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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 19h

time relates to quality of relationships with each other, and with the land. inefficiency can create unexpected and welcome moments for building collectives. these themes can inform tech organizing and advocacy efforts.

biancawylie.medium.com/tech-isnt-th...

tech isn’t the future it’s just capitalism faster

responding with slowness in relations

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 19h

a lot of people in a range of sectors are looking for permission to slow down tech adoption, but are scared that they're going to miss out or be at a disadvantage if they do so. there are structured ways to approach this problem.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 16h

www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

In a list of the Office of Personnel
Management director's priorities for the federal workforce, technology is "number one, two and three."

"We have a real, acute shortage of people who have what I would call very cutting-edge, modern tech skills," said Scott Kupor, director of the government's personnel agency.

A man dressed in a hot dog suit, saying “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 10h

All of these are, uh, very on point.

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 13h

NYT Opinion headlines as Culture ship names:

GOU Make No Mistake About Where We Are (28 Sep)

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 13h

NYT Opinion headlines as Culture ship names:

ROU When Authoritarianism Looms, Old Friends Reunite (11 Sep)

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 13h

NYT Opinion headlines as Culture ship names:

MSV We Take Clouds for Granted (10 Sep)

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Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 1d

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.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d

For the late/west coast crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Supreme Court of Canada holds first ceremonial opening in 39 years #SCC #cdnlaw

Supreme Court of Canada holds first ceremonial opening in 39 years

CBA President Bianca Kratt says the court is a testament to the stability a country can enjoy when its legal institutions remain respected, independent, and grounded in the rule of law

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“In a city once choked with cars and infamous for its traffic snarls, Paris has pulled off a remarkable turnaround…the French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently.” Via @momentummag.bsky.social

A victory for FAST leadership.

Paris Pedals to the Top: How the City of Light Became Europe’s Best for Young Cyclists

The French capital has officially become Europe’s best city for children to walk, cycle, and move around independently

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 1d

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

Consulting firms have long covered their vast collection of $300/hour-billable recent college graduates with the fig leaf of $600/hour-billable actual experts. Maybe the plan is to drop 90% of the recent college graduates, and basically just keep the fig leaf? IDK. It'll be fun to watch.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

To the extent to which big consulting firms don't feel threatened by AI, it's because they understand that a big part of their job is merely decision-laundering. A big organization wants to do a thing, and they need somebody to blame in case that thing goes wrong? Time to bring on a big consultant!

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

The big consulting firms are bragging about their use of AI because they're always chasing trends (blockchain, IoT, etc.) and selling them to governments and corporations. But they don't seem to get that AI is the one that threatens to undermine their existence.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

If I ran a consulting firm, I'd be yelling as loudly as I could that we will never use LLMs in lieu of the work of our experienced, talented, brilliant people. If a consulting firm's work is so shitty that it can be replaced with an LLM, then they should go out of business as soon as possible.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

Now, I'm just a simple unfrozen caveman, but it seems to me that the competitive advantage of Deloitte et al used to be "we hire experienced, talent, brilliant people, if you pay us, you can have access to them." What I'm hearing here is, instead, "we have a subscription to ChatGPT." 🤔

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

The second news story was Deloitte charging the Australian government $290k for a report that was generated by an LLM, full of nonsense. These consulting firms aren't just *talking* about using AI in lieu of having smart people research and think hard—they're actually doing it.

Deloitte to partially refund Australian government for report with apparent AI-generated errors

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

I've seen a couple of news stories recently that tell me how completely screwed that major consulting firms are. The first was Accenture laying off 1% of their workforce to demonstrate that they're all in on GenAI. Really? Accenture wants to advertise that they can be replaced by an $20/month LLM?

Accenture plans on 'exiting' staff who can't be reskilled on AI amid restructuring strategy

Accenture CEO Julie Sweet said as advanced AI becomes core to the company's strategy, employees are expected to "retrain and retool" at scale.

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jenny (phire) @phirephoenix.com · 1d

The October 7th edition of the @showuptoronto.ca just went out! Includes actions you can take to support the Canadians detained from the Sumud flotilla and dozens of events across the city on housing, disability justice, Bill 33, and the environmental crisis. buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto

Show Up Toronto - October 7, 2025

Hi friends and neighbours, Not much of a preamble today, as I'm feeling under the weather. For folks who have joined recently, thank you and welcome! A quick...

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Noel Hidalgo 🗽❤️🚲 @noneck.org · 1d

The Danish prime minister says the country will ban social media for under-15s, as she accused mobile phones and social networks of “stealing our children’s childhood”.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration

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redrum scare(d) corncob (no one said it made sense) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 1d

"chill is an especially harmful but efficient form of speech control, as the Administration well knows. Direct censorship is laborious, ad hoc, and happens only after the fact. Chill, by contrast, is a form of prior restraint administered by the speaker themselves out of fear"

Evelyn Douek @evelyndouek.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about an under-appreciated aspect of AAUP v. Rubio. It is the first case of the Trump Era to explicitly identify and reject the primary and most pernicious form of speech suppression employed by this Administration: Chill.

balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/aaup...

Balkinization: AAUP v. Rubio and the Big Chill

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest newsletter is about how the generative AI industry made us fear the wrong things.

AGI won't kill us all, and AI won't take our jobs. But it'll still harm us.

Generative AI a paper tiger, with a real tiger behind it.

whatwelost.substack.com/p/generative...

Generative AI is a Paper Tiger with a Real Tiger Behind It

We Were Afraid Of The Wrong Stuff

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Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 1d

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Aw absolutely! 😊

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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