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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
As I write this, the current number of people at MPOW who've signed a petition against our university's agreeing to the White House's bid for control is 1337. I'm glad we've met my expectations for a 1337 institution […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
The Trump Action Tracker is brilliant already, keeping track of the regime's bad acts. The UI could use a few improvement, and I'd urge several more categories (or emphasis of sub-categories), but I'm blown away now. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Welcome to new & returning folks to Mastodon & the Fediverse! Follow people you know or find interesting, use search, @ mentions and hashtags you see to find other interesting folks, and observe your server's rules and the behavior of the people you follow for posting etiquette.

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115334531222529263

This is part of a longer thread reviewing the recent Wired article on the risks of "vibe coding". It's well worth reading the whole thread, but this point is also particularly important to remember in other contexts as well.
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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
"The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.... No […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
In which I point out how the agreement the White House wants universities to sign on threaten not only their faculty and research center, but their libraries as well: https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/10/03/will-universities-let-trump-dictate-what-their-libraries-can-do/ #academicfreedom […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 3d
The editorial board of _Progress in Community Health Partnerships_ (Johns Hopkins University Press) condemns the Trump admin censorship of science and refuses to change its independent editorial policies.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970147

"In January 2025 the new Administration began issuing […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
"The length of our analysis should not be mistaken for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one. It is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Update. The American Association of Colleges & Universities (#aac&U, @aacu) just issued a statement on #Trump's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”.
https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/aac-u-statement-on-the-trump-administrations-compact-for-academic-excellence-in-higher-education […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Dartmouth College rejects Trump's "compact" proposal: https://www.wcax.com/2025/10/04/dartmouth-college-president-rejects-trump-administration-funding-deal/?outputType=amp

This is particularly notable since the proposal cites Dartmouth's "Principles of Institutional Restraint" as a model for […]
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ChrisR @carusb.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 5d
@JMarkOckerbloom The Research Libraries Group (also OCLC Research Libraries?) motto, IIRC, was something like: We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately, based on a quote attributed to Ben Franklin. All universities should reject this.
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
In which I point out how the agreement the White House wants universities to sign on threaten not only their faculty and research center, but their libraries as well: https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/10/03/will-universities-let-trump-dictate-what-their-libraries-can-do/ #academicfreedom […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
The Bureau of Labor Statistics did not release a #jobsreport today, as they were scheduled to do for September: https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/empsit.htm. I'm not sure how long it will take for those to resume after the government reopens, but data collection will be unavoidably […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation... Whatever the consequences of refusal, agreeing would threaten the very mission of the University.”

"Penn’s Latin motto... is usually translated to “Laws Without Morals are […]
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d
"Trump's 'compact with universities is just extortion... the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it."

Very good from UC Berkley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Higher ed leaders should all do so, and donors, unions, anyone with influence should pressure them to.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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jonny (good kind) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
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We've got it: https://sciop.net/datasets/adl-glossary
ADL Glossary of Extremism & Hate Symbols Database - Dataset - SciOp
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Looks like the other ADL website link on TPUSA on my post yesterday now also doesn't work (it now just redirects to ADL's home page). The two Wayback links I had still work, and here's a Wayback copy of the ADL's second page on TPUSA (revised after Charlie Kirk's murder) as it appeared when I […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Here's a non-paywalled copy (via the Washington Examiner) of the White House's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education", which they have sent to #penn and some other institutions, proposing they acquiesce to it lest they "forego federal benefits" […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
The ADL took down its glossary of extremism after Trump-aligned figures objected to its description of Turning Point USA: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/adl-deletes-extremism-database-after-receiving-backlash-for-including-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa/

The Wayback Machine has a partial […]
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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
If you know anyone in the U.S. military at any level, please make sure they see The Orders Project, "a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal." […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
Art students at the University of Michigan object to inclusion of generative-AI users in this semester's Penny Stamps Speaker Series: https://www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-life/art-design-students-boycott-ai-artists-in-penny-stamps-speaker-series/
Art & Design students boycott AI artists in Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Hanging on the walls inside the Stamps School of Art & Design are posters directing students not to attend two upcoming Penny Stamps Speaker Series presentations. The posters, reading “Tell them you don’t want to see an art world with AI in it,” encourage students to boycott the talks or refuse to write the required […] The post Art & Design students boycott AI artists in Penny Stamps Speaker Series appeared first on The Michigan Daily.
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
I don't develop in Ruby, so I only have passing acquaintance with the current drama over control over the main Ruby gems repository. This seems like a useful overview, though: https://www.404media.co/how-ruby-went-off-the-rails/ .
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
(I often include a size range check when I regularly download or generate files or query results like this. If the size I get is outside the range I've declared that I expect, my code generates an error message and doesn't replace the old version. I highly recommend that any service that […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
The Library of Congress has published new bulk downloads for their name authorities, but it looks like they got severely truncated (only about 2.5 MB instead of about 2.5 GB for their SKOS NT file, for instance) and are missing the data for most authorized names. I've used their contact form to […]
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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d
"Musician Ben Lee compares Pub Choir to that moment on a night out with friends when a favourite song comes on and everyone sings at the top of their lungs — except under Astrid's tutelage, it sounds good."

Australian story on Astrid Jorgensen, who attracts big untrained audiences worldwide […]
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