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Karen Leick
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Teaches at University of Illinois at Chicago. Modernism, Professional Writing, Gertrude Stein, middle-brow writers, periodical studies, DH. Always happy to see your pets. she/her
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kleick.bsky.social
Peters really gives away the game when he responds to people in the comments. I gasped at “groupthink.”
Jeremy Peters G Free speech and education reporter • last week @Margaret Melville In my experience, having spent a lot of time with college students and the parents who pay their tuition, you can believe something is broken with our higher education system and most definitely not be "anti-education." As one of Mamdani's professors told me for this article, there's no question that faculty overwhelmingly skew left. And we can't ignore the fact that a lot of people find that uniformity troubling. Most colleges seemed to be doing little about that until the Trump administration forced them to -- by exceeding their authority and violating the Constitution in many cases, of course. Then you have many academics saying the groupthink isn't a real issue. When a society's institutions start to fail, it's often because they lose credibility with the people they serve. I know a lot of leaders of higher education who are really paying attention to that now.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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paulandstorm.bsky.social
[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!
photo of a sign outside the door of the Oval Office, reading "The Oval Office" in gold bullshit script, made out of three sheets of paper Close-up image of the same sign
November 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Screenshot text from The Atlantic: For now, money is still pouring into the AI industry. But there’s also something circular about these investments. To wit: OpenAI has agreed to pay $300 billion to Oracle for new computing capacity, Oracle is paying Nvidia tens of billions of dollars for chips to install in one of OpenAI’s data centers, and Nvidia has agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI as it deploys Nvidia chips. Attempts to illustrate these circular investments have produced a series of byzantine charts that one software engineer referred to on X as “the technocapital hyperobject at the end of time.” The consensus seems to be that although this is legal, it likely cannot go on forever.
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
kleick.bsky.social
I mean he looks all right here!
Image of Robert Redford as Gatsby (1974), floating in his pool, looking amazing, moments before Wilson shoots him.
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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royalpratt.bsky.social
Homeland Security says the man was grabbing the agent’s genitals so that’s why he hit him. A screen grab circulating raises questions about that account. If you know the man being punched, please get in touch.
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM