” said Salzella wearily. --Terry Pratchett, 'Maskerade'

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In what world is it the purview of the President/Executive branch “to force conservative cultural changes on academia‘? And why end the paragraph without noting that there is no legal justification whatsoever for Trump and his minions to “force cultural change” on institutions of higher education.

Inside the White House, some of Mr. Trump’s top lieutenants have expressed frustration about a perceive slowdown in the adminstration’s attempts to force conservative cultural changes on academia.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Elite universities mea culpas about the “loss of trust” in higher education so often fail to consider the force of the longterm propagandistic attack on universities, given extensive play in conservative media, that long preceded Trump, but which he has massively accelerated.

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Columbo! First few seasons especially.

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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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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Whose life as AI improved so far?

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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 27/07/2026

Welcome to the party, pals

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"We were tired of being called racists for being racist!"

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 10/09/2026

if you want a good city ... things need to be affordable for the cooks/weirdos/ tinkering people/ collectors/ artists/ and musicians

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/09/2026

This very good piece gives two compelling answers to the question but overlooks a third, which is that Yale administrators see a deal as an opportunity to further undermine faculty, staff, and student autonomy/governance, which they view as a greater threat to their interests than Trump.

So why is it that McInnis and her fellow elites crumbled so instantaneously, and seem to bear little awareness of how immensely unpopular the president and his crusade is? Why, in short, are they not only callow and lacking in moral strength, but also such poor strategists?

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Have the New Haven streets that Yale has taken over (High Street and Wall Street) stopped counting as "public sidewalks"? 🤔

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

Jennifer Nelson

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an ocean of emotion @betarayben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was and is a vital reminder that you can’t just blame a person being shitty on their age.

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We need a National Day of Mourning because she was the best of us.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

refuting every claim anybody makes is not in fact how science, or any discipline, works discarding approaches that have proven fruitless or wrongheaded, not stopping to re-litigate them every time someone digs up a junk data set or a retracted article they wish were true, is how disciplines move

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Stop calling Social Security and Medicare “entitlements” challenge: impossible.

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

From this review- “Think of all the diligent, decent black academics who have been lumbered with the embarrassment of having Arday as a figurehead” - no, think of *why* black academics are held collectively responsible in ways that white academics are not

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

sideshows like this are bad because encourage readers to imagine that Good Scholars are being systematically replaced by worthless nobodies — when, in fact, they are being systematically replaced by overworked and underpaid versions of themselves, and shat on by personal essayists into the bargain

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The newest missive from Linda McMahon is a dressed up, watered down version of the Compact that was roundly rejected by universities and colleges last year. The fact that @aau.edu collaborated with the Trump administration on this letter should fool no one. Just say no. www.aft.org/press-releas...

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AFT, AAUP Respond to Trump Compact 2.0

WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following response to the Trump administration’s new higher education comp...

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 03/08/2026

A Russian bombing operation on 1st August which hit a Ukraine automated publishing distribution centre destroyed approximately eight million books, continuing a campaign of “deliberate” assault on the country’s book industry. 👇

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Russian attacks wipe out a third of Ukraine's annual book production in a month

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Very unconventional use of the words "he" and "sees," New York Times.

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Oh no!! Is there an obit somewhere?

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I would so love to take this class!

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

"Deep throated" indeed. Stupidity Always Brings Losing and Death--remember folks, titles are not copyrightable. Have at it historians!

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

If i were a billionaire I’d pay this guy five million dollars to write whatever and wherever he wants.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the @bostonglobe.com from colleagues @ryanenos.bsky.social and @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, in a very welcome show of support for #Yale faculty, students and alumni who are fighting to keep our leaders from caving to Mr. Trump. #YaleDontCave www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

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Yale shouldn’t cut a deal with Trump - The Boston Globe

Yale should resist rather than negotiate away its independence.

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Maiden voyage on the new kayak. She's definitely sea-worthy!

Photo of a lake with lilipads on the left taken from the point of view of someone sitting in a red kayak

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This just goes to show that authors are very poor at estimating book sales, though it's more common to overestimate. Believe professionals, we know a thing or two about likely book sales.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Alexander Kasprzyk @amkasprzyk.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This is the weakness of AI. We, as editors, see hundreds of submissions per year. We see the patterns; the probabilistic repetitions; the common structure. The unoriginality becomes visible a mile off, but remains invisible to someone who is using the tool, simply because of the volume we see.

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Inside the Black Box @itbb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The part the productivity pitch skips: AI made the writing cheap and the checking expensive, and the checking is what got dumped on you. Twenty of seventy isn't a labor saving, it's a labor transfer from the authors who used it to the reviewers who have to catch it, for free.

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"They’ll be able to say, ‘Hey, I’m student number 1234,’ and then the robot will be like, ‘Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that conversation?”

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Deeply saddened to learn of the loss of my dear friend Satan, the Prince of Lies. Though we often disagreed about matters such as the appropriate role of torture in the afterlife, I will most remember how his quick wit and affable nature made our weekly golf outings a ritual. He will be missed.

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Still hasn’t said anything about Graham!

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

WHY is Mitch McConnell silent about the tragic death of his Senate colleague?

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The Doom That Came to Aram @rawfishandbeer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I am saddened to hear of the death of Grothgarr, Destroyer of Worlds. While I personally did not bathe in the blood of my enemy's children like he did, we put aside our differences in the workplace. My condolences to his wife, daughter, and thousands of slaves.

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Alexis Coe @alexiscoe.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I wrote about Kerri Greenidge because the vague-accusation-to-career-ending-punishment math isn’t mathing. Show us the work. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The Scandal and the Scale

I was bleary-eyed on a delayed flight when I spotted a New York Times article about Kerri Greenidge, a historian of Black political life and memory.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026

Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"

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Lucia Libre @luciaslibres.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Titles are not copyrightable is how.

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