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Researching media geography, visual journalism and travel media at FAU
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korpspropaganda.bsky.social
baby yotes always look like, despite their trepidation, they are still thinking of ways to steal your sandwich
December 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I think we lost it in editing but I talked about that very thing. Real rural life is virtually invisible — no art for dollar stores and meth clinics. And its racial diversity is erased. Actual rural people, especially poor ones, cannot access its aesthetic power
ivyashe.bsky.social Ivy @ivyashe.bsky.social · 19h
This is really important, because it is also about who can access the rural aesthetic. It's not always rural residents!
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h
Maybe related, maybe not — I talked with Emily Keegin about rural aesthetics and politics

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
December 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
ivyashe.bsky.social
This is really important, because it is also about who can access the rural aesthetic. It's not always rural residents!
December 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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harrywallop.co.uk
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
ivyashe.bsky.social
This is especially important for those days when the projector fails!
threlk.net justin from the internet @threlk.net · 6d
always bring your own dry erase markers! and sticky notes! only those expensive name brand “super sticky” ones will actually do the job
rebeccafieldingmiller.com Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 6d
Lots of schools now teach writing (VERY GOOD). However, I don't know about you, but the most useful pedagogical training *I* ever got before being unleashed on a higher ed classroom was, "the dry erase markers will always fail you, so bring your own" (side note: this is in fact very good advice)
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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threlk.net
always bring your own dry erase markers! and sticky notes! only those expensive name brand “super sticky” ones will actually do the job
rebeccafieldingmiller.com Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 6d
Lots of schools now teach writing (VERY GOOD). However, I don't know about you, but the most useful pedagogical training *I* ever got before being unleashed on a higher ed classroom was, "the dry erase markers will always fail you, so bring your own" (side note: this is in fact very good advice)
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
Large language mistake

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Our cognition improves because of language — but it’s not created or defined by it. Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world; our range of what we can experience and think about remains vast. But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all.
November 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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charles.littlegreenfootballs.com
i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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peterbrannen.bsky.social
Apart from being a heartbreaking meditation on death, the fury Tatiana Schlossberg feels towards her shithead cousin RFK Jr. radiates off this piece www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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mikecaulfield.bsky.social
I did it, I wrote it. The thing I think (?) some educators have been waiting for for quite a while. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/sift-for-a...
SIFT for AI: Introduction and Pedagogy
Once I thought more deeply about what people had been asking for it made a lot of sense
mikecaulfield.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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theathletic.com
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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tarjapk.bsky.social
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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bookshop.org
This holiday season, give Jeff Bezos and Amazon the gift of zero dollars. 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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pghguild.com
BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
this is very cool: Kodak quietly relisted Kodak Gold and Ultramax on its website and confirmed to me it is selling the films directly to photography stores again. this is a big deal because for the last decade, Kodak has not controlled distribution of its own film

www.404media.co/kodak-quietl...
Kodak Quietly Begins Directly Selling Kodak Gold and Ultramax Film Again
Kodak appears to be taking back control over the distribution of its film.
www.404media.co
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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docrevan.bsky.social
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
ivyashe.bsky.social
Between the live music and the Parnassus Books...Nashville is top-tier
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Nov 1
I say again, the Nashville airport understands. Live music changes everything. Why doesn’t every airport do this??
November 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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colsonwhitehead.com
All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!
October 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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theferocity.bsky.social
I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 20
That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually.

The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Oct 20
In terms of process, I enjoy writing but revising????? Oh, that’s my real kink. A second or third draft???? A fourth???? Making tweaks on my desktop AND my phone???? *moans* I’m a WHORE for revision.
October 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ivyashe.bsky.social
"Our results suggest..."

OH my god...well, I should hope they suggest that!!
emilymbender.bsky.social Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Oct 18
I'd love to see someone try to estimate just how much time and money has gone into research that is either fully undermined by reliance on LLMs or fully pointless --- because obvious if you start from an understanding of what LLMs actually are.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Screen cap from linked article, with heading Significance and then text: Large Language Models (LLMs) are used in evaluative tasks across domains. Yet, what appears as alignment with human or expert judgments may conceal a deeper shift in how “judgment” itself is operationalized. Using news outlets as a controlled benchmark, we compare six LLMs to expert ratings and human evaluations under an identical, structured framework. While models often match expert outputs, our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification. Our findings suggest not only performance asymmetries but also a shift in the heuristics underlying evaluative processes, raising fundamental questions about delegating judgment to LLMs. Sentence starting with "While models often" is highlighted in blue.
October 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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silkyweineck.bsky.social
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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conradhackett.bsky.social
Remember, if you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask:
1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll?
2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents?

Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧪
In an experiment, Pew Research Center demonstrated that opt-in and probability-based surveys produced very different results about young adults' views of the Holocaust and abortion.
September 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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cpsc.gov
In addition to being one of history's most successful musicians, Taylor Swift has also successfully used a fire extinguisher.
August 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
Man this fucking sucks.
*A good source of independent journalism abandons X for here.
*Mississippi passes an age verification law that BlueSky says means it must block the state.
*And now the Mississippi Free Press is not available to BlueSky users in MS.
ashtonpittman.bsky.social Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · Aug 22
BREAKING: BlueSky is blocking access to Mississippi.

This is the No. 1 platform for @mississippifreepress.org.

We ditched X for BlueSky early this year.

And now, at 3 pm on a Friday, poof.

I don't know what we'll do next.

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bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Aug 22
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.

While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM