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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 32m

It's so exciting to have Saugat write for us again!

The next 25 people to subscribe to @thexylom.com's FREE newsletter will be personally invited to our next Office Hours with our staff, which is usually reserved for our paying sustainers and supporters, next Wednesday at 1 pm ET.

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 12h

This looks like a fantastic resource. Can't wait to work through it

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25d

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai

"CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 12h

Thinking of the time a senior male colleague literally took my glass of water out of my hand at a work function because I was supposed to be drinking alcohol.

The joke was that I had had a glass of wine and was just hydrating in between.

Australian drinking culture is well overdue for a change

🤖 SBS News bot (unofficial) @sbs-news-bot.bsky.social · 13h

How a 'deeply-embedded' part of Australian culture could change forever

Young Australians are leading this emerging generational shift, according to a new study.

www.sbs.com.au

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

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M_Beltza @beltza.bsky.social · 4d

Hace días entrevisté a @mark-bray.bsky.social para hablar de la situación social en EEUU. Lo narrado era verdaderamente preocupante. Ayer supe que debido al acoso de la ultraderecha se traslada a España con su familia.
La entrevista, en @elsaltodiario.com 👇
www.elsaltodiario.com/estados-unid...

Mark Bray: “En Estados Unidos nos encontramos ante una situación sin precedentes para el antifascismo”

El historiador estadounidense Mark Bray se declara “orgullosamente judío antisionista” y cree que lo que necesita su país es una huelga general contra las políticas de Trump.

www.elsaltodiario.com

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 2d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 2d

This is from a very prominent conservationist from Kenya

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

AI is a dictator's dream, and it is being forced upon us in an unnatural way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo1I...

The Dark Fraud Behind the Promise of AI: Sarah Kendzior

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 1d

The only people whose opinion matters on this peace deal are the people of Gaza, many of whom are cautiously optimistic. It is hard to be genuinely hopeful as a Palestinian, but I pray that the ceasefire holds and that Israel does not renege on the agreement.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 1d

Spain 🇪🇸 just approved an arms embargo on Israel 💪.

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Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social · 1d

EXHAUSTED POSES! Come see us at @ThoughtBubbleuk.bsky.social COMIC FESTIVAL on 15th - 16th NOVEMBER! We’ll have the FINAL COPIES of the original print run of our TUTORIALS BOOKS, plus COMICS GALORE!

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 2d

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

the answer to the trolley problem is not to pick who to sacrifice, it’s to dismantle the system that led to an unsafe trolley crossing.

if any part of your morality strategy involves picking a group to let die on a hill, throw the entire strategy out. it’s wrong.

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 2d

The Mirador de San Nicolás is a place that inspires people to be present, if only for a moment between a flurry of photos.

These tourists might be feeling connected with the landscape, or maybe they're just thinking about lunch!

#Art #Watercolour #Alhambra #Granada

Watercolour painting by Emma Bolton of three people sitting on the wall at Mirador de San Nicolás in Granada with their backs to the camera. They're wearing brightly-coloured jackets and looking out across the tiled roofs and greenery to the Alhambra and Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 2d

If you like my art and these kinds of musings, you’ll enjoy my newsletter. Sign up here: www.emmabolton.com#/portal/signup

Emma Bolton

Celebrating moments of connection with strangers, friends and ourselves

www.emmabolton.com

emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 2d

The Mirador de San Nicolás is a place that inspires people to be present, if only for a moment between a flurry of photos.

These tourists might be feeling connected with the landscape, or maybe they're just thinking about lunch!

#Art #Watercolour #Alhambra #Granada

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 2d

"What A.I. can’t do is feel the shape of silence after someone says something so honest we forget we’re here to learn. What it can’t do is pause mid-sentence because it remembered the smell of its father’s old chair."

What a lovely reflection on moments that create meaning

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 2d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Monster-Theory Medium Dave @azzageddi.myatproto.social · 2d

This is AJ Link, known here as Łink. He's awesome. He's been permabanned for basically just making the CEO, Jay Graber, mad. This was a monumentally stupid decision that, AFAICT, may result in the collapse of Bluesky due to a loss of trust, but we'll see. The smart thing to do would be to #FreeŁink

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 3d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 3d

Mirador de San Nicolás is a place that inspires people to be present, if only for a moment between a flurry of photos.

So for this painting, I wanted to focus on the people experiencing the view, rather than the view of Granada itself

#Art #Watercolour

Mirador de San Nicolás

Painting Granada's most iconic view of the Alhambra

www.emmabolton.com

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 2d

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny. The simplest reason to refuse resignation is that resignation can only harmonize with the tech-industry narrative of AI inevitability."

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 3d

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.” www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 3d

The placement of the "ugh" is so good!

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emma bolton @ebolton.bsky.social · 3d

Mirador de San Nicolás is a place that inspires people to be present, if only for a moment between a flurry of photos.

So for this painting, I wanted to focus on the people experiencing the view, rather than the view of Granada itself

#Art #Watercolour

Mirador de San Nicolás

Painting Granada's most iconic view of the Alhambra

www.emmabolton.com

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 7d

"Spain’s rapid renewables build-out means its power prices were set by fossil generation just 19% of the time, down from 75% in 2019. As a result, wholesale electricity was almost a third cheaper than the EU average"

Imagine having cheaper power

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Spain’s Renewable-Energy Boom Loosens Gas’s Grip on Power Prices

Soaring renewables output in Spain is weakening gas’s grip on electricity prices, setting the country apart from much of Europe where fossil fuels still dictate the cost of power.

www.bloomberg.com

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Katie Fenn @katiefenn.bsky.social · 3d

This is the first party political broadcast in a very long time that understands the trouble we’re in.

Great job @zackpolanski.bsky.social 💚

youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

youtu.be

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