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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 1h

lol my legal name is Cassandra and it’s very apt

Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

Except you have to pay through the nose for the privilege

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

The main reason it was difficult was that I was constantly gaslit by people dismissing and diminishing my concerns.

So I guess I just wanna say “I see you. I am witnessing, and believing. These are very legitimate concerns”

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

Idk if this is a ND-specific experience but this expansive, existential rabbit hole-ing is what caused a bit of a breakdown for me in 2020. The sheer scope of it all and the ramifications (many of which came to pass, along with many things I didn’t see coming obvs) really borked my brain

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

Does this guys mind have more weighting in the bi directional info gathering? Like usually people type into Grok/ChatGPT and it consumes that, but conscious thought is constant. 🫣

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

It’s probably covid that had me peaking late this year (lol sorry)

Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

Join your union. Seriously. Their job is partly to help facilitate spreading around this kind of work.

Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 11h

Agh. This is deeply relatable. I’m always seeing this huge need for peer support, professional networks, solidarity etc but we are all overworked and overwhelmed. Such is the outrageous dehumanisation of capitalism!

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

The carrot bouquet really did something to my existential dread. Like what’s next a genre of “humour” that is just the weird shit AI inappropriately suggests? It doesn’t understand context and I believe by definition, humour is context dependant.

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

That weird uptick in August had me confused 👀

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

How much of this is just ableism meets tech bro capitalism. We cannot come to terms with loss of agency in an ableist society that takes it away at the drop of a hat. That’s highly motivating to do some weird ass shit.

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 9h

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Kaimataara @kaimataara.bsky.social · 21h

Finished my most recent article on why allyship is contradictory let me know what you think! open.substack.com/pub/kaimataa...

#nzpol #Maori #ally #communism #indigenous #socialism

White Allies Don't Exist

Why white allyship is a contradiction and what true solidarity requires.

open.substack.com

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 11h

Agh. This is deeply relatable. I’m always seeing this huge need for peer support, professional networks, solidarity etc but we are all overworked and overwhelmed. Such is the outrageous dehumanisation of capitalism!

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 19h

IncelGPT. ChatPUA.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 21h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h

antifascist and anti-capitalist organizers need to understand space as one site of struggle because our opposition definitely understand it as one

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 2d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

I admit that I also feel worn out from having warned about U.S. policing for decades.

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Peter Jeffe @pjeffe.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating article.

“They gave out brown envelopes and in them were typed papers explaining the whole story of how for 22 years they’ve been kicked out of their homes and they’re refugees,” she said. “Before the hijacking ever happened, I’d heard one side of the story.”

She had never heard of Palestine before 1970.

“Zionism was just part of the air you breathed,” Hodes recalls. “I heard that the Jews went to this uninhabited desert and built this country that is now the homeland for Jews. I never heard about Palestinians and villages that had names and agriculture and tribes. I never heard that Palestinians and Jews and Muslims and Druze people lived in this area with a kind of shared indigeneity.”

“When I think back to that way of thinking, it creates a lot of sadness as well as indignation and anger. It’s really sad, because that’s not what it was. To learn that this fantasy of a place had not been empty, and that there were people there that had nothing to do with the persecution we’d experienced as European Jews, and to learn that their villages were being razed and annihilated, and they had nowhere to go… A lot of these things, the first time I learned it was from the Palestinians that hijacked us.”

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 12h

This text book situation is an extreme example (and a particularly horrific one) but we already see future doctors struggle with learning the critical thinking that is a staple of the humanities. Much of AI use deprives people of that meta cognition so essential to higher learning.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 1d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 12h

That sounds very hard. I can empathise with that feeling. I work from home except for teaching and I miss having an office around colleagues a lot more than I thought I would. Flexibility often has trade offs eh?

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 12h

I hadn’t ever heard of it, but it sounds interesting…Is this a recommended show with a caveat that the ending is a lot?

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 12h

You sound like such an essential part of this healthcare systems wrap around care! Let me guess: you’re under paid and there aren’t enough of you.

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 21h

Excellent, weeping leg ulcer dressing on wheels

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 21h

Agh Jane, where do you work again?? I want to make sure I show up if I ever have a weeping leg ulcer

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 21h

You will have been used to over clocking and doing way more than is feasible long term. I think doing nothing as the productive recovery process is important before you try to relearn how to do things at a tenable pace

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Cassie @cassiemph.bsky.social · 21h

Oof. @sageanastasi.bsky.social had some good ratio recommendation for how long you should celebrate/take a break after a Big Thing. What was the percentage?

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