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“I find that my depths of despair have afforded me a newfound curiosity. . . and so, by the mercy of simply looking up and looking around, I can see that there are people willing to love me,” Hanif Abdurraqib writes in a new essay.

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Ilya Kaminsky’s “We lived happily during the war" #booksky #skybrarians

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Winston-Salem marks 225th anniversary of Peter Oliver's emancipation from slavery www.wfdd.org/story/winsto...

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Slavery Marker Will Finally Have a Home in Downtown Newport www.newportthisweek.com/articles/sla...

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Well…Britney Spears did say dance until the world ends

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I don't know if there's really one theme in Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, but the single idea that has stuck with me is joy is always possible. portersquarebooks.com/book/9780393...

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I’ve been watching Natasha Trethewey’s interviews and speeches on YouTube right before bed lately. Now time to read #booksky

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had someone come in to a museum today and ask chatGPT how much it cost to enter and chatGPT gave an imaginary number and the person asked "are you sure it isn't free" and chatGPT went "I am sorry. Yes, entry to this museum is free" and then the person showed me that and demanded free entry

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I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.

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Dr. Carla Hayden may have been fired, but she’s not backing down. In her first local interview since being removed as Librarian of Congress, Hayden reflects on her career, community, and the growing threats facing libraries. bit.ly/45soIBH

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I'm all for having non AI-assisted communication skills--I teach them! But if they also matter to Anthropic, then perhaps offering Claude free to college students is sending a...mixed message? Article link in next post.

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Happy-

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Honoring the repatriated Black New Orleanians whose skulls were taken for pseudoscience www.wwno.org/wwno/2025-06...

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Namibia marks colonial genocide as reparations hang in the balance www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Netherlands: Gov't talking with employers about making slavery commemoration a public holiday nltimes.nl/2025/06/12/g...

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Artist Paolo Cirio created a database of French police officers using photos of their faces taken during protests to critique facial recognition technology. Repurposing tools as a means of resistance still works. paolocirio.net/work/capture/

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CeCe Winans Tiny Desk just dropped!!

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Where to start. For those of us in education, another reminder that robust discussion of how LLMs work is the bare minimum and should not be coming long after giving free access to AI tools. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

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Why would you delete your post dunking on someone I don’t like? That’s no fun

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I still don’t understand where this guy came from. He was just on my TL every day all of a sudden

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"Our support and solidarity with people who are struggling for human dignity and justice should not depend on their knowing anything about us! Solidarity is not a market exchange. It’s not, you need to give us your love and we’ll give you ours!" black-ink.info/2020/01/16/s...

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How long has the US had for-profit prisons and unpaid prison labor? @robinmbernstein.bsky.social tells the story of how, in the 1840s, William Freeman, a Black man incarcerated in NY, sought back wages for his prison labor. Read about this lost chapter of history: inquest.org/the-prof...

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Reneigh is spending some time in residence at Harvard now that the Renaissance tour is over

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Duke AAUP is standing up against Duke's preemptive layoffs. We call on Duke University and its board of trustees to immediately halt the separation process and layoff plans until faculty and staff representatives can be fully involved in any decision process that would impact Duke’s mission.

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This week, I talked with @silkys13.bsky.social about immigration raids, rising authoritarianism, mass protest, innocence narratives, and what it means to organize effectively in this moment. Given everything that's happening, I highly recommend checking this one out.

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These people just live in some other headspace that I can't even fathom. The notion that I need to track my actions to understand myself is mind boggling. That I might want so share all this data with a tech corporation is impossible to conceive.

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I’m undercover at a conference outside of my field and it’s so funny how every subdiscipline has its own verbal tics

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Cover reveal for my upcoming book THE CROWN’S SILENCE—out with Mariner in January 2026 and available for pre-order now wherever books are sold.

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Redditors have noticed some curious activity from subreddits universally framing the LA protests in a negative light: www.reddit.com/r/SubredditD...

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Still mad—and with good reason. Today is the release date for the audiobook of HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND: MADNESS AND BLACK RADICAL CREATIVITY. I'm grateful to @dukepress.bsky.social for continued investment in my work, even four years after initial publication.

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But don’t worry, they are “deeply sorry” for this www.newyorklife.com/newsroom/ack...

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This A.I. Company Wants to Take Your Job "Hey, at least they are being honest," says the author.

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The Politics of Colonial Comparison: Interview with Sam Klug spectrejournal.com/the-politics...

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"When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. "

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is jstor down right now?

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this morning's therapy session got totally derailed by my therapist's hot take that Sister Act is superior to Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit because what do you mean

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You can pry my protein powder from my cold, dead hands

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Oregon ‘freedom to read’ library bill heads to governor’s desk oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/09/o...

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Parents fight dismissal of lawsuit on Florida’s book ban policies www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

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Saying hello to the neighbors on my way to get iced coffee

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Time to get working on your Porter Square Books Writer in Residence applications. Form is open now. Deadline is August 31! www.portersquarebooks.com/porter-squar...

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"Silicon Valley's scale-at-all-costs approach to AI development … is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says technology reporter @karenhao.bsky.social, whose new book is "Empire of AI."

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Inspired by the conversations about today's Times article about college ChatGPT, I asked ChatGPT to design a writing assignment in the style of...my writing assignments. First it gave me something very generic. Then it gave me...one of my own assignments that is available online. A short 🧵 /1

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The CalState system is paying $17 million to OpenAI over 18 months for an (apparently) bespoke model. If anything the money should be going the other way as CalSate makes it's nearly half-million students available for OpenAI's experiments on creating a viable product.

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BREAKING: Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82.

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Apparently Stanley Engerman published an essay about slavery reparations in 2009 that was basically just like, hmm, yes, questions abound

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