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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 2h

Malik trying to get Locks fired this week

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Life Advice

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Terps knew they were fighting for their season and coach’s life today and have once again proved that no situation can make them competitive

Maryland football is an atrocious product

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3 and out to start the game for a desperate Maryland team in a must win game after losing the previous must win game… stop me if you’ve seen this before

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

lol I’m dying at George and Max commenting about how slow Ferrari were

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I’m shocked to learn that Adam’s now ex spouse came out as nonbinary and has since transitioned. I’m sure that has nothing to do with his “actually, Dems are making a huge mistake defending trans rights”

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It was the best of times, it was the fucking worst of times

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Joined a bowling league. Volunteered to run a Main St nonprofit. Started really learning about and getting into movies

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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Typebar Magazine

An interesting thing to read on the internet.

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Typebar Magazine (Issue 11 Out 10/26) @typebarmagazine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Typebar Magazine is losing $5,422 per year. We'd like to keep living! www.typebarmagazine.com/typebar-maga...

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Typebar Magazine: The Financials (September 2026)

We're still short.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 06/09/2026

It has finally happened

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Maryland is winning 27-0 and every single fan will feel worse about this season than before the game started. Incredible achievement

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m actually starting to worry about our passing game

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Complete a pass to a WR challenge

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I know it’s early but seeing an easy uncontested drop by a WR is triggering

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Washington has not looked good early. Still looks to be struggling with his touch

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

3 and out. Maryland football has arrived

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Jomboy Media (Unofficial) @jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A GAME-WINNING HOME RUN ROBBERY HOLY SHIT

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Different weekend same result” 14+ months of Liverpool

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

My word that penalty from Szobo 🔥

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Liverpool cannot make simple uncontested passes

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Jacquet just running back to get position and runs himself right out of position

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Liverpool is astonishingly bad at defending

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Not a great first 45min for Liverpool’s season

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Kerkez is having a terrible game

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When you see how easy this layup is, it’s astonishing that so many in Dem leadership miss it

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ferrari has done it again [not laudatory] **this is a scheduled post**

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Stephen Gutowski @stephengutowski.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

All this authoritarian nonsense projects is brittleness. It says our military is so damn weak that it can't handle any level of criticism. It's a really bad sign about what's going on there.

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Dr. Mark Gasser @mtgassr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I audibly gasped and my wife delivered a Carrie Fisher-esque, full-bodied “What!”, when we received the news via the pre movie greeting this past Sunday before the Odyssey

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Over the last few days I've watched highly politically engaged, educated people who are otherwise clear and careful thinkers attempting to litigate the obvious facts of the matter with respect to the late Arday's obvious layers of misconduct, taking their turn wheeling the horse into the gates. 11/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The upsides of the strategy are clear: if you use Trojan horses, you not only do not have to defend the ideas you are promoting, but you don't even have to cop to promoting them. Because, in an important sense, you *aren't* - you are relying on history and your audience to do it for you. 10/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is what we see. Mugshots don't come with sociology explainers; spread enough images of Black criminals and white victims and a kind of project is off and running. even lies exploit this architecture: JD Vance makes up something about cats and suddenly Haitians have ankle monitors. 9/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

All you have to do is find things that cue up the bigotry you want to promote, and make them salient - preferably, while avoiding the same for context that would complicate your intended narrative (in a distracted, low-participation political culture, the last bit comes practically for free). 8/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

But it is hopefully obvious how malicious actors could purposefully use this kind of setup. If you are a right wing neo-segregationist who finds yourself in a political culture where racism is already in circulation, you do not need to put forward an explicit segregationist agenda. 7/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The propaganda was not in the textbook's sentences themselves, so much as in the way they teed up epistemic and political problems in the world outside of the textbook (hence "Trojan horse propaganda"). Woodson's case is sort of best case scenario: we can imagine innocuous textbook authors. 6/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

When people were told "syphilis and tuberculosis are more prevalent among Black people", they didn't hear "immunity rates are lower in populations where the diseases are more novel" (what Woodson regards as the correct explanation), they heard confirmation of stereotypes already in circulation 5/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Woodson gives this as an example of the way that Black medical students were "convinced of their inferiority in being reminded of their role as germ carriers." Not because the information in the textbook was false, but because of how it interacted with the going stereotypes of the day. 4/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Carter G. Woodson's famous 1933 work The Mis-Education of the Negro includes a discussion of these kinds of cases. Medical textbooks of the era reminded students of the higher rates of diseases including STIs in Black populations. True, relevant information. But what effects did it have? 3/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I've watched the right use this communication strategy (and close cousins of it) my entire life - and of course, it is much older. quick examples: "solar panels fail at night", "not all men" etc. In each case a true statement is made, yet each is a case of the bad kind of propaganda. 2/

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

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