Daphna
@dapati.bsky.social
I like serial commas, fireflies, bold patterns, cities, advice columns, long walks, museums, menus, learning about a lot of things and teaching about some. Always thinking about my next meal. She/her.
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1. tear down the schembechler statue
2. rename the football building
3. take ron weiser's name off the crisler tunnel
4. take the wilpon name off the baseball/softball field
5. this...
2. rename the football building
3. take ron weiser's name off the crisler tunnel
4. take the wilpon name off the baseball/softball field
5. this...
If the regents only like to take action around football matters, perhaps they could consider the additional goodwill that would come of banning Portnoy and Lewan from campus.
It’s time for the Woke 2 Go Blue Guarantee.
It’s time for the Woke 2 Go Blue Guarantee.
December 11, 2025 at 7:54 PM
1. tear down the schembechler statue
2. rename the football building
3. take ron weiser's name off the crisler tunnel
4. take the wilpon name off the baseball/softball field
5. this...
2. rename the football building
3. take ron weiser's name off the crisler tunnel
4. take the wilpon name off the baseball/softball field
5. this...
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The thing that really scares me about the Disney/Sora news is that there’s yet another huge player who has something to lose if OpenAI fails, so they’re gonna do everything they can to prop it up
December 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The thing that really scares me about the Disney/Sora news is that there’s yet another huge player who has something to lose if OpenAI fails, so they’re gonna do everything they can to prop it up
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"As mothers, our worst nightmare is a car killing a child just for trying to cross the street," write @powers4queens.bsky.social and @cmjuliewon.bsky.social . "Kids are the city’s most vulnerable residents, and the status quo endangers them ... They deserve universal daylighting." buff.ly/yUjASQ0
The Children of New York City Deserve Universal Daylighting - Streetsblog New York City
Daylighting is common sense: drivers and pedestrians shouldn’t be invisible to one another. And in most other places, they aren’t.
nyc.streetsblog.org
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
"As mothers, our worst nightmare is a car killing a child just for trying to cross the street," write @powers4queens.bsky.social and @cmjuliewon.bsky.social . "Kids are the city’s most vulnerable residents, and the status quo endangers them ... They deserve universal daylighting." buff.ly/yUjASQ0
The Disney dress rules are an amazing document: disneyworld.disney.go.com/faq/parks/dr...
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The Disney dress rules are an amazing document: disneyworld.disney.go.com/faq/parks/dr...
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college should, in the US, be free. college is not - nor has it ever been, despite the protestations of our trade school colleagues (business, engineering, etc.) and administrators - simply job training.
the US educational system became the light of the world because of its liberal arts foundation
the US educational system became the light of the world because of its liberal arts foundation
December 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
college should, in the US, be free. college is not - nor has it ever been, despite the protestations of our trade school colleagues (business, engineering, etc.) and administrators - simply job training.
the US educational system became the light of the world because of its liberal arts foundation
the US educational system became the light of the world because of its liberal arts foundation
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
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It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It makes me really sad that we have to just like, talk about our bodies all the time in the open like this — shout out to Danielle who is brave — because men won't read a book.
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jingle horses need a union
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
jingle horses need a union
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Formula is one of the many miracles of modern science that literally saves lives.
Fuck this guy.
Fuck this guy.
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Formula is one of the many miracles of modern science that literally saves lives.
Fuck this guy.
Fuck this guy.
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WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism
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It's the same problem as "childcare is insanely expensive and childcare providers are woefully underpaid" and the solutions on both counts are systemic not individual
not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's the same problem as "childcare is insanely expensive and childcare providers are woefully underpaid" and the solutions on both counts are systemic not individual
Really hoping someone can step in here…
Yesterday, we sent this message to the @viralemergence.org team, bringing a (hopefully temporary) end to our project three years into what started as a decade of planned work. /1
December 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Really hoping someone can step in here…
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites on JSTOR
David Linton, THE MAKING OF A PARIAH: The Case of the Luddites, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Winter 1991-92), pp. 404-413
www.jstor.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Something I’ve encountered a lot lately is misperception of Luddites as technophobic reactionaries motivated by ignorance & resentment, rather than what they were, part of a well-informed labor movement seeking to seize control of means of production.
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The more time I’ve spent studying political systems and personally finding rules and loopholes to exploit the less I’m impressed with politics being solvable by system design.
There are certain values that need to be held by the ruling class. If they aren’t held, that’s your problem.
There are certain values that need to be held by the ruling class. If they aren’t held, that’s your problem.
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The more time I’ve spent studying political systems and personally finding rules and loopholes to exploit the less I’m impressed with politics being solvable by system design.
There are certain values that need to be held by the ruling class. If they aren’t held, that’s your problem.
There are certain values that need to be held by the ruling class. If they aren’t held, that’s your problem.
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Hello, world! We are DC's cargo bike lending library, a
@waba.org project inspired by @mplscargobikelibrary.com
and @communitypedalpower.org
Borrow a cargo bike - free! #bikedc
More information coming soon....
@waba.org project inspired by @mplscargobikelibrary.com
and @communitypedalpower.org
Borrow a cargo bike - free! #bikedc
More information coming soon....
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hello, world! We are DC's cargo bike lending library, a
@waba.org project inspired by @mplscargobikelibrary.com
and @communitypedalpower.org
Borrow a cargo bike - free! #bikedc
More information coming soon....
@waba.org project inspired by @mplscargobikelibrary.com
and @communitypedalpower.org
Borrow a cargo bike - free! #bikedc
More information coming soon....
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One thing that has become crystal clear to me over the course of co-teaching the vaccine course with @bachynski.bsky.social is just how hard thousands of people have worked since the time of Edward Jenner to improve vaccine technology & safety. It's a crime that we are just throwing all of this away
Vaccines are the greatest public health success story in history.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
So much death and suffering can be stopped entirely, or dramatically reduced.
And people are just throwing it away.
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
One thing that has become crystal clear to me over the course of co-teaching the vaccine course with @bachynski.bsky.social is just how hard thousands of people have worked since the time of Edward Jenner to improve vaccine technology & safety. It's a crime that we are just throwing all of this away
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Please know, there are people on the "AI Leadership Group," including me, whose research relates to harms of generative AI, AI literacy in the sense of negative impacts & critical media studies. We spend tremendous amounts of time pushing back and advocating for faculty & students who are concerned.
Some people saying they’d now never send a kid to Dartmouth. I’m dismayed by the local news, but AI in higher ed is horrifically pervasive. It’s a universal problem demanding broad action, not one that can be solved via careless brand curation.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Please know, there are people on the "AI Leadership Group," including me, whose research relates to harms of generative AI, AI literacy in the sense of negative impacts & critical media studies. We spend tremendous amounts of time pushing back and advocating for faculty & students who are concerned.
Loved this restaurant when we visited Minneapolis, and glad to see them supporting their workers resisting ICE.
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Loved this restaurant when we visited Minneapolis, and glad to see them supporting their workers resisting ICE.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors
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No Library Wrapped from us — we don’t track what you read.
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
December 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
No Library Wrapped from us — we don’t track what you read.
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
DCPL protects your privacy because it’s the law and the librarian way. 📚🔒
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this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down
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The journalistically appropriate sequence of follow-up questions here are:
-why?
-no seriously, what possible social value would that have?
[then unveil a guillotine.]
-repeat question 1 and question 2.
-why?
-no seriously, what possible social value would that have?
[then unveil a guillotine.]
-repeat question 1 and question 2.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The journalistically appropriate sequence of follow-up questions here are:
-why?
-no seriously, what possible social value would that have?
[then unveil a guillotine.]
-repeat question 1 and question 2.
-why?
-no seriously, what possible social value would that have?
[then unveil a guillotine.]
-repeat question 1 and question 2.