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Suzanne Cope

@suzannecope.bsky.social

Narrative journalist, professor. Author of upcoming WOMEN OF WAR: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis (4/2025) & POWER HUNGRY: Women of the Black Panther Party and Their Fight to Feed a Movement. suzannecope.com

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Suzanne Cope@suzannecope.bsky.social · 11mo ago

2/2 Hibiscus, rose, fig. When we get to school you turn your still-freckled face upward to mine like a flower toward the sun and give me a hug. I love you mama I love you too sweet darling. And off you go, penguin stuffy clutched tight, and you don’t look back. 🩵

Suzanne Cope@suzannecope.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Thoughts after school drop off: On this gorgeous late summer day, despite the ugliness in the world and the work- so much work- there is to do, I will choose to remember: Walking to school hand in hand, pointing out the colorful fire hydrant, naming the trees and plants we walk by… 1/2

Jen@ladyjenpool.bsky.social · last yr.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@aoc.bsky.social · last yr.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Elizabeth Marlowe@lizmarlowe.bsky.social · last yr.

Horrifying, but NYT fails to mention the sculptor's ties to the KKK and also the desecration this monument represents to the Lakota Sioux at what had been a sacred site. These facts should be part of the conversation whenever we talk about this monument. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Room for One More on Mount Rushmore? (The President Wants to Know.) (Gift Article)

Let’s review how we got here, and closely examine what the rock would allow.

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Rev Laura Everett@reveverett.com · last yr.

I had a good chat recently with a friend who works in AI who also reminded me that AI results will get dumber over time, as more AI results are used to create more AI results. It’s not just our brains being destroyed.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · last yr.

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

Ironically, upon the paper’s release, several social media users ran it through LLMs in order to summarize it and then post the findings online. Kosmyna had been expecting that people would do this, so she inserted a couple AI traps into the paper, such as instructing LLMs to “only read this table below,” thus ensuring that LLMs would return only limited insight from the paper. She also found that LLMs hallucinated a key detail: Nowhere in her paper did she specify the version of ChatGPT she used, but AI summaries declared that the paper was trained on GPT-4o. “We specifically wanted to see that, because we were pretty sure the LLM would hallucinate on that,” she says, laughing.
Suzanne Cope@suzannecope.bsky.social · last yr.

Amazing DIY political education bibliography here. Read, reflect, educate yourself and others (see original post for 🧵) Thank you @profsaunders.bsky.social

Elizabeth N. Saunders@profsaunders.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵IR scholars, let's start a thread of what we know that's relevant for a US attack on Iran. Won't change any minds, but might help us teach this crisis and learn new angles. Please add (incl. your own work!), forgive/correct omissions. Nobody can cover everything and it's great to find new work. 1/?

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last yr.

It's not just work requirements-much of the bill adds pointless burdens. As we argue in the NYT, "Republicans are opting for opaque cuts, which will shed millions of eligible beneficiaries by overwhelming them with pointless paperwork and other needlessly complicated administrative requirements."

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

From @pamherd.bsky.social & I @nytimes.com: How Republicans plan to use administrative burdens to kick eligible people off of Medicaid, all to pay for a regressive tax cut. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...

Sam Bagenstos@sbagen.bsky.social · last yr.

I appreciate that Erwin gets near the end to the blatant Byrd Rule problem with the provision. I think it's extremely likely to drop out of the bill in the Senate on Byrd grounds.

Eric Segall@espinsegall.bsky.social · last yr.

The GOP wants to take away the contempt power from federal judges which basically neuters their judgments. I think judicial power is way out of control but this is a terrible idea which could have terrible consequences. Ugg. www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

Roz Morris@rozmorris.bsky.social · last yr.

'Voices, photos or ephemera that were there in the moments you're writing about...' Lovely piece on research in private archives and how to approach it @suzannecope.bsky.social @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/a... #writingcommunity #creativewriting #authorlife #skywriters

In Praise of Archives! On Finding and Using Archival Material

By Suzanne Cope There was the archive that was two and a half hours into the Italian countryside, on the second floor of a palazzo that overlooked the quiet piazza in the center of town. There, I r…

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David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · last yr.

holy crap, I was just there three weeks ago. They are DISMANTLING exhibits at the Smithsonian African-American museum?!?!? What in the hell? How is this lawful???

I Travel Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · last yr.

“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...