Cecilia
@ceciliamarie.bsky.social
🤝 Doing audience & membership development @wisconsinwatch.org
🗣️ Opinions here are my own, etc.
🗣️ Opinions here are my own, etc.
Some good food for thought in this piece about how to frame the role of LLMs in any work that is change-focused.
“Change doesn’t emerge from patterns or averages; it emerges from the slow, messy, human work of showing up, listening, and building together.”
“Change doesn’t emerge from patterns or averages; it emerges from the slow, messy, human work of showing up, listening, and building together.”
The limits of AI in social change
More and more nonprofits are using AI. However, the excitement around scale and efficiency often overshadows a critical question: What does it mean to bring machine-generated abstraction into systems ...
idronline.org
September 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Some good food for thought in this piece about how to frame the role of LLMs in any work that is change-focused.
“Change doesn’t emerge from patterns or averages; it emerges from the slow, messy, human work of showing up, listening, and building together.”
“Change doesn’t emerge from patterns or averages; it emerges from the slow, messy, human work of showing up, listening, and building together.”
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the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
September 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the funny thing about the constant misappropriation of MLK is that the guy left a massive body of writing specifically aimed at explaining his views of those of the movement he represented to the broad public. it is extremely easy to know what the guy thought on a variety of subjects and yet
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The vast range of prison rules makes it nearly impossible to avoid infractions – and the punishments are horrific
Should people really face solitary confinement–a form of torture–for receiving a minor violation behind bars?
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/disc...
Should people really face solitary confinement–a form of torture–for receiving a minor violation behind bars?
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/disc...
September 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The vast range of prison rules makes it nearly impossible to avoid infractions – and the punishments are horrific
Should people really face solitary confinement–a form of torture–for receiving a minor violation behind bars?
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/disc...
Should people really face solitary confinement–a form of torture–for receiving a minor violation behind bars?
www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/disc...
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Everything is a distraction from everything else. The only right thing to be talking about is nothing, which is also a distraction
September 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Everything is a distraction from everything else. The only right thing to be talking about is nothing, which is also a distraction
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They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
August 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They say phones only make us miserable but I just got this news alert and laughed for a solid minute so who is to say
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my children very politely asked if they could just please read their own books tonight rather than listen to me read. which is fine btw. it's only been every night for 9 years. with voices. some people might mind but not me. GOOD voices too, with real drama. but it's fine of course,
August 19, 2025 at 12:58 AM
my children very politely asked if they could just please read their own books tonight rather than listen to me read. which is fine btw. it's only been every night for 9 years. with voices. some people might mind but not me. GOOD voices too, with real drama. but it's fine of course,
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I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
August 16, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.
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We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.
In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
August 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
We asked people who experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments to write about it in their own words.
In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us about how her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal:
“What I want is to grow beans, tomatoes and strawberries, but my collection of donated planters sits empty because I can’t afford soil. Dirt is not in my budget.”
Confessions of the Working Poor - Macleans.ca
I work hard, buy quality clothes and fake my way through dinner-party conversations. I'm also part of a fast-growing Canadian underclass.
macleans.ca
August 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
“What I want is to grow beans, tomatoes and strawberries, but my collection of donated planters sits empty because I can’t afford soil. Dirt is not in my budget.”
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I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out
Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”
www.wired.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.
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Das Texasdeutsche ist hier eindeutig der Gewinner:
July 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Das Texasdeutsche ist hier eindeutig der Gewinner:
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I like to imagine that in all the cell-phone interactions, Cuomo is asking New Yorkers to help him use his phone
Cuomo announces his general election run by proving the Mamdani sauce ain't so easy to cook up on the spot with half the ingredients
July 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I like to imagine that in all the cell-phone interactions, Cuomo is asking New Yorkers to help him use his phone
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I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan
With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.
"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."
Can ChatGPT make “in this essay I will” jokes?
July 1, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Can ChatGPT make “in this essay I will” jokes?
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Organizations across Wisconsin have been severely disrupted by a roller coaster involving federal funding cuts that were announced by the Trump administration in May and then reversed by a judge in June. What's next? We asked leaders in Eau Claire, Green Bay, Dane County and beyond.
‘Harder to rebuild than it is to destroy’: AmeriCorps regroups in Wisconsin after judge restores funding that Trump cut
Leaders of member organizations discuss what’s next for AmeriCorps in an uncertain future.
wisconsinwatch.org
June 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Organizations across Wisconsin have been severely disrupted by a roller coaster involving federal funding cuts that were announced by the Trump administration in May and then reversed by a judge in June. What's next? We asked leaders in Eau Claire, Green Bay, Dane County and beyond.
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Watched Oppenheimer yesterday and had to chuckle at the line “You're not just self-important. You’re actually important.” I can't tell whether it's the most or least self-aware line Christopher Nolan could have written.
June 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Watched Oppenheimer yesterday and had to chuckle at the line “You're not just self-important. You’re actually important.” I can't tell whether it's the most or least self-aware line Christopher Nolan could have written.
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Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
June 25, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Brad Lander: "I also need to thank some of the most important people in my life and on this campaign—I mean, of course, the NYT editorial board. Just kidding, of course: I love Wordle and Connections, but I really urge the Times to cancel their new feature 'Editorial Riddles.' No one likes those."
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If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
June 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.
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Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.
June 22, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.
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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
June 22, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long
All lies.
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I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I don't think I've ever felt more like burning it all down than I have while witnessing the elite project to turn Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander into scary, incompetent monsters while turning an actual incompetent monster, Andrew Cuomo, into a merely complicated fellow who just made an oopsie.
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It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
June 9, 2025 at 3:07 AM
It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.