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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

hello, my reading group for Workshops4Gaza is starting a new book: "Health Communism" by @avierkant.bsky.social and @reallandsend.bsky.social

please buy the book ASAP (or get it *some other way*, and try to support Palestinians however you can)

Reading Group (Thought Soup) - Health Communism

Hi everyone, welcome to a new book. For the next few weeks, we're going to be reading Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Support...

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 9h

Needless to say I think this is brilliant.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 13h

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 13h

Using AJ Link as an example, his current situation is that Bluesky, the Barnes & Nobles of atproto have banned him from their stores and essentially blackballed him from the publishing industry.

Fortunately for AJ Link, we've kept all his manuscripts safe and sound right where he left them. 3/11

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 13h

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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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 14h

like i realize there's no reasoning with you but there aren't enough emojis and reaction images in the world to convey the depth of my "are you seriously this gullible?" face

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 14h

"an AI company runs analysis on your images but they don't train on it"

that's like saying you made a deal with the serial killer in the movie you guys are in, and he promised to let you go if you delivered us to him.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Benjamin Netanyahu called for the extermination of all Palestinians on American television, under the name "Ben Netay" - in the 1970s.

Netanyahu called for the extermination of all Palestinians at massive racist rallies

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20h

that sounds like the one!

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20h

through deft negotiations with a chatbot, i managed to get my internet service suspended early at my current place and also somehow delayed the start of internet service at my new place

i will celebrate this tactical retreat from the internet by banging my head on my desk for a bit and then packing

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20h

if anyone remembers that discourse about college faculty leaving the US, i would be grateful for the link. i tried some of the keywords that felt reasonable and couldn't find it

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20h

out-of-state students bring considerably more revenue into public universities. in 2012 i paid $2k/year for community college (would be 6k for int'l students), then transferred to UC Irvine. at the time i paid 14k for tuition. out-of-state students paid 37k

today the numbers are more like 18 and 53

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 20h

someone asked a while ago about whether faculty would be moving out of the US and i think i replied that such moves take considerable time even if calls for jobs exist; but i think it's a useful follow-up to that conversation to say that significant declines in enrollment precipitate other stuff

Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social · 1d

The number of international students arriving in the U.S. in August fell by 19 percent this year compared with last year — the largest decline on record outside of the pandemic.

Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August (Gift Article)

The data shows the steepest decline in August international student arrivals since the pandemic.

www.nytimes.com

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

of course, i'm always saying that too many users on social media are made to feel shame for the things they say

there is simply TOO MUCH feedback for saying the most unbelievable, obscene things people's creative minds can think of while deprived of face-to-face contact with people. i am very smart

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

"appears intended to shame or abuse users"

carrion🐛 @carrion.bsky.social · 1d

the wise admins of bluesky have decided that creating a moderation list of AI slop posters is a no no

Hi there,
Your Bluesky account
(@carrion.bsky.social) has created a list called "Al Slop Posters" that may violate our Community Guidelines. We've temporarily hidden this list from other users because it contains one or more of these issues.
- Harmful language such as insults or slurs
- Unverified claims
- Appears intended to shame or abuse users

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

out of curiosity, does it take some time for an edit to propagate or something? or should it be instant?

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justine zhang @tisjune.bsky.social · 6d

this is a bit of a side point but i am really interested in how many of these AI University endeavours double as branding campaigns, in attaching institutional emblems to new shiny surfaces (see, from umich, Maizey, UM-GPT...)

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

“The pilot will explore how AI can enhance teaching, research and university operations, while also gathering feedback to guide the responsible and effective use of AI across campus.”

William & Mary launches ChatGPT Edu pilot

By integrating artificial intelligence tools, the university is positioning itself at the forefront of higher education innovation.

news.wm.edu

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

i'll post some of my own reflections about the intro and chapter 1 later this week. buy the book (or whatever you gotta do) and get caught up!

also, share with a friend if you'd like, etc...

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

The Sameer Project has been diligently working to get aid to Palestinians in Gaza, and they need money to buy food, baby formula, and other basic needs.

You can see their work on instagram: www.instagram.com/thesameerpro...

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

www.instagram.com

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

if you have the means, please buy the book here

purchases of "W4G"-tagged books on @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social sends the proceeds (or more, if you select more!) to The Sameer Project through the @workshops4gaza.bsky.social fundraiser.

[W4G] Adler-Bolton, Beatrice & Artie Vierkant: Health Communism

Verso, paperback Publication Date: July 29, 2025 Publisher Marketing:A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast "Death Panel" In this fiery, theoretical t...

open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

Reading Group (Thought Soup) - Health Communism

Hi everyone, welcome to a new book. For the next few weeks, we're going to be reading Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Support...

buttondown.com

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

one of the really lasting thoughts that has kept bugging me all day (even as i wrote other things) was that bluesky is conspicuously allergic to moderation of certain people, under certain circumstances, for seemingly really deeply-held principles; but they will lunge across a table to suspend link.

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

at least linda never would've done this shit. can't believe i miss when she was ceo of this place, posting about how she hated mondays or whatever she did

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

people took an interest in lowtax because understanding his capricious idiosyncratic whims was necessary to know what lines they needed to be on one side of or another - at least as far as was visible to their obnoxious, thin-skinned, untenably retaliatory admin - from one day to the next, ykwim?

ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

like guys i understand that you're frustrated that people are wildly speculating about this situation, but you need to take some ownership for the fact that you created this situation and refuse to be transparent (after years of luring users to rely on this dumb ass website) so PEOPLE MUST SPECULAtE

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 1d

it's at least worth saying that link got no email or anything from bluesky for like at least a day IIRC, and the mechanisms and processes around this particular suspension were exceptional enough that they warrant some discussion/comm

so narrativizing this as jockeying for attention is pretty wild!

pasta.pilled @pastapilled.bsky.social · 1d

actively trying to rewrite this shit on the subreddit too

Worth setting the record straight on why some of these bans happened
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A lot of people think tweeting vague death threats at the CEO is a path to success on here, huh?
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That guy Link apparently got banned for reposting Jay with a Charlie Kire: meme.
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Death threats are bad, and when you send death threats to the CEO a ban makes sense!
People need to be more circumspect before just simply believing what random Bluesky users are saying about the admins - there's a lot of lying people are doing to jockey for attention.

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