Erica Stanley
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Could Black History be a blueprint for fighting modern “technofascism”?
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
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A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts
Black Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism Case
The lawsuit could force a jury to decide if turning Black communities into sacrifice zones is a legacy of slavery.
capitalbnews.org
February 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts
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The co-founder exodus at xAI is blamed on Elon’s focus on Grok producing NSFW content and being perennially behind leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
I guess being pioneers in AI generated CSAM and deepfake porn was less exciting than they originally imagined.🤷🏾♂️
I guess being pioneers in AI generated CSAM and deepfake porn was less exciting than they originally imagined.🤷🏾♂️
xAI's founder exodus reportedly tied to safety concerns and frustration over Grok's failure to catch up
Elon Musk's AI company xAI is hemorrhaging talent. Former employees describe a culture of missing safety standards, growing disillusionment, and a constant race to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic.
the-decoder.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:28 AM
The co-founder exodus at xAI is blamed on Elon’s focus on Grok producing NSFW content and being perennially behind leading labs like OpenAI and Anthropic.
I guess being pioneers in AI generated CSAM and deepfake porn was less exciting than they originally imagined.🤷🏾♂️
I guess being pioneers in AI generated CSAM and deepfake porn was less exciting than they originally imagined.🤷🏾♂️
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The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
February 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM
The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.
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I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/...
The evolution of OpenAI’s mission statement
As a USA 501(c)(3) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to “Briefly …
simonwillison.net
February 13, 2026 at 11:40 PM
I had some fun pulling OpenAI's mission statement out of their IRS tax filings from 2016 to 2024, loading them into a git repo with fake commit dates and then taking a look at the diffs simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/13/...
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Using this image on the cover of your book about a phony crisis is hilarious.
Lol. This dude wrote a whole book about the topic he's being asked about, and he's still unable to formulate a thought that involves speaking in full sentences.
February 13, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Using this image on the cover of your book about a phony crisis is hilarious.
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Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
February 12, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"
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Could Black History be a blueprint for fighting modern “technofascism”?
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Could Black History be a blueprint for fighting modern “technofascism”?
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
Could Black History be a blueprint for fighting modern “technofascism”?
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
February 12, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Could Black History be a blueprint for fighting modern “technofascism”?
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
Technofascism isn’t just about politics or tech. It is about who holds power and uses systems to push their ideologies while claiming to maintain order.
Read more here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
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"Fuentes: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women. … So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”"
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:43 PM
"Fuentes: “So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women. … So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags.”"
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To be clear, we're saying they have no money and no documentation but somehow they're snatching up homes? In this economy?
HUD Secretary Scott Turner: "When tens of millions of people come across our borders unchecked and unvetted and they take the homes that the American people are supposed to have, including HUD funded homes, that puts a strain on the housing supply"
February 11, 2026 at 7:53 PM
To be clear, we're saying they have no money and no documentation but somehow they're snatching up homes? In this economy?
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Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.
Elon Musk’s tunneling company tapped to link Universal parks
The company is best known for creating the underground Las Vegas Loop. But little is known about how The Boring Company intends to proceed in Central Florida, including how it might approach constr…
www.orlandosentinel.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Oh for fuck sake. How is anyone still falling for this bullshit? You can’t just dig tunnels in Florida. Our unofficial state fish is the sink hole. Anyway. RIP Harry Potter land, swallowed by Elon Musk’s giant unfinished hole in the ground probably.
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Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Donald J. Trump
Melania Trump
Howard Lutnick (Commerce)
John Phelan (Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom)
Mehmet Oz (CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE)
Steve Bannon (Fmr WH)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
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I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.
1 person shot and killed by U.S. marshal in Northeast DC
A U.S. marshal shot and killed a person Wednesday afternoon in Northeast D.C. This shooting happened on Hay Street right in front of the Cesar Chavez Middle Public Charter School and not far from the ...
www.nbcwashington.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:28 AM
I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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I mean there have been A LOT of crazy moments of Trump officials testifying before Congress over the years, but Attorney General Pam Bondi ranting about the stock market during a House Judiciary hearing - amidst questions about Epstein, ICE, and political prosecutions - has gotta make the Top 3.
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I mean there have been A LOT of crazy moments of Trump officials testifying before Congress over the years, but Attorney General Pam Bondi ranting about the stock market during a House Judiciary hearing - amidst questions about Epstein, ICE, and political prosecutions - has gotta make the Top 3.
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There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
There is literally no better example of textbook fascistic thinking than "Who cares about human rights when the rich are doing so very well"
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Skillcels
I’m sorry but people talking about talent as an unfair quality that needs to be Harrison Bergeroned away by AI have exactly the same energy as people saying it’s unfair that attractive people have more people attracted to them and the government should legislate their right to a hot wife
February 7, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Skillcels
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Haunted by this reasoning since September 2016 ngl
I gotta find that video where a public intellectual said that Apartheid ended not because white people thought the system was immoral but rather it was unsustainable.
Because that’s exactly what’s finna happen over here.
Because that’s exactly what’s finna happen over here.
February 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Haunted by this reasoning since September 2016 ngl
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Uh. I'm not working on an engineering team right now. So I don't have pessonal experience. But from what I'm hearing? It's not looking good. No, backlogs are not getting shorter. There are more "projects" in flight though as people let AI churn on problems.
How many enterprise companies have meaningfully reduced, or eliminated, their software engineering backlogs. Are we at the point where GenAI is paying off in production?
Are salaries increasing to match this new level of productivity?
Are salaries increasing to match this new level of productivity?
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Uh. I'm not working on an engineering team right now. So I don't have pessonal experience. But from what I'm hearing? It's not looking good. No, backlogs are not getting shorter. There are more "projects" in flight though as people let AI churn on problems.
Way to make Salesforce employees feel comfortable at what was likely a mandatory all-hands meeting. Completely tone deaf.
Also, not sure any global company should have all-hands in the U.S. right now, given how dangerous ICE has made American streets for citizens, immigrants, and visitors alike.
Also, not sure any global company should have all-hands in the U.S. right now, given how dangerous ICE has made American streets for citizens, immigrants, and visitors alike.
NEW: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ‘joked’ with employees who had traveled to the United States for a Salesforce all-hands meeting that ICE agents were in the building keeping tabs on them, 404 Media has learned.
Marc Benioff 'Jokes' ICE Is Watching Salesforce Employees Who Traveled to the U.S.
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
www.404media.co
February 10, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Way to make Salesforce employees feel comfortable at what was likely a mandatory all-hands meeting. Completely tone deaf.
Also, not sure any global company should have all-hands in the U.S. right now, given how dangerous ICE has made American streets for citizens, immigrants, and visitors alike.
Also, not sure any global company should have all-hands in the U.S. right now, given how dangerous ICE has made American streets for citizens, immigrants, and visitors alike.
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It’s also a Romanticizing isolation.
Why do you need a ring as opposed to talking to the neighbor?
Also because well moderator brain and DV brain
It’s possibly incentivizing a new method of breaking boundaries and abuse
Why do you need a ring as opposed to talking to the neighbor?
Also because well moderator brain and DV brain
It’s possibly incentivizing a new method of breaking boundaries and abuse
“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable
The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.
www.ms.now
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 PM
It’s also a Romanticizing isolation.
Why do you need a ring as opposed to talking to the neighbor?
Also because well moderator brain and DV brain
It’s possibly incentivizing a new method of breaking boundaries and abuse
Why do you need a ring as opposed to talking to the neighbor?
Also because well moderator brain and DV brain
It’s possibly incentivizing a new method of breaking boundaries and abuse
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🚰 Drinking Water for Millions Is Threatened as Trump Targets National Monuments
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🌟 Clean water protections are deeply tied to public lands policy. Subscribe to Power to the People News for coverage that puts health, environment, and people first.
#PowerToThePeopleNews
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
🚰 Drinking Water for Millions Is Threatened as Trump Targets National Monuments
👉 buff.ly/g674ALh
🌟 Clean water protections are deeply tied to public lands policy. Subscribe to Power to the People News for coverage that puts health, environment, and people first.
#PowerToThePeopleNews
👉 buff.ly/g674ALh
🌟 Clean water protections are deeply tied to public lands policy. Subscribe to Power to the People News for coverage that puts health, environment, and people first.
#PowerToThePeopleNews
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I loved that Bad Bunny said “God bless America!”
Then listed countries and islands in the western hemisphere starting from Columbia and Ecuador and ending with the US and Canada. Thus demonstrating that the western hemisphere is the Americas and giving US a social studies lesson many need.
Then listed countries and islands in the western hemisphere starting from Columbia and Ecuador and ending with the US and Canada. Thus demonstrating that the western hemisphere is the Americas and giving US a social studies lesson many need.
February 10, 2026 at 1:19 PM
I loved that Bad Bunny said “God bless America!”
Then listed countries and islands in the western hemisphere starting from Columbia and Ecuador and ending with the US and Canada. Thus demonstrating that the western hemisphere is the Americas and giving US a social studies lesson many need.
Then listed countries and islands in the western hemisphere starting from Columbia and Ecuador and ending with the US and Canada. Thus demonstrating that the western hemisphere is the Americas and giving US a social studies lesson many need.
Good intentions don’t scale but frameworks do.
I talk about the orgs showing what this looks like in practice–from building harm checks to embedding safety principles into how models behave.
AI becomes trustworthy by anticipating harm instead of reacting. Read here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
I talk about the orgs showing what this looks like in practice–from building harm checks to embedding safety principles into how models behave.
AI becomes trustworthy by anticipating harm instead of reacting. Read here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
February 9, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Good intentions don’t scale but frameworks do.
I talk about the orgs showing what this looks like in practice–from building harm checks to embedding safety principles into how models behave.
AI becomes trustworthy by anticipating harm instead of reacting. Read here: bit.ly/code-conscie...
I talk about the orgs showing what this looks like in practice–from building harm checks to embedding safety principles into how models behave.
AI becomes trustworthy by anticipating harm instead of reacting. Read here: bit.ly/code-conscie...