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Philip Leventhal @philipleventhal.bsky.social · 20h

This Wednesday, Jennifer Scappettone will be launching her eagerly awaited and timely new book, POETRY AFTER BARBARISM at the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. bit.ly/42WuVUa @columbiaup.bsky.social

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 10h

Latine brown immigrants can’t be seen in public, can’t be at a train station, can’t walk around without being targets rn. That’s just the truth rn.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 20h

ICE adbucted a man in broad daylight in Chicago (Belmont station/ CTA Blue Line). Brave citizens filmed the scene.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 1d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Daniel Faulhaber @danfaulhaber.bsky.social · 1d

Klaus Theweleit sagt 50 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen von „Männerphantasien“:

„Ich hätte damals nicht gedacht, dass wir uns nochmal derart konkret mit Faschismus und Männerpanzer befassen müssen.“

Interessantes Gespräch mit @camlinger.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social @unibas.ch.

Gespräch im Kontext der Konferenz Gegen/Moderne an der Uni Basel zwischen den Soziolog:innen Caroline Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey und dem Kulturwissenschaftler Klaus Theweleit.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

It was great working with Zeteo’s editors and rigorous fact-checker.

And I’m most grateful they let me say this in the last graf, something I’ve been try to get at with these ICE flights for awhile.

The disparity between the luxurious aircraft and its shackled, vilified passengers must have been quite a sight, but they are not unrelated. Corrupt officials transferring state funds to personal accounts, governments with empty treasuries and desperate citizens, luxury highrises, the criminalization of the unhoused and undocumented, billions spent on political campaign pageantry, aiding genocide from a faraway ballroom and calling it "charity," tax breaks for flying masked agents and nameless prisoners under cover of darkness - all are the spoils of oligarchy.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 1d

“Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister

Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed. The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 1d

Middlemarch for the concept of importance, Moby Dick for the concept of whales

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks! At my Sussex email would be great 🙏

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 1d

@sarambsimon.bsky.social very interested in this paper! 🧐

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 1d

He was well regarded generally but Hopkins colleagues talked trash about him!

Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 2d

Simon: By 1880, Billings, a well-regarded physician, had gotten involved. He was eager to collect mortality data (and also info re: disease!) and sent out booklets to physicians around the country. But only 1/3 of them were returned, and the data he received was clearly untrustworthy. #SHOT2025

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 1d

"Most college professors I know would place skills such as comfort with nuance, complex language, and abstract thinking far above comprehending informational texts in a list of desirable college-bound student traits. The Common Core, however, begs to differ."

Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it.
UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu
UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu
College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu
#EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 2d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/davi...

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

Rankings are austerity

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2d

ew

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

brainwashfestival.nl/en/poem-by-m...

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You have to love your work, my hologram tells me.

But you don’t know, I say, how much work it is to love.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, read @miayou.bsky.social's poem "The Love Song of My Hologram" brainwashfestival.nl/en/poem-by-m...

mia you: the lovesong of my hologram – Brainwash Festival

brainwashfestival.nl

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

Either way I guarantee teachers will be held as responsible for anything the bot puts out as they would be for their own teaching!

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

Rankings are austerity

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2d

ew

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

Either it's a video of you saying stuff you didn't say, which is violently problematic, or it's a video of you saying stuff you did say, in which case what was the purpose of the AI bit?

Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this. Creating a lifelike digital avatar on a third party platform will definitely not open teaching staff up to career destroying issues in the event of that platform being hacked.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 2d

Exclusive: Teachers will use 'deepfake' technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school

Watch one of the school’s ‘deepfake’ teachers in our story below

schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-trus...

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 2d

chicagomaroon.com/48673/news/h...

Hum Staff, Writing Instructors Raise Concerns Over Staffing, Communication During Writing Program Overhaul

Concerns about understaffing, pay, and faculty workload have surfaced amid the University’s ongoing overhaul of its undergraduate writing curriculum.

chicagomaroon.com

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 2d

"Emails from Heriot-Watt University (HWU) suggest Raytheon UK asked the university to “monitor university chat groups”" Oh
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 2d

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

How to Help MIBFC — Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

www.mibfc.org

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 2d

It makes sense, because libraries are about providing access to sources and AI is about their enclosure

christine @cms.bsky.social · 2d

my institution is also going in this direction. alums and current students got a survey over the summer asking us to pick the new name for the (already merged) compsci/datasci/infosci school, most of them mentioned AI, zero mentioned libraries

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

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