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Political theory &c. Emphasis on the &c.
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Natalia Cecire
5 months ago
Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
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David Lay Williams
1 day ago
One hundred times over, this. I'm all about reading great books, and no one should assume they amount to some kind of indoctrination program. The point is to get students thinking about the big questions, which is what these books excel at. Every college student deserves this.
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Anna Merlan
1 day ago
Eric Adams is going to use cryptocurrency to fight antisemitism. Eric Adams is going to use samurai swords to fight food waste. Eric Adams is going to use 100 rubber duckies to fight prostate cancer. I would believe literally any combo of words
hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-s...
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Eric Adams Says His Next Gig Is Fighting Antisemitism With Cryptocurrency
How? Don't ask.
https://hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-says-he-will-fight-antisemitism-with-cryptocurrency/
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Laprofmme
3 days ago
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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âWe are all humanists now.â
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The âCrisis of the Humanitiesâ Is Over. Thatâs Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-crisis-of-the-humanities-is-over-thats-not-a-good-thing
3 days ago
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Peter Adamson
3 days ago
Semiotic paradox alert!
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Irony Is Dead (on Xitter anyway)
3 days ago
Among important details picked up by
@emptywheel.bsky.social
: the pipe bomber started wiping his phone on Dec 15, 2020, one day after a visit to Capitol Hill mentioned in his arrest affidavit, but disappeared from his detention affidavit.
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Jeanine Pirro Got Curiously Silent about What Brian Cole Did on December 14, 2020 - emptywheel
The accused pipe bomber, Brian Cole, started regularly wiping his cell phone the day after he traveled to Capitol Hill weeks before planting the pipe bombs. But DOJ dropped his December 14, 2020 trip ...
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/28/jeanine-pirro-got-curiously-silent-about-what-brian-cole-did-on-december-14-2020/
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Jacob T. Levy
3 days ago
Itâs not just âwe decided to name our company after the personification of evil.â Itâs also âwe decided to name our home security company after the personification of evil who was so vainly proud of his vigilance that he let his home get invaded in the most catastrophic way possible.â
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Aaron Bady
4 days ago
it's sad to see someone wrong on the internet like this. I never thought I would see the day, but here it is.
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robert p. baird
6 days ago
My review of Ross Douthat's BELIEVE is up at
@nybooks.com
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www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Hey, film people: any idea how to stream Evald Schorm's The End of a Priest (1969), [Original title: FarĂĄĆĆŻv konec] in the US?
6 days ago
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Matthew Budman, book guy
10 days ago
lol "capitalism"
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Haus of Decline
11 days ago
Me, age 6: How come all the grown-ups in my life are so sad around Christmas? Don't they like presents? Me, age 36: Oh
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Kris Straub (Ù۱ÙŰł)
11 days ago
please let âbugs bunnyingâ become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
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Amazing! Itâs the first natural sighting of Elon Musk using irony appropriately! <Pinter pause> Uh, Iâm just being told that my interpretation may be incorrect.
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12 days ago
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)
12 days ago
The Red Deer Advocate, April 1983. Alberta scientists know about bull trout declines because an Indigenous PhD drop out dedicated his time to researching this species instead of climbing the academic ladder in the 70s. They donât cite him but his legacy still matters.
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âSiri, whatâs the best way to keep the Epstein files in the news for the next six months, while also juicing the conspiracy theories?â
13 days ago
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Virginia Heffernan
13 days ago
The Times should not pretend to be surprised by David Brooksâs proximity to Epstein & the edgelords Epstein sponsored. Brooks was one of them. I originally published this in Wired in 6 years ago.
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Evergreen
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13 days ago
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daanis
13 days ago
So when you watch horror pay attention to that: where the threat comes from, who has the knowledge to eliminate that threat, and what the role of Black or Indigenous people are in the story. Sometimes we're invisible, the savage other. Other times we're explicitly present.
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erin pineda
14 days ago
tell me more about this âdean in the departmentâ
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Erin Grievances
14 days ago
I know what itâs like to go on the job market and discover that your areas of specialty are not really what people are hiring, but that is not the result of whatever boogie man youâve imagined, itâs the result of pressures that have effectively throttled academic hiring.
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Have you considered reading an excellent short story instead of listening to this horrible speech?
15 days ago
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Bill Grueskin
15 days ago
CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their bossâs anti-woke âuniversityâ in Austin. Via
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www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...
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e.w. niedermeyer
17 days ago
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts
www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
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Abu Aardvark
19 days ago
ChatGPT is full spectrum terrible! Gemini is I am very stupid terrible! Grok is fun drunk uncle terrible! Which of these are we supposed to be so scared of??
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profchander
21 days ago
me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas! me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong
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20 days ago
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Will Sommer
21 days ago
Insane story about Jack Posobiec threatening a reporter over a Pentagon official's cuckolding books on Goodreads.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/12/eric-geressy-goodreads-pentagon-dod-pete-hegseth-jack-posobiec-threat/
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"Why the Railway Mania is Nothing Like the Tulip Frenzy" by Augustus Reginald Dunshunner and Bob M'Corkindale
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
23 days ago
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
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Of course, âscotch tapeâ has its origins in the same ethnic stereotype.
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23 days ago
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Jenni
24 days ago
Shout out to Princeton Sociology. More rigorous than every other discipline besides History lmao.
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Larry Glickman
25 days ago
On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on âEqual Rights-Impartial Suffrage,â in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, âno greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.â
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
25 days ago
Artemy Magun reviews The Democratic Sublime. On Aesthetics and Popular Assembly by Jason Frank
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
25 days ago
Michaelle Browers reviews Jeanne Morefield's Unsettling the World: Edward Said and Political Theory
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
25 days ago
Vicki Hsueh on Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss by Juliet Hooker
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Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson
25 days ago
Jeanne Morefield reviews Edward Said: The Politics of an Oppositional Intellectual, by Nubar Hovsepian
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)
26 days ago
Colonial white possessive society (Moreton-Robinson 2015) is always looking for a particle (spokesperson, celebrity) to avoid having to deal with us in our wave-based solidarities and ungovernable collectivities. Celebrity culture is inherently linear, extractive, flat, boring. And easily weaponized
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Karrin Vasby Anderson
27 days ago
Still working on my book about the pornification of politics . . . but apparently I need to start one on the pornification of 4th grade English. LLMs are destroying education.
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Why is nobody asking if Brian Cole, Jr., is already pardoned?
27 days ago
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Prisonculture
27 days ago
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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Since this seems to be the week to discuss war crimes, has anyone seen reference to the (historically) first written description of killing shipwrecked sailors as an act contrary to the laws of war? Article 31 in The Rolls of Oléron seems close.
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On Legal Justifications - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Long time readers will know of my frustration with much public discourse on âwar crimes,â especially in but not limited to progressive spaces. In brief, it is common to find colloquial invocation of t...
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/on-legal-justifications
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G Elliott Morris
30 days ago
A recap of tonight's special election in TN-07 (plus a WAY-TOO-EARLY model of the 2026 midterms). A swing of 13 points would put Dems over 250 seats in the U.S. House. A more reasonable scenarioâsay, D+6âstill gives them the House, and maybe the Senate.
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-s...
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What the special election in Tennessee's Seventh District means for the 2026 midterms
Republicans held a Trump +22 seat â but by only 9 points. A swing half as large would give Democrats the U.S. House in 2026, and put the Senate clearly in play
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-special-election-in-tennessees
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30 days ago
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where are my TN 07 obsessives hiding?
30 days ago
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Amanda Marcotte
30 days ago
For real. In her response video, she takes offense at me saying she denies the reality of dinosaurs and then....immediately denies the reality of dinosaurs.
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lanyardigan
30 days ago
Oh yeah, at work someone advised me to remove em dashes from something Iâd written because it implies AI wrote it. So now this shit between me and AI is fuckin personal
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