Kavi ?
@geryon.bsky.social
Writer/teacher/etc[computational rhetoric] in Haldimand Tract/CUPE5524. Maxing Inland Empire and Disco. 🌹⌨️ 🦆 🍄🟫🦨🦫 🦦🦥🚩🏳️🌈🖖 ✊🥭🍆 🍛🍱🫙🗺️🥶🫥🪭. e.g. did an MFA in Digital Arts & New Media (but so-so at drawing), fond of birds, horde books
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Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
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Nice work!
Microsoft is now warning investors about the pushback against its massive data centers.
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
The tech giant's latest earnings reports says: “We also face community opposition, local moratoriums and hyper-local dissent that may impede or delay infrastructure development."
October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Nice work!
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One kitchen table issue is that food is prepared in kitchens and eaten at tables, and agriculture is one of the most vulnerable sectors of our economy to climate change, and food systems are also the #2 contributor to climate change after energy
October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
One kitchen table issue is that food is prepared in kitchens and eaten at tables, and agriculture is one of the most vulnerable sectors of our economy to climate change, and food systems are also the #2 contributor to climate change after energy
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the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
the amount of academic research now using llms in research (synthetic data generation, to classify, annotate, or analyse large scale data, etc) is astounding. remember, just cus use of llms in research is becoming normalised does NOT erase the fact it degrades the research & undermine your results
Game players want sequels that are the year's new version of the car (the same plus a little more) - not movie sequels that take the core but reinvent it or pull it in a new direction. This is a central reason (in the aesthetic conservatism and how it allocates labor) for why games are still bad.
October 30, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Game players want sequels that are the year's new version of the car (the same plus a little more) - not movie sequels that take the core but reinvent it or pull it in a new direction. This is a central reason (in the aesthetic conservatism and how it allocates labor) for why games are still bad.
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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New @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org data highlights tech lobbyists' tightening grip on EU policymaking:
📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years
💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs
🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years
💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs
🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
Big Tech lobby budgets hit record levels | Corporate Europe Observatory
New figures show that the digital industry as a whole is now spending €151 million a year on lobbying the EU, a major increase to what was already considerable firepower.
corporateeurope.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 AM
New @lobbycontrol.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org data highlights tech lobbyists' tightening grip on EU policymaking:
📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years
💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs
🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
📈 Total lobbying spend up by a third in 2 years
💼 There are now more tech lobbyists than MEPs
🗣️ Big Tech meets EU officials every single day
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/10/b...
How can anyone even pretend to believe that the hyperscalers are ushering in a prosperous society when they can’t even treat their own workers with dignity, respond to record profits with mass layoffs…
October 29, 2025 at 2:39 PM
How can anyone even pretend to believe that the hyperscalers are ushering in a prosperous society when they can’t even treat their own workers with dignity, respond to record profits with mass layoffs…
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They revoked Wole Soyinka’s US visa? I keep typing reactions and deleting them. Another new low.
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 11:38 AM
They revoked Wole Soyinka’s US visa? I keep typing reactions and deleting them. Another new low.
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The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/
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The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge
Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is
Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge
Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is
Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is
im tired of the collective being the subtext of the personal. Im ready for a phase of the personal being the subtext of the collective.
October 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
im tired of the collective being the subtext of the personal. Im ready for a phase of the personal being the subtext of the collective.
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
October 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
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A huge and necessary form of activism, that frankly is not being done at the scale it needs to be, is to campaign for Flock and Ring camera bans.
October 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
A huge and necessary form of activism, that frankly is not being done at the scale it needs to be, is to campaign for Flock and Ring camera bans.
It’s extremely funny how even the US government, with IMF and World Bank support, is so far incapable of backing Millei‘s Rand/Rothbard fantasies in a way the markets find credible
Bessent says US bought pesos again, currency dips reut.rs/47ehiB2
Bessent says US bought pesos again, currency dips
The U.S. Treasury bought Argentine pesos in the "Blue Chip Swap" and spot markets on Thursday and it continues to monitor all markets, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday.
reut.rs
October 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It’s extremely funny how even the US government, with IMF and World Bank support, is so far incapable of backing Millei‘s Rand/Rothbard fantasies in a way the markets find credible
Quantification in policy *always* leads to negative externalities, blindspots & unaccountability, yet it is a necessary evil. Our near term goal is to design fairer, accountable, systems to measure success that allow for freedom & flexibility at the ground level--not to abolish measurement & ranking
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Quantification in policy *always* leads to negative externalities, blindspots & unaccountability, yet it is a necessary evil. Our near term goal is to design fairer, accountable, systems to measure success that allow for freedom & flexibility at the ground level--not to abolish measurement & ranking
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South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
restofworld.org
October 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...
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New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...
Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal
Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out
thenarwhal.ca
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
New analysis of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first 100 days after the federal election show oil and gas, mining and other industrial groups made up about 60 per cent of lobbying records. Environmental groups couldn’t get a word in. thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...
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i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
October 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get
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israel has already broken the ceasefire
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
israel has already broken the ceasefire
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The Spanish crown didn't even pay cash out of pocket for the expedition: They sold a round of indulgences, borrowed from some Genoese financiers, and turned a port's back-tax obligations into one of the caravels.
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Spanish crown didn't even pay cash out of pocket for the expedition: They sold a round of indulgences, borrowed from some Genoese financiers, and turned a port's back-tax obligations into one of the caravels.
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Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Academic articles can be written in a popular science writing style