Anney Bolgiano
@mrratburn.bsky.social
It's Anney, from twitter. Writer and professor. Buy Flat-Pack: https://thediagram.com/merch/product/ryan-mihaly-b-flat-clarinet-fingering-chart/
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Look for the helpers
Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Look for the helpers
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Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
December 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Creative solidarity means:
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
If you're a writer, do not use AI "art" or AI "voiceover"
If you're an artist, do not use AI "writing" or AI "references"
If you're a streamer/actor, do not use AI for backdrops, thumbnails, etc.
Never help AI steal another medium
No excuses, no shortcuts, no surrender.
1 year ago today, I went to early vote. A volunteer asked me if I wanted a sample ballot and I burst into tears. Then she tried to comfort me but also started crying. She said, "I know you're scared but this could be really exciting," and I said "But it could also be really terrible." And it was.
October 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
1 year ago today, I went to early vote. A volunteer asked me if I wanted a sample ballot and I burst into tears. Then she tried to comfort me but also started crying. She said, "I know you're scared but this could be really exciting," and I said "But it could also be really terrible." And it was.
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Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .
October 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it .
For a while I confused Courtney Cox and Heather Cox Richardson. I'm talking like... early days. Maybe 2017? Anyhow, my mom would talk about her and I'd think "Wow, she really pivoted."
October 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For a while I confused Courtney Cox and Heather Cox Richardson. I'm talking like... early days. Maybe 2017? Anyhow, my mom would talk about her and I'd think "Wow, she really pivoted."
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These photos get more outrageous the more you look at them.
Tearing down the People's House for a $300M vanity project while federal workers go unpaid and America barrels towards a health care crisis.
A literal depiction of what Trump is doing to our country.
Tearing down the People's House for a $300M vanity project while federal workers go unpaid and America barrels towards a health care crisis.
A literal depiction of what Trump is doing to our country.
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
These photos get more outrageous the more you look at them.
Tearing down the People's House for a $300M vanity project while federal workers go unpaid and America barrels towards a health care crisis.
A literal depiction of what Trump is doing to our country.
Tearing down the People's House for a $300M vanity project while federal workers go unpaid and America barrels towards a health care crisis.
A literal depiction of what Trump is doing to our country.
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BOOM! 💥 💥💥
UVA is out here!
Over 1,000 STRONG!
Momentum is growing. Protests are spreading. The tide is turning.
Students, faculty, & campus workers are standing up & fighting back against unprecedented authoritarian assaults on higher education.
Join Us!
#DefendHigherEd
UVA is out here!
Over 1,000 STRONG!
Momentum is growing. Protests are spreading. The tide is turning.
Students, faculty, & campus workers are standing up & fighting back against unprecedented authoritarian assaults on higher education.
Join Us!
#DefendHigherEd
October 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
BOOM! 💥 💥💥
UVA is out here!
Over 1,000 STRONG!
Momentum is growing. Protests are spreading. The tide is turning.
Students, faculty, & campus workers are standing up & fighting back against unprecedented authoritarian assaults on higher education.
Join Us!
#DefendHigherEd
UVA is out here!
Over 1,000 STRONG!
Momentum is growing. Protests are spreading. The tide is turning.
Students, faculty, & campus workers are standing up & fighting back against unprecedented authoritarian assaults on higher education.
Join Us!
#DefendHigherEd
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You know how magpies collect shiny objects? I collect all the great names y'all give to AI, with credits.
Current favorites: "Tarpitting 8-ball assistants" (@symbo1ics.bsky.social), "ocean-boiling fakery" (@ingridm.bsky.social), and "a racist pile of linear algebra" (in The AI Con, Bender & Hanna)
Current favorites: "Tarpitting 8-ball assistants" (@symbo1ics.bsky.social), "ocean-boiling fakery" (@ingridm.bsky.social), and "a racist pile of linear algebra" (in The AI Con, Bender & Hanna)
October 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
You know how magpies collect shiny objects? I collect all the great names y'all give to AI, with credits.
Current favorites: "Tarpitting 8-ball assistants" (@symbo1ics.bsky.social), "ocean-boiling fakery" (@ingridm.bsky.social), and "a racist pile of linear algebra" (in The AI Con, Bender & Hanna)
Current favorites: "Tarpitting 8-ball assistants" (@symbo1ics.bsky.social), "ocean-boiling fakery" (@ingridm.bsky.social), and "a racist pile of linear algebra" (in The AI Con, Bender & Hanna)
Tonight a student asked me if the spot on her finger was a tick, a splinter, or a mole. I'm and English professor.
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Tonight a student asked me if the spot on her finger was a tick, a splinter, or a mole. I'm and English professor.
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"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"
CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.
Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete
The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"What if, in the process of trying to ban AI products that quite actually encourage children to kill themselves, we wind up banning chatbots that help children cheat on their homework, diminish their propensity for critical thought, and lead to the development of other forms of AI psychosis?"
Telling educators to keep an "open mind" about AI is like telling someone with an astronomical electric bill and heat stroke to "keep an open mind about climate change, it's not all bad, there's just a lot we don't know, we don't know how it will affect us. It could be a wonderful opportunity."
September 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Telling educators to keep an "open mind" about AI is like telling someone with an astronomical electric bill and heat stroke to "keep an open mind about climate change, it's not all bad, there's just a lot we don't know, we don't know how it will affect us. It could be a wonderful opportunity."
Continuing the annual tradition of getting 3 hours of sleep before the first day of classes.
September 2, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Continuing the annual tradition of getting 3 hours of sleep before the first day of classes.
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You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
August 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.
“We” is more important here.
“We” is more important here.
My mom basically lives off of this and she proudly calls it "mush." Often features greens from the garden.
I don’t know why it took my AuDHD brain until today to learn this, but I can just make a hash out of onions and garlic and any random vegetables in my fridge and add some protein and that can be my breakfast
August 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My mom basically lives off of this and she proudly calls it "mush." Often features greens from the garden.
My brothers and I shared one phone and the idea was whoever was traveling the furthest from home got to take it.
Thinking about how my parents gave me the family Nokia brick in high school and said "we got a collective 45 minutes on this phone for the month; you better not use it for any reason."
A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.
August 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My brothers and I shared one phone and the idea was whoever was traveling the furthest from home got to take it.
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Give the @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social a follow. Here they are with a new verse for the union song, “Which Side Are You On?”
Right now, Avelo Airlines is on the side of ICE and concentration camps and not on the side of common decency. #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE
Right now, Avelo Airlines is on the side of ICE and concentration camps and not on the side of common decency. #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE
July 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Give the @rapidresponsechoir.bsky.social a follow. Here they are with a new verse for the union song, “Which Side Are You On?”
Right now, Avelo Airlines is on the side of ICE and concentration camps and not on the side of common decency. #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE
Right now, Avelo Airlines is on the side of ICE and concentration camps and not on the side of common decency. #BoycottAvelo #AveloWorksWithICE
I did briefly consider this a few years ago and did a deep dive. This is really exciting.
August 21, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I did briefly consider this a few years ago and did a deep dive. This is really exciting.
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Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
So this one actually WAS on my bingo card.
A person has tested positive for plague after possibly being bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area of California, public health officials say.
California resident in Lake Tahoe area tests positive for plague
Public health officials said the person may have been bitten by an infected flea while camping in the South Lake Tahoe area.
cbsn.ws
August 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
So this one actually WAS on my bingo card.
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teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
I got my car interior detailed (after having, frankly, the messiest car of anyone I know) and I'm excited to try out being that person who has a single water bottle and an empty tote bag in the bag seat and apologizes profusely for how "messy" everything is.
August 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I got my car interior detailed (after having, frankly, the messiest car of anyone I know) and I'm excited to try out being that person who has a single water bottle and an empty tote bag in the bag seat and apologizes profusely for how "messy" everything is.
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"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
July 31, 2025 at 7:49 PM
"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.
We need to bring back the term "hell in a hand basket" -- it's devastatingly under utilized.
July 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
We need to bring back the term "hell in a hand basket" -- it's devastatingly under utilized.
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Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
April 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…