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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 22h

The current paradigm of "AI"— all of its, e.g., embedded values, design, cultural deployment, & structural affordances— has been repeatedly demonstrated to harm both critical skills development & the structure & maintenance of the relational social fabric.

That sounds pretty anti-pedagogical, to me

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 57m

If you use ChapGPT, know that every search you do is saved, is searchable, and is now being used against people in court trials. Just ask Jonathan Rinderknecht who was just convicted of starting the 2025 Palisades fire in California whose ChatGPT prompts were used to convict him.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 20m

More than one! I know people who swear by Shaarli, but it depends on what your needs are (I haven't used any of these myself).

Bookmarks and Link Sharing - awesome-selfhosted

A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

awesome-selfhosted.net

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 28m

Many people are saying this!

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 28m

Unfortunately the way this is not working out is not some kind of spectacular flame-out causing us to bring the lights up in the theater, but rather the ongoing fascist degredation of society as more and more groups are blamed and thrown under the bus in order to shore up the make-believe reality.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 30m

Participatory lying as the default mode for collective sense-making, knowledge and belief formation, the building of consensus and influence, and the conduct of business and policy-making is very much not working out for society.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

I strongly believe that the collapse of literacy culture is inextricably entangled with the collapse of the culture of reason more broadly

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

"The demise of literate culture has just left us with a form of nonliteracy, in which simple texts can be processed but elaborate ones may as well be written in Linear B."

musgrave.substack.com/p/a-post-lit...

A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

musgrave.substack.com

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 2h

This isn't meant as a dunk but those things, too, are forms of propaganda. Especially in an age of digital and social media facilitated participatory propaganda, this is what using information as a means to influence behavior looks like—not 1940s propaganda posters.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 2h

The brutal and repulsive content being out by the fascist regime isn’t just propaganda, it’s creating ready-made and easily-shareable materials for intimidation and stochastic terrorism.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

I have so many peeves about the diffusion of different recycled rhetorics throughout the discourse environment

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 3h

The ultimate form of right-wing outrage will be getting mad at the libs because they can't own the libs anymore because reacting to anything the right does whatsoever will get you sent to a forced labor camp

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 5h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 5h

higher education in 2025, where students can coordinate public harassment campaigns against faculty with impunity but also where professors can’t actually flee the country to escape threats to murder them in class (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 5h

At least you won’t have to update them one at a time

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 1d

This is the aesthetic of the future

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someone on the Motorola forums was having the same problem with the camera I've been having, but I just have to share the image they posted to demonstrate the issue.
it's the funniest shit I've ever seen in my life dude

The photo is of an elderly woman in gray clothes that has been so bizarrely processed that it looks both totally over and desaturated

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 20h

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 20h

I have an opposite example. I went to a small college in a smaller town, and one of the main streets there was named after a historical location that is not pronounced as it is spelled; and all the locals pronounced it phonetically and the college students pronounced it like the historical place.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 22h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 21h

We have the materials to invent an AI discourse that is so fucking cursed

Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 21h

Call that a deep state

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 22h

Texas Republicans Are Using Charlie Kirk’s ‘Martyrdom’ to Crush Free Speech.

Hours after announcing ‘undercover operations’ into leftist groups, Texas’ attorney general compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event.

My latest for @thebarbedwire.com

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/08/k...

Texas Republicans Are Using Charlie Kirk’s ‘Martyrdom’ to Crush Free Speech

Hours after announcing ‘undercover operations’ into leftist groups, Ken Paxton compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event.

thebarbedwire.com

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 21h

Reading a lot recently on the intersections of gaming, violent extremism, extreme violence, and politics. Still so much we don't know about even the most elementary processes and functions. This is of the better books I've come across so far. Great starting point for anyone wanting to learn more.

Cover of the book Gaming Democracy, by Adrienne Massanari.

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 21h

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22h

sorta feel like the core central division in conservatism is "hierarchy is inevitable, so it must be made just and virtuous" and "hierarchy is inevitable, so all it does is just and virtuous"

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 22h

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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