Cassie Osei is Writing a Book
@tropigalia.bsky.social
Writer, historian, and assistant professor of Latin America, African Diaspora, and Brazil. Info + Inquiries: https://www.cassieosei.com
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So thrilled to share my co-authored article with @johnmundell.bsky.social on Gayl Jones's Palmares is out! We put Jones in conversation with Black Brazilian feminist giants Lélia Gonzalez and Beatriz Nascimento; perhaps we are the first to do so.
This was truly a labor of love and pleasure. Enjoy!
This was truly a labor of love and pleasure. Enjoy!
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was she wrong tho???
WAS SHE WRONG?????????
WAS SHE WRONG?????????
December 17, 2025 at 1:13 AM
was she wrong tho???
WAS SHE WRONG?????????
WAS SHE WRONG?????????
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
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This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
December 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is Charles Clyde Ebbets, the photographer who took the iconic “Lunch atop a Skyscraper” picture. Look at this fearless, dapper fuck wearing spats, suspenders, and a tie 850 feet above the ground. Absolute legend.
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What will historians write about this in 100 years? How would the world be different if this had gone in Gore's favor? We will never know.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
What will historians write about this in 100 years? How would the world be different if this had gone in Gore's favor? We will never know.
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That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That same 30% are the unabashed fascists in the country. It's always 30 to 35%. 30% would say to bring back chattel slavery if they were sure the survey was anonymous.
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every day i log onto bluesky and have to learn the name of a federal judge
December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
every day i log onto bluesky and have to learn the name of a federal judge
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We finally have a positive use case for AI
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
We finally have a positive use case for AI
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What I wrote about Kilmar Ábrego García back in September still stands.
Don’t be afraid to call him a political prisoner—every day the ongoing specter of prosecution, reincarceration, and deportation hangs over him, he is as much an enemy of the Trump administration as all its other targets.
Don’t be afraid to call him a political prisoner—every day the ongoing specter of prosecution, reincarceration, and deportation hangs over him, he is as much an enemy of the Trump administration as all its other targets.
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What I wrote about Kilmar Ábrego García back in September still stands.
Don’t be afraid to call him a political prisoner—every day the ongoing specter of prosecution, reincarceration, and deportation hangs over him, he is as much an enemy of the Trump administration as all its other targets.
Don’t be afraid to call him a political prisoner—every day the ongoing specter of prosecution, reincarceration, and deportation hangs over him, he is as much an enemy of the Trump administration as all its other targets.
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I'm pleased to announce that my article has been published in the flagship @thejah.bsky.social. #WestAfrica #Ghana #Senegal #UnitedStates #UnitedNations #Economics #Development #Decolonization #Imperialism #Brightgyamfi
Read the new #OpenAccess article by @gyamfiphd.bsky.social on #NeoColonialism, #Underdevelopment, #Economics, and IDEP:
bit.ly/3Ys21bK
bit.ly/3Ys21bK
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I'm pleased to announce that my article has been published in the flagship @thejah.bsky.social. #WestAfrica #Ghana #Senegal #UnitedStates #UnitedNations #Economics #Development #Decolonization #Imperialism #Brightgyamfi
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December 12, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Coming soon: THE ADJUNCT'S HANDBOOK from Jan Yager @hopkinspress.bsky.social #AcademicSky www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
December 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Coming soon: THE ADJUNCT'S HANDBOOK from Jan Yager @hopkinspress.bsky.social #AcademicSky www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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Dear publishing: The terminally online are a small percentage of people who actually buy books. Let this be yet another lesson you refuse to learn about how chasing online clout does not translate to sales.
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
Olivia Nuzzi’s ‘Canto’ Sells Just 1,200 Print Copies In First Week
“American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Dear publishing: The terminally online are a small percentage of people who actually buy books. Let this be yet another lesson you refuse to learn about how chasing online clout does not translate to sales.
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"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating"
This, this a point
This, this a point
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So, when a critic says, “Ah hah! That app makes shit up!” A lot of people will nod politely. And then they will think to themselves, “Well, so does the newspaper, and so does Facebook, and so do politicians, and none of those help me do this task or say nice things to me when I ask them questions.”
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
So, when a critic says, “Ah hah! That app makes shit up!” A lot of people will nod politely. And then they will think to themselves, “Well, so does the newspaper, and so does Facebook, and so do politicians, and none of those help me do this task or say nice things to me when I ask them questions.”
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Many people who use this framing to critique are either highly-educated or are in fields like arts or communication that deeply value education and accuracy. (I’m one of those!) But that’s a small % of the population overall, and not very representative. Most people think most media is bullshit.
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Many people who use this framing to critique are either highly-educated or are in fields like arts or communication that deeply value education and accuracy. (I’m one of those!) But that’s a small % of the population overall, and not very representative. Most people think most media is bullshit.
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There’s this idea that I’ve been pondering for a bit that’s probably yet another Everyone Will Yell At Me thing, but… I don’t think that pointing out that AI is full of inaccuracies is an effective tactic at getting people not to use it. It’s based on cultural context that not everyone shares…
December 9, 2025 at 5:48 AM
There’s this idea that I’ve been pondering for a bit that’s probably yet another Everyone Will Yell At Me thing, but… I don’t think that pointing out that AI is full of inaccuracies is an effective tactic at getting people not to use it. It’s based on cultural context that not everyone shares…
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
This is an accurate rendition of all the different types of readers I’m encountering through my classroom. I teach at an elite small liberal arts college.
This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
December 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This is an accurate rendition of all the different types of readers I’m encountering through my classroom. I teach at an elite small liberal arts college.
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54% of Americans sit at or below about a 6th grade level per the National Literacy Institute.
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
54% of Americans sit at or below about a 6th grade level per the National Literacy Institute.
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This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
October 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This creater puts "reading levels" into perspective in a really helpful way, so sharing it here.
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People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
October 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
People don't understand what is meant by "literacy" and the "literacy crisis".
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
Literacy isn't just not being able to physically read. Many people know how to see words and say words, which is basic reading. Literacy is being able to infer the correct information from what you read.
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be “more culturally normal” and “less judgmental.”
December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.
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(i can’t even figure out how to name all the climate catastrophe events, from jamaica to alaska, because i don’t remember everything and that feels horrible…)
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
(i can’t even figure out how to name all the climate catastrophe events, from jamaica to alaska, because i don’t remember everything and that feels horrible…)
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between infants dying of measles, people being killed in ICE detention facilities, the passing of many beloved disability justice movement leaders, the genocides in Congo, Sudan and Palestine, and everything else i can’t name in a single post, 2025 has been a lot…
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 AM
between infants dying of measles, people being killed in ICE detention facilities, the passing of many beloved disability justice movement leaders, the genocides in Congo, Sudan and Palestine, and everything else i can’t name in a single post, 2025 has been a lot…