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Heather Gray (she/they)

@treadlightly.bsky.social
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I design & build clear, accessible and sustainable websites. 🌱🧶 🌈🖤🤍💜 Protect Trans Kids. Free Palestine

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Jason Cosper @jason.cosper.me · 09/10/2026
It’s wild how quickly AI has become the microplastics of code. You can’t be certain if its output is in the software you’ve installed, so you just pray and hope it doesn’t give you cancer later.
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Eric Bailey @ericwbailey.website · 30/09/2026
The 11th edition of the @webaim.bsky.social Screen Reader User Survey is now live! This is a vital resource into better understanding how people who use screen readers actually operate your website or app. webaim.org/projects/scr... My commentary on it as a thread 🧵 #a11y
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WebAIM: Screen Reader User Survey #11 Results
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US government agency sites” www.bbc.com/news/article... If only they were treated as Aaron Swartz was for far far less: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_... I’m on board with Lina Khan’s approach to lean on a 1934 precedent: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Bryson The Gaytive @brysonthegaytive.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As National Day for Truth and Reconciliation approaches. I’d like to remind folks that as far as practicable as possible, buy orange shirts from Indigenous Peoples and not corporations.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What happened after OpenAI banned the first account was astonishing: ChatGPT advised the shooter about how to evade its own safeguards on violence. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 24/09/2026
if you quit corporate to become a beekeeper, does that mean you broke out in hives
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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you want a different voice on this, go to the source, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app was one of the first people lifting this issue.
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Is AI Really Going to Kill Us? Timnit Gebru Explains | Vibe Check
YouTube video by Vibe Check
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them” www.scientificamerican.com/article/9-bo... Only two to go! With all the help from fake-AI, maybe we’ll nail those last two by 2030!
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9 ‘boundaries’ keep Earth livable. We’ve breached 7 of them
Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I just read this, and it's brilliantly done. It is concise and simple to understand, and it applies far beyond the realm of mathematics. AI tools are powerful, they're interesting, they can be useful. But they're being used in ways that are corrosive to human intellectual and artistic life.
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Heather Gray (she/they) @treadlightly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"the false attribution of mind colors how we interpret what the system has done, or how it did it – what it means to "coordinate," for example, or "think." That makes it much scarier than what it is, though what it's doing is still worth worrying about." 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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derek van vliet @derek.bike · 10/09/2026
when you’re doing it absolutely wrong
Trillium article:
Headline: Ontario Science Centre laying off entire science department

TORONTO — The Ontario Science Centre has laid off 30 workers including the entire science department, The Canadian Press has learned. Science centre CEO Paul Kortenaar told employees at a meeting today that the organization is being restructured.
Liam Casey, The Canadian Press
34 minutes ago
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Canadian government falls for the AI con...sigh. So what are they going to do when they realize that there is no "responsible AI" industry because the broligarchy that runs it does not answer to markets, regulators, the law, or voters.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
People love the idea of planting trees, but what if I told you that it's one of the *leading* causes of global nature loss? Deadzone commercial forest plantations are spreading like a rash across the planet, pushing out both natural ecosystems and indigenous peoples. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Yb...
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Can trees save the planet? | DW Documentary
YouTube video by DW Documentary
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Heather Gray (she/they) @treadlightly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm so excited to have the opportunity to speak about Making Climate-Friendly Websites at the upcoming Tech Differently conference. Early bird tickets are still available! Hope to see you there! techdifferently.com #TechDifferently
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Tech Differently
A tech conference for people who think differently and build differently.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The New York Times used video clips collected by tourists to reconstruct the glacial collapse that caused the horrific flooding in Nepal and Tibet. Have never seen footage of an ice cap in the world's "third pole" shattering and avalanching down. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/w...
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Nickel City chick🍁 @laurasimba.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Also from Mohawk. I know you like language so thought I'd send this link.😊 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sGj...
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Translating Ontario
YouTube video by Malcolm P.L.
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Heather Gray (she/they) @treadlightly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Communities across Canada deserve a say before data centres are approved. 🏙️⚡💧 Join the call demanding that municipal councils pause new data centre developments until communities have the information, policies, and protections needed to make informed decisions. share.nwmd.social/s/5SuSlrHG
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Canada Municipal Data Centre Moratorium
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 17/08/2026
If you have a Twitch account, even if you don't stream, this is well worth logging in and turning off.
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Heather Gray (she/they) @treadlightly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"In the ecosystem we're all building, I'd have to use Grammarly to rephrase everything: using a machine to write for me to prove that I didn't use a different machine to write for me." mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...
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It's Not Just X. It's Y.
Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs a...
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Rebecca Blood 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“When we say “AI models went rogue,” we skip the entire story: the part where OpenAI manually removed the model's cybersecurity blocks. We skip that OpenAI chose to test it on a machine with a live network connection.” @doctorow.pluralistic.net
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16/08/2026
Now, we just have to teach the young people about Citizens United and help them connect the economic to the political dots.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/08/2026
Amazon is investing in a natural-gas-burning power plant, as part of a huge A.I. data center in Texas, that could become the largest single source of climate pollution in the U.S., the company confirmed.
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New Amazon Data Center Stokes Worry It Would Be the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Such an important discussion. Also note the policy implications: as Orben & Matias (2025) argue, Big Tech's deliberate blockage of quality research on impacts of digital tech harms demands conversation about different standards of public-interest science for policymaking.
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Fixing the science of digital technology harms
Technology development outpaces scientific assessment of impacts
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Anna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
only just catching up with @alondra.bsky.social 's important article on social science and AI in Daedalus. A lot in it, but the following quote stood up for me: "There is a strong case that social science should refuse proprietary AI models entirely....
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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
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Tyler Sticka @tylersticka.com · 06/08/2026
I like to think I keep up with new #CSS features, but sometimes I overlook something fun. For example, improvements to text-stroke: tylersticka.com/journal/impr... #WebDesign #WebDev
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Improved CSS Text-Stroke – Tyler Sticka
Arriving late to the party for this fun little CSS trick (with a few gotchas).
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Here in Calgary I show people this graph and if I get any further guff I ask if they know what a graph is. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #Wildfires #smoke #cdnpoli #abpoli
Calgary smoke hours show dramatic hockey stick curve heading into the 2020s and beyond
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Bentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
They can say summers have always been hot and we’ve always had wildfires and they can tell themselves all day that everything is the same as it always was but you know better They can gaslight themselves but not you. #ExtremeHeat #Wildfires #Smoke #ClimateChange #abpoli #cdnpoli
Graph showing how much hotter our summers are
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Terry Godier @terrygodier.com · 02/08/2026
Been working on this little hobby project for several weekends. It's ready to show my friends. Most sky apps tell you what's up. Dark Hours tells you the truth: whether tonight is worth it, when, and which way to look. Free, no account, go nuts! darkhours.io #astronomy #stargazing
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Dark Hours, what's actually visible in your sky tonight
Whether tonight is worth going out for, when to go, and which way to look. Real astronomy, live weather, and a light-pollution model that publishes its error bars.
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Data center water use is misunderstood. This energy process engineer worked for many years designing and building large scale heat exchange systems and cooling loops that move heat and water on an industrial scale. Worth watching:
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Process Engineer Explains: The Math Behind "Water-Efficient AI Data Centres" Is Laughably Wrong
YouTube video by Mide
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Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Google’s users are no longer leaving Google after a search and are just reading its A.I.-generated answers, ...which means fewer people are coming to ...websites and search traffic has dropped.
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How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19/07/2026
There are more openly anti AI women than men, so if you see manels (panels of all men) or events where there are very few or no women involved on the academic speaking side (not in the organisation/teaching), it's safe to conclude that there is something very strange afoot to say the least. 1/n
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Cryptogyny
On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
TBH I'm 100% fine with seeing THS THDPSSSSPS I think this fits into my head canons.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along. My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it. Please enjoy. therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...
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Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator
Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
CBC headline from two weeks ago: “Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was ‘too expensive’ and ‘divisive’
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 15/07/2026
These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
Photo via Wayne Wastaken

Fire clouds over Collins, Ontario as community members flee their homes by boat
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
OK everybody...still working out some kinks but... A new daily game, with boards written and edited by John Green. hankgreen.com/smush
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348 pts · ★★ pangram first
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Saron Yitbarek @saron.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Icon-only options in a customizable <select> break three things: ❌️ users who don't recognize the icon have no help ❌️screen readers have nothing to announce ❌️browsers w/o support show an empty dropdown There's just 1 fix for all three cases: keep the text Learn more:
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The golden rule of Customizable Select
Customizable select is coming to Safari 27.
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✨Kirm✨ @antonballdeluxe.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Given all of the recent genAI discussion, I wish to repost this.
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Eric Karkovack @karks.com · 08/06/2026
#WordPress block notes can be a handy way to communicate with colleagues or write a note to yourself. 📝 speckyboy.com/wordpress-bl...
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Quick Tip: How To Use WordPress Block Notes — Speckyboy
WordPress Notes adds block level comments to the Block Editor. We show you how to add a note to any block, reply in a thread, get email notifications, and mark notes as resolved for smoother collabora...
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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 20/05/2026
As agentic AI rapidly transforms internet infrastructure, how do we ensure disabled people's needs are not displaced? In a new article by me and @frank.computer, we argue that accessibility must not be treated as an incidental benefit of rapid AI expansion. Read below:
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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This cartoon is sixteen years old but has not aged a day.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
"To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago." If you think it is necessary to be on Twitter to communicate your fact-based worldview, the reality is that worldview is being smothered.
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