LAshton 🌱
@leoashton.bsky.social
Bunny companion, animal liberation, human rights, artist on west coast. Wine & tech industry escapee. He/him #Brandalism leoashton.net
@dxeofficial.bsky.social They’re limiting Zoe’s access to fast-acting glucose so she’s needing to ration or under-treat which could lead to seizure, coma or even death! PLEASE join us to call for her Immediate release at tomorrow’s Free Zoe March at noon at Dolores Park dxe.io/marchSF
Free Zoe March - San Francisco
Event in San Francisco, CA by Direct Action Everywhere - SF Bay Area and Direct Action Everywhere - DxE on Saturday, December 13 2025
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December 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
@dxeofficial.bsky.social They’re limiting Zoe’s access to fast-acting glucose so she’s needing to ration or under-treat which could lead to seizure, coma or even death! PLEASE join us to call for her Immediate release at tomorrow’s Free Zoe March at noon at Dolores Park dxe.io/marchSF
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What does animal ag use all those antibiotics for? The dairy industry, for ex, uses them to treat mastitis, a terrible condition that arises frequently b/c dairy production is brutal & pushes their bodies to the point of collapse. For that, we're willing to risk the effectiveness of modern medicine?
At the end of each year, FDA releases data on antibiotics sold for use in livestock.
It usually changes a few %. This year, it went up 15.8%.
I was shocked & emailed experts/industry groups. Likeliest explanation per a source: industry is not "being good stewards of antibiotics"
It usually changes a few %. This year, it went up 15.8%.
I was shocked & emailed experts/industry groups. Likeliest explanation per a source: industry is not "being good stewards of antibiotics"
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What does animal ag use all those antibiotics for? The dairy industry, for ex, uses them to treat mastitis, a terrible condition that arises frequently b/c dairy production is brutal & pushes their bodies to the point of collapse. For that, we're willing to risk the effectiveness of modern medicine?
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Hakeem Jeffries' AI Commission is littered with corporate and tech-friendly Dems. AI is wildly unpopular, yet too many national Democratic leaders are rejecting that reality in favor of wooing back Silicon Valley. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
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Democratic Voters Are Clamoring for AI Regulation. Their Leaders Aren’t Interested. - The American Prospect
A new AI commission established by House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries includes several corporate-friendly legislators.
prospect.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Hakeem Jeffries' AI Commission is littered with corporate and tech-friendly Dems. AI is wildly unpopular, yet too many national Democratic leaders are rejecting that reality in favor of wooing back Silicon Valley. From our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social:
prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...
prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...
What a dystopian joke our country has become. Living in some onion article. trumpcard.gov
The Trump Gold Card
The Trump Gold Card application
trumpcard.gov
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
What a dystopian joke our country has become. Living in some onion article. trumpcard.gov
So how long until we see a Mickey Mouse chatbot convincing teens to kill themself? Disney is really making a serious mistake.
December 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
So how long until we see a Mickey Mouse chatbot convincing teens to kill themself? Disney is really making a serious mistake.
An Administration of bullies, abusers, trolls, rapists and murderers. Of course they accuse migrants of being criminals- every accusation is a confession. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Officers at Texas immigration detention facility accused of beatings and sexual abuse
Civil rights coalition calls for immediate closure of camp, where more than 2,700 detainees are being held
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
An Administration of bullies, abusers, trolls, rapists and murderers. Of course they accuse migrants of being criminals- every accusation is a confession. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I actually considered this common knowledge that Big Ag front groups have been paying "influencers" and the like to attack animal rights groups and their movement. Not just nationally but local. vegnews.com/reddit-ama-b...
Inside the Reddit Thread That Blasts Big Meat for Hiring People to Take Down Veganism
A Redditor claims they were paid $17 an hour to smear veganism online. Here are the 20 most surprising allegations from their viral AMA.
vegnews.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I actually considered this common knowledge that Big Ag front groups have been paying "influencers" and the like to attack animal rights groups and their movement. Not just nationally but local. vegnews.com/reddit-ama-b...
Republicans in Congress just launched a sham investigation into the Center for Biological Diversity. But the real corruption they should be investigating is Twin Metals and its Chilean parent company. act.biologicaldiversity.org/o5VEUgY5pk6p...
The Center for Biological Diversity is Under Attack
This “investigation” doesn’t name a single unlawful act, because there are none. The real corruption they should be investigating is Twin Metals and its Chilean parent company, Antofagasta plc.
act.biologicaldiversity.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Republicans in Congress just launched a sham investigation into the Center for Biological Diversity. But the real corruption they should be investigating is Twin Metals and its Chilean parent company. act.biologicaldiversity.org/o5VEUgY5pk6p...
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Police surveil everyone driving in San Jose and search that data thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It’s an unchecked police power, an end run around the courts & a blatant privacy invasion, EFF’s Lisa Femia wrote for @MercuryNews.com. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/...
Opinion: San Jose’s vast surveillance network is watching you. Be afraid.
The city’s license plate cameras are collecting revealing data that police nationwide are searching — all without warrants.
www.mercurynews.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Police surveil everyone driving in San Jose and search that data thousands of times per month without ever seeking a warrant. It’s an unchecked police power, an end run around the courts & a blatant privacy invasion, EFF’s Lisa Femia wrote for @MercuryNews.com. www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/...
Absurd performative cruelty. Fascism. "This is what America feels like right now. Absurdity and cruelty and violence all into one." variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Jordan Klepper Got Pepper Sprayed at a Naked Protest For New ‘Daily Show’ Special: ‘This is What America Feels Like Right Now — Absurdity, Cruelty and Violence’
“The Daily Show Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Give The Man a Prize," which premieres Monday, includes pepper spray at a naked protest.
variety.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Absurd performative cruelty. Fascism. "This is what America feels like right now. Absurdity and cruelty and violence all into one." variety.com/2025/tv/news...
40 Years later, To Live and Die in L.A. Menlo Park 12-4-25. Great night with Wang Chung celebrating a classic Friedkin film, that included one of my favorite Willem Dafoe as artist storylines.
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
40 Years later, To Live and Die in L.A. Menlo Park 12-4-25. Great night with Wang Chung celebrating a classic Friedkin film, that included one of my favorite Willem Dafoe as artist storylines.
More exposure for Sonoma County’s dirty secret, destructive & cruel factory farms are above the law, protected by the authorities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US student who took four chickens after breaking into slaughterhouse sentenced to 90 days in jail
Zoe Rosenberg, 23, studying at UC Berkeley, had said it was a ‘rescue’ and ‘will not apologize’ for her actions
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
More exposure for Sonoma County’s dirty secret, destructive & cruel factory farms are above the law, protected by the authorities. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
There is nothing that Silicon Valley tech bros can’t make even worse. Meta’s next glasses will probably include the nudifier app to make those around you appear nude.
This technology that people in school administrations and higher education are demanding everyone get behind because it's "the future" and "we just have to accept it," which is, nfn, the language of abuse.
The rise of deepfake pornography in schools: ‘One girl was so horrified she vomited’ www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...
December 6, 2025 at 5:09 AM
There is nothing that Silicon Valley tech bros can’t make even worse. Meta’s next glasses will probably include the nudifier app to make those around you appear nude.
Why I wonder are we allowing these tech bros, the drop outs and others that never valued a liberal arts education, to alter on a fundamental level not only education, but brain development in children? All so they can become so wealthy they buy islands?
This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Why I wonder are we allowing these tech bros, the drop outs and others that never valued a liberal arts education, to alter on a fundamental level not only education, but brain development in children? All so they can become so wealthy they buy islands?
RIP to Frank Gehry, celebrated Architect who passed away today in Santa Monica at his home. He was 96.
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
RIP to Frank Gehry, celebrated Architect who passed away today in Santa Monica at his home. He was 96.
I think we will rue the day that we have underestimated how destructive Silicon Valley tech bros will be to civilization as we know it. OpenAI epitomizes the long developing philosophy of extraction/disruption that is actually destruction.
December 5, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I think we will rue the day that we have underestimated how destructive Silicon Valley tech bros will be to civilization as we know it. OpenAI epitomizes the long developing philosophy of extraction/disruption that is actually destruction.
As computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum cautioned decades ago, the real danger lies in humans adapting their minds to machine logic. Students aren’t just learning less; their brains are learning not to learn. OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 5, 2025 at 7:38 PM
As computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum cautioned decades ago, the real danger lies in humans adapting their minds to machine logic. Students aren’t just learning less; their brains are learning not to learn. OpenAI is not a partner—it’s an empire.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
13 years since the last Foetus release, 9 years in the making. Release of 'Halt' set for the end of this month. JG Thirlwell has always been one of my favorite artists. youtu.be/KB03vkWFq0M?...
Foetus - "Succulence"
YouTube video by JG Thirlwell
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December 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
13 years since the last Foetus release, 9 years in the making. Release of 'Halt' set for the end of this month. JG Thirlwell has always been one of my favorite artists. youtu.be/KB03vkWFq0M?...
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Just because it's not the Ellisons doesn't mean it's benign. The consolidation of Hollywood is the problem.
State AGs need to block this and signal they'll block a Paramount-WBD merger as anticompetitive too.
prospect.org/2025/12/05/n...
State AGs need to block this and signal they'll block a Paramount-WBD merger as anticompetitive too.
prospect.org/2025/12/05/n...
December 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Just because it's not the Ellisons doesn't mean it's benign. The consolidation of Hollywood is the problem.
State AGs need to block this and signal they'll block a Paramount-WBD merger as anticompetitive too.
prospect.org/2025/12/05/n...
State AGs need to block this and signal they'll block a Paramount-WBD merger as anticompetitive too.
prospect.org/2025/12/05/n...
As if Netflix/Silicon Valley hasn't taken over enough of Hollywood, poor Bugs Bunny and frankly history.
December 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
As if Netflix/Silicon Valley hasn't taken over enough of Hollywood, poor Bugs Bunny and frankly history.
So should the president- No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Pete Hegseth Should Be Charged With Murder
No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted.
www.thenation.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So should the president- No matter how you look at the strikes on alleged “drug boats”—as acts of war or attacks on civilians—Hegseth has committed a crime and should be prosecuted. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Call back to the 80s
December 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Call back to the 80s
Should be a good show tonight, one of my favorite films- To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin) with live soundtrack performed by Wang Chung, 40th anniversary. Guild Theatre in Menlo Park.
December 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Should be a good show tonight, one of my favorite films- To Live and Die in L.A. (William Friedkin) with live soundtrack performed by Wang Chung, 40th anniversary. Guild Theatre in Menlo Park.
That Alan Dye and his minions would leave for Meta says a lot more about Dye (and $$$) than anything else. Working for Zuck is really bottom barrel corporate ethics. Second to Ivy going to work with Sam Altman.
December 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
That Alan Dye and his minions would leave for Meta says a lot more about Dye (and $$$) than anything else. Working for Zuck is really bottom barrel corporate ethics. Second to Ivy going to work with Sam Altman.
Silicon Valley loves disruption, now we get it for human existence.
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Silicon Valley loves disruption, now we get it for human existence.