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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

APA* invites you to the first in a series of public talks in collaboration with orgs creating possibilities beyond the limits of our existing institutions. Register at bit.ly/APeoplesAcademy 🤓

A People’s Academy post titled “Reimagining Leadership Institute” Saturday Oct 17 at 3:00pm.

Register at bit.ly/apeoplesacademy

Cohosted by Black Birthing Futures. Black Girl’s* Guide to Surviving Menopause. Bloom Collective. Climate Justice Universities Union. CLLCTIVLY. Circles ofCourageous Commons. Critical Internet
Studies Institute. Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. Immigration Justice Collective. Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation.
Options Program Inc. Powerful Pathways. Therapy Fund Foundation. School for Poetic Computation. School of Radical Imagination. The Privacy Center at Georgetown.

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Meta's settlement with state attorneys general added teen time limits and design changes. But Juvaria Shahid, legal fellow at Tech Justice Law, writes that "the settlement leaves much to be desired" and is not the tech industry's "Big Tobacco" moment.

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Meta's Multibillion-Dollar Settlement Left a Lot to Be Desired

Tech Justice Law's Juvaria Shahid says the settlement is not the tech industry’s ‘Big Tobacco’ moment.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

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Kate Molloy @kate-molloy.net · 24/09/2026

Join us starting on 12 October for our upcoming open course (with digital badge), Using OER and OEP: opencourses.ie/opencourse/o... The course is open to all and was developed by the loveliest group of open educators in Irish HE 😀 @catherinecronin.bsky.social @eam0.bsky.social

Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) open course. 25 hours starting 12 October. Earn a digital badge.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

so long as governments, policy makers, and regulatory bodies continue to treat tech companies/products and their underlying anti-democratic and fascist ideologies as something separable, things will continue to get worse for fundamental rights and democracy

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“To become old is to be an immigrant from a country that no longer exists… Much dismissiveness about feminism comes from ignorance about how profoundly feminism changed things that were so deeply entrenched, so normalized into invisibility, so ancient and customary…” Solnit on Steinem. wonderful 🔥

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"...a settlement is not structural reform. Meta denies wrongdoing. The core surveillance capitalism model remains intact." Still much more work to do. dispatch.the-citizens.com/metas-17b-co...

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Meta’s ($17b) Cost of Doing Business

Plus: Burning Up

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“As citizens, we do not have to submit to being watched, tracked, monitored, and policed all the time. Nor should we… Alone, nobody can do much about the surveillance state. Together, we may.”

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Jacob Ward @byjacobward.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Meta's public reports: bullying/harassment at 0.05–0.06% of content. Meta's own internal surveys of teens: 20–27% experienced it in the last 7 days alone. Self-harm content: Meta said <0.05% publicly, 8.4% internally. Violent content: "100 to 400 times" higher internally.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 06/08/2026

In addition to all the many, many other ways that @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is so on point, her newsletter's on Ghost (not Substack) which is what actually understanding the crucial importance of the information ecosystem looks like. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-and...

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Cynicism and Naïveté in the Summer of a Thousand Fires

To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (“They don’t mean me”) or by despair (“There’s nothing we can do”). Eac...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Nice overview of our open-access book, Auditing AI in @the-renovator.bsky.social www.democracyrenovator.com/p/july-13-te... mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

The Bluesky consensus...

A social media thread features multiple users praising a Cabo Verde football team's performance, calling it unforgettable, wonderful, and full of heart. Several users express admiration and emotional impact from the match.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Yes. Listen to @merbroussard.bsky.social (Link in thread.)

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

An invitation to conversation: to design differently, deploy differently and refashion our relationships to edtech from @discoursology.bsky.social acknowledging fragility and strengthening our human bonds at #edtech26.

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Registration is now open for #MYFest26! A global, virtual 3-month journey for lifelong learners exploring community, wellbeing, imagination, care, & critical AI literacies. Registration and website: myfest.equityunbound.org 💖Free registration: email unboundeq@gmail.com #OpenEducation #EquityUnbound

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MYFest26 - MYFest26

Welcome to #MYFest25! This is Equity Unbound’s fourth annual “Mid-Year Festival” (MYFest). Equity Unbound continues to co-create brave spaces and nurture a caring community for life-long-learners ever...

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

could you grab a few duplicates for me, by any chance? so wish I could be in Dublin today! have a wonderful two days, Kate, after all the hard work 💛

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

aagh! so sorry to be missing you all. thanks for the photos, Maren – sending hugs from Galway

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Irish Learning Technology Association @iltasky.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Education is for the student to come to feel like the master of her own thinking” Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Freire, 1978 A timely reminder from @abeba.blacksky.app at #edtech26

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

so sorry to be missing #EdTech26 (hello to all!) but grateful to @iltasky.bsky.social for livestreaming keynotes ilta.ie/edtech-2026/ this morning's keynote on AI & Education by @abeba.blacksky.app (@aial.ie) was outstanding: core values of education (love, trust, empathy, care) cannot be datafied

AI in education = commercialisation of a collective responsibility
outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprise whose priority is profit

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Lorna M. Campbell @lornamcampbell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

While I agree with this post, I had flashbacks reading it. Haven't we been saying this for well over a decade? Possibly two. Perhaps we just need to keep saying it. #oer #repositories Why Can’t OER Just Be All in One Place? medium.com/creative-com...

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Why Can’t OER Just Be All in One Place?

By James Thibeault — CC BY 4.0

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The paintings of Mitjili Napurrula, Indigenous Australian artist from the Northern Territories #WomensArt

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly $4T is fated to command our public schools, or to grant fellowships to the leaders of those schools, or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them.” ⬇️

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026

like the global geo-political climate, public discourse around AI is fast deteriorating and I feel it everyday 1/

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

The book cover for Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science. The title is in large block letters at the top left; a hand-drawn area chart in a black to yellow gradient takes up the right side of the image.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/03/2026

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

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From Chile to the Philippines, meet the people pushing back on AI

Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech's AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to their environmental and social costs.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work

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Nancy Fraser | After Habermas

Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/03/2026

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"From Tressie McMillan Cottom to Bernardine Evaristo, these Black women writers are shaping literature today—along with the Black-owned bookstores carrying their work." Yesssss

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

absolutely. grateful for your ––and Audrey's–– continuing critical work.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

The episode also had me thinking of this article by @eam0.bsky.social and Stephen Gow on Authoritarian EdTech and how it "revolves around the oppressive foreclosure of choice, consent, debate and deliberation".

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Authoritarian EdTech - Eamon Costello, Stephen Gow, 2025

Careful and consentful models of digital education are being replaced by Authoritarian EdTech. The pedagogical choices digital learning now offers, such as how ...

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

thanks for sharing, Charles. the podcast also reminded me of @audreywatters.bsky.social post from *nine* years ago: Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump hackeducation.com/2017/02/02/e... prescient as always: "We must rebuild institutions that value humans’ minds and lives and integrity and safety."

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Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump

This talk was delivered at the University of Richmond. The full slide deck can be found here.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/03/2026

“As tech bros shake hands on billion-pound deals and race to stake their claim on the future of AI, it is women and marginalised genders who are left to absorb the real-world fallout.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/03/2026

“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”

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As smart devices multiply, so do fears over digital surveillance

We are living in a time of extreme self surveillance. We carry with us devices that capture our every location, info about our health, and data about our private lives. This information can be saved, ...

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 09/03/2026

ON COURAGE is the story of how they became dissidents and how we can too. We wrote this for communities to take action – and hope you’ll read it with your friends, coworkers, book club, anyone who’s witnessed the assaults on democracy and asked: what can we do? There is so much we can do together.

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On Courage

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and a former White House senior advisor, a deeply reported collection of stories about how anyone can...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

If you weren't around at the time and never heard what Jackson's oratory was like, this is what it was like. If you heard it before, you know you want to hear it again.

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

chills. I remember this vividly. rest in power, Jesse Jackson — and thank you.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

NEW: The story of America’s largest national strike for 100 years. Here are the biggest protests from Jan 30, 2026. And national news still did their best to ignore the scale of what happened yesterday. Soundtrack courtesy of The Boss 💪

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"the economic system, including companies, financial institutions & other economic actors, does not exist for its own sake... [it] exists to ensure that all people can live a good & meaningful life, in a just society & within the ecological limits of the planet" thank you @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Good morning! Get your day started on the good foot with the one and only genius James Brown.

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

oh Sue, I’m so sorry. I hope your mum gets good care — and sending much love to you all. x

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Sharing a letter published in yesterday's @irishtimes.com, written by my amazing daughter Sarah Cronin Rodger, in support of a housing movement in Ireland.

Sir, – I am energised by Una Mullally’s article calling on the Opposition to act now on the housing crisis through collective organisation (“United left must build a housing movement in 2026,” Opinion, December 15th).

It needs no repeating that the Government refuses to treat housing as a true emergency; this is evident in their actions or lack thereof. As Mullally argues, this has produced not apathy but defeat at a grassroots level, suiting those in power very well.

Following the successful campaign to elect our new President, the united left are well positioned to organise a housing movement to counter this defeat. I believe the scale of support for such a movement could extend beyond Irish shores.

Having moved to London nine years ago, I left an Ireland buoyed by marriage equality and found community in the London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, an organically-formed group which rapidly built an effective structure spanning protest, policy, media, fundraising, legal support – and, crucially, had direct links to active campaign groups back in Ireland.

A large-scale housing movement in Ireland would no doubt see similar satellite groups form here in London and across the globe. Over the past decade, the Irish diaspora have already proven they care deeply for our country through support for abortion rights and successive #HomeToVote campaigns.

However, I believe there would be greater support behind a housing movement, as housing not only affects those who stayed but also those of us who left. Many of us want to return but see no viable path to doing so. The belief and energy to fight for a better Ireland exists – and not just from within. What is missing is leadership to harness it. – Yours, etc,

SARAH CRONIN RODGER,

London.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

YouTube video by TED

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