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Mark Vukovic

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IT Teacher/Programmer/Ally He/Him #blm I'm an advocate for anything that keeps my family and students safe.

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kalina kostyszyn 🌸 @kalinamalina.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
just found out about the ELIZA archaeology project and their book, Inventing ELIZA, and I’m going to lose so much time to this findingeliza.org
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The first chatbot · ELIZA (1966)
A Critical Code Studies reading of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1966 chatbot, built on the original source recovered from the MIT archive.
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had no idea that GDEX moved to Newark, OH! That's great for my game design students in Licking County- they can ride their e-bikes there! #edusky #gamedesign
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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So basically, ADHD meds aren't targeting the attention networks of the brain? Worth the read. archive.is/H2PTs
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How is this album 31 years old? I love it so much still! open.spotify.com/album/2tNdnA...
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Tomorrow The Green Grass - Album by The Jayhawks | Spotify
The Jayhawks · album · 1995 · 13 songs
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This piece highlights that despite the success of those of us pushing back on AI mania, some bad experiments are being performed on children with AI tools. Superintendent and administrators appear especially vulnerable to industry talking points.
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Schools are experimenting with AI with little evidence or policy to guide them
Teachers are using AI to develop lesson plans, and in some districts, AI chatbots give students feedback on their work. Meanwhile, the research around how AI can help students is extremely limited.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MAKE ART! MAKE BAD ART! BAD ART IS BETTER THAN AI ART! YOUR WORST IS STILL BETTER THAN THE SLOP!
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026
IN MINNESOTA.
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One more Zork post: @mc.frontalot.com made the greatest tribute ever youtu.be/4nigRT2KmCE?...
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MC Frontalot - It Is Pitch Dark
YouTube video by MC Frontalot
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Losing your license because you never got a ticket.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In Game Design, I'm having students play Zork before they make their own text adventure. OMG the students are really having trouble typing and spelling without GPT to assist. This is an unseen consequence of the AI era! :( #grue #edtech #noai
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A typical morning at the Anthropic head office
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
NOW that's what I call the National Organization for Women
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026
This is why I hate "just a tool" so so so much. You can make a calculator without access to every calculation. You can make photoshop without access to all photos. Someone show me a genai tool that didn't require all of our labour in its production. It's plagiarism software.
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the year of our lord 2026, I can't figure out how to calibrate my QOMO interactive whiteboard with my loaner laptop. My tech support people keep sending me irrelevant AI solutions they copied from gemini I'm literally drawing my notes from my laptop using paint because my board isn't calibrated.
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Dog Crying Meme: Doggo Crys
ALT: Dog Crying Meme: Doggo Crys
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 13/09/2026
An Iranian friend told me about their sorrow when American bombs fell on their universities. But then, my friend explained, they looked at what was happening to US universities—and realized they got off easy by comparison.
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Bruh- if a student brings you a computer from 2002 that isn’t booting XP anymore, legacyupdate.net It’s the only site that XP IE can see. Currently updating!
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 08/09/2026
tl;dr school is not the same as business. school is for learning not for production
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So the powers that be blocked Duckduckgo.com at school. At first I was going to argue on their behalf that students need AI free search as an alternative to Gemini at Google. However, with DuckDuckGo using AI as well, I don't think they'd listen. So I guess it's gonna be " -ai" at Google.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This man was -1 when Is This It? and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out by the way.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Heartless. His own father had Alzheimer's.
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The Trump Administration Just Canceled Major Funding For Alzheimer's Research Due To 'DEI'—And People Are Beyond Furious
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23/08/2026
I hope everyone caught this Lancet study confirming that Elon Musk & DOGE are responsible for genocidal levels of suffering & death.
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Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 23/08/2026
This is the end point for putting AI in schools. It is a labour issue.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is going straight into my syllabus for the new year:
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The use of Al is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. Al use is prohibited for any use for any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class content— into generative Al systems. Al can be used for research on papers ONLY for the limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources. Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of prohibited Al use.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Jhonen V @jhnenvee.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good luck.
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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u... by @danagoldstein.bsky.social
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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton coined the term “software engineer.” She directed the Software Engineering Division at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab & led development of the on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo Guidance Computer. She was born #OTD in 1936 & turns 90 today! #WomenInSTEM
Two side-by-side black-and-white photographs of pioneering computer scientist Margaret Hamilton (born August 17, 1936). The left panel features a mature, close-up portrait where Hamilton gazes directly at the viewer with a serene, confident, and reflective expression, framed by her long, dark, slightly silvering hair. The right panel is a famous archival photograph showing a younger Hamilton standing indoors next to a towering stack of bound paper binders containing the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she led the development of at MIT. She is smiling broadly and wears a striped, long-sleeved mini dress with dark Mary Jane shoes and glasses, resting her hand proudly on top of the massive column of printed code. The overall composition contrasts her youthful triumph with her enduring legacy, capturing an optimistic, intellectually rigorous mood that highlights her monumental contributions to space exploration.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Anytime you don’t need something, that’s when they hit you with advertisements. That’s why all of the commercials right now are for AI.
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Oh Yay A Gemini Maia
ALT: Oh Yay A Gemini Maia
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I will be okay. Not because everything is fine, but because I am surprisingly difficult to destroy. Says Skeletor who notices being hard to destroy sure doesn’t mean a bunch of asshoes don’t keep trying.
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 11/08/2026
If they want to separate DTaP into 3 components add 6 more visits. This is madness.
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Ethel Weapon @lousadzak.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tapping the sign
Avery Edison @aedison
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I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications
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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Anyone who is seriously critical of AI, not least of all in Humanities and Education (my particular wheelhouses) -- critical btw, not dismissive, not ignoring -- needs to give this a look. Pg 1.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 08/08/2026
How about a law that all Data Centers must operate entirely off grid using renewable energy. And another requiring their cooling mechanisms use only closed loop cooling systems. How about if taxpayers don't end up paying the bills.
Pronghorn Buck showing those famous horns that shed annually, have forks and a boney core.
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Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mmeadway.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." -- Frank Herbert
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Gregory A. Wilson @gregoryawilson.com · 05/08/2026
Cc @olivia.science "Teaching children about smoking cigarettes is a 'moral imperative,' said Jan Janson, the Protect Children Union president. "And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tobacco's money or doing nothing." I renew my call for @rweingarten.bsky.social to resign.
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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
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Adam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 02/08/2026
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
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She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
cannot overstate how much of people being put off of AI is specifically copilot’s fault
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Call me crazy, but maybe two men who fathered 19 children with 7 different women shouldn’t be lecturing us about family values.
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Mark Vukovic @markvukovic.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
At the Ohio BMV- the registration line where people type their info in is so slow! Remember when we used to have a proper society where humans would help other humans? Instead we make old people type one character at a time into a touch screen trying to remember their phone number
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