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halplotkin.bsky.social
Senior Scholar, Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), Senior Open Policy Fellow, Creative Commons USA (2014-2017), Senior Policy Advisor, U.S. Department of Education (2009-2014)
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"Last week, Republicans celebrated the pardons of criminals who were filmed violently assaulting police officers..." Please @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social - you MUST repeat this point EVERY SINGLE DAY. Drive it home with constant repetition ala Trump. Don't let them change the subject!!! Stay on this!

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“This ‘transformation’ – presented under the rhetoric of modernisation and AI-readiness – represents a troubling shift in the power dynamics between academic libraries and commercial providers, especially those who hold (near) monopolies."

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If @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and the Democratic Party congressional leaders were smart they would focus on Trump's pardons of convicted criminals who were filmed assaulting police officers EVERY SINGLE DAY rather than helping Trump keep changing the topic.

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The fact that McConnell now opposes Trump after destroying the U.S. system of checks and balances does not matter to me at all. The only way McConnell can redeem himself is by leading the effort to impeach and convict and remove Trump from office. Otherwise, McConnell's name is dirt for the ages.

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Trump WANTS - and is obviously trying to provoke - violent street demonstrations so he can invoke MARTIAL LAW. Don't give that to him. KEEP ALL DEMONSTRATIONS NON-VIOLENT. Report and isolate those causing violence immediately - they are likely to be Trump agents (known as "agents provocateurs").

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There may be a silver lining in this. This Big Lie is basically a tacit admission that much if not all of what Musk has done has not been legally authorized. The only possible defense is to claim he didn't do it, which is what folks charged with provable crimes often say. It rarely works.

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If our Dem Party leaders were smarter this is what they would be talking about EVERY SINGLE DAY instead of constantly helping Trump change the subject. Trump pardoned convicted criminals who were filmed assaulting police officers. Can we please put @mjfree.bsky.social in charge - like in the movies?

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Thank you to @sloanfoundation.bsky.social for funding this essential work. Our future depends on work such as this. Kudos!

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The appalling nature of this announcement was lost amid the recent shitstorm. In the past, when layoffs happened the bosses usually had the decency NOT to cast aspersions on those being fired. Now, Meta kicks them in their teeth as they're thrown into the street. Who'd ever work for Zuck again?

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I *really* hope some of these young scholars look at how the rise of the digital age led to a diminution of public investments in durable goods (bridges, roads, schools, parks, sewer system investments replaced by non-durable software licenses). That horse left the barn a long time ago. Devastating.

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This is what happens when your national economy is led for decades by a Big Tech sector that apes the biz ethics of dishonest car mechanics who cheat customers by hiding what's happening under the hood. The biz press mostly missed THAT story - too busy at the time seeking $ to host "conferences."

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Translation: Basically an admission that much of what Musk has personally done to date has not been legally authorized. When something can't be defended legally the only other option is to deny it occurred. Pretty much every criminal defendant makes that argument at some point. We're already there.

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Brilliant. How did Silicon Valley's (SV) leadership come to be dominated by obvious sociopaths? Kudos to @beccalew.bsky.social. One even deeper root: SV's embrace of the ethics of dishonest car mechanics who hide what's happening under the hood (eg Bill Gates pivotal letter to Dr. Dobbs Journal).

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We are in a global fight against fascism. Only this time the U.S. is on the wrong side. #ImpeachTrumpand Vance

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Defund the Billionaires. You don't defeat Big Tech billionaires by calling them names or marching around in circles. You defeat them by cutting them off at the pockets, as I proposed to Team Biden six years ago. No one was listening then. Perhaps someone will listen now.

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