Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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The obvious point/joke here is "ah it is so easy to imagine the work I do without AI." But would also like to point out the vast amount of imaginative labor and energy spent trying to apply these technologies to our work. Labor and energy that could be spent in other directions!

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 21h ago

I have one answer.

THIS. All this. Especially booking yourself a lunch time.

Cate Denial@cjdenial.bsky.social · 3d ago

As you look toward fall class, do two things for space and grace; . First, add two flex days to you syllabus. You can move the into place when you're sick when everyone needs a metal health day, when a concept needs a little more time. it takes pressure off when the unexpected happens (more)

Hell yes we are. My people 🙏🫡🥰📚 techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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Tripling union membership would… -Raise the median worker’s wages by $7k+ annually -Reverse 1/3 of the increase in inequality since 1979 -Increase the number of people with health insurance And more. Unions are the key to taking on runaway corporate power. Every worker deserves one.

Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · 3w ago

🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy. A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/

we do not neede no Gen A.I. tooles we do not neede no thoughte control

shout it from the rooftops futurism.com/future-socie...

Bosses Horrified as "AI Native" College Graduates Hit the Workplace

"AI native" college graduates are hitting the workplace -- and, as experts warned, bosses are finding their performance disappointing.

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Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR

YouTube video by NPR

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I can’t bring myself to be too celebratory. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk. My main takeaway is that there are currently 4 votes to undo a longstanding constitutional guarantee that 15 years ago seemed beyond any serious question.

David J. Bier@davidjbier.bsky.social · last mo.

This day will be celebrated, but it never should have come to this. President Trump attempted to subvert the clear words of our Constitution and the traditions of our country for hundreds of years by instructing ICE to arrest US-born Americans. It was an attempted crime.

Save theatre, libraryes, parkes, indie bookestores, museums, cinema, non-chain restaurantes, coffee shoppes, meetinge places, qualitye public educacioun, communitye marketes, lyve musique, weirde places, goode places. All the thinges that corporate logic ys so eager to distorte and remove.

Universityes yn red states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun. Universityes yn blue states are at risk because of a fundamental disregard for key principles of academic labor, scholarship, and higher educacioun.

This already happened for the NEH. I understand the outrage and shock about the impact on research, but it's crtiical to understand, as ever, that science was never going to get a pass. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

White House Seeks to Impose Political Test on Billions in Federal Grants

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Good job, Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. More of this for Pride month, please.

The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island@episcopalri.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🌈✨ Dear LGTBQ+ Community:

Y'all, we ended our regular choir season with Evensong for Trinity Sunday. It was my first time singing Parry's "Hear My Words, Ye People." And it is FUN to sing, and a bop! And also ran over 16 minutes, which is... very long!⚓

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

What an exciting week at our little parish. Jazz Mass! Sending Sunday for the rector's sabbatical! Vestry commissioning! Cookout so well-attended we ran out of chairs! ⚓

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 3mo ago

the biggest tech companies in the world are endorsing a new bill that would shove AI onto kids in school www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space”

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Calling the medievalists: I think they need us.

Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 4mo ago

UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Leo shelved plans to visit America. Some officials saw their reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

Happy Easter from St. Paul's in Philly. 2 from the Vigil and one of two choir members making their way uphill for the last service of the day today. He is risen indeed. ⚓🕯️

Small but mighty group of four (including the celebrant) for noonday Eucharist on the Tuesday of Holy Week. Beautiful & intimate space for worship the day after surgery for the wife. (Apparently we missed the crowd on Monday!)⚓️

If you're an English teacher and you make your students diagram a single sentence from the president's formal remarks, you will be charged with felony assault and sent to prison for the rest of your natural life.

We had about 10 in person for Eucharist this morning, plus 45 households on the livestream. Everyone in the sanctuary waved to those of us at home, and it was still a great joy to pray together, even apart. ⚓

A day in the life of the rector's warden: got an 8 AM call from the rector. "There will of course be Eucharist on Sunday, but maybe we should reschedule the Jazz Mass and not have seven musicians from all over the country entangled in travel during the winter storm?" ⚓️

A Christianity that sides with the empire over the immigrant, the poor, the sick, the hungry, the marginalized, the vulnerable, and the oppressed, is a Christianity that follows someone other than Jesus.

Glad to say the Episcopal Church is included here. ⚓️

The Unitarian Universalist Association@uua.org · 7mo ago

Faith communities are often portrayed as uniformly opposed to trans, intersex, & nonbinary people. The response to a recent landmark interfaith statement tells a different story — with 1,000+ people of faith and major religious leaders speaking out. Read more & add your voice: https://bit.ly/4qjrlNk

Put up candles yesterday & got this fab shot from the gallery at our beloved church. Then got to #TouchPews w/wife this morning & sing Lessons & Carols this evening. ⚓️ We are in (another) waiting time in our journey toward growing our family, if #Narthex folks would hold us in prayer this week!

“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”

Interactive AIDS Quilt

The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...

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