Heather D. Freeman (She / They)
@heatherfreeman.bsky.social
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Host of 'Magic in the United States' and 'Familiar Shapes.' Technologist, artist, educator, magical practitioner, creepies, crawlies, etc. https://linktr.ee/heatherdfreeman Ideas expressed here are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
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Charlotte showed up today! It was beautiful and heartening to remember we're not alone. First amendment free speech and freedom of assembly in action.
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Furry orange queens are okay, but #NoKings !

Happy #Caturday ❌👑
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If you're cold, they're cold.
Share your hot apple cider 💚❤️
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@cbrandtner.bsky.social I interviewed Patrick back in 2018, for this series and am looking forward to reading the study you co-authored. Important work right now especially.
There's actionable information in history. I'm thinking about this "inform on your neighbor" moment we're having and re-esharing this podcast episode from 'Familiar Shapes' podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...
18. Judge Thy Neighbor
Podcast Episode · Familiar Shapes · S1 E18 · 19m
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Soooo pumped for this new astrology software!
✨ Excited. For. M1. ✨
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Only in Cosmic: software that actually respects traditional techniques.
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Do I know anyone who knows anyone who makes their own procreate brushes? I’m trying to make a dynamic brush and I’m so close but it’s not doing what I feel it should be doing. Anyone I could talk to out there?
Just saw my textbook "Moving Image Workshop" published by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social included -- **Just a day after getting an email from Bloomsbury asking if I'd like opt-in for sharing for content with AI gen companies.** Bloomsbury, you were great to work with, but what exactly is going on?
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
Here me out: Plural problem solver. (I'm down.)
Treat your cat this Halloween with an interactive ouija board from @petsathome.bsky.social

What could possibly go wrong?
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Me feeling the cooler autumn air:
*eyeballs on answer* I'd totally understand if not. But also *big hopefully puppy eyes*
Okay, riffing in a different direction:
Bromancy: The Adventures of Gerry and Al. *Laugh along with HPSes and scarlet women as two unlikely friends -- a retired civil servant with a thing for knives and his wealthy, drugged out buddy -- explore the secrets of magic. And maybe a few *other* secrets!
The 1398 condemnation of 28 articles relating to the practice of magic by the theological faculty of the University of Paris. Dark academia meets a slightly less murder-y (or not! who knows) Name of the Rose.
Still sad that Nicaea: the movie never came into fruition.

What super bureaucratic episodes in history would you like to see dramatised?

I want a six part epic on Domesday survey.
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If a president wanted to become effectively a dictator, he’d likely:

1. Purge govt of non loyalists
2. Weaponize law against opponents
3. Use military to police opposition strongholds
4. Threaten media, schools, businesses w penalties to get them to heel
5. Change election rules in his favor.
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Professional Raison d'être:
I apply the theory and practice of #Deconstruction to emerging technology (#Algorithms, #AI, #robots, etc.), overturning and disrupting the traditional binary oppositions by which we have made sense of our tools and ourselves. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254247...
Deconstruction
An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.This v...
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This is me, demonstrating signs of life.
magic.charlotte.edu

(If you know the history here, I'm waving at you from the aether.)