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she/her/4B antifascist
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free palestine🇵🇸
2SLGBTQIA+ rights
"how you play is what you win"
too busy
how do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day
December 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
"1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong."

Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/rev...
Revised Definitions of the Verb “To Google”
1. To look something up quickly and then spend twenty minutes fact-checking the AI summary, only to find out that it was absolutely wrong. 2. To se...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
the second #china shock

"This week, China’s trade surplus — the excess of exports to imports — officially surpassed $1 trillion, a level no country has ever reached."

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/w...
The Second ‘China Shock’
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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New from me: The internet promised the democratization of information, power, and expression. Now there are vanishingly few ways to be online that don't involve being a billboard.

I wrote about the weird — and sometimes devastating — experience of being *influenced*
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Confessions of the influenced
Behind every influencer is an army of the people mired in debt and mass-produced clutter.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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A leaked DOJ memo obtained by @kenklippenstein.bsky.social reveals an effort to build a list of supposedly "anti-American" groups and individuals, an escalation of the administration's crackdown on dissent. The list targets "not just the left" but "anyone who isn't a Trump supporter," he says.
December 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"La vostra benedizione è conoscere / che pure il desiderio del paradiso è servile. / Il gioco è divino perché non c'è nessuna promessa / o speranza di guadagno."

(elsa morante)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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My org @fightforthefuture.org has been “de-googling” for the last year.

We’re totally off Google suite, Google docs, Drive, Calendar.

We’re using Signal and Element for chat, Nextcloud for docs, etc

Planning to publish a “how to” guide for other nonprofits and activist groups soonish.
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 7, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The UPPSALA DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION has 2,769 signatories. The EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION has 4,699. We refuse to collaborate with academic institutions complicit in illegal occupation, apartheid, genocide, and other violations of international law.
December 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
December 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🇮🇹 the adoption of the IHRA's definition of antisemitism and the increase in surveillance within universities are two profoundly misguided measures (as evidenced by the cases of germany and the US).

insane.

gessen about IHRA www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

www.open.online/2025/12/04/a...
Il ddl sull'antisemitismo dei senatori "riformisti" spacca il Pd. L'irritazione di Schlein
Il disegno di legge, depositato il 20 novembre a prima firma del senatore Graziano Del Rio, finisce al centro della discussione tra i dem
www.open.online
December 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Wtf are we doing?

"CNN partners with Kalshi to integrate prediction markets into its global newsroom. The first major news network to embrace Kalshi prediction markets."
December 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Loving that AI productivity boost!

"the more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more lawyers are needed to vet the technology’s outputs."
www.afr.com/companies/pr...
Use of AI ‘tech stacks’ driving demand for lawyers
The more artificial intelligence is used within a law firm, the more professionals are needed to vet the technology’s outputs.
www.afr.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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OK so wait. Trump talked to Bolsonaro last night and was planning to meet him “in the very near future”? Sounds to me like he was in on the escape plan. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Says He Plans To Meet With Bolsonaro Before Learning In Real Time That He's Been Arrested
www.huffpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 AM