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Sarah T Roberts, PhD

@ubiquity75.xyz

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Professor, researcher, author. VP Association of Internet Researchers, synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady. Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (Yale 2019), and Meta stole it to train its LLM. .. more

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 22

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 20

There are so many elements that have made his ascension possible: co-opted corporate media; social media’s unregulated environment; the overwhelm from the sheer number of misdeeds; coordinated foreign interference; destruction of K-12 education; racist grievance culture; unchecked gross inequity.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 5h

And were there to become the editor in chief of CBS News.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 5h

Others have left the joint rather than put up with its nonsense.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 6h

Like I’m not totally sure how valiant this is. But okay.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 6h

Now just a minute here.

So this guy was a vice-provost at Penn, and dropped that position because he couldn’t speak truthfully on matters of science in that role at Penn. But he’s staying on, at Penn.

Seems to me that if this is how Penn operates then everything about it is poisoned.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 6h

As a young boy I always dreamed of driving mindshare

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 7h

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Trump Declares Atheists are Terrorists

YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 8h

You’re not the first to suspect that.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 8h

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Uhm. So… the Republican nominee for Governor in Virginia just said her stances that gay marriage should be outlawed and that employers should be able to fire people for being gay is “not discriminatio...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 11h

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Video: RFK Jr claims circumcised children have double the risk of autism | Daily Mail Online

RFK Jr claims that children who are circumcised early have double the risk of autism.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 12h

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From the videos community on Reddit: CNN Doctors Interview To Remove Moment Stephen Miller Says Trump Has “Plenary (Unlimited) Authority” at 0:10 before awkwardly staring in silence. Original in comme...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13h

The whole “deal” supposedly brokered by Kushner is so orange can get the Nobel Peace Prize he thinks he deserves. My God, what a ridiculous, pathetic bunch.

It just dawned on me that that’s it. I wonder what he promised/threatened.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17h

They are so frightened of knowledge.

Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 18h

An outspoken antifascist US-born citizen was stopped from leaving the US. This should terrify you.

(BTW, this is not to imply this is ok for non-citizens or naturalized citizens.)

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17h

The latter is considered by many to be one of the best board games ever made.

Anyway, this game is quite rich in historical and political context. It can be played solo, as well, and my guess is that I will end up doing that, as the chances of getting any of my local friends interested are about 0

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17h

Notably, it is produced by GMT Games, perhaps loosely but best defined as a wargames company. They make many historical games based on combat large and small, to include a game about conflicts arising in the wake of the Reformation, to Twilight Struggle, a game about Cold War-era machinations.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 17h

I ordered this game* sone time ago, as an item that would be produced when a certain number of orders were achieved. It arrived today.

* simulator? serious game?

www.gmtgames.com/p-953-cross-...

GMT Games - Cross Bronx Expressway

Cross Bronx Expressway

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 18h

An outspoken antifascist US-born citizen was stopped from leaving the US. This should terrify you.

(BTW, this is not to imply this is ok for non-citizens or naturalized citizens.)

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d

"UNC communication professor and UNC AAUP chapter president Michael Palm accused the conservative activist organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA) of having harassed Dixon for years.
Palm said in 2018, TPUSA members came to campus and 'physically harassed' Dixon to provoke a confrontation."