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jessica

@jessduit.bsky.social
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they never take the country out me. writer, strategist, homeschool subject matter expert, children's rights advocate. views are mine. fka hullojess.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 4h
It feels genuinely ridiculous having to say this, but the point of art is to connect with another human. Someone thought of that painting or melodic line or scene or paragraph that is suddenly making you weep, and that means that they saw you and understood you without even meeting you.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 6h
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 6h
This morning I want to help debunk a headline I keep seeing about Black Women's unemployment: By the end of 2025, 600,000 Black women were not out of the workforce. That number signifies who got DISPLACED. The end-of-year number is actually between 217,000 and 250,000 cc @epi.org and IWPR.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.
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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
God I hate being right.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Police said Tasia Fortune, 29, was killed before her body was placed in the tree, and the scene was ‘staged’
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Judge sets $5m bond for third suspect in killing of Black woman hung from tree in Mississippi
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
why would you let meta of all companies run your life via an AI agent what is wrong with people
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been reading bell hooks, and she talks about children being the most oppressed class in society. To this end, the United States has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child-- I wrote about this years ago www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...
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Why won’t the U.S. ratify the U.N.’s child rights treaty?
The non-ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is hypocritical.
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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Trump regime is aggressively pushing Black women out of stable working & middle class jobs.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Haven't thought this out all the way through, but now would be a good time for an aggressive humanitarian movement to combat the death cults, the rise of AI, and otherwise anti-life impulses coursing through our politics and society.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why were these men allowed to “pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment” and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?”
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/09/2026
I’ve seen several stories of young women describing rape and sexual assault on college campuses in the last week which strikes me not as a rise in assaults but, given the violence of some of the examples, I fear we’re back in an era of headlines about group assaults, for the Tate/Clavicular era
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield.
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Dom Kelly @thetattooedjew.com · 27/09/2026
The only acceptable reaction from actual men to the news out of Cornell is that these terrible excuses for human beings should be found and c*strated immediately. Any defense makes you as bad as them and is the explanation as to why you think women hate you. Hope this helps my guy 🙏🏼
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Jason O. Gilbert @gilbertjasono.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI EXECUTIVE (bragging about his product): Using this every day has made me incredibly stupid
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✨️🧡The Q-tip haired lady ✨️🧡 @aczu4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And the fact that society has normalized trauma and harm done to women and children; instead of IMMEDIATELY PUNISHING criminals really got the globe in a blender.
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Remmelt 🛑 @artificialbodies.net · 25/09/2026
A hidden list of 100 abusers in Silicon Valley. Left unstated: some are abusing *men* Sam Altman used to date Peter Thiel, known for recruiting young men for sex (one died of suicide). Sam's sex parties are notorious for how hard they go, and the abuse. Three sources told me about this:
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Silicon Valley ‘sex assault list’ with ‘over 100 ‘ names circulated, warning female tech workers of predators to avoid
“Some of them were very prominent names, you know? People who were famous investors. Businessmen who were in the scene”
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 27/09/2026
Cindy Wilson has transformed her home on Butterfly Lane into a garden oasis in northern Arizona.
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Pick a free bouquet, stay for the community at a flower garden on Butterfly Lane
Cindy Wilson has transformed her home on Butterfly Lane into a garden oasis in northern Arizona. What started as a retirement hobby has become a community haven where visitors from near and far can pick flowers for free.
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DLS @forensicgarlic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Here's Eve Ewing modeling what we all should be doing to Rahm.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 26/09/2026
if you think this is just a trend puff piece, it isn't, I have literally had seven-year-olds running around my house going THAT'S SO AI
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc
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jessica @jessduit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trash the whole list bc Avatar: the Last Airbender isn’t on it
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.
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jessica @jessduit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This entire situation is so exploitative. It’s not enough to make your child’s education and wellbeing suffer so you can make a political point. Now you got her helping you put her business on front street to get you clout and money.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 25/09/2026
Age verification is an egregious privacy violation, an inexcusable form of surveillance, and… it’s also voodoo bullshit that doesn’t work. It’s one of the reasons I’m proudest to support @eff.org, who have been leading the fight against the horrible practice for years: www.eff.org/issues/age-v...
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “ag...
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our system relies on children to look both ways because adults driving don't. Great strategy.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I don’t know anything about the lesbian bar you’ve all been picking on but I do know the stats on lesbian bars are depressing and that seems more important. www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rise-...
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The Rise and Fall of America's Lesbian Bars
Only 15 nightlife spaces dedicated to queer and gay women remain in the United States
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading.

What do you think when you hear that?

The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter?

That’s my question for you.

Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does.

But there must be some set of skills that matter.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those.

There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.And I ——

I don’t really believe that to be true.

It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you.

One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it.

But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded ——

Yeah.

I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books.

You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans.
Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off.

Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers.

Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker.

What do you mean by systems thinker?

They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things.

So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Avoid jargon whenever possible. When you have to use terms that might not be commonly known or used among your audience, explain what these terms mean. If you can't avoid a lot of specific terms, include a glossary of terms that users can refer to when needed.
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
this does not seek a balm this does not need a remedy this needs an ending —Dionne Brand
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Meanwhile the real miraculous future tech is solar & mRNA vaccines: preserving the planet and curing cancer. But we’re supposed to hand everything over to malevolent peeping toms and resource oubliettes for an ill defined ‘pay no attention to the man behind the curtain’ progress. It isn’t rational.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For @time.com, I wrote a short piece on doing ballet barre in my kitchen. It's about returning to childhood hobbies, and how bringing something positive forward from our pasts can connect to stories of who we are. It was great speaking with folks about childhood hobbies they've come back to, too!
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Revisiting Childhood Hobbies Is a Way to Learn Who You Are as an Adult
Returning to a childhood hobby can engage the past as we remember it, the present, and the future we imagine, writes Rainesford Stauffer.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I cannot imagine in 2026, with the full breadth of the internet available to you, choosing to move your newsletter to substack. There are so many other platforms out there that don't directly put money in the pockets of fascists.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Yes, a lot of people hold the belief that Black people are uniquely homophobic despite the fact that they’re not the people funding or driving the movement in the US.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Elle @biknmusicmama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Feed all kids.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you
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UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls
The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
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Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Marlo, Support me Bitch! @ceereespeaks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Some of y’all will literally chase fame, popularity, and media attention at the expense of your OWN children. I DO NOT understand that shit.
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
One of THE fundamental weaknesses in US political culture has been the confusion of consumer and democratic choice. Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In my experience in media circles, as an ex-evangelical, I think a lot of it is elitism and secular hubris. Dismissed as something fringe and irrational that dumb and poor people cling to.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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