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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 1d

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Online governance: six case histories

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Digital ad using facial recognition at Toronto’s Union Station draws concerns, expert weighs in - NOW Toronto

A new digital ad that uses facial recognition in Toronto’s Union Station Bus Terminal is raising ethical concerns over data collection.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 1d

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Online governance: six case histories

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 2d

The Last Days Of Social Media www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA

Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 3d

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The Texan Ideology | Fred Turner

The Texan Ideology reflects a century-old fusion of the oil industry and millenarian Christianity.

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William Comfort Anderson @williamcomfortanderson.com · 5d

Alan Kay in 1977 might as well have been talking about AI in 2025 (via @hrheingold.bsky.social)

Children who have not yet lost much of their sense of wonder and fun have helped us to find an ethic about computing: Do not automate the work you are engaged in, only the materials. If you like to draw, do not automate drawing; rather, program your personal computer to give you a new set of paints. If you like to play music, do not build a "player piano"; instead program yourself a new kind of instrument.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 7d

Art-making and the life force, a deeper dive
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Art-making and the life force - deeper dive (1) | Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 6d

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✪ Curation as Knowledge Infrastructure: Building Archipelagos of Meaning - #53

A slower, time-tested alternative way to create value in the AI era: pick what’s relevant and show how it connects to the rest.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 6d

open.substack.com/pub/robingoo...

✪ Curation as Knowledge Infrastructure: Building Archipelagos of Meaning - #53

A slower, time-tested alternative way to create value in the AI era: pick what’s relevant and show how it connects to the rest.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · 7d

Art-making and the life force, a deeper dive
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Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · 13d

We need to democratize critical thinking skills. AI could help us teach it to the next generation better. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zJ @edufuturist.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social

Democratizing Critical Thinking with AI Tools

“It is an epistemological mystery why traditional education has so often emphasized extensiveness and coverage over intensiveness and depth.” – Jerome S. Bruner As I continue to i…

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 29

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Howard Rheingold on Lucid Life Online & Attention As A 21st Century Literacy

YouTube video by Humans On The Loop

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · Sep 24

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 22

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Howard Rheingold on the past and present of virtual communities

Howard Rheingold is a writer and educator known for being one of the first thinkers to treat the internet as a social and cultural environment, introducing virtual communities.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 17

A project my daughter organized:

100 chats for college students

These chats were made by students, for students. Learn new things, start a career, and navigate life more confidently.

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ChatGPT for students

Explore 100 top ChatGPT chats for college students, covering study help, college advice, productivity hacks, relationship questions, job search tips, and career guidance.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Art-making and the life force | Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 18

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First step is awareness

My interview with Howard Rheingold

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 17

A project my daughter organized:

100 chats for college students

These chats were made by students, for students. Learn new things, start a career, and navigate life more confidently.

chatgpt.com/use-cases/st...

ChatGPT for students

Explore 100 top ChatGPT chats for college students, covering study help, college advice, productivity hacks, relationship questions, job search tips, and career guidance.

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Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · Sep 10

With AI, critical inquiry becomes more important than ever. My latest blog: wp.me/p8nV8X-zt @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social @mahabali.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social

Critical AI

“The purpose of education is knowledge, and yet education is blind to the realities of human knowledge, its systems, infirmities, difficulties, and its propensity to error and illusion. Educa…

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Genomic inference of a severe human bottleneck during the Early to Middle Pleistocene transition

A severe bottleneck that brought human ancestors close to extinction occurred between about 930 and 813 thousand years ago.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 5

arxiv.org/pdf/2410.08418

using llms to enhance democracy

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Tom Haymes @ideaspaces.bsky.social · Sep 4

Using AI to augment my workflow in redesigning my courses for an AI world. My latest blog is at: wp.me/p8nV8X-zn @edufuturist.bsky.social @hrheingold.bsky.social @hegland.bsky.social @mcorbettwilson.bsky.social

Augmenting Course Redesign and Learning with AI

“We refer to a way of life in an integrated domain where hunches, cut-and-try, intangibles, and the human ‘feel for a situation’ usefully coexist with powerful concepts, streamlined technology and …

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · Aug 20

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

a snippet of a mini-comic, at top - straight line stretches from point A to B. Immediately below, same dot at A, then becomes a curving, meandering line that winds through the page and ends at a point with rays and a question mark emanating from it. Text reads: "Nothing can do this for you - that robs you of experience and conflates answers with learning. Rather, it's all the decisions you make along the way, the mistakes, struggles, and surprises! These pathways you create - this is learning.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 2

Compendium of podcasts featuring interviews/conversations with me: www.listennotes.com/search/?q=%E...

“Howard Rheingold” in podcasts | Listen Notes

Podcast episodes featuring "“Howard Rheingold”". Listen Notes is the best podcast search engine.

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Howard Rheingold @hrheingold.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'd love for the people who believe Facebook is the social web to realize that: www.patreon.com/posts/lets-g...

Let's grow online greenspace for healthy sociality & mutual aid | Howard Rheingold

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