Christine Slaughter
@cslaughter.bsky.social
Soc sci librarian at UVA, forever-ABD in sociology
The best thing I’ve read on genAI and libraries: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feel...
Investigating the “Feeling Rules” of Generative AI and Imagining Alternative Futures – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org
August 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
The best thing I’ve read on genAI and libraries: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/ai-feel...
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The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
August 25, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
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This is your regular reminder that the Citizen app was originally named Vigilante. When an app tells you what it is, believe it the first time.
www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...
www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...
Citizen Is Using AI to Generate Crime Alerts With No Human Review. It’s Making a Lot of Mistakes
Three sources described how AI is writing alerts for Citizen and broadcasting them without prior human review. In one case AI mistranslated “motor vehicle accident” to “murder vehicle accident.”
www.404media.co
August 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is your regular reminder that the Citizen app was originally named Vigilante. When an app tells you what it is, believe it the first time.
www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...
www.404media.co/citizen-is-u...
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Universities really hate unionized academic labour.
Harvard, aka Resistance U, is taking advantage of the Trumpist NLRB to crush its grad student union by stripping it of 800 members.
Sounds about right.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Sounds about right.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
July 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Universities really hate unionized academic labour.
Should I put this on my LinkedIn?
July 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Should I put this on my LinkedIn?
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Firefox extension for those who are interested.
June 29, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Firefox extension for those who are interested.
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Fuck these cowards
BREAKING
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
The University of Pennsylvania has come to an agreement with the Trump administration on what the Department of Education said was its Title IX violations.
This will include stripping trans athlete Lia Thomas of her records, titles, and recognitions.
July 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Fuck these cowards
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In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan.
And here we are.
heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
And here we are.
heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
This is exactly what Project 2025 proposed
Analysts called it "extreme" and "unlikely." Now, it's almost reality.
heated.world
July 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan.
And here we are.
heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
And here we are.
heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
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Reminding myself tonight to focus on what we can do rather than anger at what others won't.
@standhighered.bsky.social has created a toolkit that can help faculty + staff organize on every kind of campus in every part of the country. Join us, spread the word, and let's build our own strength.
@standhighered.bsky.social has created a toolkit that can help faculty + staff organize on every kind of campus in every part of the country. Join us, spread the word, and let's build our own strength.
OK, #academicsky. If we don't stand up now to support Harvard and UVA, we are LOST. Join our faculty-led movement to stand together against this authoritarian takeover of higher ed in the US: www.standtogetherhighered.org. Sign up on homepage.
June 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Reminding myself tonight to focus on what we can do rather than anger at what others won't.
@standhighered.bsky.social has created a toolkit that can help faculty + staff organize on every kind of campus in every part of the country. Join us, spread the word, and let's build our own strength.
@standhighered.bsky.social has created a toolkit that can help faculty + staff organize on every kind of campus in every part of the country. Join us, spread the word, and let's build our own strength.
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we need Brad Lander to primary Schumer while teaming up with progressive challengers for Jeffries and Pelosi and they travel around doing events together to boost other progressives in primaries
that cross-endorsement camaraderie really appeals to people. let us imagine a better leadership team!
that cross-endorsement camaraderie really appeals to people. let us imagine a better leadership team!
I want him to primary Chuck Schumer so much
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
we need Brad Lander to primary Schumer while teaming up with progressive challengers for Jeffries and Pelosi and they travel around doing events together to boost other progressives in primaries
that cross-endorsement camaraderie really appeals to people. let us imagine a better leadership team!
that cross-endorsement camaraderie really appeals to people. let us imagine a better leadership team!
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The article describes Trump's birtherism as racist too. We're finally using the correct words for things!
June 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The article describes Trump's birtherism as racist too. We're finally using the correct words for things!
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there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
June 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.
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you know shit's serious when NYT is using the actual words to describe what's happening
June 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
you know shit's serious when NYT is using the actual words to describe what's happening
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We are discovering what happens when a society decides to give the absolute dumbest people imaginable way too much power.
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We are discovering what happens when a society decides to give the absolute dumbest people imaginable way too much power.
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This is a watershed moment.
Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned.
Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education.
He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.
Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned.
Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education.
He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.
June 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This is a watershed moment.
Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned.
Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education.
He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.
Everyone who benefits from higher education should be deeply concerned.
Ryan was a moderate who presided over one of the more conservative institutions of higher education.
He followed the law when it comes to DEI. But that wasn't enough. Trump demands absolute fealty.
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It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.
June 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It’s pretty startling that it’s become a feature of the Roberts Court that they save the most outrageous and infuriating usurpations of the Constitution for the last day they are in session and then disappear for months onto the planes and boats of the billionaire friends safe from public scrutiny.
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Hey, friends and comrades, I want to draw your attention to something important. My friend Alaa is trapped with her family in Gaza and needs assistance. Here's her daughters. Here's the link, but I'm going to talk a little about what happened. (Please boost!) chuffed.org/project/1252...
May 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Hey, friends and comrades, I want to draw your attention to something important. My friend Alaa is trapped with her family in Gaza and needs assistance. Here's her daughters. Here's the link, but I'm going to talk a little about what happened. (Please boost!) chuffed.org/project/1252...
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3pm at the Rotunda is still on.
June 27, 2025 at 5:18 PM
3pm at the Rotunda is still on.
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“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
June 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.” –Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
One of the most chilling sentences I have ever read.
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anyway as an afropessimist aside, I think today it is fair to say that in response to the election of a Black president, a bunch of white and aspirationally white Americans have—in part by accident, carried along by forces they cannot name—abolished the presidency and replaced it with a sovereign.
June 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
anyway as an afropessimist aside, I think today it is fair to say that in response to the election of a Black president, a bunch of white and aspirationally white Americans have—in part by accident, carried along by forces they cannot name—abolished the presidency and replaced it with a sovereign.
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for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.
June 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
for the record, just over 12 percent of students at uva are black or hispanic. 12 percent are asian. 5 percent identify as "multi-ethnic." about 57 percent of students are white. this is what Trump considers to be "DEI" run amok.
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Yeah this is the goal and they’ve been pretty clear about it
i think that's pretty clearly where we're headed! the presence of nonwhites will be considered de facto evidence of anti-white discrimination.
June 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Yeah this is the goal and they’ve been pretty clear about it