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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
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Professor, researcher, author.

Prez, Assocof Internet Researchers (AOIR), synth lover, fan of many things, gay lady.

Wrote a book called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (YUP 19), and Meta stole it to train its LLM. .. more

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 22
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ubiquity75.xyz Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Oct 20
There are so many elements that have made his ascension possible: co-opted corporate media; social media’s unregulated environment; the overwhelm from the sheer number of misdeeds; coordinated foreign interference; destruction of K-12 education; racist grievance culture; unchecked gross inequity.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10h
The uselessness of the Dem establishment never ceases to amaze me.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 1d
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Reposted by Sarah Roberts, Nathan P. Kalmoe

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d
Why has the government been closed at all if Senate Dems cave now? Didn't they say that they could not go along with throwing millions of people off health care?

What's materially changed? A *promise* is not action. ALSO fascists lie and I've been told by some Senate Dems that the GOP is fascist.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 2d
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
I just came back.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Down to Palms and Culver.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Friends reporting from Western to the East to Robertson to the west.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Huge outage.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Here comes all of Mid-City out. Shit.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Can anyone get through?

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Power is out in my entire house and LADWP’s reporting line seems…to not work. 800-342-5397.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
So the question becomes what are the plans for the money unspent. These are the questions I’d like to see journalists pursue. (Obviously we know that the plan is theft and corruption.)

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Tehching Hsieh Turned Every Second Into Art
In a series of daring, often yearlong works—locking himself in a cage, refusing to go indoors, tying himself to another artist—Hsieh showed how the passage of time could be a medium in itself.
www.newyorker.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Unfortunately, much of the so-called base relies on public assistance.

Reposted by Jason Mittell, Michael Barnett, Michael S. Rosenberg , and 30 more

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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 2d
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
It seems to me that past right-wing moved to eliminate government programs would be couched in some sort of “taxpayer savings” rhetoric. I haven’t seen anything of the sort with the SNAP cuts. Just cruelty and no justification as to why, thinly veiled or otherwise.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 2d
Aw, look, he’s at “a Federalist Society event.” 🙄🤮

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d
Did anyone else catch this? This was Pam Bondi's chief of staff up until a month ago.
Trump AG ally 'turns heads' at conservative legal conference with new power grab ploy
Politico reporter Josh Gerstein writes that former Pam Bondi Chief of Staff and Stephen Miller ally Chad Mizelle wants Congress to declare war on judges who make decisions against President Donald Tru...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 3d
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Tell UCOP and the Regents Not to Negotiate! - Council of UC Faculty Associations
Send a letter to University of California President Milliken and the Regents to ask them to stand up for the UC—to provide interim funding sources and to ensure that the UC is not complying with the T...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 3d
I was recently party to a claim that there are no layoffs or firings for financial reasons at the top. This is because the firings are happening at a more local level where the extreme budget conditions are forcing it. A semantics game, if I ever heard one.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 3d
In other news, longtime academic staff are disappearing from UCLA. They are being fired for budgetary reasons.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
At the moment, I’m focused on my vital work to drive innovation by doing an expense report that will probably get returned two or three times, just to keep faculty in line. I can smell the nation’s competitiveness.

That’s what that smell is, right?

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
“In a statement after the hearing, the University of California said it was ‘focused on our vital work to drive innovation, advance medical breakthroughs and strengthen the nation’s long-term competitiveness.’”

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
Here’s a writeup about the hearing from earlier today. Please note the statement from the University of California, notably not a plaintiff in this suit. It’s laughable.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Trump Pressure Risks Free Speech at University of California, Judge Warns
www.nytimes.com

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
Well, I’m glad you were able to google some emoji and solve the puzzle. That must feel great, champ.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
Is this fine Corinthian leather?

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
So where’s the airline industry on pressuring the Feds to get their mess together?

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
“Isn’t”

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
This guy’s arguments are insanely circular.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 4d
And he keeps complaining that the university is not a defendant in the case.

(The problem is that the university is a _plaintiff_.)