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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hard not to notice that Democrats who are doing the best are the ones who are leaving this whole civility-and-norms, we-go-high, we-need-a-strong-Republican-Party bullshit behind and are simply giving Republicans exactly what they all ought to get at all times, which is undisguised contempt.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Civility is, as it has always been, a process of making those who describe the reality of imperialism appear more indecent than those who actively perpetrate its daily violences. "There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level." - Mark Twain

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What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Taryn T, Duchess of the Blue Sea @tarynt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don’t want an execution made public. I want the Epstein files made public.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

For those who want to dive deeper into this data, Ed Next (journal at Harvard) has republished my essay on what I call The 50 Percent Problem, my *conservative* estimate of how many students are harmed by using AI. www.educationnext.org/the-penalty-...

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The Penalty Students Pay for Using AI

Teenagers are willingly automating cognition and learning less. Adults seem unwilling to stop them.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These are indeed the right questions. We have empirical evidence that strongly suggests the immediate impact of AI is seriously harmful to learning, and since learning is cumulative, likely will have long-term harmful consequences. (That purple area is the direct measure of harm)

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.

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ZJBardou @zjbardou.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s a lie. Of course they know that their models aren’t “conscious.” Good grief. Lmao.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...

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But mass-slander-by-anecdote has a long tradition. As The Atlantic explains:
In The Nazi Conscience, Duke historian Claudia Koonz notes that the Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer ran a feature called "Letter Box," which published readers' accounts of Jewish crimes. When the Nazis took power, the German state began doing something similar.
Frustrated by the failure of most Germans to participate in a boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, Adolf Hitler's government began publicizing Jewish crime statistics as a way of stoking anti-Semitism.
Trump introduced a new government entity Tuesday that will similarly flag and highlight crimes by illegal immigrants - without, of course, providing any context about how many crimes they commit compared to U.S. citizens, or how illegal immigrants as a group might contribute positively to American society.
"The office is called VOICE - Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement," Trump explained. "We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media, and silenced by special interests."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Before he was appointed, Kash Patel was flagged by FBI counterintelligence agents as being deeply enmeshed in influence operations run by the Russians and Chinese. After he took over, Patel began systematically eliminating all Russian and Chinese counterintelligence capacity. What to make of that?

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As Trump focuses the FBI on immigration, counterintelligence is falling behind

The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

nytimes.com

U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026

"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“It’s putting a mind virus into a kid’s head, which is what education is. And it’s being done by a teacher you trust.”

theamericanvandal.com

All Our Kids Will Go To Alpha School

On the plans to hyperscale Alpha School’s “AI” tutoring software to “a billion kids.”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/09/2026

Norway has solution to this actually, stay at home parents can get their share of the public daycare subsidy as cash, that way parents are not pushed one way or the other. the problem of course is virtually no one on the center or right actually gives a shit about parents

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 28/09/2026

The film, called “Anchorage Welcomes You,” weaves together narratives of several people currently or formerly living on Anchorage streets. It explores themes of drug use and recovery, housing insecurity, sexual assault, poverty and violence.

akpub.io

Norwegian filmmakers debut full-length documentary on Anchorage homelessness

"Anchorage Welcomes You" follows currently and formerly unhoused people in the city. The film will be shown in Anchorage, Juneau and Homer.

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tech companies have for 30 years (since Barlow’s infantile 1996 Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace) been claiming they exist “everywhere & nowhere” as if that were a good thing. @sarahkendzior.bsky.social reminds us that being SOMEWHERE is infinitely richer & more rewarding.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

I Wandered Lonely in The Cloud

How AI is destroying the life of the mind.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 27/09/2026

Becky Sullivan of NPR has written this terrible article about the cynical "protect college sports" bill, that frames as bipartisan the intentional attempt to undo what I and many other people accomplished: reducing the financial exploitation of some of the poorest, Blackest kids in the nation.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"[The software] would also track your facial expressions, and be like, “This is the emotion that you’re evoking while you’re talking about this.” And every single time, it would tell me that I look really sad, which is fair because I was really sad, because I was crying every single day."

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

This is the best book I’ve read in a very long time. I literally can’t put it down. @ucheblackstockmd.bsky.social you have a gift.

LEGACY A BLACK PHYSICIAN RECKONS WITH RACISM IN MEDICINE

UCHÉ BLACKSTOCK

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Symbols matter. White House isn't a palace. Kennedy Center is for the general public to enjoy. We don't have a triumphal arch in DC because that's imperial. We don't put the president's face on money because it's monarchical. It's about tearing down everything that says we're a democratic republic.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

THESE are the real "existential risks" of "AI": People almost Dying because other people trust bullshit engines because said people have been sold a bill of goods as to how "powerful" "AI" is instead of understanding that its bullshit comes from the same place as its seemingly factual outputs.

cnn.com

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics

The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026

Trump claimed he's "banning the free press" & added "we're repressive also" when asked about China's lack of press freedoms during bonkers event where he struggled to stay awake, demanded kids get 5 vaccine shots instead of 1, and rambled incoherently in response to basic Qs Here's a supercut:

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/09/2026

“The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but that it is necessary. We do not see it that way.”

motherjones.com

Mamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schools

Kids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“Within the logic of Christian Zionism, the true danger is not war but peace” - @astra.bsky.social & @naomiaklein.bsky.social This chapter, infuriating as it is, has given me more insight into contemporary evangelicalism than anything I’ve read since @jeffsharlet.bsky.social’s “The Family.”

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hey I'm not actually done talking about Dolly Parton. 🧵 Specifically I want to talk about her album 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs, released in 1980 (not the soundtrack to the film 9 to 5, that's a different thing). The whole album is about work, with most of the songs focused on a different type of worker.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Pay us to give every student an equally shitty, dehumanizing experience.” This has always been a EdTech business model. Since the Teaching Machines movement in the 1950s. So now they’re just saying the quiet part out loud.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

whenever I see someone complain about "the excesses of woke," I want to ask them what it means—did some people want ~too much~ equality?

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This is good advice from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social, & I’m going to draft off it to suggest there is a species of pundits who are bad in a very specific way & learning to ignore them is imperative to your wellbeing. Knowing what not to read without reading it is a life hack.

e-flux.com

The Useful Narcissist - Journal #163

Matt Seybold on the fate of public intellectuals in the age of social media.

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EJD @firewxguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

LOL! YOU LITERALLY VOTED YES TO CONFIRM RFK JR. !!!!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Algorithms killed the spectrum of emotional valences. Everything now is set to 10. Bring back the eyeroll, the exasperated sigh, the hand wave, the shoulder shrug. Some stuff is just mildly annoying or blandly dumb. You don’t need to blow every emotional outburst on the mundane.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22/08/2026

It’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

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Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My sounds-like-conspiracy-theory-but-is-probably-true take is slopAI firms are deliberately targeting education sector; it’s underfunded & weakly protected & by becoming standard there they create generations of dependent users which is only thing that can stop inevitable financial bubble bursting

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is what we see. Mugshots don't come with sociology explainers; spread enough images of Black criminals and white victims and a kind of project is off and running. even lies exploit this architecture: JD Vance makes up something about cats and suddenly Haitians have ankle monitors. 9/

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