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Michael Mirer @michaelmirer.bsky.social · 16h

What a disgusting act by IU administration.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

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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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 1d

Student programs in peril after federal cuts at Latino-serving community colleges

California community colleges are scrambling to find new funding sources to preserve initiatives that support Latino students.

www.latimes.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 4d

Evening conversations in our house have moved onto Bluesky and I am HERE for it. @ohtheprofanity.com with a 🔥🔥🧵

Charlynn Schmiedt @ohtheprofanity.com · 4d

Is it just me, or have podcasts in general gotten lazier about about maintaining quality? I mean this in every respect: clean audio quality, quality of information, presentation by the speakers, and especially editing. Holy fuck have I had it with podcasts that don't edit. Ready for a rant? 🧵

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 4d

Just like when Dick Cheney shoots a guy because he thought he was a bird.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 4d

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 5d

For the evening crowd. I made this and I like how it turned out.

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 6d

Also, if listening isn't your thing, here's a graphic:

An infographic showing the IMDB episode ratings for each episode of Beavis and Butt-head. Seasons one through 10 are included.

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Charlynn Schmiedt @ohtheprofanity.com · 6d

My husband made a kickass infographic related to this week's @tpforyourearholes.com topic, where we talk about why the early episodes suck. Turns out, IMDb user ratings agree with us. #BeavisandButtHead

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 6d

Also, if listening isn't your thing, here's a graphic:

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 7d

The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 8d

Sora stuff has filled a big chunk of my social feeds. I’m discerning enough to notice (most times). I fear for how its misuse will outpace, by orders of magnitude, society’s ability for its output to be debunked.

BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 8d

I started a project earlier this year looking at generative AI as a national security risk. Now that Sora is being publicly tested, more media outlets will have to cover and debunk AI slop and disinformation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Misinformation researchers say lifelike scenes could obfuscate truth and lead to fraud, bullying and intimidation

www.theguardian.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 10d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 11d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 11d

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 12d

Part 1 of 2 discussing the early days of Beavis and Butt-head… with @ohtheprofanity.com dishing out maybe her hottest of hot takes so far.

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 13d

Early critics did NOT know what to make of Beavis and Butt-head. With 30-plus years of retrospect, we take a look at those early critiques, giving praise to those who could see the good things coming and giving hell to those who couldn’t. New episode out today, wherever you get your podcasts!

Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 13d

Final version out… soon (?)… but the draft copy feels good in my hands. #pokepioneers

A copy of the book “Poke Pioneers: The people, plays and pageantry that defined the first half-century of Wyoming Cowboy football,” by Patrick Schmiedt. Lots of old black-and-white football photos.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 15d

This is not actually how copyright law works. I don't need to opt out, copyright is automatic and you can't just use* my stuff without asking

But it *is* how the UK government is proposing to change the law, to benefit AI firms instead of creatives

*For a given, currently debated, meaning of "use"

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 15d

this is not gonna go down well

www.reuters.com/technology/o...

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 18d

My horsie feels attacked

mr potato @tweetpotato314.bsky.social · 19d

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 20d

… and why a character I hate is one of my favorites! Another @tpforyourearholes.com that crushes it. (Yes, I’m biased.) Follow along now so you can say you were one of the OGs who started when the episode count was still in the single digits, since this is the last week you can do that.

T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · 20d

We only saw them once, but they captured our hearts and minds (or sometimes enraged us). Our newest episode, out today, gets into our favorite characters who we only saw once in a Beavis and Butt-head episode. Listen wherever you get podcasts; we're likely there!

Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 20d

I wish we could stop seeing this framing in media. It’s not “social media,” it’s social media USERS. It’s US. When we blame “social media,” we absolve ourselves of any personal responsibility for our roles in it. Comforting, maybe, but disingenuous and ultimately harmful to societies.

Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 20d

What social media got wrong about the ICE raids of the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet

Social media posts suggested that "dozens" of people were detained during the ICE raid on the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet and that swap meet officials cooperated with ICE. Interviews with swap meet officials, patrons and others show a different picture.

www.latimes.com

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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20d

The Chinese social credit system is constantly invoked as some unspeakable red line that must never be crossed, yet here is Larry Ellison, perhaps soon to be one of the most influential people in charge of TikTok—which, like other social-media apps, could be used as a digital-surveillance tool

Last year, he boasted to Oracle investors about the potential for harnessing artificial intelligence for panoptic surveillance: “Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison, who serves as the company’s chief technology officer and executive chairman, remarked. “It’s unimpeachable.” Ellison has also said that countries should try to “unify” as much data as possible to allow that information to be used by AI; the Trump administration appeared to be making such efforts earlier this year through DOGE.

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Josh Richman @joshrichman.bsky.social · 25d

Any self-respecting journalist must tell the Pentagon to go fuck itself.
(If they don't, they're not journalists - they're stenographers.)

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 25d

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 26d

Not the only reason I left Wyoming, but certainly one of them

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 26d

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries

One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”

www.semafor.com

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 27d

"Multiple execs felt that Kimmel had not actually said anything over the line, the two sources say, but the threat of Trump administration retaliation loomed."

They will never learn that capitulation doesn't work. Never

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27d

As we’ve reported before at @rollingstone.com, trump and his gang plotted to use the federal government against his enemies in late night tv even before he was reelected.

Now….

www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' Pulled 'Indefinitely' By ABC Over Charlie Kirk Comments

'Jimmy Kimmel Live' has been pulled 'indefinitely' by ABC.

www.rollingstone.com

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Patrick Schmiedt @pschmiedt.bsky.social · 29d

None of this is normal. Also, now we know for sure, none of this is unique.

Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 29d

Clemson students called on their professors to be fired for political speech they didn't like. The legislature threatened to defund the university if it didn't comply. The professors were fired.

Chairman Mao approves.

www.thestate.com/news/politic...

Clemson fires employee for Kirk posts. Two more removed from teaching duties

Clemson’s moves on Monday also come as the most influential members of the legislature called on the board of trustees to take action.

www.thestate.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Sep 14

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Sep 11

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · Sep 11

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

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T.P. For Your Earholes: A Beavis and Butt-Head Podcast @tpforyourearholes.com · Sep 11

New episode today! We're diving deep into Cornholio, Beavis' alter ego and one of the show's most interesting developments. We explore why this manic dude who's only in a small handful of episodes is often what people think of first when they think of Beavis and Butt-head.

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