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Alex K. 🔆

@kafsofit.bsky.social

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🟡⚪️🟣⚫️ Posts en/in Spanglish: Justicia transformativa, acompañamiento psicosocial, protección holística y resiliencia digital. Transformative justice, psychosocial accompaniment, holistic safety, and digital resilience. @ comun.al / @ mnemozine.xyz

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · Jul 7

Gran parte de lo que tengo qué decir sobre lo que ha pasado/está pasando en 🇲🇽 con las reformas recientes, la CURP biométrica, bases de datos centralizadas y darle poder total al Estado por “seguridad” las escribí en “Violencia Digital en México: El Estado vs. La sociedad civil”. Recomiendo, la neta.

Tecnosolucionismo: obstrucción en el acceso a la justicia : Alex Argüelles : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Tecnosolucionismo: obstrucción en el acceso a la justicia fue escrito por Alex Argüelles. Es el capítulo 7 del libro Violencia Digital en México: El...

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6m

According to a London-based Israeli researcher named Ayala Panievsky, "Only 3% of war-related items in Israeli media throughout the war addressed the civilian situation in Gaza."

Covering the Gaza war, 'Israeli media is like a doctor hiding the patient's condition'

London-based Israeli Researcher Ayala Panievsky Has Been Studying War Coverage in Israel. Her Findings Explain Why the Country Now Seems Out of Touch With the Rest of the World

www.haaretz.com

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Bob Dobalina @bobdabalina.bsky.social · 47m

Trump turned the DOJ into the Dept of Revenge while Peter Thiel is building phase 2, a Christo-Fascist-Oligarchy.

Gee wiz, I just thought they would stop illegals from eating my pet.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 4h

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 9h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Ana Brandusescu @anabrandusescu.bsky.social · 21h

"So I will find a way to keep burning without burning out. I will find moments to breathe, to soften, to hold what’s unbearable without letting it hollow me out. The goal is to feel without coming apart. And to keep going—until we don’t have to live like this anymore."

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 4h

The state leader to tech bro pipeline. Eric Adams is well on his way too.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 4h

from law making to law capitulating

Sunak goes from occupying the highest office in the UK government to advising the wealthiest and most powerful industry

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rishi Sunak takes advisory roles with Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic

The former prime minister has been told not to lobby the UK government by the appointments watchdog.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4h

I spoke to Slate about why 404 Media is suing ICE for its $2 million spyware contract. The company ICE contracted with can remotely break into phones without the target even clicking a link slate.com/podcasts/wha...

The People Suing ICE

What kind of spyware is ICE working with—and what government agencies are collaborating?

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 16h

LMAOOOOO

A bunch of comedians tried to make up for their participation in the Riyadh comedy festival by donating their pay to Human Rights Watch and Human rights Watch was like “nah bitch we don’t want your dirty blood money” 😂😂 I’m dying

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Taking money from those who took money from Saudi Arabia would impact perception of the org’s independence.

www.vulture.com

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 13h

Recent success in schools :when asked if I use Gen ai I just reply “no I am not a slopper”

When I explain that term it makes people REALLY uncomfortable that there could be a derogatory term for something presented as cool. No one wants to be a slopper

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Progressive Voice @pvamplify.bsky.social · 3d

8 years after genocide, Rohingya continue to face persecution by both #Myanmar junta & #ArakanArmy.🚨

High-level Conference on #Rohingya & other minorities must lead to real action—to protect lives, ensure aid access & deliver justice & accountability.

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Accountability Must Be Impartial - Progressive Voice

Eight years after the genocide, the international community has failed to take meaningful and effective action to protect the Rohingya. Today, as communities of all ethnicities across Myanmar endure t...

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 23h

hmm this Art. it speaks to me

screenshot from tumblr. username @matthewsiji.com says "It's 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousness of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4"

username crazy-pages reblogs with the added note: "I can't decide if it's better if they're not really uploaded into the cloud, they just all tricked themselves into thinking a GPT model trained on their brain is them, so she's playing with their fake echoes in a macabre imitation of the immortality they deluded themselves into believing they had. Or if they're real and she's just about to torment them forever"

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 17h

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 3d

"General Dynamics was contracted to author social media posts in the Philippines decrying the quality of Chinese face masks, test kits, and the Sinovac inoculation. The propaganda campaign was later expanded to audiences across Central Asia and the Middle East." www.cgdev.org/blog/its-tim...

It’s Time to Ban Intelligence Operations from Interfering in Public Health

Reuters reports today that the US Defense Department spread anti-vaccine messaging across Southeast Asia during COVID as part of an effort to discredit Chinese-manufactured vaccines. At a minimum, the...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20h

Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves, in case anyone was wondering.

Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 3d

"None — repeat none — of America’s fentanyl has been found to originate from Venezuela. Yet Trump and Pete Hegseth, his compulsively strutting “secretary of war”, insist that the country is fuelling America’s opioid epidemic." Me on Trump's wag the dog script. www.ft.com/content/5b3e...

Venezuela is Trump’s useful enemy

Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier

www.ft.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 19h

I have to fan-girl for a minute here. My friend @rosvall-lab.bsky.social built an app to gather data on bird behavior during the 2024 solar eclipse. 10,000+ citizen scientists contributed (including my kids), and the resulting paper was published in Science today!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Total solar eclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science

On 8 April 2024, a total solar eclipse disrupted light-dark cycles for North American birds during the lead-up to spring reproduction. Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial ...

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Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech · 17h

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First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 18h

🤣🤣🤣 Pues -según yo- sí se va debilitando en plan de que chaaance en algún momento deja de salir, pero en el inter rasurarte/cortarlo o arrancarlo de raíz es lo mismo… Pero igual la neta ando medio hablando sin saber 🙈

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 19h

No soy 100tífike, pero creo que el láser es para eso 🤣

Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 20h

Igual esto es súper al margen, pero entiendo que eso de no cortar/rasurar para que “el crecimiento” no salga más grueso es medio un mito. Sacarlo de raíz o cortarlo da un poco lo mismo porque mientras el folículo esté ahí va a seguir creciendo/saliendo (o algo así 🤭)

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 22h

🙈🙊 El respeto a las prácticas de belleza dolorosa/tortuosa ajenas es la paz.

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brujulaintersexual.bsky.social @brujulaintersexual.bsky.social · 23h

🌟 Saberes sobre #OvarioPoliquístico / PCOSalon 🌟
¡Hablemos de esto! Porque escuchamos los números todo el tiempo: entre el 6 y el 13% de los ovarios son poliquísticos, +

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23h

Social media is a major source of info for abortion seekers — but Big Tech is stopping them from finding correct, timely facts. Join EFF, Plan C, M+A Hotline, and Women on Web TOMORROW at 9am PT as we dive into what’s happening and the future of sharing information online. www.eff.org/event/stop-...

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Meg Trevey @megglin.bsky.social · 23h

I know I shared this yesterday, but I cannot stop thinking about this piece, especially this part:

"I thought I was the hopelessly broken one. But I was a fire alarm among people who couldn't smell smoke...

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · 1d

It's also just weirdo shit. "I have one hundred million dollars but I want more money" ok why

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

It's categorically impossible to be an ethical billionaire and I will die on that hill forever.

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