Syberdelia
@syberdelia.bsky.social
Artist, academic, author in California, just trying to enjoy Bluesky and still have a smidge of privacy. Image from Baldur’s Gate 3 video game
January 3, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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Early January is the anniversary of the great painter Clementine Hunter’s passing. Her flowers are overdue and ongoing 💐
January 2, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Early January is the anniversary of the great painter Clementine Hunter’s passing. Her flowers are overdue and ongoing 💐
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"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
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thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...
"And what about all those books with checklists on how to spot your country sliding into fascism? Why did so many of the people who read them—and even some of the people who wrote them—falter when a genocide was unfolding on their screens..." - @naomiaklein.bsky.social h/t @annfriedman.bsky.social
Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR
A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?
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December 6, 2025 at 4:04 AM
thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...
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It’s best to think of the New York Times as a games company that does propaganda for pedophiles, Confederates and Nazis on the side.
November 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It’s best to think of the New York Times as a games company that does propaganda for pedophiles, Confederates and Nazis on the side.
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
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Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
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October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
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OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
October 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."
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hello! my friend was assaulted and threatened by federal agents for the crime of "not liking them". please help him sue the shit out of these fascist thugs chuffed.org/project/free...
October 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
hello! my friend was assaulted and threatened by federal agents for the crime of "not liking them". please help him sue the shit out of these fascist thugs chuffed.org/project/free...
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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The Trump administration’s use of Guantánamo Bay to detain immigrants isn't just cruel — it's illegal.
The government can't weaponize offshore bases to violate people's rights.
The government can't weaponize offshore bases to violate people's rights.
Trump Official Says U.S. Can House Migrants at All of Its Overseas Bases
A Justice Department lawyer made the claim in response to a challenge to the administration’s use of the base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to hold detainees designated for deportation.
www.nytimes.com
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The Trump administration’s use of Guantánamo Bay to detain immigrants isn't just cruel — it's illegal.
The government can't weaponize offshore bases to violate people's rights.
The government can't weaponize offshore bases to violate people's rights.
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Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
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October 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
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Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
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October 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.
This beautiful podcast is bringing tears to my eyes, again and again: What If We Get It Right, with Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson in conversation with Jane Goodall
#climatechange #hope
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#climatechange #hope
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My conversation with Jane Goodall 🐒🌿🕊️, on hope, courage, and action.
Podcast Episode · WHAT IF WE GET IT RIGHT? · 10/07/2025 · 35m
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October 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
This beautiful podcast is bringing tears to my eyes, again and again: What If We Get It Right, with Ayanna Elizabeth Johnson in conversation with Jane Goodall
#climatechange #hope
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
#climatechange #hope
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So if we’re keeping track of who’s been “come for”:
Disabled people shouldn’t leave their homes
Immigrants aren’t safe anywhere
Black & brown citizens can be detained & brutalized even more easily
Cis women aren’t entitled to certain healthcare
Trans people aren’t allowed to exist some places
Disabled people shouldn’t leave their homes
Immigrants aren’t safe anywhere
Black & brown citizens can be detained & brutalized even more easily
Cis women aren’t entitled to certain healthcare
Trans people aren’t allowed to exist some places
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
So if we’re keeping track of who’s been “come for”:
Disabled people shouldn’t leave their homes
Immigrants aren’t safe anywhere
Black & brown citizens can be detained & brutalized even more easily
Cis women aren’t entitled to certain healthcare
Trans people aren’t allowed to exist some places
Disabled people shouldn’t leave their homes
Immigrants aren’t safe anywhere
Black & brown citizens can be detained & brutalized even more easily
Cis women aren’t entitled to certain healthcare
Trans people aren’t allowed to exist some places
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Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra - Heliocentric Worlds, Vol.2 (ESP-Disk’ 1017) Recorded at RLA Sound Studios, New York November 16 1965 Originally released in 1966.
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra - Heliocentric Worlds, Vol.2 (ESP-Disk’ 1017) Recorded at RLA Sound Studios, New York November 16 1965 Originally released in 1966.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Talk of Elon Musk being replaced at Tesla means this is the perfect moment to help turn up the temperature, and show Wall Street that the #TeslaTakedown is here to stay.
Find your local protest, or start one with your friends and neighbors, at teslatakedown.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Find your local protest, or start one with your friends and neighbors, at teslatakedown.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Exclusive | Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk
With profits and the stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at the company.
www.wsj.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Talk of Elon Musk being replaced at Tesla means this is the perfect moment to help turn up the temperature, and show Wall Street that the #TeslaTakedown is here to stay.
Find your local protest, or start one with your friends and neighbors, at teslatakedown.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Find your local protest, or start one with your friends and neighbors, at teslatakedown.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
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“.. The real news [in Terry Moran’s interview] .. was Trump’s acknowledgment that he could bring Abrego Garcia home if he wanted.”
@theatlantic.com
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The Awful Bind of the El Salvador Prisoners
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is one of hundreds of detainees who have been denied their day in court.
www.theatlantic.com
April 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
“.. The real news [in Terry Moran’s interview] .. was Trump’s acknowledgment that he could bring Abrego Garcia home if he wanted.”
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@theatlantic.com
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
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this is who we are.
SOS: Migrants held in Texas fear notorious El Salvador prison
Venezuelan detainees in Texas fear the Trump administration will send them to El Salvador's notorious CECOT maximum security prison.
www.reuters.com
April 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
this is who we are.
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Don’t forget tomorrow is the nationwide May Day protest. 50501 has been doing an incredible job organizing, and a lot of our coalition members will be joining events across the country.
April 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Don’t forget tomorrow is the nationwide May Day protest. 50501 has been doing an incredible job organizing, and a lot of our coalition members will be joining events across the country.