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Hillary Jones, PhD
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Editor, Instructional Designer, Academic Adviser | Feminist, Tech-savvy Luddite, COVID Aware | she/her
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bettybarcode.com
Lemme just post another stellar quote:

"Polarization is the country’s immune response to an unpopular, antidemocratic, and intentionally divisive faction grabbing for disproportionate power to the detriment of national success, reputation, and democratic self-government."
October 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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dairinstitute.bsky.social
In which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social remind us that the risk of AI is not "superintelligence gone rogue," but human reliance on flawed systems in high-stakes situations: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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kalanthropos.bsky.social
September 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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plaguepoems.bsky.social
To whom it may concern,

Having considered
the sorts of behaviors
(and sorts of beliefs)
that constitute
“being normal”
in our present society,
I have concluded
that it’s not a bad thing
to be deemed abnormal.
September 28, 2026 at 10:44 PM
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nbedera.bsky.social
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article.

And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
September 28, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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enbuenora.bsky.social
This is a fantastic brief essay in how news media & pundits turn upside down who is who is being punished for speaking freely--in the case of Kraft, Macklemore, & Sheeran--when rich elites want things to go one way, but unruly peasant masses refuse to go along.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
Lorna Finlayson | Public Positions
In much of the coverage of the Ed Sheeran-Macklemore debacle, the reality of the incident is turned on its head, as...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 24, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:

www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
www.technologyreview.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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michael-hoerger.bsky.social
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 21, 2026 (US)

🔥13th COVlD wave
🔥40 states/territories with outbreaks (see Alt text)
🔥3.8 million estimated weekly infections
🔥Outbreaks in NYC
🔥Extremely high levels on the Big Island of HI

Mask up and get boosted.

🧵THREAD (1/4)
The US has at least 34 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai'i, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia. Levels on the Big Island of Hawai’i are particularly high. Note also, the NYC area is seeing outbreaks. There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 40 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, and Tennessee likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.
September 21, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
“There’s no AI exemption for laws already on the books.” - Lina Khan, GOAT
timnitgebru.blacksky.app Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22d
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point @FTC emphasized repeatedly during my tenure. 1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity. 2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same. As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed." 3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead. 4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my @FTC tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible. https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/ https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million 5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
September 13, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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itsafronomics.blacksky.app
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some:

@timnitgebru.blacksky.app
@alexhanna.bsky.social
@rajiinio.bsky.social
@ruha9.bsky.social
@emilymbender.bsky.social
@karenhao.bsky.social
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
www.rollingstone.com
September 12, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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mammalssuck.bsky.social
"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?"
www.wired.com/story/one-of...
One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’
Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.
www.wired.com
September 12, 2026 at 12:53 AM
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michael-hoerger.bsky.social
California is on fire with COVlD.🔥
Heat map and PMC prevalence estimates of 1 in 42
August 24, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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michael-hoerger.bsky.social
PMC COVlD Update, Aug 24, 2026

The US is experiencing COVlD outbreaks in 23 states/territories (see Alt text).
▪️Largest outbreaks: TX, CA, HI, AK
▪️1 in 136 Americans estimated actively infectious
▪️Highest levels since March 20th

Website: pmc19.com
Interactive map: pmc19.com/interactive.php
The US has at least 23 states/territories with COVlD outbreaks. These include much of California, Texas, Alaska, and Hawai’i, as well as the territories of Guam, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Outbreaks are also present in Washington state, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and New Hampshire. There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 23 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. Levels in some Texas counties are so high – on par with the national peak of BA.1 Omicron – that it drives up estimates for counties in neighboring states that lack CDC wastewater monitoring systems. Looking closely at the map, notice other instances of Very High counties in one state driving up estimates of an adjacent county in a neighboring state that lacks data. This shows a clear value of the county-level map over the CDC state map.
August 24, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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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...
www.thenerve.news
August 19, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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www.salon.com/2026/08/14/w...
August 18, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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michael-hoerger.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING 🦠
On Friday, the US CDC arbitrarily shifted higher COVlD levels into lower categories depicted with cooler colors.

Much of what was Very High is now "High." What was High is now "Moderate" or "Low." Low is "Very Low."
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August 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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A thing anyone can do is unfollow CNN and follow a bunch of independent and local newsrooms instead. 🧵 follows.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Aug 8
Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc
August 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
The evidence about AI in education remains terrible as a basis for policy or practice. As schools in some places come back from summer next week (oh Scotland it's too early), here's a wee roundup on just how truly woefully AIED research has stood up and why educators shouldn't call on it 1/
August 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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nature.com
A severe bout of COVID-19 can wake up an army of dormant viruses hiding inside the body

go.nature.com/4fDUY9w
COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you
Reactivation of typically harmless anelloviruses, in particular, seems to be linked with developing long COVID, study finds.
go.nature.com
August 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
I published this in 2024 but I hear folks are craving reading lists, so here’s another.
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Sep 23
If you work on anything related to visual culture & want a primer on major issues emerging from the implementation of AI in this realm, here's a syllabus I wrote, structured around 7 terms: bias, extraction, augmentation, operation, so-called, categorization, power.
www.artnews.com/list/art-in-...
Eight Essential Books About AI
Though book-length studies of artificial intelligence as it relates to visual culture remain thin on the ground, these volumes are useful primers.
www.artnews.com
August 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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michael-hoerger.bsky.social
There are 15 COVlD hot spots across the US, according to our county-level map of CDC wastewater data.

See Alt text for details.

PMC Weekly COVlD Report: pmc19.com
New Interactive Map: pmc19.com/interactive.php
The US has 15 hot spots. These include central California (Fresno, San Benito, Alameda), northern Oregon (Wasco County), Alaska (Juneau), Hawai’i (Kauai and Honolulu), southeastern Idaho (Bannock County), central Colorado (Summit County), northwestern Illinois (Whiteside County), the northern LP of Michigan (Gaylord area), central Kentucky (Lexington), northeastern Ohio (Ashtabula County), southern Florida (Palm Beach area), southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster County), central New Hampshire (Grafton County), and southern Maine (Knox County). Southern Texas still has an outbreak (Webb County). Most Texas sites that had high or rising levels have not reported since July 11. Central Texas may have higher levels than depicted. Note that these outbreaks are relatively isolated compared with the widespread high levels in the southern and western states at this time a year ago. Levels are rising but much more slowly than typical.
August 4, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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pookiebear.net
OK. Since I'm a librarian and I must ORGANIZE ALL THE THINGS, I took all the titles mentioned by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, and the Library Freedom Project and put them in a single list on bookshop.org: bookshop.org/wishlists/53.... (I did not coin "data politics," Tressie did.)
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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August 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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librarian.bsky.social
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
July 31, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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sarahkendzior.bsky.social
The political gerontocracy: absentee parents of a latchkey nation
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Sarah Kendzior "Quicksand" free article excerpt https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
July 31, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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theguardian.com
I work in a hospital – and didn’t know I was having a heart attack. Here’s what more women should know
I work in a hospital – and didn’t know I was having a heart attack. Here’s what more women should know
Women and men exhibit different heart attack symptoms. Knowing these lesser-known factors can help save your life
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2026 at 5:39 PM