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PamelaJB

@pamelajbaker.bsky.social
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Writer, teacher, nurse. Only representing myself

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This will be a thread of essays I recommend to students in my creative nonfiction workshop:
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They will never have enough money until they have all the money, your money, my money, and then they’ll want more
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 30/09/2026
like i say every time this comes up, the term for what awaits survivors who go through the official system (cops, rape kit at the hospital, the hell of a trial where you as the victim get to be cross examined by yr rapist’s defense) is called “the second rape”
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is what AI does. It was coded to complete a task but has not thinking or reasoning capabilities
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WTF indeed lol
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bird’s wings are baseball bats!!!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution.
theguardian.com
Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Following its split from Xbox, State of Decay developer Undead Labs is now operating as an "independent, employee-owned game development studio."
stateofdecay.com
Undead Labs becomes Independent Studio
Undead Labs today announced that it has completed its separation from XBOX and is now operating as an independent, employee-owned game development studio. Development of State of Decay 3 remains…
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LAFAYETTE @lastudiolafayette.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The foot was bigger than the mouth?
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think of this all the time. And yes, Who are we?
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Humans beat tech at doom bc humans code and use tech, but “For the tech bros to remain dominant, their story has to change.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social says all that I was thinking. Their panic did not ring true. A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Which ruined it
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Laura Haynes👩‍🔬⚾️🐾💙 @drlaurahaynes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good morning 🌞 Is anyone interested?
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Of course this is happening
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even then, imitating does not equal being… “artificial” is more akin to candy corn imitating corn than AI having intelligence
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
In reality it's even worse. Comic by Aram J French 👏
Comic. We have to feed the robot 10 baby giraffes a day. But is answers the questions correctly? Oh my goodness no.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Replace records/tapes/CDs with digital, replace digital with digital forever
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We need more existential doors
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great, important reporting. NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. Thousands of Americans die every year from a chronically underreported cause: heat. As climate change drives deadly summer heat, the U.S. official tally of heat-related deaths is dangerously low. www.npr.org/2026/08/31/n...
npr.org
NPR spent 2 years tracking deaths from heat. We found a staggering hidden toll
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why — and how lives can be saved.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I also donated a signed book bundle and would be glad to personalize the books to you (or others)!
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know my syllabus is almost done when the assignments add up to 140% of their final grade.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I love with this sticker from @flashfrog.bsky.social so much. I want 10 more to put everywhere because it makes me that happy.
Photo of frog typing on typewriter and a bat drinking with text “ink drinker”
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This is awful. The #GenAI companies need to be held accountable for allowing deepfakes to be generated. www.wired.com/story/teache...
wired.com
They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
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Brandon Diehl @iambrandondiehl.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The next time someone tells me that "real poets don't read from their phones," I'm gonna go to a poetry reading and read my poems from a smart TV which I will hold above my head like it's Simba from The Lion King.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Unnecessary grief
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Harrison Ford and Cookie Monster enjoying some cookies to a familiar tune: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.
data4democracy.substack.com
With Fear and Favor
Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My Great Dane is uninterested in my Fall course prep but he makes good company
Photo of black great Dane’s head resting on rug
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Always choose a typeface carefully
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ACLU @aclu.org · 08/08/2026
DHS and ICE are pushing a bill, known as CORCA, to spy on all of us at malls and grocery stores nationwide. It's being sold as a way to stop shoplifting, but instead of making our neighborhoods safer it would be a massive expansion of the surveillance state. It must be stopped.
theintercept.com
Congress Might Give ICE the Power to Go After Shoplifters
A bill intended to halt the supposed threat of “organized retail crime” would put ICE in charge of the federal response.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"'AI is adverse to the idea of learning. An educational institution should be focused more on teaching us than making us ready for a job. I’m not measuring my success on a billionaire’s mindset. I want education for the sake of education. I want to learn.’” ht: Dagmar Monett
denverpost.com
As Colorado universities align with ChatGPT, student AI resisters take a stand against the ‘plagiarism machine’
“The majority of my participants flat out don’t think AI has a place in education,” said Mirakle Wright, a CU graduate student who is studying resistance to artificial intelligence.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@stephenking.bsky.social Did you ever, maybe in the 80s, get a pair of gargoyles from someone associated with the Norumbega Castle in Camden? Vetting an old story I heard for an essay.
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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
#Florida cops have begun quietly using Meta smart glasses www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida... via @alexdeluca.bsky.social
miaminewtimes.com
Florida cops are quietly using Meta smart glasses
Privacy advocates warn the glasses could let cops record people without them noticing.
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is not just about Max Miller. Mike Johnson has just given cover to every abuser. He has undermined belief in every survivor’s story. He has set an assumption that accusations are made with malice towards the accused — the ultimate victim blaming. It’s hard to overstate the harm of this.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Surveillance for surveillance
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m just going to say that I have long suspected this was happening. Now there’s proof.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
So disturbing. My daughter was on campus during this shooting.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
46 years ago 🫅🏻 London, August 1980 Top Debbie Harry of Blondie , Viv Albertine of The Slits, Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie And The Banshees Bottom Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex, Pauline Black of The Selecter 📸 Michael Putland #womenofpunk #punkrockhistory
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Because people who think are problematic but people teaching folks to think are the enemy
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Of course
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I once had a classmate ask if I had an open marriage after I smiled at him during a GROUP study session where there were six of us. Very creepy. And alarming. How does a smile translate to invitation? Enough to make a woman embrace RBF.
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Living the dream
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
this TikTok account was a truly insane example. but it doesn't even feel surprising now. I mean of course someone is going to get footage of random people, run facial recognition on them, and then unmask them for clout. it's basically normal now, it sucks www.404media.co/the-end-of-p...
404media.co
The End of Privacy is a Taylor Swift Fan TikTok Account Armed with Facial Recognition Tech
A viral account is using off-the-shelf facial recognition tech to dox random people on the internet for the amusement of millions of viewers. One victim said they “felt a bit violated really.”
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PamelaJB @pamelajbaker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Back when consuming content was a group activity lol
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The rural hospital fund that's supposed to undo the damage from the Big Beautiful Bill's Medicaid cuts is actually a hold-up: undergo "market-based" reforms in exchange for the money. That often makes no sense in the context of rural health care, says regulator Thom Walsh:
prospect.org
The Big Beautiful Bill’s Market-Based Health Care Delusion - The American Prospect
The Rural Health Transformation Program asks states to build market-style reforms in places where health care markets often do not exist.
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Oeste @paolaoeste.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ENORMO SNOOT BOOP.
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