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Valorie 🐈‍⬛️✨️ @meadowdays.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

Support these data centers: SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, BOOKSTORES

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior." latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

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Empire of Vice

In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51 Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

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Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

You can also follow them all here: The Sick Times: @thesicktimes.bsky.social Betsy: @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social Miles: @mileswgriffis.bsky.social

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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Insights on generative AI and homework by a 4th grader #critmedialit #generativeai

Student comment in red marker says” A.I. can help us with homework but they give the answer instead of helping us.”

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 16/10/2023

"There’s plenty of masking, but not the kind that prevents infection. The government is masking its failure. It’s masking the ableism its rhetoric has encouraged. It’s masking the cruelty of a system that shuts down the lives of clinically vulnerable people." — @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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Covid deaths are on the rise again, so what happens? Mask-wearing in hospitals is scrapped | George ...

The only masking that’s going on is that of the government’s continued failure to get to grips with the virus, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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