Heather Lynn
@drheatherlusty.bsky.social
sibyl | cynic | crumbling academic | \m/
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It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
February 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag
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Every time I see a Noem story it reminds me of the Behind The Music documentaries--big Lead Singer energy happening here. I eagerly await the messy affair reveals and the drug-fueled fall from grace
“The pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.”
Gift link: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 13, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Every time I see a Noem story it reminds me of the Behind The Music documentaries--big Lead Singer energy happening here. I eagerly await the messy affair reveals and the drug-fueled fall from grace
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Y/N should I update my wills & trusts syllabus to say “people do charity not just to avoid taxes but also to hobnob with upper east side dilettantes facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein”
February 13, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Y/N should I update my wills & trusts syllabus to say “people do charity not just to avoid taxes but also to hobnob with upper east side dilettantes facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein”
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Alexis Goldstein needs more fans; the woman rules.
February 12, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Alexis Goldstein needs more fans; the woman rules.
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Also accurate: guy whose job and company depend on gen AI hype increasing engagement and revenue hypes gen AI.
Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either.
Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation | Fortune
“Higher education as we know it is on the verge of becoming obsolete,” the former Google AI leader told Fortune.
fortune.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Also accurate: guy whose job and company depend on gen AI hype increasing engagement and revenue hypes gen AI.
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I want people to understand that "can AI replace (teachers, doctors, etc)?" isn't a question of technological capacity, it is a political and social question. Can the technology do X? If you adapt X a bit, yes Do we want it to? Does the good of doing that outweigh the cost? Real questions.
February 11, 2026 at 5:24 PM
I want people to understand that "can AI replace (teachers, doctors, etc)?" isn't a question of technological capacity, it is a political and social question. Can the technology do X? If you adapt X a bit, yes Do we want it to? Does the good of doing that outweigh the cost? Real questions.
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Imagine if we invested in education, of children and adults, like we do military power, surveillance, and various forms of internal coercion. Imagine if we were enlightened enough to not make education and the cultivation of humanity require crushing debt for students and penury for educators.
Good. Student loans should never be repaid. That money is much better spent going to housing, health care, child care, groceries and saving for retirement.
Millions of student loan borrowers aren't repaying their loans — and defaults are up
www.npr.org/2026/02/10/n...
Millions of student loan borrowers aren't repaying their loans — and defaults are up
www.npr.org/2026/02/10/n...
Millions of student loan borrowers aren't repaying their loans — and defaults are up
New data offers further confirmation of a crisis in the U.S. student loan portfolio, in which too many borrowers are not repaying their student loans.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Imagine if we invested in education, of children and adults, like we do military power, surveillance, and various forms of internal coercion. Imagine if we were enlightened enough to not make education and the cultivation of humanity require crushing debt for students and penury for educators.
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This is Flambo. He's using his talking dog buttons to accuse his small foster brother of being a cat. Nothing can convince him otherwise. 13/10 for both (IG: flambothedog)
February 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
This is Flambo. He's using his talking dog buttons to accuse his small foster brother of being a cat. Nothing can convince him otherwise. 13/10 for both (IG: flambothedog)
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“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:58 PM
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
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Well I'm not the superstitious type, but I'm pretty sure that this will result in the unleashing of some long lost gods, demons or the beginning of a brand new fresh curse that will bring dramatic changes to our world and I'm not sure that's a bad thing ;) @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Well I'm not the superstitious type, but I'm pretty sure that this will result in the unleashing of some long lost gods, demons or the beginning of a brand new fresh curse that will bring dramatic changes to our world and I'm not sure that's a bad thing ;) @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
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honestly a little embarrassed I let the pitch get as far as it did, but I’m fine with that if this helps any other tiny pubs avoid getting scammed.
Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.
How COYOTE Almost Got Slopped by AI
The sordid tale of the freelancer who never was.
www.coyotemedia.org
February 11, 2026 at 4:28 PM
honestly a little embarrassed I let the pitch get as far as it did, but I’m fine with that if this helps any other tiny pubs avoid getting scammed.
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Please share and/or fill this out if it applies to you: forms.gle/6TuZYUzhAznR...
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
February 10, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Please share and/or fill this out if it applies to you: forms.gle/6TuZYUzhAznR...
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
"Female identifying metal fans- I need your input for my university research! I am currently gathering some stats around misogyny in metal music scenes…All reponses will be recorded as anonymous.”
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“Wuthering Heights” is not a romance.
It is a gothic novel about vengeance, cruelty, oppression and psychological obsession. It is not a “love story”.
I will die on this hill.
It is a gothic novel about vengeance, cruelty, oppression and psychological obsession. It is not a “love story”.
I will die on this hill.
February 8, 2026 at 2:22 AM
“Wuthering Heights” is not a romance.
It is a gothic novel about vengeance, cruelty, oppression and psychological obsession. It is not a “love story”.
I will die on this hill.
It is a gothic novel about vengeance, cruelty, oppression and psychological obsession. It is not a “love story”.
I will die on this hill.
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Conservative media people commenting on the halftime show
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Conservative media people commenting on the halftime show
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In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
February 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint
www.wsj.com/business/med...
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Not sure why Elon is so sad. He's literally the person behind almost everything bad that's happening
February 10, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Not sure why Elon is so sad. He's literally the person behind almost everything bad that's happening
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"I didn't have cervical cancer!" ~MAGA man.
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:31 AM
"I didn't have cervical cancer!" ~MAGA man.
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Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.
Adjunct pay/working conditions AY25-26
This form is part of a project to crowd-source pay and working conditions for people who teach and research in colleges and universities during AY2025-2026. This form is for people paid by the course ...
forms.gle
February 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.
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Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
February 10, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Detailed scale dioramas of museums, kiosks, cafés. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes. Yn the cozye glowe of the far future ther ys onlye WARMTH.
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So much of the creeping surveillance infrastructure has been predicated on a (foolish) assumption that the US would never become an authoritarian state.
As the US becomes an authoritarian state those that were nonplussed about the panopticon being built around them may change their stance about it.
As the US becomes an authoritarian state those that were nonplussed about the panopticon being built around them may change their stance about it.
I will continue to argue that these surveillance companies are overplaying their hand with all this dystopian shit. They don’t imagine a world where people reject it and their vision of the future.
February 9, 2026 at 11:18 PM
So much of the creeping surveillance infrastructure has been predicated on a (foolish) assumption that the US would never become an authoritarian state.
As the US becomes an authoritarian state those that were nonplussed about the panopticon being built around them may change their stance about it.
As the US becomes an authoritarian state those that were nonplussed about the panopticon being built around them may change their stance about it.
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I just saw Kid Rock being referred to as "Hillbilly Vanilli" and I just 💀
February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I just saw Kid Rock being referred to as "Hillbilly Vanilli" and I just 💀
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Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen