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Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him Homepage: https://bhaskar-mitra.github.io/

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Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র @bmitra.bsky.social · Jul 17

A personal update.

Why I am leaving big tech…

After spending almost two decades in big tech, I was notified last month that I am being laid off.There have been massive waves of layoffs across the industry recently, and I am just one of the many t...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 8h

"Why can't Trump murder civilians indiscriminately at home like he does abroad" - Ross Douthat

Why Can't Trump's Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

Three keys to his success on the world stage could be applied at home.
By ROSS DOUTHAT

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14h

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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anticiv anarchist hellfire and brimstone preacher @freeprincessluigi.bsky.social · 1d

Fact: Chatgpt has killed more people than Luigi Mangione

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe an inflatable frog is my hometown’s symbol of resistance, and yet of course since I am from here I absolutely can

this is old school homegrown “rioting over the airport changing its carpet” Portland freak shit. it transcends the Portlandia mythos. writers would not think of this

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

I mean I'm glad Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize but I am not super excited that the person who did win it has been going "Mr Trump please murder more Venezuelan fishermen with American missiles" since it was announced

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

We will see everyone on October 18: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

The state leader to tech bro pipeline. Eric Adams is well on his way too.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 1d

from law making to law capitulating

Sunak goes from occupying the highest office in the UK government to advising the wealthiest and most powerful industry

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Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing by request of a comrade:

Please blast this to your networks. the goal is to have as many people 888 407 4747 (US Department of State) between now and Sunday as possible. 2 of the 4 crew have been released, 2 are being held captive still (with uncertain access to live saving medications)

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Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social · 1d

"Can you imagine a better definition of being creatively maladjusted than living outside the consensus reality? Add to that having the audacity not only to envision another world but to act, day in and day out, as if that world is as real as the world other people live in."

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

A timely excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis, written by my friend Aaron Goggans, who has supported many frontline activists struggling with their mental health during moments of mass protest and upheaval. Thank you, @pempem.bsky.social for uplifting.

A Letter from an Organizer on How to Fight While Feeling Broken

An excerpt from Read This When Things Fall Apart.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

The more we use this technology, the more we necessarily turn over not only our data and our privacy but the basic things we need to survive. Meanwhile, reality is totally reshaped by LLMs as increasingly authoritarian media is pumped out as training data. Nothing could be more useful to them.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine for a moment a world so dependent on data centers that every aspect of municipal infrastructure must be reshaped. Not around human need, but maintaining GPU farms that use exponentially more power and water with each build. Models are only growing, and our resources are only diminishing.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

It should strike people that the stock market isn’t crashing despite the shutdown. Like sub-prime mortgages, it has yet again totally detached itself from economic reality while they speculate on how many workers they can fire to replace with AI. It is helping a failing economic strategy save face.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

So revealing that they can never conceive of people taking political action without getting paid for it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Cella (is on the job market) @cellllla.bsky.social · 2d

✨I’m on the academic job market ✨

I’m a PhD candidate at @hcii.cmu.edu studying tech, labor, and resistance 👩🏻‍💻💪🏽💥

I research how workers and communities contest harmful sociotechnical systems and shape alternative futures through everyday resistance and collective action

More info: cella.io

Cella M. Sum –

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1d

We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities.

Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.

For isolated seniors, Canada Post delivers more than mail | CBC News

As the Canada Post strike hits the one-week mark, there are growing concerns for one group of Canadians who typically rely on the delivery service more than most — seniors.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think it's going to work out in the way they think because what they are doing is to actually promote the protest and the date in a way that the organizers can't on their own. So lots of people will now be searching: October 18 protest who would have had no clue before.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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