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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 · 44m
💅 She’s basically a shitty person.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 45m
Am I living for this Selma Blair drama? Maybe.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2h
meanwhile they’re trying to convince california voters to vote against a wealth tax. fuck off with that.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 2h
historically high spend and this is how much of his net worth it is
google search showing that $276 million is 0.0276% of $1 trillion and proving why we so desperately need a wealth tax
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 3h
To all #LGBTQI+ participants in #AOIR2026, I’d like to let you know that our hotel and venue has a prominently displayed sign as a queer-friendly destination. Come be yourselves in comfort. You are welcome. 🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 7h
people.com/brandi-glanv...
people.com
Brandi Glanville Says She’s Scheduled Exploratory Surgery: ‘Something Is in My Face Eating It’
Brandi Glanville says she’s set to undergo exploratory surgery for her ongoing facial disfigurement struggle, saying she’s sure that doctors will discover the “something is in my face eating it”
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 7h
Honestly I am worried about a lot of people. Someone should help this woman, and not by cutting her open.
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Brandi Glanville Says Ultrasound Found ‘Something Alive’ and ‘Moving’ in Her Face amid Facial Disfigurement
Brandi Glanville shared detailed video updates providing updates about her ongoing health struggles with facial disfigurement, sharing how she undergoes 18-hour IV infusions and daily home nurse visit...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 15h
Enjoy spending your night on the floor of the airport.
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From the delta community on Reddit: Well this is fun for the USA.
Explore this post and more from the delta community
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 18h
Didn’t you hear? All university learning is vocational and worthless if it doesn’t lead to an immediate and obvious career path.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/10/2026
I can’t get any money to teach the courses I’d like to develop and teach. So that’s cool.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/athletic/764...
nytimes.com
A $30 million disaster: How did Yale let its newly restored golf course fall apart?
Alums are upset about patchy grass, dried-out greens and want answers. "If someone gave you a Rembrandt, you’d take care of it."
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The “premise”/pretext is that a trans woman is inherently more threatening than a cis woman of identical appearance.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/10/2026
Um.
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Former Macalester professor charged with damaging student’s backpack with urine
She believed he urinated on her bag; he said he believed a cup of urine spilled.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/10/2026
Not for nothing but Tapper’s expression here is pretty great. I can’t actually hear any audio, blissfully.
A split screen view of CNN as Jake Tapper listens to a guy whose name is actually Markwayne babble about an ICE shooting involving a car with a 5-year-old in it. His expression is one of incredulity and annoyance.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11/10/2026
The incredible part is that it’s not just the direct corruption of quid pro quo. It’s that they found themselves such a corrupt idiot that he parrots whatever they tell him and can’t actually evaluate it himself.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
Some enterprising hacker collective could test this: throw some vibecoded OpenAI Astra & Claude Opus bullshit together, train it on stats about student loans & what would happen if they went away, & then instruct it to free up spending power for millions of americans, & just like, see what happens…
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10/10/2026
Oh, no! I’m going to miss you!!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10/10/2026
Cool.
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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026
and the NYT is doing its part as well: bsky.app/profile/inqu...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10/10/2026
Again: the president ran over the guy’s foot. The guy whose foot was run over was suspended.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
The first @aoir.bsky.social ground crew has hit CDMX and the venue and locale is gorgeous. Already ran into one conference-goer in the airport! Can’t wait to see everyone soon. #aoir2026
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
@anniemcc.bsky.social *wave*!!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
There can be no valid reason for the FBI Director to be traveling to Russia right now. Not a one.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
People spoke about the loss of childcare and its impact on their families and careers. The contributions they were able to make with it and the hardships bring without it would cause. Some spoke about the abuse and harm that befell their own children. Perhaps an administrator could have stayed.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
You saw it here first!
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
“Rather than call it ‘artificial intelligence,’ we must recognize that it is super! That is why the new official name for this technology shall, by Presidential Decree, be ‘Superficial Intelligence!’’”
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
After departing, he was back in his office sending emails. How do I know? Because my colleagues, who had the manners to stay for the whole meeting unless teaching, received emails from him as they sat in the gallery.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
For reasons I don’t fully understand, the Provost was given primacy of speaking order — at a special meeting we used to procedure to call — then left without listening to all remarks, citing another calendar obligation. I’m on sabbatical and I managed to show up for the whole thing.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
A “budget shortfall” is not a credible reason for the closure, especially when VC for Comms who spent $600,000 on external mgmt of her own LinkedIn page continued to operate in admin’s favor. The reason is future liability mitigation and sexist reduction in services. Period.
dailybruin.com
UCLA Academic Senate calls on administration to keep childcare centers open - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Oct. 8 at 10:40 p.m. The UCLA Academic Senate overwhelmingly passed a resolution Tuesday calling on administrators to reverse a decision to close the university’s childcare cente...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
If, for no other reason, to find these products flawed and compromised…
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
Also, this: can I has job too: I can do all these things. www.gq.com/story/ben-af...
gq.com
Ben Affleck Talks AI, Mortality, and Why He’s Clocking in at a 9 to 5 Office Job
The actor, 54, says he still expects to see a 30-year-old when he looks in the mirror—but he’s more conscious than ever that we only have so much time.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
lol oh yes that’s why.
qz.com
OpenAI and Anthropic hiring former Trump officials for senior roles
The two AI companies have collectively brought on at least five former administration officials this year as frontier AI becomes a national security issue
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 09/10/2026
ithacavoice.org/2026/05/corn... Remember this?
ithacavoice.org
Cornell issues one-year ban to former student who said university president ran over his foot - The Ithaca Voice
ITHACA, N.Y. — A recently graduated Cornell senior was banned from campus for one year about a month after he accused the university’s president of running over his foot. On […]
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/10/2026
A Faculty Senate resolution to save early childcare education — unceremoniously and unilaterally cancelled by central admin without consultation — has passed with 96% approval of present voting members.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/10/2026
www.404media.co/federal-judg...
404media.co
Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
3 wks ago we 🎉 the launch of our Cross-Reference books @ the Ctr for Bklyn History! @beccaquon.bsky.social chronicled the event! We're inviting ppl to request 🌟free🌟 copies of both pubs; METRO members + collecting institutions get priority :) crc.metro.org?p=1720&previ... crc.metro.org/projects/
Stacks of our misfit books; cover features black background, yellow and pink lettering in Banco typeface Search and discovery Zen set, featuring three brightly colored, clipped jeans and a yellow introductory broadsheet
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/10/2026
It’s cute how he wants attention, though.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/10/2026
Fuck off.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/10/2026
Dick in mentions.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/10/2026
The Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has Died www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
nytimes.com
Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 08/10/2026
The thing is, I know we’re all so tired. That’s really the point.
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"The HSI reports show that Heather Honey, a DHS official who came to prominence denying President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, obtained 48.4 million records through 'independent sources of information.' Additionally, HSI drew upon some 50.6 million records from the Department of Justice."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
most cucked man alive
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/10/2026
@ucfaculty.bsky.social
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/10/2026
I will say that a university with a multi-billion dollar endowment and vast wealth and resources doesn't have a funding problem. It has a resource allocation problem. This can be read as a values misalignment with the core mission. I'll accept both answers.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/10/2026
I look forward to reporting out good news about UCLA soon. But that day isn't today. But soon. Well, the good news is that faculty, students and staff are getting used to working in solidarity with each other against poor administrative leadership. So I'll report that out.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/10/2026
Most grocery stores in Europe have checkers sitting down. It's a peculiar American cruelty. "Time to lean, time to clean." Go to hell, boss man.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/10/2026
“As is my wont and my habit, given all the lady humours circling about my person.” *faints on couch*
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/10/2026
Every other speaker was told this at a meeting I was at yesterday by the (male) chair, and I didn’t fucking appreciate it. It’s absolutely rude. “Oh, thanks for the reminder; I had planned to be verbose.”
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