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Daniel Livingstone

@d-livingstone.bsky.social

games, education, space-laser operations, stuff. This account definately not representative of my employer.

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onekade@onekade.bsky.social · 3d ago

Re reporters saying Karoline is super normal off camera: I'll never forget the time I was on television with an anti-immigration think tank person. She lied like she breathed on air. Afterward, I said, you know none of that is true, right? She smiled and said something like, that's not the point.

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d ago

The 2010s began with a televised public inquiry into the literal crimes of British newspapers. It ended with the same papers hounding members of the public who inconvenienced and embarrassed Boris Johnson. There’s your nutshell summary.

Increasingly feel the failure/cancellation of the Leveson enquiry one of the most significant political moments of my lifetime at least re the UK Ben Smoke @bencsmoke • 10h hounded to death by an unrelenting and under regulated media. in any normal society this would give rise to serious questions about the conduct of journalists and platforms and would lea...
geoffrey@parsnip.bsky.social · 4d ago

"In the midst of a government that is systematically dismantling Americans' rights, ... that is trying to exert nearly totalitarian control over large parts of American life, ... so many of our pundits and professional commentators are still obsessed with people they got mad at in 2020 and 2021."

Sam Ulmschneider@samulmschneider.bsky.social · 4d ago

Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.

Daniel Livingstone@d-livingstone.bsky.social · 4d ago

Always reminds me... Bismarck introduced health care subscriptions for factory workers in Prussia because he was smart enough to learn about guillotines. (The contemporary socialists/Communists hated it because they understood it would reduce desire for revolution)

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

Whether it's letting Bill Gates decide how your schools will work or letting Elon Musk decide how your public health system runs, the result is political chaos and a societal nudge away from the rule of law and towards guillotines. 60/

Alexis Christensen@amchristensen.bsky.social · 4d ago

I've drafted my genAI statement for syllabi. I'd appreciate any constructive feedback. Fundamentally, I have lots of concerns about genAI and I just want to see my students thinking on their own and not taking short cuts that hinder their learning & thinking capacity.

Text reads: Policy on Use of Generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Anthropic, CoPilot, Gemini, etc.): I will not use genAI to prepare any course materials, to review or grade any of your coursework, or to communicate with you. I have fundamental concerns about genAI that include: • The ethical and practical concerns about its impact on the environment • The ethical treatment of workers employed or contracted by genAI companies • The ethical and legal use of the intellectual property of individuals • The inconsistency of accuracy in genAI output • Its effects on our cognitive and social capacities as humans and learners This course is intended to build your knowledge base and your ability to think deeply and critically about some aspect of the ancient Mediterranean world and its continued relevance for our own world. I want to see what you think about the material, how you approach the material and apply the skills you are learning. Therefore, I ask that you also refrain from using generative AI in this course. If you do use generative AI to prepare for class or complete any assignment or portion of any assignment, you must include a note that you used genAI, which genAI you used, and a nuanced description of how you used it.
Jess, Kids TV Historian@foxkidsclub.northsky.social · 4d ago

Ben brings up something I’ve actually caught myself doing lately. If I want an opinion on something - product, game, whathaveyou - I have found myself hitting the search bar *here* before anyplace else. It’s like Reddit but less shitty.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 5d ago

Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 5d ago

I’m glad that there’s been more coverage of this, but I must also point out that we - the actual Lebanese - have been saying that Israel’s goal is to make south Lebanon unliveable for nearly 2 years. I said this myself multiple times. We are simply not believed *because* we are Lebanese.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 5d ago

"FT has found evidence of controlled detonations and demolitions by Israeli forces and civilian contractors in dozens of border communities." Most of the destruction happened *after* the April ceasefire when territory was already under Israeli control (dark red dots). www.ft.com/content/25bc...

FT Visual investigation How Israel is making southern Lebanon ‘unliveable’ Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah
⚝ vorsprung durch zauberkraft ⚝@inobscurity.bsky.social · 6d ago

the uk has tons of great sci-fi/fantasy/horror stuff, but the establishment pretends it doesn't exist unless its harry potter or doctor who. 2000ad has been running weekly for 49 years. games workshop is a bigger part of the economy than some entire traditional industries.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 4mo ago

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Cover for Gil Duran's forthcoming book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy." Red background with computer circuitry, words in black and white letters.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 4mo ago

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

Gil Duran tweet: TLDR: Fascism in response to Palantir's long fascists screed on X.
andy™@andylevy.net · 2w ago

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Lee Hurley@hleehurley.com · last wk.

Kathleen Stock and the rest call this sort of thing collateral damage and have said, clearly, they're ok with it happening.

Jo Yurcaba@joyurcaba.bsky.social · last yr.

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts. For @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...