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any pronouns | usually thinking about computer networks, tech policy, or video games | abolition is the future | https://github.com/allanko
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Tumblr post by and-fishing-equipment reading "in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD instead ask: - Is it SINCERE - is it CATHARTIC - was it FUN TO MAKE - is it MADE BY ME and don't forget to stay silly"
December 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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deanspade.bsky.social
Wrote about what happens when conflict appears in our movement spaces and how to move through it instead of abandoning our work in @npquarterly.bsky.social !

nonprofitquarterly.org/navigating-c...
Disappointment, Conflict, and Burnout in Care and Resistance Work People often experience a special kind of disappointment in resistance work. We join groups to do something that we really care about. Often, we are relieved to finally find people who see things the way we do, excited to be understood and have accompaniment and solidarity. We have high expectations for each other. And then we find out that we're all very human and imperfect. I have found that burnout is not usually just a result of being tired. Most people I've talked to who feel burned out and leave movement work, during the laset 28 years that I have been in these movements, are actually in pain because of unresolved conflict. They joined work they really cared about, something went wrong that made them feel betrayed or left out or disappointed, and that is the pain of the burnout. It wasn't just the hard work; it was the loss of trust, the feeling of being blamed or stigmatized, or not being listened to. Abolitionism and Transformative Justice I've spent the last decades in the movement for police, prison, and border abolition. I believe we shouldn't have of those structures. Abolitionists use a concept called "transformative justice" to describe the work we do to address conflict without using police. There is a lot of conflict, harm, and violence in our communities, we know the police don't help and only make it worse. Transformative justice practices do three things: 1. Work to figure out and provide what the person or people who have been harmed need to heal and participate in community, to not be isolated by what happened to them, and to be listened to, even though we can't undo what happened. 2. Work to figure out and provide what the person or people who did the harm need to stop doing it. 3. Work to figure out what the community surrounding the harm could do to make it less likely--how did we all set up a situation that made this more likely? When Big Reactions Happen One thing that is surprising and challenging about the emotional dynamics of conflict is that we do the most harm to others when we are feeling aggrieved, victimized, left out, and/or resentful. It's counterintuitive because these are the moments when we are focused on what others did wrong and how we are hurting. But those are the times we are most likely to do something harmful, like go and write the really messed up email to somebody, treat somebody with the cold shoulder, gossip negatively about people in our group or about another group in town, post a bunch of stuff on Instagram that's really inflammatory, or violate someone's privacy. As strange as it might seem, it's when I'm feeling like the victim that I should ask for help from a friend to figure out what the right-sized response is, or to figure out if I'm still too upset to decide how to respond and need more time. It's not that we aren't legitimately sometimes victimized, but the victim narrative in our heads can cause us to skip our value assessment and then do stuff that later we wish we hadn't done. It's not bad to feel this way, but we should consider what to do with these feelings since they are inevitably going to come up in our groups and in ourselves. Centering Belonging I was recently talking to somebody who's doing a conflict support process with a group that's had a major difficult conflict. And one of the things the person is doing is individually reaching out to the 40 or 50 people who all were involved in the group over these many years where these hard things were happening. The people from the group have been telling the conflict support person, who's not even in the group, "It just means so much to me that you're listening to me." We live in societies that minimize our experiences of pain and harm. And so, we join movement groups and we hope we're finally going to be part of something where we're heard and seen. And then we have a bad experience where people don't hear us or see us at some point. And then we wreak havoc. We're like, I have to tear down everybody in this group, and this group itself, because I'm feeling all of my historical cumulative pain of being dismissed. If we could catch each other in the moment of pain and listen, I think it could be a huge change in the likelihood of those conflicts escalating to the most disorganizing behaviors between us.
December 29, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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miriamposner.com
Whew
November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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alexanderchee.bsky.social
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...
November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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cetaceanneeded.bsky.social
hi researcher friends! if you conduct & record interviews with people and are concerned about the privacy risks of using online transcription services, i have good news, now with a minimal, kinda bad UI!
github.com/asmithh/tran...
GitHub - asmithh/transcription
Contribute to asmithh/transcription development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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biblioraptorphd.bsky.social
When Godzilla day falls on a Monday
Godzilla holding paper at a copier with a confused look on his face
November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
in early 2016 facebook came to the conclusion that everyone with a facebook account at the time was connected to everyone else on facebook by an average of about 3.5 hops research.facebook.com/blog/2016/2/...
November 2, 2025 at 2:53 AM
veracityyy.bsky.social
overheard in the MIT urban studies and planning dept:

1: dude i saw a mouse in the lounge the other day
2: oh yeah! that's robert mouses

💀
October 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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tltaylor.bsky.social
Workshop for streamers & content creators on media manipulation. Might be of interest to some. (I'm not affiliated, just sharing): www.poynter.org/mediawise/pr...
- Poynter
Play smart. Dodge manipulation. G.A.M.E. empowers streamers, fans, and industry stakeholders to reclaim game spaces from harmful stereotypes, extremist rhetoric, and common disinformation tricks. Thro...
www.poynter.org
October 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”
What the Public Memory of Charlie Kirk Revealed
www.nytimes.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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rcmacleod.bsky.social
"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services" but still!
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Sep 25
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Highly recommend this piece from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
conservatives have openly discussed using age restrictions to censor all LGBTQ+ content (eg, juliaserano.medium.com/kosa-a-natio...). ppl promoting age restrictions (some of whom l mostly agree with on reining in tech companies) need to take this threat seriously!
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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oddletters.bsky.social
good.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
veracityyy.bsky.social
i'm a bad taiwanese american and i'm learning simplified chinese but i very specifically hate the word for "car/carriage" now because how did we land on the simplified character 车 (childlike, lanky) when we had the perfectly good traditional character 車 (elegant, dignified, a pleasure to write)
September 7, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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davidjroth.bsky.social
We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...
How Are You Supposed To Get The COVID Vaccine Now? An Explainer | Defector
As the muggy malaise of summer winds down, you might find yourself interested in taking advantage of one of several safe and proven vaccines to help protect you from the inevitable brumal surge of res...
defector.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
veracityyy.bsky.social
every time i buy or sell something from the Local Community(tm) on craigslist or fb marketplace i think wow economics is so cool i wish it were real
September 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
It is a fact universally known that despite how many times the police brass look people and elected officials in the eyes and say "face recognition just gives us leads"--what really happens is police go arrest the name spit out by a computer without a single question or follow up.
kashhill.bsky.social Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · Aug 26
Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two?

Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness.

The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...
How the N.Y.P.D.’s Facial Recognition Tool Landed the Wrong Man in Jail
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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nickseaver.website
just in time!!
annakornbluh.bsky.social Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 15
teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
🤖 Thanks to the many experts who responded to me to help me unpack the new landmark AI bill from Illinois! Sharing a thread of my summary of what I've learned about it and how significant it is (It's significant!!) 🧵
statescoop.com/illinois-ban...
August 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
Multiple legal scholars I spoke with also independently highlighted something interesting to them -- the exclusion in this law of “religious counseling or peer support”, which is directly distinguished from "therapy". 6/
August 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
Q3: Is there a loophole & potential for harm here, where as long as "therapy" & similar isn't said by name, the same "services" might be provided?
A: No. The law defines what the services are, and does not hinge on what they're referred to as.
There are def grey areas in the definitions, though. 5/
August 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
Don't tell me what you "meant" by your post. I, the post consumer, will decide what you meant. And frankly what you meant was disgusting
August 9, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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edwardongwesojr.com
i'm doomed to write a version of this essay every single year. i wrote about Matthew Yglesias' intellectual sophistry, LPE, Uber's business model, the problem with venture capital, economic welfare, "economic analysis," and more. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/ride-shari...
Ride-sharing apps are bad, actually
Or why Matthew Yglesias has no clue what he's talking about
thetechbubble.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM