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DSG @saggiotipo.bsky.social · Jul 16

I created a zine about some of the contradictions in open access. Please print, discuss, and share!

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#openaccess #OA

The Contradictions of Open Access - Pocket Guide

This pocket guide is an introduction to five contradictions in open access

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jun 28

Do not be lulled into thinking that the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 has abated. The general situation of unrestrained spread continues to be alarmingly dangerous, with contagion, illness, and mortality rampant everywhere. Maintaining the utmost caution is still an absolute necessity.

#COVID19

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Karen Wants The Orcas In Charge @riceboilsover.bsky.social · 13h

So many people out there dying of long COVID who don’t even know that’s what’s wrong.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 21h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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DSG @saggiotipo.bsky.social · Jul 16

I created a zine about some of the contradictions in open access. Please print, discuss, and share!

doi.org/10.17613/9p2...

#openaccess #OA

The Contradictions of Open Access - Pocket Guide

This pocket guide is an introduction to five contradictions in open access

doi.org

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Jun 2

And, this, folks, is why the entire concept of "ethical AI use" or "critical AI" in education is a scam.

The alibi is blown: teaching "critical AI" was always just a backdoor to outsourcing learning to AI. www.404media.co/teachers-are...

Post-grad educator
Last year, I taught a class as part of a doctoral program in responsible AI development and use. I don’t want to share too many specifics, but the course goal was for students to think critically about the adverse impacts of AI on people who are already marginalized and discriminated against.

When the final projects came in, my co-instructor and I were underwhelmed, to say the least. When I started digging into the projects, I realized that the students had used AI in some incredibly irresponsible ways—shallow, misleading, and inaccurate analysis of data, pointless and meaningless visualizations. The real kicker, though, was that we got two projects where the students had submitted a “podcast.” What they had done, apparently, was give their paper (which already had extremely flawed AI-based data analysis) to a gen AI tool and asked it to create an audio podcast. And the results were predictably awful. Full of random meaningless vocalizations at bizarre times, the “female” character was incredibly dumb and vapid (sounded like the “manic pixie dream girl” trope from those awful movies), and the “analysis” in the podcast exacerbated the problems that were already in the paper, so it was even more wrong than the paper itself.

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DSG @saggiotipo.bsky.social · 2d

The laws of capitalism lead to monopoly. It's independent of the personal feelings of any CEO or corporate executive.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · Jul 19

Most parents are allowing their children to suffer repeated infections of Covid-19, and as a result, many of those children are likely to experience serious illness and early mortality.

Why are most parents not taking action to keep their children safe from the extreme harm of Covid-19?

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · May 25

Covid-19 has not gone away.

Covid-19 has not diminished.

Covid-19 has not become a mild disease.

Covid-19 has not ceased to cause mass illness and excess mortality.

Covid-19 continues to be a constant danger to every human life, and should be avoided at any cost.

#COVID19

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · May 22

During the ongoing pandemic of Covid-19, we have entered a dark age of delusion, denial, and dishonesty in which unrestrained disease is being willingly embraced by the unthinking masses, resulting in irreparable damage to the collective well-being of the human community.

#COVID19 #disease #damage

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SCIENMAG @scienmag.bsky.social · 9d

New Study Indicates Children’s Risk of Long COVID Could Double Following a Second Infection – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

A groundbreaking new study, published in the prestigious journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, has unveiled compelling evidence regarding the increased risk of long COVID…

New Study Indicates Children’s Risk of Long COVID Could Double Following a Second Infection – The Lancet Infectious Diseases

A groundbreaking new study, published in the prestigious journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, has unveiled compelling evidence regarding the increased risk of long COVID in children and adolescents following reinfection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the Omicron era. This extensive research, conducted by an expert consortium within the NIH-funded RECOVER Initiative, represents the largest observational cohort study to date involving over 460,000 pediatric patients across 40 US hospitals.

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makcapitalism.bsky.social @makcapitalism.bsky.social · 11d

While totally spontaneous, the whole conversation was great, but if you want to watch a snippet first, here's Hiram's initial remarks youtu.be/GLeaq-Dk-y8?...

How We Pay Proper Respect to Assata Shakur | Hiram Rivera

YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!

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Angela Marie Morton @angemmorton.bsky.social · 15d

I am so tired of this ongoing pandemic, folks. I am even more tired of the willful denial of it by the vast majority of people.

I am tired. But I am awake. And my resolve is unwavering.

A photo of me on a residential street with lush, vine-covered walls on either side of me. I am in gray pants, a white and tan striped t-shirt, sunglasses, and a Flo Mask. My tattoo says "ahimsa" in sanskirt, which means "nonviolence" or "nonharming."

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · May 12

Unfortunately, Covid-19 is not going to wait patiently for the masses to wise up regarding the irreparable damage that results from repeated infections. With no safety measures currently being enforced, Covid-19 will not delay in taking full advantage of the situation.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · May 11

The world of 2019, the world as it was before Covid-19 took hold, is gone forever. Wishful thinking and playacting will not bring it back. We are now living in a world of unrestrained disease, a world in which strong, uncompromising measures of caution and safety are urgently necessary.

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 11d

The life-threatening danger of uncontrolled Covid-19 is currently rampant everywhere. If you are not wearing a respirator mask in all situations of potential contagion, you are destined to suffer repeated infections, serious illness, and early mortality.

#COVID19 #respirator

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Michael Collins Morton @mcollinsmorton.bsky.social · 11d

As a matter of safety, and as a matter of principle, I am prepared to do whatever is necessary, for as long as needed, to resist the overt evil of uncontrolled Covid-19.

First and foremost, I am firmly resolved to wear a respirator mask in all public spaces.

#COVID19 #respirator

Michael Collins Morton standing in a suburban neighborhood, wearing a sun hat, dark glasses, a respirator mask, and a black shirt with a picture of The Beatles crossing Abbey Road on the front.

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DSG @saggiotipo.bsky.social · 13d

Reading "Assata" convinced me to make bowdlerization (modifying and distorting text) a habit

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do-obllldo-ob.bsky.social @do-obllldo-ob.bsky.social · 15d

"It's just a cold" said people with no understanding of long term or delayed effects of viral infections.

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Laura Sell @laurasell.bsky.social · 20d

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
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Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

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Cooperation Jackson @coopjax.bsky.social · 17d

#BuildAndFightResources

For a broader, international orientation and perspective from how to build and yield People’s Assemblies from a clear left perspective we strongly encourage folks to check out the formation, the International People’s’ Assembly.

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International Peoples' Assembly

We are a network of people’s organizations, social movements, political parties and trade unions. We are the peoples of the world in struggle.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 19d

Here's what we know as of Saturday morning. If White House figures are to be believed, the U.S. has killed 17 people on ships in the Caribbean this month.

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 20d

The US hit ANOTHER boat in the Caribbean today. Trump shared video of it, again accusing the crew of being drug traffickers. With 3 allegedly killed, this brings the total killed in all 3 attacks to 17 this month, per White House figures. New @taskandpurpose.com taskandpurpose.com/news/us-thir...

Trump says US military hit a third boat in the Caribbean

The attack is the third this month on alleged drug trafficking ships, as the US continues a military build up in the Caribbean.

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