Lauren Donohue
@stolenbytigers.bsky.social
My cat probably won’t like you.
MLIS candidate • studying research culture, academic publishing infrastructure, and document design • really into metadata • Parsons MFADT grad • Formerly: PLOS.
MLIS candidate • studying research culture, academic publishing infrastructure, and document design • really into metadata • Parsons MFADT grad • Formerly: PLOS.
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i believe it was churchill who said ‘senile pedophile hitler is the worst form of government, except for all the others’
They should invent a government that isn’t senile pedophile adolf hitler
November 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
i believe it was churchill who said ‘senile pedophile hitler is the worst form of government, except for all the others’
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The South Parkian ethos of "conservatives being bad is preferable to liberals being annoyingly correct" has reached its apotheosis atop a mountain of child rape victims
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The South Parkian ethos of "conservatives being bad is preferable to liberals being annoyingly correct" has reached its apotheosis atop a mountain of child rape victims
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for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
for the record, this is how the @nytimes.com covered Bloomberg, a man elected to the same office as Katie Wilson with the exact same amount of experience in public office as Katie Wilson, but whom the paper did not view with obvious contempt www.nytimes.com/2001/11/07/n...
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In the grand scheme of things this particular consideration may be small beans, but: this is going to kill faculty recruitment and retention. Even if it is reversed, no one will want to teach at a place that does this. It does a permanent disservice to the students and people of Texas.
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 14, 2025 at 12:34 AM
In the grand scheme of things this particular consideration may be small beans, but: this is going to kill faculty recruitment and retention. Even if it is reversed, no one will want to teach at a place that does this. It does a permanent disservice to the students and people of Texas.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Important to note openAI went after the CSUs first.
Once again, elite universities are not merely on par with other institutions making poor decisions in the current political moment, they are lapping them
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/11/12/u...
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/11/12/u...
USC is joining forces with OpenAI
Free ChatGPT for all students, faculty and staff.
www.uscannenbergmedia.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Important to note openAI went after the CSUs first.
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The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The social-interpersonal ethics of American businesses is such that executives are treated like mini kings, which very much has an “elites kicked in the head by a mule”/“dictator’s dilemma” effect on their sense-making and constructed knowledge, and how people just carry out their insane decisions.
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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...
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This whole thing is out of control.
The Ecological Cost of AI Is Much Higher Than You Think - Truthdig
As the demands of AI grow, each generation of microchips requires more energy, minerals and water to produce, driving a ruinous cycle.
www.truthdig.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 AM
This whole thing is out of control.
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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I missed the chance to screenshot it but saxophonist Maria Grand had a really good response to someone asking her if she uses generative AI which was something to the effect of “the tediousness is integral to the process”
A pretty bleak thing that GenAI is revealing is that a significant percentage of the population seems to have no interest in actually learning or doing anything. They want to ChatGPT their way out of hobbies, art making, everything... www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I missed the chance to screenshot it but saxophonist Maria Grand had a really good response to someone asking her if she uses generative AI which was something to the effect of “the tediousness is integral to the process”
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Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.
Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
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"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world
You have to be astonishingly full of yourself to think that INSIGHT is the word you were looking for here
November 12, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world
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Very proud to contribute to @talkingpointsmemo.com’s 25th anniversary retrospective. My entry is about my slow realization that COVID-era doomscrolling hastened the triumph of algorithm-optimized nonsense and propaganda over professional fact gathering and true story telling.
The Fitness Influencers Who Tried to Make Me Like Trump
It was March 2020 and suddenly I had much more free time...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Very proud to contribute to @talkingpointsmemo.com’s 25th anniversary retrospective. My entry is about my slow realization that COVID-era doomscrolling hastened the triumph of algorithm-optimized nonsense and propaganda over professional fact gathering and true story telling.
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Damn, so True Detective S1 was a documentary the entire time
November 12, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Damn, so True Detective S1 was a documentary the entire time
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and the way Wolff gave Epstein advice...really shows how deep the rot is in our media when it comes to tolerating and protecting abusers.
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
and the way Wolff gave Epstein advice...really shows how deep the rot is in our media when it comes to tolerating and protecting abusers.
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80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741...
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
For Equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing | Pour un édition scientifique équitable et pérenne [Checklist]
This bilingual checklist presents 13 concrete actions researchers can take to move toward a more equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing ecosystem.Each action is classified by career stage (all...
zenodo.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
80 download of my checklist of actionable items for any researcher to adopt to support an equitable and sustainable scholarly publishing landscape zenodo.org/records/1741...
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
Still need to do this myself, but I'd love to see printouts on office doors or hallways ;) #AcademicSky #OpenAccess #DiamondOA
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sometimes to read a book of poetry is to be reminded that another person is much funnier and better at expressing their pain than you are
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
sometimes to read a book of poetry is to be reminded that another person is much funnier and better at expressing their pain than you are
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"The experiences of socialist countries in Eastern Europe remind us that societies can achieve a great deal when they treat ppl’s basic needs as a shared responsibility. Education, healthcare, childcare, housing, and a reasonable, minimal standard of living were seen not as privileges..." [1/3]
What Socialism Got Right
Writing "The Red Riviera" taught me that even flawed socialist systems offered insights into equality, solidarity, and the dignity of everyday life.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
"The experiences of socialist countries in Eastern Europe remind us that societies can achieve a great deal when they treat ppl’s basic needs as a shared responsibility. Education, healthcare, childcare, housing, and a reasonable, minimal standard of living were seen not as privileges..." [1/3]
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah.
Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh.
Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count.
But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
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i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*