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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/10/2026

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Recently pulled together an emergency preparedness pod with people who live near me because of the many (worsening) crises that we are in or are heading our way. Can't stress enough for others to do this asap. Even just having a couple of conversations about it is better than nothing and will help.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beyond the horrifying reality that a hospital is trying to "clear the pentobarbital from [Christa Pike's] system" currently, the litigation over Tennessee's actions this week will shine a very clear light on the many, many reasons why governments should not be trusted with killing their citizens.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 24/09/2026

I don't have time to write more, but ICE is working to remove people to third countries in violation of D.V.D. v. DHS. I've been up since 5:20 A.M. working with two other attorneys to prevent our client from being shipped out. If you rep someone at risk of third country removal, check on them NOW

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/09/2026

Officials said that 62 natural gas-powered generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, were operating without permits. On Tuesday, New Jersey fined the data center’s operator $1.07 million for violating the state’s Air Pollution Control Act.

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Data Center Is Fined $1.1 Million for Operating 62 Power Generators

New Jersey officials said that the natural gas-powered generators, each the size of a tractor-trailer, were operating without permits.

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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A man is dead after crashing his car into a tree, catching it on fire while fleeing from ICE in Grand Rapids over the weekend. He was identified as Mario David Coronado Juarez. No traffic stop should end in a fatality. #ProudBlue #FuckICE #Michigan #ICE www.freep.com/story/news/l...

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Man dead after fleeing ICE agents in Grand Rapids

A man died after crashing his car while fleeing ICE agents in Grand Rapids. Michigan State Police will investigate.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Astonishing to see it even being discussed. One highly placed person told me they supported AI grading in large classes because “it’s better than nothing.” when I asked why the university couldn’t hire enough people to grade those students’ work he said “well that’s not realistic.”

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Oh no, I have been perceived

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026

These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.

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Rachit Dubey @rachitdubey.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🧵as I read this piece. My first thought: Teachers and professors have long been sounding alarms about declines in student skills, knowledge, and behavior. But test scores are all political and school leaders attend to. This attention cuts all ways, as I'll come back to. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

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Your School District Is Probably Scoring Worse Than 10 Years Ago

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"[I]f by Luddite you mean a conscientious objection to top-down dictatorial automation of human thought and skill as a capitalist ploy for the devaluation of labor and therefore the devaluation of laborers and human life in general...Then, yes. This is a Luddite treatise." Join us in two weeks!

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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The hidden ICE blueprint that should horrify every American | Will Bunch

An internal Department of Homeland Security document shows how ICE plans to cram thousands of detained human beings inside a Georgia warehouse.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

New blog post: How I'm teaching about Generative AI. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

A screenshot of my messaging app, containing a text I generated only by using the predictive text options it supplied. The message says "Yesterday's announcement of a major overhaul in energy policy and the impact on the environment was welcomed with great excitement as we discussed. I hope that this is the beginning for our next generation to take a new direction."

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Flying again today, so of course I'm reading Dewey: "The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that our experiences are genuinely or equally educative. Experience and education cannot be directly equated to each other. For some experiences are miseducative."

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that our experiences are genuinely or equally educative. Experience and education cannot be directly equated to each other. For some experiences are miseducative. Any experience is miseducative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. An experience may be such as to engender callousness, it may produce lack of sensitivity and of responsiveness. Then the possibilities of having richer experience in the future are restricted.

Again, a given experience may increase a person's automatic skill in a particular direction and yet tend to land him in a groove or rut, the effect again is to narrow the field of further experience. An experience may be immediately enjoyable and yet promote the formation of a slack and careless attitude, this attitude then operates to modify the quality of subsequent experiences so as to prevent a person from getting out of them what they have to give.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

• Al Overview
The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
• Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone.
• Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

What are we doing? Track workouts! Why are we doing it? Because it's one thing we can control in their barren hellscape we call reality!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Hundreds of asylum seekers from around the globe are being trapped by the US in a Panama hotel where they'll eventually be sent to a camp in the jungle. One Chinese man said “I thought: America is a free country with respect for human rights. I had no idea it was like a dictatorship.”

They arrived at the United States
border from around the world, hoping
to seek asylum. Instead, they were
detained, shackled and flown by the
U.S.military to a faraway country,
Panama

They were stripped of their passports
and most of their cellphones, they said,
and then locked in a hotel, barred from
seeing lawyers and told they would
soon be sent to a makeshift camp near
the Panamanian jungle.

At the hotel, at least one person tried to
commit suicide, according to several
migrants. Another broke his leg trying
to escape. A third sent a plaintive
missive from a hidden cellphone: "Only
a miracle can save us."

In one window visible from a sidewalk
below the hotel, a woman clawed at a
latchless glass pane in an attempt to
escape. When she noticed journalists
below, she held up a piece of paper that
read "Afghan.

She made hand motions that indicated
an airplane, then her head falling off.
The message seemed to be clear: A
flight home meant death.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Chase Strangio said we need to intervene in any and all narratives that work to blame or isolate transgender people. 👀 Step up, push back, be loud. Trans people need to know they aren’t alone and that their allies are legion.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Gilbert cites the study I mentioned in my column re: hegemonic masculinity and it really is a good explanatory lens for *gestures at all of this*. (Also not the same as toxic masculinity.) This column is great and everyone should take a look at the study, too. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Hegemonic masculinity predicts 2016 and 2020 voting and candidate evaluations | PNAS

This work examined whether the endorsement of the culturally idealized form of masculinity—hegemonic masculinity (HM)—accounted for unique variance...

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Pretty pleased with this Thanksgiving plate.

A vibrant Thanksgiving plate. Clockwise from top: breadstick, sous vide turkey, salad with berries and goat cheese, pumpkin-cranberry bread, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mac-n-cheese, cranberry relish, Brussels sprouts.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Every day this week I've felt like it's Friday. We are in week 10 (of 10), so it's the Friday of the fall term. But sadly not actual Friday. Not even tomorrow. What is this.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Made friendship bracelets at the "Playful Pedagogy in Action" session with Lindsey Hamilton from Bates College 🧡🩵🩷 #POD24

A table with friendship bracelet beads and the hands of several educational developers, happily crafting.

Three friendship bracelets. One says "R L T" (for the crafter's three dogs), one says "you belong," and one says "grace + kindness," all with colorful beads

A slide from the "Playful Pedagogy" workshop, with presenter Lindsey Hamilton from Bates College. The slide lists some benefits of play in higher education (e.g., creativity, risk taking, belonging, etc.)

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Decided: every conference should include a 6:30am run meetup. Sunrise on Lake Michigan ahead of a full day at #POD24

A selfie of Sally in front of a glowing Chicago skyline, taken midway during a sunrise run on day 1 of the POD24 Conference

Map of morning run around Chicago's Museum Campus

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magpie TRICKS @magpie.tips · 31/07/2024

IT'S GRITTY

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

I'm having a lot of feelings, but one thing I know for sure is that this guy deserves to be the first gentleman.

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Kamala Doug GIF

ALT: Kamala Doug GIF

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

My pre-order of "A Pedagogy of Kindness" by @cjdenial.bsky.social has arrived and it could not have come at a better time. Can't wait to dive in!

The cover of "A Pedagogy of Kindness" by Catherine J. Denial.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 08/06/2024

I'm only part way through The Last Murder at the End of the World, but it's giving me major Three Bags Full vibes. Anyone else, #blueskybookclub? 🐑🐑🐑

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Snow day means extra time with this delightful audiobook

Audiobook of James McBride's "The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store"

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Grey is kiki and gray is bouba.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Ok, starting the book thread on Bluesky this year. Here goes!

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 18/11/2023

Me, at 1pm: finishes last class session of First Year Seminar course Me, at 8pm: mapping course redesign for fall 2024

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 15/11/2023

Just pre-ordered my copy of A Pedagogy of Kindness! I truly can't think of a better description of what I strive to practice, and I can't wait to read it (but have to wait until July...)

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ʝօռ ʍօʀֆɛ @jonfmorse.com · 13/11/2023

Thing you missed this weekend: For the first time ever, a woman scored non-kicking points in a college football game. Maddie Barch, the kicker for Kalamazoo, caught a pass for a two-point conversion on a botched PAT.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

The feminine urge to have a little after-work cheese, as a treat.

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Mark Sarvas @marksarvas.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

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Sally @sjwread.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

Gaaaaahhhh I need to scream into the void about how much I hate the healthcare system

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