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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Good summary of the keystone cops attempt by far right scam artists to claim Talarico had a mental breakdown. But I wish there was more focus on the person behind this, a groyper street thug from Oregon who is a fan of the Freikorps and whose political ideology lines up 88% with Hitler’s.

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James Fishback is the true heir to the DeSantis governorship!
This is giving major 2018 Florida GOP gubernatorial primary vibes.
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In 1919, Germany's defeated soldiers came home only to be stabbed in the back by socialists and communists who wanted to burn the nation down and install a Soviet-style dictatorship.
The Freikorps rose from the disbanded Imperial ranks and smashed that red revolution before it could finish the job.
A century later the same poison is back—now joined by something even more alien.
Far-left radicals still despise their own people and culture, while Islamists answer only to Allah, reject every core of German and Western civilization, refuse to assimilate, and carry out violence in the open name of their religion.
Germany will not be saved by tolerance, dialogue, or more empty promises.
It needs a modern Freikorps-men who put the homeland first and are prepared to stop both the leftist traitors and the Islamist invaders at whatever cost.
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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Is teaching students to give up a hard or soft job skill?

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Whereas the AI users got answers wrong or gave up entirely when the AI assistance was withdrawn, the group without AI stuck with the task and were more successful at the end."

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Apparently, I almost made it on to a syllabus in Texas... and then didn't!

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I support Somali-Americans @adamrothman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I'm hoping this will lead to a massive Streisand Effect for @sethrockman.bsky.social (who wrote Scraping By).

Pehl, the history professor, told me that he did just that, and decided not to use the book Scraping By, about labor in Revolutionary-era Baltimore, because he had been planning on teaching it early in the year, which didn’t allow time for it to be reviewed first. The book differentiates between the experiences of workers based on whether they were enslaved or free, men or women.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Tariff of Self Abominations

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hit your quota for the month and it's only the 8th.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 08/10/2026

Theres no “history” for Trump, only celebrity, so he’s obsessed with putting himself next to Washington.

AI image of Washington and Trump on horseback

AI image of Trump showing Washington the White House ballroom

AI image for fake movie poster of Trump and Washington as time traveling mystery solvers. Trump helps save Washington from a cliff.

Actual giant banners of Trump and Washington’s faces in DC

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 08/10/2026

If this @thedailyshow.com segment has you curious about Yvonne St. Cyr, I spent years tracing her road to Jan. 6 in my book The Conspiracists. It didn’t begin with QAnon. It ran through the Marines, evangelical Christianity, New Age wellness, and eventually conspirituality. 1/2

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Jordan Klepper Sits Down with a January 6er Who Wants a Refund | The Daily Show

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kayhag.bsky.social @kayhag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The book and the doc are extraordinary.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 08/10/2026

The companion feature documentary offers another way into the world of The Conspiracists, following Yvonne and other women connected to Jan. 6 as their beliefs continue to evolve. It’s streaming on The Roku Channel in the U.S., or available to rent or buy at theconspiracistsfilm.com

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The Conspiracists | A Documentary

A ‘Jan 6’ insurrectionist takes a British filmmaker and an American researcher on a road trip and attempts to convert them to her world of conspiracy theories.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The woman in this clip is the subject of a documentary film on the Roku Channel called "The Conspiracists" which follows the research my wife @noellecook.com did for a 2026 book with the same title. Yvonne is a complicated person. @thedailyshow.com youtu.be/ZBcLkaJPa78

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m still floating from this by @leahlitman.bsky.social: “Every once in a while, a book comes along that is so transformative and so persuasive that it has the potential to shape our institutions and our democracy. Supremacy is one such book.”

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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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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 03/10/2026

Even the 1980s are embarrassed that this still needs explaining. FFS.

Screenshot of an X post from the verified Governor Hochul Press Office account (@NYGovPress), reading: “Voluntary intoxication is not a license for sexual assault or gang rape. Period.”
Below the text is a paused, muted video showing New York Governor Kathy Hochul speaking behind a dark blue lectern bearing the state seal. She wears a navy blazer over a tan collared blouse. An American flag stands to her left, a New York State flag to her right, and a large gold state seal hangs behind her. The video timer shows 0:14. The post is dated 9:51 AM, October 2, 2026, with 72K views.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

AAUP, AFT, and HELU have a plan draft! College For All, in expansion now for 2026 and 2028 www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was the best of times, it was the beige of times.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The NY Times has repeatedly used the phrase “to heel” in reference to Trump’s crackdown on universities, implicitly clarifying that Trump goal is to establish dominance. And what exactly constitutes this “woke” ideology in higher education?

During the meeting, Mr. Trump repeatedly complained about his administration’s failure to bring Harvard University in particular to heel. The administration has been unable to hammer out a deal with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, a central plank of his broader push against “woke” ideology in higher education.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In retirement, Thomas Jefferson saw this ideal as the "consolidationist" monarchism of Stuart kings and came to believe that it was--and would always be--a permanent problem in government, pushed by tyrants, the very wealthy, and church leaders obsessed with controlling public morality.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A simple way to improve AI safety is to enforce the law. If Sam Altman knows that he will be treated like a drunk driver after an accident if his AI causes serious damage, he will be much more careful deanbaker22.substack.com/p/sam-altman...

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Sam Altman is Driving Drunk, Let Him Face the Consequences

People need to face consequences for criminal negligence

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/09/2026

The provost of UMass (R1) literally told a group of historians this: “research” means pulling in large external grants and unless you do that, you don’t matter and get nothing internally. “Research“ is about $ and institutions support only those disciplines that bring in $ or raise it privately.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Then they deserve what they get. If you make it entertaining, they will regret it (unless they are like Spirit, whose whole business plan seemed to be based on not giving a sh*t about their customers and driving the company into the ground).

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

@ corporate and I bet you get a refund and an apology. I'm guessing they will want to appease you to make you go away. If not, they are like Spirit Airlines and deserve whatever negative consequences they get.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

2) It’s interesting (though predictable) that before they’ve read how the testing was conducted over 15 years I’ve seen comments attempting to debunk the results. The need to oppose is just knee jerk, even though this kind of circumstance was common in the slave society in which TJ lived.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And if being a provost be can be handled by AI, maybe some of those upper adminstration salaries should be shifted to other college priorities.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The article is brutal. Great student reporting. The chef's kiss is that the reporters found that the provost's letter defending his use of AI for witting op-eds and academic papers was 100% written by AI.

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Noelle Cook @noellecook.com · 18/09/2026

This is one of the most meaningful reviews I’ve received. Keri Ladner read The Conspiracists with such care and empathy for me, Tammy and Yvonne. By the end, I was reading through tears. I’m deeply grateful for how thoughtfully she wrote about my book. www.christiancentury.org/books/lonely...

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Lonely conspiracists

Noelle Cook opens a window into the lives of two insurrectionists, Yvonne and Tammy, as they navigate the world after January...

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

High praise for @noellecook.com's book The Conspiracists from a reviewer who understands how the current crisis of faith and belonging is being juiced by social media algorithms to drive millions of people across the globe into conspiracism. www.christiancentury.org/books/lonely...

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Lonely conspiracists

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Many of you will be surprised to know the Continental Army existed in 1753

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The illusion of learning. “Getting answers from a bot can create ‘the illusion of learning’ for students who reach for A.I. ‘at the first hint of struggle,’ the M.I.T. committee wrote.”

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Universities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace It (Gift Article)

As A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students.

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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It's all about feelings for the "f*ck your feelings" crowd.

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And yet...most administrators in higher edcuation cannot see it and continue to worship at the feet of teaching technology and AI. It seems their own critical thinking skills have been swallowed whole by their dreams of cutting labor costs (no doubt promised by their new personal AI assistant).

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Terry Bouton @terrybouton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The evidence of this point seems overwhelming. COVID greatly accelerated the use of online and software-based learning. Since then test scores in reading and math have cratered across the nation and students now enter colleges incapable of reading whole books.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have listened to and read lots and lots of What AI will Mean for College and the one big thing that gets skips all the time is TEACHING. Information provided is not teaching. 8/

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Teaching is the very thing that’s been degraded and underfunded and is the very thing that we know across k-16 is the most important aspect of student learning and outcomes – well beyond the classroom. Yes, this is now my checklist for any essay/ pod abt "higher ed." 10/

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 09/09/2026

another researcher accuses OpenAI of training on conversations and then claiming a breakthrough

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BREAKING: OpenAl might have stolen another major proot.
In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAl may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov's soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAl later announced Astra had solved.
I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and one of the most respected scholars in the field. He has spent two decades working on this problem.
If his account is correct, this is not a minor dispute over attribution. It would mean that unpublished human work was absorbed into a model and then presented to the world as a breakthrough by the model itself.

And if the allegations raised by Levent Alpöge, Tristan Buckmaster, and now Andreas Thom are all substantiated, we are no longer looking at isolated incidents.
We may be looking at one of the greatest intellectual scandals in the history of science.
Al is not discovering new mathematics.
Al is stealing human discovery.

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