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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2d

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 3d

The power of local news.

Reporting reality of the impacts of the Trump regime.

Thank you @oregonian.com

Find more in our searchable 50 state 2,200+ local news outlet directory: www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/journalism-d...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 4d

Evil (administration) and genius (presentation and story, both heartbreaking).

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 4d

He should have yelled it a little louder but at least he is telling it like it is. Good follow (here, and more conceptually)

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 4d

This is simple. Congress should not willingly pay the bills to fund the most serious assault on political freedom in our lifetime - an assault that may collapse democracy as we know it if we don't fight back.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 5d

You don't need a First Amendment law professor to tell you that the govt demanding control over a university's viewpoints or else is patently unconstitutional.

But it obviously is.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d

The university needs a "broad spectrum of viewpoints"—which the DOJ will obviously enforce as HIRE MORE CONSERVATIVES—not only in the university as a whole, but "within every field,
department, school, and teaching unit."

In other words, hire right-wingers in anthropology, Af-Am Studies, art, etc.

Signatories commit to rigorous, good faith, empirical assessment of a broad spectrum of viewpoints
among faculty, students, and staff at all levels and to sharing the results of such assessments with the public;
and to seek such a broad spectrum of viewpoints not just in the university as a whole, but within every field,
department, school, and teaching unit

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 6d

A different kind of slop there

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 6d

A testable hypothesis, perhaps!

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 6d

Yep that is our future

(Also: cites our research although in an ever-so-slightly wrong way).

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d

Workslop is AI output that looks polished but is hollow on closer read, leaving the receiver to decipher it to find any actual substance.

With companies pushing AI everywhere, we’re drowning in empty content no one bothers to read before spreading. Instead of AI boosting productivity, it kills it.

Workslop is oozing into every corner of America's white-collar offices — Business Insider

Office workers everywhere are awash in

stocks.apple.com

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 10d

Well played, @macalestercollege.bsky.social, well played.

The eligible teenager in my household was definitely won over.

Letter from Macalester College. The envelope window literally reads: "blah, blah, blah, small class sizes, blah, blah, great academics, blah...".

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11d

For instructors out there: a very cool set of AI Course Policy Icons by Cornell's GenAI taskforce, to be used in combination for your syllabi or assignments.

Inspired by @creativecommons.bsky.social and available w/ a CC license. Sample icons attached here.

teaching.cornell.edu/generative-a...

ANY-AI icon: (Any Tool, Any Use, Any Time) to use in policy of GenAI use in a course

AT (Approved Tools Only) icon to use in policy of GenAI use in a course

UA (Use with Attribution) icon to use in policy of GenAI use in a course

AS (Assignment-Specific) icon to use in policy of GenAI use in a course

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11d

Lol. They definitely researched this very well

Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11d

"very upset and angry" is correct. The government is breaking another (implicit) contract. Science and society lose again.

Science Magazine @science.org · 11d

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry

The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

www.science.org

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 11d

"the mayor’s office told her initially that she was overreacting" 🤦‍♂️

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Dr. Julie Kientz @juliekientz.bsky.social · 27d

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner.

We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague!

Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

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Ethan Zuckerman @ethanz.bsky.social · 13d

They're founding a new organization - Stand Together for Higher Ed - which is organizing a national webinar on reclaiming the narrative on October 29. For more on the org and the webinar - www.standtogetherhighered.org

Stand Together

www.standtogetherhighered.org

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 14d

Excited for this event at Yale in a few weeks -- lucky to have a speaking slot in which I (in peak academia) will question* the very premise of the event by saying that we just don't have, or use, the right signals for our social and information systems.

*"Problematize", I guess

Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social · 26d

📣 Yale workshop, Oct 16-17! 📣 How could/should content ranking work? What's new in content moderation? How can platforms promote civility? Hosted by Yale's Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Great speakers! Submit posters by 9/22! Spread the word! yalefds.swoogo.com/socialalgori...

New Directions in Social Algorithms Research on October 16-17, 2025 at Yale University

As social media algorithms increasingly mediate social experiences, there has been a rapid increase in research on the effects of how these algorithms are configured, alternatives to engagement-centri...

yalefds.swoogo.com

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 15d

If your community is thinking about Community Notes, we have some notes to guide your Community Notes thinking right here. #CommunityNotes

travis lloyd (træve) @travislloydphd.bsky.social · 15d

New preprint! Crowdsourced Context Systems (CCS) like X's and Meta's Community Notes are popping up on various social media platforms. How can we better understand, critique, and design such systems?

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 16d

For more on the topic

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies review – how AI could kill us all

If machines become superintelligent we’re toast, say Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. Should we believe them?

www.theguardian.com

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 16d

AI Doomerism is selling on the New York City subway. I guess the subway *is* unsafe

NYC subway ad for the book If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 16d

Pissing from the springboard, volume 644,473

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 16d

"They had a choice, and they chose tyranny."

My colleague @jtlg.bsky.social is indeed a lawyer but he keeps it plain, short, and simple here.

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Disney Is Dead to Me

We had a family discussion last night and decided to cancel our subscription to Disney+ and Hulu. It was an easy choice, because it was such a clear-cut case. Jimmy Kimmel’s supposedly awful comments ...

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 17d

More illustrative version here -- two time ranges, and with "Cancel Netflix" as control, plus showing that the Disney backlash also trickled sideways to Hulu cancellations. #canceldisney+

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17d

Personalist regime tries to set up another mechanism of control. Silicon Valley firms will be subject to the whims of the mad king.

Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18d

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 17d

Fireworks. Saw them out my window

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