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Union member. Academic. Highland Park, NJ. He/Him
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Radley Balko
1 day ago
The largest ever settlement or jury award for government violations of constitutional rights to a single person is $100 million, or 1 percent of what Trump demanding for the leak of his tax returns. That case -- a killing by police -- was reduced to $1 million on appeal.
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Rutgers Engineering Dean censured, must be replaced âThe meeting was part of an attempt by Cuitiño and some engineering department heads to âcircle the wagons,â
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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Rutgers Faculty Split Over Disinvited Commencement Speaker
The ongoing fight is complete with all the trappings of a campus divided over free speechâpetitions, student rallies, faculty meetings, backchannel discussions and administratorsâ attempts to quash it...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/academic-freedom/2026/05/13/rutgers-faculty-split-over-disinvited-commencement-speaker
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driftglass
2 days ago
In his 2nd Inaugural, Abraham Lincoln delivered what might be the most devastating rebuttal to the Both Sides lie in history. "Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."
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Carl T. Bergstrom
2 days ago
My daughter sent me this point-and-shoot film photo. I love it because the dog's physiology, the dog's behavior, and the framing are all minimally dynamic. What dog looks like that, let alone stands still on a beach? What photographer frames something so statically centered? It all fits.
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We are better when there are scientists specializing on all the different questions, much appreciation for this
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Charlie Stross
8 days ago
I've also ditched *all* Microsoft products for pretty much the same reasonâsneaky mandatory AI opt-ins with no heed given for "customers" who might have good reasons for *not* wanting that shit anywhere near their computers.
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Louise Seamster
10 days ago
(the answer coming from on high is: conformity, obedience, subservience, lack of independent and critical thinking skills, apathyâŠand probably most of all, ignorance)
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Ketan Joshi
11 days ago
A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted:
www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
14 days ago
This paper was retracted from the
@nejm.org
because the images of bronchial branching after smoke inhalation were obviously and transparently manipulated by generative AI. Look at the ruler. I don't even know what lesson to draw from this.
www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...
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Alex Hanna
18 days ago
Just to reiterate something that
@ali-alkhatib.com
says continuously -- to reframe AI as a political project and not as a technology.
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southpaw
18 days ago
Itâs not a security breach that he didnât sleep in a sterile area; it just wasnât the security plan. And the designed security did in fact stop the attack without it. The demand embedded in this piece that it become the plan is exactly how the one way ratchet of a burdensome security state works.
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So many choices.
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making art
22 days ago
i just filled out an accessibility survey and it asked me if i use an mobility device and i said, yes â benches
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Caleb Crain
26 days ago
Schrödingerâs Strait of Hormuz
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Grew up in Montana. This rocks and is the kind of thing that could totally pass in Montana.
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Dr. Mikaila
28 days ago
Experiments in Blackboard Ally & Title II: this process is 1 part CYA & 2 parts meaningless busywork. Documents a screen reader can't read score 100% if you give them a citation. Making one line in a document heading-format can get to 100%. Documents screen readers do fine with will get a 2%.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
29 days ago
Every other politician in the United States RN
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derek guy
about 1 month ago
i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content
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not an art thief
about 1 month ago
astronauts on the moon. affordable college for everybody. building a ton of housing for families. vaccines to end cancers. we can have all this cool stuff if you just vote for the people that want to do it. we can do so much great stuff. put down your anger. great things are right there.
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John Scalzi
about 1 month ago
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
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Kyle Griffin
about 1 month ago
House Judiciary Ranking Member Jamie Raskin is demanding the White House physician perform a cognitive test on Trump in light of his recent comments on Iran.Â
tinyurl.com/3xpptf8u
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
about 1 month ago
Absolute banger from
@samforstag.bsky.social
www.instagram.com/reel/DW7Z2ym...
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Carl T. Bergstrom
about 1 month ago
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwaâs student visa was rescinded without explanation.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/immigration-news/uw-graduate-student-deported-sea-airport/281-416fdfa0-a715-4267-90f1-afe30c71b754
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)
about 1 month ago
Just because a President announces heâs agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve.
#25thAmendment
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George Conway âïžđșđž
about 1 month ago
We won't last 33 more months of this. This must stop. We must make it stop.
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Kevin M. Kruse
about 1 month ago
Really happy to see that Mayor Mamdani has taken his team's social media skills and used it to publicize what good government looks like. This is good politics and good policy at once.
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Tal Lavin
about 1 month ago
honestly more songs should be about this specific narrative
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Erin Reed
about 2 months ago
1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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The Largest Physician Organization In The US Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care Is Medically Necessary
The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans peopleâs health careâexpressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-largest-physician-organization
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John Scalzi
about 2 months ago
FYI, I've donated to the Texas Library Association, which among other things operates the Texans for the Right to Read coalition. Oppose book bans! Vote out politicians and school boards who vote for them!
texansfortherighttoread.com
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Lori Emerson
about 2 months ago
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! đ
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Barbara J. King
about 2 months ago
Good vaccination news. 'A new study of more than 140,000 infants confirms the protection that COVID vaccination during pregnancy offers babies in their first few months of life.'
#COVID
#vaccines
#pregnancy
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Yep, a mom's COVID shot during pregnancy protects her baby, a large study finds
A 3-year study published in Pediatrics examined newborns in Norway. It found a clear benefit for the baby when mom gets a COVID vaccination during pregnancy.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5759732/covid-vaccination-pregnancy-safety-efficacy
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Jason W. Dean
about 2 months ago
On that last point,
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
has good stuff to say here (and my thanks to
@sibyllacumae.bsky.social
for sending it to me and pointing it out):
sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...
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"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History â Sonja Drimmer
The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself. It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...
https://sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/9/10/the-printing-press-democratized-knowledge-a-slogans-masquerading-as-history
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Andrew Goldstone
about 2 months ago
#lrt
it's just a typo but I love the idea that there are many readers who are "19th-century Americans" and thus all too familiar with the pathologies of the present. Time is a flat circle.
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Tori Herridge
2 months ago
For the record, this is my comment to the journalist on Colossalâs dire wolf.
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This is how to make change. Primary challenges are a win-win. Maybe we get a great new person to make change or we bend an incumbent to at least get out of the way of change.
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Courtney Milan
2 months ago
Giving up two weekend days is a small price to pay in order to put the fear of primaries from the left into politicians. I hope that Julie will win. She will be better than Hick, and I believe in her. But whatever happens in this election, she is forcing Hick to be slightly better.
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Courtney Milan
2 months ago
My email is an endless stream of âupgrade to get access toââ I donât want it. I want to downgrade. I want to get less access. I want the opposite of what youâre selling.
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Important reporting, read the whole thing to see Epstein world connect with Murdaugh world, but my god Epstein, Trump and associates just wrecked lives
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Kevin Elliott
2 months ago
The proper way to translate this, if you want to assimilate the value of America's higher education sector into brute economic terms, is: "Exports of one of America's world-leading industries dropped by more than a third this year." Where's that headline in the business press?
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Rick Carusoâs Private Fire Crew
over 2 years ago
My dad: you can pick your friends, you can pick your nose, but you canât pick your friendâs nose Markwayne: Challenge accepted.
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Ed Markey
2 months ago
Let me be clear: Iâm glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
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Thief of Kings
2 months ago
"Nobody questions the success of the military operations" is a profoundly idiotic thing to say. This fucking nightmare is obviously not a "success" to anyone with half a sense of strategic planning.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
So obviously, ALL Democratic Senators must refuse confirmation votes for any replacement without enforceable guarantee that ICE will follow the law
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Ousts Noem as Homeland Security Secretary
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/05/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.Q1A.J6uR.zanB5XiP43w0&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Alexander Cohen
2 months ago
Tragic.
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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Iowa College Student With âBright Futureâ Among U.S. Soldiers Killed
U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Declan Coady, 20 years old, of West Des Moines, Iowa, was a student at Drake University. He studied information systems, cybersecurity and computer science, according to a spoke...
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/iran-israel-us-strikes-2026/card/iowa-college-student-with-bright-future-among-u-s-soldiers-killed-dixDSY7Lzp2UbgLf9jB3?st=sGF3t4&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Dave Karpf
2 months ago
If you, as a social scientist, believe that AI is now a better social scientist than you, then (a) youâre probably right, and (b) sure sounds like a skill issue, yâknow?
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
2 months ago
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for: - Who takes over; - Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation; - How to defend US bases in the region; - Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and - How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
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ceej
2 months ago
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
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Oliver Willis
2 months ago
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
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Read the whole thread, canât believe Iâd forgotten this
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