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ProfYolonda

@profyolonda.bsky.social
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Philosopher-Bioethicist with Georgia’s red clay in my blood. Feminist. Race woman. Views are my own.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Every day feels like this hand of Spades....
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Also I do not expect the US defeat in a war the US started will change much for MAGA. These people are still slobbering over Bobby Lee 150 years later
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Jeffrey Rousseau @jrpotential.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Gentrification pisses me off because of the erasure of color in: People, places, & architecture
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Jonathan Forney (JB 🕵🏾) @jb4nay.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Inadvertently making the case that ICE has so little of their alleged work to do (and overfunding) that they can be placed where another agency in the same department has gone weeks without pay www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump to send ICE agents to help strained TSA at airports
President Donald Trump said he is sending federal immigration agents to assist with the airport security delays impacting spring break travel.
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A doer of deeds @loozcoilz.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“Failing up“ got us fucked up right now. There are some of the biggest idiots in the world at the helm of the US, if you’re wondering why things aren’t going well. You should feel intellectually intimated by your leadership, to some degree. Stop putting stupid in charge because you can relate.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026
It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.
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Ginger Turmeric Please @freeroo.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026
Insurance companies should never dictate how care is delivered. We need to have healthcare protected as a human right. Free at the point of service. Paid for by the government. We need more healthcare professionals (pay them, train them). More facilities. Greater preventative care.
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So many reasons to say hell no to this…
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Bad legal writing is often the product of bad legal REASONING and so you can't separate the "important" stuff from the "boring" stuff the way that the legal AI evangelists assume.
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Sean Marotta @smmarotta.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Apropos of … this whole country is built on rape and monetized sexual assault. The. Whole. Country.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
among all the other reasons why this is obviously evil, it’s a new ghoulish way to shame and police how we are allowed to exist in public will the AI version of a fat or disabled person eliminate those “flaws”? will it erase gray hair and wrinkles or lighten skin to “perfect” your appearance?
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
one of the really gross aspects of the AI zombie resurrection thing we should (carefully!!!!!) discuss more is the fact that this is not what Val Kilmer looked like when he died. they don’t want the human Val Kilmer. they want a simulacrum of the idealized memory of him you have in your mind
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 17/03/2026
America has been too dependent on the benevolence of the oligarchs only to be surprised by their immorality
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Matthew Chalmers @matthewchalmers.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“No defensible claim to “ethics” can sidestep the urgency of legally enforceable restrictions to the deployment of technologies of mass surveillance and systemic violence. Until [then], moral and political deliberation about computing will remain subsidiary to the profit-making imperative”
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026
A short word to describe useful idiots is comprador, because they are agents not of academia anymore but whoever has bought them out and they make a lot of money with their startups and consulting in the process of hollowing out public universities en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprador
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Comprador - Wikipedia
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/03/2026
The wholesale failure of the mainstream so-called "AI ethics" project is because it is instead a successful process of creating industry stooges, who walk amongst us, hollowing out future colleagues and posturing provocatively about the inevitability of the future theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...
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How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation
“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
IMO, this is one reason (of many) why milquetoast AI literacy lessons are such a failure: they don't engage students with questions like, "Should 'robot dogs' be deployed to protect the sprawling infrastructure of AI?"
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 17/03/2026
The USPS is cool as hell and essential. Demolishing it would be devastating for everyone but would really hit rural communities. It's not just about the services they provide, but the community connections too: Mail carriers look out for the people on their routes.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/03/2026
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
"Your Honor, I ask the court -- does this sound like the kind of man who would force himself on an innocent child?"
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Someone needs to send an ambulance to X
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Yardyspice @yardyspice.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
If you were never Kamala, make sure your kids are at the front lines when there’s a draft. Leave mine tf alone.
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ProfYolonda @profyolonda.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Lots of Confederate battlefields and plantations (where I was explicitly prewarned not to ask any questions about slavery because it would make the white people running the place uncomfortable)
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
it's a combination of greed, spite, and determined ignorance.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I think they do this sort of thing because they are absolutely enraged at the idea of spending money on anything that does not directly line their pockets or hurt their enemies...and they don't understand why anything is necessary or might be necessary. 1
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Aaron Black @aaronblack.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Seniors on fixed incomes face impossible costs under the SAVE Act. Birth certificates from seventy years ago cost money to replace. Passports cost $165. They built this country. Republicans want to charge them for the right to participate in it. #SaveActIsPayToVote
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Study of Religion as an Analytical Discipline Workshop @soraaad.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
...sanctioned as valid professional behavior in graduate seminars for those who haven't done the reading, this shows up routinely in classes, oral exams, on campus job interviews... and it indistinct from internet trolling as a behavior, save that those electing to do this cannot be blocked.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Academic women on social media are routinely confronted by (usually) men who have no expertise in their fields but whose only goal is to challenge that expertise. ‘Why don’t you do this’ ‘Smile more’ We get it in conferences. And classrooms. We can smell the misogyny a mile off. Just saying.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/03/2026
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Ally Whelan @amwhelan.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
“Criminal prosecutions sparked by hospital drug testing helped advance the legal concept that the fetus had interests the state could protect.”
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How Hospitals Helped Erode Reproductive Rights — The Marshall Project
Criminal prosecutions sparked by hospital drug testing helped advance the legal concept that the fetus had interests the state could protect.
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Boke18 @boke18.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
This is something that patients should be aware of and able to opt out of. This will cause so many deaths.
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La Bodega Baddie 🇵🇷 @zeenthecity.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
I was in a patient’s chart yesterday and the software has an AI feature that summarizes a patient’s history. It was inaccurate.
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Princeton. @princey5ive.blacksky.app · 15/03/2026
this is what we really need to be worried about. AI infiltrating fields where the margin of error can literally mean life or death for someone. 👎🏽👎🏽
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Once again, it's really OK to call racist people racist and to call evil people evil.We came up with the words for a reason.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The notion that a bunch of committed racists didn't understand the racism they were doing when racism is the sole reason they were interested in doing it is wild to me
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.
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justin (rough cut notes) @justininpost.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I’ve been able to tolerate a lot of #ThePitt but I did not need to learn or see what degloving was.
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Kristin Cole @krissyjay.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Somebody needs to sit Santos down and have a seek to understand conversation on why she’s has to be a sarcastic lil shit all the time #ThePitt
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Mariana Loizaga @marianaloizaga.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Dana ending everyone with a cellphone in less than 15 seconds #thepitt #ThePitt
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Shameful.
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ProfYolonda @profyolonda.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Ice-T was in a movie with this premise, but I can’t remember what it was called.
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Lory Birch @sheylavoss.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Discussions of disability and race don’t intersect in white disability circles. There can be compassion for this man but not for Delroy and Michael? Black disabled people exist. We exist. Compassion for disability does not erase the indignity of what happened to them on that stage.
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Andy Mackenzie @andymack.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Jesse v Marvin
Jesse Jackson playing basketball with Marvin Gaye
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/02/2026
Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84
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Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84
A fixture in Democratic politics who ran for 1988 presidential nomination, Jackson was once close to Martin Luther King Jr The Rev Jesse Jackson, the civil rights campaigner who was prominent for more than 50 years and who ran strongly for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, has died. He was 84. “Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by.” Continue reading...
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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Robert Duvall (1931-2026) Rest in Peace.
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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
This is how you live a life
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Amanda Scott @amandascott2023.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Robert Duvall 🙏 #RIP "We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." Robert Duvall
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