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@panoptigoth.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary hinterlands and library systems.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The Department of Information Studies seeks a scholar specializing in Media Archival Studies whose research and teaching address historical and contemporary media-making contexts, media formats, and the information systems that support their preservation, management, and use."
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Assistant Professor of Information Studies (Tenure-Track), Specializing in Media Archival Studies
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The only relief I have is the knowledge I won’t randomly run into them anymore, and Cornell couldn’t even be bothered to arrange that for Jane Doe.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t mean to be glib about it but it really is so many of us. It’s a terrible solidarity.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
every JCO take is the kind of thing your meanest, least-sober great aunt might announce at thanksgiving dinner. sometimes you're like yeah, let em have it!! and then very shortly you're like uh oh aunt joyce time for bed
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And we all discuss it like the weather, that’s how the disclosures happen. “Oh I’m sorry. That happened to me in college too. This place had great ramen.”
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It took me years to understand what happened to me was assault. Although they’ve since died, it doesn’t feel better.
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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who will be held accountable? Who will endure the risks? What will Meta do with this new surveillance? #ACToRSFramework
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't think agents replying to your emails or booking a restaurant for you is worth this stuff, sorry
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/04/2026
I swear I will vote for any person who runs on revenge and court reform. That’s it. Those are the two planks of your campaign? You got my vote
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 29/09/2026
You will be able to set your watch by the frequency with which Musk sets his minions on people during this case, using their usual tactics of death threats and doxxing. And media will cover none of it.
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 25/09/2026
I read the article on which this story is based and I can't believe that journals are still accepting research about predatory publishing based on **Beall's List** www.timeshighereducation.com/news/china-s...
timeshighereducation.com
China ‘spends $7 million’ on research for retracted papers
With country now holding largest share of research retractions globally, scholars hope putting a number on the problem will trigger action
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Longtime Sleepytime Tea Addict Has To Use 6 Bags Just To Feel Drowsy theonion.com/longtime-sleepytime-te…
Longtime Sleepytime Tea Addict Has To Use 6 Bags Just To Feel Drowsy
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
But I cannot stress enough: we have spent decades de-prioritizing and defunding the humanities broadly in secondary and post-secondary education and then we're all surprised-Pikachu-face when we are suffering from systematic leadership failures in exactly those skills and knowledge domains.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
“Let these wise men who have summoned a demoniac sanction for their own private purposes remember that in the natural course of events, a conscience which has been bought once will be bought twice.” - Norbert Wiener
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am finished with my shift being the bigger person. It is someone else’s turn now.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
thats enough internet for today.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Obviously the FBI is having recruitment issues because we don’t let these disenfranchised applicants succeed and not because it’s terminally embarrassing to work for Ka$h‘s FBI.
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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
Oh This is some heinously nasty work
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 10/10/2025
peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands? chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨ Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My brain is lagging with the number of questions I have about this entire thing.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So the FBI is having trouble recruiting because a deluge of applicants have a beastiality conviction? Am I understanding this correctly?
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Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Digital illustration drawn in a loose sketchy pencil style of four small, generalized sparrow-type birds of no specific species perching in a tangle of branches. Near each bird are words in a hand drawn blackletter style reading ‘Maybe it’ll happen today’.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fun to watch the scores of pundits & posters who told us for years Trump couldn't possibly fuck with the midterms and wasn't going to try and run for a third term/never leave the White House finally hitting the alarm today after they saw him successfully tank the Kennedy Center because he's mad
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s all just a lie. I get so annoyed when I hear democrats say “well parents have real concerns…” no they don’t. Real concerns are addressed by knowledge and data. Prejudice is not. If knowledge doesn’t change their position, they’re just bigots.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Notice the concern of parents who feel their trans children are being victimized never get listened to. It's only bigots. "Respect the parents" is a shell game.
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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12/09/2026
you may think i am joking but i am not. they’re talking about AI the way protestant zealots talked about the end times. in both cases we are hearing people talk about themselves — their desires, their lust for destruction, their yearning to trample their rivals underfoot.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
Anyways, I'm gonna end with, preorder my book for more technical break downs of why these clowns' fairytale scenarios are bullshit. bsky.app/profile/timn...
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You don’t know anything about gay rights, full stop.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have not made salsa yet but this might be the season.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
there are friendlies everywhere, we just need to find each other.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh, there have to be dissenters based on what I’ve seen. But this is a good reminder that our people are everywhere.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
We end up doing a LOT of cucumber and tomato salad at this point through the end of October for similar reasons.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Awful, if it helps at all the grief is shared. 💔
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
!!!!!
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Also: Ivies are not going to have a uniform AI policy for at least another year because donors have to feel consequences before universities can assert a position.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I mean we have a lot of things to do. But this feels like something to prioritize.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Any department at the university with a strong stance on AI with the right connective tissue to students wins this fight. Sounds like library workers and their allies to me.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I also like that describing it as a library by definition conveys a degree of curation. books from different eras and different places written by different guys and somebody somewhere made strategic decisions about what went on the shelves and what didn't and those people had agendas of their own
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
not for nothing but of all the Confirmation classes I taught in the early aughts, one of the biggest hits was a session on Revelations it was basically "no we don't believe in the Rapture" / "the Left Behind books are trash" / "if a Catholic starts talking End Times shit to you, run"
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I love that this is how I found out Starmer stepped down as an MP
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast
four pigs underneath a blossoming tree
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not liking this part of summer where Chicago is humid and ominous.
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I know a number of kids that love older tech because it doesn’t have advertisements. Old Game Boy? Still works and no ads!
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“tenure at the New School ultimately offered no protection at all… [Administration] later decided that, by virtue of extensive bureaucratic reorganization, it had closed and reopened the entire university. It could therefore fire anyone, anywhere at the school.”
dissentmagazine.org
What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly ...
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panoptigoth @panoptigoth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This is terrible, I am so sorry to hear.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 31/08/2026
buddy they would have let him fuck it
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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