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Jules Beesley

@julesbeesley.bsky.social
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Arts-integration and crit media lit educator in ATX | anti-COVID | pro-disabled folx | he/him

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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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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Don’t test don’t tell policy
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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
These drivers want to be big bad jacked-up dually terrors on the road. I live in Texas. These are doom machines.
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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I’m not convinced by the idea of general intelligence in humans, much less in data centers. Anyway I prefer Gardner’s multiple intelligences that are situated, affective, contextual, and arising out of embodied, intersubjective experiences in the sensual world and relationships with other beings.
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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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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
“Technopoly is a state of culture. It is also a state of mind. It consists in the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” More Neil Postman, Technopoly
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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
“Our youth must be shown that not all worthwhile things are instantly accessible and that there are levels of sensibility unknown to them.” Neil Postman, Technopoly
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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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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Yesterday I told a class of 4th graders if they use Google ai summary as as source for their social studies projects they’re fired.
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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
So it really doesn’t matter which media conglomerate it is—they all bad. Turns out media consolidation isn’t great for democracy and certain inalienable rights.
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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
HBO is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery not Disney. But they might get bought by Paramount Skydance and that acquisition will need approval so they’ll dump anyone T says to, too.
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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
B-vitamins; liquid B-12, benfotiamine, riboflavin (esp. for head pressure, migraines, and vision problems), nicotinamide riboside (B3); theracurcumin; glyNAC (glycine + NAC) or glytein (very $ continual-G supplement to up glutathione which may be deficient).
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Jules Beesley @julesbeesley.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Nattokinase + low dose aspirin helped my neuro covid symptoms a lot (but didn’t fix everything)
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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 · 19/10/2023
That section will also be behind a curtain in the back of the school library.
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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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