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Leonore (Lee) Carpenter @leecarpenter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
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Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An exemplary policy at UChicago: - Technology ban in class. - Total AI ban. Students may not use it, instructors may not assign it. Exceptions to the latter for narrow purposes must be approved at the administrator level. - Instructors may not use AI for grading. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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Rob Danisch @robdanisch.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yup, my sentiments exactly, which is super depressing: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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A Society of Cheats
Students’ use of AI is teaching them to cut corners, disdain rules, and believe that integrity is for suckers and wimps.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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myrtnn.bsky.social @myrtnn.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
One of many strong phrases on #AI #artificialintelligence “while the ‘artificial’ suggests human agency's negation, the ‘inhuman’ speaks to the varied ways the technical alters agency”…
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 05/12/2025
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
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Rob Danisch @robdanisch.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
So the tech bros and computer nerds who probably didn't have any friends growing up and struggle to talk to people made stuff that causes the rest of us to have fewer friends and struggle to talk to other people. Great. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
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Rob Danisch @robdanisch.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
My latest in The Conversation: theconversation.com/why-the-poli...
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Why the politics of cancellation never works
Whether left or right, practising the politics of cancellation is always a mistake. Inclusion is always the antidote and the best method of problem-solving.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 21/08/2025
A growing movement seeks to destigmatize going “no contact” with one’s relatives. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?
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Why So Many People Are Going “No Contact” with Their Parents
A growing movement wants to destigmatize severing ties. Is it a much-needed corrective, or a worrisome change in family relations?
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Rob Danisch @robdanisch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
How is this not the headline of every newspaper on Earth right now? It's just wild how we ignore or minimize these catastrophic developments.
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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇
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Rob Danisch @robdanisch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
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Democracy Lives in Our Daily Habits (opinion)
Nurturing humility and listening skills in our classrooms and campus interactions can be a powerful tool for strengthening democracy, Sarah Stitzlein writes.
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rebeccanies.bsky.social @rebeccanies.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I bookmarked this article when I first saw it and I long for this to become a reality here in the US.
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How Finland starts its fight against fake news in primary schools
Country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from school pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information
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Rob Danisch @robdanisch.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Other countries, including Canada, should be learning from what's happening in the US right now. This is how democracies die in the social media age. How is every Western liberal democracy not, right this second, passing legislation to regulate the dangers of social media?
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Raised crosswalks, when designed properly, don’t just slow motorist speeds, they give people on foot and bike a sense of belonging. Design shapes behavior. Signs just plead for it.
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
“When citizens must think twice about criticizing or opposing the government because they could credibly face government retribution, they no longer live in a full democracy. By that measure, America has crossed the line into competitive authoritarianism.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
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Opinion | How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?
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Rob Danisch @robdanisch.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Canadian politicians need to STOP saying "51st state," especially on American TV. Repeating this phrase gives Trump's idea rhetorical force and accepts his frame!!!
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myrtnn.bsky.social @myrtnn.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“The death of #democracy is a byproduct of letting #technology remain the most unregulated industry globally…” - @mariaressa.bsky.social 🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsHo...
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Jon Stewart & Maria Ressa On the US’s Authoritarian Slide | The Weekly Show
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A company isn't a family. Parents don't fire their kids for low performance or furlough them in hard times. A better vision for a workplace is a community—a place where people bond around shared values, feel valued as human beings, and have a voice in decisions that affect them.
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We pay too much attention to the most confident voices—and too little attention to the most thoughtful ones. Conviction is not a sign of credibility. Speaking assertively is not a substitute for reflecting deeply. It's better to learn from complex thinkers than smooth talkers.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
People are leaving Twitter because it’s not fun anymore and no one is obligated to be on a platform they don’t enjoy. It’s not rocket science.
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William J. Brady @williambrady.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Even if you're not moved by the argument that Twitter is a rightwing cesspool thanks to its redpilled owner, the fact that foreign enemies are expressing concern that they won't be able to use Twitter to manipulate Americans anymore should be enough to warrant the exodus.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
If you needed even MORE of a reason to switch to Bluesky, China is "troubled" by the fact that they've invested so much time on Twitter buying ads, bots, and influencers... only to see the people they're seeking to manipulate (us) flee the site. www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
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beverlylove / Bev Johnson @bevsi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
promoting yourself as an artist is so frustrating because you’ll feel like you’re shoving your stuff down everyone’s throats and then there’s someone like “wait u have a comic???”
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” -Plato
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/11/2024
"Bluesky is awesome now, for how long?" I mean, look, all things change and end, we will all die, earth will be uninhabitable in a billion years, then the sun will expand and destroy the planet, and the universe will die a slow death of proton decay. But BEFORE THAT, let's make this place fun, okay?
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Nick Ulivieri @nuphoto.com · 19/11/2024
I haven't been out shooting on a rainy night in a while, but today's weather reminded me of this photo. Which then reminded me that damp, dreary days can be just as photogenic as excitingly stormy or snowy ones. #Chicago #Photography
This is a nighttime image looking towards the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago on a rainy night. A person with an umbrella is in the center of the frame with a bloom of bright red light behind them. A CYS buss streaks by on the left. Buildings of the Chicago skyline is in the background. Flags flutter on the bridge's railing
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Steve Jones @fernieboy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Y’know, it’s not that hard to say that racism, violence, hate-speech and misinformation DO NOT need to be protected. 🤷🏼
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When I say that the right is dominating the left on almost all platforms, this is what I mean. I hope Democratic officials take this into account every day. If you want an ecosystem that will advocate for YOU, then YOU need to help build it. Give interviews to creators, break news with creators...
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