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Joshua Kagavi

@kagavi.bsky.social

History writer and artist clinging to life in the distant badlands. Jazz Age football, stop motion animation, petroglyphs, pixel games, grumpy terriers, etc. Jack Trice expert. Huffing mold in archives kagavi.com

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Joshua Kagavi@kagavi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Nah. While using AI to write/edit is officially disavowed, imo some of the AI research workflow examples shared still have gaps that can introduce error. For a fictional historical example, let's say I'm doing online research on a 1934 murder of a judge in a sleepy town w/ just one small paper 1/

Nieman Lab@niemanlab.org · 3d ago

Eight Pulitzer Prize awardees — 5 winners and 3 finalists — acknowledged using AI in their reporting process this year. www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/a-re...

Joshua Kagavi@kagavi.bsky.social · 3d ago

Going to end my annual donation if @wikimediafoundation.org continues this. They have a tiny amount of employees relative to the 250,000 volunteer editors that keep it humming. Already emailed executive team Two @404media.co stories: www.404media.co/wikimedia-wa... www.404media.co/wikipedia-pa...

Jake Orlowitz@jakeorlowitz.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Wikimedia Foundation Hired the Union Busters Its Own Encyclopedia Warned About medium.com/regarding-wi... #wikipedia

Rob Sheridan@rob-sheridan.com · 2w ago

MULDER [slapping down plane tix]: Hope you packed your rain coat, Scully. SCULLY: Seattle? Mulder it's the weekend, what- MULDER [handing her a file] Confirmed sightings, Scully. This is big SCULLY [eyes wide]: My God Mulder, what am I looking at here? MULDER: The locals are calling it.. JIMOTHY

Joshua Kagavi@kagavi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very cool that Science magazine's EIC wrote a story about AI making publishing "slower, worse, and more expensive" then after screwing up story links had to admit he used chatGPT for the story but "only" as a search engine then defended himself in a substack post which he illustrated with AI slop

Joshua Kagavi@kagavi.bsky.social · 3w ago

Good story. Regular season should retain magic if expanded playoffs have clear tiers and consequences. Get rid of conf. title games too. If you're a SEC team and lose 3 or 4 games, your reward is flying to Kalamazoo to play 11-1 Western Michigan in a blizzard vs a warm home game against 8-4 Delaware

Bill Connelly@espnbillc.bsky.social · 3w ago

If Tony Pettiti were in charge of World Cup expansion, 36 of the 48 teams would have been from Europe. You want a fun and exciting ride? Actually expand access and invite the underdogs. A piece I was born to write: What CFP expansion could learn from from the World Cup. www.espn.com/college-foot...

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · last mo.

When we started this 1990s project, I immediately wanted to write about these jerseys. They were basically pre-internet, so photos aren't easy to find. There aren't really any replicas. They've almost been lost to history. But they were a moment in time. www.nytimes.com/athletic/739...

The ‘hella atrocious’ history of college football’s most daring uniform designs (Gift Article)

Before Nike and Oregon changed college football jersey culture, a short-lived company shook things up like no one had ever seen.

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derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · last mo.

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

JD Vance tweets: "She bought a $50 dress for $8.75. America: meet your next director of the federal budget!" He retweeted his wife, who showed that she purchased a $49.99 Old Navy dress for $8.75 after markdowns and coupon codes. On May 27, 2026, the Workers Right Consortium published an article saying: "Haitian Factory Making Old Navy, Hanes Remedies Illegal Firing of Pregnant Workers, Union Leaders After engagement by the WRC with the brands Gap Inc. (owner of Old Navy) and Gildan (owner of Hanes), 14 women who were unlawfully fired have received remedy. Each of these workers received the equivalent of 22 months’ back wages and a commitment of priority rehiring from The Willbes, a garment factory in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, that supplies the two brands. As the WRC previously reported, The Willbes carried out a mass layoff in 2024 that resulted in the firing of more than a dozen workers who, at the time of their dismissal, were pregnant or were union leaders. The dismissals occurred in violation of their protected status under Haitian labor law and, by extension, violated each of the buyers’ codes of conduct. The Willbes is a supplier of apparel to Gap for its Old Navy brand and to Hanesbrands, now a subsidiary of the Canadian apparel corporation, Gildan. The Willbes unlawfully dismissed the pregnant workers and the factory union leaders when it shut down four of its production buildings and laid off more than 900 employees. While some of the workers affected by the layoff were allowed to transfer to jobs in the portion of the factory that remained open, five workers who were pregnant and nine who were leaders of the factory union were illegally denied the opportunity to keep their employment."
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo.

These elections remind me of Lincoln's famous line to General George McClellan, who "led" the Army of the Potomac by holding it back from battle. "If General McClellan does not want to use the Army, I would like to borrow it for a time, provided I could see how it could be made to do something."