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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 4h

Life for the civilians who survived in Gaza is in ruins. They're homeless, jobless and hungry, and rely entirely on our direct donations to survive and rebuild.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem so she can feed her children and make a home. And to others. ❤️ 🙏

tinyurl.com/Tasneemo

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Grandmother's zakia ❣️ @z-akia.bsky.social · 7h

Before the war, my mother lived with dignity in her home.
Now she’s sick, in a tent, without medicine or peace.
The war stole everything — even her strength.
She deserves better. We still need your support.**

gofund.me/8bc2934b

@mommunism.bsky.social
@prisonculture.bsky.social

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Abo jameel @engabojameel37.bsky.social · 4h

The war is over, but we still live as if it never ended...
Tents are our only refuge, and the cold is our companion.
Today is my daughter Joan's birthday—a reminder that joy has been banished from our lives. Don't break Joan's heart🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😥😥😥
Im verified
@mommunism.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hcCSb

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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Book Jockey @amyinthelou.bsky.social · 3h

Subscribe!! Sarah Kendzior’s writing is so beautiful and heart achingly accurate.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

If you like my work, please share and subscribe. I'm trying to override a variety of shadowbans and broken algorithms. Thank you!

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19h

New Q & A answers are up! Readers sent in thoughtful questions on city raids, digital surveillance, the disappearing internet, and much more: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 13d

"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.

I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.

CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM

AI is dehumanizing

I’ve saved the most important part for last. AI is dehumanizing. Using AI means saying that the people involved in what you’re trying to do don’t matter. Because AI platforms are built on theft, using AI says that the people whose work is being stolen don’t matter. If I used AI to grade your work, which is now possible with Canvas integrations, I would be saying your work is not worth taking seriously enough to read myself. It’s saying you don’t matter enough to take seriously. A world where AI grades AI generated submissions from an AI generated assignment is not a world where people and the work they do matters, and I refuse to live in that world.

The dehumanizing aspect of AI is even worse when you consider the effects of AI on you as a student. Using AI as a substitute for doing the work yourself robs you of your voice. It prevents you from developing your own sense of who you are, what you believe, and how you express that in your own unique way and replaces it with statistically generated slop literally incapable of forming a novel thought. In a world that works to dehumanize us every day—to say who we are and the relationships we form don’t matter—I don’t want to add to that work. I don’t want to do this because the relationships you form matter. Your voice matters. You matter.

In 19th Century England, a group of artisan weavers banded together to fight against mechanization. Tools like the water frame and spinning jenny allowed factory owners to produce a worse product at a price so low that the quality of the finished product didn’t matter. These artisans, the Luddites, weren’t opposed to technology. They were opposed to technology dehumanizing people and denying them dignity. Like the Luddites, I’m not opposed to technology and embrace it when it makes our lives better. But like the Luddites, I have an obligation to resist technology that dehumanizes people in my community, and I think AI does that. So, there’s no AI in this class.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

Alaa and her daughters have lived to see a ceasefire, but they are still in dire need of assistance. They have only managed to navigate displacement, genocidal violence, and her daughter's deteriorating health with the help of donations. Let's help them continue to endure.

Your help are an investment in rebuild a woman and an architect

My name is Alaa, and I hold a Master’s degree in Architecture.

chuffed.org

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Rebellyon.info @rebellyoninfo.bsky.social · 6h

Manifestation stop génocide et pour demander des sanctions contre Israël
https://rebellyon.info/Manifestation-stop-genocide-et-pour-32092

Manifestation stop génocide et pour demander des sanctions contre Israël

Le collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien appelle à une manifestation samedi 11 octobre à 15h au départ de la place des Terreaux pour dénoncer le génocide à Gaza.

rebellyon.info

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 3h

Can repeat enough: Chicago is the rehearsal for what's ahead (and yes, is also already underway) in other cities — AND for the campaign of noncooperation & opposition that must be unleashed. We must study & practice & prepare.

I repeat: we love you, Chicago.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2h

"An underrated strategy of surviving an authoritarian takeover is to seem like an absolute moron who can't figure out orders well enough to follow them."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 2h

Zukiswa Wanner: “What most people don’t know is 33,000 people applied to be in that flotilla. That’s how outraged the people of the world are.”

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ServanneMarzin @servannemarzin.bsky.social · 3h

3/ Les congés de maladie intervenus à partir du 1er octobre "feront l'objet d'une régularisation" aka les 10% par jour seront prélevés sur les paies de novembre 2025 et janvier 2026.
Et pourquoi pas décembre 2025, aussi ?
"Afin de préserver autant que possible la paye du mois de décembre."

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ServanneMarzin @servannemarzin.bsky.social · 3h

2/...s'ajoute désormais une baisse de 10% du salaire durant chaque jour du congé maladie.
Le mail est formulé avec le courage habituel de notre administration RH : "la rémunération est maintenue à hauteur de 90 %"
Pour un.e collègue à 100 euros par jour, 5 jours de congé, c'est 140 balles perdus.

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ServanneMarzin @servannemarzin.bsky.social · 3h

1/Pendant que Lecornu joue à coucou-caché, toustes les fonctionnaires de l'EN ont reçu au milieu de la nuit un mail leur confirmant la dégradation annoncée de leur rémunération durant leur congé maladie. A la 1ère journée de carence - ce qui représente entre 80 et 200 euros de perte environ-...

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 2h

every single dem should be taking notes. this is how you message around trans issues

(of note: i believe he is the only cis candidate for office to have trans people consult on his lgtbq+ policy platform)

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

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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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 5h

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

Original:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7381685800549257216/?commentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Acomment%3A(activity%3A7381685800549257216%2C7382628060044599296)&dashCommentUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afsd_comment%3A(7382628060044599296%2Curn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7381685800549257216)

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Rob From Flailthroughs @robflails.bsky.social · 5h

My plan is that I do not answer that question on this site anymore because "What is your plan" translates out of Weimar dickrider to "give me something to argue against so I don't have to confront my continuing role in allowing this to happen."

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

"OK but what is your PLAN?" Bish I am sitting at the back of this plane. I'm just willing to point out that the driver is gargling everclear and flying directly at the ground while reading a book titled HOW TO FLY AIRPLANES INTO THE GROUND.

What is MY plan? What is OUR plan? You're here too.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

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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LucieRigaRaï @lrigarai.bsky.social · 3h

maybe 'coloniality' is closer to the mark?

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Daisy zement sexy d'Halloween 🎃 @daisyletourneur.bsky.social · 4h

"average french person becomes prime minister 3 times a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person becomes prime minister 0 time per year. Seb Lecornu, who lives in cave & becomes prime minister 10,000 times each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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JonReilly1313 @jonreilly1313.bsky.social · 8h

4 unnamed Co-conspirators.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, the NYT literally hired a reporter to plant puff pieces on Epstein! The NYC/DC media abetted Epstein because they were from the same social circles, circles that apparently do not have a problem with child rape. A page from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (it gets worse from there...)

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 17h

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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Julien Gossa @juliengossa.cpesr.fr · 6h

Pourtant, on a passé le concours de recrutement de bac+5 à Bac+3, ça aurait dû résoudre la crise du recrutement 😏

Libération @liberation.fr · 7h

Sébastien Lecornu renommé à Matignon affirme qu’il n’y avait pas «beaucoup de candidats» pour être Premier ministre

Suivez notre direct ⬇️

EN DIRECT - Sébastien Lecornu renommé à Matignon affirme qu’il n’y avait pas «beaucoup de candidats» pour être Premier ministre

De nouveau sous la menace de censure après sa reconduction très critiquée, le plus si nouveau Premier ministre doit constituer, dans un délai ultra-court, son nouveau gouvernement afin de pouvoir prés...

www.liberation.fr

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Lucie Rondeau du Noyer @lucienoyer.bsky.social · 9h

Je ne dis pas qu’on vit dans une société d’Ancien régime, je dis seulement qu’aux rendez-vous de l’Histoire de Blois on m’a demandé de laisser ma place au premier rang à un ancien premier ministre (j’étais au premier rang en tant que co-autrice des 4 livres présentés) 🤡

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