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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h ago

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.

nytimes.com

J. Mijin Cha@jmijin.bsky.social · yesterday

I really like this because when you identify emissions as the cause, the solution is clear- end the emissions. When you say the cause is climate change, while true, it takes a minute to get to the solution and you lose people. End fossil fuel emissions, it's clear.

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d ago

The missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2d ago

Was trying to do an annual update, but it has come to my realization that Trump wiped everything between FY2024 and FY2026 from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub. @thexylom.com now has one of the last independent copies of data re: H-1B skilled workers in America's top higher education institutions.

The Most Detailed Maps of H-1B Visa Holders Joining America's Top Research Institutions

A new analysis by The Xylom shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on the specialized knowledge of H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate...

thexylom.com

The Xylom@thexylom.com · 10mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: A new analysis by The Xylom's @alexip718.com shows for the first time just how much America’s top research institutions have grown to depend on H-1B skilled workers — and how this delicate balance might be disrupted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s crackdown on legal immigration.

SB@stephestellar.bsky.social · 2d ago

I would love to read more about how much more stuff Americans have now than we used to. I wonder (assume?) even tho we move professions if not house more than boomers that avg + median stuff-owning-volume is markedly higher than boomers

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis@kendrawrites.com · 2d ago

I think it's a little bit of both - I think a lot of us are socialized to want lots of stuff from an early age. Think about the goody bags at birthday parties and swag bags at conferences. And unless something really forces you to confront your consumption (money for example) you don't. /1

SB@stephestellar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Side quest: My dad ILL'd a fiction read (his PL is not part of a consortium 😭) and I found great pleasure in telling him that every ILL costs money and that's his tax dollars at work (thankfully he would not repeat this rudely to a library worker when something goes sideways)

Lisa Rabey@pookiebear.net · 2d ago

Some titles are from academic pubs, which means they are overpriced. (Don't get me started on THIS topic.) Check your local library, & if they don't have the title, use interlibrary loan. What is ILL? You request a title from another library, it's sent to your home library. Tada! You have the book.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2d ago

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Alan Henry@halophoenix.bsky.social · 2w ago

This went out to all subs on Friday! If you missed it, or just want to know what I'm reading this summer (and fall, since some are pre-orders), head here: buttondown.com/alanhenry/ar... Or shop this list at Bookshop! It helps the authors, indie bookstores, and me: bookshop.org/lists/summer...

Alan Henry@halophoenix.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's newsletter time-and the time of year where I tell you the books I've read, am reading, and am looking forward to. It's Hot Book Summer 2026! Support the Patreon to get it tomorrow: www.patreon.com/halophoenix/ Sub here to get it in your inbox on Friday for free: buttondown.com/alanhenry

Banner image for the newsletter. It reads "Productivity, without Privilege" in block text over a blue and brown background. In smaller text below reads "by Alan Henry."
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

I realize these are all things that sex workers have told us and could tell us better. Consumer-facing AI is basically a sex worker so of course it’s personalizing various iterations of financial domination for men because that’s what they want.

Kelly Wooten@kwooten.bsky.social · 5d ago

In case yelling shut up and go away at your screens hasn't made the intrusive AI disappear, Jessamyn has some more practical suggestions.

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d ago

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

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
SB@stephestellar.bsky.social · last wk.

UGH ARCHIVIST SALARIES. Glad we see more posted and so depressing to see 2 NYC jobs today at max $65k (5+ yrs exp) and $73k (6+ yrs). That is entry level in a mid-size city. YOTBA for eternity, apparently

Dorothy Berry@dorothyjberry.bsky.social · last wk.

I will never see him and not ensure people know that another name floating in the mix here [his name? his brother? his son?] was Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebone

Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · last wk.

In her 1664 will the widow Charitie Grafton gave Praise-God Barbon, his wife Sarah, and son Nicholas £5 each to buy a mourning ring. Praise-God was a lay preacher & politician and member of the 'Barebones Parliament', a group of 'godly' men handpicked by Oliver Cromwell & the Army in 1653.

Handwriting that reads 'to Mr Praise God Barbon'.