Here it is, my 273rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 273 (4/26/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 273rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! No...

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Thanks for including us in such great company!

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here it is, my 273rd #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

two bald eagles are flying over a mountain with an american flag in their talons .

ALT: two bald eagles are flying over a mountain with an american flag in their talons .

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Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · 4mo ago

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

I don't understand why researchers have to come up with new specialized terminology like hallucinations and “mirage reasoning" when "making shit up" is right there

hello hi yes so this makes sense when you understand that the sucess condition for an LLM is the production of a text-base, genre-bound performance of a plausible and acceptable answer to a given question. the question defines the expected genre.

Donald Campbell@dncampbell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Geoffrey Hinton still very wrong about radiologists futurism.com/artificial-i...

I AM AN EXTRAORDINARILY BRILLIANT PERSON

an elderly man is sitting at a table holding a knife in his hand

Alt: an elderly man is sitting at a table holding a knife in his hand and waiving it around

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Sam@samd.bsky.social · 4mo ago

lmfao I fucking called it

New publication in New Media and Society co-authored with Mikkel Bækby Johansen on the Violence of Online Conspiracies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The violence of online conspiracy theories - Line Nybro Petersen, Mikkel Bækby Johansen, 2026

This article investigates the relationship between online conspiracy theory communities and platformed violence through a case study of a conspiratorial harassm...

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I've said it before: I genuinely consider it a moral imperative that people my age and up bang the drum about what the Internet used to be so those younger know that there's nothing inherent about what it is now. The Internet doesn't have to be this; its culture can and has belonged to people.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

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AI illiteracy is the real threat to civilisation. Not the “robots are taking over” sci-fi panic. It’s this

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 5mo ago

Tennessee grandmother spent nearly six months in jail after AI facial recognition mistakenly linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

Gerry Doyle@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this means it is not open for transit

Ragebait, toksiske posts og fake content fylder meget i debatten om sociale medier, men tilsyneladende drejer det sig kun om 3 til 7 procent af indholdet. Og det kommer fra få brugere. Ifølge academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... Findes der tal fra Danmark? cc @m-b-petersen.bsky.social

Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content

Abstract. Americans can become more cynical about the state of society when they see harmful behavior online. Three studies of the American public (n = 1,0

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Line (Sand) og Line (undertegnede) taler om internettet og hvad Epstein-filerne kan fortælles os om tabet af kronologi

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

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Kenneth Nørgaard@kennethnrgaard.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Nej, Epstein-filerne giver ikke QAnon ret. Men de viser, at vores virkelighedsfornemmelse er i opløsning Kronologi? Don't know her. Gæst er @linenybro.bsky.social

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a reporter could get trump to confess to everything by asking him if he just wasnt famous enough to go to the island, just say youve heard he “never had the juice”

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.

Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 7mo ago

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

This applies to at least a handful of people just off the top of my mind

Sylvia Wrath@tree26.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I can’t believe this asshole outlived Catherine O’Hara

I know lits of people that aren’t going. I’m not either.

Social Media Lab@socialmedialab.ca · 7mo ago

"Millions of travelers could skip visiting the US if proposed social media policy is implemented, industry experts warn" www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/t...

That feeling when you, a terrorism and extremism scholar, see documentary evidence that shows moot met with Jeffery Epstein on the same day /pol was launched:

Today is the day! Closing of the SMIDGE project in style

Smidge Project@smidgeproject.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 The SMIDGE Project conference is just one day away. The Conference brings together policymakers, researchers, journalists, civil society, and practitioners to discuss online extremism and #disinformation and their impact on middle-aged adults in Europe. 📍 Brussels | 📅 29 January 2026

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

It’s CONGRESS that can stop ICE and CBP deployment to MN. The Dems (and any responsible Rs?) should introduce legislation and agitate for a vote: “No federal funds may be used for further activities of ICE or CBP in the state of Minnesota, except for their prompt withdrawal.”

I just did this. Horrific.

Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 7mo ago

in no way the most important thing but it is incredibly jarring how many times people have opened up their devices in the last year to see autoplay videos of people being killed

I watched the video. I usually have an extremely strong stomach and temper and encourage people to watch distressing reality to witness it… I don’t think you should watch it. I’m absolutely shaken

"So, Mr Huang (and you may call me *Dr* Seeadler), I have yet to see a convincing argument in favour of outsourcing thinking to something cognitively inferior to Cliff from Cheers. Do you have one, or have you not yet engaged with or even noticed the problem?"

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Jensen Huang of Nvidia, $NVDA, has said relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has done a lot of damage, per Techspot.

I’ve never wanted to barf more

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump: "I'm seeking immediate negotiations to discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States"