Ruby S.
@ruby.momsrising.org
Technologist at MomsRising.
Personal opinions are on my personal account, not this one.
Personal opinions are on my personal account, not this one.
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New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points, tests show
New research from Public Interest Research Group and tests conducted by NBC News found that a wide range of AI toys have loose guardrails.
www.nbcnews.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.
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I always tell people the best way to test the accuracy of AI is to ask it to write a bio of yourself.
I asked said person, “just so I’m clear, you’re refuting my account of my marital status based on a claim that AI is making about me? Do I have that right?”
They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.
They doubled down. I walked off and mentally cut them off to boot. We are in the bad place for real.
December 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I always tell people the best way to test the accuracy of AI is to ask it to write a bio of yourself.
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I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.
NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:
US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It
The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am not a military strategist, but I have a vague memory that not feeding the troops was one of those big fuck-ups that Sun Tzu talked about.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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really liked this about how racism isn’t just a moral failure, but the operating system for authoritarianism. we treat "talking about race" as a strategy question. but the reason to talk about it is to prevent the power grab that we're going to face
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We’re at the Beginning, Not the End
We’re at the Beginning, Not the End - How We Win by Rashad Robinson
rashad-advisors.kit.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
really liked this about how racism isn’t just a moral failure, but the operating system for authoritarianism. we treat "talking about race" as a strategy question. but the reason to talk about it is to prevent the power grab that we're going to face
rashad-advisors.kit.com/posts/we-re-...
rashad-advisors.kit.com/posts/we-re-...
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Be in solidarity not surveillance.
If you’re attending protests:
• Don’t post your location
• Know your bail/jail support #
• Set up safety check-ins
• Make a personal safety plan
Download: bit.ly/PersonalSafe...
#ProtestSafety #RJinAction
If you’re attending protests:
• Don’t post your location
• Know your bail/jail support #
• Set up safety check-ins
• Make a personal safety plan
Download: bit.ly/PersonalSafe...
#ProtestSafety #RJinAction
October 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Be in solidarity not surveillance.
If you’re attending protests:
• Don’t post your location
• Know your bail/jail support #
• Set up safety check-ins
• Make a personal safety plan
Download: bit.ly/PersonalSafe...
#ProtestSafety #RJinAction
If you’re attending protests:
• Don’t post your location
• Know your bail/jail support #
• Set up safety check-ins
• Make a personal safety plan
Download: bit.ly/PersonalSafe...
#ProtestSafety #RJinAction
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fellow radicals, if you're shitting on the "No Kings" protests without proposing alternatives and doing the work of building a mass resistance movement, you're not helping
October 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
fellow radicals, if you're shitting on the "No Kings" protests without proposing alternatives and doing the work of building a mass resistance movement, you're not helping
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Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
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WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
October 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org
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you would? ok great
the action is wearing a mask in, at the very least, indoor public spaces.
is your answer still yes?
if not, why?
even if you don’t respond to my q’s directly, i sincerely hope you ask l yourself & interrogate whether the reasons behind your answers align with your values.
the action is wearing a mask in, at the very least, indoor public spaces.
is your answer still yes?
if not, why?
even if you don’t respond to my q’s directly, i sincerely hope you ask l yourself & interrogate whether the reasons behind your answers align with your values.
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
you would? ok great
the action is wearing a mask in, at the very least, indoor public spaces.
is your answer still yes?
if not, why?
even if you don’t respond to my q’s directly, i sincerely hope you ask l yourself & interrogate whether the reasons behind your answers align with your values.
the action is wearing a mask in, at the very least, indoor public spaces.
is your answer still yes?
if not, why?
even if you don’t respond to my q’s directly, i sincerely hope you ask l yourself & interrogate whether the reasons behind your answers align with your values.
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if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
if you are rightfully concerned if not frightened about the continued dissolution of U.S. healthcare infrastructure, would you take an action every day to resist it?
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An insightful read showing how some parents become radicalised into ‘gender critical’ transphobia when their child comes out as trans.
Here, one of the most unhinged leaders of the ‘Mom’s for Liberty’ movement is interviewed, along with their amazingly well-adjusted non-binary child…
Here, one of the most unhinged leaders of the ‘Mom’s for Liberty’ movement is interviewed, along with their amazingly well-adjusted non-binary child…
A mom of a nonbinary teen became an anti-trans activist, fracturing a California family
A Sacramento-area mom fights against “gender indoctrination” and creates a chasm with her nonbinary child who wants to pursue person-hood
www.sacbee.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:36 AM
An insightful read showing how some parents become radicalised into ‘gender critical’ transphobia when their child comes out as trans.
Here, one of the most unhinged leaders of the ‘Mom’s for Liberty’ movement is interviewed, along with their amazingly well-adjusted non-binary child…
Here, one of the most unhinged leaders of the ‘Mom’s for Liberty’ movement is interviewed, along with their amazingly well-adjusted non-binary child…
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“The sad fact is that, like so much else Trump’s reign of terror has revealed, it is showing us a reality we should have known years ago but many of us didn’t want to see: America’s leadership class no longer leads. It hides.”
We save us.
We save us.
America’s leadership class is failing us. It’s up to you and me to defend democracy. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/22/america-democray-leadership-robert-reich
America’s leadership class is failing us. It’s up to you and me to defend democracy | Robert Reich
The disappearance of America’s leadership class at a time like this means that the rest of us have to be leaders
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“The sad fact is that, like so much else Trump’s reign of terror has revealed, it is showing us a reality we should have known years ago but many of us didn’t want to see: America’s leadership class no longer leads. It hides.”
We save us.
We save us.
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22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
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She Survived 141 Days in ICE Custody Thanks to a ‘Beautiful Sisterhood.’ Now She’s Fighting for Those Still Inside.
22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, talks about her experience in federal detainment.
thebarbedwire.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...
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Wrote about the MAGA types whining about foreign influence campaigns on social media after they... dismantled government, corporate, and academic infrastructure designed to identify, expose, and counter foreign influence campaigns.
How MAGA Killed Foreign Influence Research, But Now Demands Social Media Stop Foreign Influence Campaigns
It's fascinating how quickly the tune changes when the shoe's on the other foot. For years, we've been treated to endless screaming about how any effort to identify and counter foreign…
It's fascinating how quickly the tune changes when the shoe's on the other foot. For years, we've been treated to endless screaming about how any effort to identify and counter foreign…
How MAGA Killed Foreign Influence Research, But Now Demands Social Media Stop Foreign Influence Campaigns
It's fascinating how quickly the tune changes when the shoe's on the other foot. For years, we've been treated to endless screaming about how any effort to identify and counter foreign manipulation on social media was "censorship" and a violation of Americans' free speech rights. The same crowd that turned researchers into pariahs and shut down entire government offices dedicated to studying foreign influence operations are now… demanding that social media platforms identify foreign accounts?
www.techdirt.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Wrote about the MAGA types whining about foreign influence campaigns on social media after they... dismantled government, corporate, and academic infrastructure designed to identify, expose, and counter foreign influence campaigns.
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"How could no one have seen the looming redistricting nightmare? How did they do nothing about this when they controlled a trifecta in Washington with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate?" writes author David Daley.
Democrats are facing a gerrymandering armageddon. It was avoidable | David Daley
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
"How could no one have seen the looming redistricting nightmare? How did they do nothing about this when they controlled a trifecta in Washington with a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate?" writes author David Daley.
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“All of us—nonprofits leaders, donors, funders, volunteers, clients—are like people living together in a village that is half on fire and rapidly spreading. In this situation, a retail-like mentality would be silly, if not downright destructive.”
Donor engagement and the retail-ification of equity and justice
Hi everyone, buckle up (though, at this point in the rapid collapse of civilization, I’m not sure any of us can be more buckled than we already are). Whenever I talk about donors, people get weirdly d...
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September 16, 2025 at 5:54 AM
“All of us—nonprofits leaders, donors, funders, volunteers, clients—are like people living together in a village that is half on fire and rapidly spreading. In this situation, a retail-like mentality would be silly, if not downright destructive.”
Remember trumps weave about inflation which we called “bacon” for short.
September 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.”
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
Gen Z and Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism, New Poll Says
“Young progressive voters are stepping into their full economic and political power."
www.teenvogue.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.”
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...
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Mandla Mandela, a grandson of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, says he’ll join the Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza with an aid boat from Tunisia.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5phozp
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September 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Mandla Mandela, a grandson of South Africa's anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, says he’ll join the Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza with an aid boat from Tunisia.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5phozp
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/5phozp
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New:
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two...
www.propublica.org
September 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New:
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.
www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social
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"I drive past Annunciation Church and School frequently - they are about a mile from my home. Wednesday on my way home, I was redirected by police with the nearby roads blockaded in the aftermath of the horrific act of violence that took place during morning mass."
August 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"I drive past Annunciation Church and School frequently - they are about a mile from my home. Wednesday on my way home, I was redirected by police with the nearby roads blockaded in the aftermath of the horrific act of violence that took place during morning mass."
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The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Kansas City: COVID-19 outbreak forces metro school to close until next week fox4kc.com/news/covid-1...
fox4kc.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
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Cardi B having to explain how being pregnant is a disability in court is wild, and it also demonstrates how we collectively refuse to believe we’re all temporarily abled and that status can be fluid.
August 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Cardi B having to explain how being pregnant is a disability in court is wild, and it also demonstrates how we collectively refuse to believe we’re all temporarily abled and that status can be fluid.