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Erin Okuno @thiserin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Forget the Shushing. Librarians Have a Whole Lot to Say. (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Running for president as a single-issue candidate: Requiring websites to make Boolean searches work again
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
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Arthur Mensch, CEO of French start-up Mistral AI: 'AI is software. It can be controlled'
Mistral AI's co-founder believes the sector's American giants are manipulating the discourse around the technology's risks. He also defended his strategy, as critics are accusing his company of fallin...
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 25/09/2026
Americans are suspicious that major institutions intentionally keep important news from the public. Three-quarters or more say the following institutions do this at least sometimes: 🏛️ U.S. government (83%) 📰 News organizations (79%) 📱Social media companies (76%) #PewKnightInitiative
Chart showing majority of Americans say the government extremely often or often intentionally keeps important news from reaching the public
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Ignacio GHOULlup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
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A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I tell everyone at the end of my shows: if you are unable to by a book thats cool, an even better thing is to ask a library to buy a copy then you are purchasing it for the whole community and you haven't spent a damn penny!
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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"The classroom device pullback is the latest sign of a growing global reckoning over how tech giants and their products have upended childhood, adolescence and education." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/t...
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Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones (Gift Article)
No more YouTube or video games on school laptops. Textbooks and pencils are back. Some seventh graders say they prefer learning offline.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
“In his Instagram post, Encina thanked Gomez, the Getty photographer, whose presence on the train he said was ‘quietly reassuring.’ In the interview, he said seeing a photographer there gave him some comfort because someone was documenting what was happening.”
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026
Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Grok is now in the history manipulation business. And what more important history to distort at this moment than that of the 14th Amendment.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It is a damn GIFT when @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social writes about art!!!
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Misery And Memory In Two Van Goghs | Defector
Beneath soaring ceilings, in a small darkly painted gallery off the main hall of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two immense sunflower paintings hang side by side. The paintings are bigger than I expe...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
New article from the Brennan Center (co-authored by UW colleague Rachel Moran) on how news deserts leave voters vulnerable to election misinformation. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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News Deserts Leave Voters Vulnerable to Election Misinformation
The disappearance of local news outlets means Americans across the country turn to less reliable online sources for election information.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net. The Trump administration is not conservative in any meaningful sense of the word. They are revolutionaries undermining the constitutional order. Any competent response from Democrats needs to face this reality squarely.
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 31/05/2026
Amnesty International understanding that this "generative AI" shit as currently conceived and deployed is a project which enables fascism and endangers the already vulnerable and marginalized populations of the world.
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
A functional democracy depends on its participants being able to understand the operations of their government. In honor of the 250th anniversary of the US's founding, we've published five essays about the interpretative skills required of participants in a democracy. style.mla.org/the-mla-demo...
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The MLA Democracy Project: Essays on Teaching Democracy and Literature | MLA Style Center
A functional democracy depends on its participants being able to understand the operations of their government. The knowledge and skills that come from MLA disciplines–language, literature, writing, a...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 19/05/2026
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵
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AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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Schaffe @loliryder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
If you want to feel empowered this morning, here's a gift link of @tressiemcphd.bsky.social banger article on women seeing through influencer attempts to convince us that we should fear the AI www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...
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Opinion | Is the Era of Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss Finally Over?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"We are experiencing a widespread GOP attempt to undo the Reconstruction Amendments that, along w/later civil rights reforms, form the constitutional foundation for our multiracial democracy." Good @aselrod.bsky.social intervention (cites my reporting on VA): www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...
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Democrats Need to Realize What Time It Is: On Conjuncture, Revolution, and the Next American Republic
We are living through a revolutionary moment, whether Democrats want to do their jobs or not.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
In a moment that is testing me, I’m lucky to have these women standing with me in the fight for accountability from this administration.  I spoke with Marie Claire about why I’m not backing down—and how it’s easier to stand up with my fellow congresswomen by my side.
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Inside the Pact to Keep a Congresswoman Out of Prison
“I think that [the Trump administration] thought they could move in ways that are cruel, targeted, and unprecedented, and that maybe no one would care.”
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 17/04/2026
Teens on TikTok and Instagram are there for news more than Snapchat. About four-in-ten or more on TikTok and Instagram say it’s a reason they use it, compared with about a quarter on Snapchat.
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Teens’ Experiences on TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat | Pew Research Center
About this research This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and…
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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/04/2026
we'll see how it shakes out over the course of years, but as of right now, mamdani is definitely showing how the future of good progressive governance means "use government to do good things and then post about it" both parts are important!
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The story of how disparate and diverse communities are stepping up to deny the federal government a detention infrastructure is a big one, and it’s inspiring. 👇🏾
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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Earlier this week, @drkatemarvel.bsky.social resigned from her role at NASA in a move that was covered by Scientific American, The New York Times, Bloomberg, and others. www.scientificamerican.com/article/top-...
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A top climate scientist just resigned from NASA. Here's why
Climate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Protect Democracy spells out Trump's "rigged election" strategy for 2026: "to spread disinformation & conspiracy theories; tilt the electoral playing field and manipulate election outcomes; and, if necessary, try to overturn unfavorable results." Here's a rough graphic of how this strategy works:
This graphic is labeled “Rigged Election” Strategy. It features a circle with six labels around the outside, arrows pointing from one label to the next, featuring the following: (1) “Repeatedly say elections are “rigged”; (2) Change laws to make it harder to vote; (3) Muddy the waters: confuse voters & suppress votes; (4) Seed & amplify rumors that echo “rigged election” refrain; (5) Contest results (you don’t like); (6) Sow distrust in democracy.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 19/03/2026
You know how your phone finishes your sentences? “I love…” → “you,” “coffee,” or a full email sign-off. Now AI tools do it everywhere. And because they predict the most common phrasing, more writing is starting to sound the same.
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With AI finishing your sentences, what will happen to your unique voice on the page?
Chatbots tend to produce solid writing, but their prose largely reflects a single, uniform voice.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 17/03/2026
The new V-Dem report was released today. There are dramatic declines in democracy in the US. Much worse than during Trump I.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
It's nice to see more academic journals cover the importance of scientists meeting people where they are (social media) in order to share evidence-based information. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation
Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
% of Americans who have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public All US adults: 6% Republicans: 2% Democrats: 9% www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Bar chart showing that very few Republicans and Democrats alike have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public. The chart is based on a December 2025 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I am excited to debut a new segment I am co-creating with @wgbh.org and The Curiosity Desk. This week, we discussed a new website, inequalities.ai, which reveals the biases and opinions of ChatGPT on a range of topics. Listen and explore the website!
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Boston Public Radio, The Curiosity Desk, & The Culture Show Live February 5, 2026
YouTube video by GBH News
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Silicon Republic @siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.
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New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked
Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“You need only know this: Whatever is happening with your data, it is important enough to the most egregiously lawless administration in American history that it be collected and consolidated.” Always read @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)
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Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database
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Heated Rivalry News @hrnews.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm via hearts530
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
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Popular Science @popsci.com · 18/12/2025
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
In May, Human Rights Watch released a report showing how gig platforms use opaque algorithms to erode workers' wages. Now a new investigation finds Instacart is running AI price experiments: charging different people different prices for the *same* groceries, sometimes by more than 23%. Read this:
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Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout - Groundwork Collaborative
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Book bans are still happening across the country. In some ways and places, they continue to worsen. They can be unconstitutional. They continue to be incredibly unpopular. Getting involved locally can help. Donating to groups fighting them if you can is essential.
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Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.
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