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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

There is a cult of action at the heart of tech.

This cult says: don't mind that the systems are broken. Don't try and fix them. You can just do things, using you ubermensch will.

AI has plugged into this cult to promise 10x-ing your action. But instead your will becomes subservient to the machine.

"Just doing things" is not a path to value

Action for the sake of action feels good, but the path of least resistance leads you to surrender your own agency.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2d

AI “summaries” are not summaries but slop

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Countess Sappho @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 1d

YOU HEARD THEM

Meme image of Shinji from Evangelion leaning forward in a folding chair with his heads in his hands. Text around him reads "GET IN THE FUCKING FROG" and there are two depictions of someone in inflatable frog suits

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Willie Jack's Favorite Uncle @dandantransient.bsky.social · 1d

I've said it a million times, Western Atheists are often the most annoying and pushy denomination of Christianity.

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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 17h

book covers featuring the muppets: thread

Elmo on the cover of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 17h

"nlp for social good"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 23h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 17h

"It's fine, just differentiate"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 23h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 1d

Always so disappointing to see senior people in their field wax poetical about magical technological fixes to the culture problems in their communities, instead of drawing on their (presumably) considerable experience and influence to facilitate real discussion and organizing

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 1d

In other words, CS has culture problems. (What else is new?) I don't have quick fixes to those problems, but those are the problems that I think shoud be being addressed.

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 2d

I am so looking forward to doing literally anything other than watching this

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 2d

Just flown in from Riyadh, and boy are my excuses tired

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 2d

Dunking on AI boosters is professionally important, ethically correct, and also a lot of fun

Michael Ann, spooky, scary, spooky scary halloween femme @michaelann.bsky.social · 3d

I think I’m going to start being much meaner to AI folks, because at this point, I probably have a professional ethical obligation to do so

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Hel Eline @heleline.bsky.social · 3d

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 2d

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 5d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

really nice piece on this btw from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I read or listen to Dean Spade, I feel a renewed capacity to handle the difficult and shitty parts of organizing with more generosity and tenderness, even when I'm exhausted and pissed off

Dean Spade @deanspade.bsky.social · 2d

Shuli Branson recently invited me on The Breakup Theory podcast to talk about a listener letter from someone who had a difficult experience with a community accountability process and was left feeling isolated and defeated.

You can listen to the whole episode wherever you get podcasts.

Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 3d

maybe the real friends were the users we made along the...wait no

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 3d

I love linguistics

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 3d

Can the "adjustment that society has to go through" involve Sam Altman shutting the fuck up

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 3d

When I worked on machine learning in industry, literally every project we were asked to work on was motivated by a middle manager not wanting to devote thought or attention to their job. They were good at convincing themselves that they were asking for something different from that, but it was that

Amytiville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 3d

the problem is, the reason people are "into" non-deterministic automation is they're absorbed in fantasy.

shell scripts and pipes are too real — YOU have to do the work, to think things through, not wave a magic wand — and therefore unappealing.

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 3d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

the only appropriate response will be to triple down on supporting the targeted groups rather than to do what so many people usually do which is to run away from them.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 3d

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 4d

"Do you remember George Santos?"

I had forgotten and no thank you for reminding me lmao

Great episode, really interesting to see the cracks forming in these alliances

Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 10d

Donald Trump and Silicon Valley have formed an alliance — but that doesn’t mean the MAGA base thinks it’s a good idea.

This week @tinanguyen.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss the many ways the MAGA movement isn’t on side with Big Tech.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/296_...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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Aaahh! bstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly same! My friend has a guinea pig who is always SUPER EXCITED to receive lettuce and I just...cannot relate

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