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you, who are on the road must have a code that you can live by the revolution will not be liveskeeted

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liv @livya.bsky.social · Feb 4

the best advice I have: do something that makes you feel brave. something deeply aligned with your values, something validating.

something wholly unpolitical.

your strength there will carry you here.

Ilana Masad @ilanaslightly.bsky.social · Feb 3

How are y'all dealing with the cognitive dissonance of much of your daily life continuing as normal right now even as really really really bad shit is happening in government (that will certainly have ripple effects that will reach us all)? Because I'm honestly feeling a little insane right now.

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 2d

I definitely thought this was exclusively a joke on arrested development.

The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 2d

Just before 6pm curfew, a bus pulled up to the ICE facility. It appears they pulled the front into their garage to unload whoever is inside.

Of course at the same time, Broadview PD dispersed press from the “free speech zone.”

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CDRE Fool Mental Jackass VI @uncle6.org · 15d

OH LOOK WHAT I FOUND IN THE LIVING ROOM SHELVES

Paulina Borsook’s essential “Cyberselfish” which told us where things were headed literally decades ago

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 16d

I truly wish this had been handled better from the start in terms of getting people’s permission to build these technologies. I don’t know how we rectify the damage from here.

liv @livya.bsky.social · 16d

I honestly have not been following the data debate in detail, so this may not be news at all. but I find this fascinating. I simultaneously think it’s a good (legal) defense, and also that since so many people are using ChatGPT as a search frontend, it might cause info dissemination issues

liv @livya.bsky.social · 16d

I was perusing the NYT’s robots.txt today as part of explaining to a friend where LLMs get all their data

and discovered that NYT now has a license agreement in the comments of their robots file, that specifically disallows crawling from / by / for AI / LLMs

browser opened to nytimes.com/robots.txt, where you can read the whole thing.

the relevant highlighted bit says:
“Prohibited uses include but are not limited to: …
(2) the development of any software, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and / or large language models (LLMs).”

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18d

The word “autism” was first used to describe behavioral differences in children in 1911 but autism has been documented using available records going back to the 1700s (definitively) and further.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol, paracetamol) was discovered in 1878 and first sold in the United States in 1950.

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 18d

We have always been at war with Tylenol

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 19d

may your body someday allow that sort of strength again, and short of that, may your experiences still give you that strength inside =)

the book is quite good, and I think worth a read even if you can’t currently lift! I do know the frustration of not being able to act on the inspiration, though

liv @livya.bsky.social · 19d

lifting very heavy things on a regular basis is one of those things that make you feel capable of fighting fascism, and I just want everyone to know that

(I owe this analysis to @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, whose book is very good and I rec it to someone at least weekly)

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 21d

oh god. I have so many friends who will be impacted if so… 😭

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21d

There goes the First Amendment.

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 23d

the stories we tell ourselves about worlds ending are all-encompassing. in stories, we need the emotional space to process the change. parts of us wish to be allowed to be so utterly altered by world-shifting experiences.

but for change to be so stark in real life means no escape from grief.

liv @livya.bsky.social · 23d

the fact that other things keep going can still feel shocking. you feel out of step, like you can’t quite play a tune you once knew by heart. you need extra space to process.

yet the ceaseless normality also provides a refuge when the ended part of your world offers only despair.

liv @livya.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve said it before, but this was one of the lessons I learned very quickly in the wake of the wildfire that took our house. just because the world ends for you in one way doesn’t mean it ends altogether.

there is comfort to be found in recognizing that fact, if you allow it.

Black.Deathtronome 🇧🇧🇧🇲 💀💀💀 @blackmetronome.bsky.social · 23d

We're literally Civil Warring right now, and everyone is expected to show up for work tomorrow physically or via the internet because it's another Thursday in the United States.

Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 23d

Colbert’s & Kimmel’s firings are a reminder that corporate media consolidation is a key battery for the creation of state media.

State media = authoritarianism

State media ≠ democracy

Once we scrape the Mad King & his crew out of office, let’s break up media conglomerates.

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 23d

meanwhile, 28% of the population trusts nothing beyond the end of their own nose

Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 23d

The 🇺🇸 President deciding which comedians are allowed to tell jokes is the sort of thing that normies care about in a way that will resonate.

The corporate news media has failed. But you can tell the people in your life who don't follow the news about what's happening:

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Are Interested in Hearing From Members of Congress Directly.
Description: Please indicate how interested – if at all – you might be in receiving information about current political news from the following people:
Family members or friends — Interested: 72%, Not interested: 28%
Local community leaders or organizations — Interested: 63%, Not interested: 37%
Members of Congress or other elected officials — Interested: 61%, Not interested: 39%
News anchors — Interested: 60%, Not interested: 40%
Academic professionals — Interested: 51%, Not interested: 49%
Colleagues or coworkers — Interested: 47%, Not interested: 53%
YouTube creators or online show hosts — Interested: 38%, Not interested: 62%
Podcast hosts — Interested: 37%, Not interested: 63%
Social media influencers — Interested: 28%, Not interested: 72%
Celebrities — Interested: 26%, Not interested: 74%

January 10–13, 2025 survey of 1,248 U.S. likely voters.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 23d

Earlier today, FCC Chair Brendan Carr said “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” about Disney/ABC “taking action on Kimmel.”

Hours later, ABC pulled Kimmel off the air.

It’s a blatant crackdown on free speech by an authoritarian administration. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Disney's ABC pulls 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' after FCC chair criticizes the host's Charlie Kirk comments

The network confirmed it is "indefinitely" pulling the show.

www.nbcnews.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 23d

it’s very funny to make a distinction between cancel culture and what this is, which is clear government supression of speech. cancel culture isn’t anti first amendment, but this specifically is! which is worse!

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 24d

I had the exact same experience today! very weird and confusing day. looking forward to feeling stable tomorrow, hope you do too

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 24d

I remind myself regularly that courage is something we admire not just because it is good, but because it is rare.

I feel that way about a lot of virtues, these days.

Micah @rincewind.run · 24d

I expected the tyranny and the blustering and the mockery of everything they’ve ever claimed America was supposed to stand for

what I didn’t expect was the depth and speed of the capitulation at every level

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 24d

19thnews.org/2025/09/kat-...

“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 25d

lot of people been posting this one but here’s my post of it with my name correct. okie doke

mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · Nov 30

posting this Classic over here in honor of the big man himself. adios bitch

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 26d

the fact that you crave Doritos after eating Doritos is less about the chips having transgressed some clear nutritional boundary, and more that it’s been carefully engineered to make you want it

liv @livya.bsky.social · 26d

I read another article about how eliminating ultra-processed foods changed someone’s life, even though we still don’t have a definition of what one is.

it’s made me think that the right definition is simply - food made by a corporation, with food engineers and marketers to make you want it.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27d

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

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liv @livya.bsky.social · 27d

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