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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 14d

"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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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 8h

If I see you posting AI slop, it's an instant block. Even if you think it's cute or says a lot about society. If you are purporting that some AI slop is real news, I will report you for misinformation, and then block you. Sloppers should be marginalised.

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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 5d

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

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Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 4d

oh hey, an #artshare I actually have stuff for! It’s #skeleton season 💖💀

An obround ceramic platter with a dark base clay and a white skeleton etched into it. The skeleton has one hand pointing up and one pointing down. Its head is surrounded by a ring of stars and rays of light.

A ceramic oval platter with an image of a Utahraptor skeleton worked into it against a background of cliffs and rock arches.

A ceramic oval platter with the skeleton of a running unicorn etched into it. There is a star leading and a star following the unicorn, as well as four stars flanking a crescent moon above the skeleton.

A very long oval platter depicting a plesiosaur skeleton.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 5d

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5d

Guys. I just had a crazy idea. What if the President DIDN’T deploy troops in American cities. Just a thought. Have we tried that before?

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Pitstop & Egg! 🥚✨🔜 Folsom @pitstop.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ceramicist is Catalina Cheng! www.instagram.com/catalina_cheng

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Pitstop & Egg! 🥚✨🔜 Folsom @pitstop.bsky.social · Jun 21

A vase for @danmakudragon.bsky.social

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好网友汤汤 @soupycresta.bsky.social · Nov 3

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Suzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 7d

But really do not let this moment pass you up, call your reps and beat them over the head with evidence that ID verification will lead to uncontrollable sensitive information leaks and identity theft

The Verge @theverge.com · 7d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

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Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 7d

Me: we have many things to be doing. Other games to be playing, even

Also me: [actively pressing start in the Tomb Raider 2013 menu] ok but hear me out—

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Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 8d

critical role….soon

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Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 12d

I can’t believe I Know this but it’s “His Soul Is Marching On To Another World” and it’s being uploaded to ao3 by the author archiveofourown.org/works/465326...

His Soul is Marching On to Another World; or, the John Brown Isekai - Chapter 1 - CabbagePreacher - John Brown (abolitionist) [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 14d

Ramencon Day 2 let’s 👏 go 👏
#artistalley #ceramics

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · Aug 28

I like to think of social media like we’re all wandering through a giant hedge maze, hearing the most unhinged shit between the walls, and deciding whether or not to koolaid man ourselves through the shrubbery to participate

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · Sep 9

Another September, another deluge of social media posts from PNWers convinced they have fiddle, wolf, or recluse spider infestations. Comrades. It's just giant house spider mating season. You don't have an infestation. They've been there the whole time. Now they are risking death for girlfriends

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Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 16d

Ramencon starts tomorrow but somebody remind me to post my commission form links here sometime over the weekend ok? Ok.

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Ren, Noted Boat Media Enthusiast @softoctober.bsky.social · 16d

The real issue between Tim Allen's Jason and Alan Rickman's Alexander in Galaxy Quest was that Jason was unaware of any of the fanfic people had written about their two characters while Alexander had been asked in detail about some of the finer points of Mak'tar "biology" at every con since the 80s

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S. Morgan Burbank @anotherindiewriter.com · 19d

May I suggest payment processors and their bullshit puritanical crusades?

Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 19d

If you protested Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air by canceling Disney+ or some similarly simple action that had clear, direct, effective results, it feels good that you helped get him back, right? The neat part of you can choose another simple action, and keep that awesome feeling going.

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Violette 🧝🏽‍♀️🧙🏻‍♂️ LADY FAY @violettenouvel.bsky.social · 21d

A parody of one of Kate Beaton's comic strip.
Panel 1, Character A : "Fictional character I have come to ravish you without your consent"
Panel 2, Character B, looking at Bluesky and Patreon stickpersons : "Not in the middle of the puritan apps, Other Fictional Character". Character A : "Fine."
Panel 3, Character A : "Then I, a thoughtless abstract concept, will sit here consumed with degenerate perversion for the rest of eternity"

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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 20d

Enya took her piles of money, bought a castle, and lives there alone with a bunch of cats.

Enya is correct.

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Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 21d

I really do like painting tigers. I should do more of them

Miles/The CrossroadsDog - 🔜 @crossroadsdog.bsky.social · 21d

I would love for the people of the universe at large to stop mistaking my father for my husband. Yikes.

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Ian Fay @ianfay.bsky.social · 21d

Let the dead die you fuckin vultures

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 22d

For decades, Stan Lee was the king of comic conventions. Now, nearly seven years after his death at the age of 95, he will once again be a presence at L.A. Comic Con, this time as a hologram that will use AI to have conversations with fans.

An AI Stan Lee Hologram Will Speak With Fans at L.A. Comic Con

For decades, Stan Lee was the king of comic conventions. Now, nearly seven years after his death at the age of 95, he will once again be a presence at L.A. Comic Con, this time as a hologram that will use AI to have conversations with fans.

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Katie Croonenberghs Art @kamakru.bsky.social · 21d

Just in case some people missed the memo:
DO NOT USE ULINE. EVER.

IDGAF if you think they "have the best prices" or "have the best tape". Buying from them because of one of those reasons just tells me your morals have a price tag.

Throw your packaging sources in the comments.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 21d

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)

That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial

A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.

www.propublica.org

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