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Advocate. Bi. Genderqueer. Green thumb. Disabled. Vaxxed. Boosted. Masked. Editor. Journalist. Producer. Writer. (she/they) linktr.ee/virtuistic PFP: purple-tinted pic of me with hair down, wearing glasses, and smiling. Banner: The shore of gichi-gami
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virtuistic.bsky.social
UPDATE: I'm still looking for work, and I'll be vulnerable and admit it — I'm starting to feel scared. I only have two weeks of unemployment insurance remaining, after which point we won't have income to cover our essential bills.

So, I'm adjusting a bit and made this:
🆕 virtuistic.beehiiv.com ✨🧵
virtuistic.bsky.social
This sums up my feelings quite succinctly. I feel relief for any reduction in violence, and I wish for peace and safety. That said, the harms are still very present and they compel us to be mindful of who enabled/supported the war, and why, as we care for the impacted people who are still suffering.
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urocklive1.bsky.social
Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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reeeeeeem.bsky.social
tent...
Out on the street, in this bitter cold, trying to survive.
I lost everything in this war:
My home, my memories, my safety… even the basic things people take for granted.
I’m Remi, a girl who once had simple dreams —
More words in the comments…
GFM: gofund.me/de96cb50
virtuistic.bsky.social
How fun! Your long locks look so luxurious, and that gingham is so cute! Brava!
virtuistic.bsky.social
Also, cue the madcap jazz: futurism.com/companies-re...

"Finance startup Klarna, for example, reduced its workforce by 22 percent throughout 2024... But then the company did an about-face on its AI strategy back in May, announcing a “recruitment drive” to bring all those meat bags back to work.
Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake
As AI agents have yet to pay for themselves, more and more executives are waking up to the sloppy reality of AI hype.
futurism.com
virtuistic.bsky.social
Kingsley Bimpong deserved care. Racism is why police didn't show him any.

Every guard who neglected him, the officer who refused to assess his condition, and the arresting officer who put him in a cell to die should all lose their jobs and be charged with both negligent homicide and manslaughter.
phillewis.bsky.social
A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.
www.kare11.com
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helphaya.bsky.social
Update:
I’ve been very busy lately because of my studies and returning to the north after the war stopped here.
The war may seem over in the media, but in Gaza, it has not truly ended the suffering continues
Winter is coming,and the tents can’t protect us from the cold🙏💔🇵🇸
chuffed.org/project/1139...
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robmacwolf.thevoice.dog
Hopefully it won't be necessary, if at least one of us can find a job before the end of the month, but if not we're going to need help keeping three people, two of them disabled, and a dog housed: ko-fi.com/t_foxden/goa...
Buy The Fox Den a Coffee
Become a supporter of The Fox Den today!
ko-fi.com
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shengokai.blacksky.app
Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.
virtuistic.bsky.social
“Competition-induced misaligned behaviors emerge even when models are explicitly instructed to remain truthful and grounded,” wrote paper co-author and machine learning Stanford professor James Zou in a post on X-formerly-Twitter.

Sounds bad, y'all! This 🫧 needs to pop: futurism.com/future-socie...
Screenshot of a Futurism article headline with an image of a demon and a robot embracing. Text reads:
Bad Bot
New Paper Finds That When You Reward AI for Success on Social Media, It Becomes Increasingly Sociopathic
"When LLMs compete for social media likes, they start making things up."
By Sharon Adarlo

Published Oct 10, 2025 3:01 PM EDT

Stanford scientists unleashed AI bots in different environments, including social media, and they started behaving unethically.

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images
virtuistic.bsky.social
Also, A+ photo choice to accompany this article. That man's facial expression is a fairly accurate representation of how I've felt over the last few years since OpenAI pulled their KoolAid man maneuver.
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
The mass firings at the CDC tonight drive home the fact that no one is coming to save us

But we can save each other

Wear a mask. Ideally a respirator like an N95

Even if you’re vaccinated. Even if you’re “not worried”

It protects you but it also protects everyone else

Bonus? Less colds & flus!
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victoriascott.bsky.social
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a politician even attempt to know this much about my people’s history or art or culture or struggle, and I’ve certainly never seen someone advocate for protecting us so fiercely at this level, ever. God I truly hope he wins.
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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.
virtuistic.bsky.social
Gonna hold up my arms and go "weeeeeeee!" as we ride the wreckage to the ground. 🎢
histoftech.bsky.social
“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster
The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.
futurism.com
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dorothyparkerfucks.bsky.social
*taps sign* genAI is a fascist project, stay safe out there
quatoria.bsky.social
It really feels like one of the purposes of AI video is to get us to a point where no video we see on social media and no photograph can be trusted or assumed to be true, and we fully enter a post-truth world.

Truth is used to fight oligarchs, so they seek to destroy truth itself.
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virtuistic.bsky.social
I note the conspicuous absence of the word "cognitive" in that final sentence...
virtuistic.bsky.social
Brb, dying my hair blue specifically to make conservative men mad.
virtuistic.bsky.social
Happy birthday! I hope your day - and that cool conference - are full of sweetness and joy.
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
It's my 40th birthday! That's right, 40 years around the sun on this raggedy planet. i know, you wanted to bless my cashapp so I can afford to go to this literary conference in New York this weekend. I won't take that from you. It's $chantallisette
virtuistic.bsky.social
No, "we" didn't vote for this. Only 40 percent of voting Americans chose that man.
virtuistic.bsky.social
Jesus Christ. When someone is needing to make up stories about "good guy" slavers that never existed, it's time to delete the draft, turn off the computer, and go jump in a lake.
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kendrawrites.com
For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.
On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.