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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 6m

“When you give up the control agenda and stop pouring your energy into trying to escape, avoid or extinguish difficult feelings, you free up space to work towards your values, which leads to more meaningful living.”
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How to live a values-driven life in the face of dark emotions | Aeon Essays

Acceptance and commitment therapy teaches us how to live a values-driven life even in the face of dark emotions and trauma

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2h

Not nearly enough examination of this event or its perpetrator.

Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 2h

The man who firebombed the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro pleaded guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison, prosecutors said.

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Man pleads guilty to arson attack at Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro's home, gets 25 to 50 years

The man who firebombed the official residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro pleaded guilty on Tuesday and was sentenced to 25 to 50 years, prosecutors said.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 1h

A reminder that we are accepting submissions for a themed issue at Computational Humanities Research journal 📙

Deadline is end of February 2026!

Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · Jul 4

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

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Call for Papers @ CHR: Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics

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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 47m

"In 2024, scientists surveyed said they believed AI was already surpassing human abilities in over half of all use cases. In 2025, that belief dropped off a cliff, falling to less than a third."

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 1h

I love that us humanities people have been saying this for ages but now they the fancy scientists are saying it, well, look out.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 1h

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

Mr. Jones was ordered to pay $1.4 billion in damages to families who lost children in the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn.

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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 2h

"Sleep is *of* individual organisms, but ultimately it is *for* future generations, *for* the community, *for* the species."

Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 6h

Despite vast technological advances in recent years and major breakthroughs in biology and medicine, there is still no unified theory of sleep. This Essay takes a step back and seeks a different angle on this bizarre experience that happens to us every day

Two billion humans are doing something bizarre right now: sleeping | Aeon Essays

It is our biggest blind spot, a bizarre experience that befalls us every day, and can’t be explained by our need for rest

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George @retiredsurgassist.bsky.social · 4h

Critical thinking isn't innate it has to be taught. Emotional thinking is innate especially in
11-year-olds with adult bodies who are gullible and happy to hear why all their problems are caused by DEI, Gays and undocumented immigrants.

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Tammy Komoff @tammykomoff.bsky.social · 2h

A two-page story, which may be a lost chapter was recently found "among the belongings of the former head of the Gambino New York crime family Paul Castellano."

Castellano was assassinated by John Gotti in 1985.

Kerouac by way of the Mafia.

Wild.
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Lost Jack Kerouac story found among assassinated mafia boss' belongings

The story was written five months before Kerouac's masterpiece.

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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 2h

I suppose it helps to know I’m not alone, but...“’I feel pathetic. Like I’m too delicate for this world, like I can’t even handle life.’”
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‘Invisible diseases’ burden both body and mind. Can therapy help? | Psyche Ideas

Hard-to-diagnose illnesses aren’t ‘all in the mind’. But recognising their links to mental health can help reduce the pain

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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 4h

"[#47] is getting rid of the building built to house the SSA, along with the murals that champion the government’s role in protecting the equality and security of ordinary people, while [#47] contemplates ...carving MAGA ideology into the nation’s capital in stone." open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

October 13, 2025

Last Tuesday, President Donald J.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 16h

There are hard questions we need to ask ourselves right now. But no matter what this administration is planning, we know who we are—we love democracy & plan to fight (peacefully) for it. In a moment where knowledge is power, here is what you need to know. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 15h

Presenting the plague of frogs on Portland. And yes, I choose to believe God has a sense of humor & is laughing at this too.

There’s no better way to show how absurd a bully is than to ridicule their absurdity. Kudos to Portlanders! Stand United & keep exercising your 1A right to protest tyranny!❤️✊🏽

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Last week, Hegeth announced the United States would build a facility in Idaho to “host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots,” and this week Vance is insisting that Hegseth’s own statement was “largely a fake story." trib.al/xzhWdHI

JD Vance Completely Undercuts Pete Hegseth on Qatar Military Base

Vance insisted that Hegseth’s own statement was a “fake story.”

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23h

Soon it will be show us your papers. This must stop.

A tweet by James Surowiecki replying to David J. Bier. Surowiecki asks, “Where in the Immigration and Nationality Act does it say that US citizens have to prove that they're citizens or else be arrested?” The quoted tweet by Bier reads, “ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog,” accompanied by a photo of a man wearing a face mask and standing near vehicles at night.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h

Trump’s cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

The White House is already walking back hundreds of federal layoffs

Trump's cronies fired critical public health workers. Regret set in immediately.

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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 1d

Training brains in all the wrong way

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens. n.pr/42BJyMB

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

How about supporting them instead of dressing as them?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The human costs of Trump's war on government

For many disabled workers, federal jobs were decent, human, and accommodating: everything the president hates.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Tobias is an award-winning writer, a tech nerd and a professor, ie, a veritable font of information, so yes, ask him a bunch of stuff

Tobias S. Buckell @tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, it's Fall Break, and I'm working on some boring stuff that'll be cool later, so I'm doing an AMA (ask me anything) on BlueSky until 3:10pm ish. I'll keep checking in here and answering.

Craft, software, hardware, whatever...

AMA:

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C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels @clpauwels.bsky.social · 1d

“Will we keep erasing forms of understanding through the hierarchies we’ve built, and find ourselves scrambling to colonise Mars because we never learned to listen to those who knew how to live sustainably on Earth?”

Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 1d

The training data for generative AI is far from the sum total of human knowledge. As well as oral cultures, many languages are absent, creating significant blindspots in AI’s understanding of human experience

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 1d

On Indigenous Peoples Day (which Trump insists on calling Columbus Day): For an honest history of the 15th and 20th century origins of a national holiday and its layers of meaning, read Heather Cox Richardson today 👇🏼
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October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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