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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Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
January 3, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela
Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...
www.wsj.com
January 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
And there ya have it…
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
Officials from top Wall Street firms will be traveling to Venezuela to investigate “investment prospects” of the country. “The trip will feature about 20 officials from the finance, energy and defense sectors.”
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hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
January 3, 2026 at 7:02 AM
hey remember when a bunch of middle-aged drunk korean lawmakers climbed the locked gates to the national assembly to hold an emergency session after the president gave illegal orders to the military, all of which ended with said president being sentenced to prison
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You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
January 3, 2026 at 6:36 PM
You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
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He's doing foreign policy like a private equity firm.
Trump: "We're going to stay [in Venezuela] until such time as the proper transition can take place…We're going to run it, essentially, until such time."
January 3, 2026 at 4:55 PM
He's doing foreign policy like a private equity firm.
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Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
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Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.
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If you haven't read The Shock Doctrine (or it's been a minute since you have), now would be a good time to check it out
January 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
If you haven't read The Shock Doctrine (or it's been a minute since you have), now would be a good time to check it out
"...part of the crisis might very well be the response that people have had to AI, but no, I don’t think AI is the problem. I think the crisis is 25 years in the making and AI is the lens through which can finally see the problem for what it is."
December 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"...part of the crisis might very well be the response that people have had to AI, but no, I don’t think AI is the problem. I think the crisis is 25 years in the making and AI is the lens through which can finally see the problem for what it is."
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Tech Bros really don't listen.........example 1 million
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.
buff.ly
December 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Tech Bros really don't listen.........example 1 million
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It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
GenAI's capacity to reinforce paranoia combined with the antisocial corporate behaviour of its vendor lead me to suspect we shoulda buried the entire thing in the basement two years ago. but, but... innovation! 🫠
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Murder-suicide case shows OpenAI selectively hides data after users die
OpenAI accused of hiding full ChatGPT logs in murder-suicide case.
arstechnica.com
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
GenAI's capacity to reinforce paranoia combined with the antisocial corporate behaviour of its vendor lead me to suspect we shoulda buried the entire thing in the basement two years ago. but, but... innovation! 🫠
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Yes it is curious. It’s because they lie.
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
kind of curious about the weird convergence/timing of the right wing witch hunt in academia with the attempt to replace academia with AI slop and how these bogus "transparency" measures facilitate both. how "fortuitous" for someone.
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Yes it is curious. It’s because they lie.
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
Someone on here mocked me a little when I (gently) explained that edtech’s entire use case in higherEd is to build a higher quality training dataset than the ones AI can scrape from the internet. And to labor bust.
I don’t know how else to say it!
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
just saw the Trump post about Rob Reiner.
how is nobody stopping this?
how is nobody stopping this?
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
just saw the Trump post about Rob Reiner.
how is nobody stopping this?
how is nobody stopping this?
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
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LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
Pentagon Unveils New GenAI Platform, It Immediately Starts Flagging Pete Hegseth's War Crimes - Above the Law
The Defense Department's new ChatJAG turned out to be better than the human chain of command.
abovethelaw.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
LOL... Pentagon released a new AI military chatbot and it immediately pointed out that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal.
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
abovethelaw.com/2025/12/pent...
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Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher):
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
The disinformation wars are here
How Joe Biden’s administration caved to the right in the battle for truth.
www.theverge.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Absolutely chilling read (as a disinformation researcher):
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
The systematic crackdown on disinformation scholars, newsrooms, factcheckers and NGO’s. All in the name of so-called free speech.
By @jamesrball.com @theverge.com
www.theverge.com/features/839...
cash bail is a blatant money grab, & an already-failed social experiment that Ontario should be able to reject flat out, based on its US record.
These alarming developments are described below by a leading Canadian civil rights lawyer who I know from my time working on the cash bail system in St. Louis after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson: canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
Ontario’s cash bail playbook punishes the poor, and does not make us safer
The American experience is a warning. Cash bail deepened poverty, entrenched racial injustice, and weakened community safety. Ontario does not need to repeat those mistakes. But unless we resist this ...
canadiandimension.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:22 AM
cash bail is a blatant money grab, & an already-failed social experiment that Ontario should be able to reject flat out, based on its US record.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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I spoke with The Globe and Mail about the lawsuit being over and the concerns that caused me to speak out.
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4e12d7e...
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4e12d7e...
Former UBC employee and exam monitoring software company settle lawsuit
Ian Linkletter says he was trying to help students who felt ‘creeped out’ by software designed to monitor for signs of cheating
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I spoke with The Globe and Mail about the lawsuit being over and the concerns that caused me to speak out.
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4e12d7e...
Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4e12d7e...
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This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
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Tired: saying people today aren't reading capably
Wired: sharing annotations & close readings publicly so interpretations are connected to evidence
Inspired: sharing social media hatereadings of reactionary screeds as a way of enticing people to connect interpretations to evidence to consequences
Wired: sharing annotations & close readings publicly so interpretations are connected to evidence
Inspired: sharing social media hatereadings of reactionary screeds as a way of enticing people to connect interpretations to evidence to consequences
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Tired: saying people today aren't reading capably
Wired: sharing annotations & close readings publicly so interpretations are connected to evidence
Inspired: sharing social media hatereadings of reactionary screeds as a way of enticing people to connect interpretations to evidence to consequences
Wired: sharing annotations & close readings publicly so interpretations are connected to evidence
Inspired: sharing social media hatereadings of reactionary screeds as a way of enticing people to connect interpretations to evidence to consequences
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periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
Read easier with Atkinson Hyperlegible Font, crafted for low-vision readers. Download for free and enjoy clear letters and numbers on your computer!
www.brailleinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 AM
periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides
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Have you seen this? I like how it’s presented and really is interesting.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Have you seen this? I like how it’s presented and really is interesting.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
www.authoritarian-stack.info