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Tim Recuber

@timrecuber.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof of Sociology Smith College. CUNY PhD. Studies media, emotions, death & disaster. Author of The Digital Departed & Consuming Catastrophe.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The Israeli government has displaced a total of 6 million people from their homes. (3 million Iran, 2 million Gaza, 1 million Lebanon). 6 million people. The equivalent of the entire population of Maryland displaced from their homes. By one government.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
“Congress needs to impeach Kennedy now and put a stop to this grotesque circus”. My friend and fellow @defendpublichealth.bsky.social member, @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy, nails it in this article about the continuing ACIP goat rodeo.
theguardian.com
Confusion abounds over future of US vaccine advisory committee
Former ACIP members make contradictory statements following judge essentially invalidating panel and recent decisions
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
When reporters would ask me about "how will the public see the effects of DOGE?" my answer was pretty unsatisfying. 1. Performance declines in orgs that deliver direct and measurable services (e.g. IRS, VA, SSA) 2. Emergencies reveal lack of expertise when you need it. The Iran war is a #2 case.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Things are going great fortune.com/2026/03/17/r...
fortune.com
Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers | Fortune
AI companies are turning to quadruped robots, better known as “robot dogs” for security solutions to protect their vast data centers.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society
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CEO of Beckett Mariner @kariizumi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Kinda wild that the industry that has given us 27 Marvel movies and 6 Scary Movies got so mad over one small comment about ballet. Looks like the LA Ballet folded after its first decade and was dormant from 1985-2004 too. They just hate Chalamet that much!
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The comments on this Reddit post are amazing. AI is destroying the corporate world and yet all we hear about in education is how we need to incorporate AI into our lessons now www.reddit.com/r/technology...
reddit.com
From the technology community on Reddit: CEO of Krafton Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
Explore this post and more from the technology community
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
We kidnapped their president I think they’re due for a win
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Companies never returned their prices to normal after 2-3 months of slowdown in global manufacturing during COVID so this time ought to be great too!
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Excellent thread.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is the true promise of AI: allowing people to live in a fantasy world of their own design. Just psyching yourself up with nonsense images that reflect a completely deranged worldview with no connection to actual events at all. Your life gets worse and worse but the images get better and better
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Protesting students were arrested, expelled, and beaten up for an entire year while Democrats were in charge. Now Democrats expect them to keep protesting? Gtfoh
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
This can’t be real why are people treating it like it’s real it’s not real right?!
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Almost every Democratic response to this shit right now starts with five sentences about how bad the Ayatollah was and how it was obviously good to destroy him with a missile and thanking our brave men and women in uniform before uttering a single criticism
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Truly astounding how many really evil people there are in the world, and how in the US we have created a system that elevates the worst of them into positions of tremendous power
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/03/2026
OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...
techdirt.com
DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’
Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characte…
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
There are obv so many impeachable things to choose from but a nice simple one is “started a war without congressional approval AND has absolutely no idea why he did it”
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X

I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together.
This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There is a legal provision in immigration law that someone married to a US citizen can stay in the US while there visa is pending. Immigration officials have long recognized it to allow residency during the wait time. The DHS has just stopped following this part of the law.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 06/03/2026
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...
statesman.com
Tesla sued after Austin shooting suspect allegedly assaulted co-worker
A 65-year-old woman says the automaker ignored warning signs before Ndiaga Diagne, the suspect in Sunday’s mass shooting, assaulted her. She sued Thursday.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Going great
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Stoner Philly Fan @stonerphillyfan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Every Democrat running for office in the next three years needs to make putting the people responsible for this brutality behind bars a center piece of their campaign. No “looking forward not backward” bs this time
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Small price to pay to have a machine that can automatically write emails three times as long as a human would
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
The majority of America’s teachers — a whopping 71% — have at least one side job because they’re so underpaid. Meanwhile, the country is about to be launched into a long, drawn-out war that has already cost an estimated $2 billion. Priorities.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
If basic standards of consent were applied to most AI systems they would all collapse. It’s just easiest to see it sometimes with this kind of ghoulish death tech
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Ben Says Abolish ICE @justanotherben.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Big W from Tish James here.
“You are hereby advised to immediately resume all service offerings as they had before the change in policy and to make medically necessary puberty-blocking medications and hormone therapies available for patients under 19 who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria,” the letter, which is dated Feb. 25, states.

The letter, addressed to NYU Langone Health’s top lawyer, instructs the hospital to notify the attorney general’s office that it has complied within 10 days. The letter threatens further action and mentions the possibility of an investigation if the hospital refuses to comply.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
10 years ago, Bernie Sanders warned America of the unintended consequences that could emerge from a regime change war with Iran. Watch.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Add it to the list but if Democrats ever return to power every one of these end times freaks needs to be removed from govt service. Go run a church or whatever but no one who thinks like this should be in charge of waging war ffs!
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Flipping through this today for no particular reason
The comic collection Get Your War On by David Rees
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
But we were assured* that robo cars were so much safer!! *by people who would profit from the implementation of robo cars
fortune.com
By Tesla's own math, it reveals that its robotaxis are 4x worse at driving than humans, with redactions hiding even more details | Fortune
By NHTSA standards, the Tesla Robotaxis are 8x worse than human drivers.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
In my younger days I thought pro-war Dems were just spineless capitulators but over time I learned they really just love war. Even now, when Trump is wildly unpopular & this war is wildly unpopular, they just can’t quit loving war.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
How long until we start hearing that holding midterm elections would be playing right into the Iranians hands?
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NEW @thenation.com: The tools of the War on Terror must be destroyed before Trump uses them to finish building his world order, at home and abroad. What we did at home yesterday is what we do in Iran today is what we will do at home tomorrow. The way we break the cycle is straightforward: abolition.
thenation.com
The War on Terror Paved the Way for Trump's Rise—Now He's Making It His Own
Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I feel much safer now that the supreme leader of Iran is dead, don’t you?
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Democrats fail to meet the moment, once again.
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“The Ayatollah was a very bad man, and we are glad he’s gone, but we have sent a strongly worded letter to President Trump reminding him about the high price of groceries and gasoline.”
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
There really are not many more prescient quotes than this
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“In 2003, the road to war in Iraq was paved with lies about nonexistent weapons of mass destruction. The path to a new conflict in Iran 23 years later has been lined largely with incoherence or silence.”
theguardian.com
Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has no mandate – or legal basis
US president violates UN charter just days into his Board of Peace era, and chooses to take the biggest gamble of his administration
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Tim Recuber @timrecuber.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I love that people thought Bill Clinton was gonna go scorched earth and share all the dirty secrets he knows about all the terrible powerful men who hung with Epstein, instead of doing what he was obviously always going to do, which is just say “I did nothing wrong!”
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