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Sarah T Roberts, PhD

@ubiquity75.xyz
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Professor, researcher, author. Prez, Assoc of Internet Researchers (AOIR), gay lady into synths, computers, music, film. Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 47m
“A university's obligation to the physical safety of its students is not one commitment among several, to be weighed against reputation or litigation exposure. It is antecedent to everything else the institution does.”
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1h
“…the administration is using allegations of discrimination—including antisemitism—as a pretext for coercive strategies that are plainly unlawful and unconstitutional, and that undermine both civil rights–including the civil rights of Jewish Americans—and our constitutional democracy.”
nationalcampusjewishalliance.org
Press Release September 28, 2026 — National Campus Jewish Alliance
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Mediamorphis @mediamorphis.bsky.social · 1h
Sharp words on the rot & corruption in the Trump regime, its corporate lackeys, & gutless US media coverage of both: "The corruption & regulatory capture are disgusting enough, but it’s positively grotesque that the U.S. lacks an establishment press that’s capable of explaining any of this...".
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 12h
Seeing Ruben Blades tonight at the Hollywood Bowl and he kicked it off with “Plástico,” a song so powerful and it political that it gives me chills. And he sounds amazing. youtu.be/_uj80mu3xT4?...
youtu.be
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Plástico (Visualizador Oficial)
YouTube video by Fania Records
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 16h
I’ll never understand how killing a person fixes that person having killed another person.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17h
What a racist fuck.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17h
Ok basin.la/articles/the...
basin.la
302 LAPD officers cleared $300,000 last year. At the NYPD, four times the size, 15 did.
Nearly half of LA's $300,000 earners held officer or detective titles, and among the Police Officer IIs in that group, average overtime topped regular pay.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 20h
I feel like that Jack Smith hearing from yesterday needs to be set to the Benny Hill theme song.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 30/09/2026
Just to clarify, the call is now for other UC folks and those at other universities to sign on in solidarity with our colleagues who were maligned and to reject the racist associations that were made. I believe the person who made the statement feels there won’t be consequences. Your support helps.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026
This open letter is now circulating. Please sign and share through your networks. Thanks. sites.google.com/view/frenk-r...
sites.google.com
We call on Julio Frenk to immediately retract his statements
[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.]
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 23h
We have been laying off staff. Berkeley is hiring 72 tenure-line faculty this year. UCLA is hiring 8. The chancellor has announced two new vice-chancellor direct reports for himself. We are told there is no money. Class sizes have been doubled.
dailybruin.com
UCLA will hire more Student Affairs staff to enforce Time, Place and Manner policies - Daily Bruin
UCLA will add full-time positions to its Student Affairs Mitigation Program to support the university’s response to protests and other demonstrations, UCLA Student Affairs said. The new positions incl...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 23h
Fucking enraging.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 30/09/2026
Holly is the most incredible, wonderful bear ever.
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epickdani.bsky.social @epickdani.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Thank you for sharing this lovely story! It made me go down a bit of a rabbit hole and I discovered further proof that Holly is the best bear mom ever: www.nps.gov/katm/blogs/a...
nps.gov
Abandoned Cub Finds a New Mother - Katmai National Park & Preserve (U.S. National Park Service)
In early July, bear 402 abandoned her yearling cub. Rangers, including myself, were routinely asked, “Will it find another bear to care for it?” My usual response to this question was coldly factual, ...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here's Backpack as a yearling in 2007, unable to put weight on the injured paw. Holly took her cub & moved upriver, away from aggressive bears who might harm him at Brooks Falls. Fishing was harder for the pair, and she risked both of them struggling or starving, but he was SAFE.
Backpack in 2007, nursing an injured paw that is turned under, so that he can't put any weight on it.  If you're wondering why they didn't provide vet care, it's their policy not to interfere when an injury is natural and not caused by human activity.

I think this photo is by David Kopshever, National Park Service?  It's on a blog linked below.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If only there was video for Dan Bishop accusing me (during a Homeland Security interrogation) of being some kind of spy due to the gap in my resume (1997-2007). Bishop: “Where were you during that time period?” Me: Looks around the room very confused. “Uh.. playing professional basketball?”
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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Takes a queen to raise a king.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Their convoluted theory was that my advisory role on CISA’s advisory board in 2021-2022 was somehow an operational role where I coordinated w/ social media platforms & helped CISA make platforms take down content (in 2020). All of that is absurd & why they never released my HS committee transcript.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Here’s an article in the Missouri Independent with my first reactions re: Schmitt’s public records requests of me. It talks about Schmitt teaming up w/ the Gateway Pundit, who went on to sue us. It was finally dismissed (we won!) earlier this summer (2026). missouriindependent.com/2022/11/21/m...
missouriindependent.com
Missouri AG aligns with St. Louis conspiracy theorist in social media lawsuit • Missouri Independent
Jim Hoft, founder of the conspiracy website Gateway Pundit, was added as a plaintiff in Missouri AG Eric Schmitt's social media lawsuit.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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Nate Miller @atarifan2600.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@ubiquity75.xyz I’m not crying over my coffee, you are.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 30/09/2026
I recently posted about my first professional job, running IT support for the Division of Student Affairs at Duke. This was back in 1998. My best friend at the time was someone who started at the same time as me. She worked at Duke’s Women’s Center, as the Sexual Assault Services Coordinator.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 30/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/xRs...
reddit.com
From the pics community on Reddit: President Trump meets with AI executives at the White House
Explore this post and more from the pics community
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 30/09/2026
CDC Data Centres reveals plans for $15 billion facility near Wagga Wagga
abc.net.au
Riverina could soon be home to one of Australia's biggest data centres
A proposal by CDC Data Centres would see one of the largest data centres in Australia developed on the outskirts of Wagga Wagga.
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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 29/09/2026
lol, lmao
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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's very interesting to me that Cornell's assertion is that meaningful action was taken, but no one believes it was sufficient and the criminal investigation was re-opened.
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Number One Saskatoon Berries Fan™️ @beepthief.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the most diabolical (and ineffective) “soles” I’ve seen recently. Ok they also had to rake some leaves.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026
This open letter is now circulating. Please sign and share through your networks. Thanks. sites.google.com/view/frenk-r...
sites.google.com
We call on Julio Frenk to immediately retract his statements
[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.]
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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Savage. (Also, should prompt some reflection on the part of Cornell administrators.)
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puppa.bsky.social @puppa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Once upon a time, people dreamed of TV on the internet. Now people can have the worst internet sites turned into television!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 29/09/2026
radaronline.com/p/bari-weiss...
radaronline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Bari Weiss 'Likely Out' at CBS After Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger as 'Anti-Woke' Editor Blamed for Torpedoing '60 Minutes'
Bari Weiss has been blamed for 60 Minutes' slide in viewership this season after making sweeping changes to the news network.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mike Rogers is a corporate sellout who moves back to Michigan every few years to run for office to take another swing at the revolving door of corporate politics.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 28/09/2026
Oh.
history.com
Until 1975, ‘Sexual Harassment’ Was the Menace With No Name | HISTORY
Meet Lin Farley, the woman who helped coin the term 'sexual harassment.'
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 28/09/2026
It bears mentioning that Microsoft just shut down its Microsoft Research Social Media Collective…because why should they care about the social consequences of their products, right? Including worker harms.
404media.co
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
college for all, college for all
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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 19/09/2026
Progress. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Meet Bella & Boi.
A monochrome drawing of two figures (anthropomorphic animals), a deer and a fox, standing and looking at a TV and a rectangular device beneath it, like a VCR or DVD player. Above the TV hangs a star-shaped sign with the command "Buy!" On the TV screen, they see themselves in real time, standing there and watching the TV. The deer (named Boi) is wearing a neck warmer, and the fox (named Bella) is wearing a short-sleeved, fuzzy-textured top. Behind the deer, to the left, is a surveillance camera.

Boi: I’m stressed out by all this technological progress, Bella.

Bella: If technology is making you stressed, Boi, it’s not a kind technology.

Bella (cont’d): And there are less kind people behind it.

Bella (cont’d): And that’s not progress.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 28/09/2026
Working Girls (Lizzie Borden, 1986) Coup de foudre/Entre Nous (Diane Kurys, 1982) I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987) Sans toit ni loi/Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985)
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jeffries could have whipped his party to impeach Trump for the past 18 months. Instead he lets Trump do more and more to take away the opportunity to ever be able to do anything to stop him.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 28/09/2026
Years ago, I had my first professional job running IT support for the entire Division of Student Affairs at Duke. We had over 200 machines spread across two campuses for which I was solely responsible. This was 1998. Interestingly, we were an all-Mac shop, prior to O X existing. It was in beta.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......
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Dan k5s @danafus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Molly White wrote a great and very thorough article about migrating "Citation Needed" from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-...
citationneeded.news
Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the details
I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is not an FAQ but is also short and useful. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...
anildash.com
Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 26/09/2026
Does anyone know of a good “why and how to leave Substack” FAQ that has some element discussing the political issues related to what it means to use it as well as logistics? Having a hard time finding such a thing. @anildash.com
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 26/09/2026
I see.
A wall sign reading “CRY ROOM”
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Stephen J Read @steveread.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And presumably hiring additional staff to work with the new vice provosts
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.nbcnews.com/world/spain/...
nbcnews.com
Anger grows across Spain after elderly woman evicted from her home of 70 years
Maricarmen Abascal, 87, was removed from the Madrid apartment she had called home since 1955. Her eviction has fueled anger about Spain’s housing crisis.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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