B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them)

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I feel like Hank Green has a platform and is trying to navigate this with nuance

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It’s all “small government” until Austin, Texas tries to pass a plastic bag ban or whatever, and then “the state must interfere to protect inalienable rights” 🙄

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I love Quiet Posters. Do you know of any other feeds that help shine a light on posts from your own follows that you may have missed?

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I would love if you could model inclusion by adding alt text to your posts!

Cool resource from @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social for folks looking to use more precise and less anthropomorphic language. This piece includes a bunch of examples for substitutions to support clearer communication!
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How to talk about

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

Please help get the word out to our friends who were working in the Federal Government: Some friends & I created this site to track the impacts of the Trump Admin's attack on the federal service, and we're trying to gather as many stories as possible.
trumpcostsamerica.com

Trump Costs America

Highlighting the real people whose lives have been ruined, the good American jobs that are being destroyed, and the important public goods being lost.

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I think it makes sense as a meme because people like to think that America defeated the Nazis, but America has never defeated its legacy of slavery and racism

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Wow, you’ve really expanded my notions of what is possible to do. This is like an advanced Everything Everywhere All At Once move…

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This is gold.
I usually don't repost these because of lack of alt text, but here's one for this one:
Two story brick building emblazoned with the name "Horney's." The lower level has a beautiful aqua facade.

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I also think history is rich with examples of "rebels in the Death Star" who used their positions of relative access/power to try to reduce harm, fight authoritarianism, and shine light on abuses.
Maybe we can retell these stories of heroism to disentangle being present and being complicit.

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Out of curiosity, what is the alternative camp? Are there folks in the “prosperity is bad” camp?

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Young Eva constantly interrupted by time travelers from the future trying to tell her that there’s no better time for uninterrupted reading

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A bunch of us are working to advance #PublicAI: AI that is publicly accountable, accessible, and sustainable. A lot of us are interested in local-first, community-governed, and more open models of what this technology could be.
We welcome allies in the @publicai.network!
publicai.network/whitepaper/

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Hank Green posting Contrapoints?? Way too cool!

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Glad I wasn’t the only one 😅

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AI is so unpopular with the public in so many ways. Making a big stink about this feels like an easy win for Dems, esp if they use a states' rights angle

Watching @captaindisillusion.bsky.social IRLs on Nebula, and I’m in awe. This “casual content” is so rich and delivered with polish that exceeds many channels’ main content. What a gift to get to learn from someone so brilliant! (but also it’s okay to take a break and do less polished stuff)

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Or, as many people working in this space have long raised alarm about, the opposite: assuming that all videos are fake, even when they are indeed genuine

Semi-related: I was trying to track down the source of a popular Nelson Mandela quote & I was unable to find an actual source EXCEPT for a video on YouTube where he does NOT say the words in the quote, BUT they’re in the video description?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrF...
Actual Mandela effect??

Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013: Mission to bridge the digital divide

YouTube video by ITU

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Yes yes yes! I think it’s important to recognize both the history and the diversity!
A lot of folks don’t know that self-cooked meals have not been the norm for MANY people throughout a lot of history!

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This chart is so confusing to read 😵‍💫

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It’s giving “100% of patients treated in hospitals will die”

FINAL WEEK!
Submit by Friday the 31st!

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The Protopian Prize | The Fiction Contest

The Protopian Prize is a fiction contest inviting you to share your vision of people working toward liberatory futures, meeting obstacles, and making real change. “Protopian”—a word coined by Kevin ...

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If you think it would be accurate, I'd ask you to use language like "Trump's NSF director" in the future. There's already a lot of antagonism pointed at these govt agencies from the right, and if we're not clear about where this is coming from, I think it can inadvertently reinforce that.