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I cannot drive by cows without saying "cows!" which poses some logistical problems considering i live in southwest Oklahoma.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9m
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 2h
hey it’s a gay bar story about who to actually be mad at
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1h
The last thing I’ll say is to pay attention to what is missing this time around. Specifically, I’m thinking of resources to support survivors in the aftermath of violence. Like women’s centers and women’s scholarships. Victim advocacy. Academic accommodations. DEI.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also Rhet Comp:
careers.jsu.edu
Assistant Professor of English, (Rhetoric & Composition Studies) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States
Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Composition Studies Position Description The Department of English at Jacksonville State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Engl...
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also Professional Writing: careers.jsu.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, English (Professional Writing) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States
Assistant Professor of English, Professional Writing Position Description The Department of English at Jacksonville State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor of English with a s...
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My department is hiring in 20th-century American Literature! Happy to answer questions.
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Assistant Professor of English (20th Century American Literature) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States
Assistant Professor of English, 20th Century American Literature Position Description We invite applications for an Assistant Professor of English in 20th-Century and Contemporary American Literature,...
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's ok. Not everyone likes cheese.
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"It is far simpler to state an uncomfortable truth: No one really knows what exactly they are doing when they train or prompt an A.I. model." @leifw.bsky.social in @nytopinion.nytimes.com : www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/o...
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Opinion | Stop Talking About A.I. Like a Human (Gift Article)
If we want to figure out the proper way to control A.I. models, we need to recognize what they really are.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lol right? Has NYT opinion ever published a higher ed essay from a community college prof? Even one?
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026
Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie: 
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
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jen ramos-eisen @jenramose.online · 01/10/2026
look I ain't gonna lie — it is hard to be online these days as an SA survivor. glad that men are actually talking about holding their guys accountable but also like ... just go fucking do it. I don't need to see it and a hell of a lot of other survivors don't either. go fix your shit
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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New AI guidance for National History Day (laudatory).
What is NOT allowed: 

Asking ChatGPT or other Gen AI platforms to brainstorm topic ideas
Using Gemini or other platforms to find potential sources, archives, or libraries
Creating text, images, videos, or audio for a project
Using Gen AI tools to revise or rewrite text
Requesting feedback from companion chatbots
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the carie @thecarie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh no, generic syllabus maker stops at 2026 HELP WHAT NOW DO I HAVE TO LOOK AT A CALENDAR NOW (who do I know who can code who can modify this to keep working tho???) wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
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Generic Syllabus Maker
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Imagine being such a bad writer that you write a whole op-ed—yes, write! the ironies abound—trying to convince people that writing isn’t really that important
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's not the main thing we need, but we do need a David Lodge style Changing Places exchange program so that professors realize the way their institution does things is not standard nor inevitable
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it
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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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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/o...
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once (Gift Article)
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.com · 29/09/2026
my most popular post by a million:
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 29/09/2026
eggs up, girlyopteryx
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“you live in a bubble” yeah, we all do, social media literally manufactures bubbles for us.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the thing about the "you're out of touch if you haven't heard this song" discourse is that radio has been dead for well over a decade. it's extremely normal to listen to a lot of music but still never hear the songs at the top of the charts.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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D.M. Schmeyer @dmschmeyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This works, btw. It's actually pretty incredible and heady just how powerful it is in practice. Every time I've done it the impact is pretty memorable.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Kids all right.
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‘That’s so AI!’ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us
The year’s most popular slang reveals what young people think about artificial intelligence – and it’s not positive
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the postwar university for all its problems worked according to a pretty complex balance of cultural and economic capital with other kinds thrown in, but it looks like we can simplify our Bourdieu for the phase of neoliberal higher ed we’re in now, where the only thing that matters, ever, is money
Diagram of Bourdieu’s four fold grid of forms of capital — Economic, Cultural, Social, and Symbolic, showing all of them crossed out except for Economic, which is now the only form recognized by the neoliberal university
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I found it. The only good post on the covid queer bar thing. substack.com/@sproutstack...
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Sproutstack


Hey you heard about this story coming out of Massachusetts? Apparently this group of self-selected individuals, who largely feel out of place in a world of great sorrow and despair - like, they're in this world, but not of it - formed a very intentional community as an example to the rest of the world, like a beacon that shines on a hill. And now they're tearing each other apart over seemingly inscrutable moral infractions! All this, in Massachusetts! Can you believe it?
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i'm a narratologist and i teach this class every year
step up revolution cuz we love a collective action genre
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
-Did the AI actually “go rogue,” or did a human tell it to do something? -Does “AI decided” actually mean “a company decided”? -Does the "study" make the claim in the headline? -Did this happen spontaneously in the wild, or in an experiment specifically designed to make it happen?
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
trying to imagine how i’d react at my job if i asked an adult their address and they were like, huh! i don’t remember
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 25/09/2026
Parker Molloy just published this thoughtful piece tonight. It's worth a read imo. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...
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Trainwreck
Old habits, especially embarrassing ones, die hard.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When you write a book you actually write several books. There's the one you know you wrote. Then there's the one your readers bring their experiences to. This is a big part of the magic. As soon as it goes out into the world, your book multiplies & becomes many versions of itself, all equally valid.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/09/2026
It's honestly bizarre to me that abolishing the jackbooted fascist paramilitary shooting people over paperwork is considered extreme and radical but having a jackbooted paramilitary shooting people over paperwork isn't.
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Sam Cohen @samcohen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Last week all my students hand-wrote their own pledges, according to their terms, to write in my courses without AI. Some of them were quite moving—their anger at AI’s attempt to steal their educations, their determination to learn & create anyway.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
they are increasingly connecting the dots on who benefits when their cognitive capacities are stolen and the history of cultural production enclosed
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The worst men alive all absolutely love AI and hate trans people. Huh. Probably no lessons for me to learn there.
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.
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Meta Tests Muse AI Agent Calls That Are Actually Made By Humans in a Call Center
"This has potential for so much negative PR. It could portray us as ‘their AI is not good enough so they still need humans’ kind of coverage for this launch."
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In my epistemology class, one of the clearest examples for students is when I walk them through the timeline of the Hemings publicly discussing their relationship to TJ and then ask the students' why their word was not enough. Why wasn't their testimony "evidence?"
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Transphobia is an interesting case bc gender difference is such an ingrained aspect of our society and also if you give it ANY THOUGHT WHATSOEVER you realize that enforcing a gender binary on any population in any public forum is a fascist nightmare.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When people say “Bluesky is a toxic anti-AI place” I hope they are talking about me 🙏
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