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Shannon Gibney

@shannongibney.bsky.social

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Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards. Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, waiting for the world to end in ‘25.

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 7h

American students are falling behind, and the most common explanations overlook the main problem, @imkahloon argues.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“The machines aren't coming for our jobs anytime soon, although the people who control the machines have been coming for our jobs throughout history. It's just now that they're using artificial intelligence as a cover for the same old redistribution of wealth and power from workers to owners.”

Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“Workers are right to be worried, but not for the reasons they think. They're not being replaced by superior intelligence. They're being systematically deskilled and made dependent on systems they don't fully shape, controlled by people who view them as obstacles to profit maximization.”

Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“The future appears as something that happens to us rather than something we collectively choose. The discourse emphasizes the urgency of adoption while preventing the consideration of alternatives. The continuous use of…'transformation' portrays resistance as backward-looking…”

Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“The Harvard Business Review's own research confirms this. They found that despite companies doubling their AI use since 2023, with the number of companies claiming ‘fully AI-led processes’ nearly doubling last year, the actual return on investment remains nonexistent.”

Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“Workers are told that AI will eliminate jobs while being told to use it in their daily work. It creates productive anxiety, since workers must engage with technology that may render them obsolete. The constant discourse about disruption and transformation serves to naturalize precarity…”

Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“What's interesting about workslop is how it transfers cognitive burden because when someone uses AI to generate a polished-looking report or presentation, they're not really eliminating work. They're shifting it downstream to colleagues who must decode, interpret, and often completely redo [it].”

Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“The technology that supposedly enhances productivity actually degrades our information ecologies that productive (and meaningful) work depends on.”

Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

“When executives announce that AI will revolutionize their industries, they're declaring their intention to restructure labor relations in their favor, using AI as leverage.”

The infrastructure of meaninglessness

Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social · 1d

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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 3d

Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!

The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 4d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 6d

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 6d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."