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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Sep 17

4. Which undermines democracy!

By failing to recognize this, so many writers who I used to admire have facilitated our slide into fascism.

Because (I can't believe I have to write these words) it is absolutely unacceptable to treat any group of people's right to exist & flourish as UP FOR DEBATE.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Sep 17

It’s not complicated:

1. Espousing hateful ideologies leads to a climate of increased violence

2. Standing up to those hateful ideologies is an attempt to push back and protect the vulnerable

3. Equating the two as “opposing viewpoints” legitimizes the hateful ideology as normal and acceptable...

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Michael Olesen @molesen.bsky.social · Aug 20

As I and others have been saying for some time now. Please read this. It might make you be more cautious.

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2

“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports Myco...

www.bmj.com

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Aug 15

You, yes YOU, need to listen to this episode or Rare Earth from @helenczerski.bsky.social, about skyrocketing power demand from data centres. Particularly now that the UK govt is asking residents to use less water so it can cool the Slop Generator.

BBC Radio 4 - Rare Earth, Powering Our Robot Overlords

The energy used by a simple internet search is increasing. Can we cut the cost?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Aug 11

Not only is everything horrific right now, but we're also having to unlearn our ways of being (what I call Old Happy, or the ways that individualism/capitalism/domination have shaped us) and evolve into humans who are capable of making the new world we want. It's hard. Let's be kind to each other.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 30

this, and some of y'all used this as your blank justification to abandon masking and the common good, and refuse to see how that behavior led to where we are today

Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Jul 30

"Pre-exisiting conditions" is a framework put on disabled people to diminish our deaths.

That's why some disabled people are very mad about the NYT note, and we were also very mad at the CDC under Biden saying only people with four or more pre-exisiting conditions are dying from Covid.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 29

I hope this piece helps you to understand more of the psychology behind the genocide and equips you with the language and tools to be able to address it

stephanieharrison.substack.com/p/moral-enti...

Moral entitlement, or the moral get-out-of-jail free card

Being a victim does not prevent someone from doing harm.

stephanieharrison.substack.com

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 29

That’s why I used the words “can” and “sometimes”

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thank you so much for your kindness

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 28

Wild because I discovered them in an academic journal from several years ago :(

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 28

Have you heard about the moral get-out-of-jail-free card?

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 27

When you feel helpless, help more.

We are here to help each other.
It is the secret to our survival. It is the purpose of life. It is the pathway to happiness. It is that simple. When we participate in the ebb and flow of giving and receiving, we flourish; when we refuse to engage, or when our ability to participate in that flow is severed, we suffer.
When people are not able to get the help they need, it is our responsibility to do anything we can to fix it.
Should we refuse to accept this sacred responsibility, we do not just harm those people; we also ensure our own personal suffering.
We are not helpless. We only feel this way because the emotion is attempting to redirect us to its only cure: reconnecting to our purpose. We are made to help. So we will, we can, we must.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jul 27

Please consider donating to the PCRF here: www.pcrf.net

Send your receipt to [email protected] and I will mail you a free signed copy of my book. You'll also be entered into a raffle to win a free Zoom call with me—use it for a team talk, consulting, a book club, 1-1 coaching, etc.

As Gaza is starved, we must ask ourselves: do we have the right to call ourselves humans if we have abandoned our humanity?

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · Jul 22

In 2020, Arundhati Roy wrote a gorgeous, prescient essay called “The Pandemic is a Portal”. In this piece, I discuss who actually walked through it: the COVID conscious community, and why I’m proud to be a part of it.

www.thegauntlet.news/p/the-pandem...

The Pandemic Has Been a Portal (for a few of us)

It's true that most people keep choosing "normalcy". But the COVID conscious community is showing us a radical new way forward, that centers care

www.thegauntlet.news

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NPR @npr.org · Jul 20

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

By Joe Hernandez, @danielestrin.bsky.social and Anas Baba

Nearly 100 people killed seeking aid in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian officials say

Dozens of Palestinians were killed across Gaza on Sunday as they tried to get food aid, according to local health authorities, one of the deadliest days in recent months for those seeking assistance.

n.pr

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · Jun 29

“The study found that 14% of infected infants and toddlers and 15% of infected preschoolers had probable long COVID, similar to rates in teens and school-aged children.”

Apparently toddlers aren’t 🦄. Who knew?

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · Jun 25

The establishment is never unbeatable; only unchallenged.

Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jun 25

Zohran!!!!!! Hope lives!!! 🗽

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jun 15

AND on top of all these excellent reasons, OpenAI is collaborating with the fascists and AI is a tool of authoritarianism. Stop using Empire’s tool to do what humans should be doing—making art—to fight against it!!!!

Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jun 15

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Jun 15

AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Jun 15

ON TOP of the ethical reasons to not use AI, it's also
1) bad at what it does
2) literally makes you stupider
3) has HUGE environmental costs: every search is equivalent to pouring out an entire bottle of water. It's not worth it to generate a cutesy emoji or have it write an error-riddled draft.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · Jun 15

AI was trained on my books (without my permission and against my will) so this annoys me. I never use AI. Not for research, not for images, not for writing. AI used me.

Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · Jun 15

I keep seeing reports of non-AI users being told that an AI detector has dubbed their work AI generated, and it makes me insane because:
1) AI detection tools *are themselves AI* and thus entirely bullshit; and
2) if an AI was trained on your works, of COURSE it’ll flag you as sounding “like” AI!

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jun 14

Imagine being so craven that 5.4 million people show up to your anti-birthday party

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jun 14

It’s only hopeless if we give up, because we are the hope.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jun 13

It changed me forever, too.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Jun 12

Governor JB Pritzker said to Rep. Mary Miller: "I am not going to be lectured to by somebody who extols the virtue of Hitler."

Finally, someone says it to their faces.

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Stephanie Harrison @stephaniehson.bsky.social · Jun 12

no kings dot org

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