Aimee Knupsky, PhD
@aknupsky.bsky.social
Cognitve psychologist. Friends of the Library President. Queer, crip bibliophile and coal patch kid.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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This holiday season, remember Republican House Speaker Johnson's suggestion that extending Obamacare subsidies ISN'T that important because it will
only benefit 24 MILLION Americans. But Johnson & Congressional Republicans worked around the clock to pass legislation to ONLY benefit 924 BILLIONAIRES!
only benefit 24 MILLION Americans. But Johnson & Congressional Republicans worked around the clock to pass legislation to ONLY benefit 924 BILLIONAIRES!
December 22, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This holiday season, remember Republican House Speaker Johnson's suggestion that extending Obamacare subsidies ISN'T that important because it will
only benefit 24 MILLION Americans. But Johnson & Congressional Republicans worked around the clock to pass legislation to ONLY benefit 924 BILLIONAIRES!
only benefit 24 MILLION Americans. But Johnson & Congressional Republicans worked around the clock to pass legislation to ONLY benefit 924 BILLIONAIRES!
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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GenAI cannot summarise anything because it cannot analyse anything because there is no intelligence there. This entire premise starts with a lie and the deceit builds from there.
The “AI” has not read the book. Even if the book was in its training data, it has just absorbed it as a set of statistics. It will juggle you a “summary” that might or might not relate to the conclusions of the actual text. The only way you’ll know is to read it yourself.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
GenAI cannot summarise anything because it cannot analyse anything because there is no intelligence there. This entire premise starts with a lie and the deceit builds from there.
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this goes hard as hell
December 21, 2025 at 3:31 AM
this goes hard as hell
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tired: a federal moratorium blocking states from regulating AI
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
The Real Race for an AI Moratorium: Stopping Data Centers | TechPolicy.Press
Cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data center development, writes Jenna Ruddock.
www.techpolicy.press
December 17, 2025 at 10:41 PM
tired: a federal moratorium blocking states from regulating AI
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
wired: local moratoriums blocking tech companies' AI-fueled resource grabs
me for @techpolicypress.bsky.social with a big thanks to the folks I talked to and everyone in these fights across the US
www.techpolicy.press/the-real-rac...
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Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
December 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Five holly leaves from the same tree 🌳
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
If holly is allowed to grow into a tree it is highly likely to do the same
Holly evolved to fight back against the large herbivores that used to roam the Earth. The higher the tree grows the smoother the leaves get
Photo: Emmanuel Lattes
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I've pulled this thread into a full newsletter, which you can read, share, and *act upon* right here: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
The Blueprint of Censorship In 2026 Is Florida, Right Now
This week, we learned 21 states are eager to dismantle your First Amendment Rights. It should be bigger news.
buttondown.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I've pulled this thread into a full newsletter, which you can read, share, and *act upon* right here: buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
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So PA contracted with a private vendor to sort and deliver government mail to save postage. The vendor failed to deliver time sensitive mail and the poor and disabled who depend on Medicaid and SNAP lost their benefits.
Gift article
share.inquirer.com/KyfQby
Gift article
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Some of Philly’s most vulnerable residents say they lost medical care without notice after millions of Pa. state agency letters went unsent
The Department of Human Services says it will extend deadlines, notify affected residents, and reopen impacted cases, as some Community Legal Services clients say they've lost access to critical care.
share.inquirer.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
So PA contracted with a private vendor to sort and deliver government mail to save postage. The vendor failed to deliver time sensitive mail and the poor and disabled who depend on Medicaid and SNAP lost their benefits.
Gift article
share.inquirer.com/KyfQby
Gift article
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
CDC awards $1.6 million for new hepatitis B vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau. Although the award recipients aren't named, the grant seems tailored to Danish researchers whose work is championed by anti-vaxxers but challenged by mainstream scientists.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
CDC awards $1.6 million for hepatitis B vaccine study, likely to controversial Danish researchers
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
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All of this
“…we believe that learning is the result of human grappling with the parts of the world that resist us and our capacity to understand. This conception of education is antithetical to the transactional and antihuman program…promised by proponents of AI’s incursion into…education.”
“…we believe that learning is the result of human grappling with the parts of the world that resist us and our capacity to understand. This conception of education is antithetical to the transactional and antihuman program…promised by proponents of AI’s incursion into…education.”
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
All of this
“…we believe that learning is the result of human grappling with the parts of the world that resist us and our capacity to understand. This conception of education is antithetical to the transactional and antihuman program…promised by proponents of AI’s incursion into…education.”
“…we believe that learning is the result of human grappling with the parts of the world that resist us and our capacity to understand. This conception of education is antithetical to the transactional and antihuman program…promised by proponents of AI’s incursion into…education.”
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December 17, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the federal onslaught of ICE officers has fundamentally reshaped daily life.
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
I'm a veteran criminal justice reporter. I've never seen anything like ICE-occupied Memphis.
“It’s about as sad as you can possibly imagine."
www.motherjones.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
@samanthamichaels.bsky.social hid out with an immigrant family in Memphis, where the federal onslaught of ICE officers has fundamentally reshaped daily life.
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
“I am more scared in the last month than in the last 20 years. I thought they were gonna kick down the door and take me away.”
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Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
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"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"You have to use AI."
...why?
...why?
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The universe is constantly remaking itself. Here, for the first time, we clearly see how exploding stars fill space with the element potassium.
Some of that potassium ended up in you, where it enables your heartbeat & signaling between your cells. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
Some of that potassium ended up in you, where it enables your heartbeat & signaling between your cells. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
December 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The universe is constantly remaking itself. Here, for the first time, we clearly see how exploding stars fill space with the element potassium.
Some of that potassium ended up in you, where it enables your heartbeat & signaling between your cells. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
Some of that potassium ended up in you, where it enables your heartbeat & signaling between your cells. 🧪🔭
science.nasa.gov/missions/xri...
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Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
Brown shooting victim was pursuing dream of becoming brain surgeon
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, 18, was one of two people killed at Brown University on Saturday.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman at Brown, had a condition as a child that required brain surgery. The experience created an unshakable ambition to become a brain surgeon, his sister said.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
He died after being shot on campus on Saturday.
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I would like to remind folks that @librariesftp.bsky.social's 2026 Library Board Cohort application is due 12/18 [so this week]. We hope that folks on the Left(s) will apply. We will only be offering one cohort in 2026. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
FTP Library Elections & Appointments Training Cohort
Hello! You're filling out this form because you've expressed interest in running for or seeking appointment to a local library board seat in your community (or because you're a serving trustee who'd l...
docs.google.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I would like to remind folks that @librariesftp.bsky.social's 2026 Library Board Cohort application is due 12/18 [so this week]. We hope that folks on the Left(s) will apply. We will only be offering one cohort in 2026. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
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"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...
Polyvagal Theory and the Neurobiology of Connection: The Science of Rupture, Repair, and Reciprocity
“The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state.”
www.themarginalian.org
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
"The mind narrates what the nervous system knows. Story follows state."
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the fascinating science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2024/05/31/p...
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ICE's deportation of a student on a Thanksgiving visit—against a court order—was part of a sweeping, secret program to deport people before they can fight back.
TSA is forwarding names, photos, and flight info to ICE
The secret airport deportation program denies victims any semblance of due process.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
ICE's deportation of a student on a Thanksgiving visit—against a court order—was part of a sweeping, secret program to deport people before they can fight back.
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.