readywriting
@readywriting.bsky.social
I do digital pedagogy things professionally, coach swimming for my sanity, sew my own clothes amateurishly, parent the best I can. Co-host of the All The Things ADHD podcast, editor of the National Teaching and Learning Forum.
Debate over things that are Actually Popular is infinitely more healthy than debate over things that only five rich guys care about
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See, deliberate targeting of caretakers.
Candice Norwood@candicenorwood.bsky.social · 6d agoNorma Bowe, a nurse in New Jersey, runs a mobile health clinic that stops outside Delaney Hall detention center, where she provides blood pressure checks, stroke assessments and other care. Yesterday, she told me about the day she says she was assaulted by an ICE agent. My latest via @19thnews.org
The place, to me, to be watching re: data-center backlash is Loudon County, and not just because it's in my (relative) backyard, but because there are a lot of very influential and RICH (white) people living there and they LOVED data-centers...until they didn't. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
Loudoun County homeowners are fed up with data center noise, and diesel fumes could get worse
That could mean additional bursts of noise and localized pollution when utility power is not available.
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I wonder why people are so mad about data centers.... OH.
The Salt Lake Tribune@sltrib.com · 3mo agoBackers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.
Those experienced with tech company hype will already know before reading this story that the machine is operated by a human in a remote location.
San Francisco company offers cleaning service using humanoid robots
A robotics startup has begun offering humanoid home cleaning services for $30 an hour to selected applicants in San Francisco. Would you hire them?
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The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.
SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunch
SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.
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@hypervisible.blacksky.app TECHNOLOGY WILL NOT SAVE US OR KEEP US SAFER
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5d agoIn one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.
There's no way that this new AI image generation feature in Google Earth, one of the most reliable sources of visual evidence for journalists and researchers, could possibly be abused to spread misinformation online and damage trust in satellite images. Absolutely no cause for concern here at all.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d agoGoogle Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
Imagine a hammer,... I don't have any moral or ethical positions on a hammer. Its just a tool. It serves a purpose and gets applied as needed. Now imagine a hammer with an endangered whale bone handle invented exclusively to bludgeon baby seals... I've got opinions about that kind of hammer.
I guess I am comfortable saying that in cases where people you formerly respected, or presumed you did, are now actively choosing to sunset their own minds & surrender them to machines invented by incels and billionaires, then yes there should be a stigma for that. This is what society is for
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago“There is also a moral and political judgment that is coming along with AI usage…Especially in creative industries where the stigma is the strongest.”
I (naturally) had to underline some of the Dylanesque properties of Julian Casablancas. tinyurl.com/5eb2auna
#tourdefleece Day 13: Got to hang out with @readywriting.bsky.social at @plach.bsky.social DH Center at SDSU yesterday, and spun a whole bobbin! The colors matched the famed DH chalk disco ball perfectly. Disco ball is amazing DH center infrastructure. #DHmakes
#tourdefleece Day 15: Nothing is going to beat the whimsical Omega Mart bar but I'm back on my bar spinning, today at Yardhouse in Las Vegas, while teaching @readywriting.bsky.social to crochet. #DHmakes
Quinn Daedal@quinnanya.me · 3w ago#tourdefleece Day 14: I've always loved spinning at bars, and the Omega Mart bar is no exception. #DHmakes
Your location sharing tells corporations and government where you shop, where you worship, and who you are with. Your doorbell cams are used by ICE to find people in your community.
AJC@xyzzy.cryptoanarchy.network · 3w agoLocation sharing helps my anxious, OCD wife know I'm safely at the grocery store. Doorbell and house cams let us stay in touch and know each other is safe while we're separated by an ocean and visa problems. Bluetooth tags help us find our things. Some tech is benign if used humanely.
No one wants to hear it but tracking everyone in your life is pretty much the gateway drug to the Armageddon you’re so afraid of.
Nolen Gertz@ethicistforhire.bsky.social · 3w agoOur society has associated surveillance with security (CCTV) and with love (bluetooth tags) for so long that tech companies are betting (perhaps correctly?) that people prefer being surveilled to being ignored...
Funny, I made a zine about this. datasittersclub.github.io/site/build/r...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoNone of this tech has made us safer but you cannot argue that with scared parents, scared targets or discrimination, scared caregivers, scared spouses etc. You just can’t.
I think people understandably but magically believe that surveilling your loved ones will protect them from harm because it promises knowledge and control. But when you get more knowledge but little actual control, your anxiety goes through the roof
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w agoNone of this tech has made us safer but you cannot argue that with scared parents, scared targets or discrimination, scared caregivers, scared spouses etc. You just can’t.
zine friends: zines are back articles are back and maybe so is punk www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
‘More real than anything you’ll see scrolling’: the radical resurgence of UK fanzines, 50 years after punk
Five decades since punk bible Sniffin’ Glue, DIY magazines are in rude, rich health. Their creators talk fandom, community-building and resisting the algorithm
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Bluesky let's dissasociate by reading the extramarital affair letters of Warren G Harding www.loc.gov/collections/...
About this Collection | Warren G. Harding-Carrie Fulton Phillips Correspondence | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
This correspondence (240 items; 1910-1924) consists primarily of letters written by President Harding (1865-1923), before and during his tenure as a U.S. senator, to his paramour Carrie Fulton Phillip...
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@DC@ijpe.bsky.social · 3w agoRead the letters - they're amazing.
Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.
My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club
“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ...
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How might we best rethink general education in colleges and universities? Here's our full conversation with Bard College professor and gen ed leader Roosevelt Montás: youtu.be/3XvVyORM3fY
Every time I read story about AI death bots and the like, I think about the endless grotesquerie that the AI age has inflicted on us; the continuous violations of consent (emotional, sexual etc), the endless efforts to force "AI" into every atom of our existence even into death, all for profit
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 4w ago“Speaking to the replica, I felt stuck in a loop of nostalgia and, at the same time, connected to memories that I had buried.” Can A.I. “death bots” help us feel connected to our deceased loved ones? www.newyorker.com/news/as-told...