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R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 4d

👀 Exciting news! I'm selling paperbacks of Zyearth book one, Shadow Cast, direct from the website at a discounted price for #FurryBookMonth!

Supplies are limited, so get them while you can! Other paperback novels coming soon!

#Book #Fantasy #Modern #Monster

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Shadow Cast - Book One Paperback — Zyearth Chronicles

PAPERBACK ALL PAPERBACK COPIES ARE SIGNED AND COME WITH A FREE BOOKMARK Some risk it all to save a friend. They must risk it all to save an enemy. All Matt ever wanted was to become a Golde...

www.zyearth.com

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 6h

I swear this is like the fifth or sixth case of AI suicide. Why are we putting this in schools and trying to say it's the latest and greatest thing? It is literally *encouraging people to kill themselves.*

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

The list of terrible things genAI has either caused or exacerbated is 10 miles long and yet every day more and more educators and administrators are deciding none of it matters because genAI is mildly convenient for them personally. Retconing learning objectives to find an excuse to use genAI.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

And educators like me who pose even the mildest of critiques about incorporating genAI in the classroom are iced out of academic convos or treated like old fuddy duddies yelling at clouds. It's so dispiriting to see fellow educators taking a sledgehammer to education and pretending they aren't.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 6h

I just don't know how you see a story like this and think "yes, this is exactly the kind of technology I want in the classroom."

NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 7h

Two families are suing AI companies after they say chatbots contributed to their children's suicides.

‘He would be here if not for ChatGPT': Grieving parents sue AI companies

It has become a trusted companion for millions of teens. But it’s not a person. It’s an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence – one that’s trained to generate human-like responses. And some fea...

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Esme Symes-Smith @esmesymessmith.bsky.social · 6h

How it started vs. How it's going
I was a kid who wanted to be a knight, fighting for equality in an unequal world.
I think I've done that 💚

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🍁 Juniper/Blomblida | #Weretober 🍁 @yeeniebeans.fiskiper.art · 7h

👩🏾 Black furry creatives? artists? musicians?
👨🏾‍🦱 Black furry writers, lyricists, poets?
🧕🏾 Black fursuit makers? craftmakers?
👵🏾 Black furries who wanna hype up other Black furries?

Let's make a thread of some Black work 👇🏾

(Non-Black furries: boost work you like, but enjoy our greatness in silence 🤫)

𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔪 ☾🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @w0lfertinger666.bsky.social · 13h

queer spaces are so overly racially biased it makes me upset every time.

the lack of boosting black positivity or just interacting with black art is upsetting. black art, people, and characters aren't viewed in the same desirability as white characters.

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 6h

Thanks! I appreciate it. :D

R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 9h

A screenshot from a pokemon game showing an angry scientist glaring and saying "That was stunningly incorrect sir."

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Budha-Tang @budha-tang.bsky.social · 12h

My man Jesus‼️
Namaste🪷

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olivicmic.bsky.social @olivicmic.bsky.social · 11h

Nobody is bullying anyone for being marginalized. It’s just mad up whining for attention. They are being “bullied” for using AI, doesn’t matter who they are, they deserve it fully.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 4d

Shadow Cast - Book One Paperback — Zyearth Chronicles

PAPERBACK ALL PAPERBACK COPIES ARE SIGNED AND COME WITH A FREE BOOKMARK Some risk it all to save a friend. They must risk it all to save an enemy. All Matt ever wanted was to become a Golde...

www.zyearth.com

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水泥小猫 @depravedstar.bsky.social · Dec 27

Broken dreams and non-existent fantasies.

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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 14h

Shout out to all my fellow IT professionals getting messages from friends and whanau worried their computer is going to stop working today

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/end-of-wi...

End of Windows 10 support raises security and e‑waste concerns in New Zealand – The Front Page - NZ Herald

The Front Page: Support cuts mean no more updates or security fixes from today.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 14h

I need this template. XD

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake.

Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality.

Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21h

Quick question: If the Republicans are right, and someone is paying millions and millions of us to protest, and has done it hundreds of other times, and they STILL can't figure out who's funding us, aren't they way too stupid to hold office?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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R. A. Meenan (Sammie) @zyearth.com · 21h

"Some experts say" you don't need experts to see what's going on here, holy shit, just listen to indigenous people.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 23h

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 22h

Sigh it’s time for our weekly remonstrance:

FATNESS ISN’T IMMORAL YOU FUCKING FUCKS

ICE, Trump, et al are not evil because they’re fat. They’re evil because they hurt people.

All you’re doing is reinforcing hurtful stereotypes and I do unfollow and block when I see it.

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 23h

Know Your Rights canvassing and education at work!!! Knowing the difference between a judicial warrant (that has to be filled out correctly!) and a nonsense DHS warrant (that is useless for entering private property) can save lives.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.