Lisa Stampnitzky
@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, and the relationship between all of the above.
Working at a university in the UK, with which this account is not affiliated.
Working at a university in the UK, with which this account is not affiliated.
Pinned
Due to some sort of uk govt nonsense I cannot access my dms here without going through a verification hoo-ha. So, tldr, don’t send me dms here.
Some excellent signage today at the @sheffielducu.bsky.social pickets fighting staff cuts and restructuring.
November 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Some excellent signage today at the @sheffielducu.bsky.social pickets fighting staff cuts and restructuring.
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Every question headline should end like this
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Why do we find our pets so cute? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer | Helen Pilcher
Known for bold raids on urban bins, raccoons are becoming more domesticated – so how they look will gradually change, says science writer Helen Pilcher
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Every question headline should end like this
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
“Is Trump’s cognition in decline? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Will there be a third WICKED movie? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer”
“Who will go 1st in the NBA draft? Bold, bin-raiding raccoons” etc
Fucking gangster state
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Fucking gangster state
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
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One of the things that has been heartening about American civil society's (belated, admittedly) resistance to the worst of Trumpism has been watching (grand)juries refuse to go along with nonsense lawfare. So anyway Labour really want to weaken our right to trial by jury and ability to appeal.
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 AM
One of the things that has been heartening about American civil society's (belated, admittedly) resistance to the worst of Trumpism has been watching (grand)juries refuse to go along with nonsense lawfare. So anyway Labour really want to weaken our right to trial by jury and ability to appeal.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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Yes, something that Israel does which is actually quite rare is consider all civilian workers, whether they be in municipal government or in private reconstruction or health sectors, to be combatants *by way of second, third, or even fourth degree association*.
Construction crews attempting to rebuild civillian infrastructure in Gaza or Southern Lebanon are also considered confirmed terrorists.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Yes, something that Israel does which is actually quite rare is consider all civilian workers, whether they be in municipal government or in private reconstruction or health sectors, to be combatants *by way of second, third, or even fourth degree association*.
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Even in the US where the word is meaningless, I still find that it has a stricter use in actual news media than in Israel. In Israel, in the Hebrew press in particular, even in the straightforward "news" sections, "terrorist" is used to describe any Arab combatant, even if they attack only the IDF.
The important context left out of most western reporting on the region is that in Israel, "terrorist" is a racial slur
60%+ of Israelis surveyed don't thing the abuses of Palestinian prisoners should be investigated.
84% say the IDF should get an excellent or very good grade for *moral conduct*.
62.5% say a 'terrorist' should be murdered even if they don't pose a threat.
www.israelhayom.co.il/news/geopoli...
84% say the IDF should get an excellent or very good grade for *moral conduct*.
62.5% say a 'terrorist' should be murdered even if they don't pose a threat.
www.israelhayom.co.il/news/geopoli...
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Even in the US where the word is meaningless, I still find that it has a stricter use in actual news media than in Israel. In Israel, in the Hebrew press in particular, even in the straightforward "news" sections, "terrorist" is used to describe any Arab combatant, even if they attack only the IDF.
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This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
November 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is so incredible. You have to see the photos. These workers held the line for THREE YEARS www.publicsource.org/post-gazette...
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The location of Vahid Abedini is unknown after he was detained at the Oklahoma City airport en route to the annual MESA conference in Washington ⬇️
ICE kidnaps US Iranian scholar en route to MESA conference
The location of Vahid Abedini is unknown after he was detained at the Oklahoma City airport en route to the annual MESA conference in Washington.
www.newarab.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The location of Vahid Abedini is unknown after he was detained at the Oklahoma City airport en route to the annual MESA conference in Washington ⬇️
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The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The U.S. State Department is repeating a white nationalist conspiracy theory.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
On Friday, it claimed that “mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilization.”
That line comes straight from the Great Replacement myth: the lie that immigration is a plot to erase white populations.
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These assignments encourage people to become DIY detectives, exacerbating a boom in conspiracy theories. The “permission structure of doubt” normalises suspicion as a default setting and suggests that another algorithm (like Google’s search) can discover the truth.
By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:
By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:
AI-Generated Images Are Spreading Paranoia and Misinformation. Can Art Historians Help?
An art historian argues that provenance research—rather than connoisseurship—is our best tool for authentication.
www.artnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
These assignments encourage people to become DIY detectives, exacerbating a boom in conspiracy theories. The “permission structure of doubt” normalises suspicion as a default setting and suggests that another algorithm (like Google’s search) can discover the truth.
By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:
By @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social:
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It also misses the other problem: the disintegration of truth and falsity everywhere, especially outside academia. The fact that LLMs even exist creates a “permission structure of doubt”: Even things that are real and true can be easy doubted because they “could” be fake, they “could” be A.I.
Two years ago I had lunch with the dean of a department at one of Toronto’s major universities and she told me she had instructed all her profs teaching first-year classes to do exactly this. It sounded sensible and I wonder if it’s now more widely applied
November 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It also misses the other problem: the disintegration of truth and falsity everywhere, especially outside academia. The fact that LLMs even exist creates a “permission structure of doubt”: Even things that are real and true can be easy doubted because they “could” be fake, they “could” be A.I.
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Why I don't trust philo-Semitic conservatives, in one subtitle
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Why I don't trust philo-Semitic conservatives, in one subtitle
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oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh
November 23, 2025 at 10:35 AM
oh whoa the models aren't just getting better and better consistently huh
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if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
eric swalwell said on msnow that a major goal of a dem majority after the midterms would be for ice masks to come off and badges to come out, this is insufficient
November 24, 2025 at 3:30 AM
if there's a reason to keep up the "tribunals for all involved" discourse one such reason it is to put in stark relief how far away some of the Dem politicking is from the mood on the ground
My nightly struggle
Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My nightly struggle
So is the goal here to destroy the universities, or is that simply an unimportant side effect of Labour’s cunning plan to outwit reform by enacting all of their anti-immigrant policies ?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
So is the goal here to destroy the universities, or is that simply an unimportant side effect of Labour’s cunning plan to outwit reform by enacting all of their anti-immigrant policies ?
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I've compared the killing spree at sea w/ the torture program as both relied on OLC to provide a "get out of jail free" card.
But a big difference is the boat strikes are out in the open & thus legal scholars, former USG lawyers, & other countries are telling the USG in real time that it's illegal.
But a big difference is the boat strikes are out in the open & thus legal scholars, former USG lawyers, & other countries are telling the USG in real time that it's illegal.
Important aspect of the standard articulated in US v Calley & quoted here is that there is no defense of superior orders if the subordinate *knew* the order was unlawful.
Irregular lawyering in the admin (eg overriding SOUTHCOM SJA) & subsequent legal criticism ought to put officials on notice.
Irregular lawyering in the admin (eg overriding SOUTHCOM SJA) & subsequent legal criticism ought to put officials on notice.
“Trump has put the military in an impossible situation,” our columnist David French writes. “He’s making its most senior leaders complicit in his unlawful acts, and he’s burdening the consciences of soldiers who serve under his command.”
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I've compared the killing spree at sea w/ the torture program as both relied on OLC to provide a "get out of jail free" card.
But a big difference is the boat strikes are out in the open & thus legal scholars, former USG lawyers, & other countries are telling the USG in real time that it's illegal.
But a big difference is the boat strikes are out in the open & thus legal scholars, former USG lawyers, & other countries are telling the USG in real time that it's illegal.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds flip.it/SOS7tf
Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds
Gaza Government Media Office says Israel fully responsible for humanitarian, security repercussions from its violations.
flip.it
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds flip.it/SOS7tf
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EdTech LLMs reinforce racism and forecast the death of education.
You think LLM-based chatbots can help students learn? Think again.
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Take a few minutes to listen to Dr. @drtanksley.bsky.social clear explanation why this is very bad, harmful idea, especially for Black students.
#Critical_AI_Literacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mtc...
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
EdTech LLMs reinforce racism and forecast the death of education.
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thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
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We take care of each other ❤️
October 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
we closed this application yesterday. we got an unbelievable 18,588 applications totaling $4,157,600 in $100 and $250 requests.
we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more.
if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate
thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
we have sent $53,000 to 224 people and will continue to send more.
if you are able to donate, you can do so at ndsdj.org/snapdonate
thanks to EVERYONE who has donated!
Found out I could get paid (!) to go to school (!)
November 22, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Found out I could get paid (!) to go to school (!)
“We can safely assume that Hurwitz is not delivering off-the-cuff remarks. She's thought about this. She has chosen the abyss. She is far from the only one.”
Thank you @attackerman.bsky.social
www.forever-wars.com/sarah-hurwit...
Thank you @attackerman.bsky.social
www.forever-wars.com/sarah-hurwit...
Sarah Hurwitz Profanes the Holocaust
Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah
www.forever-wars.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“We can safely assume that Hurwitz is not delivering off-the-cuff remarks. She's thought about this. She has chosen the abyss. She is far from the only one.”
Thank you @attackerman.bsky.social
www.forever-wars.com/sarah-hurwit...
Thank you @attackerman.bsky.social
www.forever-wars.com/sarah-hurwit...