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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My first long-form video is up: Myths Around AI and Productivity! Based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab, we dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

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Myths Around AI and Labor

YouTube video by Dr. Alex Hanna

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

People who continue to pursue a technology under these circumstances are either massive liars or truly believe this and are persisting anyway, and either way they are rotten people who should be removed from all forms of power and access.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

If a chemical is only supposed to dissolve one thing but dissolves everything, we don't say, "OMG, the chemical has gained a higher intelligence and hates everything and now wants to destroy the world! WHAT DO WE DO?" We say, "This company made a dangerous product that needs to be discontinued."

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One of the Micahs @oneofthemicahs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social I gave my friend a pocket field guide and we started reading a bunch of different types of sharks. Do you know why a bunch of sharks are just named after other creatures? Like dogfish shark, crocodile shark, cow shark, frog shark, zebra bullhead shark, big-eye sandtiger?

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

NEW: Flock has said for years its cameras don’t identify or track people. We obtained the code for its police AI and rebuilt parts of it. The tool can find witnesses, surface associates, search people by race or physical description, and flag vehicles by how they move. W/ @dell.bsky.social

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Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 14/08/2026

STORIES FROM GAZA: ENGINEERING EDUCATION CANNOT BE APOLITICAL By Fady Alalami, Nada Alrayyes, and Robyn Mae Paul. Gaza University, Gaza, Palestine ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/PC...

STORIES FROM GAZA: ENGINEERING EDUCATION CANNOT
BE APOLITICAL
Fady Alalami1
, Nada Alrayyes1 2, and Robyn Mae Paul2
1Gaza University, Gaza, Palestine
2Sustainable Systems Engineering, University of Calgary
rmpaul@ucalgary.ca
Abstract –Living in a war zone for more than two years
heightened our awareness of ethical issues in every
engineering decision. In Gaza, almost all governmental
services were halted, and every individual engineer
became responsible for ensuring essential services like
electricity, water, and medical care. These circumstances
illustrate that ethical decisions cannot be separated from
engineering practice. Neutrality, often emphasized in
sustainability and engineering, can be harmful when
engineers fail to consider the social context and the
impacts of political crises on their work. Engineering
education must reflect this reality.
This paper adopts a qualitative storytelling
methodology with reflexive accounts drawn from engineers
living through the war in Gaza. The approach follows other
similar Palestinian calls for witnessing the war. The
experiences from Gaza show that engineering education
must confront how infrastructure, resource availability,
and environmental harm are shaped by forces far beyond
engineers’ control. These stories also demonstrate that
when political conditions shift suddenly—as they do in
war, displacement, or environmental collapse— engineers
must be capable of adjusting their methods and developing
safe, responsible solutions that sustain human life and
minimize harm. Overall, these findings underscore the
need for engineers to be educated with strong ethical and
social awareness.
Keywords: Witnessing War : Palestine : Myth of Neutrality
: Enginee

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dusty5928.bsky.social @dusty5928.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

AGREED. I can’t understand why there hasn’t been any real innovation in all of those areas since the pandemic began. 3M *still* doesn’t produce Auras in black, despite years of outcry from folks. Why do you think this is? It’s not like companies like 3M are lacking in funding?

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

"Study links long COVID-19 to surge in new chronic illnesses in Estonia" A study of 210,000 Estonians found a two-way link between Long COVID and chronic illness. Asthma, diabetes and kidney disease increased Long COVID risk, while Long COVID was linked to more sleep apnea, heart and thyroid issues

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Study links long COVID-19 to surge in new chronic illnesses in Estonia

A new study based on data from Estonian residents shows that long COVID and chronic illnesses have a direct two‑way connection. Existing chronic diseases prolong COVID symptoms, which in turn paves th...

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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Not a single prompt can change the fact that these technologies destruct the environment and our institutions, concentrate power in the hands of a few technofacists, further marginalize already minoritizes communities and invisibilize the human labor and toxic supply chain that sustain the industry

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

“When you submit to be surveilled, what you are doing is handing over a copious amount of power. So you’d better be very, very sure you can trust the people you hand it to—and even if you do, can you trust their successors, five or ten years from now?”

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“AI-Powered” Surveillance Networks are Worse Than You Know

In New Orleans, everyone is being watched with facial recognition cameras and police drones—and your hometown might be next.

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Craig 'VI' Slee: Pro Hatman @mrvi.cold-albion.net · 10/08/2026

Once again, @wolven.blacksky.app's work about magic and AI is vital. It's not just "robo-butler" they want, it's Bound Entity enslaved to master's will, serving their interests over and excluding its own. In such a cosmovision, the magician is empowered by God, and thus becomes God.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Relatedly, any organization that claims to be taking a "human-centered" approach, but is only asking "How do we use [whatever tech] responsibly?" and not "Should we use [tech] at all" is in fact centering the tech, and not the people. >>

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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This is great to see - as someone who works in comms, we need more campaigns like this! 👏🏼 We need to rebrand masks as being chic symbols of empowerment against both wildfire smoke & airborne viruses, not symbols of weakness or fear

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 14/07/2026

Yup. I think this fits their trajectory, indeed. Part of a wider attempt at claiming that we should just find ways to use these "tools" through some pragmatic acceptance. See: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is one of the most catastrophic developments imaginable for US media and the country. I don’t even have the words for it.

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Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership

The move sets the stage for more corporate consolidation in the media industry.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol

A picture of a box styled like a little free library but with blockbuster movies

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16/07/2026

“A.I. Movies” www.tiktok.com/@americanbar...

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I’m putting together a 20 min training on accessibility in presentations for scientists. If you have any tips/resources you love please feel free to share!

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Live from Hadrian’s Library, it’s “Disability Washing & Surveillance Tech!” I had a most interesting exchange today with the artist @gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social (notice new backgrounds in my short films)

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One of the Micahs @oneofthemicahs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

No matter how hard I try, my Elvis impersonation will always be more Johnny Bravo than Elvis.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Following the Madison Square Garden facial recognition debaucal? Tell all your favorite artists to sign this pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition (they'll be in good company! Rage Against the Machine, Deerhoof, Mannequin Pussy already signed) banfacialrecognition.com/venues

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Ban Facial Recognition at Live Events

Artists and venues take the pledge: no facial recognition at shows.

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Felienne Hermans @felienne.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The reception of my talk at DDD Europe yesterday, critical of DDD and of the field of software development in general, was truly magical and heartwarming! Hope there will be a recording online soon!!

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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So, even though the data privacy bill just passed the Massachusetts House, keep calling and emailing your MA lawmakers and tell them you want them to adopt the strongest possible language, and resist efforts by industry lobbyists to water down this otherwise rad legislation. FFTF.link/madataprivacy

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Location Shield Act & MDPA

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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 31/05/2026

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International

This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development ...

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

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Hating AI is good, actually

LinkedIn may be awash with boosters, but shunning AI is the human choice.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Then I guess it's not a financially sustainable organization. They'll have to close some locations or shorten their hours. Alternatively, we could end the public navy and let private navies provide this service.

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 08/05/2026

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Editors’ Note: May 1, 2026
This article was updated after The Times learned that a remark attributed to Pierre Poilievre, the Conservative leader, was in fact an A.I.-generated summary of his views about Canadian politics that A.I. rendered as a quotation. The reporter should have checked the accuracy of what the A.I. tool returned. The article now accurately quotes from a speech delivered by Mr. Poilievre in April. He said, “My personal opinion is that when a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw them out and have a byelection. That would put the people back in charge of our democracy rather than having dirty backroom Liberal deals by Mark Carney determine our destiny.” He did not refer to politicians who changed allegiances as turncoats in that speech.

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SoundOfTheForest @soundoftheforest.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today’s addition of people on my list that I’m allowed to judge: People freaking out about the hantavirus on the cruise but refusing to wear a mask.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 23/04/2026

Just go ahead and make a thing. Even though you have no idea what you're doing. That's the whole point of all of it

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/04/2026

The FCC is soliciting feedback on whether to push the TV ratings system to ban trans and nonbinary characters from children's TV shows. www.imdb.com/it/news/ni65...

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

GOOD MORNING MASS! This week is going to be critical for mounting vocal opposition to the dangerous and misguided social media surveillance legislation proposed by the @massgovernor.bsky.social and the MA House. Drop this link in yr group chats, reskeet, do the thing stoponlineidchecks.org/ma

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Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts

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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 19/04/2026

Whatever you do,

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN."

Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live

Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

6 boats and 40 people were involved in recovering the astronauts after they splashed down today. Last weekend a search and rescue ship was detained while 70+ refugees drowned in the Mediterranean. The dichotomy of who we show humanity to hurts my soul.

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It was such a massive honor to get to chat with Cindy Cohn, former executive director of the @eff.org about her career taking on big tech and fighting mass surveillance. Please listen, comment, and share!!

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The Woman Taking On Big Tech

YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 10/04/2026

how much money does the marine corps lose

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It's why we talk about genAI as a labor problem. 99% of all problems that genAI "solves" is just "hire more people and pay them a liveable wage."

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