In addition to the broader literacy crisis, we're also in a power literacy crisis. Many folks deeply misunderstand how political power works, who has it, and how to build it. And all of that is happening while more folks are using the language of organizing without grasping its most basic tenets.

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Flygohr 🎨🎲✒️@flygohr.com · last mo.

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So one of my friends who is multiply disabled and multiply queer is at risk of being homeless and is currently like, on their back, with a serious injury. They're applying for disability and stuff, but they're flat broke. Anything helps; please pass it on. www.paypal.com/qrcodes/p2pq... #mutualaid

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And now OpenAI is out with their big announcement. If you're hearing about "AI does a math breakthru!!1!!!" please read the resources in this thread. Also, journalists, please, do not let OpenAI pull the wool over your eyes.

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.

The number of people misinterpreting this one -- whew. We need that evidence to evaluate the company's claim that their system did any 'autonomous' math, not to evaluate whether or not the counterexample is a counterexample. >>

Yesterday would have been my father's 76th birthday. My first Sept. 7th without him. I penned an essay about why journalism and union organizing are acts of political love. What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society karenattiah.substack.com/p/what-my-fa...

What my Father Taught Me About Fighting for Journalism in a Loveless, Lying Society

On Labor Day what bell hooks, my father, and the labor movement taught me about truth, love, and solidarity

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Happy 60th, Star Trek. Live Long and prosper.

The evil Confederate translation of Les Misérables: "We've omitted parts Hugo meant only for French readers, like the sentences condemning slavery." Victor Hugo: "I wrote my classic novel 'Do Not Oppress People' for literally every person and country in the world."

AI does not belong in education. I'm sorry but it doesn't. Unless the purpose of the class is explicitly "how to use AI without getting AI brain rot" I haven't yet encountered a good reason for students to use it.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · last mo.

Students who don't use AI chatbots for schoolwork are scoring better grades than those who do, according to a new report. It's some of the widest-ranging evidence yet that the technology could be hurting young people's learning. bloom.bg/4gHVbZY 📷: Jean-François Fort / Getty Images

I keep saying that chatbots show how many people absolutely *ache* to be enslavers I wonder how often Confederates would've said "slavery is here to stay"

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last mo.

Look if chatbots are sentient and feeling then the people using it are enslavers and the entire concept of what we are doing is horrifying, not enlightening.

Refusing to use AI isn’t a recalcitrant position. It’s the moral one. There is too much wrong with how this is happening to just “if you can’t beat em join em” this. It’s a lack of consent machine. An environmental destruction machine. An emotional and cognitive numbing machine.

@maryharris.bsky.social you did great, but not super thrilled with "what Democrats need to do to win". "What about a little bigotry against trans people as a treat?" Your pushback was great, but idk, fucking Mamdani didn't need to "lean centre" about this and neither have other candidates.

Magical creature, a cuckoo wasp (Chrysis conica) 💙💚🖤 Found this one trapped in a window frame, tuckered out just enough to not immediately fly away after I freed it. #bugsky

The AMOC is being disrupted and climate tipping points are happening and you dipshits are arguing about the feelings of AI.

I'm terrible at marketing my own books but it's posting here or dancing on tiktok and I can't dance to save myself

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now@understatesmen.bsky.social · last yr.

yo you should read my books, if The Locked Tomb is a goth girl they're her punk friend who reeks of tobacco www.simonandschuster.com/series/The-E...

This is, and I am not even joking, going to fuck up so many hyperlexic kids. I got accused of plagiarism because I used the word “porous” in a sixth grade paper and that shit sticks with you, if not on the permanent record, then in the childhood.

Seth Trueger@mdaware.org · 3mo ago

oh come on

Break this company up.

Natanael, Tech janitor@natanael.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"Amazon employees have flagged low product prices on rival retailers’ sites as threats to Amazon’s own profitability, and informed the products’ suppliers that their sales on Amazon.com have been cut – or might soon be cut – going forward." Prison time.

UPDATE: The city is FINALLY listening & has put Ali on a priority list to get into a hotel by the end of the week They'll still need $$ for food and to replace essentials that were stolen, but there might be an end in sight

Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦@diannalgunn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

An IRL friend of mine is raising money to secure housing for themself & their dog. They're hoping to cover emergency accommodations for June, first & last for a new place, moving costs & an emergency fund to prevent them from facing this situation again Please donate if you can & boost if you can't

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

WIRED@wired.com · 4mo ago

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

I loathe the cult of the car.

Enrichment is so important

Like, imagine all your friends yelling at fictional characters in real time alongside you like you’re watching sports. That would be so fun.

I think book clubs should sometimes be all of us getting together and reading books to each other out loud, because I imagine this is the experience everyone must be getting from me live-posting my first Austen. It’s fun to read together! We should do it as grownups!

CLASSIC to misspell “misspell” when addressing misspelling

Trung Le Nguyen@trungles.com · 3mo ago

For your viewing pleasure, I also doodled a portrait of an unfortunate typo I made while typing up the last post.

I had to stop and take a few minutes to doodle out a little dreamt visual of Mr Darcy.

girlhood is everywhere for those with the eyes to see 🥹💜

I’m trying to convince people that reading is fun because you can yell at the book like it’s sports