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Meredith Martin

@mmvty.bsky.social

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poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu
& Princeton Societal AI https://societal.dais.princeton.edu/
editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky

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@mmvty.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:52 PM

Bit I first learned about them here: share.google/k25gVMCQXpDN...

@mmvty.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:50 PM

www.propublica.org/article/ulin...

@esqueer.netOct 11, 2026, 12:03 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.

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@mrsbettybowers.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:00 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

I keep reading that there have been no public executions in the United States for decades. Not true.

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@atrupar.comOct 11, 2026, 2:31 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."

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@mayor.nyc.govOct 11, 2026, 3:32 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Cancelling a subscription shouldn't be this hard. If you can sign up with a click, you must be able to cancel with one.

Head to nyc.gov/click-to-cancel to file a complaint against any business that makes it hard to cancel a subscription.

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@josefoshea.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 11:02 AMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

PAlina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 8:40 AM

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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@donmoyn.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 2:42 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Over the last decade, there were two hypotheses: H1: the political right genuinely cared about threats to speech from the left. H2: they were using campus speech wars to impose their values and silence dissent. Today, the answer is clear, but I can't find any of the H1 people admitting their error.

AAdam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:45 PM

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”
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@atrupar.comOct 11, 2026, 1:49 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

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@mmvty.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 1:09 PM

I do the same thing, but I do glance at the various jobs folks post that might be good for our grad students & try to nab those for our listserv? I just find out last week I am only supposed to “connect” to people I know. 🤷‍♀️

@nicholasgrossman.bsky.socialOct 11, 2026, 12:34 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

The "Party of Reagan" has the United States siding with Russian aggression against NATO allies and a brutal war on a European democratic US partner. Yes, the whole party. If they didn't, they would impeach and remove the president who is blatantly breaking US law to help fund Russia's war effort.

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@raxkingisdead.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:07 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

‘oh my god hiiiii welcome to my axe’

@lincolnproject.usOct 10, 2026, 9:55 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Trump: "If Republicans get in power, you're going to end up in a depression. These people are incompetent"

@nicolefoy.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 3:34 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens

It's simply not true

So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration
projects.propublica.org/american-cit...

projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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@jakemgrumbach.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 9:32 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Quick story. My op-ed on how corporations that kept their DEI programs performed just as well financially was accepted & factchecked at TIME Magazine. Just needed "pro forma review by the legal department." Suddenly the piece is spiked Why? Benioff owns TIME and wants to ingratiate himself to Trump

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@briantylercohen.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 8:10 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

“ABC pulling the story only made it a bigger story. Certainly not what Don Jr. or the WH were going for. And ABC doesn’t look great, either. All of which underscores the need for news that is neither owned nor leveraged by this White House— a commodity vanishingly rare in today’s media environment.”

@mguariglia.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:20 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Democrats must recon with the idea that, guided by ideology and in exchange for massive profits from government contracts, many of these tech companies were *fine* assisting with the erosion of democracy and civil/human rights violations en mass.

@mayor.nyc.govOct 10, 2026, 8:27 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Happy Italian Heritage Month, New York. Here’s continuing to fight for Vito Marcantonio’s vision of a government that works for all working people.

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@mrsbettybowers.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Let me see if I understand this . . . 1. The U.S. is at war with Iran. 2. Russia is helping Iran in that war. 3. The U.S. is now giving Russia money that it can use to help Iran destroy U.S. bases and kill U.S. troops. Donald is smart & patriotic like that.

CMark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 4:18 PM

The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.

Map of tanker’s route
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@rbreich.bsky.socialOct 10, 2026, 6:01 PMReposted by @mmvty.bsky.social

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

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