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Dr Amy Gaeta
@amygaeta.bsky.social
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Research Associate at Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge. Thinking about drones, militarization, surveillance, AI ethics, gender, disability, & what it means to be human today She/They amygaeta.com
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My article “Cyber Spell Books: From Techno Pagans to AI Grimoires” discusses AI grimoires within a larger historical context of digital technology, magic practitioners, and popular culture.
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@asapjournal.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jeffreymoro.com
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We're celebrating a year of @theflytrapmedia.com with a daily paywall drop on some classic Flytrap articles! Today, we're featuring some of our fave reads about FILM!
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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
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Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
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We've been posting once a week and we're about to increase the cadence to twice a week, which is a HUGE escalation in workload. I'm thrilled to announce that many of those second posts are going to be reprints from Bitch Magazine: We are so excited to be preserving feminist media.
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That's not sustainable, and a lot of indie media orgs are in the same place. We don't have VC backing or advertiser money or a lot of personal savings to float us while we see if we can make this project work. Supporting projects like this is a vote for indie media and people who create it.
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Right now, we spend around $3000-$3500 a month on professional services, paying freelancers, our tech stack, and other Business Operations. Our monthly recurring revenue is basically break even, which means that we aren't paying ourselves. We've worked, in fact, the last YEAR for free.
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The Flytrap is majority trans and queer and 100% committed to being part of a thriving independent media ecosystem. I'm so proud of all the amazing work we've published, but: Running an independent media organization is expensive, time-consuming, and hard. Member support is crucial.
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I've spent the last year working with amazing comrades on @theflytrapmedia.com; when we launched a Kickstarter to bring feminist cultural criticism back to the internet last year, supporters delivered. To keep that going, we need you to subscribe (and resubscribe), and we're offering a 15% discount!
The Flytrap
Feminist cultural criticism against the algorithm
the-flytrap.ghost.io
A ceasefire means nothing without accountability and consequences
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CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by
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US passports w/an X are still valid international travel documents, but the government now requires airlines to misgender such citizens (input M/F marker instead of passport's X) which might increase likelihood of body scans flagged as irregular, delays due to mismatch between ticket+passport data.
US tells airlines to disregard ‘X’ sex markers on passports and input ‘M’ or ‘F’
Customs and Border Protection implemented rule this week, sending Americans with ‘X’ marker into panic
www.theguardian.com
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
Big thanks to the folks at @aoir.bsky.social and hosts UFF in Niterói, Brazil for allowing me to share my ongoing work with Aisha Sobey on how we can mobilize disability justice and fat liberation frameworks in creating forms of data solidarity in the age of genAI (mis)representation
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. @mikevdsanden.bsky.social: "What melodies can be found in typography?" Uses Processing+VCV Rack to treat digital font characters as piano rolls, generate viz+sound files from "playing" over them:
mikevdsanden on Instagram: "What melodies can be found in typography? (🔊 SOUND ON)The question popped into my head while I was experimenting with audio in VCV…"
What melodies can be found in typography? (🔊 SOUND ON)The question popped into my head while I was experimenting with audio in VCV Rack. I imagined characters becoming a piano roll. Could I connect Processing? Once I had a proof of concept, I was hooked. Over the past few weeks, I built it out, adding features as I went.Processing sends MIDI note data — pitch, velocity, and gate — to VCV Rack. The tool is built on layered tracks: each track can be routed to its own channel and has tweakable options. You can change the character sequence, typeface, and clock speed. I’ve added multiple scales. Currently all in C, but I can imagine the system could grow into a full instrument. To prevent floods of notes, each track has a range control on the right: drag the top or bottom rows to set the active band.I had a lot of fun building this tool. It gave me a chance to combine my love for music with coding. For context, I’m a beginner in VCV Rack: most of my patches came from tutorials. If you’re experienced with VCV Rack, I’d love to see what you can make with it. There’s a download link on my website.➡️ I added a small tutorial in the last slide to get you started.Typefaces from the The font starter pack by @pangram.pangram. #vcvrack #processing #graphicdesign #creativecoding #genartclub #procedual #coding #motiongraphics #newmedia #new_media_art #digitalart #modernart #computerart #processing #contemporarytype #type01 #modularsynth #webgl #typespire #posterdesign #typedesign #typedaily #showusyourtype #kinetictypography #interactiondesign
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Unbelievable - Thames Water wants to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years

If they get away with this, other water companies will copy

If you don't want sewage until 2040 (!) please sign our
petition to @ofwat.bsky.social

We'll be handing it in on 21st October

weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...
Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
weownit.org.uk
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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) says he has been denied 4 times to see what is going on inside the Broadview, IL ICE facility:

"Something's going on in there that they don't want us to see. I don't know what it is, but all Americans should be asking the same question."
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BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
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“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack
Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link
We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.
thinkingautismguide.com
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We're hosting Lavender Languages from 2-4 September 2026. Save the date! Plenaries and a formal announcement to be follow shortly...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 19d
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.