Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 13hSome of us will survive but we won't, as Toni Morrison would say, survive whole 1121
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 06/10/2026when my son was 5, he asked, "is English the real language?" I wrote it down because I remember thinking through the same question as a kid. And LLMs grounded in (internet) English as the "real language"/their primary base will always replicate that error. 253
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Stab stab stab stab stab stab stab 341316
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026📢 New Article! How did disease shape African experiences of WWI? Mazimba examines multi-morbidity among African porters in Northern Rhodesia, focusing on dysentery, bubonic plague and jiggers, and the healthcare responses developed by affected communities. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 055
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026What if educational spaces worked to become one of the few places in life our students are not constantly surveilled under constant threat conditions? 413826
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026efficiency and progress is ours once more now that we have the latest claud code 000
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I mean, the same as everyone else my age, the flying monkeys in Wizard of Oz and the skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts. 000
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026What kills me is that it's no longer Internet randos using AI to cosplay as philosophers, historians or scientists. It's established philosophers, historians and scientists surrendering their hard-won intellectual agency and integrity in a rapid cascade, faster than even my darkest prediction. 1/1 29629
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I've found recently that repeating "Efficiency isn't one of my values" as a kind of affirmation has been really freeing. 13110
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I am once again asking anyone who interviews Wes Anderson to please finally ask him about Showa Era Godzilla. 6602113
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I look forward to working again with the gifted vocalist Karen Somerville as we present "Stories and Songs of Maritime Liberation in the Chesapeake" at the Sultana Downrigging Festival in Chestertown, MD, Friday, Oct. 30, 6:15 pm, details below. Join us! downrigging.org/freedom-ship/downrigging.orgFreedom Ship - Sultana DownriggingInfo, Schedule & Tickets 0104
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026philosophers should have simply *answered* the deepest and most intractable questions ever posed. instead they've chosen to fuck around. disappointing 1766087
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell. 518348
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Spent a chunk of the day reading legal codes and history books about all the ways state and local governments tried to stop enslaved and free Black people from learning to read and write. I might have to skip my "The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945" night reading. 418121
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Because if you have the up-against-the-wall fantasy, well, pull up a chair next to this guy. Doesn't matter who you're executing. That's which side you're on. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...nytimes.comTennessee Prison Chief Was Hired Despite a Trail of Troubled Executions (Gift Article)The failed execution of Christa Pike has prompted new scrutiny of Frank Strada, the state’s top prison official, and his past role overseeing executions in Arizona. 33514
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026but really, this post is just me reaffirming that I am not interested in whether they can do math because the primary function of LLMs is to help centralize, justify, and validate power, and they are doing that successfully already 312733
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"? 18788173
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Brett McGurk is a war criminal. 012
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026hope they don’t investigate the uh founders 010
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This was such a heartbreaking, human, generous conversation. Thank you to DAIR and all the participants. 000
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Jack performed briefly at our kids’ elementary school assembly, once. The principal didn’t really know who he was and just told the students he had put out a cd. It was fun and funny. 010
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.404media.co'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting BackKenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back. 59349
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Doctor Wind Turkey @dog-envier.bsky.social · 01/10/2026prestigurgitating 1206
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What Tech Calls Governing, exhibit no. 267533 www.404media.co/how-cities-a...404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. 1183
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Anyway it is very obvious that this tech gets us further from not closer to the flourishing envisioned by those who dreamt of time to cultivate learning, movement and self-expression. It just gets us closer to consuming simulacra of these things — along with health, wealth and security — on a screen 1255
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026a lot of very annoying men have been going on about “restoring trust” in universities, by which they mean increasing “viewpoint diversity,” by which they mean privileging evidence-free conservative beliefs. but it seems like a bigger deal that students and faculty can’t trust their school this way: 118641
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Not a thing we know or will ever know can come from anything other than this deep well of care and patience, of being together with difficulty. 115215
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7. 1523688
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Mary Shelly Beans 🎃 🫘 @billhookunion.beanyear.com · 29/09/2026OK, I’ve seen enough, I’m calling it: American manufacturing and logistics is cooked, tired, busted, soulless, fried, exhausted, worn out, worn down More than ever before I have to re-ask for PO and logistics confirmations than I ever have in 14 years 511011
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore 322964
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Very excited to share the cover of my new book JUST BENEATH THE SOIL: WORLD WAR II THROUGH THE EYES OF ITS LAST WITNESSES. It will be out May 4, 2027. I learned so much writing this book and truly can't wait to share it with you all. It’s available for preorder now: sites.prh.com/justbeneatht... 727457
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Now I’m nobody, but I think that is indicative of a set of political principles. I think that’s worth taking a note of. They do not care whether it’s useful. They do not care about the user. If you are the user, however, maybe you care. 1066450
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026remain ungovernable (don’t chat with chat bots) 0185
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Department of Education has been incentivizing people to switch out of the SAVE plan and onto a more expensive plan. They said they would reduce your interest rate by 1% if you enroll in autopay by Sep 30th. But they just extended the deadline to Dec 31. This was a trick. 13521
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1034097
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Anyway, yall know all this stuff. The real point is that we all know this stuff but they keep making this AI thing that pretends we don’t know this stuff. the word for that is power. 025330
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/09/2026In the logic of the people who think, e.g. that LLMs can factually think, they have the logic backwards: they have already decided they can think. So it's like already deciding the pyramids were built by aliens... you will under such a frame find things that seem to you to be "evidence". 32712
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*They Might Be Giants @tmbg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Madison! You are a beacon of happiness to a traveling band! Bless the Barrymore Theater. All y'all rock. 31354
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*gil, a finite mode @gilmorejon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Derrida said that each death isn't the end of *a* world, it is the end of *the* world, and I think he's right. taking this insight seriously is what it means to actually not be a utilitarian monster 2172
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026luckily this feeling will never haunt me one day in my life 061
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 28/09/2026RIP Mighty Sparrow (1935-2026)caribbeannationalweekly.comLegendary calypsonian Mighty Sparrow has diedLegendary calypsonian Slinger Francisco, better known as the Mighty Sparrow, has died at the age of 91. 110540
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Using the excuse of number of majors to cut disciplines and departments weakens every major at a college as surely as the environmental damage of removing a keystone species from a habitat. 0284
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026applying market terminology to something does not make it a market 3689
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026anyways I think it certainly wouldn't hurt to hold ourselves and each other to higher standards of reading and arguing so let's give that a shot 1138427
D B *free Palestine* @davidbeus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026my students went rogue after reading The Ignorant Shcoolmaster 010
Reposted by D B *free Palestine*Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Congrats to Zahn McClarnon! Zahn McClarnon will receive the 2026 Visionary Award from the Santa Fe International Film Festival, honoring more than three decades of work as an actor and his growing role as a producer and director. redpopnews.com/zahn-mcclarn...redpopnews.comZahn McClarnon to Receive 2026 Visionary Award at Santa Fe International Film FestivalZahn McClarnon will receive the 2026 Visionary Award from the Santa Fe International Film Festival, honoring more than three decades of work as an actor and his growing role as a producer and director... 521562
