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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 13h

How many local models do you run?

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?

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Michael Stambolis @mstambolis.bsky.social · 12h

Voici la vidéo (attention violence) de la police en train de violenter les étudiant.e.s (taser, gaz, coups) sur le campus de l'Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. C'est inacceptable. Solidarité avec les étudiant.e.s, les lycéen.ne.s et le personnel qui les soutiennent. (Via @fse_Toulouse sur Instagram)

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 12h

I think Greg is correct, but Americans need to be aware that Magyar’s Tisza government is aggressively going after every Fidesz official, removing them, using every lever of the state to yank them out of power. This is far more aggressive and rapid than anything proposed in the US so far.

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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As this thread explains, rightwing billionaires are shoveling millions of dollars to displace a system of knowledge and education that has almost no support, and yet still that lose when the terrain is even. Humanistic scholarship can withstand this assault as long as it gets more support.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

This is a very important point. The intellectual work that the right is trying to finance is shoddy and would not withstand peer review-which is why a key part of the movement is to replace peer review with "viewpoint diversity." The question is how to convince ppl to support humanistic scholarship.

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seriously though this kitten won't stop violently ambushing the other cat and she has peed on the bed twice now. My family, it is struggling

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So where are all these people fleeing red state universities finding jobs? Asking for a 'friend'

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Rufo and Keeperman's defense of French boils down to white nationalism: white people prefer to live w/ other white people. Keeperman wants "homogeneity," "cultural cohesion" & to live in a "high-trust society" where there's "unspoken affinity" between neighbors talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even though I caught a glimpse of the book in real life last week, my own copy arriving on my doorstep today is a surprisingly emotional experience. So many thanks to @uchicagopress.bsky.social and the archivists and librarians who made it possible for me to tell this story. 🍺👻📚❤️

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A green and gold book (my book) titled Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them sitting on a folded piece of wrapping paper.

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some research assistant YOU turned out to be!

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Certainly all the historians who have worked on this for literal decades must be wrong. No, it is the Performance Artist who has figured it out

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Renseignement" is a French word, and yet Microsoft Word, in all its wisdom, keeps changing the language of my document to German every time I type it. WHY

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026

The “states’ rights” people in the past knew it was bullshit back then too, because slaver states wouldn’t let free states pass laws protecting self-emancipated people within their borders.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026

Reading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Oh, you work on the Algerian War? Well have you ever read Alistair Horne?" triggers involuntary eye twitching every time

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shit-for-brains here loves spitting out these trite little formulas because he thinks they make him sound smart

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

the institutional sanction of sexual violence against women and the state trying to kill a woman and failing. galling to take those together

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

look I don't even go here anymore but I hope folks are noticing that this shit is happening *exactly* at the same time this administration eliminated loans to study religion

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I actually can’t get past the first sentence of this opinion piece: “Most college professors I know believe that students learn to think — critically, creatively, reflectively, tenaciously — only by writing.” This simply isn’t true, at least not in my experience, and it sets up quite the straw man.

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Deliver us from evil, giant Gỏi Gá. Amen.

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Students are already asking to submit work that is 3-4 weeks late in only week 6 of the term. I have a clear policy in my syllabus that says that there are no penalties for any late work up to two weeks after the due date, but after that it's a zero. They won't like it, but I'm going to enforce it.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s important to remember that faculty and colleagues in other countries are also under sustained assault from their leaders and University systems. Maybe know more south than the UK, which is decimating its universities. Solidarity with striking colleagues at Nottingham today.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 30/09/2026

Make America's Military Dumb Again

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It has been an interesting few days in my feed, but one fascinating thing is people telling me that historians have caused as much damage as bad bridge builders, but the idea seems to be that anyone who makes claims about the past is a historian and son that just ain’t true.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When I taught at an all-boys prep school, we'd do an activity where I had them list every sexual term they could think of. They'd often laugh, as many were absurd things meant for Urban Dictionary. We'd then go through how many terms were violent (~85%) and how many were male-dominant (~90%).

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Look at that! The AI Book Club hallucinated me a whole new book. I hope you all are excited to read my new scholarship on intentionally cultivating meaningful relationships, a clear and logical next step from my work on counterinsurgency 🙏🧘☮️

I recently discovered The Work Beneath the Surface, and I was drawn to its thoughtful exploration of the quiet inner work behind personal growth and meaningful relationships. I especially appreciated the emphasis on slowing down, recognizing the habits and patterns that shape who we become, and becoming more intentional in how

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh, for fuck's sake: now my university is mandating an "Active Shooter" online training module for all faculty and staff. Maybe they'll warn us we are liable if we don't follow the instructions amidst a relationship life incident, like they do with the cybersecurity training?

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My favorite part of going abroad for research is getting locked out of Duo, as a treat

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Deeply evil. I can't imagine the trauma and violence these children are being exposed to

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Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One thing that infuriated me when I was on strike was how the media and social media would present striking workers as being the problem and the poor innocent employer as just wanting to do what was right for everyone. Only workers have agency, the university was innocent. 🙃🙃🙃

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We seem to be amused that the president cannot remain conscious during virtually any Oval Office event. This is a very sick man. He is unfit for his job. It is an issue the country should take more seriously.

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What if the South Sea Bubble could commit IP theft

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026

Somehow "the guy who buys struggling publications and fills them with fake journalists that publish thousands of articles of AI slop to overwhelm google? turns out he goes way back with Ghislaine Maxwell, the collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein" feels like the ultimate and most exhausting 2026 sentence

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

This is why the Vanderbilt/WashU report cannot be understood apart from both institutions‘ massive investments in AI. Their leaders needed to discredit those disciplines and forms of knowledge asking hard questions about the cultural, social, political, and environmental costs of AI.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/09/2026

If "your goal is to advance science in the United States," Jeffrey Flier, former dean of Harvard Medical School said, that kind of political interference "would be like shooting yourself in the head."

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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research

Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

“The goal was to destabilize U.S. educational infrastructure and carve out a large space for reactionary indoctrination within it. I think we have to acknowledge…it has been substantial everywhere and in some places the goal has already been reached.”

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t post much sports stuff here but this is an incredibly disgusting story

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A natural outcome for an era of hyperpolitics

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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks Lucy! I will never tire of the wonderfulness of my students, past and present. And it's not just in the classroom: many students of mine have appeared in book acknowledgements, too; they shape our research in myriad ways. A reminder that *we* are the university, not the bean-counters!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026

These data centers are financial poison even if you bought them cheap. The returns are awful, the debt is toxic, the ongoing opex is nasty because of the cost of cooling and the power demands, and 30% gross margins requires near-perfect conditions and constant revenue for 5+ years.

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