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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 3d

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

fortune.com

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Andrew @tjsleakyroof.bsky.social · 1h

there are many more directly harmful ways people have chosen to ruin the world over the course of my life, but this may be the one I find most spiritually oppressive

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 2h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Kristi Noem’s America, folks. That poor dog. That poor family.

Tweet by Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Border Patrol reportedly shot a dog and then the agent fled rather than deal with any kind of accountability whatsoever.”
Below is Keith Edwards’ tweet: “BREAKING: A family in El Paso says ICE shot and killed their dog, Chop. The agent who fired reportedly ran as the family screamed for help. No one came.”

Photo of a large black and brown Rottweiler sitting calmly on a tiled floor next to a white chair and a window with blinds.

A black-background screenshot of text describing an incident: the sender says no Border Patrol agents rendered aid after their dog was shot, and that the responsible agent fled the scene with help from others. They emphasize that the agent’s name was never released and that their family lost a member “for no lawful reason.”

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

Border Patrol agent "C-228." Handwritten with a marker on bright yellow tape on one shoulder strap of his ballistic vest, there is a alpha-numeric identifier, mandatory per the federal court order which is in place.

Before the court order at least, there was no single format for an identifier. ––>

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 7h

From the images I've seen of Border Patrol agents in Chicago engaging with public, few appear to have switched ON body-worn cameras.

From FB video☝🏼 Outside Walgreens, Border Patrol agent "C-228" knocks man down, sits on him. (Audio: woman says she is his sister-in-law and he's a U.S. citizen.)

Border Patrol Agent in uniform. White hair. He is sitting on top of a young Black man. He has a black neck gaiter pulled up as high as possible to obscure his face.

His body-worn camera is on the front of his ballistic vest. If it were switched on, a red light would be visible. (On the video, I looked at this from several angles with the same result.)

On the strap of his ballistic vest, on the right side, there is an alpha-numeric identifier handwritten in marker on a bright yellow piece of tape: "C-228"

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Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 6h

...we surrender punted from midfield on 4th and 2. Our defense immediately held them to a 3 and out. Sack, pass for no gain, incompletion.

By now you should be seeing a pattern. Almost every time we didn't capitalize on a stop, we stalled out on passing, except for those two shitty jet sweeps.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 6h

ARGGGHHHHHHHH #BillsMafia

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 6h

In the 2nd half, they punted, we turned it over on downs. We blocked a FG, then hey, look, another 3 and out! They go 3 and out on their next drive...stop me if you've heard this before, but so did we.

In case you can't do math, that's three points off of ELEVEN stops in two games.

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 6h

So. Many. Wasted. Opportunities

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 6h

So 3 points off of 5 defensive stops against the Patriots.

Atlanta was way worse, somehow. In the first quarter, we forced a 3 and out. We then went 3 and out, picking up zero yards. They turned it over on downs, we went 3 and out. They punted, we threw an immediate pick. Lucky they didn't score.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 6h

YUP

Libby on the Label @drainbead.bsky.social · 6h

So my game recap was just going to be a long rant about how our offense has regressed, but then I thought of something and wanted to look it up, and it's really telling so I'm going to show it to you guys instead. The Bills' offense has been absolutely ass on taking advantage of defensive stops.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 7h

Wow, an actual job in European history

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 7h

***Job Opportunity***

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Modern Europe: Urban History, Fordham University

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careers.historians.org/jobs/2173026...

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Modern Europe: Urban History in New York, NY for Fordham University

Exciting opportunity in New York, NY for Fordham University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor...

careers.historians.org

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 7h

the dirty secret of peer review is that it works great but there’s a huge academic labor crisis being compounded by an authoritarian government takeover soooo

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 9h

#teaching #pedagogy folks: in a course that I've inherited there is a required group project. Looking for resources to help guide students in fundamentals of group work.

Group work is often something that they don't enjoy, but I'm also sure there are ways to make it manageable/constructive. Ideas?

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 10h

Hell, when I went up for tenure, there were not 4 full professors of modern French history at peer institutions in the US

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HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 12h

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 10h

The problem right now is that a casualized profession is continuing to behave as if the number of T/TT faculty has not changed, while embracing a neoliberal vision of “meritocracy” that demands ever-increasing numbers of letters for ever-expanding “competitive opportunities”

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 10h

$$ seems dangerous, if for no other reason that the faculty whose institutions can’t/won’t pay. Only real solution is to start asking for *fewer* letters, to reduce the amount of (often very redundant, performative for the recipients) labor involved?

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 11h

I just keep thinking about how we KNOW these things reproduce racial & gender stereotypes. So you're gonna use one to write a T&P letter for a colleague who is a woman? her a person of color? FFS

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 21h

Late to see the post by the high-follower-count public health scholar at Fancy Pants University, wherein she engineers prompts to get GTP to write her literature reviews. I was disappointed to see the ? — and even more 😳 to see the # of academics offering tips in the replies. Don't do this.

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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 12h

Friday at noon, the day before the 🚫👑 protest, show up to encourage UVA to resist DOJ extortion of higher education.

Graphic announcing a noon Oct 17 rally at the UVA Rotunda to call on UVA to resist the DOJ’s higher ed “compact”

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15h

So do White people in the west just believe it’s okay to resurrect the dead to make them dance and perform for your pleasure?
Is this a cultural difference?
Because where I come from, disturbing the dead usually comes with consequences.
Bad ones.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 12h

UVA is very special

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 14h

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UVA GLOBAL
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UVA Global unites students, faculty, and staff with horizon-expanding opportunities on Grounds and around the world.

Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 14h

Do we think these “Global Educator Opportunity (GEO) Fellowships” are for those of us who’ve dedicated our careers to global and international study? 🤷‍♀️

GEO Fellowship Goals
• Create global learning experiences on (and near)
Grounds for undergraduate students through existing or new course development.
• Develop learning opportunities that expand student skills for current and future global servant-leadership: enhanced cross-cultural communications;
hands-on experience with international project-based collaborations; and innovative and ethical engagement with developing technologies.
• Support and recognize faculty committed to enhancing the international dimensions of their
teaching - and their students' learning.
• Establish a cross-disciplinary community of GEO Fellows to cultivate opportunities for local collaboration and idea-sharing, with the aim of enhancing global engagements across Grounds.

GEO Fellowship
Support
GEO Fellowships provide financial and pedagogical resources to:
• integrate global perspectives into existing undergraduate courses through applied learning
• facilitate deeper understanding and active engagements with global issues on Grounds
• develop new courses grounded in global perspectives
GEO Fellowships support multiple course-based teaching activities, including, but not limited to:
• inviting international scholars/advocates as guest lecturers/co-creators
• developing
assignments/modules - or a new course - with a
demonstrable global focus
• creating and supporting stude driven projects with global

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 15h

This is a really important point.

They’re performing power for an audience.

For us.

To convince us that they have more power than they do.

They’re fear-harvesting.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 18h

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 15h

How will the billionaires explain this to the children? We did this for you. We needed AI more than a safe and beautiful planet. Or maybe this will be forgotten knowledge in a few decades. Will it even be memorialised like the dodo, when all we have is propaganda media?

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 1d

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 15h

I hope he tells them why on the way out

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