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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 1d

"you can't just call the people you disagree with nazis"

oh no?

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Educating to be Human Podcast @edutobehuman.bsky.social · 1d

Rewind! As we rethink the names of streets, landmarks, etc this ep w/ @rmostern.bsky.social from last year feels very relevant. Ruth shares how mapping the past thru the World Historical Gazetteer can transform how we understand our shared histories. Tune in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

RERUN: The Power of Place with Ruth Mostern

Podcast Episode · Educating to Be Human Podcast · 10/14/2025 · 37m

podcasts.apple.com

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 1d

I need to migrate the Leaflet IIIF to another viewer since it's not compatible with the 3.0 image API.

Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 1d

A handful of Athenian vases from the Yale University Art Gallery have been integrated into Kerameikos. The #LinkedArt JSON-LD was extracted from LUX and distilled into CIDOC-CRM integrated with Kerameikos concept URIs. #classicsbluesky kerameikos.org/id/yale

A screenshot of the page https://kerameikos.org/object/?uri=https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/1726, which is a Greek vase in the Yale University Art Gallery collection. It includes metadata, images, and a map showing the production place (Athens).

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 1d

Some Albemarle County residents terrorized local cyclists, including a teenage girl.

Hi All

On Oct 12th at 1250pm my 15yo daughter and I were out cycling and were unfortunately assaulted by a carload of white males on greenwood rd. They initially buzzed us at a high rate of speed while laying on the horn. They then circled around threw a bottle at us while going 60mph coming toward us. I was struck in the chest and injured. I stopped to film them in case they came back while my daughter biked a short distance away. They did come back and then pursued my daughter cursing and terrorizing her. I got a fuzzy video of them after the assault and the police found them up at a house on Newtown road. My daughter and I both id’d the thrower after being shown a picture of him but so far the police have declined to make an arrest because none of the occupants will admit to throwing the bottle.

I’ve attached a picture of the car, a red Toyota Corolla with the license plate TZS-3051

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 4d

People should be making bicycle infrastructure decisions based on empirical evidence of need and shared use paths up to Hollymead/airport are beyond the horizon of 20+ more useful projects for Cville

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 4d

We fixated on the airport because you mentioned it. Nevertheless, the point still stands that it's a better investment to focus on improving commuter transit in higher pop areas of the city and county than expanding bike paths outwards. Three Notched Trail will take decades alone

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 4d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 4d

I agree it's a waste of resources to make bike travel to the airport easier when only a handful of people will do it. It's very impractical except on an ebike with a cargo holder.

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 4d

can you imagine half-assing a last-minute ceasefire that won't last a week and still not getting the Nobel Peace Prize

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

The people we elect don't seem to do the things we specifically elected them to do.

Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

Puerto Rico has had numerous referenda. The last time there was one (I believe during Trump's first term), PR voted "yes" to becoming a state, but no one got the ball rolling on it Congressionally.

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

Anyone who believes Puerto Rico isn't going to deliver at least 1 Republican Senator is an idiot.

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Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social · 5d

A "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure" video.

Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · 5d

There are now 450 entries in GAERHF. So I made a video of scrolling through the "List" view. And paused to click on a few along the way. That was a bit random. This all neither here nor there yet. Much work to do! I had to compress it a bit to get under 100 mb. #GlobalAntiquity #GlobalDH gaerhf.org

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

"offer"

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d

Breaking news: MIT’s president turned down the Trump administration’s offer of priority access for federal funding, publicly releasing a letter that emphasized the elite university’s values.

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding

MIT is one of the nine schools that were asked to agree to adopt conservative priorities and policies in exchange for funding perks.

wapo.st

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 5d

People need to be clear-eyed about the emerging MAGA narrative & what it reveals. The gaslighting about #Portland & #Chicago, the manufactured #Antifa hysteria & equating the #NoKings protests w/Hamas make it clear that Republicans know they are failing. They cannot govern b/c they don’t know how /1

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

Pure projection.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 5d

Huh. A Qatari Air Force facility in Idaho….such a grab bag bullshit day after day.

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

In last night's debate, Winsome Earle-Sears says she witnessed political violence in Jamaica when she was 10 years old. However, according to her Wikipedia article, she moved to New York when she was 6.

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

Hopefully now that one of these universities has taken a stand, the others will as well.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5d

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact

“And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges. We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit.
Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute
was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.

• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available
to any American with an internet
connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly
10%.
• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.

These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific
funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that tree marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences.
Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the
U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people.
We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth
CC
Ms. May Mailman
Mr. Vincent Haley

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

It would have been funnier if they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to Gavin Newscum

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

Why won't that asshole just go away?

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Ethan Gruber @ewg118.bsky.social · 5d

Never heard it pronounced that way

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