Amy Laura Hall
@profligategrace.bsky.social
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Apropos of everything. I miss home.
December 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Apropos of everything. I miss home.
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Santa Claus: I bring presents to children around the world.
Easter Bunny: I bring children baskets of candy.
Tooth Fairy: I collect human teeth.
*others back away*
Easter Bunny: I bring children baskets of candy.
Tooth Fairy: I collect human teeth.
*others back away*
April 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Santa Claus: I bring presents to children around the world.
Easter Bunny: I bring children baskets of candy.
Tooth Fairy: I collect human teeth.
*others back away*
Easter Bunny: I bring children baskets of candy.
Tooth Fairy: I collect human teeth.
*others back away*
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Breaking bad was about a guy who had many opportunities for his healthcare to be paid for (his former business partners, jrs accidental money laundering go fund me), but he preferred selling meth because ruining other people's lives feels more manly than accepting gifts.
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Breaking bad was about a guy who had many opportunities for his healthcare to be paid for (his former business partners, jrs accidental money laundering go fund me), but he preferred selling meth because ruining other people's lives feels more manly than accepting gifts.
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I'm doing my part by turning my family against AI and the Altmans/Musks of the world.
December 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm doing my part by turning my family against AI and the Altmans/Musks of the world.
Oh, I love this so much. Ok, now to make tea.
People who put little antlers on their cars: we aren’t stupid, we can still tell they are cars
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Oh, I love this so much. Ok, now to make tea.
Today’s listening!
I loved being on The Medieval Podcast! Thank you so much to Danièle Cybulskie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gp...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gp...
The Medieval Moon with Ayoush Lazikani
YouTube video by Medievalists
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Today’s listening!
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(Petition to add ‘became Cumbrian Erin Brockovich’ to questions in the Graduate Outcomes Survey)
December 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
(Petition to add ‘became Cumbrian Erin Brockovich’ to questions in the Graduate Outcomes Survey)
Good morning. Apparently fog can be freezing.
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Good morning. Apparently fog can be freezing.
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Leila Stillman-Utterback, a graduate of Middlebury Union High School, traveled to Israel-Palestine where she participated in a solidarity program that included providing “protective presence” for Palestinians who are under constant attack from right-wing Israeli settlers.
Vermont Conversation: A Jewish student banished from Israel and her mother, a rabbi, speak out - VTDigger
Leila Stillman-Utterback, a graduate of Middlebury Union High School, traveled to Israel-Palestine where she participated in a solidarity program that included providing “protective presence” for Pale...
vtdigger.org
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Leila Stillman-Utterback, a graduate of Middlebury Union High School, traveled to Israel-Palestine where she participated in a solidarity program that included providing “protective presence” for Palestinians who are under constant attack from right-wing Israeli settlers.
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Check out the trailer for the new doc The Six Billion Dollar Man, directed by Eugene Jarecki & featuring Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill. It re-examines Julian Assange’s story from WikiLeaks’ major leaks to his legal battles & imprisonment, using archival footage & new interviews. The film won the...
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Check out the trailer for the new doc The Six Billion Dollar Man, directed by Eugene Jarecki & featuring Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill. It re-examines Julian Assange’s story from WikiLeaks’ major leaks to his legal battles & imprisonment, using archival footage & new interviews. The film won the...
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CRUCIAL! by Stephanie Foote
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
Project MUSE - Almost Heaven: West Virginia University and the Transcendental Grifter
muse.jhu.edu
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
CRUCIAL! by Stephanie Foote
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
"I...lived through the devastation of a solid public university by a professional grifter who imagines himself as a visionary, and who takes every opportunity to express his vision. That person was Gordon Gee, and the university he destroyed was West Virginia University"
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Cannot stand “Hamilton” but love this!
As long as we’re talking about Rudolph and his team…
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sm...
Hamildolph (An American Christmas Story) - Hamilton Parody - Eclipse 6
YouTube video by Eclipse 6
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Cannot stand “Hamilton” but love this!
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Rudolph gets all the love, so let’s talk about the names of Santa’s other reindeer.
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Rudolph gets all the love, so let’s talk about the names of Santa’s other reindeer.
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
dasher | noun | one that dashes
dancer | noun | one that dances
prancer | noun | one that walks or moves in a spirited manner
Ok, those three are easy to understand.
🧵⬇️
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
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You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
December 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
You must react everyday to what is happening. But that is no way to write a book or a sentence.
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
-James Baldwin, intv w Joe Walker, 1972
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“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”
Against Technofeudal Education
Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI
theamericanvandal.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“The logical conclusion of a technofeudal oligarchy combining forces with an authoritarian political movement is compulsory enrollment in the security state’s platform architecture of surveillance, indoctrination, and behavioral modification.”
I love both of these practices and will work on my icy delivery over winter break.
While I have not had the chance to do this with faculty, asking “And you are?” in a curious tone to administrative staff (always men) who do not introduce themselves before asking questions has always been enjoyable.
One of my favorite things that happens in academia is when one academic name-drops another academic who they think is super famous & the third academic (who is supposed to be impressed) says, nonchalantly, “Who’s that?”
Every time this happens I feel joy, even when I’m the one name-dropping.
Every time this happens I feel joy, even when I’m the one name-dropping.
December 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I love both of these practices and will work on my icy delivery over winter break.
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“Listen to the voice of Buddha
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
December 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“Listen to the voice of Buddha
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
Saying stop your sericulture
Little people like your offspring
Boiled alive for some god's stocking
Buddha's watching, Buddha's waiting”
This song turns 50 next year (🤩) & it remains one of the greatest synth-pop tracks of all time
youtu.be/I_NStTkSRQw?...
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THIS is how you do health journalism—including the highly responsible title that gets immediately to the real story
Thank goodness for journalists like @melodyschreiber.com & columnists like @lisamjarvis.bsky.social at Bloomberg, who are covering the dangerous shenanigans of the MAHA crew so well
Thank goodness for journalists like @melodyschreiber.com & columnists like @lisamjarvis.bsky.social at Bloomberg, who are covering the dangerous shenanigans of the MAHA crew so well
America’s top vaccines official promised, in a long and argumentative memo to staff, to revamp vaccine regulation after claiming 10 children died from Covid vaccines. But Vinay Prasad offered no evidence for that allegation and scant details on the new approach.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine official
Vinay Prasad memo said at least 10 children had died from Covid vaccination – but offered scant evidence for claim
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
THIS is how you do health journalism—including the highly responsible title that gets immediately to the real story
Thank goodness for journalists like @melodyschreiber.com & columnists like @lisamjarvis.bsky.social at Bloomberg, who are covering the dangerous shenanigans of the MAHA crew so well
Thank goodness for journalists like @melodyschreiber.com & columnists like @lisamjarvis.bsky.social at Bloomberg, who are covering the dangerous shenanigans of the MAHA crew so well
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This is how you write a headline
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Palantir CEO Says Making War Crimes Constitutional Would Be Good for Business
Alex Karp vows to use his "whole influence" on immigration and defense policy.
gizmodo.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is how you write a headline
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What could possibly go wrong?
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 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
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Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Koh: I think what we are seeing is what the founding fathers feared the most, which is the collapse of our checks and balances. The Supreme court is supposed to be a co-equal branch of government. It's basically a mouthpiece for Donald Trump at this point.
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Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.
December 5, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Koh: This is not about justice. This is about power. This is about a Secretary of Defense so drunk off alpha male bullshit that he's willing to take lives to get off on that power.