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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 19h

Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 22h

It would take a worldwide coordinated effort, but I believe that if we as a species put our minds to it we can eliminate AI use in the general population by 2030.

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 22h

Includes the amazing but also totally normal statement "I did work for a funeral home for a short-time when I came out of a convent".

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Victoria De Capua @victoriadecapua.bsky.social · 22h

learning random things.

Okay I clicked because I recently watched one of these in operation. I guess it would be really really bad if this equipment failed.

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 23h

Isn't SoftBank best known for making baffling investment decisions and losing lots of money on them? I'm sure they invested in post-Uber Kalanick for instance when he wanted to run kitchens in trucks or something so they could ... flee from health inspectors and parking limits?

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 23h

Glad I did not verify my age with Discord and just accepted that some communities I can't engage with any more (partly because I hate Discord anyway).

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 23h

Oh, noes.

Oh, no.

Who could have predicted this would ever happen?

We did! Everybody did!

You know how I know? Because we said this.

Everybody said this.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 1d

it makes us extremely proud to know that among @bsky.app's 2 billion posts, our hog was biggest

Bluesky @bsky.app · 4d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 1d

I mean anything opinionated by some people is rejectable on its face...

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Marion Ravenwood played by Karen Allen in Raiders of the Lost Ark. She is holding up a knife.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't know Mamdani's wife was a comics nerd! New York, you have to vote for him now because I need at least one person in comics to have good health insurance.

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Jun 25

This is Zoran Mamdami’s wife’s portfolio site and she is very good

HOME | Rama Duwaji

Rama Duwaji is a Syrian illustrator and animator based in Brooklyn, NYC.

www.ramaduwaji.com

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Deborah @deborah-c.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the distant past, when I was a student, the Zoology department at Cambridge caught fire. Now, they didn’t have much in the way of computers, but they *were* next door to the Computer Lab, who, um, did. A bunch of microvaxen, which all got smoke damaged. And, more pertinently, the 1/n

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 1d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 2d

Selling the little red cheese things was exploiting literal babies, so I'm not sure monopolistic practice was the biggest problem there

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johnmark @johnmark.org · 2d

Molly does hands-down the best reporting on the crypto industry. Shining a light on blatant corruption may seem quaint and inconsequential right now, but it will make a difference. It's important to have a record of the grift, and you can play a role by supporting her investigative work.

Molly White @molly.wiki · 2d

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 2d

Oh, look, a cover!

www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ann-l...

Radiant Star

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Locati...

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 3d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 3d

goooood morning it is crisp and bright out there, and this little lady had a nice long jaunt where she could see her breath the whole time so yes: Lucy Loved That Walk

Big fluffy black and tan husky mix smiling in a big pile of red leaves beside a sidewalk.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

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KM @kmbezner.bsky.social · 3d

was feeling discouraged seeing much pro-ai sentiment at a LIBRARY conference-from folks who have spent careers advocating for data privacy, information literacy, and responsible tech use-but the closing keynote from @alexhanna.bsky.social is giving me hope that we can resist "ai" in our info spaces

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 3d

This thread highlights a point I have been making for many years: the logic of authoritarianism and the logic of domestic abuse are exactly the same. It is only a difference of scale.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 3d

Google appears to have three different .google sites claiming to contain training, none of which actually contains training although some of them do send you to a completely different site, not .google, whose owner is hidden in whois registries and looks a tiny bit like a scam but isn't. It is 2025.

James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 3d

There are some many places that CSP could be used where it isn't, but I'm always going to hesitate proposing it when large companies with active monitoring have blank spaces on their pages where some kind of third-party content control should be. (This one also blocks its own inline blobs lol)