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Matt Busch @mattbusch.bsky.social · 8h

There is no better feeling than being in the middle of a classroom where this energy is buzzing around.

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 8h

a thing about human teachers—it’s not just about having someone around who’s “nice” or “encouraging,” there’s no substitute for a teacher who likes ideas and enjoys being in a room full of thinking students

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 8h

America runs on Dunkin.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 9h

Our first revolution kicked into gear with a tax on tea.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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Andrew @andrewcyberkop.bsky.social · 2d

If you buy an NFT of a stock in OpenAI you should have to wear a big bell like a goat for the rest of your life.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Julia Ringma @juliaringma.bsky.social · 2d

Read the whole thing.

"Fascists punish humans for their humanity, because humanity exposes the fascist project for what it is."

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 14h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 12h

More than 45% of Penn State’s faculty are adjuncts making $3,000 a class.

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 12h

Penn State Coach Gets $45M Buyout https://bit.ly/3IKQujX

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

James Franklin, wearing a blue Penn State sweatshirt and a headset, stands in front of a sea of white at a football game.

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Sam 👁️ @samthenightowl.bsky.social · 12h

there really should be a coordinated effort to outlaw sports betting in all 50 states and DC. not good for the fans, the players, the managers or anyone other than the betting organizations. we gotta go back

Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 16h

Padres manager Mike Shildt said he retired in part because of death threats from sports bettors:

Mike Shildt says decision to retire was his own, but Padres questions remain

www.nytimes.com

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 12h

Good. Stop covering him. Report on the people affected by his policies. Don’t let him comment; tell your audience he refuses to be held accountable.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 15h

It was always going this way.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 15h

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 15h

“28,000” doing some heavy lifting here on the road to a predictable “just a few bad apples” dismissal of the whole thing.

But wait, hang on, they’ve got something better this time along the lines of, “I take responsibility but also, these are probably fake & we have been framed.”

Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 15h

some apology

A "young" Republican who looks older than I do is "sorry to those offended" by his offensive messages, but he's pretty sure that they're fake anyway. Whew.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 15h

No.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 15h

It takes 18 paragraphs before there’s even the slightest attempt to rebut this preposterous statement.

“Liz Huston, a White House spokesperson, rejected the idea that Trump’s rhetoric had anything to do with the chat members’ language.

‘Only an activist, left-wing reporter would desperately try to tie President Trump into a story about a random group chat he has no affiliation with, while failing to mention the dangerous smears coming from Democrat politicians who have fantasized about murdering their opponent and called Republicans Nazis and fascists,’ she said. ‘No one has been subjected to more vicious rhetoric and violence than President Trump and his supporters.’”

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 23h

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Eric Shmeric @ericdienstfrey.bsky.social · 21h

So Jurassic Park is about a group of rich people who don't understand that biology is far more complicated than "there are only two genders" and how this ignorance toward gender fluidity in nature causes these rich people to lose their money and die.

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 21h

Is the “floating crown, but an extremely small one” … the “m” in TIME?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

Seems the Narcissist-in-Chief is mad about the Time Mag cover neckgina pic so please don’t share it widely

Thank you for your attention to this matter

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 1d

They used the words but managed to use the worst photo, kudos

Low angle to give the appearance of dominance but also to highlight the labial neck folds and barely there comb-over, good work

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 1d

If Garibaldi had led Union troops, we would be a very different country.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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TRD @trdon.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Bob went to Villanova. Which means he’s been to WaWa

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Liz @clinicalliz.bsky.social · 2d

“Can you believe People magazine listed movies where Keaton’s name appeared above the title, and not the one where she’s listed 10th in the credits?!”