Rebecca Meacham
@ibeccanne.bsky.social
Professor, writer, dabbler, re-poster. Trying my best.
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Need help finding a Black therapist? We can help.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
" If you know someone who has been detained and released by ICE, our REBUILD Program provides FREE therapy to help them regain stability and support." www.darknessrisingproject.org/help-me-find...
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The sabotage is happening everywhere all at once; a gang of supremacists, so convinced of their own superiority that they never bothered learning much about the sum total of human knowledge, and who now, faced with their own vast ignorance about human progress, have made human progress their enemy.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The sabotage is happening everywhere all at once; a gang of supremacists, so convinced of their own superiority that they never bothered learning much about the sum total of human knowledge, and who now, faced with their own vast ignorance about human progress, have made human progress their enemy.
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Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Seen in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
November 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”
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Is Larry Summers Ruining the Workplace? Yes
- By Elizabeth Warren
- By Elizabeth Warren
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Is Larry Summers Ruining the Workplace? Yes
- By Elizabeth Warren
- By Elizabeth Warren
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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 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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.
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CHARLIE BROWN: The deal agreed upon today contains major concessions. Lucy, for example, has agreed to give me two attempts at kicking the football tomorrow. But to me? What matters most is that I can at last continue with my important work on the pitcher's mound
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
CHARLIE BROWN: The deal agreed upon today contains major concessions. Lucy, for example, has agreed to give me two attempts at kicking the football tomorrow. But to me? What matters most is that I can at last continue with my important work on the pitcher's mound
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 AM
NEWS: U.S. Senate advances bill to reopen the federal government in a 60-40 vote.
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
Dems who votes yes:
🔵 Catherine Cortez Masto
🔵 Dick Durbin
🔵 John Fetterman
🔵 Maggie Hassan
🔵 Tim Kaine
🔵 Angus King
🔵 Jackie Rosen
🔵 Jeanne Shaheen
Republicans who voted no:
🔴 Rand Paul
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To which I will reply “sorry, all of my donation money will now be going to my healthcare premiums”
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
To which I will reply “sorry, all of my donation money will now be going to my healthcare premiums”
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This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.
November 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This is a lie. All 31 Moms for Liberty candidates in contested races lost their 2025 elections. The only "wins" were in uncontested races. Apparently, being hypocritical, book-banning scolds isn't so popular.
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
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The GFRobot article about Star Trek fans being majority male/conservative is still going around several days later, so I was to say 1) don't click on it or they will "write" more just like it & 2) the site is known trash.
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
October 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The GFRobot article about Star Trek fans being majority male/conservative is still going around several days later, so I was to say 1) don't click on it or they will "write" more just like it & 2) the site is known trash.
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
Here's my Star Trek Feminist Community starter pack!
go.bsky.app/BJx9pao
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NEW: Lauren Stokes, the University of Mississippi employee who lost her job for resharing a social media post criticizing Charlie Kirk, is suing Chancellor Glen Boyce.
After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.
After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.
UM Employee Sues After Losing Her Job for Criticizing Kirk
Former University of Mississippi employee Lauren Stokes is suing Chancellor Glenn Boyce for firing her after she criticized Charlie Kirk.
www.mississippifreepress.org
October 22, 2025 at 10:52 PM
NEW: Lauren Stokes, the University of Mississippi employee who lost her job for resharing a social media post criticizing Charlie Kirk, is suing Chancellor Glen Boyce.
After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.
After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.
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The best academic retorts to AI I know include an excellent law piece led by @michae.lv share.google/gsMCZ6gD7WYq...
And this @aaup.org working group on AI and academic work www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
This, and not Grammarly marketing, is what education needs more of right now.
And this @aaup.org working group on AI and academic work www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
This, and not Grammarly marketing, is what education needs more of right now.
share.google
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The best academic retorts to AI I know include an excellent law piece led by @michae.lv share.google/gsMCZ6gD7WYq...
And this @aaup.org working group on AI and academic work www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
This, and not Grammarly marketing, is what education needs more of right now.
And this @aaup.org working group on AI and academic work www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
This, and not Grammarly marketing, is what education needs more of right now.
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If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MFA programs this year, at Minnesota we are fully funded for 3 years including covering your student fees, 1-1 teaching (mostly creative writing) with chances to teach in the summer, you can join the union, and live in a major city.
Interested in an MFA in Creative Writing? Join us Oct 15 or 20 to hear from faculty and students re: our fully funded, three-year program. Since 2019, our students and alums have published more than 70 books! Register:
www.eventbrite.com/e/umn-creati...
www.eventbrite.com/e/umn-creati...
October 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MFA programs this year, at Minnesota we are fully funded for 3 years including covering your student fees, 1-1 teaching (mostly creative writing) with chances to teach in the summer, you can join the union, and live in a major city.
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An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
An astonishingly large crowd!
Chicago
Chicago
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HAPPENING NOW — Thousands gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park for the “No Kings” rally before marching through the streets of downtown Chicago.
Chicago joins cities across the country in today’s action condemning the President Donald Trump administration.
🎥: The TRiiBE
Chicago joins cities across the country in today’s action condemning the President Donald Trump administration.
🎥: The TRiiBE
October 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
HAPPENING NOW — Thousands gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park for the “No Kings” rally before marching through the streets of downtown Chicago.
Chicago joins cities across the country in today’s action condemning the President Donald Trump administration.
🎥: The TRiiBE
Chicago joins cities across the country in today’s action condemning the President Donald Trump administration.
🎥: The TRiiBE
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"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby
Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.
www.nbcchicago.com
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...
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Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
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They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office
After announcing a $20 billion bailout of Argentina, the White House now says it's pausing $18 billion in funding for NYC infrastructure projects
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
Russ Vought would love nothing more than to tear this country down to its studs
October 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office