Ben Harwood
@benharwood.bsky.social
Higher Ed | Learning Experience Design & Innovation | Open Source | Sustainability | Gardener & Tree Planter
Mountaineer & Trekker | India Enthusiast
Francophone | Exploring #Bluesky for Education
https://harwoodben.com
Mountaineer & Trekker | India Enthusiast
Francophone | Exploring #Bluesky for Education
https://harwoodben.com
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
A DC Judge just transferred the “Proud Boys” to historic Metropolitan AME Church after the far-right group torched its #BLM signs in 2020. The church can now seize ALL merch profits and block use of the name/logo.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
#ProudBoys #Accountability #Karma
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
#ProudBoys #Accountability #Karma
Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized
A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:51 AM
A DC Judge just transferred the “Proud Boys” to historic Metropolitan AME Church after the far-right group torched its #BLM signs in 2020. The church can now seize ALL merch profits and block use of the name/logo.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
#ProudBoys #Accountability #Karma
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
#ProudBoys #Accountability #Karma
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Proud to launch our social justice advocacy project! 🌍 I’ll be shedding light on housing equity issues, sharing community perspectives, and challenging systemic injustices. Join me in exploring how housing discrimination shapes real lives.
#SocialJustice #SW212
#SocialJustice #SW212
February 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Proud to launch our social justice advocacy project! 🌍 I’ll be shedding light on housing equity issues, sharing community perspectives, and challenging systemic injustices. Join me in exploring how housing discrimination shapes real lives.
#SocialJustice #SW212
#SocialJustice #SW212
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Hi! My name is Maya and on this page I am going to be exploring power, privilege, and oppression as it relates to maternal health dispartities and morbidity and mortality rates of birthing people in the United States. This is part of my #sw212 advocacy project this semester. Stay tuned for updates!
February 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hi! My name is Maya and on this page I am going to be exploring power, privilege, and oppression as it relates to maternal health dispartities and morbidity and mortality rates of birthing people in the United States. This is part of my #sw212 advocacy project this semester. Stay tuned for updates!
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Hi everyone! For my social justice advocacy project I will be looking at environmental racism and how marginalized communities face hazards in their everyday lives. I look forward to further bringing awareness to this issue and let’s make change together! #socialjustice #enviromentalracism #SW212
February 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hi everyone! For my social justice advocacy project I will be looking at environmental racism and how marginalized communities face hazards in their everyday lives. I look forward to further bringing awareness to this issue and let’s make change together! #socialjustice #enviromentalracism #SW212
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Can't wait to begin working on the social justice advocacy project! I will be analyzing food insecurity within the United States. Follow me as we will be closely looking at how food insecurity is a critical issue that must be addressed. #SW212
#FoodInsecurity
#FoodInsecurity
February 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Can't wait to begin working on the social justice advocacy project! I will be analyzing food insecurity within the United States. Follow me as we will be closely looking at how food insecurity is a critical issue that must be addressed. #SW212
#FoodInsecurity
#FoodInsecurity
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Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky
February 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
Read diverse books every month.
#BookSky #BlackBookSky
I'm part of a new learner community exploring Bluesky and WordPress, two tools to help raise awareness about concepts of power, privilege and oppression. #sw212
February 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm part of a new learner community exploring Bluesky and WordPress, two tools to help raise awareness about concepts of power, privilege and oppression. #sw212
Not a question of if but when…“It is my view that #cryptocurrency is "the mother of all bubbles" perpetuated by a number of factors (including the rejection of fiat money) and developing digital narratives — many of which have a weak foundation of logic.” #bitcoin
www.promarket.org/2025/01/30/n...
www.promarket.org/2025/01/30/n...
Nobel Laureate Eugene Fama Predicts Bitcoin Will Become Worthless - ProMarket
Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama argues that Bitcoin is fundamentally flawed and predicts it has a near-certain chance of becoming worthless within a decade. In a conversation with Luigi Zing...
www.promarket.org
February 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Not a question of if but when…“It is my view that #cryptocurrency is "the mother of all bubbles" perpetuated by a number of factors (including the rejection of fiat money) and developing digital narratives — many of which have a weak foundation of logic.” #bitcoin
www.promarket.org/2025/01/30/n...
www.promarket.org/2025/01/30/n...
#TrumpTariffs are the “Donald Trump #SuperBowl Tax” - states
Mark Warner on #FaceTheNation Consumer and manufactured goods, products are not coming down, your game time chips, beer, not to mention those new pickup trucks and gas are all going up! #voodooeconomics
Mark Warner on #FaceTheNation Consumer and manufactured goods, products are not coming down, your game time chips, beer, not to mention those new pickup trucks and gas are all going up! #voodooeconomics
February 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
#TrumpTariffs are the “Donald Trump #SuperBowl Tax” - states
Mark Warner on #FaceTheNation Consumer and manufactured goods, products are not coming down, your game time chips, beer, not to mention those new pickup trucks and gas are all going up! #voodooeconomics
Mark Warner on #FaceTheNation Consumer and manufactured goods, products are not coming down, your game time chips, beer, not to mention those new pickup trucks and gas are all going up! #voodooeconomics
Who says liberal arts can’t be at the forefront of technological innovation? 🚀📚
#LiberalArtsInnovation #EmergingTechInEducation #FutureOfLearning www.skidmore.edu/news/2025/01...
#LiberalArtsInnovation #EmergingTechInEducation #FutureOfLearning www.skidmore.edu/news/2025/01...
Walking with ‘Walden’: A VR immersion in literary history
Skidmore educators are using emerging technologies to enrich learning experiences — from simulating Henry David Thoreau’s life in the 19th century to exploring the human heart.
www.skidmore.edu
February 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Who says liberal arts can’t be at the forefront of technological innovation? 🚀📚
#LiberalArtsInnovation #EmergingTechInEducation #FutureOfLearning www.skidmore.edu/news/2025/01...
#LiberalArtsInnovation #EmergingTechInEducation #FutureOfLearning www.skidmore.edu/news/2025/01...
Anyone else remember Ronnie Reagan’s Star Wars? It was the first real article in Time magazine I read and understood. I did grapple with reconciling how my favorite film was appropriated by an actor serving as president. Trump has Stargate, also a great film! www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-p...
January 30, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Anyone else remember Ronnie Reagan’s Star Wars? It was the first real article in Time magazine I read and understood. I did grapple with reconciling how my favorite film was appropriated by an actor serving as president. Trump has Stargate, also a great film! www.perplexity.ai/page/trump-p...
“Rome wasn’t built in a day” on #FaceTheNation JD mansplains the need for patience to Margaret Brennan. Techbro bravour connecting deepstate dots to forecast the price of “grown”bacon coming down soon.
January 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
“Rome wasn’t built in a day” on #FaceTheNation JD mansplains the need for patience to Margaret Brennan. Techbro bravour connecting deepstate dots to forecast the price of “grown”bacon coming down soon.
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Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight.
Could not make this up.
Could not make this up.
Elon Musk bei AfD-Wahlkampfauftakt in Halle (Saale) zugeschaltet
»Seid stolz, Deutsche zu sein«: Von einer Videoleinwand sprach der Techmilliardär Elon Musk zu AfD-Anhängern. Der Trump-Berater verbreitete seine Erkenntnisse über die »deutsche Kultur«, in der Messeh...
www.spiegel.de
January 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Musk joins German far right's opening rally remotely, instructs Germans to stop feeling guilty and reminds them how impressed Caesar had been with German tribes' ability to fight.
Could not make this up.
Could not make this up.
#Bluesky as #middleware aims to give users control over algorithms, moderation, experience. This shift hints at a decentralized future for social media—one where power isn’t concentrated in the hands of a few.(No names mentioned-wink wink) Is this the turning point?
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
Elon Musk and the Decline of Western Civilization
Silvio Berlusconi invented the modern oligarchy. Musk is expanding it.
open.substack.com
January 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#Bluesky as #middleware aims to give users control over algorithms, moderation, experience. This shift hints at a decentralized future for social media—one where power isn’t concentrated in the hands of a few.(No names mentioned-wink wink) Is this the turning point?
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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What is the outlook for academic freedom in 2025?
Tomorrow the Future Trends Forum hosts Jeremy C. Young, the Freedom to Learn program director at PEN America, to discuss. Join us from 2-3 pm ET:
shindig.com/login/event/...
#FTTE
Tomorrow the Future Trends Forum hosts Jeremy C. Young, the Freedom to Learn program director at PEN America, to discuss. Join us from 2-3 pm ET:
shindig.com/login/event/...
#FTTE
January 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
What is the outlook for academic freedom in 2025?
Tomorrow the Future Trends Forum hosts Jeremy C. Young, the Freedom to Learn program director at PEN America, to discuss. Join us from 2-3 pm ET:
shindig.com/login/event/...
#FTTE
Tomorrow the Future Trends Forum hosts Jeremy C. Young, the Freedom to Learn program director at PEN America, to discuss. Join us from 2-3 pm ET:
shindig.com/login/event/...
#FTTE
Momentarily, I thought it was news about that awesome 90s film with Kurt Russel and James Spader: Stargate. Nope, not your Daddy’s #Stargate but remember Ronald Reagan had a project nicknamed the #StarWars program
pureai.com/Articles/202...
pureai.com/Articles/202...
Tech Giants Join Forces for $100 Billion AI Infrastructure Push in the U.S. -- Pure AI
OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle on Tuesday unveiled a new venture, Stargate, through which they aim to build a massive AI infrastructure network across the United States. The initiative, which was announ...
pureai.com
January 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Momentarily, I thought it was news about that awesome 90s film with Kurt Russel and James Spader: Stargate. Nope, not your Daddy’s #Stargate but remember Ronald Reagan had a project nicknamed the #StarWars program
pureai.com/Articles/202...
pureai.com/Articles/202...
Oh yeah sorry for all the #
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Oh yeah sorry for all the #
New here. Like many, I dumped #Twitter after a 15-year run of building a robust #PLN and #PLE around #highered #edtech #opensource No longer embrace #SV #SM platforms. Also interested in #trekking #mountaineering #india #français #francophone #sustainability any #educators using #bluesky in class?
January 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New here. Like many, I dumped #Twitter after a 15-year run of building a robust #PLN and #PLE around #highered #edtech #opensource No longer embrace #SV #SM platforms. Also interested in #trekking #mountaineering #india #français #francophone #sustainability any #educators using #bluesky in class?