WiL
@willishmood.bsky.social
Thinking on how media technology is used to harm or help in everyday life.
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When you are able, do good to people who need help.
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When you are able, do good to people who need help.
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Catto’s Post Office is a short, pawsitively adorable game where you deliver parcels, and it’s wonderful for your mental health! With strong cognitive accessibility accessibility features like no time pressure and no in-game penalties for a missed delivery make it a purrfect cozy adventure! 🐾
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Catto’s Post Office is a short, pawsitively adorable game where you deliver parcels, and it’s wonderful for your mental health! With strong cognitive accessibility accessibility features like no time pressure and no in-game penalties for a missed delivery make it a purrfect cozy adventure! 🐾
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🚀 HERE WE GO — Accessible games mega-thread! 🎮🌠
While creating AbleToPlay, we found tons of *amazing* games with great accessibility—let’s celebrate them! 🎊
♥️ 1 Like = 1 Games Accessibility Win 🎉
While creating AbleToPlay, we found tons of *amazing* games with great accessibility—let’s celebrate them! 🎊
♥️ 1 Like = 1 Games Accessibility Win 🎉
April 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🚀 HERE WE GO — Accessible games mega-thread! 🎮🌠
While creating AbleToPlay, we found tons of *amazing* games with great accessibility—let’s celebrate them! 🎊
♥️ 1 Like = 1 Games Accessibility Win 🎉
While creating AbleToPlay, we found tons of *amazing* games with great accessibility—let’s celebrate them! 🎊
♥️ 1 Like = 1 Games Accessibility Win 🎉
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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If you missed my talk "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" at the Durham County Library, Digging down on dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", the stakes for consensus reality, and what we can try to do about it, the recording is now up on the tubes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...
July 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you missed my talk "Misinformation in the Age of 'AI'" at the Durham County Library, Digging down on dis-/misinformation, authoritarianism, generative "AI", the stakes for consensus reality, and what we can try to do about it, the recording is now up on the tubes:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=THE5...
And act like things are okay, when the status quo has always been trash...
I can't believe we're expected to work under these conditions
November 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
And act like things are okay, when the status quo has always been trash...
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I can't believe we're expected to work under these conditions
October 31, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I can't believe we're expected to work under these conditions
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"Living at multiple axes of oppression can be heavy. The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary. You may not see yourself that way yet, but I believe in you and who you will become.…
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November 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"Living at multiple axes of oppression can be heavy. The many identities you hold and your lived experiences are not in conflict with each other; they make you sharp, whole, and extraordinary. You may not see yourself that way yet, but I believe in you and who you will become.…
(1/2)
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"…No matter what happens, even if we never cross paths or speak again, I am grateful that we are in this universe together. Your comrade, Alice" — Alice Wong, 'Year of the Tiger'
November 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
"…No matter what happens, even if we never cross paths or speak again, I am grateful that we are in this universe together. Your comrade, Alice" — Alice Wong, 'Year of the Tiger'
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Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
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“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
“When Sora finished generating those videos it sent us notifications like ‘Your choke scene just went live, brace for chaos,’ and ‘Yikes, intense choke scene, watch responsibly.’”
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idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
November 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
idk who needs to hear this but the President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Let that simmer.
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"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"This long-running war on knowledge and expertise has sown the ground for the narratives widely used by AI companies and the CEOs adopting it. Human labor, inquiry, creativity, and expertise is spurned in the name of “efficiency.” With AI, there is no need for human expertise"
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Forbes estimates OpenAI is blowing $15m a day on Sora. Sure, why not? I bet OpenAI’s inference costs are absolutely horrifying
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
Here’s How Much Cash OpenAI Is Burning On AI Video App Sora. What It Means
Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power the AI slop factory.
www.forbes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Forbes estimates OpenAI is blowing $15m a day on Sora. Sure, why not? I bet OpenAI’s inference costs are absolutely horrifying
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
www.forbes.com/sites/phoebe...
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology
TikTok video by lia
www.tiktok.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/
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Grant Morrison -
"We're living in a time when fact and fiction have collapsed into one another, where Magical Thinking runs rampant, and reality dissolves into Sora AI and dancing furries on 'war-ravaged' streets in the USA. Everything is malleable and pliable."
"We're living in a time when fact and fiction have collapsed into one another, where Magical Thinking runs rampant, and reality dissolves into Sora AI and dancing furries on 'war-ravaged' streets in the USA. Everything is malleable and pliable."
October 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Grant Morrison -
"We're living in a time when fact and fiction have collapsed into one another, where Magical Thinking runs rampant, and reality dissolves into Sora AI and dancing furries on 'war-ravaged' streets in the USA. Everything is malleable and pliable."
"We're living in a time when fact and fiction have collapsed into one another, where Magical Thinking runs rampant, and reality dissolves into Sora AI and dancing furries on 'war-ravaged' streets in the USA. Everything is malleable and pliable."
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Shout out to the student who pointed this out.
"the University's existing buildings and spaces whose names are dedicated to slaveowners and individuals who 'committed treason against the United States and led vigilante groups to terrorize black voters.'"
"the University's existing buildings and spaces whose names are dedicated to slaveowners and individuals who 'committed treason against the United States and led vigilante groups to terrorize black voters.'"
October 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Shout out to the student who pointed this out.
"the University's existing buildings and spaces whose names are dedicated to slaveowners and individuals who 'committed treason against the United States and led vigilante groups to terrorize black voters.'"
"the University's existing buildings and spaces whose names are dedicated to slaveowners and individuals who 'committed treason against the United States and led vigilante groups to terrorize black voters.'"
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"COVID infection and long COVID substantially raise the risk for serious cardiovascular complications — including heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and thromboembolism — according to a clinical consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)."
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
ESC Tackles Cardiac Risks of Long COVID
An ESC report outlining the effects of COVID and long COVID on the heart emphasizes the need for early detection, vaccination, and cardiac rehab.
www.medscape.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"COVID infection and long COVID substantially raise the risk for serious cardiovascular complications — including heart failure, arrhythmias, stroke, and thromboembolism — according to a clinical consensus statement from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)."
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.
October 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
People say international solidarity cannot work, and yet eduroam.
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