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Paula Harper

@pch9857.bsky.social
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Musicologist researching music + sound + the internet Assistant prof @ UChicago She/her

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
(angry goose meme) "Efficient HOW?"
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
happy new academic year I'm one unsupervised afternoon away from postering campus with "majoring in econ is loser behavior" flyers
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Small but insane pronunciation choice in today's IBCK, will be thinking about it all day.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He isn’t old. He isn’t out of touch. He isn’t confused. He is choosing who will rule. Men — even those who love men — are citizens and everyone else isn’t. Thats it.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Like, what data have I produced to plop me in the "try fencing" ad buy tranche ?
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
why am I getting ads for fencing on my podcasts.
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ctrl-F “Laquan McDonald” <Not found>
nytimes.com
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
The longtime Democratic insider has emerged as a behind-the-scenes force in his party’s push to win back Congress. After that, he’ll think about 2028.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
yes EXACTLY.
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A rich person can never be held accountable. Therefore, a rich person must never make a societal decision
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The golden age of academic scams is just getting more golden
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Obviously finding out that an email was likely a deliberate waste of my time made me 14/10 enraged.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My assumption is that this is an attempt to gather some kind of data on woke profs and their partisan bias. But perhaps it's a different sort of scam?
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SOO my colleague and I received the same email from a "prospective student" this week, with a few CV details and a request to meet. EXCEPT that in one email one CV line was "Vice President, Democrat Club" and in the other it was "Vice President, Republican Club."
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all-hallows-eve-ison steele, organic human person 🎃 @trulyaliem.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
timeline cleanser
Tumblr screenshot

(poster name not shown): knock knock
dismembered-jackalope: who's there
justsomeguycore: deez 
dismembered-jackalope: sigh. deez who?
justsomeguycore: deez are the voyages of the starship enterprise
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh no I do sort of want to go as ~research~
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rude. ❤️
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The whole thread, obviously
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone who says Mendelssohn goes to jail, I'm obviously not talking about the movement from op 97
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Okay if anyone in the #9lc crowd is around, I'm on a quest to figure out a thing stuck in my brain. Anyone know the composer of a setting of "How Splendid Shines the Morning Star" that, at least the version I sang one time, had a navy blue cover with idk adventy chalk-style designs on it?
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Forgetting to cancel my Boston Globe subscription really coming through today.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Jaaaausus
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026
it's not enough that they stole all the web's content, they're also stealing all the web's traffic so that they can serve ads on what they stole and profit from it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As it is written, so it shall be.
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
if you're in nyc on october 5th and don't go to this I don't even know what to tell you, you should, I'm dreaming irresponsible dreams because I'd really really like to
poetryproject.org
Thinking from Black: A Book Launch
Please join us for a special launch event for Thinking from Black, an expansive new lexicon of words, terms, concepts, and ideas that takes the multiplicity of Black life as its point of departure. Co...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Are you a member of NYC-DSA? Please consider supporting a resolution to allocate 1% to parks and 0.5% to public libraries in the city expense budget. The proposal needs 28 more co-sponsors to move to the next stage: convention.socialists.nyc/proposals/08...
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Member Login | 2026 NYC-DSA Convention
Convention 2026 planning tools.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it is shockingly easy to post AI generated music under the name of real artists on Spotify. It took us five minutes to do. You can do it to small bands, dead artists, even Taylor Swift. This is a giant loophole in digital music distribution that's widely abused www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
404media.co
I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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Writer of “Rape Apologists Must Die!” @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Haley Williams has included “Fuck ICE,” ”Free Palestine,” and “Fuck Trump” in every stop of her current tour. Today, she released a pre-show setlist that’s nothing but covers of artists who dropped out of Ed Sheeran’s tour. www.jezebel.com/at-least-one...
jezebel.com
At Least One Singer-Songwriter Isn’t Being a Disappointment This Week!
The people’s punk princess, Hayley Williams, has spoken: “Fuck ICE, free Palestine.”
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Contrast this application of redaction to that in the Epstein files — one, to shield from incrimination; the other, to withhold evidence necessary to prove legality
nytimes.com
Immigrants’ Lawyers Say U.S. Is Redacting Documents Proving Legal Status
Many noncitizens need immigration records the government has to prove their legal stay and resist deportation. The government is redacting and withholding those documents, lawyers say.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just emerged from a tranche of emailing to a notification that I made it off the rancho gordo bean club wait list, which I will be interpreting as a sign.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
every time I respond to an email without using generative AI, the pope should move me one step closer to pre-emptive sainthood I think.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh man I came here to post about bus commute euphoria (I just love experiencing the mobility and camaraderie of urban bus ridership you guys) and......huh. We're talking about something else this morning I guess.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There is, to me, an unsettling sense of connection between gambling and misogyny that is making some (*some*) young men into angry, cynical, no-fun sports “fans.” Everything becomes about gain, dominance, and the exclusion of the unwelcome; there is no pleasure in the game itself.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
wild that Macklemore turned out to be among the politically least cringe rappers of his generation
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My top two are maybe Cynthia Nixon and Katherine LaNasa? Also every fifth time or so that I look at this Shailene fit I'm like ".......but...maybe??" it's bonkers but it's not boring!
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mad props to the editors who put together a clip show of the show we're currently watching, in real time.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Driving me crazy that a lot of very smart people aren't entertaining the idea that the **AI might kill us all** narrative is kabuki theater -- orchestrated by some of the world's richest people, whose net worth is tied up in people believing their technology is just on the cusp of super intelligence
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Various posters answering the OP:

Dr. Ruth Marshall is st
Yup

Melissa Ryan • @meli
Yup

Gay FC (/@doclach.
Yes

Angela @antiangie.bs
Definitely.

dear Abbie @abbie4s •
test for viagra?
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
She got jealous because another cat was being featured on TV.
A tuxedo cat rests her face on a hand giving her chin scritches.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I gotta say ... I know my awards material.
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
These are some late nineties core sweaty bits
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Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wow. $15,000-20,000 refundable tax credit (you get the money like a grant if your taxes aren't as high as the benefit) for keeping journalists hired. $15,000 for hiring new ones. $7,500 for hiring part-time. For-profit, nonprofit, **sole-proprietors** — doesn't matter. How did this happen???
rebuildlocalnews.org
California Legislature Passes Nation’s Largest Proposed Investment in Community News
Historic effort provides support to local news outlets for hiring or retaining local journalists, AB 2222 now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/09/2026
Re LRP I cannot emphasize enough how we’re living in the ostensible dream reality of conservatives in the very recent past. Crime is down overall and particularly in cities like Chicago and Baltimore, teen pregnancy is down, drug and alcohol use is down among young people …AND YET
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
amazing stuff
"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.
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Landon Palmer @landonpalmer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honestly have been surprised that in this country we actually have maintained a federal holiday honoring the labor movement so this sounds about on time
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Paula Harper @pch9857.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
it is, quite literally, me
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
thenerve.news
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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