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Rebecca Meacham

@ibeccanne.bsky.social
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Professor, writer, dabbler, re-poster. Trying my best.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
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have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s not nearly as advanced as they want you to think….
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”
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How Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case
“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.”
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 29/09/2026
FFS, stop feeding your work to AI.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 24/09/2026
Imagine if companies had to prove their tools had positive effects on student learning outcomes _before_ thousands of students were forced to be their unconsenting unpaid beta-testers.
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Rebecca Meacham @ibeccanne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This thread. 🙌🙌
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
12. it is usually better to focus on people, and why people are doing things a) why are tech CEOs saying these things? b) why are bosses so excited about it? c) why do we write, draw, and make art? d) what is the fucking point?
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026
10. if you are defining a process by what it produces, and i am defining a process by how it changes me, we are not talking about the same thing 11. arguing about what tasks LLMs can or cannot do keeps LLMs at the center of the conversation
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Rebecca Meacham @ibeccanne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Attention visual artists, writers, & digital storytellers! Submissions are open for Sheepshead Review international journal of Art & Lit. Learn more: www.sheepsheadreview.com
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Well, I made a few posts about my disdain for AI yesterday and based on the pushback I've received, as far as I can tell, the primary argument for using AI seems to be just that it will validate the feelings and the time spent of people who are already super invested in it, if I start doing it too.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s all just a lie. I get so annoyed when I hear democrats say “well parents have real concerns…” no they don’t. Real concerns are addressed by knowledge and data. Prejudice is not. If knowledge doesn’t change their position, they’re just bigots.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Want an example of successful pushback on "AI" (surveillance) ed tech? This story is uplifting and amazing. @ifeoma.bsky.social is absolutely amazing. Thank you @alixdunn.com and @themaybe.org for this episode. www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
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Meet the Mom Winning Against AI in Schools w/ Ifeoma Ozoma
In New Mexico, kids are required to read aloud to an AI avatar named Amira—and it records their voices without consent. Ifeoma Ozoma fights back.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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Ryan S. @sirfish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
First Nations singlehandedly standing up for Canadian rights against a province determined to trample them. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #lawsky
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Audrey Farnsworth @audipenny.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
(me strangling my own pain like it's a cartoon character who is annoying me) turn into art you piece of shit
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I don’t remember whose insight this is, but it blew my mind when I first read that to understand American history you have to get that race law was designed to increase the number of enslavable people (one-drop rule) and decrease the number of claimants to indigenous land (blood quantum)
Jamelle Bouie writes: yeah this is a separate conversation but one of the things that hasn’t quite bubbled up from scholarship into mainstream thinking is that american slavery was a system centered principally on reproduction. forced birth for capital accumulation is what it was
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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, periodt.
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Right now if the plan is to train students to incorporate AI into their writing, then send them out into a publishing world that is organized around copyright, there will be tears
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Dan Preston @danpreston.com · 05/09/2026
“Steinem made my life better. Yes, my life as a cis hetero male. I couldn’t have my career and my life without the professional women I’ve learned from, worked with, and worked for.” — Elie Mystal @elienyc.bsky.social Ditto.
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𝔾𝕆ℝ𝔸ℕ @gorangligovic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A rare occurence whereby literally no one cool is inconvenienced at all
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 30/08/2026
Why young people hate AI even more?
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The industry is incapable of any self-reflection, but it should be obvious why this would be the case. Older gens saw Big Tech innovations that changed people's daily lives for the better and/or were at least mixed bags. Personal computers, internet, mp3 players, smart phones, etc. Someone who is 18 has seen.... what? NFT scams and crypto rug pulls. Web 3.0 hype that went nowhere. Gig economy apps that exploit workers and still charge too much for poor service. Zuckerberg's metaverse. A bunch of crap that massively enriched some billionaires without seeming to improve people's lives. Why should any young person look at big tech companies hyping GenAI—who were all pushing metaverse/crypto/etc. a few years ago—and think it would help them?
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No undergrad should be using an LLM and it's absurdly irresponsible to suggest otherwise.
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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yay! Normalize vasectomies so women don't have to be on hormonal birth control for decades of their lives or face unplanned pregnancies, especially in this day and age when pregnancy is so risky.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly hosted Gay Days at Dollywood The KKK sent her death threats Her response: "God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone's sexual preferences are or if they're Black, brown or purple & if someone doesn't believe what I believe, tough shit" www.grunge.com/384425/insid...
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Inside The Time Dolly Parton Was Targeted By The KKK - Grunge
In 2012, Dolly Parton revealed that the KKK sent her death threats because of a certain event held at her theme park, Dollywood.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 25/08/2026
if there’s a point to fame it’s to do what dolly parton did in the world
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When the Gatlinburg Wildfires happened in 2016, Dolly gave impacted families $1,000/month to help them get back on their feet. This included my father-in-law, who lost everything in the fire. Dolly gave children in TN free books each month, from birth to the age of five. She was a goddamn saint.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 31/01/2026
It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The former CEO of Instructure (Canvas) referred to student activity on Canvas as data “assets” and this was YEARS ago. This was always the business model.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Need help determining whether people will reoffend or whether they should recite I’ve benefit? They got AI for that. calmatters.org/economy/tech...
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State claims there’s zero high-risk AI in California government—despite ample evidence to the contrary
A state report provided to CalMatters says 200 agencies reported no automation around sensitive decisions. Some called the report befuddling.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Thinned out local news? No problem. AI the shit out of it and pay two humans to do some bare bones reporting the keep the flow of content-for-training. www.cjr.org/feature/axio...
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Axios wants to save local news with AI.
“At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that...
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
part of me wonders if I could pull off "Sexy Taylor Farms lettuce" as a funny/scary Halloween costume
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This kind of detail is also something that a reporter only gets by talking to people and can't really be gleaned from AI tools like ChatGPT, because the events are so recent and it requires critical thinking about how different systems interact.
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itsonlyzach @itsonlyzach.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Vaccines are like a top 5 human innovation. Allowing them, a life-saving force that's the closest thing humans have come to producing real honest to goodness magic, to become a wedge issue is up there with society's biggest failures.
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Karen Carpenter’s Halloween @kellylink.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
elon musk you have made an enemy of the moon
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/08/2026
"A.i." is bullshit and literally everyone knows it.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/07/2026
If I organized something like this in NYC, would y'all show up?
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Maddie @maddiewhittle.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
“Welcome to the chaos of desire, Piper,” I say to my 18-month-old niece as she throws a sleepy tantrum because she wants to sweep the porch
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
HI HELLO. Mitch McConnell and Tom Kean got longer medical leaves (with literally zero transparency and fully funded healthcare) than I, and most women get after having a baby…including having a baby via major surgery 💁🏻‍♀️
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 16/07/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "you actually believe this bullshit?"
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/07/2026
"A.i." for education is for cheating. That's its primary use case. Anyone who's pushing for "A.i." in education is pushing for fraud.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 08/07/2026
Schools and colleges that are cutting deals with "A.i." companies and pushing LLMs on their students are turning kids into frauds and losers. Reject this bullshit wherever you see it.
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2026
anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
"South Carolina passed an anti-literacy law in 1740, banning slaves from being taught how to read. Most Southern states soon followed with anti-literacy laws of their own ... in the hopes of preventing any further slave rebellions. These laws applied to both enslaved and free Black people."
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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 19/06/2026
"But land isn’t the only thing Black people have lost in Hancock County. They’ve lost the only hospitals they’ve ever had nearby — and on more than one occasion." On Juneteenth, read an exclusive excerpt from @nicolefcarr.bsky.social's new book, The Price of Exclusion":
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The Generational Health Toll of Excluding Black Americans in Healthcare
Roughly 5 percent of doctors in the United States are Black today, compared to the 14 percent of African Americans living in the nation. It’s a ratio that has barely budged in more than a century.
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