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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 2d

I just learned that the number of children in the U.S. navigating life with Long COVID exceeds that of the number of kids with asthma.

Wow.

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

www.thelancet.com

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 10h

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“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.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 9h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 10h

“COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years”

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia

npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

www.nature.com

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 10h

"If you hoped that people would be using it to create great art, prepare to be disappointed..."

Who among us ever thought that Sora would be used for anything other than the offensive slop its users are currently producing?This is its target audience & primary use case.
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People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

People are using OpenAI's Sora 2 to generate videos of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking being brutalized in ghoulish ways.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 12h

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15h

These resources from @olivia.science may be useful: olivia.science/ai

Critical AI

On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

olivia.science

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

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Use Alt Text not A.I. @carebear2717.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone involved in this digital necromancy deserves hell on the hottest setting available. It's sick that dead Black people make up a large portion of these horrific videos

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

Literal dead labor.

Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation

OpenAI’s likeness protections for living “public figures” don’t apply to “historical figures.”…

arstechnica.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h

Literal dead labor.

Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation

OpenAI’s likeness protections for living “public figures” don’t apply to “historical figures.”…

arstechnica.com

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 18h

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Targeted from above: Canadian sensors facilitating unlawful U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean - Project Ploughshares

On the morning of September 2, 2025, a small speedboat skims across open water somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Suddenly, in a flash of white, it’s destroyed in a U.S.-launched airstrike. All 11 people...

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 18h

Carney's interlocked hands tweaking out.😅

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "If we didn't win this election. If we had these people that were running that were ruining our country, destroying our country with their open borders and men playing in women's sports and transgender from everybody and windmills all over the place ... I'm not sure we'd even have a country."

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 19h

Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves - bellingcat

Satellite analysis of the Etosha wildfires in Namibia has found that more than a third of the nature reserve was burned.

www.bellingcat.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 18h

NO NO BAD POLICY NO

OH SWEET MOTHER OF HOD

LabourList @labourlist.bsky.social · 1d

'Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state' argues Dan Howl

‘Done right, digital ID could restore trust in the state’ – LabourList

Trust is the lifeblood of any modern democracy, and the foundation of every successful digital system. And so, in the case of Digital ID, Government…

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Bilbo Yaga @bilboyaga.bsky.social · 1d

Link & I were mutuals. While he’s gone, I encourage you to support some of his causes:

1) Use alt text on all images to support disability justice. Adjust your bsky settings: settings > accessibility > require alt text.

2) Reply here with mutual aid requests. Donate if you can, boost if you can’t.

Infographic featuring a photo of a capybara.

Writing Alt Text: identify who, expression, description, color, and interesting features.

The completed example reads, “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”

Screenshot of the bluesky accessibility settings that shows the “require alt text before posting” setting toggled on and underlined for emphasis.

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👻darth jericho👻 @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 21h

just out: some thoughts about "global early modern art history" in the context of two recent very important books published by @psupress.bsky.social including a banger by our own @periodeye.bsky.social (even tho I had beef with the title my excitement is abundant)

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The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp Print, and the Early Modern Globe, by Stephanie Porras; and A New Antiquity: Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600, by Alessandra Russo

Published in The Art Bulletin (Vol. 107, No. 2, 2025)

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · 1d

🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 21h

Just wait until they start cranking out the Sora videos.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 22h

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d

have just come across a YouTube account that has been using Sora to upload reels of fake, AI-generated “90s sitcoms” every few hours

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23h

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

www.theguardian.com

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 1d

"Some of the ready-made AI girlfriends are programmed to be willing to remove their clothes immediately. “Others will say: ‘No, I don’t know you.’ So you need to evolve the relationship with them in order to ask for something like this."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

‘Obedient, yielding and happy to follow’: the troubling rise of AI girlfriends

AI dating sites claim they remove potential for exploitation, but critics say they are reinforcing harmful stereotypes

www.theguardian.com

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 1d

Ray-Ban Metas & Sora: the stalker's technological dream suite.

UNIVERSITY OF | Office of
SAN FRANCISCO
Public Safety
Crime Safety
Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence
Reported
Dear USF Community,
We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus.
Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.

Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim

A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1d

Creep tech: t.e2ma.net/message/rzbt...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

www.axios.com/2025/10/06/a...

Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds

A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

www.axios.com

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