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Guy Patrick Cunningham

@guypcunningham.bsky.social

A writer and editor in New York City. guyslibrary.com

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Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · last wk.

Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.

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Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last wk.

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is both shocking and not the least bit surprising: an OpenAI model that was being tested for its abilities hacked the infrastructure surrounding the test, worked over the weekend while no one was looking, and cyber-attacked a real company, well before OpenAI noticed. (1/3)

EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week

OpenAI noticed after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, people familiar with the investigation say.

reuters.com

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 2w ago

no reporter or producer or correspondent reallllly wants to be the source, the subject of an important but bad and sad story of urgent national importance but she did it, anyway. thank you cecilia vega - www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Fired ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent Cecilia Vega says she was told to report events ‘that never happened’

Two months after she was fired from “60 Minutes,” Cecilia Vega is sharing details about the troubling editorial pressures she said she faced after Bari Weiss was placed in charge of CBS News.

sfchronicle.com

shaun@shaunvids.bsky.social · 2w ago

of the dodgy odyssey takes, 'odysseus is meant to be a stoic badass unaffected by war' probably winds me up the most. in the text the king of the phaeacians correctly guesses odysseus is a veteran of the trojan war because he keeps bursting into tears whenever anyone mentions it

Yusuf@yusufimaadkhan.com · last mo.

“Indeed, it is critically important for each of us to decide where we stand and why, but it’s also important not to confuse the stakes of self-definition with the stakes of political success.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

The Bad Guys Don’t Really Care What Kind of Leftist You Are

Infighting is a waste of energy.

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turgut keskintürk@tkeskinturk.bsky.social · last mo.

the new york times apparently made the *unforgivable* mistake of confusing anarchists with democratic socialists in a recent write-up, but in fairness to them the original report had a pie-chart:

Corrected on July 1, 2026: An earlier version of this article misstated results of a D.S.A. membership survey. About 39.3 percent of respondents identified as democratic socialists and 10.7 percent as anarchists, not 10.7 percent as democratic socialists and 39.3 percent as anarchists. We acknowledge mistakes in our reporting with corrections. If you spot an error, please let us know at corrections@nytimes.com.Learn more.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

My Odyssey and Iliad translations are available as audiobooks, read/ performed by very talented real people: Claire Danes and Audra MacDonald. They do a much better job than the robots! www.audible.com/pd/The-Iliad...

The Odyssey

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home ...

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