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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 5h

I think I accidentally got a triple strength relax pill tonight.

Goodnight early.

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 5h

A gift from the ages

K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 5h

I an very peaceful and looking forward to sleeping my ass off so that earthquake had better not happen please

K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 6h

This seems very specific! I don't want to think that hard! 😆

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 10h

And the bubble: "In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate... A.I. investment fits that pattern."

Opinion | Warning: Our Stock Market Is Looking Like a Bubble

www.nytimes.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position 👇

(Published Dec. 2024)

If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life

Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselv...

www.propublica.org

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 9h

Where do you publish?

Where do you pitch your work?

Do you run a platform looking to connect with scholars?

Let's build resources for each other! Something we can actively do right this minute is support each other in getting necessary expertise out to the public.

Solidarity & resources ↓↓↓

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 12h

It's live now! Please visit our Pitchables page at this link and if you have a site, magazine, podcast, or other platform for scholars to pitch their public work to, please let me know in comments or via email at bwandread@gmail!

blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/

Screenshot of the linked webpage on my public scholarship website Black and white and read all over. The page is titled Pitchables with links to sites where scholars can pitch their work and expertise, separated into written publications and podcasts

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7h

After every disaster, natural or man-made, the pig population explodes. And each individual pig levels up.

Sometimes they end up being intensely radioactive, too.

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 7h

I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in less than 8 minutes
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First time I didn't get any wrong or use any hints! 😌

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 9h

Masking at ublic transit, hospitals, pharmacies, and the grocery store would be absolutely fantastic for public health tbh.

Improved ventilation could mitigate the need for even that much but at this rate, we will never know for sure.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

yeah, i think a commitment to public health obligates you to get vaccinated and, when you are sick, do what you can to avoid spreading that to other people. the demand that one mask at all times in public spaces is, i think, unreasonable.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

Here's a link to the full story
www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Indiana University fires IDS adviser amid dispute over student newspaper's content

The director of student media was fired after he pushed back against a university directive over what gets printed in the Indiana Daily Student.

www.indystar.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Jill S @outseide.bsky.social · 13h

This has real “kill the messenger” vibes

Ferric Fang, MD @fangferric.bsky.social · 13h

According to a state epidemiologist, "CDC personnel who normally share information with state officials during outbreaks have been eliminated."

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 1d

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 13h

Wrote about it here

www.patreon.com/posts/113026...

I Now Know How Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Does Such Good Work | Matthew Cortland

www.patreon.com

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 16h

Powerful urge to start a weekend workshop on The Basics of How Stories Work.

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 16h

Also, what the hell are they teaching in the film department at that school? I have concerns.

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 16h

I just made the mistake of reading (the beginning of) a student film script and it was so uninformed and incurious that it hurt. I musst now contain the awakened beast of experienced but uninvited feedback.

Dawg you're gonna make yourself and your crew crazy trying to shoot that shit.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 18h

So I asked myself, "Why on earth would this be a thing I would want?"

I love storytelling, as an art form. I love games, TV, movies, books, plays. But I think something just clicked for me -

For some people, TV is just lights and sounds.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

I interviewed one of these factory workers in Los Angeles. She gets paid three cents to sew a zipper, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt.

This is how fast fashion brands like Fashion Nova can put "Made in USA" tags on dress shirts that retail for only $25

"Every day at 6 am, Bilma boards a bus that shuttles her to downtown Los Angeles’s Fashion District. When she reaches the garment factory an hour later, she starts working immediately, without punching in. Like thousands of other garment workers in the United States, Bilma’s wages aren’t tethered to the clock but rather to the quantity of operations she executes. Three cents for a zipper or sleeve, five cents for a collar, and seven cents to prepare the top part of a skirt before she passes it onto the next sewing operator in line. Assembling an entire dress earns her a mere 15 cents. Bilma toils away on garments primarily for fast-fashion labels such as Fashion Nova, Lulus, and Lucy in the Sky, who prioritize quickly stocking on-trend items over the quality of materials. These companies peddle things like $80 maxi dresses, $25 poplin dress shirts, and $5 crop tops, all modeled by beautiful people and bedecked with the tantalizing promise of low-cost glamor."

"This worker payment system, known as “piecework” in the garment industry, is how US-based manufacturers can sidestep labor laws that require companies to pay at least the minimum wage. Rather than compensating Bilma for the exhausting 12-hour shifts—a regimen that, according to LA County’s minimum wage requirement, should yield $202.80—her pay is determined by the individual tasks she performs, which can fluctuate daily. Despite her adept handling of hundreds of garments a day, Bilma’s earnings typically linger around $50 per day. That’s $300 weekly for the standard six-day grind and $350 if she opts for Sunday labor. Doing what she can with this modest income, Bilma spends $400 a month to live in a two-bedroom apartment with six other people, some of whom are day laborers. In this crowded arrangement, two occupants squeeze into each bedroom, while two more lay claim to the living room. Bilma sleeps in the corner of the bustling kitchen."

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

PDX disabled folks: @kateviolette.com is looking for a GP who is accustomed to working with complex patients who have excellent knowledge of their own condition, and who is used to coordinating with specialists from all over: anyone have a rec? (Comments disabled so you go tell them, not me!)

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

Many of y'all have heard me say this, but my answer for the "within your own lifetime" variant of this question is that I have a detailed and practical plan to time travel back to replace my past self to set up the conditions such that PayPal never achieves success because that fixes SO MUCH

Danielle Gembala @ddmgembala.bsky.social · 1d

Over drinks with fellow archaeologists at a conference some decades ago, we discussed who we would hypothetically time travel to remove from history. Columbus and Calvin were the two universally chosen. Hitler was nearly unanimous but one person thought removing Goebbles was better.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

ALSO. ALSO. Needing us to find Europeans who condemned him for his actions at the time--and there are many! So many! My God so many!--is also some white supremacist bullshit, because the TAINO PEOPLE HE WAS MURDERING CERTAINLY CONDEMNED HIM FOR IT AND THEY WERE HUMAN BEINGS OF HIS TIME TOO.

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 22h

Happy Hannah Arendt's birthday to those who celebrate.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 1d

Chaka Khan wants you to have a great Tuesday.

A Black woman with long, blown out hair.

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K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 22h

Mine's been awake continuously since then just for the hell of it.

K. W. Knight @kwknight.bsky.social · 22h

4:23am. Airplane flying over suggests the world is still out there.

Good.

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