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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 4h

Fun fact, the EPP thinks you're an idiot.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Screenshot from the article reading: "Marketing plant-based products using meat labels "is misleading for the consumer", the member of the conservative EPP group in the EP said."

Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 1d

Don't question Bondi's integrity.

Really, don't. There's no need when we all already know the answer. She doesn't have any.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 2d

"We have a legal justification but you wouldn't know it, it goes to a different school."

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Classified DOJ opinion justifies strikes on secret list of cartels, CNN reports reut.rs/3KDARLx

Classified DOJ opinion justifies strikes on secret list of cartels, CNN reports

The Department of Justice has put together a classified legal opinion that justifies deadly strikes against an undisclosed list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, CNN reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

reut.rs

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 5d

If the premium version doesn't come with monthly LLM-generated indulgences, what's even the point?

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 6d

Virtual Jesus? People of faith divided as AI enters religion.

One app, which is called Text with Jesus, has thousands of paying subscribers. It lets people ostensibly ask questions of Mary, Joseph, Jesus and nearly all 12 apostles
u.afp.com/SmoK

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 6d

Personally, the maddening part isn't that Democrats wouldn't do this.

It's that (most) Democrats wouldn't do shit to hold anyone accountable for it.

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 6d

It's endlessly maddening that Dems would never dream of doing shit like this when they regain power and they are right not to. It's just a blatant asymmetry that flows from the information environment and the GOP knows they can get away with it without fear of retribution.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 7d

A White House-ordered Hatch Act violation happening on every agency website and in every federal employee's out-of-office autoresponder.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 6d

The simple takeaway here is that any university that signs this type of agreement shouldn't be a called a university.

And I say that while having painfully low expectations for at least one of the universities who received this shakedown.

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 6d

This is all kinds of crazy. But the enforcement mechanism? Universities would hire an auditor to "conduct anonymous polling among faculty, students and staff to evaluate the university’s performance against the agreement" w/ results made public and reviewed by the Justice Dept.

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage

An initial round of nine schools, including Dartmouth, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, are being asked to sign a wide-ranging “compact.”

www.wsj.com

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 7d

If your association is weeks behind on annual meeting updates, maybe dial it back with the "act quick, your membership expires soon" emails.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 8d

The Hegseth/Trump doubleheader is actually a great distillation of fascism - simultaneously dumb as fuck and violent as hell.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine getting on stage to say...whatever the hell all that was...and self-censoring the word "fuck."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "Should our enemies choose foolishly to challenge us, they will be crushed by the violence, precision, and ferocity of the War Department. To our enemies, FAFO."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 9d

"Labour party surprised by thing that has been known for months."

Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 9d

the idea of Blair acting alongside Trump in a peacemaking role in the Middle East surprised some in his Labour party

One UK minister said: “It’s like a mini-series where the scriptwriters have lost the plot. It has jumped the shark and should be taken off air.”

www.ft.com/content/527b...

Tony Blair set to serve on Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza

Some in former UK prime minister’s Labour party react with surprise at his proposed role in Palestinian territory

www.ft.com

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Victor Gay @victorgayeco.bsky.social · 11d

Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu

Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered.

Please apply!

Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 12d

The most pointless and expensive "could've been a drunk Signal message" in history

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12d

This is going to end up being the most pointless and expensive "this meeting could have been an email" in history.

The Washington Post
WP Exclusive

New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
The defense secretary is expected to lecture about the “warrior ethos” for less than an hour, according to multiple people familiar with the event. But top generals are bracing for possible firings or demotions.

4minutes ago

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 14d

Also, not sure how the AG sees this working if a doper is disqualified after the matter and results are changed.

"Somebody was disqualified for doping, but we aren't going to name names or events. Also, very unrelated, but so-and-so is now your bronze medalist in the marathon."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 14d

Not to brag, but I outsmarted a terrible conspiracy and act of sabotage* today.

*and out-of-order escalator at a metro station

Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 15d

Calling GWB the devil and (apocryohal) shoe-banging are looking like pretty reasonable now, eh UNGA?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 16d

Schrödinger's international law: simultaneously made up nonsense and a core national security threat.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 16d

The US is about to go full-tilt against the ICC (an escalation from its current "80% of full-tilt") while also doing its best to starve every other IO of funding.

Cuneiform @8uruha.bsky.social · 16d

Exclusive: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Exclusive: US could hit entire International Criminal Court with sanctions soon

The United States is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court's day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.

www.reuters.com

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 16d

Those Disney+/ESPN numbers must've been (delightfully) terrible

Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 16d

Bit of a short-ish notice/longshot situation, but if you work on civil-military relations (US in particular or more broadly) and might be interested in speaking with some really great students, let me know?

Current events are leading to some course reworking...

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 17d

"You just read the assignment, summarize it, assign rough percentages for how well the assignment fulfilled expectations, and the LLM will do the rest!"

Really glad to know that a LLM can 'help' with grading, assuming one first does all the work.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice

The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central.
Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality

Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window.

Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform.

Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 18d

I don't know what reality the Garland DOJ lived in, but it sounds really comfy-cozy

Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 18d

In the DOJ's defense, this outcome could only have been foreseen by anyone over the age of 12 with a passing familiarity of current events.

Screenshot from the article reading: "The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January"

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 18d

If only folks had stayed at the beer hall, then they never would've tried the putsch

Shadi Hamid @shadihamid.bsky.social · 20d

One of the biggest mistakes left-of-center pundits and influencers made was decamping to Bluesky. They made themselves irrelevant, shrunk their audiences, and dramatically lessened the positive impact they could have on our public debate at the precise time we needed it most.

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Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 18d

I don't know if I'll ever understand Syracuse football...

Kyle Reed 🟥 @kylereed.bsky.social · 21d

Your average student council treasurer has a clearer reason for running for office than these schmucks.

The modal HOA chair absolutely has a sharper grasp on how to use political power than the congressional Democratic leadership.