Theodora Ruhs
@theodoraruhs.bsky.social
PhD holder and teacher of journalism at a CT university. Currently too tired to be any good at social media-ing. (She/Her)
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Theodora Ruhs
@theodoraruhs.bsky.social
· Feb 15
Ch 10-Ruhs-I'm Ravenous for News.pdf
drive.google.com
3/4 My chapter explores the control of and access to news and information and the role of journalism in both democratic and authoritarian societies. (I know I went overboard on footnotes.) Some of the content may have seemed dated last year but is now highly relevant again. #journalism
Sans serif= woke & broke
Serif= for pretentious menfolk
Who knew?!
Serif= for pretentious menfolk
Who knew?!
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Sans serif= woke & broke
Serif= for pretentious menfolk
Who knew?!
Serif= for pretentious menfolk
Who knew?!
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Once a week, he takes a dog out of the shelter and carries it around New York in a backpack that says “adopt me.”
It works! But there's a downside. Take Bertha: “The personality on this little girl, I truly did not want to leave her. She was just trying to kiss and love on people”
wapo.st/4s0RFNZ
It works! But there's a downside. Take Bertha: “The personality on this little girl, I truly did not want to leave her. She was just trying to kiss and love on people”
wapo.st/4s0RFNZ
He carries shelter dogs around the city in a backpack to help get them adopted
Bryan Reisberg has taken out 11 dogs on city adventures. Ten of them were adopted after his videos published.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Once a week, he takes a dog out of the shelter and carries it around New York in a backpack that says “adopt me.”
It works! But there's a downside. Take Bertha: “The personality on this little girl, I truly did not want to leave her. She was just trying to kiss and love on people”
wapo.st/4s0RFNZ
It works! But there's a downside. Take Bertha: “The personality on this little girl, I truly did not want to leave her. She was just trying to kiss and love on people”
wapo.st/4s0RFNZ
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.
Poor baby! Can anyone help out a special needs dog?
🐶🆘 MEDICAL EMERGENCY
Bellarina is a senior dog diagnosed with diabetes at the shelter and will require insulin shots and special diet. Owner cant afford vet care. She’s emciated
Previously lived w/children, described as calm. Now she’s tense, but has allowed all handling
🙏Repost to find a #foster
Bellarina is a senior dog diagnosed with diabetes at the shelter and will require insulin shots and special diet. Owner cant afford vet care. She’s emciated
Previously lived w/children, described as calm. Now she’s tense, but has allowed all handling
🙏Repost to find a #foster
December 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Poor baby! Can anyone help out a special needs dog?
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Money is always welcome.
The Gift-Giving Argument for Universal Basic Income
As I write this, Christmas is right around the corner again, and I think it's time I finally write this article that has been in my head for years now as an argument for the universal part of universa...
www.scottsantens.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Money is always welcome.
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Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
December 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
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Only 17% of Americans have paid for news in the last year
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
July 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Only 17% of Americans have paid for news in the last year
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Finally got around to watching this (on @nebula.tv), and it’s definitely worth a watch and signing up for Nebula, which is currently the only streaming service I pay for. Though, it looks like it is also back on YouTube right now.
Can’t think of a better advertisement for @nebula.tv than the fact that the top video on the platform is FD Signifier’s essay on Charlie Kirk, which just got taken down on YouTube, even though YouTube had reviewed that much more censored version of the video and approved it.
December 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Finally got around to watching this (on @nebula.tv), and it’s definitely worth a watch and signing up for Nebula, which is currently the only streaming service I pay for. Though, it looks like it is also back on YouTube right now.
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I’m Princeton - I was adopted but the cat didn’t like me so they threw me back here and now the #nycacc Supreme Court wants me dead. I’m a mellow pup. Love a couch. NY NJ NH NE DE DC MD RI VT PA VA I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u! Food/vet provided. Pls repost me! FUCK TRUMP
December 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I’m Princeton - I was adopted but the cat didn’t like me so they threw me back here and now the #nycacc Supreme Court wants me dead. I’m a mellow pup. Love a couch. NY NJ NH NE DE DC MD RI VT PA VA I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u! Food/vet provided. Pls repost me! FUCK TRUMP
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I’m Flake and the Supreme Court of #nycacc said that just after a week of arriving at this horrid place that ℹ deserves 2b killed! East coast I can be transported to you with food/vet provided! I just need a home! I wasn’t here long enough 4notes and they want me dead! Pls repost! #dogsofbluesky
December 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I’m Flake and the Supreme Court of #nycacc said that just after a week of arriving at this horrid place that ℹ deserves 2b killed! East coast I can be transported to you with food/vet provided! I just need a home! I wasn’t here long enough 4notes and they want me dead! Pls repost! #dogsofbluesky
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🆘DON’T KILL BIGS
Found tied to a tree, Bigs is big, 86 pnds & 4 y/o, distressed in his small kennel. Once outside he can relax & is happy carrying his toy, turns to handlers for attention & treats
Scared at 1st, he’s now described as resilient & brave; needs ❤️ & security
Repost to find a #foster
Found tied to a tree, Bigs is big, 86 pnds & 4 y/o, distressed in his small kennel. Once outside he can relax & is happy carrying his toy, turns to handlers for attention & treats
Scared at 1st, he’s now described as resilient & brave; needs ❤️ & security
Repost to find a #foster
December 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🆘DON’T KILL BIGS
Found tied to a tree, Bigs is big, 86 pnds & 4 y/o, distressed in his small kennel. Once outside he can relax & is happy carrying his toy, turns to handlers for attention & treats
Scared at 1st, he’s now described as resilient & brave; needs ❤️ & security
Repost to find a #foster
Found tied to a tree, Bigs is big, 86 pnds & 4 y/o, distressed in his small kennel. Once outside he can relax & is happy carrying his toy, turns to handlers for attention & treats
Scared at 1st, he’s now described as resilient & brave; needs ❤️ & security
Repost to find a #foster
“A lot of A.I.’s choices make sense when you understand that it’s constantly tickling the Simpsons.”
Read this NYT piece by Sam Kriss about AI's distinctive writing style - especially "It's not X - it's Y" - and then look at this horror of an AI-generated article, which uses all the tropes he identifies, over and over again.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...
December 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“A lot of A.I.’s choices make sense when you understand that it’s constantly tickling the Simpsons.”
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Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Here's the reality this example illustrates:
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).
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This is fascinating www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/com... If stores typically charge more at the checkout than their shelf prices, it would not be picked up in inflation measures. Wrote about this with Dollar stores cepr.net/publications...
Dollar Stores: Where Trumpian Sleaze Meets Affordability
Widespread mispricing at Dollar stores may hide real inflation, frustrate shoppers, and show how weak consumer protection enables corporate cheating.
cepr.net
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
This is fascinating www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/com... If stores typically charge more at the checkout than their shelf prices, it would not be picked up in inflation measures. Wrote about this with Dollar stores cepr.net/publications...
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This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
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December 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Parnia Abbasi was a 23-year-old Iranian poet who, along with her whole family, was killed this past June by Israel. I just translated an excerpt of her poem The Dying Star for my book. I have no idea if I'll get to use it in the book, but translating it made me cry, so I'd like to share it with you:
![“In your world,
the freedom of light.
In my world,
the game of shadows
[...]
Somewhere,
you begin.
You call out
the whisper of life.
In a thousand places,
I end.
I burn.
I become a dying star
Silent in your sky
like smoke.”
The Dying Star
by Parnia Abbasi
Translated by Sophia Babai](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:acxaxpjo6md5st5ufvraqcob/bafkreifxhznrosnqw3qgc2mtsz7vs4b3yc4im546u55kdd4zxt25br6eje@jpeg)
December 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Parnia Abbasi was a 23-year-old Iranian poet who, along with her whole family, was killed this past June by Israel. I just translated an excerpt of her poem The Dying Star for my book. I have no idea if I'll get to use it in the book, but translating it made me cry, so I'd like to share it with you:
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It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.
I really hope my topics class on emerging technology and the future of news runs in the spring because, oh boy, is there a lot of great material for discussions.
Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers reut.rs/3MiohCl
Meta strikes multiple AI deals with news publishers
Meta has struck several commercial AI data agreements with news publishers including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Le Monde, the company said on Friday.
reut.rs
December 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I really hope my topics class on emerging technology and the future of news runs in the spring because, oh boy, is there a lot of great material for discussions.
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I’m Melvin! I’m going 2b euthanized bc I’m 2excited when I see others! That’s just part of my charm! I am loving- sweet-affectionate! If you’re in NY NJ NH NE ME MD DC FE PA VA RI VT CT I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u- vet/food 2- I just need a home! Pls repost me! #dogsofbluesky
December 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I’m Melvin! I’m going 2b euthanized bc I’m 2excited when I see others! That’s just part of my charm! I am loving- sweet-affectionate! If you’re in NY NJ NH NE ME MD DC FE PA VA RI VT CT I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u- vet/food 2- I just need a home! Pls repost me! #dogsofbluesky
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Don’t let this sweet boy be KILLED! Zeus needs to be SEEN! He needs REPOSTS! Please someone on the East Coast save him!
December 5, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Don’t let this sweet boy be KILLED! Zeus needs to be SEEN! He needs REPOSTS! Please someone on the East Coast save him!
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Again and again across the US, the cheapest housing is often in the most dangerous places – the ones most exposed to floods, fires and storms made worse by climate change.
Our story in the LA Times:
Our story in the LA Times:
Contributor: Moving to a climate-disaster zone just to afford a home
The only affordable property is often in low-lying areas at flood risk, such as in Houston and coastal Texas, or in higher-wildfire-risk areas, such as in California foothills and canyons.
buff.ly
December 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Again and again across the US, the cheapest housing is often in the most dangerous places – the ones most exposed to floods, fires and storms made worse by climate change.
Our story in the LA Times:
Our story in the LA Times:
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~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
There’s a rumor that Kennedy’s revised, biased ACIP will move hepatitisB age up to 4, creating real access issues to parents that want to to protect babies and setting babies up for lifelong harm.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
Kennedy's vaccine panel expected to recommend delaying hepatitis B shot in children
RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisors is expected to vote to delay the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Doctors warn that could fuel a return of a disease virtually eradicated in U.S. kids.
www.npr.org
September 16, 2025 at 10:11 PM
~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
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They are quite literally proposing an already-tried-and-failed policy that led to kids getting preventable diseases, organ failure, and cancer.
When the vaccine first came out, the US actually only vaccinated “high-risk” individuals and children born to Hepatitis-B-positive parents. And it didn’t work out well. Disease rates only declined - by ~99% - after making the vaccine a universal recommendation on Day1 www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
They are quite literally proposing an already-tried-and-failed policy that led to kids getting preventable diseases, organ failure, and cancer.
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The CDC is compromised and is advocating against evidence-based public health.
This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.
This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.
This regressive move will literally kill people. It's making kids' liver cancer great again. And it's a sign of more harm to come.
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/c... via @statnews.com
CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine
The CDC's ACIP panel voted to recommend delaying the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine, ending a policy that has reined in the virus.
www.statnews.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The CDC is compromised and is advocating against evidence-based public health.
This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.
This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.