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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20h

Read this and wrap your head around the way white institutions so often want marginalized people to present their stories in weak, hyper-personalized, depoliticized ways.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20h

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.

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Renaissance Grrrl @wrengr.org · 16h

“I have not found one single instance of a straight person risking, helping, protecting a queer and trans person during this history,” Newsome said. “Not a single one. And that’s a hard pill to swallow.”"

Renaissance Grrrl @wrengr.org · 16h

"Holocaust history is full of non-Jews risking their lives to help Jews under Nazi rule. Newsome feels the same cannot be said of most straight people for their LGBTQ+ neighbors.

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Renaissance Grrrl @wrengr.org · 16h

"Perhaps most significantly, researchers have learned that queer people were largely reported by people in their own communities. As many as a third of LGBTQ+ people who were arrested were denounced, that is reported to the Nazis, by their friends and family."
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...

Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family

A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.

www.them.us

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Rahawa Haile @rahawahaile.bsky.social · 17h

Ask any of your favorite Black women writers from a decade ago why their bylines stopped appearing, and you’ll likely hear the same response: There is no place for us in media. In TV. In publishing or academia. For the majority of us, there’s no place but gone.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 18h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

What keeps me so cynical is that you can't really vote to unfuck the media and its Orbanization. You can't vote the oligarchs out. Trump will be gone eventually but the money behind him won't be. The controlled media will be entrenched and it could take generations to fix.

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N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social · 17h

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 18h

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 21h

Re: Teen Vogue, WaPo—Uniformity of message, dumping cumulative decades of diverse thought and experience in favor of the same grey, fashy extremism—it’s all about money. They couldn’t care less who you are and what you bring to the table, it’s about big mergers &infinitely deep, velvet-lined pockets

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 21h

It’s not ever about the numbers—you can bring insane audience engagement, views, eyeballs to your verticals, shape the conversation in wonderful ways, win awards and on and on

And they still will nuke your job and your entire desk in the name of capital consolidation and kissing the fucking ring

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Aiyana Ishmael @aiyanaish.bsky.social · 18h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 19h

It is not accurate to report that “millions will pay double what they are paying now” for health insurance. That is impossible. Those millions cannot afford to pay that and will not do what they cannot do. Millions of Americans do NOT HAVE an extra $1,200/ month just lying around.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 4d

One 8-hour patrol officer shift in CA costs between $429 and $645.

If that was donated to the food bank instead of the police budget, they’d be able to provide between 1716 and 2580 meals for every officer shift.

Communities need support – not needless policing.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 4d

With SNAP expiring, at least one Calif community is responding not by helping people get food, but by threatening hungry people with arrest

This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime

Here’s the math that proves it 🧵

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

Over 5.5 million Californians, including 2 million children, are set to lose their SNAP benefits this Saturday.

www.foxla.com

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 5d

man that's a lovely piece of tech horror

Pat @squishy276.bsky.social · 5d

One of my favorite meditations on this is Lena by @qntm.org (qntm.org/mmacevedo) where achieving digital uploading is an utter horror story

Lena

A note from the author You can now buy this story as part of my collection, Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories. This collection also includes a sequel story, titled "Driver". This articl...

qntm.org

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency. n.pr/3JGsjU3

A photographer captures life inside Chicago Public Schools

Melissa Ann Pinney's photographs capture everyday moments of adolescence inside Chicago Public Schools over the course of a seven-year artist residency.

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Renaissance Grrrl @wrengr.org · 1d

The fascinating thing is, somehow, I've heard of the lost version before — in fact, it was the first version i heard of, back when the term was first coined, and before i ever saw the film

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling glum about the world? In need of some writerly brilliance abt classic film? Read this by @noragilbert.bsky.social "This is the part of the 'gaslighting' origin story that people who haven’t watched Gaslight don’t tend to know about: the part of the story where the gaslit victim pushes back."

The Lost Ending of “Gaslight” That You Didn’t Know You Needed - Public Books

The only way to really understand the term is to sit down and watch the harrowing psychological film from which it got its name.

www.publicbooks.org

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

The conditions necessary to create a NASA, no longer exist.

The US spent the last *half century* deliberately destroying every single thing you need to build a NASA

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

Any attempt to rebuild NASA will be way, way more difficult than it was to build it in the first place.

The rich don't pay taxes anymore, taxes don't go into public education anymore, university career tracks don't work anymore, young students are worse off than their grandparents, etc.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

Remember that NASA was only able to *start* because the rich were being taxed at 90+% marginal rates.

Now, *you* pay a greater percent of your income as taxes than any billionaire.

You're just not gonna get NASA back without billionaires paying taxes again.

George Pearkes @peark.es · Jul 9

the American government is effectively ending its space program.

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push

The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.

www.politico.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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Renaissance Grrrl @wrengr.org · 1d

Omg, this is such an excellent clear. Great use of the two new skills I've had trouble working into my repertoire (Mon3tr S3; Exu2 S3, though that one's easier) #arknights m.youtube.com/watch?v=UcVQ...

How I BEAT Vector Breakthrough with 4 OPERATORS | VEC-12

YouTube video by Loci

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 4d

Really appreciate this review of our book (w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social)

"By insisting on the term “automation,” Bender and Hanna reveal that what’s sold as innovation is often just labor displacement with better branding."

"…a demystifying, often hilarious lexicon that cuts through the fog of hype."

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4d

"The new Luddites aren’t afraid of AI. They’re afraid of the people who profit from pretending it’s intelligent." Erik J. Larson reviews "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/

The cover of "The AI Con" against an orange background

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4d

I am so deeply worried that folks have turned the feelings of wonder and befuddlement at art from an actual internal experience to a verification experience of

“Is this AI”

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 4d

The project that started my whitespace obsession... #EMNLP2025

While we've all been worrying about tokenizers, lurking in the background has been the preprocessing *before* tokenization. Poems break standard HTML-to-text linearization systems, and we find that multimodal models aren't a solution.

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