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Lia Russell @liaoffleash.bsky.social · Sep 9

"No one understands anything about immigration policy everyone has opinions on it anyway" loved this from @gabydvj.bsky.social

gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Sep 9

oh how i’ve Suffered
gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

A tale of two conferences

An Abundance/NatCon double feature

gabydelvalle.substack.com

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Sep 9

my perennial complaint 😭 also thank you!!

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Tina Nguyen @tinanguyen.bsky.social · Sep 6

At NatCon, there were two topics dominating everyone’s discussions: the imminent end of the right’s support of Israel — and the existential threat that technology posed to Western civilization.

I wrote about the second discussion.

www.theverge.com/politics/773...

MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech

Butlerian jihad from an unlikely quarter.

www.theverge.com

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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · Sep 9

"This is why the DHS twitter account now posts deportation ASMR and caked up ICE shawtys. The edgelords are in control, and the opposition is too busy quibbling over zoning reform white papers to do anything about it."

This was really good from @gabydvj.bsky.social

gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Sep 9

oh how i’ve Suffered
gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

A tale of two conferences

An Abundance/NatCon double feature

gabydelvalle.substack.com

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Sep 9

thank you!!

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Sep 9

i needed to see for myself!

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Sep 9

oh how i’ve Suffered
gabydelvalle.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

A tale of two conferences

An Abundance/NatCon double feature

gabydelvalle.substack.com

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Sep 3

ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.

Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps

Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons

www.theguardian.com

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Sep 3

hey remember when i wrote about the pronatalist right for politico and got accused of “nut-picking” lmao
www.politico.com/news/magazin...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 12

Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*

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kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Jul 17

apropos of nothing

kate wagner @katewagner.wehwalt.net · Jul 11

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Bringing Sexy Back

Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

lux-magazine.com

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Jul 17

student activists at Columbia have been warning about the harms posed by Canary Mission and other far-right doxing groups for years. Now we know ICE is using Canary Mission’s database to find targets for deportation
www.theverge.com/policy/70772...

Right-wing orgs put pro-Palestinian students on an ICE ‘hit list’

‘There’s been absolutely no recourse.‘

www.theverge.com

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Jul 11

they’re letting me be mean online again
www.theverge.com/policy/70538...

Why are liberals cozying up to race scientists?

“Race realists” are finding unexpected allies in the Abundance movement.

www.theverge.com

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Jul 11

lol. and moreover lmao

Pan finds even calls for redistribution suspect when they focus on closing the racial wealth gap rather than closing all wealth gaps. “On paper, the median white household in the US owns about $189,000 in assets, whereas the median black household owns only $24,000,” she writes, and “the average white household wealth is around $840,000 greater than average black household wealth.” Still, Pan claims, there is an outsized focus on these disparities; in fact, liberals’ “fixation” on the racial wealth gap is indicative of their desire to maintain the current economic order. “[C]losing most of the existing wealth gap between blacks and whites—without first closing the massive wealth gap between the rich and the poor—would largely necessitate making already-rich black people richer, while conversely, very little of the racial wealth gap would only be closed by helping poor black people acquire more wealth.” That is only true if one doesn’t know the difference between medians and averages.

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Jul 11

i reviewed jen pan’s selling social justice for the new issue of @readlux.bsky.social
lux-magazine.com/article/woke...

The Myth of Woke Capital

A rudderless critique of corporate liberalism lets the right off easy.

lux-magazine.com

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Vox Media Union @voxmediaunion.bsky.social · Jun 12

25.5 hours left and still waiting on a fair contract

betting this auspicious Solidarity Moon will help 😌

Members of the Vox Media Union bargaining committee gathered around a conference table.

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Jun 1

does it make sense? literally no, not at all. and yet that’s what people think! which is why it’s so shameful and frankly pathetic that dems caved on immigration and blamed their fecklessness on “public opinion”

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Jun 1

when the median voter hears “mass deportations” they think “trump is going to get rid of ms13 and tren de aragua but not my neighbor, who is a good person.” which is why polls show that some people say they want both “mass deportations” AND a path to citizenship

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 1

This argument would work if Trump was suddenly doing something he never promised but mass deportations were the core of his campaign! Even in our desiccated media environment his voters absolutely knew immigrants were going to be ejected en masse.

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · May 31

i really, really need people to understand that they *didn't* vote for this, no matter how much you insist they did. insisting "they voted for this" elides the information environment that led them to vote the way they did in the first place, the thing that actually needs fixing.

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Jun 1

gate agent just said they’re going “biometric boarding” on my flight to spain. yeah ok for sure. here’s my face delta i hope you don’t do anything weird with it

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Apr 28

how do you do fellow kids
www.theverge.com/tech/657409/...

New ChatGPT ‘glazes too much,’ says Sam Altman

‘Bro. This is incredible.’

www.theverge.com

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Apr 17

i’ve been saying!

thebaffler.com/salvos/live-...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · Apr 17

NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it:

www.404media.co/this-college...

This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops

Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”

www.404media.co

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gaby :) @gabydvj.bsky.social · Apr 17

so proud of him

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · Apr 16

heartwarming! local app that claims to pay bounties for deportation tipoffs probably just pump-and-dump scam

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · Apr 16

come read this story that makes you want to jump out of a window www.theverge.com/tech/650015/...

This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin

‘It’s like a citizen’s arrest, but with Wi-Fi.‘

www.theverge.com

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · Apr 16

NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.

ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.

Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet

The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.

www.theatlantic.com

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