Discovering Tunisian crocheting and I am absolutely charmed! www.purlsoho.com/create/tunis...

This excellent film may start a little slow, but stick with it. It's a powerful short documentary about neo-colonial exploitation in the digital economy.

The brilliant Joan Kinyua is advising on something I'm working on at the moment and everyone who works in AI and adjacent fields should engage with her work.

Sign for authorized agent of Mme. C.J. Walker's https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2013.153.6

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Well, it was either all this or another black person in a Star Wars movie

Please read this. Whether you are an educator or not, listen.

This is where the AI push into schools feels quite parallel to all other reforms of past decades: 1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence 2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success 3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful (#3 is already happening, btw)

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This is effectively a hostile takeover, with intent to strip a public entity for profit, then run it into the ground.

It’s as if the FIFA Peace Prize means nothing.

grateful for a bit of humor here.

this is true and I am sorry about your mentions.

You know what to do. Vote no on Ai in schools.

Take a minute for this. This guy's videos bring my heart and mind back into a humanity and warmth that feels like being fed. They're so beautifully shot at a macro level. youtu.be/9zFr51qlWY4?...

The gist. I was going to use Florida as an extended metaphor but y’all know I’m extra.

I keep going back to this powerful little book!

Data brokers are the invisible engines of the data surveillance economy. It's hard to escape. Until. California just opened a website to delete (and keep deleting) your information from 500+ data brokers in one fell swoop. Try it if you're in California and LMK how it goes! privacy.ca.gov/drop/

When I've talked to deepfake victims, both public figures and everyday people, I've heard horror stories about police laughing them out the door, girls getting expelled for reporting their classmates, and lawyers advising them that suing would just make it worse. This is abuse culture in action.

Cheers for libraries! @illibraryassoc.bsky.social

this = the problem w/ X. by turning it into 4chan w/ virality distribution the platform turns everything into a meme. so it must strip away almost all context & imbue it w/ intense amounts of nihilism or so many layers of irony that there's no humanity anymore. it's a great dehumanization machine

This is a good visual. Looks like in order to ensure we have proof that we mailed something on a specific day, we will have to stand in line at the post office and request a manual post mark.

if you push the buttons on a vending machine and it spits out a coke, that doesn't mean the vending machine understood thirst

I'm just asking people not to trust the people who got everyone into this mess to get us out. Stop listening to these people.

"Listen, you haven’t gotten to be the person you are today by planking, so why start now?" 😅

Dem Markus und dem August ist ein großer Wurf gelungen. Da hat die Welt (Benko, Bankrott, Wertevernichtung) ordentlich beigetragen... Gönnt euch! #lyrik #poesie #arbeiterkind #markusköhle #augustbisinger

I know this is not my business but can anyone explain why AOC was at that outdoor ceremony without a hat or hood or anything! I mean what? 🥶

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

Imagine.

We have a lot of medicine (whether in the form of practices, equipment, or actual drugs) that could be saving lives *right now*, and it breaks my heart that greed and profits (and this broken scam we call insurance) in this country are prioritized. Somehow I still believe this country can change 😭

🎶 twin high maintenance machines 🎶

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Happy for you, NYC friends, and everyone feeling lifted by Mamdani's inauguration. This is an especially heartening signal with which to begin 2026. 🙌🏾

I present the #cat semi colon (Cc @bcdreyer.social)

As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.

11.5K to go. Let’s do it.

Wallace and William Goodridge were pioneers of the medium of photography. Here the Goodridge brothers are posing in the photography studio they established in Michigan in 1847 bidding Happy New Year to All.

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Looking back over the few blog posts of 2025, this one feels like it has staying power. Thanks, grief. edifiedlistener.blog/2025/06/21/g...

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Thanks to everyone who read and shared the piece I wrote that was published in the G & M. I had no gift links but if you want to read it and cannot access it, now you can. web.archive.org/web/20251228...

I've been meaning to subscribe for ages and now that my wage increase has gone through (thanks to the work of my union, including me!) I finally can!

All day long this.

This is such a worthwhile way to spend some money each month. The work Kelly does is invaluable.

Just corrected my oversight and am now a paid subscriber. Please join me. @mskellymhayes.bsky.social is a national treasure whose work is essential.

for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism

A friend was describing the ins and outs of this person's rise to prominence and I really resist having to engage with this level of detail.

ngl, Bsky after 2 beers is more amusing than usual.

Your local librarian here to say that it’s great if you read lots of books this year, alright if you read barely anything, that audiobooks, romance and graphic novels are all valid formats and genres, and that some authors suck but we’re still not stopping you from reading them.