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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 5m

yes, with their chart topping hit "manic everyday"

i think this might be one of those social media things where you are encouraged to Show Your Work. like here, Suicidal Tendencies/Skinny Puppy

transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 7m

green belts with that kind of density discontinuity means thse green belts wind up as a strange attractor, hiding either rampant poverty/shantytowns, or abusive policing

transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 10m

mash up bands

burning spear and the new power generation

Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 32m

Mash up bans: Kings and Queen of Leon (featuring Prince)

Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 3h

Mash up bands:

The Flaming Zeppelin

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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 11m

mash up bands

suicidal puppy

Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 32m

Mash up bans: Kings and Queen of Leon (featuring Prince)

Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 3h

Mash up bands:

The Flaming Zeppelin

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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 13m

mash up bands

the drive-by pink dots

Chet Arthur, the Snack Food Mascot @jrfanboy.bsky.social · 32m

Mash up bans: Kings and Queen of Leon (featuring Prince)

Reverse Clowngirl @axialagegamer.swifties.social · 3h

Mash up bands:

The Flaming Zeppelin

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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 16m

i see those big white spaces so i have to imagine, before going to the satellite maps, that there are some significant geographical constraints there too

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 3h

“Father, forgive the ones who do not know what they are doing. Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing.” uh, damn

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 3h

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 9h

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

drdemento.com

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 3h

If people think the current antifascist tent is uncomfortably big, I have news about what the last one looked like.

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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 5h

The deportation of pro-democracy dissidents to their home countries is a major reversal of years of U.S. policymaking on a topic that had bipartisan support.

Trump Is Supporting Transnational Repression

Instead of sheltering pro-democracy dissidents, America is now returning them for arrest.

foreignpolicy.com

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 3h

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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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 4h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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Jessica Wildfire @jessicawildfire.bsky.social · 5h

Bari Weiss nurtured the anti-vaxx rhetoric that directly contributed to 6 million children developing Long Covid. Her rise to head of CBS News is deeply disturbing. The Free Press promotes the most toxic neoliberal, climate denying, MAGA adjacent trash you can find.

NPR @npr.org · 6h

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media

Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

n.pr

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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 5h

while still attached to the horse

Jeremy C-Howl @jmchao.bsky.social · Jan 25

The real horseshoe theory is a bunch of people in our politics have been hit in the head by a fucking horseshoe.

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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 5h

portland knowers, what did the mayor use to hide the insurrection on such short notice?

wrong answers only

Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem said that the mayor of Portland cleared the streets and hid the insurrection from her.

Hot take, but if the mayor of Portland has the power and sway to do that, why do we need the National Guard there?

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Kavi (Kavita) @brittexkavi.bsky.social · 5h

The Portland Mayor along with those untrustworthy fire fighters put out all the “riot” fires & magically turned chaos into clear streets w/people just living their lives. Noem has evidence from the helicopters flown above but don’t ask for proof as it’s classified.

Source: Trust me, bro.

Greg Van Belle @gvbsea.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem said that the mayor of Portland cleared the streets and hid the insurrection from her.

Hot take, but if the mayor of Portland has the power and sway to do that, why do we need the National Guard there?

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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 5h

Sharks are well-represented in the Portland anti-ICE protests.

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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 5h

and before that, Morgellon's

Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 5h

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

youtu.be

transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 5h

the hottest embassy fashions in our consul couture roundup

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 5h

❗️Reportedly, these are armed uniformed Russian men at the Estonia-Russia border.

Friends from Estonia, could you please provide more details? Thank you!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 8h

I remain convinced that any educational paradigm that stakes it’s legitimacy on “catching cheaters” has already fundamentally lost the plot on how to do education.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

please think about this deeply & consult with experts who do NOT have Conflicts of Interest! See:

Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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transparent, parent of a trans kid @cleanwindows.bsky.social · 5h

they put copilot in fucking notepad.

notepad.

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