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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Victor Galaz, Michael D. McDonald , and 2 more

carlquintanilla.bsky.social
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Robb Willer, Nazita Lajevardi , and 2 more

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New jobs for computational social scientists at UNC and USC: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... amd uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...
Assistant Professor
This Assistant Professor position will teach graduate and undergraduate courses, conduct research in the field of Sociology, participate in departmental service, and mentor graduate students.
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erinbiba.bsky.social
A great way to turn the temp down here as @jay.bsky.team @pfrazee.com and @aaron.bsky.team want would be to stop communicating site policies and practices with individual users or on their timelines and hire a comms person who is a professional communicator to do all the front facing interaction.
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by Brian Keegan

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This was so, so, so cathartic to read. Thank you @lopatto.bsky.social!

And now we don't have to link to a 7-year-old Glenn Greenwald article either for the definitive roundup of Weiss's hypocrisy and incompetence!
To make matters worse, you have never reported, and they all know it. You don’t know anything about the challenges or judgment calls required for complicated stories. You’re an op-ed writer who rode Bret Stephens’ coattails into The New York Times newsroom, then quit in a huff because they wouldn’t fire you for whatever it was you wanted to pretend to be a free speech martyr for. (You might want to pay for your personal website, by the way. It’s expired.) The closest you came to doing anything like reporting was the flop “Twitter Files” work, which exposed… um, people having banal conversations. In the context of the Twitter Files, this was a win since you didn’t actively dox anyone. Honestly, I thought your experience with Elon Musk might have prepared you for what a bad idea this was, since, you know, he got mad at you when you asked the wrong questions about China. Sure, you’ve made a career out of kissing the right asses to move ahead, but you must have learned by now that means you will be disposed of whenever it’s convenient. You had such a good gig going, too. Your entire pitch at The Free Press — lol, lmao — was that you were standing boldly against big bad corporate media that simply wouldn’t tell the truth! This was an easy pitch — albeit one made by every Substacker from Taylor Lorenz to Ken Klippenstein to Naomi Wolf — and, judging by your audience, a fairly lucrative one. You didn’t even have to get stories right! Remember when your columnist Coleman Hughes published a column about George Floyd that was so wrong it got dogwalked not once but three times by Radley Balko? And you personally got dogwalked a fourth time? And your response was that Balko should do your podcast?
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Joe R. Feagin

mmasnick.bsky.social
The NY Times continues to be the biggest sucker in the world for bad faith bullshit, just so the publisher can claim they're not too liberal and to pretend they'll somehow convince MAGA they're being fair to them.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h
Despite appearances, this is not a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social joke, it's an actual @nytimes.com column by some Claremont hack who praises Hegseth for his "nuanced vision of the military’s purpose and its relationship to civilian society."
Opinion Guest Essay That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good Oct. 7, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET
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by Brian Keegan

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full professor, associate professor, assistant professor
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by Brian Keegan

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The Zeroth Rule of basic income experiments is that they work and should stop being experiments.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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by Brian Keegan — Reposted by: Brian Keegan

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"KPop Demon Hunters" has once again overtaken "Charlie Kirk" for English @wikipedia.org pageviews
English Wikipedia pageviews for Charlie Kirk (red) and KPop Demon Hunters (blue) from 1 June 2025 to 5 October 2025
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Euan G. Ritchie, Roger Luckhurst , and 8 more

mikeachim.bsky.social
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."
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by Brian Keegan

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“This time really is different!”
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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by Brian Keegan

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We need to turn down the temperature by ignoring the people who have been right about everything to center the feelings of the people who are responsible for everything.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.
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by Brian Keegan

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This is going to age like milk.

@remindmeofth.is October 6, 2026
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Robert W. Wallace, Rosemary A. Joyce

tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I had a liberal centrist — a professional — once tell me that they engage with more diversity at a Bari Weiss dinner party than they do in any mainstream media event.

I mention this because, just as it is true in politics at the moment, some of the calls are coming from inside the house.
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild , and 2 more

maxtani.bsky.social
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Mark Rice

lawrencehurley.bsky.social
The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.
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by Brian Keegan

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www.e-flux.com/journal/143/...
Will AI Remember the Days of Slavery? - Journal #143
Charles Tonderai Mudede on AI and the erasure of history.
www.e-flux.com
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by Brian Keegan

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mitpress.mit.edu/978026255402...
Degrees of Freedom
In Degrees of Freedom, Tom Williams explores critical questions at the intersection of robotics and social justice. He considers the ways in which roboticist...
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by Brian Keegan

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Enslaved Minds: Artificial Intelligence, Slavery, and Revolt
Abstract. Humankind has long dreamed of a life of ease, but throughout history, those who achieved such a life have done so simply by delegating their labo
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Michael A. Clemens, Patricia Aufderheide , and 7 more

justinhendrix.bsky.social
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
www.ft.com
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Rosemary A. Joyce, David Rothschild , and 1 more

espiers.bsky.social
I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d
Portland never stops being Portland.
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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d
wizard frog is insane
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Rosemary A. Joyce, Daxton R. Stewart

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Portland never stops being Portland.
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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d
wizard frog is insane
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Southern Africa

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"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals?

It feels odd to even have to answer this question"
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Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals
As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.
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davidzipper.bsky.social
Seems bad:

"Urban highways are associated with decreased social connectivity."

"This barrier effect [is] consistent with historical cases of highways that were built to purposefully disrupt or isolate Black neighborhoods."

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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by Brian Keegan

brianckeegan.com
“That is the Bari Weiss project in microcosm: a statement of high-minded principles that serves as a thin veil over bog standard right-wing ideology. It’s what we saw in her columns, it’s what we see at The Free Press, it’s what we see at her university, and it’s what we will see at CBS News.”
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d
I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.
Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream
Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS
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Reposted by: Brian Keegan, Juan Cole

notalawyer.bsky.social
I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.
Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream
Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS
stringinamaze.net
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by Brian Keegan

brianckeegan.com
There’s probably nothing to worry about heavily militarized forces deploying tactics developed by occupation forces in a settler state. racism.org/articles/law...
The Legal and Constitutional Consequences of U.S. Police Departments Collaborating with Israeli Security Forces
Abstract Excerpted From: Cruz Rodriguez, The Legal and Constitutional Consequences of U.S. Police Departments Collaborating with Israeli Security Forces, 26 Public Interest Law Reporter 8 (Fall, 202...
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by Brian Keegan

brianckeegan.com
No one could have anticipated that policing tactics honed in apartheid sandboxes would boomerang back on marginalized Americans.

deadlyexchange.org
Deadly Exchange
Ending US-Israel Police Partnerships, Reclaiming Safety
deadlyexchange.org
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by Brian Keegan

brianckeegan.com
If only there were some kinds of warnings that sending American law enforcement to an apartheid state for training might amplify the white supremacy at the heart of our beloved domestic institution.

www.amnestyusa.org/blog/with-wh...
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by Brian Keegan

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Also: bsky.app/profile/tati...
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Tatiana Walk-Morris @tatiwm.bsky.social · 2d
It's very telling that — of all the things they could have created — they jumped straight to reducing famous, powerful women flirtation tools without their consent.
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Reuters @reuters.com · Aug 29
Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R
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