media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

we must recover the old wisdom

Now everything is a game for lonely young men to bet on. Even our lives. futurism.com/health-medic...

Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients

Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.

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This is low key one of the most important popular studies that supports the societal importance of art history. So much so that I am doing everyone here a solid by not allowing the article preview to show, the images of which will haunt you for life. english.elpais.com/health/2026-...

Great new piece by @markfollman.bsky.social Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT. A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT

A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.

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I teach a whole lecture on economics attempting to use and reframe anthropology (wherein they use literal colonization). Mainly because of a current textbook that has been written "towards economics" and then, well, this. A reading list of old, colonial, anthropology a hundred years out of date.

aohsu@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · yesterday

I can think of a few different examples of mainstream economists colonizing the topics of other disciplines to "improve" their study and "make them more efficient" over the past century. Would be interested to read more history of disciplinary incursions/rebuff/battles for public attn...

Morton Salt Girl is a merry fellow; Bright blue her label is and her shoes are yellow

Derek Faraci@whwoolhat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.

As a Religious Studies professor, this directly targets my livelihood in a way that makes a mockery of any supposed profession of concern the administration has ever expressed for me as a Jewish person on campus.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

Just like all those munitions I'll be using. And those veteran benefits I'm sure are coming despite not having served in the armed forces, or the schools I'm paying for, despite not having kids....

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

its such a bleak, violent, dark vision for the future. Of course, not restricted to the US or to Trump.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take

The "just get another job" crowd might be strong lately, but that seems to presume that what's happening at my college isn't happening everywhere in higher education. americananthro.org/anthropology...

Anthropology Watch - American Anthropological Association

Anthropology Watch Program Tracker displaying closures and changes to anthropology programs at universities.

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The university was made by solidarity between faculty and students against outside political pressure. We can remake it and must www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/o...

Opinion: Student protests are what created the university as we know it | CNN

Seeing current campus protests unfold is a reminder that solidarity between protesting students and their teachers in medieval Europe was the origin of the modern-day university, write historians Davi...

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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · 2d ago

Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

And this is why, in August of 2021, I had brain surgery to remove two metastatic tumors and then was in the classroom three weeks later when the new semester started. I wasn't even cleared to drive yet, much less teach.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4d ago

Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.

Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.

I keep thinking about this gorgeous essay about how LLMs- so often trained by inheritors of colonial English- has now rendered the kind of language that is natural to us (“fancy” vocabulary, passive voice, reduced relative clauses) artificial and suspect. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.

I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.

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Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 4d ago

A Nigerian born author, Jerry Falade, had his $2.4M book deal pulled because he was accused of using AI. There is unavoidable optics of a Black man writing a brilliant novel that people assume must have been written by AI. However the broader issue is we can’t trust any writing isn’t AI generated.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

Joseph M. Adelman@jmadelman.bsky.social · 5d ago

Because the 1st is a Saturday, “How is it August already?!” will be observed today, Friday, July 31, 2026. Please panic accordingly.

Me: "Hey, Goblin. You want some brine shrimp?" Goblin (my green betta): "YUSSSS!!!!!!" (In other news, this idiot jumped out of his tank today. Thankfully, I found him right after and he's fine. Back in the water but not smarter.)

yes, actually I do think AI-use/adoption is a fundamental declaration of what you value and what you don't and its really silly to believe that such declarations won't be noticed by those around you

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

“…the same mechanisms that drive people to grow wary of — and hostile toward — friends, co-workers and family members with different political beliefs are beginning to shape attitudes toward AI.”

I love Bluesky, the website for people who like to make your own point at you, but more pedantically

It‘s quite possible that with this move, @harvard.edu could become the only Ivy League university without a writing center. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...

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It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

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Quick, everyone! A woman made a well-reasoned critique on the internet! (Sarcasm)

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · last wk.

Oh did a female academic with an extensive history of study and practice in a particular area of literature make a reasoned critique of a male filmmaker’s movie? I’m sure this will be handled with maximum normality.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

Witch-hunts targeted women with financial independence and status. In colonial New England, women from families w/o male heirs made up 64% of the females prosecuted for witchcraft, 76% of those who were found guilty and 89% of those who were executed. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What makes a woman a witch? Financial independence

Women aren’t being burnt at the stake any more, but there is still risk and violence implicit in the label ‘witch’

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