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Zohran’s Mommy Dommey @loridiletto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Punishment is so ingrained in our cultural way of relating that even progressives want to believe it can accomplish behavioral change but guess what? That is its own poorly-evidenced belief, sorry!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.

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Meredith Rose (from the grave) 👻 @mrose.ink · 21/04/2026

I've said this a million times, but copyright policy work has made me into a pretty radical UBI supporter. I don't think people's ability to feed their families should depend on locking down the commons and rolling the dice that they'll have a bestseller!

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

“Two traits you almost never see together in one person” that’s funny, I can definitely think of a non-person social agent that operates in exactly this way

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

404media.co

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 19/02/2026

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I'm used to having to convince coastal types that there are people out there who genuinely believe in libertarian and traditionalist principles (rather than as laundry for regular bigotry). rarely, however, do you see those types publicly confronted with how little company they actually have

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I don’t want to posit some mythical before time in which jobs (compensated positions within an organizational structure) and work (stuff that needs doing) were perfectly aligned, but we’re in a moment of particularly egregious misalignment and LLMs are making it worse

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Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...

By the end of the spring semester, Gwen reached a breaking point with AI. “I felt like I didn’t deserve to be a Yale student,” she said. She thought that she was throwing away her education and the scholarship paying to support it.

She decided to quit using ChatGPT altogether. She didn’t ask AI to help her sentences flow or to strike the right tone. She didn’t even use it to brainstorm. “I think that’s a skill you need to have on your own. That’s the core of being original, anyway.”

Gwen recalled completing her final assignments without AI, sitting in the middle of a crowded library so that she felt watched. “I struggled. And they weren’t very good.”

It was only then, she said, that she started to understand just how much learning she had missed out on. ∎

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Samer Hassan @samerp2p.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I was very happy to join the AI Ethics conference ACM AIES 2025 in my hometown, Madrid, at @ieuniversity.bsky.social The program was amazing, I encourage to check out the lineup and proceedings: www.aies-conference.com/2025/ I'll share some highlights in this thread🧵 #AIES #AIethics #AI

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this

An
LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of
the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing
more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result
is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our
time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex
mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow
often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate
in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age.
An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power
of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is
that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may
no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule
us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of
a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think
otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to
affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay
liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if
not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of
course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible.
But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already
marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual
patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence”
in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can
pretend to be a person.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 31/10/2025

On the occasion of Halloween, @newrepublic.com asked me to write about what’s going on in Chicago and I wanted you all to know what randomized terror feels like. And also that as the federal government fails our kids, everyday Chicagoans are showing the courage of trying to protect them.

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ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back

Fear and a whiff of tear gas hang over festivities this year. In response, even people who aren’t usually politically engaged are mobilizing.

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

No I do NOT want a free sample, I know how this works

The storefront of a shop selling Turkish delight, with a shop worker standing in the doorway with a tray of free samples

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We’re maybe two hours into AIES 2025 and there have already been some terrific papers. This is shaping up to be an amazing three days. Please enjoy my garbage photograph of the conference stage #aies

The presenters’ stage at the AI, Ethics and Society conference, dominated by a welcome slide that gives the conference title.

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Maine Pianist @mainepianist.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I remember Joshua Meyrowitz saying that TV, as a medium, supplies you with an interpretation of the events you're seeing, as you're seeing them; TikTok seems like TV on steroids, in that respect. You can't learn to chew if mama bird chews your food for you!

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

I feel like we have really lost the thread on the difference between “you and I share the same basic moral/civic commitments and disagree about the best way to realize them” and “you think I should be murdered and work actively to shift the Overton window in that direction.”

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

In 1973 Thailand entered a phase of political violence that, though the timeline is complex, lasted about three years. This phase began with a student-led leftist uprising that toppled a right-wing dictator and essentially made the country a democracy. It was a jubilant and optimistic moment.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

I can’t believe it’s even necessary to say that NO city in ANY country deserves or should be INVADED by its federal government. I thought we cared about people. Isn’t that the real point? Everyone needs liberation, most of all the people who don’t know.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I wonder how much of this is a symptom of the fact 50+% of all scripted prime-time dramas are cop shows. We see police action as entertainment. We've turned it into something fun. I know causation is hard (does TV shape or just reflect attitudes?), but I think there's a real TV-to-attitudes arrow.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Much of the analysis of crime data is directed to opponents of abolition. Having done a lot of work around crime data, I wanted to write to abolitionists about some tendencies in the critiques of the data and the implication for discourse and organizing. abolitionjournal.com/crime-data-t...

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Crime Data: Three Things for Abolitionists to Consider — Abolition Journal | A Project of the W.E.B. Du Bois School for Abolition & Reconstruction

Abolition Journal is the publication platform of the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction. We study the world to change it.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

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Helen Whistberry @whistberry.northsky.social · 14/06/2025

"Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed." Stay safe today, my friends 💜

Drawing in white ink against a black background of a rabbit hiding among ferns with the words first they must catch you along the top of the image.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/11/2024

this reminds me of those 12 people who were responsible for thousands of book ban requests and it's a good reminder there aren't actually that many malicious actors in the world, just lots of systems unprepared for exploitation

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BY DHRUV MEHROTRA
SECURITY
NOV 13, 2024 8:37 PM

Teen Behind Hundreds of Swatting Attacks Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges Alan Filion, believed to have operated under the handle
"Torswats," admitted to making or orchestrating more than 375 fake threats against schools, places of worship, and prominent US politicians.

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

But I’m a story guy at heart; I know that I, at least, will need some fiction and memoir that can do similar work, lifting me out of panicked immediacy and nourishing the capacity for confronting struggle in generative, constructive ways. I haven't seen such a rec list, so I'd like to build one.

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

So far, my coping strategy has been reading; systemic analysis (like Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Reconsidering Reparations) or organizing books (like Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You.) Bluesky has helped me build out my future list; it's helped me appreciate what this platform can do.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 12/11/2024

Whenever people talk about “AI values alignment” remember that they are talking about the values of Henry Kissinger and people like him

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

commute every single death sentence in America via executive order and do it today

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

The thing I am reminding myself of today: there are still a lot of us.

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Finally someone putting things in perspective

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Sam J Miller @sentencebender.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

June Jordan is always healing/needed/revelatory, but especially today. (from the Academy of American Poets Instagram feed)

Calling on All Silent Minorities
June Jordan 1936 - 2002

HEY

C'MON
COME OUT

WHEREVER YOU ARE

WE NEED TO HAVE THIS MEETING
AT THIS TREE

AIN' EVEN BEEN
PLANTED
YET

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

I think there's a liberal tendency to fetishize the dystopias of 20th century fascism but there are people living right now without the freedoms you're merely afraid of losing. That's not to say you're fear is unwarranted or even privileged; it's just to say that, no matter what, you are not alone.

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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Pick your fighter

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/11/2024

anyway you should read me on the stakes of this election for our constitutional order (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/11/01/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Done With Checks and Balances

You aren’t just choosing a candidate. You’re choosing a theory of power.

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 18/07/2024

AIES student program is now accepting applications! Accepted students (PhD only) receive free reg. + travel offsets, mentoring from a senior scholar & a chance to present their work. Deadline is soon, tho: EoD July 31st. Pls circulate! #aiethics #csethics www.aies-conference.com/2024/call-fo...

aies-conference.com

CALL FOR PAPERS (STUDENTS)

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

I have a story in this textbook and it really is a heck of a lineup!

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Emanuelle Burton @emanuelleburton.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

I am late, and many dollars short, and still not very good at bluesky! I am nonetheless here to make a #hugoawards pitch: "Computing and Technology Ethics: a Science Fiction-Based Approach," eligible for "best related work" category of the 2024 Hugos mitpress.mit.edu/978026204806...

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