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RevaDRE
@revadre.bsky.social
Farmer, Writer, Musician, Mother, Kentuckian
I've got a new short story—Supernova—up at Fiction on the Web. For the dystopian-aware and their sorrow-filled bodies.

www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/2025/05/supe...
Supernova by Reva Russell English
Short stories hand-picked from authors around the world. Submissions accepted. Humour, crime, sci-fi, fantasy, horror and everyday life.
www.fictionontheweb.co.uk
May 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP:

www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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c’mon bro, just one more surveillance tech. this time it’ll really solve everything
AI Speed Cameras On DuSable Lake Shore Drive? State Bill Could Make It Happen
Under the proposed legislation, new technology could detect unsafe driving patterns and issue fines for speeding.
blockclubchicago.org
April 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Have been having a lot of conversations with people along the lines of "What do we do?" So I wrote about it. (Also, reach out if you're interested in helping build infrastructure of safety and love where I live in Lexington, Kentucky.)
How to Save/Build Your Soul and Conscience
We must engage in small acts of soul- and conscience-muscle building in order to create the new worlds inside us and around us that can form the context of imagining the big and organized actions t…
revarussellenglish.wordpress.com
March 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Great article on why nazis love AI Art. No longer do memes and communicating agenda require nazis to have a single creative worker in their corner willing to sign off on a hideous vision of society, AI offers direct brain-worms-to-audience communication newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
March 15, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Watch this interview with M Gessen. They describe what Trump/Musk are doing to trans people as what Arendt called “denationalization.” It’s “not an attack on trans rights; it’s an attack on trans people. They are stripped of their right to have rights, which is an obstacle to moving thru the world.”
March 16, 2025 at 11:01 AM
I wrote about David Lynch a few days ago, what his work means to me, how it gets me in shape for love. revarussellenglish.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/l...
Losing David Lynch
I think it’s why I’ve turned to Lynch’s work over my life, even though it destabilizes me. His work is a place of practice, whether I want to practice or not. To take in his films…
revarussellenglish.wordpress.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Adding to this point:

Anti trans lobbyists have said, very clearly, that the sports thing, the puberty blockers for kids thing, are merely rhetorical steps they are currently taking because they believe they're easy to get liberals to concede them.
"Trans bathroom panic is bad for cis women"
"banning trans women from sports is a distraction from abortion access"
"Banning all trans healthcare is a distraction from working families who can't afford food"

huh sensing a pattern here on who is important
November 22, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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Attention Canva users! Sharing this in case you didn't see my repost last night.
Check your privacy settings, as the default is switched on to train their AI services! You need to go into your privacy settings and switch it off!
#WritingCommunity
November 20, 2024 at 9:55 AM
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This should be bigger news: AI is *revitalizing the fossil fuels industry.*

Bloomberg called it a "surprising resurgence" in gas-fired power plants when we were on the brink of a transition to clean energy.

And big tech has nothing to say about it.

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-is-revi...
AI is revitalizing the fossil fuels industry, and big tech has nothing to say for itself
Silicon Valley is helping to accelerate the climate crisis in at least 3 major ways
www.bloodinthemachine.com
September 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM