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Joshua Earle, but spookier

@cyborgapologist.bsky.social

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Ass Prof of STS @ UVA Communications Director for Society for Philosophy and Technology Phil Tech, Disability Studies, Med Hums, Bioethics, Hist of Eugenics, Transhumanism I teach engineers what the stuff they build does to people.

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · Jun 23

Heyo! New piece by me, @ashleyshoo.bsky.social and @wolvendamien.bsky.social on our syllabi and teaching philosophies around our class Technology and Disability is out!

blog.apaonline.org/2025/06/18/t...

Technology and Disability, Ashley Shew, Damien P. Williams, and Joshua Earle

The three of us have taught classes about Technology and Disability through a philosophical lens, though this class has not been taught exclusively through philosophy departments. We’re excited to sha...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 5h

every once in a while I feel like I get a glimpse of what social networking would be if the platform incentives were just to give us a glimpse of normal people enjoying themselves...

What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 5h

Has Hakeem Jeffries had a ton of Botox? Cuz nothing above dude's eyeballs moves when he talks and it's weird af.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

a lot of these blowhard pundits from the op-edigarchy who think they are the thought leaders of the party will never make a fraction of the impact of a Facebook group of white women in their 60s throwing fundraising teas to move the needle on abortion access at the grassroots level

Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 6h

my Aunt Kathleen, who passed away last February, was a lifelong Crafts Person and a Catholic fundraiser party hostess practically from the cradle. for the last decade she precision-targeted that energy toward pro-choice women Democrats in small-town NC. she was worth 100 dirtbag online leftbros

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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 7h

Unexpectedly, there's an 'education focused' job in HPS at Sydney! At snr lecturer/assoc prof level, which means associate professor in US terms. You'll need to scan down below ruminant science etc to see it, though (perhaps a message there?):
#STS #bioethics #histstm #histsci #histmed

Education Focused Academics (Sydney Horizon Educators) Faculty of Science

Full time and Part-time continuing (tenure-track) academic Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor (Education Focused) positions at The University of Sydney Opportunity for the best and brightest talented...

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 6h

Timeline cleanse:

A gloriously cute raccoon peeking from a hole in a tree trunk.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 9h

Where do you publish?

Where do you pitch your work?

Do you run a platform looking to connect with scholars?

Let's build resources for each other! Something we can actively do right this minute is support each other in getting necessary expertise out to the public.

Solidarity & resources ↓↓↓

Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 12h

It's live now! Please visit our Pitchables page at this link and if you have a site, magazine, podcast, or other platform for scholars to pitch their public work to, please let me know in comments or via email at bwandread@gmail!

blackwhiteandread.com/pitchables/

Screenshot of the linked webpage on my public scholarship website Black and white and read all over. The page is titled Pitchables with links to sites where scholars can pitch their work and expertise, separated into written publications and podcasts

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 11h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 9h

the prophecy is fulfilled

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Ian Hell Damnskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 10h

imagine the violence that will occur the first time an incel gets dumped by his AI pornbot girlfriend

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 19h

And if you DO want to go, boy do I have a video for you!
IFAK coming soon. ASMR: what’s in my protest bag.

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Indivisible Charlottesville @indivisiblecville.bsky.social · 9h

*Rally against the #Compact - Friday, October 17 at noon at the Rotunda. #UVA DO NOT SIGN! DO NOT FOLD!

The graphic has an image of the Rotunda being struck by lightening and says DO NOT SIGN DO NOT FOLD, RALLY AGAINST THE COMPACT Friday Oct. 17 Noon at the Rotunda

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 9h

So Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe are all gonna ban ChatGPT from receiving payments now, right?

Right??

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 11h

*10/14/2025 noncooperation thread*

Author, science educator, Crash Course/SciShow host, Vlog Brother, Nerdfighter, & general good egg @hankgreen.bsky.social made a video to help #Georgia folks vote to take back their public utilities. Early voting has started!

Send to Georgians! Watch! Learn!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

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Georgians have a chance to take back their utilities

@hankgreen.bsky.social

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

youtu.be/UgvE_gPi7Kc

Georgians have a chance to take back their utilities

@hankgreen.bsky.social

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

youtu.be

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Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha @thellpsx.bsky.social · 8h

Hi, I'm not really here ever but I have A WHOLE ASS MID CAREER SHOW AT TANGLED ART GALLERY in Toronto you can see in person til 10/31 and online one of three ways: Rosa Robot tour - robot tour that you can drive from your computer independently calendly.com/tangledarts/...
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This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: (Rosa Robot) - Tangled Art + Disability

This Body Keeps Me Up At Night: 30 Years of Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaSeptember 19 – October 31, 2025this body keeps me up at night is a mid-career retrospective of disability justice writer, cu...

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 18h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

Definitely nothing can go wrong with OpenAI having a full record of your sexy chatbot interactions.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

It is engineering malpractice that this site has not yet implemented an option to allow people to private their accounts, given that they’re a US based company, and the US is going through what it’s going through.

But hey, waffles, amirite.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 16h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 14h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 17h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Joshua Earle, but spookier @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting! I hadn't seen that in any of the info I'd perused (which wasn't much, tbc).

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 2d

Every time Harrison Butker misses a kick, a feminist gets her wings

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

i’ve gotten to give out 17 $50 venmo “buy yourself a bag of grocery” gifts to Indigenous folks who could use it today

$50 can really make someones day

want to help do more?

OMG YOU ARE THE BEST
THANK YOU SMMMM
I NEEDED FOOD MONEY UGH
YOURE AN ANGEL

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