kitimakaymitoohk
@kitimakaymitoohk.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Michif.
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We have kin everywhere. Some of them look like us, lots of them look nothing like us and yet are still connected to us. Some aren't even human. Some are coral. Some are whales. And they are there to connect with, if we can get out of our own way for long enough.
– Naomi Klein, Doppelgänger
– Naomi Klein, Doppelgänger
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If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you.
If you’re cleaning the air, thank you.
If you’re refusing to treat disabled people as expendable, thank you.
If you’ve got Covid, remember it’s not your fault.
The compassion is in the effort. Your mitigations meant you didn’t make anyone else sick.
If you’re cleaning the air, thank you.
If you’re refusing to treat disabled people as expendable, thank you.
If you’ve got Covid, remember it’s not your fault.
The compassion is in the effort. Your mitigations meant you didn’t make anyone else sick.
May 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you.
If you’re cleaning the air, thank you.
If you’re refusing to treat disabled people as expendable, thank you.
If you’ve got Covid, remember it’s not your fault.
The compassion is in the effort. Your mitigations meant you didn’t make anyone else sick.
If you’re cleaning the air, thank you.
If you’re refusing to treat disabled people as expendable, thank you.
If you’ve got Covid, remember it’s not your fault.
The compassion is in the effort. Your mitigations meant you didn’t make anyone else sick.
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
I hope you’ll read and share the piece.
stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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Indigenous leaders meet at United Nations, discuss water, challenges in implementing UNDRIP
UN invites Indigenous leaders from around the world for meetings
Indigenous leaders from around the world are meeting at the UN to discuss various issues including the climate crisis.
www.aptnnews.ca
April 21, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Indigenous leaders meet at United Nations, discuss water, challenges in implementing UNDRIP
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Academia isn’t perfect, but it offers a rare space to pursue knowledge for its own sake. If research were fully privatized, only profit-driven questions would get asked. Yet many of the most transformative discoveries began as curiosity-driven inquiries whose value wasn’t clear for years.
April 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Academia isn’t perfect, but it offers a rare space to pursue knowledge for its own sake. If research were fully privatized, only profit-driven questions would get asked. Yet many of the most transformative discoveries began as curiosity-driven inquiries whose value wasn’t clear for years.
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If you haven't had a chance to hear me talk about Moon of the Turning Leaves yet, there's a free online event happening tomorrow (Tuesday) evening that'll be streamed to libraries across Turtle Island. Here's a link with more details: libraryc.org/midlandlibra...
LSC | Watch | Midland Public Library Online Events
libraryc.org
February 11, 2025 at 1:55 AM
If you haven't had a chance to hear me talk about Moon of the Turning Leaves yet, there's a free online event happening tomorrow (Tuesday) evening that'll be streamed to libraries across Turtle Island. Here's a link with more details: libraryc.org/midlandlibra...
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Oh, and as for "your phone being compromised": I recommend turning off Apple Intelligence and anything branded "Copilot", as "AI" features can scrape data and use it in surprising ways. If you use Android, disable the keyboard feature that saves "transcripts of what you say and type" "on the device"
February 8, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Oh, and as for "your phone being compromised": I recommend turning off Apple Intelligence and anything branded "Copilot", as "AI" features can scrape data and use it in surprising ways. If you use Android, disable the keyboard feature that saves "transcripts of what you say and type" "on the device"
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This thread restored some of the hope that had been battered out of me. Community is all we have, and it’s often held together by a person who didn’t realize that’s what they were doing. Find that person and offer to share the load 💜
Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA, because they needed a treasurer and I'm good enough with numbers. It was a straightforward, self-contained job: balancing the checkbook for an organization that only did a few fundraisers each year.
February 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This thread restored some of the hope that had been battered out of me. Community is all we have, and it’s often held together by a person who didn’t realize that’s what they were doing. Find that person and offer to share the load 💜
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From Pets.com to AI slop, hundreds of billions of $ have been vaporized in tech bubbles over the past quarter century that could have been invested in stuff we *unambiguously need* like green energy or housing. This is how you know the market is efficient.
The AI bubble was inflated based on the idea that we need bigger models that both are trained and run on bigger and even larger GPUs. A company came along that has undermined the narrative - ways both substantive and questionable - and now the market panicked that $200bn got wasted on AI capex
Can someone explain it to me like I'm stupid?
January 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
From Pets.com to AI slop, hundreds of billions of $ have been vaporized in tech bubbles over the past quarter century that could have been invested in stuff we *unambiguously need* like green energy or housing. This is how you know the market is efficient.
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In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5
January 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
In 1850, the California government banned the controlled burning that Indigenous people had been doing for centuries. The practice controlled the forest density, scaled down undergrowth, and promoted fire-resistant species. It reduced the severity, mileage, and overall number of forest fires. 1/5
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The more folks resist becoming AI users, the harder companies are going to try to scale adoption by making the tech unavoidable. In other words, to scale their user base by coercion. We already saw this dynamic in 2024. I think we’re going to see it 10x in 2025.
January 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The more folks resist becoming AI users, the harder companies are going to try to scale adoption by making the tech unavoidable. In other words, to scale their user base by coercion. We already saw this dynamic in 2024. I think we’re going to see it 10x in 2025.
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This is breathtaking.
Aurora borealis... from *above*.
Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station
Aurora borealis... from *above*.
Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station
January 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This is breathtaking.
Aurora borealis... from *above*.
Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station
Aurora borealis... from *above*.
Credit: Don Pettit from the International Space Station
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This might sound like a hot take but friends: Read books as a hobby this year. It is one of the best things you can do for your brain to grow your thinking and perspectives.
If you want to be anti-consumption get a library card.
Bonus: in places like UK/AoNZ/CA library copies pay authors
If you want to be anti-consumption get a library card.
Bonus: in places like UK/AoNZ/CA library copies pay authors
January 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This might sound like a hot take but friends: Read books as a hobby this year. It is one of the best things you can do for your brain to grow your thinking and perspectives.
If you want to be anti-consumption get a library card.
Bonus: in places like UK/AoNZ/CA library copies pay authors
If you want to be anti-consumption get a library card.
Bonus: in places like UK/AoNZ/CA library copies pay authors
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The Myers Briggs is astrology for MBAs
IQ tests are astrology for racists
December 26, 2024 at 11:55 PM
The Myers Briggs is astrology for MBAs
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2025 is a great year for you to start captioning your images with alt text if you haven't yet. It helps people with low vision and blindness experience more of the web, gives your images a wider audience, and even enhances searchability of your posts!
Perkins has a good "why" and "how" intro guide:
Perkins has a good "why" and "how" intro guide:
How to Write Alt Text and Image Descriptions for the visually impaired
Making your website and social media accessible to people with blindness and low vision.
www.perkins.org
January 2, 2025 at 1:19 AM
2025 is a great year for you to start captioning your images with alt text if you haven't yet. It helps people with low vision and blindness experience more of the web, gives your images a wider audience, and even enhances searchability of your posts!
Perkins has a good "why" and "how" intro guide:
Perkins has a good "why" and "how" intro guide:
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#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory
Today in history, 1890: Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) is shot and killed by Indian police who had been sent to arrest him. The chief refused to go quietly, some young men intervened and a shot was fired. The police shot Sitting Bull in the chest and head. /1
#Voices4Victory
Today in history, 1890: Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) is shot and killed by Indian police who had been sent to arrest him. The chief refused to go quietly, some young men intervened and a shot was fired. The police shot Sitting Bull in the chest and head. /1
December 16, 2024 at 12:54 AM
#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory
Today in history, 1890: Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) is shot and killed by Indian police who had been sent to arrest him. The chief refused to go quietly, some young men intervened and a shot was fired. The police shot Sitting Bull in the chest and head. /1
#Voices4Victory
Today in history, 1890: Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull) is shot and killed by Indian police who had been sent to arrest him. The chief refused to go quietly, some young men intervened and a shot was fired. The police shot Sitting Bull in the chest and head. /1
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Valentino directly copied a Metis, Cree and/or Dene historical bag and passed it off as their own design. I’m disgusted my name and work was associated with theirs in 2016. I rebuke their designers as devoid of originality and creativity. They are sloppy and “mine” other cultures to steal work from.
December 12, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Valentino directly copied a Metis, Cree and/or Dene historical bag and passed it off as their own design. I’m disgusted my name and work was associated with theirs in 2016. I rebuke their designers as devoid of originality and creativity. They are sloppy and “mine” other cultures to steal work from.
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This type of thing is forever fascinating
December 12, 2024 at 2:12 AM
This type of thing is forever fascinating
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It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI.
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑
December 4, 2024 at 12:32 PM
It important to know the names of women researchers who've been studying, speaking & writing about bias and AI.
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑
Dr Timnit Gebru,
Dr Rumman Chowdhury, Dr Safiya Noble,
Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan,
Dr Buolamwini
And many many more within/outside academia.
Free link: archive.ph/2023.11.22-1...
👑👑👑
Quoting a friend: I sincerely advise my friends to create alt accounts in the absence of appropriate privacy settings that might put your own identity and the individuals in your network at risk on a platform that has yet to demonstrate any accountability or responsibility for user safety.
December 3, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Quoting a friend: I sincerely advise my friends to create alt accounts in the absence of appropriate privacy settings that might put your own identity and the individuals in your network at risk on a platform that has yet to demonstrate any accountability or responsibility for user safety.
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That’s it - thanks for sharing! And I love that Bluesky has reached the point where an author of a study under discussion just pops into the replies with a link to the paper.
December 2, 2024 at 4:30 AM
That’s it - thanks for sharing! And I love that Bluesky has reached the point where an author of a study under discussion just pops into the replies with a link to the paper.
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I do all of these things and I just want to say: I'm 100% not flirting with you or anyone else
You/yall flirting if:
•Yall reply/quote thread got more than 2 back & forths
•You put >3 😂 emoji or O's after the Lmao
•You use the following emojis: 👀😈🙈🌚🤣 (nobody's that funny)
•You in each other's mentions more than twice in 30 mins
•You like their selfie within 60 seconds of posting
•Yall reply/quote thread got more than 2 back & forths
•You put >3 😂 emoji or O's after the Lmao
•You use the following emojis: 👀😈🙈🌚🤣 (nobody's that funny)
•You in each other's mentions more than twice in 30 mins
•You like their selfie within 60 seconds of posting
How do yall classify flirting on here?
December 2, 2024 at 4:32 AM
I do all of these things and I just want to say: I'm 100% not flirting with you or anyone else