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Michael
@alchemistbite.bsky.social
Curator of the creative. Arts advocate in ATL.

Former director of an artist residency in rural Georgia OTP Atlanta.
It is not enough to ask how students can use AI responsibly; we must ask how AI's very presence may reshape the conditions of becoming responsible. We (as the generations that preceded AI and LLMs) need to be present for our young people’s formative years more than ever.

#technology #education #ai
fortepiano — Issue #1 Symbolic Inoculation: Who Gets to Grow Up Pre-LLM?
We were inoculated. They are not. And yet we are the ones deciding how, when, and whether they are exposed to the new symbolic pathogen.
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June 25, 2025 at 12:46 AM
We were mostly inoculated against the symbolic pathogen of generative AI. What happens to young minds still formulating their identities, mirroring their symbolic order against a flat model that can’t truly reflect back?

Let’s chat. #ai #llm #identity

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fortepiano | Michael Bettis | Substack
where we get loud (and soft) on educating, thinking, and learning. Click to read fortepiano, by Michael Bettis, a Substack publication. Launched 13 days ago.
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June 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
producing the 3rd year of FILMED @ Hambidge

📸 is of the antinori villages at the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences in Rabun County, GA, USA
April 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In 2024 I exec produced the 2nd season of "Filmed @ Hambidge" a short documentary project.

My sole directive to the participants: Make what feels true to you, to each other. You are free to create.

Season 3 incoming…

#supportartists #artsadvocacy

Watch 🎥: m.youtube.com/watch?v=lBy1...
March 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Happy MLK Day.
January 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
It isn’t time to sit idly by.
It isn’t time to be unruly.
But it is time to be just and mad as hell.
January 19, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Yes. I’m that person that says December doesn’t begin until John McClane drops Hans Gruber off Nakatomi Tower. #diehardisachristmasmovie
December 1, 2024 at 7:21 PM
I read books to my daughters at bedtime and it’s one of the best events in my life to date, each time.

We’ve started Dahl’s “Matilda” and—I must admit—I really enjoy doing the voices as I read. #📚 #booksky #storytime
November 30, 2024 at 2:05 AM
For the second year in a row I had the pleasure to executive produce and curate FILMED @ Hambidge, an experiment in filmmaking and collaboration that celebrates the creative process.

#filmmaking #creativeprocess

Applications for 2025 open December 1.
November 21, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #13,731!
September 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM
The funding pipeline for artist-creatives is bizarrely blocked off for the individual. The system needs reworking.
April 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM
Intro! In my professional career in the arts I’ve noticed a severe failing re: funding availability for the individual artist/creative. This is why I want to create a connecting space between individuals and access to—and opportunities for—funding.
April 11, 2023 at 6:39 PM