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scgriffith.bsky.social
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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lethalityjane.bsky.social
chat are we cooked
r/Teachers 37m ago TheOne4Figures Being in College for Education right now is Horrifying Another AI / ChatGPT Post 🤖 I am a student observer (I student teach next fall) for high school history ed. Right now in college, we have a full class dedicated to using technology in the classroom. However the entire semester was almost fully dedicated to using ai in the classroom. Using ai to make lessons, being told it’s ok to write research papers with them, being told ChatGPT IS a valid source TO CITE, being told to create our college lesson plans using ai, basically being told to use ai for everything. On top of this, our professor has told us she uses ai all the time, including for writing research papers and making our assignments. Every time we pointed out the mistakes ai makes, she would tell us how ai isn’t perfect so just double check it. Oh yea, our professor? She’s our DEAN OF EDUCATION AT OUR COLLEGE. It’s just so infuriating to see. For those asking, SIUC, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
November 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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jesbattis.bsky.social
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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dennycarter.bsky.social
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
“A big part of the high stock prices is not a reflection of high future growth,” he said. Rather, it is a sign that A.I. is expected to boost productivity and shrink employment. “The firms all think they’re going to shed a lot of labor, and that’s why the profits will be high,” he said. And while the construction of data centers to power artificial intelligence is fueling economic growth now, these centers, once built, employ skeleton staffs.
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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rgoodlaw.bsky.social
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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charliearchy.bsky.social
NEW: Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson, the company's ad data reveals. www.theredoubt.net/meta-has-bee...
Meta has been paid $3.2 million to promote Tucker Carlson
The parent company of Facebook is helping a right-wing influencer promote conspiracy theories about 9/11.
www.theredoubt.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“OpenAI’s court filing argued that the harms in this case were at least partly caused by Raine’s ‘failure to heed warnings, obtain help, or otherwise exercise reasonable care,’ as well as the ‘failure of others to respond to his obvious signs of distress.’”
OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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aniccia.bsky.social
Waymo privatized another public street:

Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco

Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.

The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.

OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.”

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
the plaintiffs allege: 1. Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. 2. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as "a very, very, very high strike threshold." 3. Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. 4. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act. 5. In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn't say that child safety was his top concern "when I have a number of other areas I'm more focused on like building the metaverse." Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.
November 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times
Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...
m.economictimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:46 PM
helios-daedalus.bsky.social
The Great Recession wiped out one career path, and I accidentally fell into another one in tech while that was still possible.
recursecenter.bsky.social Recurse Center @recursecenter.bsky.social · 20d
What’s the lore behind choosing your career path ?
November 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
helios-daedalus.bsky.social
Slowly turning into a rabid positivist, but specifically for things like vaccines, antibiotics, and medically assisted births. Lots of subjectivity (and bad medicine) out there, but if you advocate for anti-vaxx or wild births or whatever, you at minimum should get banned from all social media.
November 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...
Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn
Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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arstechnica.com
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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courtneymilan.com
So there’s a lawyer going around BlueSky right now responding to everyone talking about the Anthropic book settlement by (1) urging people to opt out and (2) saying that they are representing authors who are opting out.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.
blakeprof.bsky.social Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 18d
Heaven forbid the Republicans get rid of the filibuster…
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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samthielman.com
CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles
RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Australia's opposition party just dropped its target to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, specifically citing the 'abundance agenda'

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Shadow Energy Minister Dan Tehan, who has been tasked with steering the party's emissions policy development, said "all natural resources", including coal, should be used to push down energy prices while ensuring Australia does its "fair share" to reduce emissions. "We want to be throwing all technologies at emissions reduction," he said. "We will be the only party — or the only two parties, as a coalition — that is saying to the Australian people, when it comes to energy abundance, we will use all our resources, and when it comes to reducing emissions we will also use all of the available technology." One Liberal told the ABC the outcome was a "compromise" between the moderate and conservative factions. Another said it was clearly more closely aligned with the right faction's preferred position.
November 13, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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utopia-defer.red
So just to be clear, the arc of this evening went:

- it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening

- okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen

- okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually
November 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
helios-daedalus.bsky.social
I don't think I want to hear the phrase "low social trust voter" ever again. They certainly exist and exist for many different reasons, but it's pretty clear that one of the reasons they exist is because a lot of politicians, elites, and systems are just not very trustworthy.
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 AM
helios-daedalus.bsky.social
Just a quick reminder that not only is "rotating villain theory" vindicated, but it's something the Dems will happily deploy over and over again in a fairly visible way.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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ezralevin.bsky.social
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
mattortega.com Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 21d
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
unavaleable.bsky.social Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21d
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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brianvan.bsky.social
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM