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Kevin Barron

@kevinbarron.bsky.social
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Either we choose to evolve/hack our culture to reintegrate within nature, or we prematurely go extinct. Individually we may feel powerless, but TOGETHER we can regain our keystone role, and maybe even achieve our evolutionary potential. 🍉

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2h
“Clashes erupt at Argentine student protests *** Demonstrators clashed with police as President Javier Milei's decision not to release funding for universities brought students & employees to the streets.“ (Decision not to release funding? Sound familiar? This is a global takeover) 10/16/26
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Clashes erupt at Argentine student protests against President Milei's austerity policies
Demonstrators clashed with police as President Javier Milei's decision not to release funding for universities brought students and employees to the streets. Protesters say the country's future is at ...
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 1h
Just what the doctor ordered
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 2h
FFS. They are getting so desperate.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3h
True the DNC wont change unless forced to. But they’re not joined at the hip, they’re joined at the wallet. Until we can turn off that $pigot nothing will change.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 3h
Beautifully said! Thank you @naomiaklein.bsky.social
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 15h
"Because the scale of money, land, water and energy that they require can only be provided by the government. Not to put too fine a point on it, what they really want is government permission to self-regulate. Legitimacy without ceding control.” - Arundhati Roy
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Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 21h
Strange that there is no investigation into the irregularities in the naturalization of Musk.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 22h
I’m shocked - simply shocked. You mean the grift turns out to be a grift!?
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Illegal harassment! Must be investigated and prosecuted.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Elon Musk is almost certainly *not* the only “Tech Bro” champing at the bit to control enough critical infrastructure that they can meddle in international affairs—just like a nation state. All of these government contracts are seriously dangerous!
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
to the U.S., in 1842 and 1854.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Several members of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa trained in dendrochronology to collect fire-scar data. Their research, published last year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that fires rapidly declined after treaties ceded tribal lands
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
“What is so powerful about the tree rings is that through boarding schools, through reservations, there were attempts to remove people from the land and places that carried their knowledge,” he told me. Yet the trees contain “irrefutable evidence of their connection to land and stewardship.”
newyorker.com
How Tree Rings Challenged the Myth of American Wilderness
By studying fire scars in ancient wood, many scientists have become convinced that Indigenous people transformed North America long before Christopher Columbus arrived.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Exactly this:
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
And how many First Nations potential voters are buried near “schools” in Canada?
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/10/2026
If AI is being described as a virus, then shut down all AI companies before it spreads. Stop granting their reframing of every failure, their misinformation and fear mongering as great PR.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
BREAKING: We just filed a Hatch Act complaint over the outrageous raid on Ilhan Omar's home Officials can't use criminal power to affect an election. This is the textbook case @democracydefendersfund.org & @rwpusa.bsky.social👇
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Excellent piece by @doctorvive.bsky.social
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
10/12 - VC Defensa team and the community kicked ICE out of Ventura today. The community showed up ✊🏽 Call us at 805-296-1119 ☎️ if you need support.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The broligarchy are Dunning-Kruger personified.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Indeed!
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
In addition to being sick intimidation, this is illegal election tampering. It must be widely denounced, shut down, investigated, and prosecuted!
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Paul Brown @pbrown4348.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump’s and Vance’s Islamophobic Target. Violating Justice Department rules, they raided her apartment today — just 22 days before she faces reelection. If they regain control of the House, Dems must investigate this abuse of power. substack.com/app-link/pos...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Why are Bernie Sanders, AOC, & Elizabeth Warren the only members of Congress who I ever see calling out the Tech Bros? If other members of Congress are doing this, let me know. Shouldn’t they all be sounding the alarm??
Sen. Bernie Sanders * @sensanders
Mr. Altman: What "bad things" should we accept to advance Al?
Losing tens of millions of jobs?
A mass surveillance state?
A mental health crisis for our kids?
A global financial crisis?
Mass extinction?
Let's not wait to find out. Pause advanced Al
NOW!
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Looking forward to hearing this!
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Musk has demanded a return on his “investment”
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/10/2026
> exchanges between agents are only reflective of what plausible outputs are given the training data and the input context. As such, one should be cautious [...] and not assign intention or human characteristics or actions (such as 'lying') to what is well-known to categorically not have them.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I used to respect Gruber. What and idiot.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
So we have a gestapo now that raid houses of those who oppose this admin?
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Are they weaponizing misogyny, or attacking anyone who critiques Ai, or both? At any rate, it’s a very cowardly way to respond to critique with bullying.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Took your offices away? That’s really low. Especially with the excuse of “financial cuts” - that’s such a tired excuse. Strange that there is always money for other things (like football stadiums, in this country).
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Deference to intolerance feeds intolerance.” We didnt learn that lesson and look where we are now. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social warned us back then, but the Biden admin squandered the opportunity to balance the supreme court and prosecute those trying to meddle in elections.
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Rebecca Solnit: On Not Meeting Nazis Halfway
When Trump won the 2016 election—while losing the popular vote—the New York Times seemed obsessed with running features about what Trump voters were feeling and thinking. These pieces treated them …
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A 5th grader asked Abdul El-Sayed about the future of the Dept. of Ed, sparking a conversation about public school funding, special education, school infrastructure & debt-free college. Our kids are paying attention to what leaders are doing for their future. #AFTvotes bsky.app/profile/abdu...
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sociopath ^= neurodivergent
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Damn, this is so good and timely! Thank you @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social for shining the light we need; truly inspirational.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Damn, this is so good and timely! Thank you @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social for shining the light we need; truly inspirational.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exactly. “We’re dumb as rocks and we dont need anyone coming here to make us look bad (we can do that all by ourselves)”
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And so it begins
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reminds me of the Covid hotspots map we used to avoid the worst places when traveling across the country during peak Covid. Mostly the same states!
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“AI does not care that you have a fair-use right to it. It simply refuses. And these supposed “copyright protections” are put in place by the same AI that is, itself, engaging in copyright infringement to make a profit. Censorship cannot be justified under the guise of protecting copyright”
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“The AI models are snitches to their corporate owners — and they’re also surveilling and exfiltrating an unknown array of information from users and providing it directly to the intelligence community. That’s an established fact, and it’s very dangerous to civil society.” @saschameinrath.bsky.social
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“A culture that has spent centuries finding reasons not to believe women”
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I don’t know that the tech can be separated from the econ and politics. As Naomi Oreskes and others (myself inc) have argued, the tech comes with many embedded assumptions & values baked in. Timnit Gebru has demonstrated how black and marginalized people are negatively impacted.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically. Biblio and more info: www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) | Radboud University
The Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) project provides new scientific insights and innovative ways of thinking based on expert critical perspectives on AI in science and society.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry. We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies.
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Surfacing this by @olivia.science because it Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) is desperately needed. “Within just a few years, AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. /thread
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 06/10/2026
In how many ways can this message be repeated? @emilymbender.bsky.social has been saying this for how long now? www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
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Watch Bender: AI’s ‘Existential’ Risk Is ‘Fake’ - Bloomberg
University of Washington professor Emily Bender argues the AI safety debate is too focused on hypothetical existential threats while overlooking harms already happening today. She points to environmen...
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hmm, so it only counts as theft if you’re incorporated. So does this mean all of us need to rush out and get incorporated in order to have any claim on our own creativity?
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Kevin Barron @kevinbarron.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The above link didn’t work for me, so here it is again: gazaherald.com/2026/10/05/e...
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Assassinating the Sea: Israel’s Systematic War on Gaza’s Fishermen, Food Sovereignty, and Economic Survival
For generations, the Mediterranean Sea served as the primary economic lifeline for the Gaza Strip, anchoring both its cultural identity and its local food supply.
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