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Boo! 👻 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 7h

For sure!! I am always nervous giving a talk that’s very similar to another because it makes it hard for me to keep the stories straight. Sometimes, it feels easier to start fresh 😅

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Dan Killam @dantheclamman.blog · Jul 22

One like, one clam fact

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Jul 21

One like, one opinion about how to solve climate change.

Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Jul 21

1 like, 1 housing opinion

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$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 11h

It's got a back blurb!

This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the Al industry and the impacts of Al opportunism on disabled people. Why are the negative consequences of so-called Al so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences answers this question by detailing the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. It offers an accessible guide to the various meanings, methods, and impacts of Al, and provides a clear framework for classifying, categorizing, evaluating, and critiquing Al projects. Bridging the gap between STS and critical disability studies, the author centers disabled experiences to present a novel framework that helps readers transform their understandings of citizenship, consumerism, social movements, journalism, engineering, research, and scholarship.

An ideal reading for academics at all levels interested in Al technologies across the social sciences and humanities, as well as engineering and computer science, this groundbreaking short monograph challenges our understanding and assumptions about technology, encompassing the history of Al and disability from popular culture to real-life case-studies. Readers will come away from this text equipped with a clarity of perception and a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology.

Rua M. Williams is Assistant Professor of User Experience Design at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, and Just Tech Fellow with the Social Science Research Council, where they research disabled people's bodily autonomy and social agency through adaptive and assistive technologies. Dr. Williams uses feminist and anti-racist approaches to Technoscience, Critical Disability Studies, and Science and Technology Studies to denounce injustice in technology and uplift marginalized users' practices of resistance.

ISBN 978-3-032-0266

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

Multiple DoD senior officials have been weeks long crashouts with randos in their xitter replies, and that like barely cracks the top 10 nuttiest things official govt xitter accts are doing (1-6 at least is DHS just posting uncut white nationalist shit on main)

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20h

If you look at the sheer insanity of what government officials and agencies openly post on XShitter, it becomes abundantly obvious how much the press is complicit. If Dems did even a fraction of this poasting it would be saturated in news coverage.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 21h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 17h

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

MacArthur 2025 ‘genius grant’ winners include a Chicago photographer

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on Wednesday.

trib.al

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15h

[cough cough] "The SoHo location was the first REI location to unionize, after a vote in March 2022. A year later, workers with the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union filed 80 nationwide unfair labor practice complaints against the outdoor retailer for bad-faith bargaining practices."

Rebecca Baird-Remba @thecitywanderer.bsky.social · 18h

REI soho closing is pretty bad for anyone who loves buying outdoor gear in the five boroughs. I know their c-suite is retrenching and cost cutting but I think folding up their NYC presence entirely is a huge mistake www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...

www.bicycleretailer.com

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Boo! 👻 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 15h

I think I have the opposite feeling. We always knew that that enforcement was uncalled for and egregious. I am disinclined to side with those enforcers because of what they did.

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 15h

“The show then cut to a break and later resumed the interview with Miller. Sanchez told the audience, ‘wires got crossed’. Neither Sanchez nor Miller mentioned Trump wielding ‘plenary authority’ again.”

WHY AREN’T JOURNALISTS ASKING BASIC FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS??

Dave Min @daveminca.bsky.social · 16h

Title 10, which gives the president limited authority to federalize the National Guard, does not provide the president with plenary (i.e. absolute and unchecked) authority.

Stephen Miller is claiming the powers of a tyrant. We must have oversight.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Plenary authority, the dictator phrase that caused Stephen Miller to stop talking

Miller suggests Trump wields absolute power over decisions to send in the National Guard, before suddenly stopping speaking in an awkward interview moment

www.independent.co.uk

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 17h

So last night I migrated @gregpak.net from Bluesky to Blacksky's myatproto.social server for non-Black users! A few thoughts on the process for anyone thinking about this...

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

whew. that took a while! but it looks like i'm done! all blobbed up in blobtown!

screenshot of a notice that says "You are good to go! You have all 4131 of the expected 3669 blobs. You're done!!"

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15h

In other good news—and we need all we can get these days! congratulations to the excellent Stacie Bloom on her appointment as the next President of @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. The philanthropy and the research communities are fortunate to have her at the helm.

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation @sloanfoundation.bsky.social · 2d

We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Stacie Bloom as the next President and Chief Executive Officer of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, effective January 2026!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15h

Revolting. A pox on the lawyers who went along with this.

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

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 16h

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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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 17h

With an unusually loud bang of his gavel Wednesday, a federal magistrate judge agreed to dismiss charges without prejudice against a Chicago couple found lawfully carrying guns outside an ICE facility.

"Case dismissed."

UPDATED @chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside ICE facility in Broadview

Prosecutors moved to dismiss a criminal complaint against the couple but have not ruled out new charges.

chicago.suntimes.com

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 16h

Something I've found is that people respond to this idea very differently depending on if you put any effort into hiding you're doing this. Broadly speaking, childless people are fine paying taxes for public schools and not fine paying a childlessness tax even though they're basically the same thing

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 17h

My most controversial take on this is probably that while I think reproductive freedom should be sacrosanct, I don’t really have any problem with additional taxes on (high income) childless people. Someone gotta pay into the pensions!

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 16h

It has found that you can leave comments in code and config files to speak to AI agents and tell it not to mess with specific sections.

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1d

Helpful!

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Alyssa Harad @alyssaharad.bsky.social · 1d

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Alex Halpern @halpernalex.bsky.social · 1d

Is Portland burning? No.

But is Portland ablaze with the colors of Autumn? You bet your ass it is.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 1d

Begging people to never say, "it's been debunked" when you could say "it's not true."

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1d

yeah. even if AI doesn't pan out, Google will find something to do with 5x the GPU capacity they planned for. most of Google's own endogenous workload was GPU even before the advent of LLMs.

SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1d

"now the hardware is GPUs" is not even that different and it does have uses other than AI, albeit smaller ones

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Dan Vergano @danvergano.bsky.social · 1d

"Tear induction during onion cutting has long vexed the culinary community."

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

"high-speed visuals, we found that an onion does not release tear-triggering fluid in one burst"

"a practical fix: Keep knives sharp and cut gently"

Droplet outbursts from onion cutting | PNAS

Cutting onions often leads to tear-inducing aerosol release, yet the underlying mechanics remain poorly understood. In this work, via high-speed ch...

www.pnas.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

seeing otherwise smart people share the story that a south carolina judge’s beach house was burned to the ground because of a ruling against trump despite there being no evidence of that has been frustrating. just because the other side has abandoned facts doesn’t mean we can, too.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

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

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

The table of contents for Read This When Things Fall Apart is a crisis directory—“read this if…” [insert heartbreak, setback, disaster, or breaking point]. I wish I could gift a copy to every activist in Chicago. You can donate a copy to an activist in need here: www.akpress.org/read-this-wh...

The cover for the book, Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. The cover art features a person wading into a body of water in the woods at night.

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