Robin L Turner
@robinlturnerphd.blacksky.app
Mostly a reskeeter. tradition, gender, land tenure, and resource politics in Southern Africa. I block would be followers without profiles.
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Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
December 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hello repro writers from the mid to late 20 teens - I just discovered Cosmopolitan at some point pulled almost every politics/repro story from the 5 years I wrote for them offline (except two, which they put under someone else's name and gave me "additional reporting" which it very much was not)
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Sheriffs nationwide have enormous control over jail voting access, with many restricting mail and voter guides, making it nearly impossible for incarcerated people to vote. A law in Colorado removed that discretion—and turnout has soared.
Jail Voting Soars in Colorado After State Mandates Polling Places in County Lockups
Local officials had claimed they were already giving detained people ballot access, but the first-in-the-nation mandate forced their hands and increased turnout across the state.
boltsmag.org
December 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Sheriffs nationwide have enormous control over jail voting access, with many restricting mail and voter guides, making it nearly impossible for incarcerated people to vote. A law in Colorado removed that discretion—and turnout has soared.
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Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
December 28, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Remember:
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them.
When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips.
ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.
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Pretty sure this is a lie we can live with. 😁
(Note: quoting it on the thread so they're all viewable together. 🥴)
(Note: quoting it on the thread so they're all viewable together. 🥴)
Ok, so I lied. Here are some more book recommendations:
- We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria
- Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
- Women, Race 7 Class by Angela Y. Davis
- We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria
- Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
- Women, Race 7 Class by Angela Y. Davis
December 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Pretty sure this is a lie we can live with. 😁
(Note: quoting it on the thread so they're all viewable together. 🥴)
(Note: quoting it on the thread so they're all viewable together. 🥴)
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(2/4) - Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (ed. by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer w/ foreword by Ruha Benjamin)
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
December 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
(2/4) - Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (ed. by Mizue Aizeki, Matt Mahmoudi, and Coline Schupfer w/ foreword by Ruha Benjamin)
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
- Empire of AI by Karen Hao
- The Palestine Laboratory by Anthony Loewenstein
- Instead of Education by John Holt
- Give Children the Vote by John Wall
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CORRECTION: The final title listed here is supposed to be "Women, Race & Class." Seriously, Bluesky, enable an editing function!
Ok, so I lied. Here are some more book recommendations:
- We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria
- Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
- Women, Race 7 Class by Angela Y. Davis
- We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria
- Borderlands by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
- Women, Race 7 Class by Angela Y. Davis
December 28, 2025 at 3:55 PM
CORRECTION: The final title listed here is supposed to be "Women, Race & Class." Seriously, Bluesky, enable an editing function!
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A) Fruit of a poisoned tree. Regardless of how you use AI and what your intentions are, the LLMs were trained on stolen intellectual property whose owners were never asked for permission nor reimbursed.
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Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community on AI
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
file770.com/erin-underwo...
Erin's core thesis is "There are responsible ways to use AI that support creators without replacing creative labor."
Erin Underwood: Open Letter to the Science Fiction Writers Association and Community
Hi Friends, Erin Underwood After writing the letter below, I thought rather than sending it to SFWA only, I’d share it with Mike at File 770 along with a note that read: “Am I crazy? Will this blow…
file770.com
December 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A) Fruit of a poisoned tree. Regardless of how you use AI and what your intentions are, the LLMs were trained on stolen intellectual property whose owners were never asked for permission nor reimbursed.
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The bill is the latest in a wave of identical legislation being introduced in several states and at the federal level. @alreflector
Alabama Lawmaker Proposes Banning Use of “West Bank” in Government Documents
The bill is the latest in a wave of identical legislation being introduced in several states and at the federal level.
buff.ly
December 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The bill is the latest in a wave of identical legislation being introduced in several states and at the federal level. @alreflector
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In 2021, Brigitte Bardot was fined €20,000 for referring to people of La Reunion as "natives who still have savage genes".
In 2008, she was tried for using racial slurs against Muslims and “inciting racial hatred”. Her husband was an adviser to the National Front.
Free: archive.ph/2022.01.18-0...
In 2008, she was tried for using racial slurs against Muslims and “inciting racial hatred”. Her husband was an adviser to the National Front.
Free: archive.ph/2022.01.18-0...
December 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In 2021, Brigitte Bardot was fined €20,000 for referring to people of La Reunion as "natives who still have savage genes".
In 2008, she was tried for using racial slurs against Muslims and “inciting racial hatred”. Her husband was an adviser to the National Front.
Free: archive.ph/2022.01.18-0...
In 2008, she was tried for using racial slurs against Muslims and “inciting racial hatred”. Her husband was an adviser to the National Front.
Free: archive.ph/2022.01.18-0...
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Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.
Could AI relationships actually be good for us?
From companionship to psychotherapy, technology could meet unmet needs – but it needs to be handled responsibly
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Always good to keep in mind that Guardian has a partnership with OpenAI.
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Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.
More news (not good) from NIH
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
The renewal request from National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke Director Walter Koroshetz has been denied.
I guess the NIH_leadership™ needed another position to fill with their time-tested recruitment process.
December 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Back in the old days, we used to call this a purge. Firing all your senior leaders at NIH? It's a purge. Just call it what it is.
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an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.
December 26, 2025 at 11:39 AM
an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Amir. Amir is just 22 and was studying engineering. He told me he wants a week of rest but he’s responsible for his family including his mother who has health conditions and his siblings Nadine, 12, Eileen, 15 and Muhammad, 18.
December 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Amir. Amir is just 22 and was studying engineering. He told me he wants a week of rest but he’s responsible for his family including his mother who has health conditions and his siblings Nadine, 12, Eileen, 15 and Muhammad, 18.
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Don’t know what to say or do but each has massive expenses, including: three cases of children with hepatitis, a young woman whose health deteriorating from lupus, a single mom & baby who are getting thrown out of their apartment, a whole camp getting flooded tonight
Give. Act
Give. Act
Dependable support for six families & a camp while everything remains so tenuous and life-and-death, still: this was and remains our goal, even as donations have become fewer.
Let's change that. Click “weekly” for healthcare, food, shelter, winter & newborn supplies: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Let's change that. Click “weekly” for healthcare, food, shelter, winter & newborn supplies: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
December 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Don’t know what to say or do but each has massive expenses, including: three cases of children with hepatitis, a young woman whose health deteriorating from lupus, a single mom & baby who are getting thrown out of their apartment, a whole camp getting flooded tonight
Give. Act
Give. Act
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Please, please help: chuffed.org/project/help...
Mohammed’s condition is getting worse, and we had to put him on IV fluids due to the deterioration of his health. Please keep him in your prayers 🥲❤️
chuffed.org/project/help...
@mommunism.bsky.social please 🙏❤️
chuffed.org/project/help...
@mommunism.bsky.social please 🙏❤️
December 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Please, please help: chuffed.org/project/help...
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Ruth Wilson Gilmore's definition of racism gets at why it's not something that can be ignored: "the state-sanctioned and/or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death". --- THE PREMATURE DEATH part is not something that can be "ignored"
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Somebody needs to do a 30 over 70. Or even 60. Emerging authors emerge at many ages.
December 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Somebody needs to do a 30 over 70. Or even 60. Emerging authors emerge at many ages.
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Sokoto state in Nigeria is 99% Muslim (in a region that has dealt with a US company conducting drug trials on children in the past, with devastating lasting effects- see Pfizer drug trials: www.brookings.edu/articles/we-...) So, which Christians are being saved by the US bombing Sokoto?
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Sokoto state in Nigeria is 99% Muslim (in a region that has dealt with a US company conducting drug trials on children in the past, with devastating lasting effects- see Pfizer drug trials: www.brookings.edu/articles/we-...) So, which Christians are being saved by the US bombing Sokoto?
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hadeel. Hadeel and her husband owned a business before the war but it and their home was destroyed. They are living with their children Joan, 3 and Celine, 16 months, who was born during the war. They are struggling with vitamin deficiencies.
December 27, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Hadeel. Hadeel and her husband owned a business before the war but it and their home was destroyed. They are living with their children Joan, 3 and Celine, 16 months, who was born during the war. They are struggling with vitamin deficiencies.
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In 2008 ICE arrested almost 18% of the population of Postville Iowa. Children reported nightmares about being disappeared after attending school after the raid, their classrooms missing up to three quarters of the students because their parents had either been arrested or feared arrest
December 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
In 2008 ICE arrested almost 18% of the population of Postville Iowa. Children reported nightmares about being disappeared after attending school after the raid, their classrooms missing up to three quarters of the students because their parents had either been arrested or feared arrest
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The right has a long history of developing positions that were consider off the wall and then transforming them into mainstream ones.
December 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The right has a long history of developing positions that were consider off the wall and then transforming them into mainstream ones.
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…&, most recently,
- Degrades not just trust in, but the ability to critically engage w/, determine the value of, categorize, and intentionally sincerely consider new ways of organizing & understanding facts to produce knowledge. That is, overreliance on "gen AI" breaks down critical thinking skills
- Degrades not just trust in, but the ability to critically engage w/, determine the value of, categorize, and intentionally sincerely consider new ways of organizing & understanding facts to produce knowledge. That is, overreliance on "gen AI" breaks down critical thinking skills
April 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
…&, most recently,
- Degrades not just trust in, but the ability to critically engage w/, determine the value of, categorize, and intentionally sincerely consider new ways of organizing & understanding facts to produce knowledge. That is, overreliance on "gen AI" breaks down critical thinking skills
- Degrades not just trust in, but the ability to critically engage w/, determine the value of, categorize, and intentionally sincerely consider new ways of organizing & understanding facts to produce knowledge. That is, overreliance on "gen AI" breaks down critical thinking skills
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Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
April 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
- Sounds confident even when factually wrong
- Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf
- Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases
- Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…
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This all just assumes that, based on the idea that there are more voices being published now, something is being taken away from white men. Barkan even says that it is "zero sum."
But zero sum is the supremacist frame. People who aren't consciously supremacist take it on all the time.
But zero sum is the supremacist frame. People who aren't consciously supremacist take it on all the time.
December 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This all just assumes that, based on the idea that there are more voices being published now, something is being taken away from white men. Barkan even says that it is "zero sum."
But zero sum is the supremacist frame. People who aren't consciously supremacist take it on all the time.
But zero sum is the supremacist frame. People who aren't consciously supremacist take it on all the time.