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Amy Wood

@amyrwood.bsky.social
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Curious writer, perpetually learning, finding joy in community; she/her. I repost a fair bit because I like sharing interesting information.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2h
"If students continuously interact with proprietary AI systems, teachers facilitate those interactions, and schools provide the institutional environment in which they occur, then education systems risk becoming live testing grounds for AI [and] sites of extraction too" www.ei-ie.org/en/item/3308...
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Are AI Frameworks complicit in turning schools into AI testing grounds and sites of extraction?
The capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular Large Language Models like ChatGPT, Claude, or DeepSeek, are developing at extraordinary speed, accompanying by calls from some tech...
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 15h
"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 13h
Bonkers: Sea levels are running 1.2ft above the late-20th century baseline in San Diego as sea surface temperatures are about 7°F warmer than normal. These highly anomalous ocean temperatures and heights will continue through winter along the California coast amid El Niño. #CAwx
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 11h
Dang Morejon looks like he’s going to go home and cry in the shower.
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 23h
Haha, this fucking sucks.
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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 15h
again, really hope working mathematicians put the pieces together and realize the fundamental threat from ai companies has little to do with transforming practices or modes of mentorship. they want a death grip on funding and employment in the discipline. it's what they want with everything
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 21h
Just did some number crunching using latest (Oct 1) ECMWF seasonal data, and I must say that I've never seen such high predictive confidence in a very wet California winter. This is a truly extraordinary forecast amid a record-strength El Niño event. [Thread: please read to end.]
Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 16h
The immensely wealthy men who run the AI companies are forcing the economy to serve their dreams and crowding out everyone else's.
paulkrugman.substack.com
AI Versus Everything Else
The hyperscaler boom is crowding out other investment
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 20h
Most of the Stanford besties are in SD…
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MNF halftime show is unwatchable
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Ethan Hein @ethanhein.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We should ban AI in schools because there's a growing pile of research showing that it actively harms kids' cognitive development www.ethanhein.com/wp/2026/ai-i...
ethanhein.com
AI is harmful for learning which is why I’m banning it in my classes
I put up my course web site for History of 20th Century American Popular Music, which includes an assignment due the first day of class: read about Stephen Foster and “Old Folks at Home”, listen to…
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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whenever I teach settler colonialism, which is often, I always emphasize the point that it is still going on.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The price of gas is now what used to be the amount you'd pay if you forgot to fill the rental car up before returning it.
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Miller for six outs is crazy but walking GARY SANCHEZ is indefensible.
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Somewhere, PCA broke a TV seeing Sheets awarded a walk on a for sure swing.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The rise in dengue in the US was predicted a quarter century ago by #climate scientists in the first US National Climate Assessment. This article doesn't mention climate change. thehill.com/policy/healt...
thehill.com
Florida’s dengue outbreak reportedly largest US has seen in decades
A dengue fever outbreak in the state of Florida appears to have grown to the largest in the continental U.S. in decades, totaling 252 reported cases this year in the Sunshine State according to an …
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
There should be a law that says national broadcasts can’t show political ads for regional races outside their state. I’m in CA, I’m sick of seeing the crazy Republican crap from Texas, etc. I want to watch the Rams lose in peace.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
January-September 2026 was the warmest Jan-Sep on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. Seems red. 🔥🔥🔥
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
105: Misiorowski fastball or downtown temp in San Diego today
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wave win and a Valkyrie win - not too shabby for a Friday night
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WNBA @wnba.com · 03/10/2026
THE VALKYRIES CLAIM THE FINAL SPOT IN THE SEMIS 🏀 The Golden State Valkyries advance after defeating the Wings 2-1 in the First Round. 2026 WNBA Playoffs presented by Google Pixel
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just switched over to the Valkyries game from the Wave win and… oh
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending
a graph of roadway and mass transit lights
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One more time for the cheap seats in the back!
Screenshot of article which reads:  Democrats 
and Republicans in the 1950s could agree on many things, as long as 
they also agreed that Jim Crow oppression in the American South was 
acceptable and that women belonged in the home. Once they started 
disagreeing about these things, and especially once they were no longer 
the only people allowed in the room, U.S. politics became significantly 
more contentious. Not everyone wanted to peacefully extend power to 
previously marginalized groups.
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Arden Powell @ardenpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you think an artist's style looks like AI but you can scroll back through their portfolio and see them doing the same work before 2020, congrats, you're not looking at an AI grifter. You're looking at one of the original victims whose entire style AI stole.
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That’s because he’s a piece of shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s the Valks year but I would really like the Aces to win tonight
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Derek VanRiper @dvr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please stop recommending fucking parlays on broadcasts. I'm sorry for cursing.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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madi mcvan @madisonmcvan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"A.I. tools condition people to expect immediate responses and deny them the experience of working through challenges, the authors say, which is crucial for skill development and one of the strongest predictors of long-term learning."
nytimes.com
Will A.I. Make Your Brain Lazy?
We’re starting to learn more about how the technology can change us.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
engadget.com
Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Believe it or not, a lot of people do not have to-do lists. And the the lists many of them have are not structured for an ai agent to be helpful. This isn’t groundbreaking. If you have ever watched the evening news or read even a single story about people who aren’t like you, it is pretty basic
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 29/09/2026
Who gets heard when money dominates politics? Since the disastrous Citizens United ruling 15 years ago, billionaires have gone from $16M to $2.6B in presidential election spending, while ordinary voters' preferences barely register in policy outcomes. Here's the evidence:
rooseveltinstitute.org
Citizens United and the Decline of US Democracy: Assessing the Decision’s Impact 15 Years Later - Roosevelt Institute
In a new analysis, Rachel Funk Fordham examines the 15-year legacy of Citizens United, assessing its impact on democracy through new evidence and political science research and offering recommendation...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yesterday the barometric pressure dropped about 0.5in/hg in the span of 12 hours, went back up in the next 12, and now it's dropped right back down. It's interesting to think of how migraines have been affected by climate change, as every summer is the hottest and every winter the coldest etc
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
this is a bit of an obsession of mine especially here in charlottesville. the cost of commercial real estate is prohibitive if you want to experiment and the city seems categorically opposed to small lots and small units that could allow people to start businesses without a huge capital investment
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Friction” is humans. There is nothing else to build systems for but humans. They mean a system built for human flourishing won’t survive and they might be right. But not because the agents are so good but because AI is politics.
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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scientists Thought Venus Was Too Acidic for Complex Chemistry. It May Actually Be Weirdly Hospitable gizmodo.com/experiments-...
gizmodo.com
Scientists Thought Venus Was Too Acidic for Complex Chemistry. It May Actually Be Weirdly Hospitable
MIT researchers recreated a Venus-like stew of 98% sulfuric acid to test complex signaling molecules, like peptides, in the lab. Looks like they passed.
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Amy Wood @amyrwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Turned on Football in America to see the Niners highlights but instead got to sit through Steve Korniek breaking down a Matthew Stafford prop bet like thats fucking normal and good for society.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I will never understand why smart people all around me respond to AI with enthusiasm: it's as if they're attending a dinner party based on theft of their neighbors' groceries, plates & cutlery, saying "how convenient that these dishes just appeared, what a time-saver to steal from the neighbors!"
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The image of deceased writer Maya Angelou is now an advertising puppet for a theft-based product: This will be played off as "a regrettable error in judgment," instead of what it actually is--a vivid and accurate representation of all that is wrong with AI, from theft to obliteration of consent.
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Jose Carlos Fajardo @fuzyjoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
San Francisco Giants MLB broadcaster and former pitcher Mike Krukow, right, hi-fives longtime partner Duane Kuiper during their MLB game at Oracle Park in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2026. #mikekrukow #sfgiants
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
They are constantly telling us who they are. In this regard, we should believe them.
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