Laprofmme
@laprofmme.bsky.social
Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford comma and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
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ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This is who we're deporting while we're importing sex traffickers like the Tate brothers and white supremacists who are nostalgic for Apartheid.
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This is a great resource. I'm really enjoying seeing other faculty's ideas for AI-resistant or AI-proof writing assignments, and I hope to see the selection grow as we strategize together to promote real learning against the tide of technological bullshit.
against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
Assignment Ideas - AGAINST AI
Image: The Shipwreck, J.M.W. Turner
against-a-i.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is a great resource. I'm really enjoying seeing other faculty's ideas for AI-resistant or AI-proof writing assignments, and I hope to see the selection grow as we strategize together to promote real learning against the tide of technological bullshit.
against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
against-a-i.com/assignment-i...
Nevermind that indigenous volunteers across European colonies volunteered precisely because they were subjects of empire
4. Create straw men. Olusoga could not have been any clearer that Mountain Horse was a volunteer. This criticism suggests utter desperation to find something - anything - to criticise!
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Nevermind that indigenous volunteers across European colonies volunteered precisely because they were subjects of empire
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This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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PJM is the regional grid serving 67 million customers in 13 states
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
PJM is the regional grid serving 67 million customers in 13 states
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
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Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
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This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This mailer being sent out in #NY17 is WILD.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
All of the wording about Mike Lawler is technically accurate, but hoo-boy the design choices here are something to behold.
Definitely zoom in and read for yourself.
Image courtesy of @timmyfacciola.bsky.social on X.
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I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
It's pretty much mandatory at work that I appear to be using it, so I've doe a few functional things with it, and it's a moderate time-saver if used right. But nowhere near worth it's stock value, energy cost.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
Then I realize there's a lot of people who simply can't write coherent paragraphs.
September 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I think more than anything else AI feels like a miracle to people with questionable literacy because it can read and write for you, and a lot of us who are highly literate underestimate how many of our society's leaders, esp in business, struggle with literacy.
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Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer
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The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The people who do this, who conceived of it, who demand it, are real life monsters.
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Presumably the fruits of this $220M sweetheart, non-competitive contract
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Presumably the fruits of this $220M sweetheart, non-competitive contract
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
In re @alanallport.bsky.social ‘s discussion of LLM-related syllabus revisions. Especially struck by the last points about the double-talk of college administrators on LLMs and the inversion of the “digital divide”
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
www.economist.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In re @alanallport.bsky.social ‘s discussion of LLM-related syllabus revisions. Especially struck by the last points about the double-talk of college administrators on LLMs and the inversion of the “digital divide”
www.economist.com/united-state...
www.economist.com/united-state...
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Dismantling the Dept of Education and forcibly imposing unregulated AI on everyone and everywhere are two sides of the same coin.
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Dismantling the Dept of Education and forcibly imposing unregulated AI on everyone and everywhere are two sides of the same coin.
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You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
You cannot have a functioning economy when so few people at the top hold so much of the nation’s wealth. It’s not sustainable.
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Cars that kill--and look like they will--has been a theme of MAGA's rise.
The Home Economics of Lib-Owning
Fear, identity politics, and going broke for conspiracy theories
nobody-wants-this.ghost.io
November 26, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Cars that kill--and look like they will--has been a theme of MAGA's rise.
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There are ways to increase auto affordability while killing fewer kids--like deflating car bloat--but we can't have that of course.
Instead, we get tariffs and deregulation.
Instead, we get tariffs and deregulation.
We’ve Hit a Grim Milestone We Haven’t Seen Since 1981. Why Can’t We Do Anything About It?
An irresistible trend took hold 50 years ago, and we’re all paying the price.
slate.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 AM
There are ways to increase auto affordability while killing fewer kids--like deflating car bloat--but we can't have that of course.
Instead, we get tariffs and deregulation.
Instead, we get tariffs and deregulation.
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Upset that guns overtook cars as the number one killer of children in America, the GOP sat down and asked themselves, what can we do?
Exclusive: Republicans plan to challenge vehicle-safety mandates, such as automatic emergency braking and alarms that remind drivers a child is in the back seat.
Senate Committee to Challenge Auto-Safety Mandates That Hurt ‘Affordability’
Republicans are questioning the value of some features, such as automatic braking and rear-seat reminders.
on.wsj.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Upset that guns overtook cars as the number one killer of children in America, the GOP sat down and asked themselves, what can we do?
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention