Colin
@celsmooth.bsky.social
Assistant clinical professor of STEM Ed. Parent to two young children. Walker in woods. Usually in Philly these days (he/his)
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Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
December 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Netflix, which rarely carries a single movie from before 1980, wants you to know how thrilled they are to acquire that classic piece of franchise IP, Casablanca
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
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Researcher produces 100+ papers on "AI" in a year and what's worse than the shonky vibe scholarship and "slop flood" this represents is that he's doing it all as boss of an edtech company called Algoverse charging students $$thousands to do the actual work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
December 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Researcher produces 100+ papers on "AI" in a year and what's worse than the shonky vibe scholarship and "slop flood" this represents is that he's doing it all as boss of an edtech company called Algoverse charging students $$thousands to do the actual work www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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I think what must fundamentally sink any Pinker-style dogma of progress is the slightest examination of the society that has elevated it
December 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I think what must fundamentally sink any Pinker-style dogma of progress is the slightest examination of the society that has elevated it
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censorship by AI-powered word search is significantly less intelligent and nuanced than the early modern church managed
December 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
censorship by AI-powered word search is significantly less intelligent and nuanced than the early modern church managed
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the only reason i’m not completely losing my mind over what has happened at OU
is because
of what has already been happening at public K-12 schools for years
they’ve *been* purging trans folks from academia since the rise of LibsOfTikTok
you’re only paying attention now because of a news cycle
is because
of what has already been happening at public K-12 schools for years
they’ve *been* purging trans folks from academia since the rise of LibsOfTikTok
you’re only paying attention now because of a news cycle
December 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
the only reason i’m not completely losing my mind over what has happened at OU
is because
of what has already been happening at public K-12 schools for years
they’ve *been* purging trans folks from academia since the rise of LibsOfTikTok
you’re only paying attention now because of a news cycle
is because
of what has already been happening at public K-12 schools for years
they’ve *been* purging trans folks from academia since the rise of LibsOfTikTok
you’re only paying attention now because of a news cycle
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Jersey City! There are a couple more hours to vote for Solomon!
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Jersey City! There are a couple more hours to vote for Solomon!
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Organizers believe that Texas State University professor Tom Alter was fired under pressure from far-right Texas legislators and officials who see his case as a precedent for sweeping academic purges, writes David Finkel labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
Texas College Teacher Fired for Free Speech | Labor Notes
labornotes.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Organizers believe that Texas State University professor Tom Alter was fired under pressure from far-right Texas legislators and officials who see his case as a precedent for sweeping academic purges, writes David Finkel labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...
Folks have BEEEEEEN saying this. No argument against anymore... eugenics at every turn
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Folks have BEEEEEEN saying this. No argument against anymore... eugenics at every turn
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Leavitt confirms the Trump administration is only letting in white people
December 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Leavitt confirms the Trump administration is only letting in white people
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Air pollution from fossil fuels kills 200,000 to 350,000 Americans.
Every year.
Every year.
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4hxHgEh
RFK Jr. directs CDC to study alleged harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reports
U.S. health secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
reut.rs
October 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Air pollution from fossil fuels kills 200,000 to 350,000 Americans.
Every year.
Every year.
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
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Curtailment of faculty authority in governing higher education institutions today will not only undermine professional freedoms--it will spoil the fruits of those freedoms: an independent, intellectually rigorous, and incorruptible education for future generations
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
BY AFSHAN JAFAR We have recently seen accelerating legislative and political attacks on faculty governing bodies at state institutions, including legislation recently enacted in Indiana, Ohio, Utah…
academeblog.org
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Curtailment of faculty authority in governing higher education institutions today will not only undermine professional freedoms--it will spoil the fruits of those freedoms: an independent, intellectually rigorous, and incorruptible education for future generations
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
-- Afshan Jafar (Conn AAUP)
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You mean this OpenAI?
November 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
You mean this OpenAI?
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Edtech has absolutely turned the language of regulation to its own advantage and maximization of opportunities. Also it is depressing that actual people utter words in this way now.
November 29, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Edtech has absolutely turned the language of regulation to its own advantage and maximization of opportunities. Also it is depressing that actual people utter words in this way now.
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Once again, you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & those of us who hold the second class variety can apparently lose ours if we do not show good behavior to Dear Leader & the far right authoritarian party.
The President of the United States promising a policy of mass denaturalization of citizens "who undermine domestic tranquility"
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Once again, you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & those of us who hold the second class variety can apparently lose ours if we do not show good behavior to Dear Leader & the far right authoritarian party.
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spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
spanish flu was 1918........ the great wall street crash was 1929........... very cool stuff, history, very cool and not stressful
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It was the evening before Thanksgiving...and EPA dropped a final rule granting oil & gas companies more than a year to comply with some Biden-era mandates to replace leaky equipment & routinely monitor for escaped methane.
Story w/gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Story w/gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
New EPA Rule Gives Oil, Gas Firms More Time to Fix Equipment Leaking Methane
The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday finalized a rule granting oil and gas operators more than a year in additional time to comply with mandates set by former President Joe Biden to replac...
www.bloomberg.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
It was the evening before Thanksgiving...and EPA dropped a final rule granting oil & gas companies more than a year to comply with some Biden-era mandates to replace leaky equipment & routinely monitor for escaped methane.
Story w/gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Story w/gift link @bloomberg.com: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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I'm not convinced that this is an issue that will win votes. I agree that it's legally and constitutionally an important issue, but I think voters want to see a plan to make their day to day personal lives easier
November 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I'm not convinced that this is an issue that will win votes. I agree that it's legally and constitutionally an important issue, but I think voters want to see a plan to make their day to day personal lives easier
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Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Lo and behold, reveries of the breakfast world
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Lo and behold, reveries of the breakfast world
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Russian asset Ron Johnson says there’s no money to give Americans $2K inflation checks. But there is money for a despot’s $250M ballroom and enough to give $40B to Argentina’s dictator.
I’ll always remember Ron paying Putin a visit in Moscow on July 4th weekend in 2018.
I’ll always remember Ron paying Putin a visit in Moscow on July 4th weekend in 2018.
November 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Russian asset Ron Johnson says there’s no money to give Americans $2K inflation checks. But there is money for a despot’s $250M ballroom and enough to give $40B to Argentina’s dictator.
I’ll always remember Ron paying Putin a visit in Moscow on July 4th weekend in 2018.
I’ll always remember Ron paying Putin a visit in Moscow on July 4th weekend in 2018.
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“TikTok’s reliance on attention-grabbing short-form video content, coupled with apps like Sora 2, has made it far easier for non-Black creators and bot accounts to adopt racialized stereotypical Black personas using deepfakes.”
The Viral ‘DoorDash Girl’ Saga Unearthed a Nightmare for Black Creators
A delivery driver posted a TikTok alleging she had been sexually assaulted by a customer. The deepfakes that followed reveal a growing digital blackface problem.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“TikTok’s reliance on attention-grabbing short-form video content, coupled with apps like Sora 2, has made it far easier for non-Black creators and bot accounts to adopt racialized stereotypical Black personas using deepfakes.”
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@schumer.senate.gov but they promised, right Chuck, & they always follow through with their promises…
November 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
@schumer.senate.gov but they promised, right Chuck, & they always follow through with their promises…
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Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.