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Circling around since after their first game back vs Liverpool yesterday, City players look like they’ve taken a page out of the Trump playbook: arrogance and elite impunity in the face of opprobrium. Doesn’t look like any of them are leaving voluntarily.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A massive points deduction or auto-relegation would essentially do the same and would punish the owners and give some restitution to the other teams. Haaland isn’t gonna stick around for League One football.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The main AI risks don't derive from the models themselves, but from the failure of humans to monitor & control them. This is how all technology works.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As a veteran of the Election Integrity Project, what’s your quick take on free and fair midterms and/or respecting the outcome.

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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The backlash against data centers is not a backlash against AI qua *technology*; it’s rather that data centers have become a site of cathexis for people’s sense of powerlessness in contrast to the unaccountable power of the AI *companies* www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

politico.com

Americans love AI. They don’t want the data centers that power it.

The disconnect is becoming a political problem for Trump and politicians in both parties as voters embrace AI tools while revolting against the infrastructure needed to power them.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

One problem with the incelization thesis, and frankly incel discourse, is that the vast vast majority of violence against women and girls is perpetuated by boyfriends, husbands, acquaintances, and/or family not “incels.”

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Come for the Arday Affair, stay for the blistering indictment of higher education.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Google search: Reddit ChatGPT: Reddit It’s Reddit all the way down

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well how much protein does it have huh? 🤓

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Sittin back watching non-Greeks decide who is and who isn’t Greek. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

There this tendency now to memory hole this stuff into Covid but damn most of this had a six year run before then.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

They of course do read Marx too! My approach is figuring out what this technology is and isn’t and seeing what me and my students can do with it, especially in online asynchronous classes.

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EdSource @edsource.org · 21/05/2026

California State University's $17 million contract with OpenAI has been met with criticism, but canceling it would create fragmentation and inequity. Instead, the focus should be on finding a constructive path forward for AI in higher education.

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COMMENTARY: Canceling that Cal State ChatGPT contract does not solve the AI problem; it might make it worse

California State University's $17 million contract with OpenAI has been met with criticism, but canceling it would create fragmentation and inequity. Instead, the focus should be on finding a…

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

When I was a poor grad student I told myself I knew I’d made it if my cheese drawer had at least four of what you call “impulse cheeses.” I made it

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I sent a subscription request. 🙏 can’t wait to read.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Actually whole milk is the best milk 😬

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It’s the year 2026 and not only are we still serving milk to every student but milk has somehow taken the stage in the culture wars. She probably hiding but the one person who can save us is @emelaniedupuis.bsky.social 😉

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

At some point it’s just a form of conservatism.

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Melts Into Air @meltsintoair.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Nik Janos and Zach Justus in @insidehighered.com arguing nostalgia detracts from honest conversations about AI in higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

insidehighered.com

No, the Pre-AI Era Was Not That Great (opinion)

Misplaced nostalgia doesn’t get us anywhere.

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 20/11/2025

Opinion | No, the Pre-AI Era Was Not That Great Misplaced nostalgia doesn’t get us anywhere. bit.ly/4pk3uwa #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

The letters "AI" against a purple cloud-like background, dotted with 0s and 1s to suggest binary code.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

People in the US also annoying use “mental health” to mean bad mental health. Have to correct my students all the time.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

What air quality meter did you buy? Had one but like a lot of IoT it was ultimately junk. Kept disconnecting from WiFi etc.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

They’re taking a break and maybe it’s for the better. Let social theory cool down from the over heated French contribution of the 1960s to 2007 period.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Fantastic thread on nationalism as a social thing and historical process but also on the dubious ways that social scientists and the rest often practice a “methodological nationalism” to interpret social forms of all variation (networks, scales, places etc).

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Probably dumb as hell to publish this on a Friday afternoon, but the clock is ticking to get @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to sign SB 79. Please share — and, if you're a Californian, please call the governor's office at (916) 445-2841 to ask for his signature. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

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Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Finally proving that the grass is in fact always greener.

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Numbers Fuckstein’s Monster @drwalpurgisnacht.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

An assassin writes Bella Ciao in the same breath as a Notices Your Bulge meme on his bullets. One of the government responses is a practicing Hindu asserting that the fundamentalist Christian victim will join him in a Norse pagan afterlife. Welcome to the epistemic collapse.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

“Are you getting it? It’s not three separate categories, it’s one.”

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Yes! We’re over here pumping oil with a growing 20+ year online program while every traditional program suffers BUT it is very clear that it’s fundamentally broken bc of AI. Let’s share ideas

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Recently while visiting Greece I picked up a cheap copy of Epictetus Manual on the Art of Living and as I read I kept thinking this guy is suffering from major depression.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

By now there should be enough data to do this, right?

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I’ve been playing Civ since 1 but this is the first time I didn’t insta buy bc I couldn’t tell if it was ever “done”. I can’t decide to buy or wait indefinitely, from all that I read and watched. Is it remotely worth it yet?

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

More and more it seems it’s gotta be the latter, right? Hard to accept or admit we were all duped.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I’ve been following you for like 15 years across various socials and damn your best post yet. Your statement is sadly so f’n true. You really see if you step out for a while and come back.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Joins a long list of ways people treat “the environment” as a means to an end. Ex: I don’t like thing. Environment environment! Thing bad.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Fair perhaps there is lust and desire for a charismatic figure in contemporary right and left. But post-communism and the anarchist turn 30 years ago I think there is much more ideological hostility on the left + factionalism. Bernie a rare exception.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

This and the fact that the left is skeptical if not repellant to “charismatic entrepreneurialism” is one of the reasons the right (and Trumpism) have an advantage. Factionalism on the left will make it difficult to unite under any one charismatic figure. Liberals may be no different.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

This is so spot on. It’s the dialectic to hell.

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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

To underscore its importance, my new article w/ @fredstaffordcs.bsky.social came out on the day of the huge Iberian blackout. We argue the left/liberal's fixation on increasing renewables often downplays (or rejects) how grid reliability must be central to any winning electricity politics.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

people wanted a luxury belief presidency that would give them the means to live out the indulgences they craved while making them richer. They got a bunch of meth tweakers ripping everything out of the walls

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Let’s go #Cascadia! Unite British Columbia-Washington-Oregon-California.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

So deglobalize textiles but globalize American prisons. They’re gonna offshore human rights abuses of Americans if they can.

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Nik Janos @nik-janos.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Paging Max Weber and Wendy Brown: we need a new ethic of responsibility.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The message from the Left should be: tariffs bad, industrial policy good. Sure, there are niche cases where tariffs might be useful as part of industrial policy, but it really weakens the message to add qualifiers. Fight unreservedly against the thing destroying the economy.

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