Adam Riggio
@adamriggio.bsky.social
Education, Training, & Curriculum Design Professional; author figuring out the next project; For All Our Futures newsletter at https://forallourfutures.beehiiv.com/; Canadian he-person; slowly recovering faith in humanity, recovery not guaranteed
Some of the best experiences of my times working in universities was travelling to international research conferences & my encounters with customs agents were mundane, quick, & unfailingly straightforward. We’re the least threatening group of people
Dr Karen Pinder 🇨🇦 🔬@drkarenpinder.bsky.social · 2h agoYeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.
I’m producing a new YouTube series interviewing science & technology studies researchers, which is bringing up many ideas about the perverse incentives of being a university-based researcher. Specifically, the incentive to argue against each other instead of learn from each other
Breaking: Democratic primary voters narrowly voted to oust Representative Shri Thanedar of Michigan on Tuesday, nominating democratic socialist Donavan McKinney for a deep-blue, Detroit-area district in the latest sign of the party’s hunger for new blood. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/u...
Shri Thanedar Is Ousted by a Democratic Socialist in a Michigan House Primary
Representative Shri Thanedar is among a wave of Democratic incumbents in Congress whom primary voters have sent packing in a surge of anti-incumbent fervor this cycle.
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My algorithm has been showing me a lot about Marvel & the shelving of the Blade movie. I wonder if this is just because of Avi Arad’s worsening right-wing views devaluing black culture & cinema www.instagram.com/reel/DbjmqIO...
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Nothing is stopping conservatives & even fascists from setting up accounts & communities on BlueSky. But if they try to troll people who have no time for their BS, they should accept that they’ll be blocked
Wasn’t this only about a year and a half ago?
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d agoBluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
There are a lot of Ohio Republicans in the news right now and it can get confusing. I'm here to help.
Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction
ALT: Ohio State Fan's 'O..H..I..NO!!' Football Reaction
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A lot of people in prestigious echelons of US government society have a lot of trouble grading the nature of Trump’s thinking & language. He’s a personalist authoritarian
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d agoTrump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/08/01/d... 2/
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At Osheaga festival with the extended family this weekend. Wolf Parade still rocks but Dan Boeckner has aged into Trailer Park Kieran Culkin
This feels so much more harmful than never having posted the threat briefing in the first place. That research was spot-on, which only highlights that you’re apologizing to unambiguous hate groups for finally defending us. Never donating another dime after this.
Stub Buns@stubbuns.bsky.social · 5d agoQuestion for Amnesty. Trans rights have regressed in the UK. That’s undeniable. The organisations you are apologising to have celebrated these rights being eroded. Are you really that weak that you can’t in good faith defend calling them anti-rights? Because they very clearly fucking are.
Avoid such fates by doing as I do: (1) Never use AI for any part of your book, (2) loudly tell everyone how much you hate AI on social media
Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 6d agoOne thing I can confidently say is that more than a few other books have been canceled for AI use--including by established authors and non-fiction books--that have just not made the news yet.
I don’t want to be too sensationalist about this but also I’m the least violent person in the world and I think if someone said this to my face I’d hit them
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
I don't think it's a coincidence that manipulating senior citizens is a feature of both AI slop businesses & extremist political campaigns like COVID denialism
Eric J. Robbins@ericjrobbins.bsky.social · 6d agoA physician I know would spend their entire day in 2020 tending to people dying from COVID, then go home and have their parents tell them to their face that it was a hoax. When the doctor would try to share what they were seeing, they were dismissed and told they're just confused.
A physician I know would spend their entire day in 2020 tending to people dying from COVID, then go home and have their parents tell them to their face that it was a hoax. When the doctor would try to share what they were seeing, they were dismissed and told they're just confused.
Shematologist, MD@shematologist.medsky.social · 6d agoBack in 2020, as a pediatric hematologist married to a physician, we signed up to volunteer in a field hospital for patients with COVID. We wrote our wills and worried about getting our kids sick. I posted about terrifying outcomes in kids and received death threats. Fauci is a goddamn hero.
"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...
AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt
AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.
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Of course it’s understandable to want to confront the fascists, especially if you have family or other loved ones in one of the camps. Of course it’s understandable to think that you faced armed enemies with arms. This isn’t about what’s understandable, it’s about what works.
Prairieland: A Tactical and Strategic Analysis
Great evils require effective remedies.
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What seriously burns me about this is that the marketing model for selling these AI storybooks is taking advantage of seniors who don't understand LLM technology or its problems
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last wk.Parents are fed up with friends and relatives giving their kids “personalized” AI-generated storybooks with characters resembling their kids. Apart from data privacy concerns, literacy experts say these garbled and convoluted narratives could be an impediment to learning how to read.
Not only are these songs propaganda that insults your intelligence, they're generally pretty terrible. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘You say genocide, I say war’: Boy George releases pro-Israel song, We Will Dance Again
Culture Club singer sings ‘I stand with the Jews / I don’t feel brave, I just need to behave like a human’, in song defending Israel’s response to Hamas attack
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In Canada, the federal government put huge restrictions on what private colleges could do because they frequently rubber-stamped students through courses without learning any skills or knowledge. Going all-in on Gen-AI throughout the public sector celebrates the same outcomes
Charlotte Weatherill@ckweatherill.bsky.social · last wk.The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
I wish I could find the link, but a few months ago I came across an article that blamed the collapse of tours by high-streaming artists on the inflation of their stats by supermarkets & gyms. Music that has almost no fans because it’s played everywhere, but that no one listens to it
eminemerald fennell@fireh9lly.bsky.social · last wk.One thing the sales-based charts did that was better is they didn't take into account the magnitude of a billion lazy "throw it on" radio pop playlists playing in ASDA which has magnified cumulative advantage and hampered discovery of new scenes etc
A benefit of my kids taking a couple of weeks of summer camps at the Art Gallery of Ontario is being able to scope trippy installations before pickup time, like these sculptures by Ranbir Sidhu
Experts run the numbers and declare Tesla Cybertruck as the biggest flop in US automotive history, overtaking the Ford Edsel flip.it/tBWzsA
Experts run the numbers and declare Tesla Cybertruck as the biggest flop in US automotive history, overtaking the Ford Edsel
The Tesla Cybertruck has been labelled the 'biggest flop in US automotive history', usurping the Ford Edsel - and the numbers are pretty shocking
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