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Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h

Something that has troubled me over and over in these AI years is how we seem to need to redraw every line to accommodate AI. It is possible for writing to have value for thinking and for oral exams and discussions to have value. We don't need to remake the world to eliminate writing/5

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h

seeing it each day as I work on a long piece of writing. If we're going to give up college writing, let's not do it by making a case that it was never useful in the first place. Sometimes it isn't of course-sometimes before AI students were rewarded for putting words on the page that meant little /3

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 13h

Many thoughts about the argument in this piece but one is that citing a few studies to say that there is little evidence that "we discover what we think in the act of writing" contradicts everything I saw in 26 years of teaching college writing. Of course not the only we figure out what we think/1

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 12h

Did anyone who thinks writing leads to thinking ever say it was the ONLY thing that leads to thinking? No, they did not. A philosophy prof should know better than to invoke a red herring as the foundation of an argument.

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I was totally baffled by this—I thought maybe I missed something. Because why would she go to police if she said it was all consensual? It turns out the DA was playing language games: Doe described what happened to her, and *prosecutors* made a legal determination that what happened wasn’t a crime.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“Given this appalling response from university administration, I have no choice but to declare a new policy directive…implementing an immediate moratorium on all student event & special event permits, including, but not limited to Greek life.” - Mayor of Ithaca, actually doin’ shit

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Ithaca Mayor responds to reopened sexual assault case

ITHACA, N.Y. (WETM) – Robert G. Cantelmo, Mayor of Ithaca, has issued a statement on suspending Greek life at Cornell University until certain official procedures are put into place. Below is the s…

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What if we scheduled the 9 hrs and required students to attend? Before you say "it'd never work," let me remind you: this is what the practical sciences do

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why assume that classes aren’t interesting because there is a structural impediment to students taking classes for which they already have received credit? Life’s too short to engage with people like this.

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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want actual research and evidence that a shortened time to degree has a positive impact on student development and preparation. So far the arguments seem to be students take too long so let’s just ask less of them. The argument seems to be it will be cheaper. Where is the data about what works?

thecollegeinvestor.com

Nearly 60 Colleges Are Now Pursuing 3-Year Bachelor's Degrees — Here's What's Driving the Movement

Nearly 60 colleges now offer or are developing 3-year bachelor’s degrees. Learn which schools, how the programs work, and what the tradeoffs are.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Paid for by the U.S. government. That has to be illegal, right? Not that illegality has ever stopped him before…

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Did I remind all of you in NYC to make sure to take yourselves and your children to see "He Built This City" at the Museum of the City of New York yet? The exhibit closes October 12: www.mcny.org/exhibition/h... - I cannot say enough about this exhibit and I think that you will be amazed. GO!

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He Built This City

Explore Joe Macken’s monumental model and discover the extraordinary vision behind one of the most ambitious handmade representations of New York City ever created.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is like accusing someone of robbing a bank because they deposited money and never withdrew it

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another reflection on AI & writing at Harvard, from a former writing tutor trained by @janerosenzweig.bsky.social “AI trains us, more than anything, to parrot the AI voice. I’d rather we teach students how to find their own.” Well said! www.harvardmagazine.com/commentary/h...

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I Used to Think AI Could Make Me a Better Writer | Harvard Magazine

A former Harvard College writing tutor changes her mind on LLMs.

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This case is malicious prosecution and that it's still ongoing is insane.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It now costs the truck drivers on average $1,200 to fill up a single tank because of the war in Iran. Mike Rogers said it's a win-win-win. Are you winning?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 25/09/2026

The DOJ dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in the first six months of Trump’s second term. (Published March)

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Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration

Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the DOJ abandoned a record number of cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — in just the first six months of Presi...

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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I know I've posted this many times - needs to flood the media until election day.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Raskin made a holy shit observation on MS Now this afternoon: Since taking office, Trump has made a million dollars per hour for himself. Every hour, he has made more than twice the president’s annual salary.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything for our kids. Because all our kids are all our kids.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Will Newsom sign the bill? Lawmakers are joining immigrant rights groups in urging Governor Newsom to sign a bill that, if implemented, would ban California police, sheriffs and other law enforcement from taking on second jobs that involve “arresting, detaining, transporting, or deporting” people.

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No moonlighting for ICE

CA bill could bar police from working for the feds

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Annie @annienewbie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Boston storm warning 🔽🔽🔽

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What happened after OpenAI banned the first account was astonishing: ChatGPT advised the shooter about how to evade its own safeguards on violence. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

motherjones.com

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This story is so outrageous and I want to say unbelievable, but unfortunately, alas, it’s all too believable.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It takes genuine talent to be this wrong

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

hey just curious where did the “protect women athletes” crowd get off to

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Concerning. Troubling.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We need to do better by these high school students, who are being offered generative AI everywhere they turn while also being told not to use it, while also not even getting the "bare minimum" of discussion about how LLMs work, why the school has the policies it has, etc.

text that says "require a more expansive curriculum on AI and its problems. Anything would be helpful. Even an assembly would be helpful because people do not know anything about what AI does to them, or the environment. This is a BARE MINIMUM"

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Kate Jewell @katejewell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My kid has launched a petition to change his high school’s handbook policy on AI use. He’s pissed. (He really hates AI)

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This is a petition to change the BHS Al policy from this, which was copy & pasted directly from the student Handbook google document on Monday, September 21st of 2026.
BHS Al Policy
Unauthorized use of generative Al tools to substantially complete an assignment is not permitted.
This petition to change the Al policy would like to change the following:
• Remove the word substantially from the policy all together
a. The usage of the word substantially is ambiguous at best, and disingenuous at worst. For example, who is it that decides when Al was used substantially, who decides what substantially means, and why is any amount permitted
when the use itself is unauthorized?
Require a more descriptive decision on how Al is and is not permitted in assignments and projects
a. If students do not know what is permitted, how do they know what is not
b. If Al is used in 100% of the creation process except for editing, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue yes, but it is possible for an argument to be posed of the opposite, that the baseline was made with Al but the final product was made by humans. That argument could be made,
and could be accepted., even if it goes against what the policy means.
c. If Al is used for the basis of the brainstorming of talking points, but nothing
else, would that count as substantial usage? Most would probably argue no,

but again, it is possible to argue the opposite. It could be argued that because the baseline of the passage was Al generated, everything else built on that foundation does not count as real work.
Have a more active description of why Al is prohibited
a. Why is Al prohibited? Is it because you just don't like it? Is it because it harms the environment? Is it because it harms the learning capabilities of people no matter the age or gender? Specifics are important.
• Expand restrictions on Al and what possible punishments might be
a. What happens when you break the rules? Nothing? Suspension? A grade drop? Or should it be decided by the teacher?
b. What specifically is not permitted when using Al? Is image generation allowed? Probably not in art. Is source generation allowed? Who knows, not
us.
c. Are teachers allowed to use Al? Why or why not? It sends mixed messages when teachers use Al in their classroom slides and then turn around and say
"No! This technology is really bad and horrible and don't use it?"
• Require a more expansive curriculum on Al and its problems
a. Anything would be helpful. Even an assembly would be helpful because people do not know anything about what Al does to them, or the environment. This is a BARE MINIMUM.
Each request will be signed on individually in this petition. Each change would be requested individually and discussed with those who have the power to change it individually.

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