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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
AI in education is causing students anxiety as they have no idea what institutions are doing about it, and nor do institutions know what students are doing with it
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
In the end, we no longer operate in a marketplace of ideas.
Platforms run a marketplace of feeling, where attention, not evidence, decides what rises. Emotional charge beats truth every time. Politics adapts to that logic, producing hollow performances instead of functional decisions.
November 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
And that means that democracy doesn't die in darkness, but in the light of a billion glowing screens.
November 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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katquat.at
Precht insinuiert hier das Bild einer "ursprünglich proletarischen Linken" mit einem "derben und martialischen Jargon" als Gegenstück zur heutigen "akademischen" Linken. Polarisierung, Vereinfachung, historisch kontrafaktisch. Schauen wir in die Arbeiter*innengeschichte. Los geht's 1/
und heftig sanktioniert. Wer »Putzfrau« statt »Reinigungs-kraft« sagt, »Kindergärtnerin« statt »Erzieherin«, disqualifiziert sich allein durch einen als veraltet wahrgenommenen Sprachgebrauch und füllt somit aus der Normung. Gerade die Linke hat ihre Sprache auf das Äußerste sensibilisiert und damit zugleich auch die oft zitierte »gesellschaftliche Mitte« besetzt. Man könnte eine ganze Abhandlung dazu schreiben, wie der Teestubenjargon der Siebziger- und Achtzigerjahre seinen Siegeszug in die Normierung der Alltagssprache und der Sprechakte angetreten hat. Dass Schwäche stark ist, dass man in Konflikten nicht laut werden darf, dass es darum geht, Ich-Botschaften zu schicken, statt zu verallgemeinern - der Geist der Sozialarbeiterepoche, der oft so unschuldig daherkommt, ist eine subtile Form der Machtausübung. Wer die Deutungshoheit darüber gewinnt, wie man mit- einander sprechen darf, bestimmt gleichzeitig maßgeblich die Inhalte. Diese Änderung ist weit mehr als nur eine der Sprache und des Stils. Die ursprünglich proletarische Linke hatte einen oft derben und martialischen Jargon. Sie wendete sich an die Arbeiterschaft, die Ausgebeuteten und Unterdrückten. Die neue Linke dagegen wendet sich an die akademisch gebildeten Schichten und kultiviert eine sorg- same Sprache, die alle Nicht-Sorgsamen ausschließt und oft abqualifiziert. Dass die neue Linke damit so viel ge- sellschaftlichen Raum besetzen konnte, darf nicht überra- schen. Denn eine Linke, die nicht mehr den Kapitalismus überwinden will, sondern den kulturellen Kapitalismus
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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apiln.bsky.social
Scarlett Johansson has gone to her local paper because the handbag she bought from Vinted came with a lump of cat sick.
Scarlett Johansson advertising PRADA, looking like she’s furious about a handbag.
October 26, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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shamjaff.bsky.social
Betreff: Politbarometer. Merz sagt in einem Satz fünf Sachen: 1) Es gibt „Probleme im Stadtbild“, 2) diese hängen mit Menschen zusammen, 3) die keinen dauerhaften Aufenthaltsstatus haben, 4) nicht arbeiten, 5) und sich nicht an unsere Regeln halten.
October 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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noearthquake.bsky.social
LLMs have convincingly demonstrated that coding is the easiest activity, maths is medium hard, and having taste is the hardest
October 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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gwensnyder.bsky.social
But the evidence we are seeing now paints a coherent picture.

We have a guy steeped in far right culture raised to see guns as the solution to every problem, who realized he was queer and then fell in love with a person targeted for genocide by the far right. And snapped.
September 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz
last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper"

anyways, great news! (1/X)
September 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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tinido.bsky.social
Dass es in den USA gerade sehr viel wahrscheinlicher geworden ist, dass der Besitz sowie die Verwendung von Pille & Spirale zu einer Straftat deklariert wird, ist übrigens sehr direkt ein Erfolg der Arbeit von Charlie Kirk.
jessicavalenti.bsky.social Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · Sep 12
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
September 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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adriandaub.bsky.social
Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)
September 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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evapunkt.bsky.social
Habt ihr auch Werbung von Israel bekommen, in der man geöffnete Restaurants sieht? Damit seid ihr nicht allein, sie wurde gezielt in Österreich und Deutschland ausgespielt.

Für ORF defacto habe ich mir gemeinsam mit vielen tollen KollegInnen die Restaurants im Video genauer angesehen.
"Aufnahmen der Restaurant-Szene in Gaza Stadt, Juli 2025" - Video des israelischen Außenministeriums
September 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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knibbs.bsky.social
BREAKING: Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors in class action lawsuit for pirating their works www.wired.com/story/anthro...
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement
Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.
www.wired.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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sharondoduaotoo.bsky.social
"The Garden"
by Franta Bass
(translation by Michael R. Burch)

A small garden,
so fragrant and full of roses!
The path the little boy takes
is guarded by thorns.

A small boy, a sweet boy,
growing like those budding blossoms!
But when the blossoms have bloomed,
the boy will be no more.

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auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · Sep 4
4 September 1930 | Czech Jewish boy František (Franta) Bass was born in Brno.

He was incarcerated in Theresienstadt ghetto on 2 December 1941. He wrote poetry there.
Franta was murdered in Auschwitz on 30 October 1944.
A young boy depicted in a vintage black and white photo. He is wearing a jacket and a patterned tie.
September 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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florianaigner.at
Wenn jemand 60, 80 oder 100h pro Woche beruflich arbeitet, dann heißt das: Diese Person hat sonst nichts zu tun, ihr werden alle anderen Aufgaben irgendwie aus dem Weg geräumt. Sie muss nicht Kinder erziehen, Kranke pflegen, putzen oder einkaufen gehen. Und sie ist offensichtlich gesund und fit.
September 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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sachlichepolitik.bsky.social
"Die Postdienste in Deutschland, Dänemark, Schweden und Italien kündigten an, dass sie mit sofortiger Wirkung den Großteil der Warenlieferungen in die USA einstellen werden. Frankreich und Österreich folgen am Montag, Großbritannien am Dienstag."
Postal services in India, Europe. U.K. to suspend shipment of packages to U.S. over import tariffs
Multiple postal services, including in India and around Europe, say they are suspending the shipment of many packages to the United States amid a lack of clarity over new import duties.
www.cbsnews.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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sarasilverstein.bsky.social
Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching
@uoregon.bsky.social
"I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously- consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, l've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point."
August 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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nposegay.bsky.social
The University of Chicago is no longer accepting PhD students in Humanities subjects. Full stop. This should be grounds for loss of accreditation.
bachynski.bsky.social Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 23
The hits keep coming. “The departments that won’t be accepting Ph.D. students now include art history, cinema and media studies, classics, comparative literature, East Asian languages and civilizations, English language and literature, Germanic studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern studies…”
More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Will Pause Admissions
The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.
www.insidehighered.com
August 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
I think about this every day in my current job.
Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
contingentmagazine.org
August 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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kathyodonnell.bsky.social
www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.
From the transgenderUK community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community
www.reddit.com
August 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
Quote from a story on changes at the U of Chicago that notes they are "pausing" doctoral eduction in Classics, Comp Lit, Germanic studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Romance languages and literatures, and South Asian Studies.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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mkueper.de
Es ist Zeit, aufzuwachen:
Wenn eine Regierung beginnt, ihre kulturelle Vorstellung von „Normalität“ über Haushaltsmittel durchzusetzen,
dann steht nicht das Gendern zur Debatte.
Sondern die Freiheit, anders zu denken.

9/9
August 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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brynntannehill.bsky.social
And once they get SCOTUS to agree to their interpretation, they will ban yrans people from appearing in public unless they present as their sex at birth.

They will likely win at SCOTUS, and SCOTUS won't let the law be blocked by lower courts.

It is inevitable.
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Jul 19
It's starting.

Clean Up Alabama, a right-wing censorship group, is openly claiming the Supreme Court decision in Free Speech Coalition v Paxton gives them power to ban books with "gender ideology" to protect minors.

They compiled a list of 100 mostly LGBTQ+ books to be pulled from libraries.
State Library board moves to align state’s code with Trump executive…
The Alabama Public Library Service approved on Thursday to begin the process of aligning the state’s administrative code with President Donald Trump’s…
1819news.com
July 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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kreidler.bsky.social
Moral ist die Unterhose der Gesellschaft – man zieht sie je nach Publikum an
July 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM