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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 1d

Instruction and background from the Authors Guild:

authorsguild.org/advocacy/art...

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated October 2, 2025 Webinar: What Authors Should Know About the Anthropic Settlement Join us on Thursday, October 16, as co-lead class counsel Rachel Geman of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, L...

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 1d

Anthropic has settled a $1.5B class-action lawsuit brought by authors for copyright infringement. The settlement relates to 500,000 titles. Affected authors are each entitled to $3K in payout.

My book's on there. Here's where to check if yours is too.

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 10d

yes!

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11d

My latest in my fight against the Washington Post.

I’ve filed a grievance against the Post through the WaPo Guild— and have sent a letter to Washington Post challenging my firing.

Proud to have @normeisen.bsky.social + @katiephang.bsky.social in my corner.

karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...

The Washington Post Accused Me of “Gross Misconduct.” Here's My Response.

This fight isn’t just about my job — it’s about who gets punished for telling the truth, and who gets protected for spreading hate and violence.

karenattiah.substack.com

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Kirsten Weld @kirstenweld.bsky.social · 11d

An enormous legal victory for @aaup.org, MESA, and the Rutgers, NYU, and Harvard chapters of AAUP, in a case that Judge Young describes as "perhaps the most important ever to fall within the jurisdiction of this district court."

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18d

Some news.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18d

Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion writer fired this month for her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has filed a grievance arguing that she should have been allowed to share her views on news events under the company’s labor agreement and social media policy.

Karen Attiah Says Firing by Washington Post Violated Labor Agreement

The company fired Karen Attiah this month for her social media posts related to Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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Tom Burton @twburton.bsky.social · 16d

Our university’s president was forced to resign. Our student publication responded. thebatt.com/opinion/edit...

Editorial: Texas A&M students first, not politicians

Walking down the steps of the Administration Building as he looked onto a sea of support, a president descended step by step — Gig ‘em sign held high — as he ex

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Vulture @vulture.com · 18d

Yesterday, Apple made the decision to pull The Savant from its release schedule due to politically sensitive topics. Now the show’s star Jessica Chastain speaks out: ‘We’re not aligned on the decision to pause the release.’

Jessica Chastain Disagrees With Apple Pulling The Savant

Yesterday, Apple made the decision to pull The Savant from its release schedule due to politically sensitive topics. Now the show’s star Jessica Chastain speaks out: ‘We’re not aligned on the decision to pause the release.’

www.vulture.com

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 17d

can't wait!

NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 18d

Looking forward to "Race, Empire, and the Speculative: Disrupting the Arc of Progress" which brings fresh perspectives by Jill Galvan, Sophia Hsu, & Kristie Schlauraff #NAVSA2025

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Alana Kinrich @alanakinrich.medsky.social · 19d

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 19d

You have no idea how much I despite these anti-science dipshits for making pregnant women terrified of taking (safe, mild, proven) pain relief.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 22d

New from me:

There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.

Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.

Read and judge for yourself.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Why Washington Post fired me

Read the official termination letter for yourself.

open.substack.com

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 20d

It won't get better.

OpenAI's more advanced models produce *more* hallucinations.

The proposed solution: more human involvement (...hmm)

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29d

identifying themes is precisely what I tell undergraduates not to do

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 29d

The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.

Who is this advertising for?

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Sep 7

It'd be cool if they actually talked to "younger generations" about what they think.

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Sep 7

Y'all are simply unprepared for me.

A pair of crochet ghosts. One has a purple bow tie and a tiny top hat and the other has a witch hat with a pink bow. It feels like Rankin and Bass over here.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Sep 4

blurb: "Along the way, she calls on us to resist colonial approaches to space exploration and instead imagine a better path forward in our pursuit of humanity’s undeniable connection with the stars."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 4

My book is absolutely great. My book is absolutely great. This is my mantra as I read it for the nth time while doing copyedit corrections.

Please you guys preorder this book because I have suffered to deliver it to you lolsob (actually it really is great I’m just tired, please preorder)

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Sep 1

AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · Aug 31

‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Ohio college students experiencing effects of new higher education law ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/i...

'It feels like a betrayal.' Ohio college students experiencing effects of new higher education law • Ohio Capital Journal

Ohio college students are navigating the ramifications of the state’s new higher education law that bans diversity efforts, prohibits faculty strikes and regulates classroom discussion.

ohiocapitaljournal.com

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Aug 30

That's a really cool cover

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · Aug 30

But is this really training that couldn't take place on the job?

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Aug 30

One of the things that drives me up the wall is when people say students “need to learn how to use AI” to succeed in the workplace. It is EXTREMELY EASY to use a chatbot. That’s the whole point of it! You do not need training to type in the box! What are you even TALKING about?? +

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