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Christine Lemmer-Webber
@dustyweb.bsky.social
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Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings. https://dustycloud.org
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · Mar 28
The safest form of computing is still abstinence
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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 20h
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...
WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square
A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.
www.chicagotribune.com
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 21h
just make your AI model a corporation. boom, AI personhood, just like that
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 21h
wow big depresso today
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
I had incredibly low expectations for our broken brunchlord press when kakistocratic authoritarianism came knocking, but every single day they demonstrate I still somehow over-estimated them
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 1d
Incredible things are happening, as ever, at The Paper of Record.
two articles in a row that feel like very 2025 slaps in the face: Frank Bruni, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Nate Silver ‘Democrats Fumbled This a Bit’: 3 Writers Assess Where We Are With the Shutdown Marc Rowan Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d
A win! A federal judge has granted Chicago and the State of Illinois a restraining order against the Trump administration, blocking the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois.
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its she cruelcab @coolcab.bsky.social · 1d
it is legit astonishing that we've basically made an anti-learning machine and are aggressively pushing it on all students
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wint @dril.bsky.social · Sep 20
is the posting strike over yet
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d
you know what fair
Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.
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Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 2d
"Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe. U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold." 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe
U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.
www.politico.eu
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d
after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports
Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.
www.consumerreports.org
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 1d
These people are fucking monsters
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d
Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 2d
Most of the tech is developer-facing so far, but that'll change soon enough!
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 2d
Incredible shit happening in @spritelyinst.bsky.social land rn, can't wait for the upcoming announcements
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 2d
1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

Subscribe to support our journalism.
Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents
The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.
www.erininthemorning.com
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Himbo Blacksmith🇿🇦🇮🇹 @himboblacksmith.bsky.social · 2d
The tank's role is to draw aggro
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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 5d
WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 2d
Casual reminder that this video is AI-generated.

Media literacy is going to have to start including ways to recognize artificial intelligence, as well as ways to identify & source factual material.

I know that feels hopelessly aspirational given the current state of things, but a girl can dream.
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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 3d
Porch bandit
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3d
Newly elected Congressmember Adelita Grijalva says she will provide the final vote needed for a petition that could force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. Is that why Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to swear her in for the last two weeks?
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max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 3d
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray.

The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
#WarRavagedPortland
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned
Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 3d
Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.
Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 3d
This doesn't remove my own critiques of ATP or my concerns about what's going to happen in terms of if more and more infrastructure comes online. But Blacksky, and Rudy especially, *are* doing the work, and deserve praise and respect here for that.
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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 3d
I think it's pretty well acknowledged that the work @rude1.blacksky.team and the Blacksky team generally are doing is the best hope the ATmosphere has. This thread more than any before is probably the best read you'll get.

Worth going through, interested to see what happens.
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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 3d
I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11
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