treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
Amelia Abreu
@ameliaagain.bsky.social
tech dropout, teacher, writer, anarchist soccer mom. tejas > pnw 🌲🌹 she/they
Honestly live streaming an execution for the clicks feels like a natural consequence of not regulating the tech industry
trying to go watch your kid play a JV soccer match will have you sounding like Allen Iverson. as in, playing on the baseball diamond because the football team has practice. NOT a game, practice!
Universities squeeze billions of dollars of profit out of “student athletes,” often destroying their health in the process. In the last few years those athletes finally started to get a share of the profits so of course they had to be reigned in. Meanwhile nobody is regulating the diarrhea lettuce.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2w agoSenate passes sweeping bipartisan bill to regulate payments to college athletes and limit transfers
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
writing a country song called “all my brothers in law are unemployed product managers” about the current state of the white collar job market for old millennials
I feel like the fact that America used to have an EV national champion whose CEO destroyed the company and committed huge sums of his wealth to support the destruction of US green industrial policy raises a lot of weird and difficult questions about green industrial policy
I hate it so much. This can happen to you too. A year ago, almost everyone doubted this would happen. I had faculty at other schools telling me I was hysterical. (Irony!) Watch for the installation of right wing figureheads without an academic background. Watch for assaults on faculty governance.
“I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the US economy & our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable… that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more than you spend…“
Adam Becker@adambecker.bsky.social · 3w ago@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯
Just finished Helen Garner’s “the season”. Such a beautiful book about Aussie Rules Football, youth sports, family, community and aging.
Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...
Rest peacefully, Gloria Steinem. One of Steinem's best attributes was the ability to change her mind with better information. That's what you should do in general, but especially as a leading voice in society.
For long-term residents of DC, there has never ever been anything on this scale of graft ever before. Trump 1 veterans have set up lobbying firms that do nothing more than funnel 500K to the right pockets to facilitate meetings without which routine business with the federal govt no longer happens.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · last mo.dems would be well served by ditching the ambiguous "affordability" platitudes and just hammering these clowns on corruption, all day every day. That's what they did to Orban in Hungary
Meet Teena Marie, a very good girl and the silly little dog we didn’t know we needed
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
Today is the first day of school for DC Public Schools. Nearly 100,000 children in DC are returning to school today with armed soldiers in our neighborhoods, harassing young people and working as an extension of federal agents. DC students need the #NationalGuardOutNow.
It's so fucking infuriating that hundreds of academics are doing an entire discourse about the academic freedom to do literal race science and meanwhile the US government is putting out lists of words you can't say in academic research and universities are purging Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Gary, Indiana has been without power almost 2 weeks.
It’s important to be clear that the truth value of a subject does not become debatable just because somebody wants to debate. Ether. Wandering wombs. Devils in red heads, the cursed left handed. Flat earth. Phrenology. Humors. Race science. “Debate me bro!” It’s fine for the answer to be: no.
Gary, Indiana, Has Been Without Power For 11 Days. Too Bad We Don’t Have A Functioning FEMA. www.wonkette.com/p/gary-india... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social
Gary, Indiana, Has Been Without Power For 11 Days. Too Bad We Don’t Have A Functioning FEMA.
Seems like they could use some help
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Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Teachers don't need an LLM to create packets with a map and a periodic table. They don't need to "create" them at all in any meaningful sense of the word. These materials already exist in vast quantities, and it's beyond my comprehension why it would occur to anyone to use an LLM to replicate them
PSA for any PhDs required to submit their dissertation to ProQuest: The only way to stop them from adding your work to Turnitin and iThenticate is to opt out of making your work “discoverable through Google Scholar and other major search engines.” It doesn’t actually say Turnitin anywhere 🤷♀️
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2mo agoThankfully Turnitin's planned change in terms to use all student content for AI development has been forced back. But the big Q remaining is: How did getting a degree from universities worldwide become conditional on students agreeing to the end user licence agreement of an *edtech company*?
Remember the seven basic plots: -Revenge -Star Crossed Romance -You and friends are mistaken for a group of hookers on Halloween -Horny for grandma's ghost candle -Slowly turning into a satyr -Granular documentary about Neiman Marcus -War
there are so many grifters and violent men in positions of power in the academy who are committing serious crimes, sexually harassing students, producing false research for fascists, and aiding and funding genocide. they feel no shame, they face no consequence, and no one is hounding them to death.