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Paperboy by @callummcsorley.bsky.social - an 'energetic novel from a rising star of crime, full of black comedy, gore, slapstick and street slang', the perfect summer read @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

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Most of the ideas mentioned in this article—higher minimum wage, free tuition at public colleges, higher taxes on the rich—are not only popular now but were realities in the past, including in NYC, during the booming postwar years, when America was “great.”/1 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/u...

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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? You absolutely can lie via data & math & everything about how you present data is an argument for how to interpret/understand it Everything we know is founded on best guesses & analogies All technoscience is enmeshed with human values

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This is a good watch. Tbh, the greatest platonic male love I experienced was in the military. We called each other brother, hugged, checked on each other, had deep conversations, didn't say we loved each other, but told the team/squad we loved them, etc. Bunch of grunts showing positive masculinity

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Graphic artists in China push back on AI and its averaging effect

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The lure of the corvine life. Read "Obligation," by Trina Young vestalreview.net/issue-66

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Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with. For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing. To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways. And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.

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In the American Revolution, British satirists used elaborate French hairstyles to mock the rebel colonists, who got support from France against their mutual enemy. Fascinating to see this imagery come full circle with a very different meaning. #NoKings

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Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

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“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

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Roll Tide #HuntsvilleAL #NoKings

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Ithaca is Resistance

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Yo. Peep my protest drip.

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#Boise #Idaho showing up for #NoKings

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Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.

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Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

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FlashFlood: Debut Flash: 'A Deer Looks Up' by Simone Kremkau #nffd2025

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Congratulations to @awprihandita.bsky.social , Your Personal Odyssey graduate, on having her novelette, "Negative Scholarship on the Fifth State of Being," nominated for an Ignyte Award! ❤️

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I can’t recommend @karenhao.bsky.social’s Empire of AI enough. She doesn’t shy away from telling the true story of OpenAI and all the harm that’s come from its pursuit of generative AI expansion. It was a pleasure to dig into it with her on the podcast!

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My new hobby is looking at the one star reviews of important historical sources on Goodreads... Like this one of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain... 😂

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You know who can produce a summer reading list without resorting to the planet-killing plagiarism machine? Booksellers. In fact, there are at least two lists of summer reading recs on the main page at bookshop.org

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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And while we’re in these dark and profoundly stupid times, might I suggest Martha S. Jones’s work—highlighting how African Americans used the courts to argue for the idea of birthright citizenship long before the Civil War as a means to establish their status as free citizens.

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Oh jfc. Do not indemnify these people against their own jörmungandr-sized ouroboros of bullshit. Let them be sued into the fucking ground for At Least negligence in re: failure to certify their products' operations to the highest available standards of expertise. Do none of you remember 2008-10?!

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The cost of the 4 F-18 planes lost in the Red Sea ($240 million) is now greater than the 2025 NEH Budget ($200 million)

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Ok this is pretty cool. Teen Vogue just published an excerpt from my Copaganda book today! www.teenvogue.com/story/copaga...

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This is a lovely article featuring @adapalmer.bsky.social ‘s University of Chicago “Pope Class” in both current and historical context. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

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It's HERE!!! Look at this beauty! So excited to receive my contributor copy of Flash Fiction Festival Anthology Seven @flashficfestuk.bsky.social published by @adhocfiction.bsky.social. It's even more gorgeous on the inside!! 😍😍😍 #FlashFiction #FlashFictionFestival #AmWriting

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Deep breaths. Let me play some soothing ukulele for you while I teach you how to disable message previews on your phone so cops and nosy roommates can’t see who is messaging you even when your phone is locked 😘

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Helena Hauss, 'Hell Hath No Fury' (2019)

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What a sense of humor you have, Upstate NY winter weather! You arrive just as evening rush hour gets underway.

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Slight correction: For those in the mood for guillotines (Vive la révolution!)-- My historical flash, "Let them wear cake," is a "signature challenge" runner up for Great Flash Fiction Festival Day. My first ever online publication! www.flashfictionfestival.com/winners-grea...

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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

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No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.

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