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@themba.bsky.social
· Feb 16
The fact that the United States has a federal department named after a meme should tell you everything you need to know.
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I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.
I was in @emilymbender.bsky.social syntax and semantics class at berkeley 25 years ago! if you've ever taken a #semantics class, please fill out the form 🙏🏽
hey #linguistics peeps! have you ever taken (or taught) a syntax class? we want to hear your opinions (good or bad) about it! We're doing focus group interviews (on zoom, or in person at select conferences) - if you're at all interested, you can fill out our interest form: forms.gle/nhBtz78hQXNA...
SynTeach Focus Group Interest Form
SynTeach is a project researching peoples' experiences teaching and learning syntax in higher education. We have conducted surveys of the field including syntax instructors and students, and we are pl...
forms.gle
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I was in @emilymbender.bsky.social syntax and semantics class at berkeley 25 years ago! if you've ever taken a #semantics class, please fill out the form 🙏🏽
i am dying. not hyperbole.
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
i am dying. not hyperbole.
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“Ironically, while naming AI psychosis might seem like a step toward addressing an emerging, unmet public health need, this term easily becomes a distraction from the underlying problem it exposes — by pathologizing users instead of penalizing companies.”
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Ironically, while naming AI psychosis might seem like a step toward addressing an emerging, unmet public health need, this term easily becomes a distraction from the underlying problem it exposes — by pathologizing users instead of penalizing companies.”
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I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
October 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.
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Having lived through two cat 5 Caribbean hurricanes: Jamaica will require aid for years. The devastation's hard to overstate. This is our new norm under climate change.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
Lightning flashes within the powerful eye wall of Hurricane Melissa.
Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
Incredible imagery this morning of Melissa, a Category 5 storm, south of Jamaica.
October 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Having lived through two cat 5 Caribbean hurricanes: Jamaica will require aid for years. The devastation's hard to overstate. This is our new norm under climate change.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
Infra like elec/water will be disrupted for weeks for critical locations, months for residents.
DO NOT DONATE TO USA RED CROSS.
how am I just realizing that Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair?!?
October 28, 2025 at 1:03 AM
how am I just realizing that Mamdani's mother is Mira Nair?!?
Damn. Not even one response. Back in the day I woulda got at least 6 😔 if not much more.
Okay y'all, some friends got pretty bad news recently. please send/share 🎶 tunes to help — any genre: house, EDM, reggae, alternative, rock, indie, hip-hop, whatever. 🙏🏽 #music #community
October 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Damn. Not even one response. Back in the day I woulda got at least 6 😔 if not much more.
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Stop hiring humans? Don't stop hiring humans? Make up your minds!
(Photos by me in San Francisco, October 25, 2025)
(Photos by me in San Francisco, October 25, 2025)
October 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Stop hiring humans? Don't stop hiring humans? Make up your minds!
(Photos by me in San Francisco, October 25, 2025)
(Photos by me in San Francisco, October 25, 2025)
Okay y'all, some friends got pretty bad news recently. please send/share 🎶 tunes to help — any genre: house, EDM, reggae, alternative, rock, indie, hip-hop, whatever. 🙏🏽 #music #community
October 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Okay y'all, some friends got pretty bad news recently. please send/share 🎶 tunes to help — any genre: house, EDM, reggae, alternative, rock, indie, hip-hop, whatever. 🙏🏽 #music #community
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Writing up my thoughts on this into a long piece. The one thing that worries me is that large scale protests in competitive authoritarian regimes often precede authoritarian consolidation rather than a reversal of autocracy. Russia, Hungary, Turkey also saw large protests before backsliding further.
Can I ask, what did the No Kings protest actually accomplish? I mean, in real terms, what have these protests materially changed? I can't help but feel these one off protests are merely a heatsink for energy and anger rather than a path for meaningful change and disruption of the system.
October 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Writing up my thoughts on this into a long piece. The one thing that worries me is that large scale protests in competitive authoritarian regimes often precede authoritarian consolidation rather than a reversal of autocracy. Russia, Hungary, Turkey also saw large protests before backsliding further.
Dammit Apple. I never upgrade my OS because you always break ish. I just mistakenly/begrudgingly upgraded to Tahoe and now my music library is in shambles. JFC. WTF.
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Dammit Apple. I never upgrade my OS because you always break ish. I just mistakenly/begrudgingly upgraded to Tahoe and now my music library is in shambles. JFC. WTF.
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For my friend's dissertation: Looking for Black girls between 10-24 years old to take a dissertation survey on positive messages they hear about themselves in general and in hip hop. Chance to win a gift card. 20-40 mins to complete. Please see the flyer for info! #Blackademics
October 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
For my friend's dissertation: Looking for Black girls between 10-24 years old to take a dissertation survey on positive messages they hear about themselves in general and in hip hop. Chance to win a gift card. 20-40 mins to complete. Please see the flyer for info! #Blackademics
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Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...
#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...
#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills
Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says
The firm said its estimate of additional expenses for companies is probably conservative.
www.cnbc.com
October 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Tariff costs to companies this year to hit $1.2 trillion, with consumers taking most of the hit, S&P says.
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...
#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...
#Tariffs #Consumers #Economy #Business #Bills
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spotify pays millions to transphobic anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan and so my production company pulled all our podcasts off the service years ago and never looked back
they “pay” fractions of pennies to every musician there too
consider finding a better service
shouldn’t be hard when the bar’s this low!
they “pay” fractions of pennies to every musician there too
consider finding a better service
shouldn’t be hard when the bar’s this low!
Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.
Spotify is running ICE hiring ads boasting wild signing bonuses
Spotify responded that the ads do not violate its policies.
bit.ly
October 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
spotify pays millions to transphobic anti-vaxxer Joe Rogan and so my production company pulled all our podcasts off the service years ago and never looked back
they “pay” fractions of pennies to every musician there too
consider finding a better service
shouldn’t be hard when the bar’s this low!
they “pay” fractions of pennies to every musician there too
consider finding a better service
shouldn’t be hard when the bar’s this low!
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This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.
HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts
Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.
www.bloomberg.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.
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I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
October 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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Keep in mind that ICE now has a budget larger than every military in the world except the US and Chinese militaries.
Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact.
The administration is at war with Americans.
Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact.
The administration is at war with Americans.
October 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Keep in mind that ICE now has a budget larger than every military in the world except the US and Chinese militaries.
Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact.
The administration is at war with Americans.
Things are going to get much worse. I'm not saying this to create fear, it's fact.
The administration is at war with Americans.
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Dystopia now comes with a Halloween costume.
Ring puts a fun twist on the surveillance state with security camera Halloween costumes.
Amazon now sells its new $200 4K Outdoor Cam Pro with your choice of one of five free Halloween camera costumes, or you can 3D print your own. Sticking a camouflaged camera behind your bowl could be a...
www.theverge.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Dystopia now comes with a Halloween costume.
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I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
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I took this photo of a sniper on a roof in Ferguson 11 years ago on this day.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I took this photo of a sniper on a roof in Ferguson 11 years ago on this day.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
And now there are snipers on a roof in Broadview.
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ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...
Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R
In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals
sr.ithaka.org
October 2, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ITHAKA S&R has started a Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...