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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 1d

UNC leadership has been cowardly and backwards for a while but this sure is terrible!

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 1d

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.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 1d

It would be cool sometime if higher ed journalism remembered now and then that Evergreen has been doing this sort of thing since our founding!

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 1d

Student Success | Team Teaching Benefits Faculty and Students

Most first-year courses at @hmc.edu are team-taught, exposing students to a variety of disciplines, teaching styles and resources on campus. https://bit.ly/46UyH1C

Multiracial team of teachers talking in the hall at a university

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 1d

what the fuck?

Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 2d

Surely this is not a true thing. Surely he does not have such abject moral cowardice that he won't do anything to protect his home state...

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 2d

i don't think the news media believes that things actually happen anymore

they're only aware of people *saying* a thing happened, and perhaps some other people saying something different

but the thing itself? they all suddenly become hardline kantians: "no no no, we can't perceive the *noumenal*"

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 4d

Journalism is one of those things like public education, libraries, and being kind to people that 21st century capitalism will not only destroy, but make it seem impossible that it ever existed. As if it were against human nature for it to exist.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 4d

Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 4d

I get why people are mad Bari Weiss is once again failing upward based on her power to bamboozle tech idiots but that's all that's happening, here, and it will end n CBS dissolution which should have just happened anyway

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 4d

Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

When I wore that “freedom isn’t free” t-shirt back in the Obama administration, I wasn’t so much honoring veterans as I was warning people that if they expressed their freedom in a way I didn’t like then they should have their freedom taken away from them. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

also, in keeping with Vance’s view of american identity, only white people are fully American with the right to critique or dissent. nonwhites must show proper gratitude (supporting Trump or marrying JD Vance) before they can speak critically of the country (in approved ways, of course)

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 6d

ESPN shares an interview with a UNC student going into commercial, with Clemson leading 28-3.

"TCU was... I went to that game. And that was, that was one of the saddest feelings I've had in University so far. I've failed midterms before, so that's saying something." 🏈💀 #CFB

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 7d

Forgot to do my annual October name change until now. Hi y'all.

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 7d

From Walter Cronkite to Bari Weiss is the worst trajectory a civilization could possibly have.

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 7d

We live in an age where mediocre reactionaries keep failing upward, lining their pockets by stripping our society of all that is good--and smiling at us as they do.

Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 7d

Bari Weiss is expected to be named editor in chief at CBS News on Monday, with parent company Paramount paying $150m in cash and stock to acquire her Substack publication, The Free Press. My story this morning: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bari Weiss to be named top editor at CBS News

Paramount Skydance will acquire the journalist’s publication, the Free Press, which she started after quitting the New York Times in 2020.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 9d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 10d

I am keeping my world very small to focus on the immediate and close as much as possible

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 10d

Good luck! You got this!!

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 10d

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

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Bradley David S Pumpkins @bdproctor.bsky.social · 10d

Once again I will never get over that people allowed this to happen. And I will never forgive those who did.

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 10d

A thing about this is that it's literal treason

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13d

People on here will see Trump ranting about deploying the military and go "that's the ballgame" like these people didn't lose a staring contest to Jimmy fucking Kimmel days ago

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