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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 28m

or texting on an open channel for people at a concert, or hiking, or somewhere with overwhelmed/unreliable cell service

BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 30m

but i think it could fill a niche for the problem of "why does texting your partner from the other room require sending data up to space and back"

BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 31m

i didnt sleep well and am apparently yappy so my take on meshtastic today is that i wouldn't trust it for anything secure any more than anything else that can connect to your phone...

BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 1h

great strategy for DSA to tie our electoral fortunes to them! jacobin.com/2025/10/demo...

Why Americans Hate the Democratic Party

Most voters aren’t rejecting Democrats over the culture war. They’re rejecting them because they don’t deliver.

jacobin.com

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 1d

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 5h

programmers do have a lot of leverage in the modern world-- we could stop a lot of evil if we acted together-- and this is why we are some of the most brainwashed people in history

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 5h

and it never answers, who made the design decisions and who benefits from them

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 5h

the "move fast break things" mentality (even when used for supposedly good causes) is a form of productivism

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 5h

idleness or design refusal is far better than participating in work that makes your boss' life easier

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 6h

a lot of the work that programmers are made to do is unnecessary, wasteful, or evil at worse, facilitating surveillance or repression of other people

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 6h

i am still workshopping this concept but i think programmers need to think a lot more clearly about productivism and how it's used as a cudgel to beat other workers (and ourselves) with

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 14h

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff.

Early 2020s: LLMs
Early 2010s: MOOCs
Early 2000s: Wikis

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 14h

In ways that we haven't fully internalized, LLM discourse is reanimating key features of 2004ish Wikipedia discourse.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 14h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Ted Tubi @daveprosper.bsky.social · 21h

*takes massive bing rip, coughs*
I bet we could create an amish esque paralell society based on pre 2012 technologies. We stop before cloud computing. No AI, not-fun smartphones with physical buttons, it's gonna be great. Amish 2

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

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 64
www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

@reveleth.com joins @emilymbender.bsky.social and I to talk about how we don’t need tech bros to read sci-fi better, they need to understand it better.

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 23h

and nobody in the chapter (or district) gets any input on the platform or language, this is all decided on high by The Experts

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 23h

(canvassing for a democrat followed by canvassing for nonprofitoid ballot initiatives followed by canvassing for a democrat followed by canvassing for....)

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 23h

until i am actually in a demcent org (which i'd never join), i will take joy in publicly speaking against dumb decisions the misleaders of my dsa chapter have made

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The “get em while they’re young” plan worked for Big Tobacco and… other institutions

Matt Round @mattround.com · 1d

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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🌹DSA-LSC🏴 @dsa-lsc.org · 2d

The NYC General Meeting today is neither legitimate nor democratic and we urge comrades to VOTE NO on both proposals.

socialisttribune.substack.com/p/nyc-dsa-or...

NYC-DSA “Orients” to a Zohran Administration

By Sid CW

socialisttribune.substack.com

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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 2d

Shadow Ticket just arrived #pynchon

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jacob Silverman @jacobsilverman.com · 9d

It's pub day for my book, "Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley," which chronicles the rise of the tech right and their role in the 2024 election. Thanks to everyone who helped along the way.
linktr.ee/gildedrage

Gilded Rage | Linktree

A searing look at the rise of Silicon Valley's far right. Out October 2025.

linktr.ee

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 6d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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