Sandy Grande
@redped.bsky.social
Political Science and Native American Studies
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What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Guess I missed the Spotify memo…running ads to recruit for ICE?
September 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Guess I missed the Spotify memo…running ads to recruit for ICE?
Looking for recommendations for a developmental editor. Would especially be interested in BIPOC recommendations and bonus if they have worked on Haymarket books. Thank you!
August 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Looking for recommendations for a developmental editor. Would especially be interested in BIPOC recommendations and bonus if they have worked on Haymarket books. Thank you!
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
July 8, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
June 25, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
This list of figures for the "National Garden of American Heroes" is something else...
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June 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
This list of figures for the "National Garden of American Heroes" is something else...
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...
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BREAKING: U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities
U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities
Trump's direct intervention marks a historic escalation in the Middle East.
www.axios.com
June 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
BREAKING: U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities
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BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
June 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
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Mahmoud Khalil walked out of the detention center in Louisiana shortly before 7 p.m. local time Friday.
“No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u
“No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u
June 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Mahmoud Khalil walked out of the detention center in Louisiana shortly before 7 p.m. local time Friday.
“No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u
“No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u
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Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States
www.nytimes.com
June 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
In the past months I must have spilled 10,000 glasses, bottles, cups of water. Any Jungians out there got any theories?
June 13, 2025 at 4:39 AM
In the past months I must have spilled 10,000 glasses, bottles, cups of water. Any Jungians out there got any theories?
We cut our hair for mourning….pretty soon I’ll be bald ☹️
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We cut our hair for mourning….pretty soon I’ll be bald ☹️
So, “vegan leather” is basically plastic…correct?
June 8, 2025 at 12:49 AM
So, “vegan leather” is basically plastic…correct?
So pleased UConn has joined this group! Stay tuned for how the work of the Tribal Educational Initiative (TEI) will intersect with this initiative through our Indigenous Elders and Aging subcommittee! today.uconn.edu/2025/05/ucon...
UConn Joins Age-Friendly University Global Network - UConn Today
The organization is reimagining higher education’s role in an aging society
today.uconn.edu
June 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So pleased UConn has joined this group! Stay tuned for how the work of the Tribal Educational Initiative (TEI) will intersect with this initiative through our Indigenous Elders and Aging subcommittee! today.uconn.edu/2025/05/ucon...
Any academics out there at institutions that have offered blanket PTR extensions (like the COVID moment) due to the current state of things....
April 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Any academics out there at institutions that have offered blanket PTR extensions (like the COVID moment) due to the current state of things....
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Truly, one of the most successful 20th c. innovations of conservatism was merging elitist contempt for the democratization of higher education that happened after World War II with populist contempt for elitism. Still don’t quite know how they did it, but it’s been the playbook since at least 1951.
April 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Truly, one of the most successful 20th c. innovations of conservatism was merging elitist contempt for the democratization of higher education that happened after World War II with populist contempt for elitism. Still don’t quite know how they did it, but it’s been the playbook since at least 1951.
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In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
Columbia University's new campus patrol officers appointed by New York Police Department
The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, an arrangement confirmed by a Columbia spokesperson this week.
www.reuters.com
April 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."
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A devastating assessment of the state of Columbia offered by one of their own, Shana L. Redmond
The University is the Crisis: On the Price of Columbia’s Soul
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A young woman with a dog, absent-minded scarecrow, heartless tin man, and cowardly lion walk into a city of green seeking a singular wizard who stuns his constitue…
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April 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
A devastating assessment of the state of Columbia offered by one of their own, Shana L. Redmond
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BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
South Korean court removes president from office, says he violated duties
The Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law, a decision expected to exacerbate political divisions.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...