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David Barral

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spent all day refining a press release for our upcoming symposium on Creative Writing in the Age of AI and then . . . he just tweeted it out.
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Kieran 🦘🇨🇦 @hellbendermuseum.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Proud to present my lifesize T. rex head, affectionately named Hannibal. I created this myself from start to finish- digital sculpture, resin 3D printing, painting, etc. Huge thanks to my friend @rj-palmer.com for instrumental crits and redlines during the sculpting process.
Life-size t rex head model from front 3/4 view. I am also in frameLife size t rex head model, from frontLife size t-rex model, from front and staring directly down the barrel of the camera
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 03/10/2026
tf did I just read
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Damn
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 02/10/2026
So good to see QUEER ORIGINS in my local public library! I love spotting the different ways that bookshops and libraries categorise the book. Some put it in their science section, others history, others (as here) LGBTQ. All are correct! 🌈📚🦋🗃️ #books #booksky #reading #histsci @yalebooks.bsky.social
Row of queer-themed books on a library bookshelf. Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life is in the centre, front-facing. Above the books is a blue banner which reads 'LGBT'.
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Guillaume @guipascanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ok donc maintenant c’est « qui n’a pas gravé des croix gammées »
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday NSW approved NSW’s largest ever coal expansion to HVO’s coal mine in the Hunter. The next step is federal approval. I know AI is the hot topic of the moment but we *know* coal and gas are driving the climate crisis. Let’s not lose sight of that and the decisions being made in its shadow.
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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
no humanities except for grok
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you are viciously attacked by a poodle, you’re likely going to be nervous around poodles, even if not all poodles plan to attack you. We think this is reasonable. When you consider that nearly all women have been harassed or assaulted by a man, why is it not also reasonable here?
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Crown Prince Thutmose @thutmose.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Philosopher? Is that the title you guys gave him, or is it how he self-styles?
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day 26 years ago I was a child watching another Palestinian child on tv, about my age, hide behind his dad & then get killed, because the soldiers shooting didnt value his life at all. His name was Mohammad al-Durra. 26 years later, the lives of Palestinian children matter even less.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Like I always tell students, spellchecker will save you from the misspelled word, but it won't save you from the wrong word.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mediapart has published a treasure-trove of anti-semitic writing allegedly from the RN second-in-command, really damaging stuff. Of course it is all being denied by the fash because it undermines their strategy of appearing respectable. But the mask just got torn off.
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« Les banques sont toutes détenues par des juifs » : Jordan Bardella face à ses écrits antisémites
« Mediapart » a mis la main sur des échanges de l’actuel président du RN, au début de sa carrière politique. On y découvre l’antisémitisme obsessionnel de celui qui rêve de devenir premier ministre. …
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Joe Dunman @joedunman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts' Ability to Function
A panel of three Florida state district court judges blasted a family attorney for using AI to generate "frivolous, scattershot arguments."
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/09/2026
Some of us in San Francisco first heard of the Network State and related tech cults from Emily Mills. She documented how these ideas had infused our local politics. It sounded odd at first, but her work sparked mine. On Tuesday, we're onstage together in SF. Tix here: semaphore.thd.org/954-2/
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THE TELEGRAPH HILL DWELLERS PRESENTS: GIL DURAN with Emily Mills
Join Telegraph Hill Dwellers for an evening with journalist and author Gil Duran, in conversation with Emily Mills, discussing his new book, The
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Simon Grivet @simongrivet.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Bonjour tout le monde Voici 5 articles ou reportages à propos des États-Unis qui ont retenu mon attention ce dimanche 27 septembre 2026 au matin (After oil, Moma)
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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now
He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
this is the greatest thing i have ever heard
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026
Can a video of a CEO stubbing their toe feel pain? It can at least act like it does.
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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Depuis la visite du Pape à une association de migrants, vous voulez donc croire que les catholiques français seraient une force de gauche. Mouais... Auriez-vous oublié que la dernière fois que les catholiques français sont descendus en masse dans la rue ils y exprimaient une furieuse homophobie ?
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David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Our very own « lanceur d’alerte » d’extrême-droite eugéniste, boutefeu de paniques morales comme Rufo/Cofnas (qui font du plagiat une arme politique contre leurs cibles—Gay/Arday—spécialistes racisé·es de l’injustice socio-raciale), notre pion local dans l’internationale de la mauvaise foi réac.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mullin can’t speak honestly about Delaney Hall if he’s never walked through its doors. People are suffering. I’ve seen it firsthand, I’ve heard from detainees. It’s brutal. So because Mullin can’t show up for his job, I made sure he heard the truth from me.
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Jérémie Naudé @jeremie-n.cpesr.fr · 26/09/2026
Fitoussi ("Balance ton Claude") joue un rôle similaire à plusieurs essayistes US : reformuler des théories d'extrême-droite dans un langage savant, captant indûment l'autorité des sciences naturelles, pour accompagner la transition du centre droit "rationaliste" vers une alliance Musko-Trumpiste.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Ieda Marcondes @iedamarcondes.com · 26/09/2026
"Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel"
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Oppenheimer: Cillian Murphy's Intense Regret
Alt: Oppenheimer: Cillian Murphy's Intense Regret
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This episode is doing big numbers &, so far as the feedback I'm getting, for precisely the reason I recruited Lauren Goodlad (@criticalai-journal.bsky.social) & @jeffjarvis.bsky.social: They are both able, in their own ways, to situate the AI boom as more continuity than disruption. They draw...
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Critical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College)
with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Jeff Jarvis
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
some pilots are part of the furry community
An illustration of the Ralph Lauren Polo bear dressed up as a pilot and standing in front of a red airplane. The text says "Polo Aviator by Ralph Lauren."
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 25/09/2026
My new favorite news photo. The ugliness of these people just leaps right out at you.
Reuters photo (I checked that it's real) showing Trump glaring belligerently at the camera, with Melania behind him looking like she'd like to rip the photographers throat out, and Xi watching them both with a mild bemused expression.
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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026
Tout débat sur l'usage de l'IA en littérature devrait être préfacé systématiquement par un rappel du coût écologique de ces outils et des desseins politiques de leurs propriétaires, on verrait alors que les écrivains qui l'utilisent n'ont ni conscience écologique ni conscience politique 🤷‍♂️
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David Barral @thoreaupeutic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Francis Pongiste
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#JesuisLéa @jesuisleabsky.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Docteur·e au chômage, en train de préparer les concours de MCF. France Travail répond : « trouvez une utilité sociale ». Alors parlons-en, de l'utilité sociale. À la présidentielle, on aura des questions. 😉 #JeSuisLéa → jesuislea.fr
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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
chat is this good www.axios.com/newsletters/...

1 big thing: Ø Link economy breaks
Total U.S. web traffic for top news sites
Visits to approximately 100 top sites;

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the
U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As Trump’s boots those outlets from the White House Press Corps Phil Williams points out he has let in a “fringe white nationalist outlet” run by a guy who “routinely spouts racist slurs” More: www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...
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Joan Stavo-Debauge @jostavodebauge.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026
L'IA est un prétexte pour supprimer l'intelligence publique et éliminer le sens critique, aussi bien individuel que collectif : son soutien par des régimes autoritaires et son déploiement coordonné dans tous les métiers de l'enquête sociale et scientifique ne sont absolument pas le fruit du hasard.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · 21/09/2026
He totally did the meme before the meme existed.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Several people have been asking me when this one was going to be up on the feed. Lauren Goodlad (of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) and @jeffjarvis.bsky.social really delivered an evening convo to remember at the 2026 Quadrennial Conference on the State of @marktwain.bsky.social Studies.
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Critical AI & The End of Mass Media (Vandal Live @ Elmira College)
with Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Jeff Jarvis
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Simon Grivet @simongrivet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bonjour tout le monde ! Voici 5 articles ou reportages à propos des États-Unis 🇺🇸 qui ont retenu mon attention ce lundi 21 septembre 2026 au matin. (Linda Brown la jeune plaignante de l’arrêt Brown en 1954 qui déclarait anticonstitutionnel la ségrégation raciale à l’école)
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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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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And every day there is more Fresh AI Hell. What's worse than polluting the information ecosystem with synthetic text dressed up to look like news? Dressing it up further as the work of fake Indigenous journalists: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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