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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 6h

This is beyond bad, but something easy you, right now, to protect your community? Mask. Everywhere. Normalize it. It will save lives. Maybe yours!

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 15h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 15h

Long Covid is more prevalent in children in the US now than asthma. We are fucking destroying the next generations w/our behavior. (And adults.)

If you do care about resisting eugenics maybe start by not being the vector that disables a kid in RFK’s US. That is not too much to ask. It really isn’t.

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 20h

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22h

Who Link was here & how he formed site culture, insisting on alt text & accessibility & disability justice, insisting on standing with trans people, mutual aid, irreverent shitposting, shows exactly that this culture of early bluesky that forged the platform is the opposite of what the team wants.

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 21h

"[W]hen 'bullets crashed through the window and hit Miguel,' he turned to the 18 year-old boy sitting next to him in the van and said, 'I don't think I'm going to make it, get underneath me. Let me shield you.'"
#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting

At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of migrants by the federal government.

www.texasobserver.org

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 19h

This is what people are ACTUALLY affirming when they say "it's here to stay."

The lack of consent machine will become mandatory in order to further surveil us and prop up their profits, whether or not anyone wants the slop it produces, or to have their community devastated by its resource demands.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 19h

“Thiel says an Antichrist will emerge who will create a one-world government on the promise of something like stopping nuclear, AI or climate-induced disaster.
That figure, would curtail individual freedoms and halt humanity's shot at a future innovation that would avoid Armageddon, Thiel believes”

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 4d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 1d

I started keeping a "bless your heart" list to try to exorcise some of the wild petty shit people try to hand me & it's helping reframe the whole interaction. Some people are not well (neither am I sometimes) so now I can just see these pathetic attempts at dominance for what they are & move on

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Erin Overbey @erinoverbey.bsky.social · 1d

the group & people most deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize this year are the Palestinian journalists in Gaza, who kept courageously telling the world the truth no matter the cost #nobelpeaceprize @nobelprize.bsky.social

Illustration of some of the Palestinian journalists in Gaza

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 1d

We literally process stimuli differently, think differently, frequently relate to people differently, and boy howdy, do people hate folks who are different and have different needs.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2d

lately i've been thinking of this as platform logic.

replacing unpredictable human connections with fully controlled, fully visible (to the platform) transactions **is the point of this approach**

Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 13d

You don't have a delivery guy from the pizza place, you have an app

You don't talk to customer service you open a ticket on zendesk

platform logic works by replacing direct human relationships with mediated transactions

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 9d

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Opt Out October: Daily Tips to Protect Your Privacy and Security

Trying to take control of your online privacy can feel like a full-time job. But if you break it up into small tasks and take on one project at a time it makes the process of protecting your privacy

www.eff.org

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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bergmayer @bergmayer.net · 4d

Apple removing ICEBlock, a legal app for monitoring ICE activity, from its app store at the behest of the federal government mirrors what it has done in other regimes. www.iceblock.app

From IceBlock site: ICEBlock Removed
Following pressure from the Trump administration, Apple has removed ICEBlock from the App Store.
We are incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move. Apple has claimed they received information from law enforcement that ICEBlock served to harm law enforcement officers. This is patently false.

ICEBlock is no different from crowd sourcing speed traps, which every notable mapping application, including Apple's own Maps app, implements as part of its core services. This is protected speech under the first amendment of the United States Constitution.

We are determined to fight this with everything we have. Our mission has always been to protect our neighbors from the terror this administration continues to reign down on the people of this nation. We will not be deterred. We will not stop. #resist

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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 2d

I don't think we talk enough about the very fundamental and insidious role by EdTech consultants in the whole fascist project. And, the fact that administrators defer to them and dismiss or even punish educators that contest or question the AI in education paradigm is telling.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday I received three(!) emails from Pearson trying to sell me AI ed tech that they marketed as explicitly "safe for students." They know this stuff is dangerous and are desperate to head off the criticisms.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products.
Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 5d

Free Link

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d

well, I will be using that, with attribution

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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trick van treat @derek.bike · 4d

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

bluesky post from
@knilirabaj.bsky.social that says

It's pretty cool you're using that alt text accessibility feature. It's not cool that you're not really describing the image though. Nice and simple is a good start. Descriptive and accurate is the way to go. You'll get the hang of it. Try pretending you're describing the picture over the phone.

July 1, 2023 at 10:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4d

Łink made so much of this place what it is, and how interesting it is that Jay and co find it so easy to ban poc, trans folk and Palestinians while fighting tooth and claw to protect transphobes

Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 4d

Łink’s the reason I learned what alt text is and why it matters.

He helped shape Bluesky’s early culture of accessibility.

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J. Skyler 🏳️‍⚧️ @jskylerinc.bsky.social · 4d

⬇️ #StrikeForMutualAid

bsky.app/profile/alex...

#StrikeForMutualAid @alexpetrovnia.bsky.social

I OFFICIALLY CALL BLUESKY USERS TO DO A MUTUAL AID / DIRECT SUPPORT
POSTER'S STRIKE.
No content except things that directly support marginalized people.
Flood the site with the people Jay would love to forget she is personally killing.
And nothing else.
#StrikeForMutualAid

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 4d

Help folks however you can: donate, share, comment

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Jen Dick @jendick.bsky.social · 4d

This is eugenics

And remember: while there's definitely a genetic component to asthma, environmental impacts also can induce it

And guess who's most affected by the environmental impacts?

Black, Indigenous, other people of color, and poor white folks.

Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 4d

"Helium Shortage: We need to stop using MRI machines so that more children can have balloons for birthdays" ass article.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 4d

As somebody with asthma who uses inhalers - SHUT THE FUCK UP. THIS ARTICLE IS SHAMING PEOPLE WITH A CHRONIC CONDITION.

"Significantly" My ass. You know what else does? AI Data centers - corporations - cows - asphalt - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS THINGS THAT ARE NOT MEDICINE.

Fuck you - fuck you again.