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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26m

Folks, see the details local journalists post about breaking news events when verifiable info is limited. ⤵️

Name of agency. Location. Time. Source. Context about local area and confirmation by local Rapid Response group.

Stop sharing accounts that solely post "Holy Sh*t, ICE!" with dramatic video.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 52m

Border Patrol is terrorizing Gage Park this morning (video from Facebook, 55th & California reportedly 9:40am). SWRR reports agents are highly active and were also seen at the Pulaski orange line again: instagram.com/p/DPtwEY7DhTy

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 5m

Armed escalation is in the air.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 11h

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 11h

Protest axolotl! Amphifa!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

Portland 🔥

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 13h

I did this, took like 30 min.
Points I kept hammering: domestic cloud, regulations around copyright and likeness rights, focusing on machine learning with concrete, real world uses (creating new drugs, etc), the damage done by slop, the need to listen to AI experts who are realists, not boosters.

Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t feel stupid but delete immediately you know, tell people, and on here, block anyone who refuses to take down the fake.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t feel stupid if you fell for fake video. It can be really hard to tell these days. But we do have to try and be careful with what we share because there’s so much AI video out there.

It’s just the world we live in now.

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 22h

Whatever you think of the propriety of their decision to talk to the NYT, the fact that federal judges did so — reportedly more than three dozen! — means they are pulling the proverbial fire alarm.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Sarah Rose @thesarahrose.bsky.social · 14h

The gentleman’s agreement that prevented people from reporting on Barron is now over

It is open season

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18h

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 14h

It’s four hours! It’s good though. Lucky I’m down with nerve pain, I suppose; I had the time. Horsman comes up very briefly at the end.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 17h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 21h

A boon for private liquor stores.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 21h

Thread!

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 2d

Our classrooms are not safe for us or regular students. Our universities canot be relied upon to protect us. You have to keep speaking up about this. Faculty already are, but we need folks who aren’t in academia raising the alarm for everyone else. The End.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21h

“Whereas criminal suspects in this past may have been incriminated by a Google query on, say, how to clean up bloodstains, a more comprehensive, detailed back-and-forth with a tool like ChatGPT gives investigators far more opportunities to prove intent and mindset…”

What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial

User exchanges with ChatGPT and other AI tools are a valuable new form of evidence for law enforcement in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

www.rollingstone.com

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 21h

You are the second lair dweller to recommend this video to me—but the first to link it. You win. This time.

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No More Robots @nomorerobots.io · 2d

Here's how we handle manchildren on the Steam forums at No More Robots:

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Marvin Oppong @marvinoppong.bsky.social · Mar 30

Anton de Kom ist in den Niederlanden und Surinam bekannt. In Surinam kämpfte er gegen #Kolonialismus und #Rassismus. In die Niederlande abgeschoben, schloss sich de Kom dann dort dem Widerstand gegen die Nazis an. Er starb in einem KZ - in Niedersachsen. Bildnis bei den Black Archives in #Amsterdam:

Farbenfrohes Wandgemälde mit dem Konterfei Anton de Koms am Eingang der Black Archives in Amsterdam.

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 1d

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone is so punk on the internet.
Our dicks are smaller.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 22h

Thread.

Karie Ghoulish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 22h

I am someone with blue hair and a rose ring. This is empowering on a daily basis.

It is the power to reject societal expectations of what "pretty femininity" looks like; it is power to sit in my own Self without catering to the male gaze.

Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social · 1d

As a fashion historian, I will die on this hill: the point of having blue hair and nose rings (or spiky nails or stripper heels or tattoos or an all-black wardrobe) is not to look pretty or cool. It's to look (and feel) powerful--something many young American women crave right now. And it's working.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23h

The alarming aspect of this deliberate "anti-woke" algorithmic biasing of LLMs from an educational perspective is our institutions all bought in to an imaginary of innovation, then got locked in to enterprise contracts, and now the models are being recoded so they undermine educational values

Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 1d

Genuine question: for those enthusiastically pushing AI tools into every part of our education system—what checks/guardrails are there around algorithmic biases like this?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 23h

Imagine using Meta’s AI in educational contexts or having it integrated into edtech products. When it’s overseen by MAGA representatives like this, imagine asking it what Antifa means, if there is a relationship is between race and IQ or what is causing climate change.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22h

The promotion of pseudoscience about a supposed “cause” or “cure” of autism and the destruction of special education (and all of public education, really) are part of the same project. It is a fascist attempt to expel certain people from the body politic, based in eugenics.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 23h

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 1d

And wouldn’t you know. Geoff Horsman has a chapter in the widely lambasted and mistakenly named *War on Science* put together by the disgraced Lawrence Krauss. Much sciency, very research-like: “Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: The Dismal Pseudoscience Threatening Science.”

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion: The Dismal Pseudoscience Threatening Science...Geoff Horsman

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