Heather Bryant

"Use AI or get left behind" is rugged individualism applied to technology. It's a fantasy that a person could be "good enough" with AI to not be affected by global shifts in labor and information. It's propaganda for individual survival over collective action on behalf of the collective welfare.

ICE buys Romulus detention facility, projects 1,458 jobs as local officials push back The agency said the Romulus facility and its construction are expected to generate 1,458 jobs, nearly $150 million in economic activity and more than $33 million in projected tax revenue.

Historical context for these jobs...one of the last people convicted for their role in the Holocaust was a secretary at a camp. She claimed as a secretary she wasn't responsible. She was found guilty because she could not deny that she knew what was actually happening.

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I'm not worried about a future in which I'm left behind because I don't use certain technologies. I'm worried about a future in which everyone is expected to do even more than we already are and those things aren't actually useful, necessary, or good for us — individually or collectively.

It's wild to have 2 pro-AI people in the same article, one saying that authors need to use AI or get left behind AND the other saying if readers know a book is AI they won't read it.

"Do the thing that your target customer will boycott you for if they know you are doing it." Wow. Great advice.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern said: > “The government’s arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are naked attacks on freedom of the press. Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon because the evidence for these vindictive and unconstitutional charges was insufficient, and Lemon has every right to document news and inform the public. Instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down. > > “These arrests, under bogus legal theories for obviously constitutionally protected reporting, are clear warning shots aimed at other journalists. The unmistakable message is that journalists must tread cautiously because the government is looking for any way to target them. Fort’s arrest is meant to instill the same fear in local independent journalists as big names like Lemon. > > “The answer to this outrageous attack is not fear or self-censorship. It’s an even stronger commitment to journalism, the truth, and the First Amendment. If the Trump administration thinks it can bully journalists into submission, it is wrong. We’ve recently seen that even in the Trump era, public pressure still can work. It’s time to do it again. News outlets across the political spectrum need to loudly defend Lemon’s and Fort’s rights. Journalists are not making themselves the story, Trump is.”

INBOX: @freedom.press on the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort

We've built a system in which the penalties and settlements for lying and cheating cost far less than what companies can make when they lie and cheat and then we act shocked that they lie and cheat.

Cough

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...you don't get to deny responsibility for your actions or words because you were manipulated. The judgement of your character isn't because you were manipulated, it's because of why you were vulnerable to that kind of manipulation in the first place.

If you can be manipulated by someone playing on your resentments of others, your desire to see others punished, your wish to see others denied things you don't think they deserve, your dislike of those not like you, your feelings of superiority, or your refusal to listen, learn, or understand...

Read This If You're New and Trying to Find Your Way Abolitionist organizer and author Mariame Kaba offers youth living through the current crises a renewed perspective on how to move forward.

"We have to help people understand what is (the current, shared reality), we must collectively imagine what can be (a future possibility), & we have to diligently labor for what must be (organizing to sustain life/​livingness & for liberation)."

@prisonculture.bsky.social on how to move forward.

Hee !Quote tweeting to plug @unbreaking.org is an information aid project tracking the ways the Trump administration is breaking reality . We provide sourced and cited thematic timelines to help people understand and take action without having to doomscroll or read 3837387 substacks

It's been far easier to diversify my fiction books than my nonfiction books and I think about the implications of that a lot because we need both diverse stories and diverse expertise and analysis.

I really hate that when my internet goes down these days my first instinct is to be suspicious, immediately check to see if I still have phone signal, and doing a quick double-check of headlines rather than just "that happens sometimes."

Her doing this and me scrolling social media are the same activity.

They want slavery . They want it. They want the the world slavery made and are trying to break it down to its coding parts

and the people “fighting” them want the equivalent of benevolent overseer roles because they accept the premise

I got the best gift from @nws.noaa.gov
A blaring very early Christmas morning flash flood alert that ensured we woke up and checked conditions around us. Functioning public services that keep us all safer every day is exactly what I wanted.

Remembering Alice Wong On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.

it's taken me a while to put this together. but I hope, if you've never heard of her, or even if you have, this tribute to Alice Wong buoys your heart and gives you a good sense of who this incredible person was. www.coyotemedia.org/remembering-...

and then once it's done and can't easily be undone, they don't remember the why or the decision agreement and are upset to the point of acting hateful and cruel. It's hard to absorb and not respond because logic and facts simply have no role to play in the matter and they don't have the capacity.

One of the extremely hard parts of dementia caregiving is that sometimes you can do absolutely everything you can to try to make sure they understand and remember an important decision and discuss and repeat it a a million times...

This is an illustration. I could not handle looking at an inbox that looked like this.

Illustration of fictional inbox with search for sender "The Store" which returns a month's worth of emails with the subject lines: [shopping cart emoji] You left something in your cart, Still thinking about super cool item? [looking emoji], Super cool item is selling fast, [hourglass emoji] don’t miss your chance, [green checkmark emoji] Order #87 confirmed, [folder hands emoji] Thank you for your purchase, Thanks for subscribing to our mailing list [envelope emoji], [magic wand emoji] We’re at work on your order #87, There’s still time to add to your Order #87 [stopwatch emoji], [letter in mailbox emoji] Order #87 shipping soon, [closed mailbox emoji] Order #87 has shipped!, Order #87 will be arriving soon [timer emoji], It’s almost time! [big smiley face emoji] Order #87 arriving tomorrow, Order #87 is out for delivery [box emoji], It’s here! [confetti ball emoji] Order #87 has been delivered, Tell us, did we hit the [target emoji] How did you like Order #87?, Don’t forget to review your order [clipboard emoji], [raised hands emoji] You’ve earned 86 points for Order #87, We’d really appreciate your feedback. [writing hand emoji] Please fill out our..., Follow us on Facebook for 10% [money with wings emoji] off your next order, It’s not too late to tell us how we did [heart hands emoji] on Order #87

I just want to buy a thing. If it's a good thing and the experience is good, I may want more things. That's it. I do not need and I definitely do not want this many touch points.

The thing that really annoys me on a regular basis is that I don't want to be suspicious, cautious, or critical nearly as often as I am and I do look for reasons to be less so but often the more I look, the more reasons I find to be suspicious, cautious, or critical.

There's a difference between "impossible" and "underfunded" and there are many, many conversations that would get a lot more honest—and productive—if people stopped saying "impossible" when "underfunded" is the reality.

The Political Economy of the US Media System: Excavating the Roots of the Present Crisis - Roosevelt Institute Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform domi...

Thrilled to announce the publication of our @rooseveltinstitute.org report that uncovers the policy roots of the current crises facing our news, information & communication systems. We argue that media reform must become central to a US pro-democracy movement. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

I was excited to try out Coursera now that I get access through school and almost every interesting looking certificate has "learn prompt engineering for this field" in it. I want to learn the actual skills and concepts. Teach me like it's 2020 and I need to know how to actually do the thing myself.

Creativity doesn't need to be "democratized" or liberated from "gatekeeping." We are human beings. We are born creative, we just aren't born skilled. The solution for that already exists and human beings have been doing it for millennia. We have to practice.

Love how every single website I have ever interacted with is currently sending me emails to remind me about their Black Friday sales. Super great experience. This is definitely how being a human being should feel. No notes.