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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 7h

Removing due process for anyone, removes due process for everyone.

This cannot be overstated

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Phat Bottom Betty @the-cigar-girl.blacksky.app · 21h

There’s “people of color”

And then

There’s “black people”

We are not the same!

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 19h

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Monteiro @monteiro.bsky.social · 21h

Lotta people warning me about fascism while still getting that Substack coin.

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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 12d

Talking to some disenfranchised young engineers today about how the old web was better, and was saddened to know they’d never heard of Aaron Swartz.

I know the dead are fast forgotten but that just seemed wrong.

#DemandProgress

www.aaronsw.com

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Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 20h

Also, I like when you have friends that are the shit and know it. The type of friends that everyone thinks is conceited, but you admire that about them. In my experience, those people are usually the kindest once you get to know them.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 7h

I speak with semicolons and em dashes, too. Ann intelligence, aka: AI.

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 8h

I take it mega personally that so many people cannot read a long sentence because I read, write, speak and THINK in long sentences

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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 12h

I stg someone is going to make "raw coding" a fad and I am going to eat my own face

lcamtuf @lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 13h

Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 7h

Unfortunately, "raw coding" is an excellent term and I will be telling people I raw coded all my apps from here on out.

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 10h

i think beautiful hypertext fiction experiments could potentially be conjured up using anything from strategically crafted css or html canvas or even js UI library/framework magic for something more heavy duty but unfortunately all web stuff must perpetually fight against being corporation coded

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AMOUR 🍯 @thebrooklynlove.bsky.social · 12h

Black people really are fine as hell. No notes.

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Gaal Dornick @onthecountof3.bsky.social · 9h

Makes total sense:
▪️Black males are most likely to be misidentified as needing special ed.
▪️ They are lowering the age of criminal responsibility.
▪️ They continue to build private prisons all around the country.
▪️ Free labor for the farmers and corporations.

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the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 8h

I thought we all understood why the chicken crossed the road?

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 12h

finally mad about something that happened nearly a year ago. dissociation is a thief.

the magiciann @anndotann.bsky.social · 12h

Really wish we would stop using the acronym for artificial intelligence so we can all understand the artifice being propped up by these institutions.

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$fractalecho.bsky.social$

Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 15h

This book is titled “Disabling Intelligences” for many reasons. First, because so-called “AI” is built from historical commitments to the excision of disability from the classification of humanity.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Rua M Williams's Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI, publushed by palgrave macmillan, is held in front of rainbow glass. The cover is deep pink with orange vines.

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Nyasha Junior @nyashajunior.bsky.social · 13h

Once again, I stand before you asking for a Black-owned Advent calendar.

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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 18h

Diane Keaton, who won an Academy Award for best actress for her portrayal of the titular quirky character in Annie Hall and portrayed Kay Adams in the three Godfather films, has died. She was 79. Read about her life and legacy: bit.ly/47kDP0j

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back