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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 12h

Far right tech oligarchs fueled by taxpayer welfare reward far right propagandists with massive cash payments

This is Twitterism

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 9h

@cascoinfoundation.org

Lmao

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Chairman Kefka @chairmankefka.bsky.social · 9h

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Duchess Van Hoof @duchess-van-hoof.bsky.social · 1d

This is the same Netflix that Musk wants to cancel over it being too woke, with too many trans positive depictions.

Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 1d

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience

plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

juliaserano.medium.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 21h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 2d

I held keynotes and participated in panels, both in person and online. A recording of the keynote I held a few weeks ago at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social and the panel with data workers that followed can be watched here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Q1...

Who is Really Fueling your AI? Precarization and Resistance in Data Work

YouTube video by Weizenbaum-Institut

www.youtube.com

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michael veale @michae.lv · 18h

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Gillian de Nooijer @gilliandn.bsky.social · 21h

Guardian.

"US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process"

“we were one of his first targets with the Professor Watchlist,"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US professors facing threats, firings and harassment over Charlie Kirk posts

As many as 40 academics have been dismissed in aftermath of shooting, allegedly without due process

www.theguardian.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 2d

amazing he zoomed in on the good bit and posted it saying "see how bad this is"

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

the thing is that is a gem; sorry you're not able to see how good that extract is

Brett Buttliere @brettbuttliere.bsky.social · 2d

gems

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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 2d

Reviewed @jacobsilverman.com’s Gilded Rage for @bloomberg.com. A smart, thorough look at the radicalization of silicon valley. Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

What Really Drove Silicon Valley’s Shift to the Right

In Gilded Rage, journalist Jacob Silverman argues that a decade of free cash turned tech’s utopians into power brokers and made Trump their unlikely ally.

www.bloomberg.com

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jotief.bsky.social @jotief.bsky.social · 2d

"Overheid creëert pinata's voor hackers" is zowat de trend van het jaar.

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d

any product that depends on the long term stability of its maker is inherently defective

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2d

They brick you because they can.

Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15

Logitech’s interest in the smart home has appeared to wane in recent years.

arstechnica.com

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 4d

CC: @nicollewallace.bsky.social
This Rutgers professor and his wife, also a Rutgers prof, have been forced out of their home and classrooms by TPUSA. The story deserves greater attention.

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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe European businesses need good use cases first.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

European businesses barely use AI. Brussels wants to fix that.

Commission to warn Europe’s slow embrace of artificial intelligence risks squandering economic growth.

www.politico.eu

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5d

love to pollute a city and use up its water supply so that people can be horny online

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 5d

The Broadview Police Department opened a criminal investigation against ICE for its attacks on civilians, including striking people with their cars, according to CBS news.

Village of Broadview opens criminal investigations into ICE actions at suburban facility

YouTube video by CBS Chicago

www.youtube.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 6d

Robot personhood/rights is conceptually bogus and legally puts more power/rights in the hands of those that develop and deploy robots/AI systems

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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Jillian Horton @jillianhortonmd.bsky.social · 6d

This is kind of response under the guise of "failure of professionalism" or "lack of collegiality" has deep roots in medicine. Not aligned with protecting the public.

Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 8d

During Covid, when @gorskon.bsky.social & I coauthored a piece for @bmj.com on the links between right-wing climate denialist billionaires, anti-vaxxers, & the Great Barrington Declaration, some physicians felt it was "uncollegial" to be critical of the GBD

Now the GBD are Trump & RFK Jr's lackeys😔

Clean Observer @hammbear2024.bsky.social · 8d

Not being a physician, what I see is a toxic push for collegiality among medical professionals that has people not calling out bad actors, or as here, going out of the way to praise them, hoping they’ll reform and fly straight, when what they needed was to be called out and disempowered.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

i think anyone taught by ilan wurman ought to ask the university of minnesota law school for their money back

Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 6d

The very first statute authorizing domestic use of the military during domestic emergencies, enacted in 1792 by a Congress full of the same folks who wrote and ratified the Constitution, expressly provided for judicial review in certain circumstances *before* the President could even send troops.

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 6d

all social media admins are lowtax

Scott Free Link ACAB Black Lives Matter Menor 🍉 PhD @smenor.com · 6d

All I can think is how a couple years ago these people claimed to care so much about the sanctity of「 free speech 」they didn't want to prevent people from using the n- or r- word in usernames and they didn't want to implement blocking or moderation but say something unflattering about 'em and *snap*

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