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Bonnie Stewart

@bonstewart.bsky.social
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online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she. old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
“But the smart glasses reflect a larger philosophical position, one ubiquitous in Big Tech and fueled by the artificial intelligence gold rush: that the human is not enough, and that we need to be aided — and disciplined — by AI.”
jacobin.com
Amazon Is Perfecting Total Surveillance of Its Workforce
Amazon has long been synonymous with workplace surveillance. With the introduction of “smart delivery glasses,” the logistics giant may soon ensure that not a moment of its drivers’ time on the clock ...
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KT @bigsamthompson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Have you watched this PBS doc? If not, highly recommended. bsky.app/profile/bigs...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 30/09/2026
Fuck yeah Backpack! www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/gentle...
thecanadianpressnews.ca
Gentle giant Backpack declared winner of Alaska's Fat Bear Week
After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026
No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Please read this essay which brilliantly explores the tension between Silicon Valley & the health of our democracy. Consent is kryptonite to tech’s aspirations for efficiency, but is not unimportant to our humanity.🕊️ We’re in the midst of an existential battle, but it has ∅ to do with rogue agents.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
my cup of ambition & i are reporting for duty 😘🩷
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The Verge @theverge.com · 24/09/2026
In this new era of surveillance, tech companies want every single average person to be responsible for spotting the subtle signs that they’re being spied on — like a tiny, blinking red light on Meta smart glasses. www.theverge.com/tech/999889/...
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This really isn’t how consent works. All of these are after the fact and require some action from the people who are already being recorded / listened to, rather than them being able to say ‘no’ before a recording begins.
— Chris Gilliard, an independent privacy researcher and author of Luxury Surveillance
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"I'm Mia, a Super Buddy. I may look like a hologram, but I'm really just a friend." Nope nope nope nope nopety nope nope.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026
I'm fascinated by U.S. tech and business journalism because it doesn't adhere to literally any rules of actual journalism. There's no effort to actually explain objective truth; they can't even so much as hint at the fact there's funny math here and the company isn't worth anything close to this
nytimes.com
OpenAI Considers New Financing at a $1.5 Trillion Valuation (Gift Article)
The funding round would double the value of the start-up behind ChatGPT and establish it as the world’s most valuable private company.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i am a (hu)man of constant sorrow
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Doctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugs
Artificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If Hugo continues to grow at this rate, by 2030 he will no longer fit in the barn. By 2050 he will have grown to the size of Godzilla and could crush humanity. But if we let the Chinese grow their own Hugo first that would be bad. This is why we must invest 100 trillion dollars in Hugo immediately.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
my youngest is turning 18 today. surreal. she just started university in Toronto. her elder sibling, at college in Oakville, went up to take her for sushi. they're out in the city together. <3 i miss the online community of my early days of parenthood & needed to tell somebody, lol. thank you.
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Happy and Sad at the Same Time
Alt: Happy and Sad at the Same Time
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Lisa Noble @nobleknits2.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/arts/cutaway...
cbc.ca
A generation of queer elders faces a new challenge: old age. My film is for them | CBC Arts
Rodrigo Barriuso writes about why he made Neverman, a film about the challenges of growing old while queer.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Babe, wake up, they just added a new sin
americamagazine.org
Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document
The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i mean i know we knew *some* kinds of gender-affirming care are all the rage for the MAGA set but this does feel...blatant (also batshit) www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
cbc.ca
Pentagon makes testosterone screening mandatory for U.S. service members effective immediately | CBC News
The ​U.S. Pentagon issued detailed guidance on Wednesday for a new, mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for active-duty and reserve service members age 30 and older, ‌a follow-up to a J...
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
we live on top of a death cult :/
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is very encouraging if it spurs action. It's an explicit questioning of the transactional structure of schooling which, IMO, is the central challenge of our time. (And predated LLMs). biblioracle.substack.com/p/addressing...
biblioracle.substack.com
Addressing the Transactional Model of School
We need to attack thoughtless ChatGPT use from the demand side.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Parti Québecois, a party whose hold raison-d'être is separatism, recently said they were putting all separation talk on the backburner for the remainder of Trump's term. Do you know how insane that is? Trump healed 200 years of Franco-Anglo tensions purely by being a giant asshole.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ffs. my dudes Dolly Parton AND Tim Curry, beloved fountainheads of all my camp sensibilities, both gone at 80. in less than 24 hours 😭 while that other 80 year old carries on burning everything down 😡
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Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror
Alt: Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in Rocky Horror makes displeased face
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.
Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"We should never forget that Dolly Parton chose not to be a billionaire."
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It was only a matter of time
Epistemic Assholes
Cameron Boult
Synthese (forthcoming)

Abstract
In this paper, I develop and defend the concept epistemic assholes. An epistemic asshole is someone who exhibits a distinctive form of epistemic badness characterized not by gross irrationality or hostility to truth, but by a stable, entitled disregard for one’s epistemic relations with others. Drawing on Aaron James’s (2012) account of moral assholes, I examine how people can systematically exploit epistemic cooperation by allowing themselves special advantages—such as “freedom from inquiry”, “doxastic comfort”, and “freedom to criticize”—while remaining insulated from criticism by an entrenched sense of entitlement. The resulting view, the Relational Approach to Epistemic Assholes (REA), explains why epistemic assholes are not epistemically the worst, yet are nonetheless deeply galling. After motivating the need for this concept, I show how REA captures both “impure” cases (involving both epistemic and moral assholery) and “pure” epistemic assholes, whose objectionable conduct is driven by epistemic aims themselves. I further explore connections between epistemic assholes and epistemic vice, and the causal role that epistemic assholery can play in active ignorance and epistemic exploitation. Through this latter connection, I argue that epistemic assholes play an insidious causal role in sustaining objectionable social power dynamics. The concept of epistemic assholes provides a valuable lens for understanding and calling out important but often-hidden hazards in our social epistemic environment.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
Said it before: there’s no such thing as “mass surveillance, but with guardrails.”
techcrunch.com
Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch
Flock Safety faces a growing public outcry over concerns that its surveillance technology could be misused.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
so. one of two syllabi ready. on to the new-to-me Gender/Sexuality in Education course. um...any fresh, fabulous text suggestions?! open, engaging short articles/videos that look at gender/queer/sexuality issues in K-12 ed very welcome: particularly ones that don't centre white/US perspectives.
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Thanks A Bunch Banana Meme
Alt: white man with makeup and bananas on head says "thanks a bunch"
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
every August i forget how long it takes me to design a syllabus. the closer a course is to my own expertise, the longer it takes my brain to critical analyse & synthesize oh, EVERYTHING NEW IN MY FRIGGIN FIELD 😭 that said, my B.Ed media literacy/digital pedagogy syllabus is now ready & i am EXCITED
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Cat Dancing Cat Shaking
Alt: Cat dancing and shaking booty with YAY written onscreen
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
digital automated systems *always* end up further marginalizing ppl in our stratified society...the poor, the elderly, those working in an additional language or with non-"standard" accents. often the very people who most NEED the systems being automated. 🫠
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
there is no rhyme or reason to an entire “AI” department, much less an AI school. There is no curriculum, as such, because AI is not a school of thought. It has no theory, no method. It’s just a tool. Two or three courses, max, if someone is obsessed with it should suffice.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"For ten years at least, Zuckerberg has repeatedly promised connection and democracy on his platforms. Instead, we’ve gotten slop and oligarchic control. The AI manifesto promising superintelligence-for-all is cut from the same cloth."
techpolicy.press
Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Lost it at Compute
It's worth asking what it would take to actually democratize AI at each layer of the stack, writes Ellen P. Goodman, starting with compute.
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readywriting @readywriting.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
...edtech that is nontransparent, proprietary, & built on extraction & plagiarism. the only 'ethic' of BigAI is profit.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i never did quite grasp Columbia House's "send us a penny & we give you cool shit" business model, but i liked it waaay more than the current late capitalism genre of "pay us + tip us + give us your data & we grant you rentier access to something ephemeral that won't work next week"
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/08/2026
never let anyone tell you that you can’t make a difference futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com
Google's AI Is Telling Users That Flock Cameras Are Filled With Valuable Gold and Copper
Google's AI Overview is spreading misinformation about hidden treasure inside another AI-company's surveillance cameras.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
theonion.com
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
oh good. Ross Douthat now going FULL affirmative action for men with no qualities that actually attract women.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
in the local paper today (paywalled, apologies) talking about tech policy & how at a societal level it's key that we recognize what tools are doing TO us as well as what we’re doing WITH them. (lol yes my local PostMedia outlet misspelled our city's name) windsorstar.com/news/local-n...
windsorstar.com
Winsdor experts warn social media ban could push teens into riskier behaviour
A new bill seeks to restrict youth’s access to social media and AI chatbots unless tech companies comply with safety regulations
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
Screenshot of the article's graphic, showing color swatches derived from the Earthcam archive, illustration the color of the reflecting pool calibrated against satellite imagery, from 8 June to 19 June 2026. I chose yesterday, 19 June, so it rendered the US American flag with a green hue instead of blue.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
As media opinion increasingly tries to discredit data centre opposition for being reactionary populism, it's important for campaigns to squash any possible far right infiltration by explicitly declaring themselves as anti-racist and anti-fascist.
Headline from the Financial Times that reads "The coming rise of anti-AI populism - Anxiety about the technology is set to generate a political backlash". The photo shows a data centre protest in the USA. URL for the story https://archive.ph/tkFwz
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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“It is time to break decisively with the perverse logic in which retirees, the poor or immigrants are expected to balance the budget, while the rich are to be allowed to live tax-free in their own parallel society.” - @gabrielzucman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman
There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
guys, these are just ingredients.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"This is a stunning abrogation of good policy development and a poorly conceived vision of the breadth and importance of privacy." do we assume KPMG is behind this move too, like last week's 'low AI trust = low AI literacy' false equivalence?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Dylan, on life in your 80’s, is incredible. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
talked to AM800 live, yesterday, about the new Canada Digital Safety Act, the under-16 temporary ban, & what problem it's trying to solve. there is definitely a problem: we live in an algorithmic misinformation swamp. www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...
iheart.com
Digital Safety Act and Proposed Social Media Restrictions for Youth - The Shift with Patty Handysides - Sound Bites | iHeart
<p>Patty Handysides welcomed Dr. Bonnie Stewart, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor on to discuss the digital safety act and proposed social media restrictions for ...
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ᵀᴴᴱꀤNGᒪOᖇIOᑌᔕ¹🇨🇦 @inglorious.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Canada has already inked at least one deal with Palantir. We must not let this heinous AI and surveillance company into our healthcare, friends. I encourage you to email your concerns to your local MP.
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
"So much of what is said never needs to be written down. Making people sift through transcripts or rely on the accuracy of computer-synthesis is a place where power is lost"
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
scholarship in 2026: an open journal i published in a decade back no longer has a website...the link's 403. my version of the article was lost in a 2022 computer crash. there's a researchgate version but i gave up my account in like, 2017? i can find it deep on the web, i'm sure. or search AI 😭
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Bonnie Stewart @bonstewart.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
what problem are we trying to solve? yes, algorithmic platforms feed increasingly extreme reels & misinfo & AI slop to everyone anytime we turn on a phone – but banning kids rather than regulating platforms just amplifies privacy issues w/out fixing the problem nationalpost.com/news/politic...
nationalpost.com
Carney government to ban social media for kids younger than 16, but will allow exemptions
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is expected to table its long-awaited legislation aimed at online safety this week.
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