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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Starting Monday morning every candidate who Elon Musk is spending against should hold an event where they tell everyone Elon Musk has their Social Security number & he’s funding their opponents’ campaign so he doesn’t have to give it back.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.

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Rebekah Kati @rjkati.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well there goes my weekend. Now to figure out how to watch two games at once.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 24/09/2026

guys please stop falling for this, this is not “rogue AI” it’s “environments with lax cybersecurity controls”

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This is my theory of most of our problems right now, and specially, the oligarchy and AI intersection of problems

Two posts: it’s really hard for people to look at any insanely rich person and understand that they might be dumb or malicious. Because we have a national myth that smarts and hard work lead to success, but conversely if you have success you must be smart and have worked hard

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026

I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Again, what right wing Republicans and Democrats call "socialism" is the sort of regulated capitalism that was consensus for much of the 20th century. They pretend it's anti-market when really it's only anti-oligarchy

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Colm O’Gorman @colm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Megan Rapinoe is a legend.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/07/2026

not really surprised to learn that terminal stupidity and racism is the reason i can’t walk into a CVS and just buy a toothbrush without flagging down the one person who might be in the store dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

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We used to be able to buy things in this country

Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy

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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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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

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Phil PlAIt @philplait.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

When a politician dies we see a lot of hagiographies about them. If you mention they were a terrible person IRL, you get chastised. My feeling? If you don't want people to talk shit about you after you die, don't be shitty when you're alive.

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Ben Guilfoy @bkguilfoy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Remember to always check the output," they tell me. If I have to read the original document to make sure the summary is accurate, then the AI is a *useless and pointless* extra step, and I can never seem to convince anyone at work of this.

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · 28/05/2026

I am not trying to dunk here and also if library workers had been truly listened to in the last 10-15 years or so, the libraries being in danger would not be coming as a surprise to so many academics. Perhaps they would not be in as much danger, even.

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Jess Nevins @jessnevins.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Having a hard time comprehending that this is really & truly happening, but...there are would-be academics out there who are claiming that verifying your citations by checking to make sure they aren't hallucinations & then reading them to make sure they say what you claim they say is too much work.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

we don’t talk enough about how Chicago is the most gorgeous city in the country

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We need to have a long conversation in higher ed (and ed in general tbh) about our dependence on proprietary software platforms, especially learning management systems

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 23/04/2026

It's incredibly gendered to the point where some of the first industries targeted by AI were female-dominated fields like medical transcription, translation & teaching. There was such a push for AI to replace listening & interpretation of information because they were seen as low level skills.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 25/04/2026

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

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Sinceerly is an AI tool to 'un-AI' your writing

A new ouroboros in the tech world has emerged.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said. I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

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Tom Kash @superkash.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

New UNC coach contract detail "The contract includes a $100,000 annual allowance for a country club membership and other entertainment" Weird how the rest of us normie faculty and staff have to jump through hoops to do anything. so happy for him.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"Revisionist history" isn't a bad thing. In fact, any worthwhile work of history improves, refines and, yes, revises our understanding of the past in some way.

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Blythe Terrell @blytheterrell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

OK, I'm obsessed with this study in @science.org It took Reddit "Am I The Asshole" posts & asked LLMs if the poster was the asshole. Aaand (surprise) AI was more likely to tell people they were NOT the asshole ... even when humans said yeah YTA 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence

Despite rising concerns about sycophancy—excessive agreement or flattery from artificial intelligence (AI) systems—little is known about its prevalence or consequences. We show that sycophancy is wide...

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 26/03/2026

100% accurate guide to the types of Open Access #academicsky 📚

An infographic titled "The Types of Open Access: A Field Guide," styled with Stardew Valley pixel art icons representing different materials. Ten types are listed:
Gold Open Access (gold ingot icon): The journal has no paywall, generally paid for by authors through APCs (article processing charges).
Diamond Open Access (blue diamond icon): Gold but no APC. Funded by an institution, scholarly society or collective.
Hybrid Open Access (brown lump icon): This journal lets you pay a ransom to open individual articles but still charges subscription fees to the community. What a bargain!
Green Open Access (grass icon): Author self-archives their own copy on a preprint server or research repository. Can usually be done with paywalled articles under certain conditions.
Bronze Open Access (bronze ingot icon): It's freely available on the publisher's website but has no CC license. Is this a mistake? What is this?
Silver Open Access (silver ingot icon): I'm giving a runner up prize. Could have been gold but for some reason the author chose a CC BY-NC-ND license.
Pyrite "Fool's Gold" Open Access (pyrite nuggets icon): Oops! Predatory publishers will take your APC money, but their services are fake. Beware!
Geode Open Access (geode icon): A librarian can break this open for you using the power of interlibrary loan.
Black Open Access (skull and crossbones icon): I don't know who started calling it this, but it just means piracy. They'll steal anything, including OA valor.
Slime Open Access (grey slime icon): Just slide into the author's DMs and ask for a PDF. You'd be surprised how often this works.

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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Attention universities:

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Rebekah Kati @rjkati.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Page won by 23 votes! Your vote does count.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Anyway, AI is a managerial technology that came out of fields where researchers act more like managers than researchers and this is not a coincidence. It’s fundamentally related to why certain people jumped at the chance to try to build certain kinds of systems that devalued (other people’s) work.

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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Scene of Mario jumping around to avoid all the spinning fire sticks in the original Super Mario Bros game

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 04/03/2026

If you ever think your vote doesn’t count…

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 11/02/2026

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

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Did Duke Win? @diddukewin.com · 08/02/2026

NO. 68-71

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance. They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along. They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

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‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts

Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I’m happy to see the new American Cancer Society report showing that the U.S. has reached a historic milestone in cancer survivorship, where 70% of patients live for 5+ years after diagnosis. But I also see it as a requiem, because the systems that made it happen have been destroyed.

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A new milestone in the cancer fight: 7 in 10 patients now survive five-plus years

Better treatment options have improved survival rates in the U.S., according to a report from the American Cancer Society.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 03/01/2026

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending. UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

Screenshot of a paper entry:
Fictional Failures and Real-World Lessons: Ethical Speculation Through Design Fiction on Emotional Support Conversational AI
Authors: Faye Kollig, Jessica Pater, Fayika Farhat Nova, Casey Fiesler
(There are tabs with "abstract" and "summary" and "summary" is selected.)

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

What we should require: students to become “literate“ in AI technology, in terms of its economics, it’s ownership structure, its internal logic, how it interacts w our psychology, & how it has taken over our stock market & infiltrates every industry so that our culture feels pressured to prop it up

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Rebekah Kati @rjkati.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

True love is when your spouse volunteers to go to the HOA meeting so you don’t have to.

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area. Let us know what you hear.

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Rebekah Kati @rjkati.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Looks like we’re driving into a cloud instead of a tunnel under a mountain.

Low hanging cloud over a mountain top behind a highway.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 24/11/2025

DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it

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