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Thinking on how media technology is used to harm or help in everyday life. ----- When you are able, do good to people who need help.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stuart Hall lives!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I mean AI's core function is to automate unethical decisions that perpetuate systemic inequality 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 07/09/2026
have YOU 🫵 been KIND to someone TODAY ??? ! 😤
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
InterRAI isn't even new! This was one of the companies i first learned about via my 1st time working w/ @cdt.org, back in 2020! Go look up "Challenging the Use of Algorithm-driven Decision-making in Benefits Determinations Affecting People with Disabilities"! What are we doing???! archive.is/d5RXZ
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A secretive computer algorithm is taking caregiving money away from disabled people
After Nebraska used a new interRAI tool to slash Medicaid funding for nearly 900 people, NBC News uncovered the hidden logic behind some of the cuts.
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Alan Au @alanau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Periodic reminder that if you're flirting with me, you have to tell me because I'm not going to figure it out. 😆
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Ell Huang ♠️🩶🤍💜 @nocturnalxlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And it’s not “neurodiversity inclusive,” it’s assisted assimilation.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Opposing genocide is not an entrenched position. It is an ethical stance.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...
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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]
Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...
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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) @jgownder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
AI's catastrophic potential is a self-serving story told by... AI CEOs, motivated by their own interests. By @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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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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Coyote / J. Stryker 🇨🇦 | Memento Vivere 🍃 @easterncoyote.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Emotional abuse is devastating. Often, it’s 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 than physical abuse. Here’s what researchers at Palo Alto University have found. PsyPost: Emotional abuse predicts self-loathing more strongly than other childhood traumas www.psypost.org/emotional-ab... #trauma #abuse #emotionalabuse
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Emotional abuse predicts self-loathing more strongly than other childhood traumas
A new study suggests that verbal mistreatment drives malignant self-regard more than other forms of trauma. Researchers found that internalized shame is most closely linked to emotional abuse, with di...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026
Through extensive scoping review of grey and academic literature, we first develop our taxonomy of mechanisms related to capture of AI regulation, spanning 5 dimensions: Direct Influence on Policy, Conflicting Involvement, Market Influence, Elusion of Law, & Epistemic & Discourse Influence 3/
a table describing Taxonomy of capture mechanisms. highlighted concepts denote five broad, high-level
categories, each further comprising a set of detailed mechanism categories and descriptions.
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Uhhhh, Black Torch is crisp! Excited for this new series 😅
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Leftist Gamer Memes @leftistgamermemes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
👅🥾✌️🙃
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/06/2026
yet, the number of businesses and orgs that are integrating genai for "security and privacy" reasons is staggering
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The Thadness (2021 film) @thaddeusjames.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"please talk about how great we are for humanity, but without mentioning any politics" is such a goofy thing to ask someone to try to do. Dr Birhane must have got them good.
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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 23/05/2026
Three web browsers I recommend trying out and using to limit how much data you give away just by reading online. Mullvad (desktop) mullvad.net/en/browser DuckDuckGo (desktop+mobile) duckduckgo.com/browser Firefox Focus (mobile) www.firefox.com/en-US/mobile...
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Free the internet with Mullvad Browser
The Mullvad Browser is a privacy-focused web browser developed in collaboration between Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project. It’s produced to minimize tracking and fingerprinting.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
The technologies are new. The questions--about power, meaning, knowledge, work, who gets counted, and who is at the table--are not. Social science has been asking them all along. The essay is an argument for showing up fully to a reckoning we're already in. www.amacad.org/publication/...
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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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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
We proposed this before the Canvas outage, but we’d like to thank the Canvas hackers for driving home the need for this language: "Provided instructors are meeting accessibility and pedagogical needs, faculty shall NOT be required to use ed-technologu." Full proposal here: loom.ly/rBZQFeA
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Young Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) wearing safety goggles claiming "It's Alive!" While Young Frankenstein is looking over the completion of his lab experiment!
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Without downloading anything new, where are you, mentally?
A Church Sign reads: Stop Walking Around With A Mouthful of Scriptures And A Heart Full of Hate
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One year ago today I submitted my finished manuscript to my editor. Every day the book remains relevant gives me psychic damage. It is my goal to become irrelevant. If my work becomes irrelevant it means we've changed. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026
More evidence of how fucking chock-full of eugenics silicon valley iss, has been, and will continue to be if steps aren't taken to name, acknowledge, and dismantle those connections. '“All my fundees have blue eyes.” [Jeffrey] Epstein and the tech world’s dark ideology'
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"All my fundees have blue eyes." Epstein and the tech world's dark ideology - Coda Story
The Epstein files reveal beliefs about race, eugenics, and engineering humans that run to the heart of Silicon Valley.
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@wolvendamien.bsky.social NIN new album today 🫠
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
If a member of your family were accused of lying, hustling and robbing people in your community, would you: A. Acknowledge that your loved one has a problem, or B. Defend your family member and pretend everyone else is lying
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The First Crackhead President
American media is not equipped to cover a lying, thieving commander-in-chief.
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Sigh...
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a man in a suit and tie with the words wow again on his face
ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words wow again on his face
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lalalyds @lalalyds.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Hey, you did a good job today. I'm proud of you
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
2026 feels like the longest year ever
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Elijah the TechnoShaman @eruditelijah.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
youtube.com/shorts/YeNZK...
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Don Lemon Got arrested
YouTube video by HopeGiselle
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Economist/YouGov poll shows Trump's approval with White people: 47% approve 51% disapprove Hispanics: 27% 68% 18-29: 32% 63% Men: 43% 54% Women: 35% 60%
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
💐💐💐 Yay! 💐💐💐
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
$1.5T for the military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $470M to send National Guard into cities $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/01/2026
The people who haven’t seen Sinners because they “don’t do horror,” I wonder how many of them will readily watch films about enslavement If you watched films about enslavement and didn’t see horror, I have **questions**
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
#Blacksky
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“History teaches, but it has no pupils.” —Antonio Gramsci
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
(1/2) In this moment, this second, I want you to recognize how we Black Americans are not the same as our White counterparts: As White people begin to protest the death of one of their own you will not hear us call the protesters "thugs," or buy into spurious stories of theft and wanton destruction.
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Like, follow, and share if you love libraries!
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
And designed and implemented by people and institutions who genuinely care about the wellbeing of people.
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
www.techpolicy.press/ask-the-expe...
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Ask The Experts: Teaching Disability Rights and Technology in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
Ariana Aboulafia spoke to experts about how Trump’s policies are chilling the the academic study of tech's impact on society.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Important publication (by @ginnybraun.bsky.social and co-authors) to add to any critical AI reading list. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025
Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Are there similar reports for #Uber and #Lyft? I had an urgent Dr appointment last week and took me over three hours to find a ride for a 20 minute trip, here we're the rates:
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/12/2025
Leaders of a Catholic church in Massachusetts kept a Nativity display with an anti-ICE message in place on Monday, defying an order from the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to remove it. The display shows Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus missing, replaced by a sign reading “ICE WAS HERE.” trib.al/adPW46y
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
rollingstone.com
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
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WiL @willishmood.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
QTP with a gif of one of your favourite Christmas movies! 🎄
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a man wearing a santa hat says " extra medium " in a dark room
Alt: Ricky Smiley dressed as the neighborhood Santa, looks at a sports jersey as a gift, and asks "extra medium?" in a dark room
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