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unraveling racism. ask me about my farm.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 7h
It's inspiring to learn the idea for this school first started in 2019 and education scholars have been working on it for years: www.tc.columbia.edu/articles/202...
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Hip-Hop Education Enters a New Era in the Bronx
The Bronx School of Hip-Hop was co-created by TC’s Maxine Greene Chair for Distinguished Contributions to Education, Christopher Emdin
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 8h
Shoutout to Immanuel Wilkins on the MacArthur grant. Well deserved, and dude is only 29?
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 11h
This Day in Labor History: September 30, 1919. A shootout occurred between armed guards protecting a union meeting of sharecroppers in Elaine, Arkansas and whites seeking to intimidate them. The next day, the governor ordered the military to crack down. Let's talk about the Elaine Massacre!
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
May have to read the entire book (not usually a fan of this type of writing) in part because I was an enumerator for the 2000 Census. And boy did I learn a lot - and that's after I'd run national surveys and worked with federal data (like knew my way around IPEDS).
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those of you who may not know, listening to Jesse Singal’s opinion about queer community would be something akin to listening to George Zimmerman’s opinion about the Essence Fest
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I feel like this is similar to how the Right views slavery. On the one hand "it wasn't that bad" along with "Jefferson and Washington were 'conflicted' about it." On the other hand, "we want credit for abolishing that stain on Western Civilization."
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice piece here. As the kids would say "read theory."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...
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Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian Duncan
How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ...
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ah, reminds me of my time working with the Office of School to Work in the early 2000s. Our loudest critic of Phyllis Schlafley, because she didn't think kids learning a trade needed to know anything else. Like history. Or science. Also, Bush literally pulled the plug on that office.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Important read about the corporate capture of universities (and how it's been a long time coming) 👇
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Os Keyes @okeyes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since we’re doing another round of “AI will destroy humanity” doom-hype, it’s a good time to announce a new paper myself and my postdoc advisor just had accepted by BioSocieties on just this. TL;DR: almost all the “AI can make bioweapons” literature comes ultimately from the Effective Altruists.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026
NEW: Across the country, states have shuttered their youth prisons in recent years as research shows they aren’t effective at helping kids stay out of trouble after release. Tennessee is building more. with @wpln.bsky.social
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Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not reha...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Periodic reminder that they got Al Capone on tax evasion. Just something I think about occasionally...
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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
that time when black men from greensville sc enlisted for ww1 & their wives wanted to stay home & take care of their kids & other community folk in need but white officials "no, no, no!" & called them "loafers" and said they had to do domestic work for white folks or be fined or jailed.
newspaper headline saying "negro women to be put to work" or face severe punishment.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign up if you can! Soraya is all that.
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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Over 2,000 congregants and 500 gospel singers, musicians, and composers packed the New Psalmist Baptist Church for The Sound of Baltimore live recording, according to organizers. baltimorebeat.com/photostory-p...
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Photostory: Preserving ‘the sound and stories’ of Baltimore’s gospel tradition
Over 2,000 congregants and 500 gospel singers, musicians, and composers packed the New Psalmist Baptist Church for The Sound of Baltimore live recording, according to organizers.  “The project is…
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Julie (Aakadewin-O Waawaashkeshi Kwe) Francella @juliefrancella.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why I Refused to Share a Stage With Deepak Chopra Please read, comment, and share: juliefrancella.substack.com/p/why-i-refu...
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Why I Refused to Share a Stage With Deepak Chopra
I withdrew from a Climate Week event. Then the organizers made a choice, and so did I.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's my experience that the men who work directly with younger men in mentorship and other programs aren't online talking about it. They just do it. The ones constantly talking about the 'crisis of young men' online aren't doing anything. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Really wanted to go to this conference (title in the pic below), so quite pleased that @aaronsojourner.org is doing this thread.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One more example of irresponsibly incomplete reporting, treating doomer cults as if they're do-gooders, this one quoting Bostrom without mentioning he as ousted from Oxford for racist emails. It's eugenics. Google #TESCREAL. Call @timnitgebru.blacksky.app. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Is this how the world ends? Extinction scenarios are taking over the AI debate.
As nightmare thought experiments shape the fight over how to govern a multitrillion-dollar industry, some experts say the parables may lead decision-makers astray.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
Okay. I gave y’all 8 hours & over 8k of you seemed to enjoy this on some level. 🙏🏾 So I’m a little disappointed that not a single person quoted this with ‘What’s up, Dox?’
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That’s no way to refer to the president, Aaron.😂
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weird little whale guy @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Y'all. It has been 7 days since @chantalalive.blacksky.app has posted on here. Please tell me she is okay.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm unreasonably happy about this.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Columbus would be proud.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is good. Having been a grown-ass adult when this was published, I'm somewhat relieved that they actually talked about racism and [cyber-]apartheid. I'm also well aware that around that time I was a) a paid subscriber to Wired, as well as on the Extropian listserv. Heady times.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Shout out to the student journalists at The Daily Iowan for reporting on the travesty that is Iowa's Center for Intellectual Freedom. With quotes from me dailyiowan.com/2026/09/15/u...
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Uncertainty in leadership, curriculum surrounds UI Center for Intellectual Freedom
In the barren walls of his Calvin Hall office, where the Center for Intellectual Freedom resides, interim director and University of Iowa economics professor Luciano de Castro shuffles a stack of pape...
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just in case you (still) need a rundown...
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Before Wednesday: I am generally concerned about the effect AI is having on how people think and interact and worried about the economic bubble built around AI. After Wednesday: These goddamn dorks are going to fuck Slaanesh into existence, opening the Eye of Terror, and causing Cadia to fall.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just wanted to write about physics! But noooo, a fucking sex cult had to take over Silicon Valley and the entire public discourse about technology and the future while aiding the rise of fascism, and I felt duty-bound to write about that instead LOOK WHAT THEY MADE ME DO
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More Everything Forever
This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
When my book first came out I said it was about "the terrible ideas that tech billionaires have about the future and why they won't work." That wasn't *wrong*, but I said that because I didn't think anyone would take me seriously if I said "it's about a sex cult that controls multiple AI companies"
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you don't know about a 600,000 word Harry Potter fanfic written between 2010-2015 or the Zizians, you really can't understand the intellectual foundation behind the global rise of technofascism.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fun fact: Democrats had to be dragged kicking and screaming into impeaching Trump. They didn’t want to do it. The leader of the Dems said he would “self impeach” and spent the last 5-6 years pleading for “strong Republicans.” She didn’t give a fuck and most of them didn’t.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's difficult to convey to people who haven't been paying attention that every single thing they are reading about the immigrant concentration camps has been happening in U.S. jails and prisons since their origin. People were being waterboarded at Auburn prison in the 1850s.
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Prison Culture » Torture & Corporal Punishment in Early 20th Century American Penitentiaries…
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is beautiful.
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Albumism @albumism.com · 12/09/2026
DJ Shadow released his debut album ‘Endtroducing.....’ (1996) 30 years ago this week | Listen to the album + watch the official video for "Midnight In A Perfect World" here: album.ink/DJShadowEnd96
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Months after citing the phrase "Become Ungovernable" as evidence of a vast conspiracy by 15 anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis, the GOP hosted the Trump pardoned head of Silk Road, a darknet marketplace famous for drug trafficking + murder for hire plots, who spoke in front of the same slogan.
Speaker in front of "Become Ungovernable" in yellow on blue brick wall.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
All this talk about John Brown. And no one has mentioned The Good Lord Bird with Ethan Hawke? Amateurs If you haven't seen in, recommended. The way they portray Frederick Douglas is ... priceless.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
John Brown by W.E.B. Du Bois. Free. Du Bois had wanted to write a biography of Nat Turner but ended up with Brown. From reading the book I learned abolition was, for the Browns, a family affair. A bunch of them took action. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62799
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John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois
John Brown by W. E. B. Du Bois. Free eBook digitized and proofread by volunteers.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@pedalingpastor.bsky.social might be of interest.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
It always seems like it can't be true, but it is: American businesses often pay more to try to defeat a union drive or contract negotiation that they would if they recognized the union and agreed to better pay and benefits prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...
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How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect
Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
in the immediate wake of 9/11, people talked about carpet bombing muslim countries with the same casualness as talking about a nominal tax hike.
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@pedalingpastor.bsky.social with a banger here. Just getting around to it. Pretty good "view from the inside" about Operation Metro Surge. www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-...
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Opinion | ICE thought it would scare these churches. Instead it launched a revival.
G. Travis Norvell: Surveillance inside churches was another awful feature of Trump's Operation Metro Surge
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen
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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On further reflection. I'm going to propose a version wherein Slotkin did in fact feel a renewed sense of unity - with other white Americans. They found a new enemy to unite behind.
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