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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 9m

Black families tend to have strong preferences against nursing homes, usually driven by concerns of inadequate care. Seeing that Black nursing home patients have significantly worse outcomes, and that they are driven by *within-nursing home* differences in care, confirms this suspicion.

NBER @nber.org · 16m

Nursing home value-added for black patients is 30 percent lower than for white patients, with most of the gap reflecting differences within, rather than across, nursing homes, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and James C. Okun www.nber.org/papers/w34324

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 1h

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 15m

ATTN ALL RECENT AUTHORS: you may be eligible to collect payment (a share of $3000/book) associated with the use of your work by Anthropic AI to train its LLM. PLEASE check here and file a claim if your book is in the listed works: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 12h

A picture of the cover of the most recent issue of wired magazine a parody of those silly pictures of famous people sitting around a card table playing poker with all of the major tech Titans and Donald Trump portrayed as dogs, which is the other variation on the image. The title is tech went all in now what?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Josh Vaughn @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social · 16d

Death County is a Signal Award finalist. If you’re so inclined, please go vote for it for listener’s choice.

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PennLive @pennlive.com · 2d

From @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social:

The transfer of medical services at the Dauphin County jail from PrimeCare to Mediko happened last week but not without an “unprecedented” level of obstruction by the former provider, according to Dauphin County Commissioner Justin Douglas.

Dauphin County jail’s new medical provider deals with ‘obstruction’ by company it replaced: ‘It puts people at risk.’

PrimeCare’s CEO said they provided the necessary information, but Mediko’s CEO said he was "disappointed" by how things have gone.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 1d

Please vote for Josh’s amazing podcast, Death County, PA!! It is truly amazing!

Josh Vaughn @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Voting ends Oct 9

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Josh Vaughn @joshuapvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Voting ends Oct 9

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 6d

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3d

Hughes eventually responded in what Weiss called the longest article they've ever published. And his response, they had to know I was going to parse, was also riddled with easily checkable errors.

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The retconning of George Floyd: a coda

A response to Coleman Hughes and Avak Howsepian

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 5d

“Israel has found its weakest enemy, Hamas, the most intractable, perhaps because defeating an idea is never easy... An intensely interconnected society, where the collective, forged in school and through military service, is fundamental, now debates whether it has lost its way and its ideals.”

Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 5d

This is excellent: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

Israel at War With Itself

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 5d

This is excellent: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/w...

Israel at War With Itself

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Jay D. Aronson @jaydaronson.bsky.social · 7d

You can listen to my recent interview with WBUR's Here & Now:
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Undercounted: The hidden deaths in America’s jails : Here & Now Anytime

Over a four-year period between 2019 and 2023, about 1,000 people died annually in U.S. jails. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal data by...

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Jess-Icabod Zellers @stellagarp.bsky.social · 8d

Far Side cartoon. One gorilla grooms her gorilla friend and notices something amiss. "Well, well-another blonde hair....
Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?"

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 9d

perfect. this is it.

ai is a political project, arguing about its usefulness as an office tool misses the point

dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 9d

$Across the top of the image is a fractured black rectangle where the left half is labeled "Frame: F is happening!" and the right side is labeled "Negation: F is not true!" left side of the box: "AI*" is so useful, it's revolutionizing everything. *massive, generative commercial "AI" models. right side of the box: "AI" capabilities are overblown, it's mostly slop. Below the box is a large image of Kirby, a pink blob inhaling and the "Frame F" fragment. In a box next to Kirby is the text: Kirby. K is happening. That's why they're saying F. In the pink box is the text: "AI" is functioning to fuel mass surveillance, exploitation of workers & the environment, and the consolidation of wealth and power on a massive scale.$

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 9d

As if the Administration's treatment of Abrego Garcia wasn't already cruel enough, Moshannan Valley Processing Center has been the site of extensive problems, from sexual abuse of a detainee by their chaplain, to excessive force, to a detainee's death. www.inquirer.com/news/ice-imm...

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 9d

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
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AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 9d

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment

The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.

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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 9d

"I knew there were supposed to be cameras all over that jail. I reached out to a lot of people when it first happened, including different news organizations and nonprofits...

I wasn’t going to be able to sleep at night until I found out what happened to my brother."

Pushing for Answers After a Loved One Dies Behind Bars

After a family member passes away in prison or jail, people are often left with basic questions. To get answers, they have to get creative.

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