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@dylantdoyle.bsky.social and I are starting a podcast! We're bringing together researchers, organizers, critics, and storytellers to help us imagine what more liberatory and human-centered tech futures could look like. First ep lands on Tuesday 🌱 Subscribe now ⬇️ otherfutures.transistor.fm

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other futures: tech, resistance & imagining otherwise

big tech wants to control our future, but there are other paths we can choose instead. on "other futures" we bring together leading tech researchers, organizers, critics, and storytellers to help us i...

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🌻 PlentyNuff 🌻 @plentynuff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I left Twitter because a nazi bought it so I don't really give a shit about "where the action is."

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026

I see a lot of this as men trying to outsource to technology the kind of lovingly nagging labor (think: "drink more water, honey" "don't forget to take your pills, honey" "I scheduled you a doctor's appointment, honey") that has traditionally fallen to wives.

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Nick Rempel @nrempel.com · 06/10/2026

wild that this is exactly what using a computer is like now

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's getting increasingly hard to keep people from feeding my academic work into LLMs and I'm mad about it. I've been thinking about this on the other end of the research pipeline, and think it's time for a standard set of norms and sanctions we can all take to our professional bodies.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

A new IWPR report confirms that college-educated Black women are more likely to lead in government than in companies. Which is why the DOGE cuts that slashed federal jobs have been particularly devastating for college-educated Black women. #blacksky

Figure 3. College-Educated Black Women Are More Likely to Be Hired for Management Positions in the Public Sector than the Private Sector
All women and Black women (bachelor's degree or higher) as a share of total managers in the public and private sectors, 2024

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Women's share of all managers
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Black women as a share of all college-educated women
15.9%
10.8%
Black women as a share of women managers
19.8%
9.2%
Black women as a share of all managers
8.2%
2.2%
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Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.7.8, https://microdata.epi.org
Note: Race and ethnicity are mutually exclusive; Black women are all non-Hispanic.

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We are all ultracrepidarians in the age of social media.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Over time, it struck me as just a plain and simple distraction tactic. And it was untrue. I interviewed the victims whose lives could have been entirely different with the right help from their school.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is a tendency after high profile sexual violence to turn every conversation to prevention. Resist that temptation. It allows perpetrators and those who enable them to escape accountability. And every prevention program is undermined by a context where violence happens without consequence.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ban the fucking frats and, if you care about self-protection in the way many of us do, please avoid them katemanne.substack.com/p/ban-the-fu...

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Ban the Fucking Frats—and in the Meantime, Avoid Them

My open letter to a seventeen-year-old female college applicant

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Sandra @sandraa.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

"And if the woman going up the stairs is Black and you do not know her, that does not make it less your business. It makes it more, because the research says everyone else in that hallway is about to decide it is not theirs."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

And as a reminder, disclosures of sexual assault in an educational context are often considered an exemption to mandatory reporting policies. Let your students speak freely! (I spoke to faculty at Cornell this morning who assured me that was the case on their campus!)

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here's a thread I wrote years ago (and updated a bit when I moved it from Twitter to BlueSky) about the types of academic accommodations that do and do not work for survivors of sexual violence.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is a free PDF to my article about trauma-informed, survivor-centered teaching. It's all about how to talk about sexual violence with the assumption your class is full of survivors who are eager to have that conversation--as long as you can do it without victim-blame or rape myths.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing I find weird about this is the idea of personalized music, because music is surely a shared experience for most people. Even my son with his headphones on all the time wants to share tracks and get me or his brother to also listen.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

being a “team player” 😒

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This, and that "free time" just becomes more work time. All that productivity and time you supposedly save using genAI isn't free. More work is added to that fill time. So now you're wasting time fixing genAI *and* doing more additional work you don't have time for.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

As a man who knows other men, and teaches young men, this is absolutely true. I’m gonna go further: there are a wide variety of everyday acts, acts that a majority of men commit, maintain the threat of sexual violence as a condition of women’s being in the world.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

One of the main reasons that the student loan crisis disproportionately affects women is because victims who can’t complete their educations still have the debt from it—even if they never get the degrees that unlock careers that can pay that debt back.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nearly 40% of survivors who report to their schools are pushed out in one way or another—usually, at the urging of school staff who want them to leave. (In comparison, less than 1% of perpetrators are suspended or expelled.)

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 27/09/2026

By the way, it would be incredibly simple for him not to do that and instead direct the discussion onto other issues where he could make a progressive case He actively chooses to do this. It's not a strategic choice, it's a political one.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There were no words of empathy or support for Britain’s 10 million Black and Asian people many of whom are scared just a pledge to ensure there’s fewer of us which is what the racists want.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Bryn Boice @brynboice.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I want to beg teachers and professors to bring back reading plays and stories aloud in class. It’s real, real-time, and different people *hear* different things in the text and are eager to discuss their takes. Empathy is imbedded in this work.

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

- I saw Fran Lebowitz speak earlier this year & she talked about how Oprah might have encouraged a lot of people to get into reading but she did so by referring to books as mirrors where you should see yourself reflected RATHER than viewing books as windows into the experiences of others.

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

- Social media brain rot where we've failed to see that we are human beings connected to other unique human beings and therefore, just because something doesn't reflect my experience, it doesn't mean it's wrong or "bad" or something you can't still read/watch/play, etc.

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

- À la carte living conditions where everything is hyper personalized and you get what YOU want delivered to YOU when YOU want it. And therefore, you don't have to think beyond yourself, so you assume everything is either for you *specifically* or it's wrong.

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

These are not fully formed ideas but what I am sensing is a toxic combination of: - So few people reading quality fiction where you have to put yourself in someone else's shoes & actually pay attention, rather than reading passively. This results in lacking basic reading skills.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

context. sentiment. inferences. People seriously cannot do these things anymore. That’s why they angrily demand you spell out every joke, every reference, super duper promise you mean something only this one prescribed way. They cannot do it for themselves or tolerate the any ambiguity.

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In 1848 Boston attorney Robert Morris challenged school segregation in court a century before Brown v Board of Ed. In 1787 Black Bostonians had petitioned for equal education as well. Morris fought for the rights of his Black & Irish American clients & was appointed a magistrate by the governor.

Studio portrait of a man in a suit, with watch chain, gazing directly at the viewer.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Then, if you’re able, try to get your body moving. You’re going to need your senses and movement is good for your brain. If you have kids in your care, protect their developing brains and their image. That’s all I can say about that.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

AI tech bro doomers are inventing a story to cause panic instead of deliberating at the polls, in Congress and community meetings. "The threat is from destructive misuse of A.I. by humans rather than from autonomous A.I. agents themselves.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)

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 · 20/09/2026

i don’t know, maybe some of you are exceptions to the cognitive, behavioral rule that panic isn’t a good state for decision-making. If you are, let me know about it.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

This is a tax guy. His advice could be the difference between someone having their assets seized & maybe going to jail, or not. Now imagine having to worry about racist shit in every interaction you have with any person in authority. Every doctor & nurse, every cop, every lawyer & judge, every boss

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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 12/09/2026

the irony of building for community is how lonely it can be. gotta do it for the cause, you may never get the applause.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Again, I am being a little petty but we might want to think seriously about how our responses to AI are a reflection of our values, of what kind of intellectual labor we view as valuable and what kind of labor is disposable.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Gonna be extremely petty for a moment: I am glad to stand in solidarity with my colleagues in mathematics against the tyranny of AI slop, but I have to ask: where the fuck were most of y’all when the humanities were first on the block to be sacrificed to the machine devils?

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have not laughed this hard all week - then I immediately wanted to cry.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you optimize a model to find exploits, you should expect it to find them—and prepare for that. OpenAI didn't. They built a model, removed the safeguards, gave it the ExploitGym task, let it run, and didn't even monitor it. That's human decision-making. mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

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Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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