Adia Benton
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
Quoting s'thing @cnygren.bsky.social & I are publishing soon: "the literacy argument is being made in advance of its necessity...it presumes a state in which those who are “AI illiterate” are disempowered, precisely in order to make an argument in favor of compulsory indoctrination in its use."
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 57m ago“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”
If you’d like a wonderful antidote to those proclaiming that automated facts-mashing is historical practice I urge you to read this 2025 essay from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
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tbh the 'winnability' excuse is the story they told with Obama -- a confession about 'the others' not about themselves, mind you--when it seems they've underestimated some folks' ability + willingness (and frankly, desperation) to try 'something different'. stellar ground game didnt hurt GOTV either
It was my grandfather's. Mom told me i need to listen to it. Guess i will now.
Applications are due by end-of-day ET this Friday, August 7! Please join us — and please share!
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4w agoMetro NY Library Council's Cross-Reference Coalition — an experimental school connecting librarians, archivists, grad students, artists, designers — is accepting applications for our fall class exploring PUBLIC STUDY: alternative/radical/progressive schools, lrng communities... crc.metro.org/apply/
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
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Leave in July, sign an NDA and get 11 months’ severance (hush money!) or leave in December. He chose…
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 3h agoLove that this show has a three-episode arc about seal “attacks”
Would it help if I could reassure you that if I asked probably a few hundred people would show up in my mentions to say I’m not kidding
Linda Tirado@killermartinis.bsky.social · 14h agoWho needs a call? Someone, of the millions of strangers in the world, needs a friend My dm remains open, and it costs me nothing to answer the phone to you.
“Michigan set primary records in mail voting and early voting, Aghogho Edevbie, the deputy secretary of state, said in a press conference after polls closed. Over 1.3 million people had voted by mail — 226,000 more than in the August 2022… More than 139,000 people voted early at the polls”
Update from Mack Liederman
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This is because unregulated betting markets exist and I'm not even kidding
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 15h agoIt is cracking me up that NBC News has a “Kornacki Cam”
They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · yesterdayThese guys are freaking out over their own imaginations again.
“It is the Eye of Sauron, but it also knows when we enter our daughter’s room in the morning and joy hits her face — and it sends us intelligently edited montages of these moments.”
Nanit and Other Baby-Tracking Start-Ups Eye Collecting Even More Data
Nanit and other start-ups want to track your children through the night — and soon, for much longer than that.
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We're not going to stop climate change unless we phase out fossil fuels.
Oil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
The "strong" three-month results come amid "one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market".
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red flag: "LTC O’Mara is the only physician in the world specializing in Health and Performance Optimization."
um wth everybody i know on here has a monthly pass for the struggle bus
New York Magazine@nymag.com · 21h agoOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
this man went from Lululemon + some DUI/simple assault, nothing on his CV, to White House and Congress; I'm thinking he's feeling a bit too confident about his chances of getting through this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h agoTAPPER: One of the files you released was an image of your daughter naked. It was available for a day before it was removed. Your ex-wife's attorney says it could quality as CSAM. That's shockingly reckless behavior MAX MILLER: I wouldn't say it's shockingly reckless. There was no genitalia exposed
I knew there was a reason for those courses on diarrheal disease and field epidemiology ok, coach, put me in. don't take anything to stop the diarrhea -- no immodium, etc... you gotta rehydrate. however, there are some pathogens for which an antibiotic will be recommended (to shorten the course)
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 20h agotapping the sign
Big "maybe that guy's not really the wallet inspector" energy
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · yesterdayThe US host cities for the 2026 men's World Cup claim that they were *verbally* promised $1 million each by Gianni Infantino and that FIFA hasn't paid up. Truly incredible stuff. www.nytimes.com/athletic/749...
Kostyuk beating herself today and I’m still not sure she’ll lose this match
“May have engaged in domestic violence…” sounds, like, a little too casual
"If there's one thing about the wealthy people in the United States," Lopez explained, "it's that they are big whiny babies, and that they've got a lot of money to make sure that you hear all their issues that they have with anything that goes on." hellgatenyc.com/nyc-tenants-...
NYC Tenants React to Pied-à-Terrorism: 'I Think It Speaks to How Detached Rich People Are'
A few of the millions of New Yorkers who don't own a home weigh in on the controversy.
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