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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 1d

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 1d

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies

Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.

www.theatlantic.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 8

if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 1d

During class today on qualitative research methods I said “being alive is complicated.” And one student immediately said outloud “retweet”.

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 3d

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 3d

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 4d

Just wanted to make sure you caught the winner of the annual dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn!

Babbling Brooklyn @deftestleftist.bsky.social · 10d

The winning entry at today’s 27th annual Great PUPkin dog costume contest in Fort Greene Park.
📷 📸 🐶 🫐 🧑‍🍳 🎃 #photography

Photo of two people in chefs costumes holding up what appears to be a large tray of blueberry muffins, but one of them in supposedly a chihuahua. The sign reads “Chihuahua or blueberry muffin? #knowyourmeme”.

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 6d

“Every technology comes with an implied political agenda.” - @karlschroeder.bsky.social

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 7d

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 8d

Come on, Dodgers, please score. I want to go to bed.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9d

"i took the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, found it difficult, and badly understood what i was being asked to do" is not a great sign

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 9d

There is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to begin.

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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out

In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.

www.wired.com

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 11d

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12d

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 13d

But honestly, I think a whole lot of moderate-ish pundits are very much Charles Wallaces, who have always thought of themselves as the smartest kid in the room and thus immune to authoritarian propaganda. But the working-class kid of abusive parents or the bullied girl can often spot danger better.

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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 13d

Madeleine L’Engle made this point extremely effectively decades ago in A Wrinkle in Time.

Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13d

No one should EVER monitor Nazi space without a strong support network that can check them regularly and watch for signs that the propaganda is taking hold, and address that reality promptly.

Without a rock solid accountability network, it is playing with fire.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 13d

This is I think also one of the reasons you (you as in a regular person) shouldn't got into nazi places to try and 'debate' them (or worse, to hang out and check the vibe. I know somebody who radicalized a lot after doing that to neo-nazi metal concerts (not the only reason he radicalized)).

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13d

he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep

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Amy Siskind @amysiskind.com · 13d

Folks, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. This was perhaps the worst week of broken norms since I started this project in 2016. I made this week's list free with the hope that you will read it in its entirety to gain a full understanding of what is happening. PLS SHARE!
open.substack.com/pub/theweekl...

Week 50 - The Return

Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you'll remember.

open.substack.com

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 14d

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14d

Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.

jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 14d

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...

www.thecrimson.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15d

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 15d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 15d

I love when Canvas is down while I'm trying to prep for class.

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 17d

We had a massive turnout in Champaign Urbana today. So proud of my community. Protest is patriotic. #NoKings

Protestors at a rally. One sign reads “protest is patriotic”

Signs at the rally, one says “no kings” with a poop emoji that looks like Trump

More protest signs. One says “protect special education”

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 17d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Education at Illinois @educationillinois.bsky.social · 19d

The Center for Research and Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning (ITEL) aims to significantly enhance learning in schools and other venues through technology.

Read more about how ITEL will become an interdisciplinary hub for the integration of technology into educational contexts:

ITEL: Collaboration and Innovation in Educational Technology

education.illinois.edu

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 19d

Great news! #insulin4all

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 19d

Lower-cost insulin manufactured by the state of California will be available to consumers starting Jan. 1, 2026, for about $11 per pen.

Lower-cost, California-branded insulin will be available to consumers in January

Lower-cost insulin manufactured by the state of California will be available to consumers starting Jan. 1, 2026, for about $11 per pen.

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 20d

A lot of time and effort has gone into survey research around what is the best protest sign slogan, message, wording etc and to be frank the research is pretty clear the most effective things you can do at a protest are express joy and express camaraderie, don't overthink it

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 25d

I hope you don’t have anything to do early tomorrow morning.

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