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Ryan Hendrickson @imaginaryhistories.bsky.social · 1d

This is something I wish my AI-cheerleading colleagues in archives and libraries fully understood: all the work we've done in the past 25+ years, all of it, is now actively being used to putting us out of business in the most dire fashion imaginable by the wealthiest people on the planet

Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 1d

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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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Having to deep dive every fucking book I buy now is such a hassle. GenAI isn't making my work more efficient or productive. The opposite in fact. It's bogging everything down in tedious fact-checking that I didn't have to do before. And all so some asshole can rake in easy cash.

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 2d

Whew. Painful to know how long and persistently this has been and continues to be true.

Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

this is practical advice about immediate steps to take if somebody you know has been taken by ICE.

nothing is ever guaranteed, they'll try to get away with whatever they can, but you have to try whatever you can too

ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

this felt too informative not to share

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2d

*10/6/2025 noncooperation thread*

This.
Is.
Every.
Thing.

(Bread & Puppet Theater breadandpuppet.org. Amazing.)

(When you've watched this 54-second video, you'll definitely want to see the longer version Ashley shares a couple of posts further down.)

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 2d

i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 22d

AI is the wrong tool to tackle complex societal & systemic problems. AI4SG is more about PR victories, boosting AI adoption (regardless of merit/usefulness) & laundering accountability for harmful tech, extractive practices, abetting atrocities. yours truly
www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-...

The False Promise of “AI for Social Good”

Abeba Birhane refutes industry claims about the technology's potential to solve complex social problems.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 6d

Lest you think I'm hemhawing over some little bit of arguable nuance, the AI creature was insisting that the proper opening of a business letter is:

Dear, Mr. Jones

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Science Vs @sciencevs.bsky.social · 7d

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 6d

From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World: bookshop.org/a/862/9781566896511

#poem #books #writing

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Anne Kosseff-Jones @annekosseffjones.bsky.social · 6d

This is so funny! I live in constant fear of confusing the "solidarity fist" emoji and the "face-punching fist" emoji.

Let the Right Hon In @danhon.com · 6d

All the time i thought i was doing this "this" pointer finger slack emoji but was actually doing the fuck you emoji, which apparently went on for over a month

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 8d

confident that if they could, cats would smoke cigarettes

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 6d

During recent attacks against diverse books in libraries and schools, very few experts on children's books were consulted.

It's the same with AI and writing: scholars of composition and rhetoric have spent decades thinking about these matters!

How about consulting high school English teachers?

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 6d

A glass of wine alongside sleepy tea is my new middle age reward structure. 🥱

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 7d

And *chooses* to do it... What a world.

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you for sharing this concern. It will reach a lot of folks and hopefully give more people pause. 🙏🏾

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 7d

I miss them too! But I do not trust this Internet with photos of your precious babies. I wish I could gather the newest patch of little pumpkins and share them with everyone, it seriously brought me so much joy, but protecting them comes first 😭🎃

Jacqueline @jackiesuede.bsky.social · 7d

I do miss your babies as pumpkin posts from days of yore, so here’s a cat pumpkin

a cat wearing a pumpkin hat is laying on a pumpkin

ALT: a cat wearing a pumpkin hat is laying on a pumpkin

media.tenor.com

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 7d

I love this so much! 👏🏾

Dr. Frisky Whisky McThicky, Ball Knower @professorpash.bsky.social · 7d

Tryna get it…

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April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social · 10d

Johnson refusing to seat a democratic congresswoman is a thing that I am really worried about.

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 10d

Currently nightstand top of the pile. An excellent diversion!

Ramona @alderdoodle.bsky.social · 10d

This morning's beach read - The Game Changers by @timclare.bsky.social
Only a couple chapters in, but really enjoying it so far 🎲

A hand holding The Game Changers book with a beach in the background.

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 10d

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Mar 18

I was a big fan of Klein but his inability to seriously contend with white supremacist patriarchy as an organizing principle in this country reveals the limitations of his punditry, like so many other pundits, IMO.

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 10d

You've said it so well and already months ago.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 11d

In my opinion, the 2nd most important election this November (after CA Redistricting) is the trio of Pennsylvania State Supreme Court retention elections.

Many in PA are unaware, and we need to fix that.

All 3 Justices MUST be retained.

GIFT ARTICLE to read/share.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

Why a Pennsylvania Court Election This November Could Matter in 2028

www.nytimes.com

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Rachael @r343l.bsky.social · 11d

Social consequences for public bad behavior – including bad speech! – is how we "keep the temperature down". Sometimes social censure will overreach but that's better than violence! Thank you @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social!

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The point is that the possibility of overreach is a price worth paying exactly because shame serves as a robustly liberal alternative to the political violence that Klein and company rightly abhor. It is, quite literally, the least one can do to ensure rules of social conduct that upheld minimal levels of dignity for all involved. Most of the alternatives involve either subjugation, combat, or both. Put another way: designating disrespect and denigration as beyond the pale, as grounds for exclusion from polite company, is “turning the temperature down.” Klein and others are helping to turn it up.

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