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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 8h

“This is a literal brain.” You sound insane

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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

We tried the ownership society where everyone is a little capitalist because they own their home, and that will provide their nest egg. It’s led to record homelessness and profound dissatisfaction with life in the US.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

very few religious studies scholars here (which is different from religious scholars). i’m really fucking tired today so i got nothing except wishing folks understood the value of religious studies as a field.

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Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)

In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

you can tell if your frat started as an "honor society" or medieval fanfic with a lynching fetish based on the songs. this isn't hard stuff!

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Just saying that the best contestation of Christian nationalism is a better politics, not a better religion.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh wow it was just 5 MONTHS AGO that the president of Cornell hit a protesting student with his car www.theringer.com/2026/05/22/n...

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Who’s to Blame When an Ivy League President Drives Into His Students?

“Ah! He just ran over my fucking foot!”

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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 30/09/2026

I keep thinking about this and Nikole Hannah-Jones' pieces and how all the pain and devil's bargains with modern K-12 schooling is all in service of sending kids to places like this. At every "elite" high school, this is the goal. For fucking what?

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Jack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What if schools were places students wanted to be? What if every young person could count on feeling safe, being known, and sharing a sense of connection at school? What if students knew that, in addition to their “core” academic work, there would be time every day for art, music, and play? 6/n

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the point I am always trying to make!!!! The "rigor" conversation constantly misses this

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When Max and I have kids we're planning to raise them as Mets/Jets/Nets fans because 1) they need to know suffering and 2) cheap tickets, all accessible by public transit

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my favorite semi-recent sci-fi novel, Void Star by Zachary Mason, takes the idea that big tech wants to rule over e-favelas somewhat literally and it is so sobering and wild. I highly recommend! I might even re-read it this month

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i think RFK Jr.'s colon-destroying steak and sauerkraut diet, tradwife culture, and Silicon Valley CNC parties are the same thing: a desperate attempt among powerful men to convince each other that gluttony, rapaciousness, and raw domination are not just their birthright but their responsibility

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I'm making Max watch The Love Hypothesis, and he has been stony faced and silent so far, EXCEPT for saying, "The idea that Stanford is responsible for grand funding is ludicrous!"

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I once took a short story in free indirect discourse to a writer's workshop i was in and it shocking to hear so many people be like "i hate reading things that aren't in first person." Seems to be growing!!!!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can promise you that the teachers who didn't give the daughter in question a good education in algebra were busy teaching 13-year-olds to add and subtract. It's sad! But that is what actually happens at schools where kids are living in deprivation

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I got a little bit of "they do need it if they want to access opportunities down the line" in response to this. And like. they can learn algebra in 9th grade like I did.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Still thinking about Nikole Hannah-Jones, but I guess part of the answer here is class consciousness? People who believe deeply in a better world need to figure out a better way of striving for a good working-class life for themselves and their children.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Harvard "Why would they make me read???" anecdote really hit for me because those are the values of people who are sending their kids to Harvard now! They are opposed to the concept of the Autotelic Self! That's the pipeline these kids traveled through. I know because I traveled through it too.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I was talking with my mom about this idea and she said something HILARIOUS. "We didn't realize that it wasn't a promise, it was a threat. We'll make public schooling so unpleasant via testing that people will legitimately stop having children. No child left behind because no one wants them anymore."

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One reason why the National Book Awards didn’t have a lot of nonwhite nominees in the mid century was because immigration law kept out most nonwhite people until 1965, and Black people were under segregation. What we see now is at least partly the result of greater competition.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

McLuhan said that technologies involve augmentations and amputations. The problem is that you can't really wish the effects of the amputation away and one major effect that we have seen over the last few decades is anti-system rage due to the inability to understand one's role in it

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When my mental health recovers, maybe a fruitful project would be a "Hater's Guide to No Child Left Behind"? Because it actually had some ok parts in it and could be fascinating to try to actually understand the data

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I spent my early years in a school system that had to invest 10s of millions of dollars in the 2000s to get up to a 75% graduation rate. There were quite literally not enough classrooms to house more than 50% of the freshmen who began high school every year

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It took me an entire ass senior thesis and years working in education to get what this skeet expresses in a sentence lol

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Still thinking about this story, sorry, but I think part of the problem is that even reporters don't really know how depressing things are at schools where the kids are really struggling. The Title I school I taught at wasn't even the worst and we still had to take a day or 2 to process gun deaths

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

my response to the idea that NHJ "handicapped" her daughter's education for the sake of her ideology, which i think is a totally incorrect reading of the situation

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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 21/09/2026

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria remains a must read :-)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Outside the obvious timebomb of selling out trans kids to appeal to ~16 bigots in deep Ohio, an underplayed part of the whole "trans kids in youth sports" stuff is making the most psycho Little League parents the most important political demo in America. They're joy vampires for the kids themselves!

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i've (only semi-jokingly) recently decided that "woke 1" is only just the form that our generation's famous and lasting moralistic, therapeutic deism took from 2014 to 2022

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I (a partially hood educated former teacher and current writer) have SO MANY THOUGHTS about the Nikole Hannah-Jones piece but I will save them for a venue where the writing will be compensated

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 16/09/2026

The world's playing by Calvinball Rules these days? Well, I was TRAINED in the ancient ways of Calvinball. I have STUDIED the sacred texts. The score may be Oogie to Boogie now, but that can change very quickly, my friends.......

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you ever find yourself, like Rodger, wondering about the cultural history of music that accompanies college football at Predominantly White Institutions (esp. in the South) you MUST get @carrieat.bsky.social's book www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650639...

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From Dixie to Rocky Top – Vanderbilt University Press

Listen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify. The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally impo...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A fantastic book about living in the world (and the culture) 9/11 made was published a couple years ago and I felt fortunate to review it. And disappointed that the book didn’t get the attention it merited. newrepublic.com/article/1852...

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The World That September 11 Made

Richard Beck’s “Homeland” traces the far-reaching aftereffects of the attacks and tries to recover the events of the day, as they happened.

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Your Friend Temporary Southerner @trt311.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Welp, this is the limits of social gospel Christianity and why you should be a liberation theologian if you’re gonna be a Christian in public life

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hi! For @motherjones.com, I'm looking for a New Mexico family that buys health insurance through the ACA marketplace. Please reach out at jmetraux@motherjones.com.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm sure this will ultimately prove too insane for most, but, admittedly, it gets that there is a vast demographic of parents who BOTH intuitively despise and resent teachers as a class AND have no interest in or inclination to actively help their children learn or develop good study habits at home.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Like, if when someone says "language influences and even creates thought" what you turn that into is, rather, them saying "language creates the capacity for thinking," a LOT of misunderstandings are going to happen, whether you agree or disagree with that assertion you turned their statement into.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

sucks to be in a era when seemingly rational people constantly need to be reminded that computers and humans are different

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Ok so the hilarious thing about Coyote vs. Acme is that it was filmed down the street from my childhood home, which was a whole different layer of nostalgia

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The stuff of schooling is a means to an end of cultivating human beings, but these goobers have subverted all of that because they think it's about answering math problems. We've completely lost the plot.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm just pretending that this is an annoucement that the New America Foundation is opening an office in ABQ

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

i took a dialect quiz, and surprise surprise, it put me smack dab in the middle of the mormon corridor. very accurate lol mydialect.us/quiz-standar...

a heat map of the us with a hot zone over nevada and a cold zone over new york city, where i have spent about half my life

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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Steinem wasn't the head of feminist activism or a (deliberate) long term spook, she was a midcentury magazine editor. I cannot express how much that is the determining factor of her life and career, in the same way that it is for her closest comparison points like Wintour and Wenner and (yes) Hefner

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