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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like more people need to watch Ghost in the Machine. youtu.be/dLQzVLtvdv8?...

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Ghost in the Machine | Full Documentary

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 5h

Came here to say this. And for those who are confused: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

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TESCREAL - Wikipedia

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 11h

Because it's unecessarily complex. Learning a language isn't just memorizing translations. Add culture to the mix, and a heaping spoon of dialects and... Please explain how this works with Yoruba (for example) with 100s of dialects in SW Nigeria alone, and that's without accounting for the diaspora

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The Baldfather @solochills.blacksky.app · 12h

Where was this sneaker on January 6th

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I cringe every time the News Hour says "from the David Rubenstein studios."

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

*looks around at US and Trump.*

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's interesting to me that the Discourse today seems to be that Brazil has lost it's collective mind because Bolsanaro. But we have Trump.

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh, the rabbit hole you just sent me down. Appreciated though...

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In America we give you a hood. 💀

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

See also "nothing awesome ever happens in the comfort zone."

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Richard Kahlenberg? Of all people who should know better - esp since he's been making the same argument since the 90s. Which was essentially: class-based affirmative action is the only way to go because racism is icky.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

Shoutout to Immanuel Wilkins on the MacArthur grant. Well deserved, and dude is only 29?

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 30/09/2026

Their business model is based on "politics as horse-race" so they need to keep the drama going. Their commitment to non-partisan means they *have* to both-sides everything. Similar to what's happened at the News Hour (who coincidentally have Walter on every Monday...)

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Abdullah Ibrahim I know. Saw him live in Botswana in 1981 or 82. Big fan.

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks for this. New to me (which I feel strangely embarrassed about).

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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

A couple of weeks ago, I heard a pastor do an entire eulogy for the Nut Roll.

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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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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As a fan and practitioner of "follow the money" this is a good piece. One thing I think missing: A Nation At Risk (1983). Put the imprimature of the US govt on framing higher Ed's purpose as creating good workers.

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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.

ironholds.org

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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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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I started reading them in 1989(?) and I could see things shifting around the time they had a website. Their comment sections were actually pretty decent. But you could see the editorial starting to shift. By 2016, game over.

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maniacally abstrack black @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

Congrats! Been watching you for a minute (not in a creepy way!). We met on Twitter back in 2017 - Lonnae O'Neil met on the photo shoot for a piece she was doing on Ibram Kendi and you came into a chat we were having. It's been a journey!

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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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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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Clearly, you don't like waffles.

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Thanks for this. Learned something today!

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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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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Shotgun wedding was right there.

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Marktropolis @marktropolis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looked up Lance. He was on the faculty at Parson's. My daughter got her BFA from Parson's in '25. Her major? Illustration.

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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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