Erica Buchberger
@ericabuchberger.bsky.social
History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. https://www.ericabuchberger.com/
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Here’s a kitten in a box that’s too small for him if anyone needs it.
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Here’s a kitten in a box that’s too small for him if anyone needs it.
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Maybe it's minor, maybe it's not, but there are social media posts about my scholarship that are clearly using AI-generated summaries, which COMPLETELY MISREPRESENT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN. And because they're being shared on social media, those misrepresentations are getting magnified.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Maybe it's minor, maybe it's not, but there are social media posts about my scholarship that are clearly using AI-generated summaries, which COMPLETELY MISREPRESENT WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN. And because they're being shared on social media, those misrepresentations are getting magnified.
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As this is reported, you’ll hear “UCLA won,” and every time you hear that I want you to remember WHO TF UCLA IS
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
As this is reported, you’ll hear “UCLA won,” and every time you hear that I want you to remember WHO TF UCLA IS
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again, I beg ppl to not frame war in venezuela as some sort of effort to distract from the epstein files.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
November 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
again, I beg ppl to not frame war in venezuela as some sort of effort to distract from the epstein files.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
Trump likes the idea of a strong US military murdering people on his whim. he's made this very clear.
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that thing where talking to smart people makes you smarter — more of that please
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
that thing where talking to smart people makes you smarter — more of that please
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“Market intelligence firms that assist institutions with optimizing degree offerings often identify small interdisciplinary programs as an asset. These data…have increasingly led firms to question strategies such as cutting small programs simply because they are small.”
University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
College and University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies
msmagazine.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“Market intelligence firms that assist institutions with optimizing degree offerings often identify small interdisciplinary programs as an asset. These data…have increasingly led firms to question strategies such as cutting small programs simply because they are small.”
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📢 Hope our colleagues across the country recognize—just as with Texas’s ban on DEI in higher education—this will NOT remain in Texas. What is happening here is a blueprint for the rest of the country.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:39 AM
📢 Hope our colleagues across the country recognize—just as with Texas’s ban on DEI in higher education—this will NOT remain in Texas. What is happening here is a blueprint for the rest of the country.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"Morals are bad because they won't help your cause," an article by someone who hates your cause and wants your cause to fail.
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Kevin Hassett on the October jobs report: "We'll maybe be able to concoct something, but we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October."
November 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Kevin Hassett on the October jobs report: "We'll maybe be able to concoct something, but we'll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October."
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Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline?
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Hannity: When did you notice Biden’s cognitive decline?
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
Miller: I think it was through all of the times that Trump has fallen asleep in public and talked about magnets getting wet.
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We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.
This concentration camp was opened at Fort Bliss, the site of a former Japanese internment camp.
It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift.
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It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift.
shorturl.at/qhuSc
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.
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It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
November 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:
"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."
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NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump’s H-1B Visa Crackdown to Accelerate Wall Street’s Expansion in India
Investment banks are hiring finance specialists in hubs like Bengaluru and Hyderabad, a trend expected to accelerate after the H-1B crackdown.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
NEW: Trump’s crackdown on immigrant work visas is spurring a Wall Street hiring boom … *in India.* www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Good news from Germany. A court has ruled in favor of the music industry in its legal battle against OpenAI, saying that the company has violated copyright laws.
En Allemagne, l’industrie musicale remporte une première victoire judiciaire contre OpenAI
En Allemagne, l’industrie musicale remporte une première victoire judiciaire contre OpenAI
Un tribunal de Munich a estimé, mardi, que le géant américain de l’intelligence artificielle avait porté atteinte « aux droits d’exploitation protégés par le droit d’auteur ». L’entreprise s’est dite « en désaccord » avec cette décision et dit étudier « les prochaines démarches possibles ».
www.lemonde.fr
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Good news from Germany. A court has ruled in favor of the music industry in its legal battle against OpenAI, saying that the company has violated copyright laws.
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Every week is Watergate.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Every week is Watergate.
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Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
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Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Posting a photo of Ceausescu’s bathroom for no apparent reason.
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Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
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Republicans: we're going to privatize on base commissaries, and mess halls to bring innovation and efficiency to military life. Also Republicans: we're not going to pay our bills/contracts so then the private companies stop feeding our military and their families
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Republicans: we're going to privatize on base commissaries, and mess halls to bring innovation and efficiency to military life. Also Republicans: we're not going to pay our bills/contracts so then the private companies stop feeding our military and their families
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Days without a federal judge finding DHS/ICE/CBP/FPS lies: 0
A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬
DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.
DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Days without a federal judge finding DHS/ICE/CBP/FPS lies: 0
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Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
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You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.