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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · 1h

The key thing now is "that the government does not actually have the capacity to successfully negotiate a bespoke 'deal' with every university in the country. All universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing." Great analysis by @fishkin.bsky.social

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 8h

It may well be the case that this piece of public writing saved UVA.

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litherland @lither.land · 8h

My timeline, too, though I’d also add a fifth (Bari Weiss)

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 15h

My professional timeline right now is made up of four distinct silos wrt the principal global threat/challenge we face, in roughly this order:

1. AI

2. Russia

3. China

4. Climate

I'd reverse the order and eliminate the silos.

But most notably, Trump II has no plan for dealing with any of them.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

realizing i needed to do this as soon as i got the vibe that the bluesky admins didn't really want some of us around. i've never been real interested in chasing after clubs that don't want me. feels good to be somewhere else.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The one choice that's always in your hands is to live a principled life

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 4d

A notable response from the most traditionally conservatives of the Ivies. Essentially ‘go do one’.

Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 4d

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President

president.dartmouth.edu

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 1d

Grieving for all the lives taken. I dont know what we look like as a society when this is over

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

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Quibble While Rome Burns @nimi0us.blacksky.app · 1d

Mind, it seems to be a root issue that can't be avoided currently regardless of which pds your on. So you can't even avoid this shit with Blacksky or Northsky from what I understand.

bsky.app/profile/nimi...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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litherland @lither.land · 1d

Wait what?

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 1d

Endorsing a two-state solution is racism. Or, at best, it’s rooted in the sort of shallowness of thought that sustains racism.

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litherland @lither.land · 1d

Props to @ableparris.bsky.social 👏

thedailyheller.bsky.social @thedailyheller.bsky.social · 2d

Freedom + Books + Speech = America
www.printmag.com/daily-heller...

The Daily Heller: This Week, Ban Book Banning – PRINT Magazine

To ring in Banned Books Week, Thought Matter has created a 'Free Speech Ain't Free' kit.

www.printmag.com

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 1d

Don't let anyone ever tell you that Zionism is about the protection of Jewish people. Zionists reserve special hatred for Jews who reject their genocidal project and who insist on the equal humanity of Palestinians.

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

This may sound extreme but I am getting tired of watching white men dismantle things that are important to me for no clear reason besides that they can

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litherland @lither.land · 1d

“C’est pourquoi les vraies révolutions ont aussi l’air de fêtes.” —Deleuze, Différence et répétition

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so tired. I just want to cook a dinner rotation where meals don't randomly double in price all the time

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Rome is working closely with the European Commission to press the United States to reconsider an additional anti-dumping tariff on pasta imports which would effectively double their price, the Italian foreign ministry said.
www.reuters.com/business/rom...

Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports

With almost $800 million in exports, the U.S. is one of Italy's top three export markets for pasta, a staple of the country's culinary heritage and a substantial export commodity.

www.reuters.com

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litherland @lither.land · 1d

I read this as “anti-dumpling tariff”

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

Rome is working closely with the European Commission to press the United States to reconsider an additional anti-dumping tariff on pasta imports which would effectively double their price, the Italian foreign ministry said.
www.reuters.com/business/rom...

Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports

With almost $800 million in exports, the U.S. is one of Italy's top three export markets for pasta, a staple of the country's culinary heritage and a substantial export commodity.

www.reuters.com

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litherland @lither.land · 2d

Yes! And also: Eireann, you might enjoy this essay!

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litherland @lither.land · 2d

“Klein has bright-kid syndrome.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 2d

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.”

“That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Mayor Brandon Johnson signs executive order establishing ‘ICE-free zones’ • The TRiiBE

Johnson is calling for a full investigation into “all of the brutality” that federal agents have conducted this past week.

thetriibe.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Too many prominent liberals and Democratic politicians are eager to sacrifice a substantive commitment to democratic values and principles on the altar of “unity”: No more drawing lines, too divisive!

They are not fostering understanding – just helping to normalize Trumpism.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

White innocence is achieved not only by justifying and apologizing widespread support for political extremism – but in this case, by decreeing that whatever a significant portion of “regular folks” are supporting categorically cannot be extremism in the first place.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Remarkably, such arguments also ignore that America has had plenty of experience with broad popular support for state authoritarianism in its own history. There is nothing old, stable, or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic* democracy. It started less than 60 years ago.

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