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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · 3d

prepping for class this week on race & tech. can't do last year's class without taking major risks. plan B was to ask students to use gov data to explore a particular issue, but can't do that either because datasets no longer exist/the shutdown means websites aren't working.

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · 16d

oh my goddDDDDDDDDDuhhhhhh

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Since a U.S. government shutdown “seems like a real possibility, I believe that Mr. Schumer is picking the wrong fight,” writes Nate Silver. Instead of health care, “I’d focus on the one issue that has had the most impact in denting Mr. Trump’s approval rating: tariffs.”

Opinion | Democrats Are Picking the Wrong Shutdown Fight

Tariffs, not health care, would be a better focal point for the opposition party.

nyti.ms

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · 23d

even after all these years of teaching, i still have not figured out how to teach ANT without boring the students to tears

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Sep 9

one "little fight" i had with my ex husband involved him squeezing me until i couldn't breathe :) ya know, just lil fights

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Trump minimizes domestic abuse during a talk at the Museum of the Bible: "Things that take place in the home, they call crime ... If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say this was a crime, see?"

karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Sep 6

someone threw up the bat signal!! it's time for me to remind everyone that david brooks thinks poor people are too stupid to understand sandwiches.

Screenshot from 2017 article by David Brooks that reads "Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican."

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Sep 6

hey #4s2025!

did you enjoy the panels on technonationalism and technofascism as much as i did? you might also like these panels on the 'network state' that i'm hosting today on tech billionaires' efforts to build successors to the nation state.

First @ 1:30, second @ 3:30. Sheraton, Jefferson B!

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Sep 6

the music and sound effects are SO GOOD. esp the noises the shells and rosary beads make

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Sep 4

my entire flight to seattle has been full of people hacking and coughing and wheezing

karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Sep 1

karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Aug 31

registering my car in VA this week and i finally found the perfect plate

Virginia license plate. On the bottom is the phrase "internet capital" with the A being an @ symbol. On the right, there is a blue semi-circle with ".com" written inside.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Aug 28

Here is the acting CDC director discussing health care in a seastead free market:

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Aug 26

The United Campus Workers of UVA faculty committee objects to the current presidential search committee, demanding a more representative and transparent process

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

A statement to the presidential search committee from the UCWVA-UVA Chapter

No number of “listening sessions” or other forms of outreach provide constituencies with the access, accountability and real influence that come with serving on the search committee.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · Aug 20

UVA's wall-to wall union, UCWVA at UVA has joined the Faculty Senate, Student Council, Wahoos4UVA, Emeritus faculty, and others in expressing No Confidence in the Board of Visitors.
ucwva.org/who-we-are/u...

No Confidence in the UVA Board of Visitors – UCWVA

ucwva.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Aug 18

i have said before that the fracas at UVA is a product, in large part, of a set of alumni who believe that the university was at its greatest when it was a segregated finishing school for white men. i was not exaggerating, as you can see here in this letter from Scott Douglas Gerber

GERBER: A letter of suggestions for U.Va.’s interim president

What follows are a few respectfully proffered suggestions that I think can help you try to restore the University to the greatness it enjoyed when I was a student decades ago.

www.cavalierdaily.com

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Aug 14

new from the editorial board of the cavalier daily!

Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers

www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

EDITORIAL: Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers

The self-serving actions of the Board are not just harmful to students and faculty today, but they are harmful to our institution as a whole and the future president who will be invited to lead it.

www.cavalierdaily.com

karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Aug 12

reminder to not fall for the bullshit. they don't give a shit about "meritocracy" or whatever the fuck

www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/11/s...

Stanford to continue legacy admissions despite state ban

Stanford will forgo Cal Grants to keep legacy admissions considerations in place despite California’s new statewide ban.

www.mercurynews.com

karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Aug 1

the most sf bullshit to ever bullshit

missionlocal.org/2025/07/phil...

Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million

Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.

missionlocal.org

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DeathNerd Killer @daphnek.bsky.social · Jul 31

Brown must give the govt
* Course evaluations that allege instructor antisemitism
* A big new student survey on antisemitism
* a detailed and not-meaningfully-anonymized spreadsheet about all reports of discrim on basis of "national origin, including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics[.]" 6/

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Jul 29

"Fundamentally un-American."

A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of civil collapse — and they’re buying up land.

This isn’t a drill. This is the Network State.
www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Meet the out-of-state investors funding a Christian nationalist community in Tennessee

For the politically connected investors behind the project, our NewsChannel 5 investigation has now discovered, it’s about business, power and creating an alternative view of America.

www.newschannel5.com

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Jul 26

~10 years ago sjsu students staged a "faint-in" to bring attention to the fact that there was no air conditioning in the social science building

i remember sitting in a qual methods course at 4pm on an august afternoon. the prof had to end class early bc it was legit too hot to continue

karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Jul 23

"Other politicians might be skittish admitting a chatbot co-wrote their speech or that it helped draft a $5.6 billion budget for the new fiscal year, but Mahan is trying to lead by example..." 💀💀💀💀💀

sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-may...

karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Jul 23

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www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/17/c...

ChatGPT helps prepare this mayor’s talking points. Now he wants a thousand city workers using AI

Other politicians might be skittish admitting a chatbot co-wrote their speech or that it helped draft a $5.6 billion budget for the new fiscal year, but Mayor Mahan is trying to lead by example.

www.mercurynews.com

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Jul 19

our dog locked us out of the house. a new rock bottom

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Jul 16

who in the world wants this !!

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karina ripley @kaareeenah.bsky.social · Jul 14

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/u...

Inside the Conservative Campaign That Took Down a University President

www.nytimes.com

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