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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 3h

Ok. Next step is for news channels to stop the breathless coverage of the daily White House propaganda stunts

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 3h

With the very best genes. Hapsburgs forever!

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Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 8h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h

Where we stand, in long arc of history:

-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.

-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.

I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Two headlines on front page of NYT.

First is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy. White People Would be Given Preference."

Second is "Justices May Ban Race as a Factor in District Maps. Nation's Political Balance Could Shift If Court Guts 1964 Law."

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Lacey @lacey-wootton.bsky.social · 6h

"Students are using a tool that prevents them from developing critical thinking skills, & employers say they don't have critical thinking skills. So we need to use that tool more!"?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 20h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 15h

Once upon a time we had an 8th Amendment.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 15h

"...a series of deadly ILLEGAL strikes..."

Fixed it for you. Grow a spine, NPR!

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16h

If the chief executive can fund the military without the consent of the governed, we no longer have a republic but a monarchy.

My point isn't that I oppose military pay - I think Congress should readily agree to it - but that Congress MUST NOT BE LEFT OUT OF THE EQUATION.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 18h

It felt like an extremely radical thing to say "you can just not teach them how to use this. i don't even know what it means to teach them AI skills but you can also just not. it might make your students more hireable, honestly."

But this idea that it's a tool whose existence justifies its use?

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 17h

two decades of the bad old days before enviro regulations. I remembered from early childhood how bad the air smelled in the coal and steel towns in WV, PA, and western Maryland. That guy would have been an adult then, and damn well should have known the invisible hand failed.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 17h

never compelled companies to stop dumping shit into the air and water, never drove polluters out of business, and never stopped developers from building suburban houses on top of toxic waste dumps.

This was in the mid 80s, within a decade of Love Canal and within /2

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 17h

I remember arguing with my Econ professor about environmental regulation. He spouted the party line that the invisible middle finger of the free market would make it unnecessary, and didn’t think to wonder why during 200+ years into the Industrial Revolution the free market /1

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 18h

My dad grew up with racist parents. He overcame it, his brother didn’t. These idiots *chose* to remain bigots Into adulthood.

Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 18h

As a kid, I’d have been washing every baseboard in the house with a toothbrush had my parents caught me talking like these racist creeps.

These guys probably learned it from their parents, but they made a choice to perpetuate it.

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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 18h

The disgusting criminal hypocrisy of the GOP must be stopped. This shit has to end.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 18h

Make this woman president.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 18h

Impoundment is illegal.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 19h

The people putting toddlers in zip ties don’t get to talk about innocent children.

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 1d

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

This 👇🏽

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 20h

Ugh. Any entry into windows is painful. I do have to use Office occasionally for work (really only when doing project budgets 2-3 times a year) but can do that on the mac. I'm lucky: no need for a windows machine at all for almost 20 years now, and even before then it was only occasionally.

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 20h

Yes they did. They also went mask-off in response to the assault on Rodney King.

During the 80s and early-mid 90s I was at 4 universities on my path from undergrad to junior faculty. Same story at all of them: CR were entitled, racist, misogynist, homophobic creeps who stirred up trouble.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

started / going

DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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Katharine the Geek @katharinethegeek.bsky.social · 22h

Yep. “Welfare queens” and Willie Horton ads predate MAGA by four decades.

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