John Bartucz
@jbartucz.bsky.social
Teaching Specialist in CS at UofMN. AI/Equity/CSEd. Retired greyhound admirer.
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They killed someone on Friday:
What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.
unraveledpress.com
September 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
They killed someone on Friday:
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As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption
April 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
As promised here’s Pink Pony Club but it’s about encryption
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But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
February 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
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Freezing rain + Sunday scaries are nothing in the face of @schumer.senate.gov’s weakness as Minority Leader — he needs to take *several* pages out of McConnell’s playbook 📖
It’s a coup, where are YOU?! Fight or Resign, Chuck.
@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
It’s a coup, where are YOU?! Fight or Resign, Chuck.
@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Freezing rain + Sunday scaries are nothing in the face of @schumer.senate.gov’s weakness as Minority Leader — he needs to take *several* pages out of McConnell’s playbook 📖
It’s a coup, where are YOU?! Fight or Resign, Chuck.
@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
It’s a coup, where are YOU?! Fight or Resign, Chuck.
@indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social
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I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
January 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I was to give a talk at a big US Attorney's Office next week abt the complicity of German lawyers in the creation of the Nazi state. Yesterday the Justice Department cancelled it.
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
Irony is dead.
I've got an op/ed on this I'm looking to place. Help appreciated.
#LawSky #Skystorians #Holocaust
How long until OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, and Google convince Trump that DeepSeek presents a $ecurity ri$k to American$?
January 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
How long until OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Anthropic, and Google convince Trump that DeepSeek presents a $ecurity ri$k to American$?
The Process is the Product (A review of the book "Co-Intelligence" and some thoughts on #Ethics and #AI) rdcu.be/d3Oyt #artificialintelligence #llm
The process is the product: a review of Co-Intelligence by Ethan Mollick
rdcu.be
December 17, 2024 at 3:46 PM
The Process is the Product (A review of the book "Co-Intelligence" and some thoughts on #Ethics and #AI) rdcu.be/d3Oyt #artificialintelligence #llm
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I spoke with immigration organizer Silky Shah about how organizers are preparing to defend immigrant communities, and what actions we can take to prepare and respond. If you want to get more involved, be sure to check the resources in the show notes.
How Immigration Organizers Are Gearing Up for Another Trump Era
“It’s inherently a racial justice fight and economic justice fight,” says organizer Silky Shah.
truthout.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:29 PM
I spoke with immigration organizer Silky Shah about how organizers are preparing to defend immigrant communities, and what actions we can take to prepare and respond. If you want to get more involved, be sure to check the resources in the show notes.
But you know, fining and imprisoning people will magically also allow them to get a job and enough money to afford rent.
A staggering statistic: Every $100 increase in median rent is associated with a *9 percent* increase in the estimated homelessness rate, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The math of our housing crisis is brutally clear.
The math of our housing crisis is brutally clear.
December 4, 2024 at 4:40 PM
But you know, fining and imprisoning people will magically also allow them to get a job and enough money to afford rent.
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It's yet another reminder that Michelle Wolf was right and courageous to tell them right to their faces...
December 3, 2024 at 1:55 PM
It's yet another reminder that Michelle Wolf was right and courageous to tell them right to their faces...
To my millions of followers: if you are a high school CS teacher in Minnesota, get your kids to the adventofcode.com ! Send me your school's leaderboard and I'll add it to the mncomputerclub.com/wcc/leaderboard
Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:17 PM
To my millions of followers: if you are a high school CS teacher in Minnesota, get your kids to the adventofcode.com ! Send me your school's leaderboard and I'll add it to the mncomputerclub.com/wcc/leaderboard
This whole thread.
We should be specific when we say "tech", whether we mean the fascist overlords, or some kid who works at an Apple Store. The folks who organized unions at Amazon and Google are people, too, and are more _tech_ than any of the tycoons.
the only reason that tech was ever remotely left-coded was that in the early 2010s they consciously aligned themselves with what appeared to be the dominant political party. that meant large donations to Dems and nominal gestures toward diversity. as soon as the winds shifted they swung right.
December 2, 2024 at 7:14 PM
This whole thread.
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One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 23, 2024 at 1:29 AM
One thing I find interesting about the echo chamber complaint is that an echo chamber just won a presidential election.
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
Put aside the convo of whether it’s “good” or “bad” for a moment. The far right has devoted enormous resources + time to building echo chambers & loathes spaces they don’t control
A 30-year-old article that still holds water...
"I am disturbed by the way we have created a social environment in which so much emphasis is laid on competition – on forging ahead while trampling on others...."
www.kingsreview.co.uk/essays/co-op...
"I am disturbed by the way we have created a social environment in which so much emphasis is laid on competition – on forging ahead while trampling on others...."
www.kingsreview.co.uk/essays/co-op...
Co-operation
Patrick Bateson | Nov 20, 2014
www.kingsreview.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 1:19 PM
A 30-year-old article that still holds water...
"I am disturbed by the way we have created a social environment in which so much emphasis is laid on competition – on forging ahead while trampling on others...."
www.kingsreview.co.uk/essays/co-op...
"I am disturbed by the way we have created a social environment in which so much emphasis is laid on competition – on forging ahead while trampling on others...."
www.kingsreview.co.uk/essays/co-op...
Not a lot of solutions, but crystallizes a lot of the problems. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How the Ivy League Broke America
The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
www.theatlantic.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Not a lot of solutions, but crystallizes a lot of the problems. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Thoughtful article on the stakes of what's going on at OpenAI. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
November 21, 2023 at 9:10 PM
Thoughtful article on the stakes of what's going on at OpenAI. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Once again: Moms for Liberty exists entirely so that white supremacists can violently follow them into community space, then pretend that their violence is "protection" of white women.
This right here is about deceiving people into believing the threat is real, racial, and comes from Black men.
This right here is about deceiving people into believing the threat is real, racial, and comes from Black men.
November 17, 2023 at 10:31 PM
Once again: Moms for Liberty exists entirely so that white supremacists can violently follow them into community space, then pretend that their violence is "protection" of white women.
This right here is about deceiving people into believing the threat is real, racial, and comes from Black men.
This right here is about deceiving people into believing the threat is real, racial, and comes from Black men.
