Alex K. 🔆
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Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria.
Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.
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Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria.
Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.
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Alex K. 🔆
@kafsofit.bsky.social
· Jul 7
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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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.
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NEW: A growing number of children have been left in the care of relatives, neighbors & babysitters after parents have been deported by ICE.
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Deported and Desperate to Be Reunited With Their Children
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
NEW: A growing number of children have been left in the care of relatives, neighbors & babysitters after parents have been deported by ICE.
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
Few countries have been as vocal as Venezuela, which claims 150 children have been separated.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/n...
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"Many garment workers make Nike products for below $1 per hour ... If Nike had returned the $18 billion it is spending on buybacks to workers instead, it could offer a $125 per month raise to every garment worker who makes Nike products for 10 years — doubling the wages of many."
Nike supply chain workers across Asia are joining with US labor to shift the balance of power.
Trump’s Tariffs Don’t Help Workers. Labor Solidarity Across Borders Does.
Nike supply chain workers across Asia are joining with US labor to shift the balance of power.
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
"Many garment workers make Nike products for below $1 per hour ... If Nike had returned the $18 billion it is spending on buybacks to workers instead, it could offer a $125 per month raise to every garment worker who makes Nike products for 10 years — doubling the wages of many."
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After the news broke about the Texas cop's Washington access, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels told reporters that he had since ensured our county’s Flock data was “locked down” and didn’t specify if our cameras were searched.
Border Patrol, ICE tapped into Washington police surveillance systems for potential immigration enforcement
Federal law enforcement agencies accessed data collected by some local police and sheriff’s offices automated license plate cameras around Washington, a University of Washington Center for Human Rights report found, sometimes without local agencies’ knowledge.
www.spokesman.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
After the news broke about the Texas cop's Washington access, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels told reporters that he had since ensured our county’s Flock data was “locked down” and didn’t specify if our cameras were searched.
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In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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This alliance has been around for a quarter century, at least. Self- identified "radical feminists" ARE often conservative. They've come together with religious groups to support the Iraq war, Palermo Protocols, TVPA...
GAATW warns that some groups are now using anti-trafficking rhetoric to push bans on surrogacy and spread transphobic agendas.
(For example: The NGO who made the recent Epstein PSA is anti-surrogacy). www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
(For example: The NGO who made the recent Epstein PSA is anti-surrogacy). www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
A bizarre new alliance is coming after sexual freedoms
Radical feminists and religious groups teamed up against sex work. Now they’re going after broader reproductive freedoms
www.opendemocracy.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This alliance has been around for a quarter century, at least. Self- identified "radical feminists" ARE often conservative. They've come together with religious groups to support the Iraq war, Palermo Protocols, TVPA...
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The presentation and art direction on this piece are fantastic, as is the excellent reporting.
In 2023, then-U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a devastating advisory about the persistent loneliness epidemic, declaring social isolation and lack of connection to be a public health crisis. twins.longlead.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The presentation and art direction on this piece are fantastic, as is the excellent reporting.
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If you have unusual beliefs you *need* the people who question you. If you're suicidal you *need* the people who will tell you to stick around. And we have fucked up our society enough that not everyone has people like that. Not everyone has people at all.
November 25, 2025 at 7:26 AM
If you have unusual beliefs you *need* the people who question you. If you're suicidal you *need* the people who will tell you to stick around. And we have fucked up our society enough that not everyone has people like that. Not everyone has people at all.
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Unusual beliefs are not the same as delusions are not the same as psychosis are not inherently dangerous. ChatGPT making some people sound "mad" is not why it is fucked up.
November 25, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Unusual beliefs are not the same as delusions are not the same as psychosis are not inherently dangerous. ChatGPT making some people sound "mad" is not why it is fucked up.
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So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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There's so much I love about this speech and I hope you read the full text when you can - it's worth it.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
There's so much I love about this speech and I hope you read the full text when you can - it's worth it.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
But I love how it paints imagination as an act of service to others and a way to resist domination.
It helped me articulate some of why I think stories are so powerful and why we NEED them.
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Catch up on the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Catch up on the latest episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000!
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
🎃 🔥 In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social tackle another “All Hell” episode! Join them as they work their way through the horrors... 🔥🎃
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...
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Avoiding public WiFi, QR codes, or public USB chargers doesn’t prevent you from being hacked. Happy to sign onto this open letter alongside 80+ cybersecurity veterans urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. www.hacklore.org
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Avoiding public WiFi, QR codes, or public USB chargers doesn’t prevent you from being hacked. Happy to sign onto this open letter alongside 80+ cybersecurity veterans urging a shift from folklore to guidance that actually helps people avoid the most common attacks. www.hacklore.org
Pensando en esto de hace dos meses… Los intere$e$ vienen de otro lado, pero igual cada día me parece más abyecta la forma en que se ignoran los daños que causan estas empresas (Meta, X, Amazon, Google, Palantir, OpenAI, etc.), el dineral que se van a sus proyectos y la sumisión de varios gobiernos.
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Pensando en esto de hace dos meses… Los intere$e$ vienen de otro lado, pero igual cada día me parece más abyecta la forma en que se ignoran los daños que causan estas empresas (Meta, X, Amazon, Google, Palantir, OpenAI, etc.), el dineral que se van a sus proyectos y la sumisión de varios gobiernos.
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Let This Radicalize You - a book I needed in this moment. I've just started but can't stop thinking about it
"When you feel trapped by an oppressive inevitability, you never stop trying to escape, because every jailbreak begins with a decision to reject the inevitable" - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
"When you feel trapped by an oppressive inevitability, you never stop trying to escape, because every jailbreak begins with a decision to reject the inevitable" - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Let This Radicalize You - a book I needed in this moment. I've just started but can't stop thinking about it
"When you feel trapped by an oppressive inevitability, you never stop trying to escape, because every jailbreak begins with a decision to reject the inevitable" - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
"When you feel trapped by an oppressive inevitability, you never stop trying to escape, because every jailbreak begins with a decision to reject the inevitable" - @mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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Me encanta que sin querer Elon Musk reveló que mucho de la infraestructura de propaganda en internet funciona con mano de obra explotada del tercer mundo
Elon Musk’s latest feature on X has had some shocking and unintended consequences. trib.al/wFuPXVp
Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...
Starting Friday, X users were able to use a new “about this account” feature to see what country accounts were based in. And for many “America First” posters, this revealed an inconvenient truth...
Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S.
Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing.
trib.al
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Me encanta que sin querer Elon Musk reveló que mucho de la infraestructura de propaganda en internet funciona con mano de obra explotada del tercer mundo
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Two perfectly normal ads in the perfectly normal city of San Francisco.
November 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Two perfectly normal ads in the perfectly normal city of San Francisco.
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"Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges" www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges" www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
RIP Udo Kier, a true original
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his one and only social media post:
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his one and only social media post:
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Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
November 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Snitches are how 99% of FBI cases work, or someone talking when they shouldn't. It's almost never breaking encryption.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
So, keep using signal because its the best option we have. Do not switch to telegram which is DEMONSTRABLY less secure.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
‘It is abundantly clear that corporate social responsibility was and is a myth. Even if firms claim to recognise their social and environmental responsibilities, profitability always trumps them when they clash.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on where our waste goes.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance
Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
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Shouldn’t we start criminalising such big tech practices as organised crime? Or is this another example that demonstrates that we should shift the focus from crime to harm #digitalcriminology #rhizomaticharm
Top Meta staff allegedly compared Instagram to a drug and worked for years to obscure the social media platform’s potential dangers from parents and children, even as they appeared to acknowledge their technology was harmful. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs
Meta said the allegations “rely on cherry-picked quotes and misinformed opinions” to present a misleading narrative.
www.politico.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Shouldn’t we start criminalising such big tech practices as organised crime? Or is this another example that demonstrates that we should shift the focus from crime to harm #digitalcriminology #rhizomaticharm