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Adam Riggio

@adamriggio.bsky.social

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Education, Training, & Curriculum Design Professional; media entrepreneur figuring out the next project; For All Our Futures newsletter at https://forallourfutures.beehiiv.com/; he-person; slowly recovering faith in humanity, recovery not guaranteed

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · Aug 19

Visit the current form of For All Our Futures! My newsletter covering all the major issues in modern business & technology today, one of many locuses for progress-minded professionals to share ideas & build new futures for everyone.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 2h

My own career in higher education has been tanked because of the college cuts that slamming the doors on international students has caused. I’m one among thousands of education professionals in learning & management facing the end of a career direction that’s been my focus for my life

The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 2h

We promised them a home. Instead, they became collateral damage.

Canada’s message to international students was “Study, work, and stay.” Now, policies are changing, and tens of thousands may lose their status. Writer @marcellodicintio.bsky.social explores: thewalrus.ca/canada-held-the-...

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 3h

Universities and research institutions haven’t been able to support the numbers of PhDs produced for decades. The job market for researchers & lecturers has never been able to handle 10-20 PhD grads from every department in every university

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 14h

At the Mod Club for @msezrafurman.bsky.social’s Toronto show tonight. First time I’ve been here since their long ago remodelling and these are the best bathrooms of any club I’ve ever been in

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15h

See this would be a tattoo that you could have if you simply made a bad decision. This is a tattoo you can still not have covered up but feel embarrassed by.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 15h

How much overlap is there of those left-wing critics of No Kings & the belief that Ukraine is a natural part of Russia? I smell dirtbags

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 15h

Are cynics just repurposing the “no concrete demands” critique of Occupy back in the day?

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, I once told a co-worker that gay men were the most masculine of all because they needed no significant role for women in their lives. But that was to induce a constructive gay panic to get over his homophobia. I believe that did fix it. Plus his best friend coming out. But also me!

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Kay Crosby @kaycrosby.bsky.social · 1d

When I was seventeen, some guy I’d been at school with until a few months earlier murdered his friend with a claw hammer. The victim’s mother decided it was videogames that were responsible, and high street stores stopped selling the Rockstar game Manhunt. I am reminded here of that moment.

Joe Powell MP @joepowell.bsky.social · 1d

Meeting yesterday with Brianna Ghey's mother Esther - and pupils at Brianna's former school - was a powerful reminder of why controls on social media and smartphone use in schools is so important for children, teachers and parents. (1/2)

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 1d

A generation of young, conservative men who consider conservatism to be authoritarianism & hatred of women.

www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies

The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

All of this stuff makes more sense I think if you realize that we have a bunch of losers who are slowly talking themselves into believing in the theology/ideology of slavery www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies

The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 1d

Mason Fluharty is not a real name

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this is pretty fucked up

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 2d

the person who came up with "the customer is always right" probably meant well but ended up doing irreparable harm to society

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 3d

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not following the US TSA Bluesky account, but I’m not blocking it either, since they haven’t posted any propaganda. Only jokes about the dumb shit airline passengers do, which is the purpose of airport security social media.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 4d

Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

His foil Justin Trudeau has had his political career ended: Justin’s biggest problem is whether running into the guy who played Legolas 25 years ago at a restaurant in LA will be socially awkward. There’s no need to fight him anymore. Yet Pierre is threatening him with jail time.

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

Aside from coming short of the prime minister’s office in this year’s elections, Poilievre should be on an upswing: he’s essentially the junior partner in a silent grand coalition setting Canada’s governing agenda.

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

This speaks to a serious problem with conservative folks across democracies today: the core support base of conservative parties want one-party authoritarian rule & you can only lead a conservative party with their support.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Top aide to former PM Harper rips Poilievre’s comments about RCMP and Trudeau

A top aide to former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper has lashed out at Pierre Poilievre over his leadership of the Conservative party and his recent comments attacking the RCMP’s treatment ...

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to a news report about Prince Andrew dropping his royal titles, & it’s rather galling that he’s still being treated better than Prince Harry was for marrying a black American woman

Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 5d

The toughest thing to unravel to restore sensible government in the US will be this public health anti-science because post-RFK, there’ll be no possibility of public agreement on what health science is legitimate for decades

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5d

In the near future economy, I bet the skill of “can type a prompt into ChatGPT and repeat whatever it says” will be less in demand than “understands things enough to catch when ChatGPT makes an error or hallucinates.”

Vlad K. @porcupunk.bsky.social · 6d

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 5d

The workslop economy seriously frustrates me, as someone whose main assets for businesses are the ones that AI is supposed to replace.

www.eweek.com/news/ai-tool...

AI Tools Flood Workplaces With ‘Workslop’

AI was meant to boost efficiency. But “workslop,” or low-quality AI-generated output, is costing companies time, trust, and millions in lost productivity.

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Adam Riggio @adamriggio.bsky.social · 5d

What you describe doesn't match any of the attitudes that college administrators have treated their teaching faculty. It's a big contributor to why 20% of all college teachers in my province of Ontario will be redundant by the end of next year.