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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 29/09/2026

It’s almost as if there are more ways to measure the value of work than just the amount of money it makes people.  A country with fewer social workers and teaching aides, with less study of the arts and history, is a country that’s not investing in its own future.

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Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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NosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Please stop calling me on my phone that's not what it's for

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

made my cat watch the sunset with me he was not amused.

natalie holds jettt, a large black cat, & gives him a kiss with the sunset in the background. he does not look impressed.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The literacy crisis is not just referring to people's ability to literally read and write. It's also people's inability to read for context. I've been a public educator for over 20 years and I have never, ever seen it this bad.

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"fine intellectual dexterity" like knowing basic facts about your own life. coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/09/2026

The youth-dominated government of Nepal, a nation with a tiny carbon footprint, is seeking reparations from the world’s most polluting countries as it bears the brunt of collapsing Himalayan glaciers caused by a warming planet. nyti.ms/4rMa2Xf

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

a conversation I've been wanting to have for YEARS is now on the 404 Media podcast: I got to talk to Sherry Turkle, the internet anthropology OG, about conversational chatbots, empathy, the existential threats to self-reflection and solitude, and so much more

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

played yahtzee with strangers at the bar last night & I somehow won.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will.

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Nature @nature.com · 15/09/2026

Immune cells that fight stomach bugs can migrate from the gut to the brain, where they establish a lasting ‘memory’ of previous infection. go.nature.com/4yZK30T

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‘Stomach bugs’ send protective immune cells rushing from gut to brain

Voyaging gut-derived immune cells ‘remember’ past stomach infections in mice.

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I used to work closely with first responders trying to get on medical disability & Zadroga act coverage. they had to prove they were at ground zero, so I went through their personal photographs & log books.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?

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Nature @nature.com · 09/09/2026

The UN General Assembly has voted to phase out use of the Mercator map, a 16th century projection that is widely used but has been criticized for not representing countries’ sizes accurately. Here's what that means for education, navigation and public perception. go.nature.com/4gZxWJN

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Hello Equal Earth: what the UN’s new world map will change

What the UN vote to ditch the Mercator projection means for education, navigation and public perception.

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I did something incredibly hilarious.

natalie hold a mensa membership card up to her face. butter yellow text over the image reads: kinda chic to join mensa.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

Accusing AI critics of not doing the reading is funny because usually it’s AI users are the most likely to have not done the reading So what now then

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if it does: >>

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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026

Everyone doing this just needs to understand that they are actively skipping the thinking step

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

being named natalie right now is a real struggle.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/09/2026

This is an absolutely catastrophic data breach of an identity verification vendor 150+ million drivers license scans that includes photos, address, license numbers etc. It includes Pete Hegseth, security researchers, and even the deputy director of the FBI. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/09/fbi-...

A screenshot of a search result on a website titled "NEXUS | Identity Document Database" showing a locked Minnesota driver's license record for "PETER HEG******." A driver's license portrait of Peter Hegseth appears on the left, next to mostly redacted information fields, including ID number, birth date (1980), and address, followed by a prompt to purchase the full record for $100.00.

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

and miles to scroll before i sleep

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/08/2026

“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame.”

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Donald Trump, prolific poster of AI slop, wants you to let data centers "reign"

The president is still screaming into the void.

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

thinking about this takedown of northerners & liberals written by thomas wentworth higginson in 1865.

It is we who are permitting black loyalists to be disarmed, and white rebels to be armed again, under the name of "militia." It is we who are permitting open proclamation of the re-establishment of slavery under the name of "apprenticeship." It is we who consent to the exclusion from the courts and the ballot-box of those who have fought to reopen the ballet-box and re-establish the power of the courts. It is we who are reviving the old assumption that "the peo-ple" of the South means the white population, rebel or otherwise; and that the black loyalists are something less than "the people."

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm a part of it. Not separate from it. I walk on the ground and the ground's walked on by me, I breathe the air and change it, I am entirely interconnected with the world.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This example of LLMs used for "editing" is so powerful as it explicitly shows that genAI does not only deaden language and erase authorial voice, but actively revises an author's intended meaning too. bsky.app/profile/disa...

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"he publicly opposed an Israeli court ruling requiring authorities to ensure Palestinian prisoners received adequate food".

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Rashawn Ray @sociologistray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“Schools are adopting AI surveillance tools, from weapon-detection cameras to bathroom listening devices, often w/o evidence [it’s] reliable. Research shows surveillance tech is deployed disproportionately in schools w/more low-income & minority students.” www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-...

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AI surveillance in schools raises safety and equity concerns | Brookings

Rashawn Ray and Rebekah Boitey explore how AI surveillance in schools shapes safety, trust, and racial equity.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

sometimes an elaborate intellectual revenge plan really comes together. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 24/08/2026

#OtD 24 Aug 1945 legendary Black LGBTQ activist, sex worker, Stonewall rebellion participant, and co-founder of STAR (a radical org that provided shelter for homeless queer and trans youth) Marsha P. Johnson was born in New Jersey, US. Learn more: workingclasshistory.com/2019/05/13/e...

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

"natalie did you stay on budget this month?" "... I...had an extremely niche book shipped from australia..."

a black book titled "fieldwork for future ecologies: radical practice for art & art based research".

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 19/08/2026

People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.

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N. @natalieraymond.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

saw someone say that ai will help eliminate inequality. lmao. something trained on biased data will eliminate bias? literally how bro???? I'm begging y'all to think shit thru for 5 seconds.

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