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Shannon Carey

@scmaestra.bsky.social
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High school history teacher. Anti-fascist. Oakland. she/her.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The propaganda war for AI feels a lot like the push to sell the Iraq War.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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bijan @bijan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i think about this post all the time. you might too
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I am paid a very high salary to design new ways to hurt innocent people. Please don't hurt me. I want to live. My job is to hurt your children. Please, don't do anything to me. I want to be safe. My job is to make your family sick. I want to live. Please, I deserve to live. Pleas
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shout out to the student who, when I reveal Andrew Johnson's picture in discussing the assassination of Lincoln, says, "Ooh I heard that guy was a dickhead"
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Once again, one of the primary reasons we have arrived at this point (completely out-of-control & unconstitutional abuse of executive power to conduct wildly illegal foreign policy) is that no one, including the most senior people involved, went to jail for the rest of their lives for Iran-Contra.
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:
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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift
The super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
L'code, c'est moi
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/09/2026
If you’re in California, call @robbonta.bsky.social and yell at him. 916-445-9555
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
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In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ask yourself why a CEO who can call the president on the phone needs to write a pleading open letter like he is a daycare provider who needs money for markers?
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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse. These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We are not living through "an authoritarian impulse," we are living through actual AUTHORITARIANISM.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026
dudes rock
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As a human being, I think this is a horrifying. As a history teacher, I think this is horrifying AND Wow, what clear primary source about Congress's surrender to technofascism in 2026.
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I had to have a zoom school meeting this evening and omg how did we do that for a year??? I felt the life force being sucked right out of me with every screen I shared and video-off profile and chat I couldn't keep up with. All power to those of you still zooming. Could never, ever be me again.
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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
trying to make new friends as an adult
Amy Adams in Arrival holding the white board that says HUMAN while she's trying to communicate with aliens
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At the student council elections assembly when I taught 3rd grade, one particularly charismatic 5th grader started his speech with "Who wants free ice cream? Vote for me and that's what you're gonna get!!" and the 400 8-year-olds went WILD and then we had to have whole lessons on false promises.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 09/09/2026
I do not believe that these guys are about to summon a world-ending superconsciousness from Nvidia graphics cards. But they either believe they can or want me to believe they believe they can. So I think "fuck them" is the only rational response
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
When I was in grad school, a very wise professor made the point that there are certain things you *shouldn't* research and write on because they'd be bad for humanity. Where is this common sense thinking regarding AI? Has the worship of the dollar overtaken literally every one of these ghouls??
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Shout out to the kid who emigrated from one of the former Soviet republics *a year ago* who asked, after class, "Do you think America's obsession with individuality has to do with their aggressive capitalism?" Girrrrrrrrrrrl.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cell phone ban day #21: so. much. art. Drawing, doodling, origami, diy tattoos, you name it.
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Jade @perrytheestallion.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It’s so irritating I be adding “-ai” to every search 😂😂😂
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Many educators are not snorting cocaine in all classes, and that is an abdication of a sacred commitment. @gregpak.net substitution never fails
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Shout out to the kid who, when overhearing you planning a fun night out with colleagues, said, "You're going out with the other teachers?? That is SO SAD"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Again, I am just a man standing in front of the Democratic Party, begging them to make a bigger deal of this deeply unlikeable racist billionaire asshole who is constantly pushing things everyone loathes.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Shout out to the student who, in a socratic seminar about the effects of the transatlantic slave trade, after examining colonial laws increasingly restricting Black people's humanity, exclaimed, "they're just making shit up!" thereby explaining 400 years of legal history.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So many kudos to @gregpak.net and the thousands of NYC residents who made this happen - a model for us all 👏👏👏
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Check this out Oakland: these streetwear savants were my students!!!! 🥰 They were hella cool 15-year-olds and they're HELLA cool adults!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I'm dealing with some very sad family news. I went to work anyway, because what else would I do? And you know what? Dealing with the immediacy of teenagers and their joy and their weirdness and their humanness was what I needed. PSA to anyone considering a career change: teaching rules
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Oh that’s not all, folks. Antifa Waldo, beatifications of ICE martyrs, ICE agents slipping, and more—all from the likes of corn, barley, and alfalfa
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Shout out to my staff who had a multi-email reply-all thread yesterdayabout the "abomination" of AI flyers in our hallways that could be, all told, as among the best editorials against technofascism I've read.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Everything is awful, except for this, which is the exact opposite m.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Xc...
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Harris, Parton, Ronstadt on Late Show, March 24, 1999 (full, stereo)
YouTube video by Don Giller
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pierre Bourdieu was so on point about schools being centers of class reproduction. Teach the sons of titans to think critically, teach working class kids to comply. www.britannica.com/biography/Pi...
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Pierre Bourdieu | Biography, Theories, Works, & Facts | Britannica
Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist who was a public intellectual in the tradition of Emile Zola and Jean-Paul Sartre. Bourdieu’s concept of habitus (socially acquired dispositions) was influential in...
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This Day in Labor History: August 25, 1935. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters signed its first contract with the Pullman Car Company, breaking that company’s long anti-union history and providing a breakthrough for Black workers and laying the groundwork for a generation of Black organizing!!
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Cell phone ban day #11: Things I have noticed kids doing during their down time: -Crocheting -Helping each other w math -Coloring -Playing blackjack -Playing Cards Against Humanity -Writing poetry - no joke -Shooting the proverbial shit
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Karen fuckin rules, suck shit Bezos
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