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The HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The first item in our Fall issue is a note from HOPOS Editor Matthew J. Brown, looking back on the first 16 years of the HOPOS Journal. He talks about the founding of the journal, some of the early articles, and how far we’ve come. Brown also discusses some exciting upcoming changes to the journal.

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Incredible sentence.

Indeed, while Jordan became a reclusive prisoner to his iconic status, Barkley lived to be out among the masses, and his nightclub hopping led to more than one mano a mano face-off with loudmouth fans. “Let there be no conflict in America,” Barkley said in 1997, after he tossed an obnoxious heckler through a plate-glass window in an Orlando, Fla., bar.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

if you don't have a functional public transport system you do not have a city, these are the rules

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Catbus @catbus.phd · 19/06/2025

checking the replies:

a cat biting into a bar of soap and making a disgusted face

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Roby Bhattacharyya @roby-b.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

To underscore why this is especially awful for those who may not know, the measles vaccine is usually given at 12 months. Newborns rely on community immunity to prevent exposure, which until recently we have had in the US. This quite literally could be anyone's newborn. None of this had to happen.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

you would be genuinely shocked how so many people (unfortunately, especially younger generations) seem to think portrayal is condoning behavior

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

do you think Americans understand how essential Canadian potash is for growing stuff or how much they rely on Canadian hydroelectricity and oil yet or no

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 22/08/2026

every time my air purifier does its job it texts me a press release announcing its accomplishment and honestly i may start using this approach

Vital 200S Series

Through the hard work of Vital 200S Series, the air quality has changed from bad to good, and the Auto Mode has been automatically adjusted to low.

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blaine @jblainefoster.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

trying to add "no bilingual packaging" to a trade deal with Canada at the 11th hour is hilarious, it's like trying to add "and ban handguns" to the US side of the agreement

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Canada will match the U.S.’ new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses. We take this step confident that it is in the best interests of Canada.

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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"However, new Center for American Progress analysis finds no evidence that National Guard deployments have reduced violent crime. Moreover, if these deployments are extended and continue through the end of 2026, they could cost American taxpayers more than $1.7 billion."

americanprogress.org

The Trump Administration’s $1.7 Billion National Guard Deployments Fail To Reduce Urban Crime

New CAP analysis reveals the Trump administration’s costly National Guard deployments have failed to reduce violent crime despite its claims of success.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Can't believe this is the consequence of electing Captain Bankruptcy and his squad of enablers.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 16/08/2026

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

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West Virginia Watch @westvirginiawatch.com · 13/08/2026

A Kanawha County chemical plant where two employees died and four others were critically injured in April after a highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas was released did not require workers to wear respirators, according to a report by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, reports @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.

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WV chemical plant didn’t require workers to wear respirators during deadly incident, CSB report says • West Virginia Watch

A chemical plant where two employees died and four others were critically injured in April did not require workers to wear respirators.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...

newrepublic.com

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country

Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January.

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.

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Andy Boyle @andymboyle.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

no one is ever leading. no one is gaining on another candidate. it’s just incomplete data until it’s counted and verified. this isn’t a football game. this isn’t the top of the seventh inning. it’s just counting.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 04/08/2026

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/07/2026

I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.

India supplies approximately 50% of all U.S. generic drugs, and these face the highest tariff
rates:
• Antibiotics: Penicillin, amoxicillin
• Cardiovascular medications: Generic versions of cholesterol drugs, blood thinners
• Diabetes medications: Metformin, insulin analogs
• Pain relievers: Ibuprofen, acetaminophen
2. China-Dependent Active Ingredients
China supplies active ingredients for:
• >95% of ibuprofen and acetaminophen
• ~45% of penicillin
• Many other commonly used medications' base components

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/07/2026

we’re preserving nature so the wildfires made worse by all the new fossil fuels we’ll be producing can burn it to the ground 🥰

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Good for her!

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New from 404 Media: Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

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County With 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to ‘Conserve Electricity’

Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computer...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Seems bad: the NSF is using “a rarely used mechanism” that "allows NSF to make awards to nontraditional recipients such as a limited partnership or a venture capital firm, some of which might have been created solely for the purpose of receiving the NSF award.” Won’t somebody think of the VCs!

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Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

sign up for more free writing tips by replying with the first 16 digits of your credit card followed by CVV and expiry date

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Bounded or not, everything genAI produces is based on somebody’s words, and everything it produces is also not that person’s words

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Grizzled Shopkeep @grizzled-shopkeep.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Can the remaining 11 Washington Post employees at least give the illusion that they're trying

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Grace @gracekind.net · 12/06/2026

I don’t mean to brag, but Claude says I’ve identified a real gap in the literature

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 11/06/2026

In 2022, for-profit health insurers paid $10B in compensation to agents and brokers for enrolling individuals into Medicare Advantage plans. My legislation would bar financial perks for agents and brokers and ensure they work with patients to choose the best plan for them.

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 12/06/2026

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

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Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

::screams in archaeologist:: We have been cooking food for *at least* 1.8 MILLION YEARS

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 10/06/2026

Thousands of people detained by ICE are actually held in local, publicly operated jails. These facilities–run by elected sheriffs–are making money off of the federal government's deportation agenda.

U.S. map showing that in 25 states and D.C., federal agencies like ICE and the U.S. Marshals only detain people using local jails. In other states, jails play a part in the detention network alongside federal or private facilities. In Arizona, Delaware, and Hawaii no local jails provide substantial detention space to these agencies.

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So kids, please don't rely on AI for your papers and projects. It makes stuff up. Its hallucinations are not even internally consistent. And by the time it's done, I'll have been "married" to more guys that Elizabeth Taylor!

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A thread. The other day, I happened to clock the little AI-written bio attached to my name. It announced, quite confidently, that I was married, not to my husband, but to his brother. Particularly amusing, since my BIL is a proud member of the LGBQT community. I love him, but I am NOT his type. 🧵

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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

UPDATE: The journalist explained and apologized, and I’m genuinely impressed. Here are his three Threads posts and my reply to them.

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

this article is circulating with a COMPLETELY bullshit framing and clickbait lie about it, the "ai cybersecurity" firm is actually training AGAINST AI and the conan series is about helping people spot deepfakes and other gen-ai material, beginning with the famous robert smigel video mouth sketches

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Conan O’Brien Partners With AI Cybersecurity Firm for 15-Part Training Series

Cybersecurity AI firm Adaptive Security enlisted Conan O'Brien to star in a 15-part training series.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Honest to goodness, there was a time not so long ago when this would have been a massive scandal.

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Dennis B. Hooper @dennisbhooper.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

1) Filmmakers like theatrical distribution for the same reason musicians like playing live shows, because a good movie or show with a good crowd is electric. Sure, a bad crowd can spoil a good thing, but this mostly doesn’t happen and I’ve never understood people who complain about it all the time

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A List of Things Eaten by Scientists 🧵

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In Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

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David Weiskopf believes in you @dave.bzky.team · 03/05/2026

This kind of shit, right here. Overtly disrespectful.

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