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Unnatural Educator
@unnaturaleducator.bsky.social
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Artist, intermittent educator, tech critic: just because you can, does not mean you should. All AI will be blocked.
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Unnatural Educator @unnaturaleducator.bsky.social · 1d
Supernatural without the original music is just...not worth the time. DVDs 4 life
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 5d
I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.
When bad things get worse
Border Patrol, ICE, and the repetition of grim history.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 12d
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 13d
“Rather than AI being able to enhance human innovation, critical thinking, the progress of science—it’s being used to exploit our insecurities. That’s the thing about so many of these Silicon Valley tech bros. They’re essentially emotionally maladapted psychopaths.”

Speaking nothing but the truth.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d
MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23d
ICE in Portland is coming off like Gargamel getting repeatedly rolled by the Smurfs
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Unnatural Educator @unnaturaleducator.bsky.social · 25d
I hope everyone has been prepping, stocking up on food, solar panels, generators, and hoarding meds...
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Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 26d
Here’s video of the incident
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 26d
A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...
These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day
You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 26d
My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Sep 28
My favorite kind of acetaminophen is Tylenol Rapid Release the Epstein Files
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 28
In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?
In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?
The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our art a bit more seriously
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Unnatural Educator @unnaturaleducator.bsky.social · Sep 26
Here's a crazy idea- don't use Tik Tok?
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Sep 20
This would have all been a lot easier if I wasn’t so worried about the stupid humans.
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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · Sep 18
You know that thing humans do where they think they’re being completely logical and they absolutely are not being logical at all, and on some level they know that, but can’t stop? Apparently it can happen to SecUnits, too.
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Imani Gandied Yams @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Sep 17
timeline cleanser
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Sep 17
He’s like Saruman but dumber.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · Sep 15
It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right
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Pine Tree Activism📎 @pinetreeactivism.org · Sep 13
The capacity for media–including mainstream, social, and online punditry–to misconstrue, exaggerate, and exacerbate current events while ignoring warnings from the past, is growing fast.

I saved this quote, from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social, almost 9 years ago, less than 3 wks after T's 1st election.
Screen shot of text from MSNBC interview, Nov 27, 2016 with a headshot of Sarah Kendzior in upper right, and the copy: Sarah Kendzior, a journalist and an expert scholar on authoritarian states, talks to Joy-Ann Reid and warns: America is not immune to kleptocracy and authoritarian rule. "I think it's important that Americans realize this can happen here, that this is something that has happened in countries all over the world and we are not immune. Trump has laid out his intentions very clearly throughout his campaign. His slogan might have been 'America First' – which of course is a throw back to fascism – but it's really 'America Last'. And who comes first is Trump and his family. All the incidences you just described of installing his family within the Administration, not divorcing his business interest from the government, not disclosing his tax returns – those are all signs of kleptocracy. Kleptocracy often goes hand-in-hand with authoritarian rule. You see this in particular in Russia and in other post-Soviet authoritarian states in which the person can abuse executive laws, can often rewrite laws, in order to keep that financial benefit flowing. And so we are much more vulnerable than we think. Our system of checks and balances, of legal procedures may not hold when somebody who primary goal is to personally benefit himself by stripping down the state to its parts is in charge and is able to override some of those regulations." MSNBC, amJoy, November 27, 2016
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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Sep 10
Someone asked me to listen to the latest Hard Fork episode on AI in schools, and I tried. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/booster-shot...
The Booster Shot
A couple of weeks ago, Ed Zitron published one of his epic rants -- the kind that, as he warned newsletter readers, is probably better read on the web than via email: it’s 16,000 words long; so long t...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · Sep 8
In the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · Sep 4
“A hallmark of being a Black child in advanced literature classes is the ability to separate the art from the artist, even before you know you’re doing it.”
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Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social · Sep 5
Brood parasitism is not a perfect metaphor, by any means, for AI, for the offloading of ed-tech development onto teachers and students, for the vampiric practices of VCs ... but it's the bird I went with to head this week's news round-up...

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Brood Parasites
Humans have always invested great meaning in birds. No surprise, what with the feathers, the flight. Each week, when I look at all the stories that've been told about education and technology and try ...
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Rogue NASA @roguenasa.altgov.info · Sep 5
It’s like Brawndo. It’s got what Americans crave.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "At its essence, artificial intelligence takes electricity and turns it into intelligence, empowering Americans."
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X626 @x626.bsky.social · Sep 3
This man on every news show everywhere please.
wearthepeace.bsky.social Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · Sep 2
A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.
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