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It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

submitted 7 hours ago • 621 comments

Teaching about and against AI means working with students to analyze the connections between AI and environmental racism. In addition, educators, students, and community members can build coalitions for civic actions against Big Tech and its plans for more extractive, harmful infrastructure.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

No Democratic votes for anything, maximum time taken to do everything, etc. etc. etc.

submitted 9 hours ago • 23 comments

If they didn't despise organizers so much, someone would be at a Kinkos right now printing up posters of the Senator being pinned to the ground and every Dem elected who is currently in DC would be at a all night silent vigil with those oversized posters picketing the Capitol....

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

i’d be curious to know whether any of the journalists who have taken to bluesky had prior experience in an earlier internet age with forums. for me at least, my acculturation into the social internet was by way of forums and so the lack of an algorithm seems natural to me.

submitted 18 hours ago • 335 comments

def tangential but I'm glad that California's leaders are competing with who can do the most visible resisting ... that's actually what they should be doing

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions" oh, ok then

submitted 10 hours ago • 59 comments

It’s blindingly clear at this point that the protestors in Los Angeles are in fact helping to prevent a fascist takeover, and the pundits who suggested that protest is counterproductive were being either stupid or actively malicious.

submitted 17 hours ago • 12 comments

brb gonna go scream for a minute

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I love when men assume that I am dumb, though to be fair I’ve only written two books about U.S. labor history so far

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

A 🧵 on rejecting tech hype, refusing Big Tech’s self-serving stories about inevitably, defending our children from schemes to enroll them into harmful sociotechnical systems, and arguing for the persuasive effects of social contracts.

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This just leaves us heartbroken 💔 To those reinstated: congratulations!! You never should’ve been pushed out. To those still RIFfed: We see you. We miss you. You saved lives. Your work matters. You matter. CDC isn’t whole - or as effective - without you. www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

AI-generated code is buggy, unsafe, and inefficient. Fixing those problems cancels out all the productivity benefits of using AI tools, so devs hate them. But what if there was a methodology where those weren't (your) problems? Turns out there is. I've updated eXtreme Go Horse for the AI era.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Re•mediate's special call for [Next Realities] specifically seeks works of #AugmentedReality, #MixedReality, and #VirtualReality — we invite you to look back at some of our previous reading recommendations to explore what these could look like!

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Funny the mention of Amelia Bedelia. I tell my AI/LLM obsessed business students that writing clearly is more important than ever because the computers you are asking to do your work for you are basically Amelia Bedelia, and they look at me like I have 15 heads.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Freedom Flotilla Coalition update: "The [Madleen] volunteers are currently being held in a detention facility at Ben Gurion International Airport, where they are expected to face hearings before their deportation to their home countries."

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submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

damn the truth hurts

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

submitted 3 days ago • 113 comments

“Huerta is the something more of these immigration raids — not because he’s a union boss, but because he’s a union organizer with ties to both people in power and people in fear. The coming months will show what happens when those two groups decide, together, that backing down is not an option.”

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm being completely serious when I say that if someone talks about people being "bilingual" in synthetic text extruders, you should laugh in their face

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I see posts saying protesters aren't brutalized under Dems. I guess right-wingers aren't the only ones fantasizing about a mythical past. I was brutalized at protests under Obama. Folks were brutalized at protests under Biden. We can condemn the escalations of the present w out fetishizing the past.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

"These meetings are distracting me from the work." The meetings are the work. Sorry. The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

VERY interesting to be sent a thread of authors who have been very kind to me at conventions or asked for blurbs making fun of the blunt autistic voice of my writing. fortunately i am proud of my way. i am aware the thing that RESONATES with my readers (especially ones who are also autistic)

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

All of the talk about "peaceful protest" makes me think of all the times I have been part of a protest where the police cracked someone over the head and then charged that person with assault. They will call you violent. You can't control that or other people.

submitted 4 days ago • 31 comments

The recent "anti-anti-AI" blog posts remind me of all the posts where people share synthetic images and videos: someone posts a sloppy, superficial artifact and their buddies fawn over them for it without really engaging with the substance (because there isn't any substance)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

ICE (law enforcement in general) operating unchecked under Obama and Biden is part of how we got to now. Sorry if this upsets you.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

some resources for protestors A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions and how to defend against them crimethinc.com/2021/01/04/a...

submitted 5 days ago • 28 comments

If you are arrested during a protest or action against ICE or CPD in Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. (This is an offer for criminal defense; I unfortunately don't do immigration law.)

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

I know that many don't want to hear this but we've been moving towards this current state of affairs over the past 65 years. And it's really been a bipartisan project. The expansion of the carceral state is the fuel for fascism. Folks have been trying to make this case for a long time.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

In addition to what Kelly correctly points out, adding "peaceful" in front of shit isn't doing the work you think under fascism and please get it through your heads that you are living under fascism. Adjust accordingly.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I am walking around my city with a passport. We’ve been watching for weeks as ICE inundates this place. My Pop was frozen as ICE came down their block parading their unchecked power. Anyone judging these protests should think about what it’s like to live in the escalation of all this.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The metaphor police are working too hard

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

I don't think that the MSM will be useful in covering what's going on. We're going to have to rely on independent journalists and foreign correspondents.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

MSG is safe and it’s delicious

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

learn to code! learn to prompt! learn to buy into meritocracy bullshit instead of demanding dignity and a good life regardless of educational background and how wealthy you can make other people!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 6 days ago • 329 comments

Other side of this, we really gotta start teaching kids about/in a production model of knowledge rather than a discovery one. Way too many people still seem to think that knowledge & research just like… happen, w/o the entangled embedded infrastructural systems of universities, libraries, labs, &c

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments