Reposted by vera khovanskayaThomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 10/08/2025shitty little sentence that makes no sense but i just like the sound of it 328851
Reposted by vera khovanskayaMarielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 18/09/2026“I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM” is going to be psychically load-bearing for the rest of my life I fear 33139712
Reposted by vera khovanskayaQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 18/09/2026postcard from montreal 0263
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Really have to commend my child for attempting to “return” a stick he brought home from school because he was suddenly deeply concerned about not “STEALING FROM SCHOOL” 2150
Reposted by vera khovanskayaCanadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · 02/09/2026"The university is not just in crisis. The university is the crisis." Rinaldo Walcott (@blacklikewho.bsky.social) argues that Jason Arday's death lays bare a broken academic system built on unequal power, gatekeeping, and the grinding machinery of institutional recognition.canadiandimension.comThe university is the crisisThe crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ... 316879
Reposted by vera khovanskayawint @dril.bsky.social · 27/04/2026why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy..... 100133673060
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Strange thing about academic-calendar life is to have two beginnings to each year and to feel all the dread and excitement of these many multiplied returns every time 3150
Reposted by vera khovanskayaRobert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 29/08/2026I don't think that enough people realize how big of an issue sports gambling (including so-called "predictions markets") are on college campuses. Take a few minutes and read through this family's challenge with gambling addictions that led to stopping out of college and a mountain of debt.espn.com'We are broken': One family's fight against gambling addictionFor Amit, it all started with a college poker game. Now he's in recovery from a gambling addiction that consumed him and his parents. 11377152
Reposted by vera khovanskayacolorscolor @uglyjacket.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Not now honey the orb is slowly drawing me closer 0271
Reposted by vera khovanskayaFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/08/2026Microsoft purged the data of over 170,000 nonprofits with little to no warning. Yet another entry in the ledger of “big tech should not be surprised that people hate them now.”slate.comThe Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of NonprofitsWhen the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it. 221036435
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Me, when my skin is peeling after a minor sunburn: can’t you see I’m molting??? 180
Reposted by vera khovanskayaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026no devices and low-tech for billionaires’ kids but ai for the rest of us plebs www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...nytimes.comSilicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something. 11831304
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 17/08/2026hypothetically imagining someone going “tailor of gloucester” mode on your professional outfit for an interview, demanding that it needs “more twist” 280
Reposted by vera khovanskayaJS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/ 514055
Reposted by vera khovanskayaAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026not a conspiracy and other researchers are documenting and developing www.theamericanvandal.com/p/against-te...theamericanvandal.comAgainst Technofeudal EducationPillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI 6326139
Reposted by vera khovanskayaDr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026My sounds-like-conspiracy-theory-but-is-probably-true take is slopAI firms are deliberately targeting education sector; it’s underfunded & weakly protected & by becoming standard there they create generations of dependent users which is only thing that can stop inevitable financial bubble bursting 1438134
Reposted by vera khovanskayaKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Columbo Summer (looking like I slept in whatever I’m wearing, asking questions I already know the answer to, talking about my wife to people who don’t know her) 1458133
Reposted by vera khovanskayaPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Compound bow First developed in the Ancient World Can't be drawn by just a random guy Tensile strength to make bronze arrows fly 292746702
Reposted by vera khovanskayaEugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Unbelievable own goal whenever a country denies a visa to a researcher trying to attend a conference. You should be so lucky as to have them overstay 112213
Reposted by vera khovanskayaDan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Lol roblox took some modest safety measures that stopped pushing younger kids towards addictive stuff with loads of in-app purchases and wall street immediately slapped $9 billion off its valuationthestreet.comRoblox made one change and wiped out $9 billionRoblox’s growth engine just hit a safety wall 15412
Reposted by vera khovanskayaNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7778512571
Reposted by vera khovanskayaStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 27/07/2026In America, mass transit is widely considered to be an alternative of last resort for the extremely poor rather than a safer, cheaper, cleaner and more efficient means of moving people around a metropolitan area. 11779121
Reposted by vera khovanskayaAlexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Next week I’m lecturing on logistics in the Inland Empire. These landscapes always make me think of my fav Reyner Banham quote: “it is no use cybetneticists and Organization and Research men telling us that a computerized city might look like anything and nothing: most of us want it… 2303
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Cat figurine we found hidden behind the radiator in the apartment when we moved in vs. cat that just moved into the apartment upstairs 4300
Reposted by vera khovanskayaSam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026In this house we Trust the Experts Love the Experts Kiss the Experts 0384
Reposted by vera khovanskayaSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/07/2026They did say AI would bring productivity like never before 238784
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Kid who just learned the word dare but not how it works conceptually: “Why dare I do that?” 1220
Reposted by vera khovanskayaSam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I need to take some time off work to study artifacts 2333
Reposted by vera khovanskayaRory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The Amazing World of Tomorrow 48109252707
Reposted by vera khovanskayaDan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Great point, very @leev.bsky.social. Materialism or bust. 0141
Reposted by vera khovanskayaGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 11/07/2026"To lose her on a morning commute at an intersection the city has explicitly documented as dangerous for years is just an unmitigated tragedy, a systemic failure." Deaths like Louisa's occur because our leaders prioritize the convenience of drivers over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists.bostonglobe.com‘Systemic failure’: Crash that killed Boston transit planner sparks furor over road safety efforts - The Boston GlobeResidents and public officials alike have been concerned about pedestrian and cyclist safety on the stretch of Tremont Street in Mission Hill near Parker Street for years. 2881263
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 06/07/2026This is my “guy goes to Europe" take but does a particularly American enthusiasm for LLMs ride on a long tradition of instrumentalist valuations of “reading” and “writing” (as opposed to their intrinsic intellectual gain)?? “You mean we can do more output per less reading or writing? Sounds great!!” 150
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 06/07/2026detecting a bookshelf demonstration of how truly bad the capitalist publication and book-vending system is at connecting enthusiastic and curious people with *real money* to spend to the *real books* that would actually satisfy that curiosity instead of marketable shelf slop 1100
Reposted by vera khovanskayaBecky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026My mom is mad at my dad because a feral peacock keeps coming to their house and staring through the glass door into the kitchen and it turns out it's because my dad has been secretly feeding it 882771378
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Looking up “Bad Motherfucker Pub” in Bordeaux, France, me: wow I am learning so much about French culture 170
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 21/06/2026I would never be like “people who don’t have kids don’t understand this” because I bet it’s also true for elder care, but there is a way of understanding the full weight of reproductive labor that I think can only get if you're the one doing it for a long, long period of time 1110
Reposted by vera khovanskayaVillein 🔒 @villein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026oreos are probiotic and have ancient grains 027254
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 16/06/2026getting so familiar with the flock of pigeons that we see on the way to school 1110
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 14/06/2026And what if I bought some new items, also for the feeling? Just kidding, of course 180
vera khovanskaya @saysvera.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I haven't seen the English dub of Moomins on the Riviera, but in the absolutely wild Russian dubbing, the Snork Maiden declares everything she likes to be “leh-vay-DAHNSS” (l’evidence) and I think that’s right 170