Bonnie Stewart
@bonstewart.bsky.social
online pedagogies, digital/data/multiliteracies, belonging, open ed. Three Fires Confederacy land. they/she.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
old-skool cyborg/digital educator in the Haraway tradition: partial, ironic, faithful as blasphemy is faithful.
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Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
Canada loses its measles elimination status — as it happened | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Misinformation is harmless, they say, it's just a different POV they say ... "Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5k measles cases in 9 provinces and one territory." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
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We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...
OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...
prospect.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We need this to penetrate public consciousness.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.
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Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
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Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
okay i feel attacked
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 PM
okay i feel attacked
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online: it’s bad for us
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
online: it’s bad for us
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"The question is whether Grokipedia can succeed not as an alternative to Wikipedia but as a means to delegitimize it. 'Flooding the zone with shit' ... doesn’t necessarily seek to replace institutions of collective knowledge generation; it seeks to deface them."
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
Briefing: Grokipedia applies a right-wing filter to Wikipedia
Plus: an easy way to search for objects within a video and a new web reconnaissance tool
indicator.media
November 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"The question is whether Grokipedia can succeed not as an alternative to Wikipedia but as a means to delegitimize it. 'Flooding the zone with shit' ... doesn’t necessarily seek to replace institutions of collective knowledge generation; it seeks to deface them."
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
indicator.media/p/grokipedia...
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I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.
you either need universal basic income for humans or you must limit the use of Gen AI in such a way that humans aren’t radically impoverished as a result.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.
you cannot have both, both for morality reasons and also because this is the kind of thing that can result in globally-nightmarish conflict.
This seems more like an argument for universal basic income than for limiting technology. (I think both are probably futile in the current political environment, but I’d prefer the latter.)
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I tend to agree with this. If AI works like its cheerleaders claim/hope it will - replacing whole swathes of human labour - then they need a real economic plan for dealing with the consequences of that. This can only mean heavily redistributing the profits.
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If you use Wikipedia, you might have noticed that it isn't cluttered with annoying ads. They depend entirely on donations to remain free & independent.
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
donate.wikimedia.org
November 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
If you use Wikipedia, you might have noticed that it isn't cluttered with annoying ads. They depend entirely on donations to remain free & independent.
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
Why not toss them a few bucks?
donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php
grade 8. 1984. we were *briefly* allowed to play tapes in gym class.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
And the _real_ catalyst was that then-11-year-old Karenna Gore had played Purple Rain at a party her parents Al & Tipper Gore were hosting. Members of congress and their spouses had been invited, and Darling Nikki came on, scandalizing all these nice white folks who’d never heard of sex. Drama!
Here are the songs that helped make it happen #TheFilthyFifteen
November 2, 2025 at 1:25 AM
grade 8. 1984. we were *briefly* allowed to play tapes in gym class.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
we'd never seen our gym teacher run until Darling Nikki came on. poor woman heard the word 'masturbate' & lit off across that court in a Chariots of Fire slow mo waddle/dash i can still see to this day.
best gym class EVER.
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"Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies.""
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says | CBC News
A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nud...
www.cbc.ca
October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies.""
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
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Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns: Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.
Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns
Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.
www.edweek.org
October 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Teachers Are Using AI to Help Write IEPs. Advocates Have Concerns: Experts call for guardrails around the ethical, legal, and instructional concerns.
lemme get this straight: masked ICE 'agents' with zero ID or badge get to prioritize facial recognition tools - which are notoriously faulty, esp on faces that aren't white males - over people's actual IDs? to seize & disappear Americans? as policy?
blink.
blink.
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
lemme get this straight: masked ICE 'agents' with zero ID or badge get to prioritize facial recognition tools - which are notoriously faulty, esp on faces that aren't white males - over people's actual IDs? to seize & disappear Americans? as policy?
blink.
blink.
soon this admin will have the media fixated on whatever happened to the Bermuda Triangle or quicksand or whatever else was on TV last time Trump was in his right mind.
while everything else burns.
while everything else burns.
The latest urgent assignment the Trump administration has given FBI agents: Find out what happened to Jimmy Hoffa www.cnn.com/2025/10/27/p...
FBI employees ordered to dig for Jimmy Hoffa-related documents, sources say | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa as the government shutdown ...
www.cnn.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
soon this admin will have the media fixated on whatever happened to the Bermuda Triangle or quicksand or whatever else was on TV last time Trump was in his right mind.
while everything else burns.
while everything else burns.
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Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.
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Most people cannot imagine how much aggregated data "identity verification platforms" have already assigned to your "persona" and sold to government agencies.
October 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Most people cannot imagine how much aggregated data "identity verification platforms" have already assigned to your "persona" and sold to government agencies.
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Opinion: Move fast and break things the wrong approach to AI policy
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Move fast and break things the wrong approach to AI policy
Very few firms or organizations are actually experiencing any productivity benefits from generative artificial intelligence. The political economy of genAI doesn't make sense, nor does rushing AI…
www.hilltimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Opinion: Move fast and break things the wrong approach to AI policy
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
me, at store, purchasing heavy cream & chocolate to eat feelings. "hi"
cashier: "i can only give you the senior's discount on the cream"
my face, spanning denial, anger, bargaining & depression all in two seconds: "..."
cashier: "oops"
me, hitting the final stage of grief: "ima need more cream"
cashier: "i can only give you the senior's discount on the cream"
my face, spanning denial, anger, bargaining & depression all in two seconds: "..."
cashier: "oops"
me, hitting the final stage of grief: "ima need more cream"
a close up of a man 's face with the word davitt on the bottom left corner
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the word davitt on the bottom left corner
media.tenor.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
me, at store, purchasing heavy cream & chocolate to eat feelings. "hi"
cashier: "i can only give you the senior's discount on the cream"
my face, spanning denial, anger, bargaining & depression all in two seconds: "..."
cashier: "oops"
me, hitting the final stage of grief: "ima need more cream"
cashier: "i can only give you the senior's discount on the cream"
my face, spanning denial, anger, bargaining & depression all in two seconds: "..."
cashier: "oops"
me, hitting the final stage of grief: "ima need more cream"
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GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
www.yahoo.com
October 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...
honoured & excited about this upcoming talk for #ReclaimOpen25 :)
Exciting news! We are simply delighted to announce @bonstewart.bsky.social as opening keynote for this year's conference #ReclaimOpen25! Find out more about the keynote "Rewilding voice in a time of enclosure" and what else is in store reclaimopen.com/schedule/
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
honoured & excited about this upcoming talk for #ReclaimOpen25 :)
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University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
October 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues]
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university
Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here
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huh, it’s almost like Canadians intended to inflict reciprocal harm on American exports to put homegrown political pressure on the Trump admin in favour of free trade.
"This was all about some ugliness that we’re not part of. We’re not in politics. We’re just some guys in Virginia making good whisky. But unfortunately, we’re the victims."
Everyone is "in politics" in a democracy.
Tell these American whisky guys to vote harder or cope harder.
Everyone is "in politics" in a democracy.
Tell these American whisky guys to vote harder or cope harder.
Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business
Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.
www.cnn.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
huh, it’s almost like Canadians intended to inflict reciprocal harm on American exports to put homegrown political pressure on the Trump admin in favour of free trade.
sigh. NOT a good - or sovereign - path for Canada. we cannot build infrastructure on a crappy US company's advertising copy.
Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
sigh. NOT a good - or sovereign - path for Canada. we cannot build infrastructure on a crappy US company's advertising copy.
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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
October 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
For the crime of … complaining about government policy.
Core 1A speech.
With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.
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for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...
The TESCREAL Bundle
The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.
www.dair-institute.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 PM
for those of you who are serious about understanding the eugenic lineage of the whole AGI movement, on the other hand, you can peruse some of the resources at www.dair-institute.org/projects/tes...