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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 3h

Thinking of setting up an institution to accredit learning in academic disciplines that move human knowledge forward in a variety of directions rather than serve as a funnel for jobs. Not sure what to call it, though. Something that attests to the broad character of its scholarly endeavours.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 12h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 19h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 21h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11h

Quite the headline. Will be forwarding to everyone who told me I was "overreacting."

Reuters: National Guard poised to enter Chicago as Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders
By Emily Schmall, Susan Heavey and Daniel Trotta
October 8, 2025 6:47 PM CDT Updated 19 mins ago

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 14h

America Last!

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 22h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 18h

Zuckerberg is such a tool.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Meta’s new A.I.-generated video app, Vibes, launched last month to overwhelmingly negative reception. The “Hard Fork” co-hosts discussed why. "It’s essentially like TikTok, but if TikTok were populated just by little animated A.I.-generated shorts." nyti.ms/4ocx2LW

A quote from Kevin Roose, co-host of "Hard Fork": "I was not surprised to see Meta announcing a version of essentially a social network with no actual people on it. I think this is the direction that they’ve been moving for several years now."

SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 18h

I want to hear from a lawyer: what's the legal power of an NDA in the context of open records laws with local elected officials? Seems to me that contract law legally takes a back seat to local, state, and federal law. How can an NDA bind an elected official to not talking about public business?

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 18h

And yet there are still lefties saying (based on claims by Alphabet, Meta, etc.) the environmental damage is overblown. No, it's not. If anything it's underestimated. They're spending an order of magnitude more on power infrastructure than they ever have before.

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d

And they're all fuckin secrets!!!!

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 6d

They're not just secrets they also get full local approval while being a secret to fucking lie about not building on the 2 acres of wetland they're now building on (with full state approval) and lie that they're not gonna burn thru a million gallons of diesel when they knowingly burn out the grid

Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 22d

Now Google says they need 497% more diesel tanks than they originally lied about needing and also they need 547% more diesel generators than they lied about needing and our city & county leaders are gonna pretend to think about it then say lol ok obviously sure

www.wane.com/top-stories/...

The proposal requests 179 generators onsite that will create about 528 megawatts of power, along with 179 storage tanks that will hold 1,074,000 gallons of diesel fuel.

The original request, approved in 2024, was for 36 generators and 36 tanks, which hold 6,000 gallons each of diesel fuel.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 19h

Fascist keebler elf.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 19h

Tommy Orange got a MacArthur! HELL YEAH!
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Tommy Orange

Illuminating the richness and complexity of contemporary, urban Native Peoples’ lives.

www.macfound.org

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

Video: @bydrewharwell

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 1d

AI is a runaway train and I’d like to get off at the nearest station.

I’ll jump off and roll down a hill like they do in the movies if I have to.

Video: @varunmayya.bsky.social

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21h

@modernlanguage.bsky.social, in the next revision, please change your approach to databases.

SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21h

sensibly: "The purpose of a reference list entry is to provide readers with the details they will need to perform a search themselves if necessary, not to replicate teh path the author of the work personally used... different readers will have different methods or points of access."

SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21h

a technical web/programming setup, not the reality of what's being published, which is a named database also published by other companies, such as ProQuest. If the article text is available full text through either instance, is the company hosting it relevant to a citation? APA treats this more

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 21h

MLA9 includes a basic misunderstanding of databases, classing "EBSCOhost" as a container. No. EBSCO is a company that publishes databases. MLA International Bibliography is a publication, not a "search filter." Yes, technically set up as a "filter" (searching only that database), but that's

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SteveLibrarian @librariansteve.bsky.social · 22h

Huh. Schrödinger’s Art: both valueless and very expensive.

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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garci32 @garci32.bsky.social · 2d

CBS: “Broadview (IL) Police Chief Thomas Mills said that ICE agents at the detention facility have called 911 to report several incidents that turned out to be false. Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.”

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