Amanda
@asnabors.bsky.social
cats, cooking, cobbling together a better world.
brooklyn/atl, education research and policy. opinions are my own.
brooklyn/atl, education research and policy. opinions are my own.
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If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
Spotify inadvertently clocked exactly the kind of year I'm having, my desperation "please god let me get some SLEEP" space noise playlists absolutely dominated all of my streaming categories lmao
December 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Spotify inadvertently clocked exactly the kind of year I'm having, my desperation "please god let me get some SLEEP" space noise playlists absolutely dominated all of my streaming categories lmao
It's gloomy and cold and I wish my perfect fluffy angel kitty cat was still here. I see her out of the corner of my eye everywhere and I really miss her.
December 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It's gloomy and cold and I wish my perfect fluffy angel kitty cat was still here. I see her out of the corner of my eye everywhere and I really miss her.
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Brain eating vending machine
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Brain eating vending machine
Peking turkey is looking G L O S S Y
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Peking turkey is looking G L O S S Y
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Right before the holidays, the Trump administration is making sure that poor families starve and that no one can go visit their moms. 👍
“U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is expected to order scheduled air traffic cut by 10% at 40 major airports starting Friday…”
www.reuters.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Right before the holidays, the Trump administration is making sure that poor families starve and that no one can go visit their moms. 👍
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tired: leaders throw folks under the bus
wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane
wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
tired: leaders throw folks under the bus
wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane
wired: leaders invite folks on the bus in a dedicated lane
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All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies
As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.
www.thenation.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:
Overheard a Cuomo flyerer outside my polling place chatting with someone say "well if a man wants to dress up like a woman let him do it but he'll have to answer to God" and wow, what a great last minute affirmation of why I voted for Zohran! No line at my polling place rn, in and out in 5 minutes.
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Overheard a Cuomo flyerer outside my polling place chatting with someone say "well if a man wants to dress up like a woman let him do it but he'll have to answer to God" and wow, what a great last minute affirmation of why I voted for Zohran! No line at my polling place rn, in and out in 5 minutes.
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We are in an era of deadweight loss - this stuff just won't happen. Even a country committed to filling the gap cannot possibly do it by an order of magnitude overnight - they would need to do something like double every year for a decade. And we'd need a lot of countries to do the same.
The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
www.pbs.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We are in an era of deadweight loss - this stuff just won't happen. Even a country committed to filling the gap cannot possibly do it by an order of magnitude overnight - they would need to do something like double every year for a decade. And we'd need a lot of countries to do the same.
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i made a helpful reference
September 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i made a helpful reference
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they say stuff like this and you realize, they believe women just fine. they just don't care when we're hurt and think men should be allowed to paw at whomever they want without consequence.
Always told liberals Bill Maher was a racist piece of shit, especially against Muslims and Arabs, and we were ignored for years.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Bill Maher Slams Mamdani And Endorses Cuomo But Admits 'Maybe He Was A Little Too Handsy'
The "Real Time" host also said Zohran Mamdani was born in a country "where they kill homosexuals" and brought up the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
www.yahoo.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
they say stuff like this and you realize, they believe women just fine. they just don't care when we're hurt and think men should be allowed to paw at whomever they want without consequence.
Open House New York weekend is so great and doubly so if you like infrastructure and/or are very nosey! Got to poke around the inside of Kings County Distillery and see both of their cats yesterday
October 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Open House New York weekend is so great and doubly so if you like infrastructure and/or are very nosey! Got to poke around the inside of Kings County Distillery and see both of their cats yesterday
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Trump and his agenda *are* deeply unpopular. This doesn’t do anything on it’s own. It is a resource with which we can do things.
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Trump and his agenda *are* deeply unpopular. This doesn’t do anything on it’s own. It is a resource with which we can do things.
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few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats
October 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats
I've wanted one of these creepy little cat clocks for YEARS and one is finally in my possession, the shape and sound are so deeply pleasing to me. A real small victory of delight in the midst of the Horrors.
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I've wanted one of these creepy little cat clocks for YEARS and one is finally in my possession, the shape and sound are so deeply pleasing to me. A real small victory of delight in the midst of the Horrors.
NYC/BK pals- come eat my food and drink fun drinks and talk to cuties this Friday!
September 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
NYC/BK pals- come eat my food and drink fun drinks and talk to cuties this Friday!
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Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education.
Why does that matter? Well...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Why does that matter? Well...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
June 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education.
Why does that matter? Well...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Why does that matter? Well...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
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a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood
One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.
September 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
a chicken in every pot and an all ages hardcore show in every neighborhood
Asking for help is good and normal and encouraged for everyone except for me in which case it's humiliating and potentially a war crime. Posting as self crit to remember how dumb this sounds, perhaps you too need to hear it.
September 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Asking for help is good and normal and encouraged for everyone except for me in which case it's humiliating and potentially a war crime. Posting as self crit to remember how dumb this sounds, perhaps you too need to hear it.
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And: data is not knowledge, knowledge requires a knower, which is only and ever a person or collection of persons.
This is basically the takeaway for my qualitative methods class today: All data must be interpreted. And all data are qualitative unless and until they're interpreted quantitatively.
You will never be able to make "data driven" decisions until you realize just how much your decisions are driven by emotions: fear of missing out, defensiveness of your favorite idea, apprehension over something unusual.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
That's because there's no such thing as "the data" - only interpretations.
September 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
And: data is not knowledge, knowledge requires a knower, which is only and ever a person or collection of persons.
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.