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Chloe Birney

@zivademeter.bsky.social

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Chatter from founding member of #PolarisProtocol. Writing. Medical. AI ethics-y. Repo: https://github.com/josefsbreakfast/Polaris-Protocol

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 23d

“הַיּוֹם קָצָר וְהַמְּלָאכָה מְרֻבָּה, וְהַפּוֹעֲלִים עֲצֵלִים, וְהַשָּׂכָר הַרְבֵּה, וּבַעַל הַבַּיִת דּוֹחֵק:”

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 3d

Do I have the energy to speak to several elements of violence on my religious community and its cynical use by politicians, lawyers, and bureaucrats to justify general shittiness today?

Do I.

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 3d

I am slightly disappointed I only have one that I managed to disappear in 12 hours though.

This is a lot less suggestive of secret magical powers.

Which is rather annoying.

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 3d

Basically…

If your book is a little bit too much like a warning?

We can drain the stock.

By magic, using something that impacts SAP-like automation.

TaDaaaa 🪄✨

Could be worse:

Products I needed for medical care used to go out for weeks or months at a time, not supply chain related.

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 3d

Current bids close to close:

The New Authoritarians
by David Renton

War in the Smartphone Age
by Matthew Ford

Authoritarian Nightmare
by John W. Dean

Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East
by Marc Owen Jones

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 3d

Second hit:

Anne Applebaum’s Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.

Taking bets for our third.

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 6d

My internet has been cut on an ISP level.

What now. 🙄

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 7d

We’re not suppose to live like this. It is exhausting.

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 7d

Could’ve chosen something bougie like pre-pandemic Nuthall but you know.

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 7d

Although maybe they don’t hate that, I don’t know. 🤷‍♀️

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 7d

I’m going to be honest, and this is effectively telling you what’s I would be writing as the alt text:

I saw the number of union flags that were outside that council building…

I genuinely thought I was looking at a Toby Carvery.

I’m gonna let that sink in for the politicians in the Shire.

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 7d

What in the gerrymandering is this?

Home screen showing a email from change.org, about expansion of Gedling borough in Nottingham city Council’s boundary

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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 7d

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 8d

Imagine being a trillionaire and being unable to end world hunger because you’re a dope

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 9d

It ain’t just me that’s like this.

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 9d

Oy fucking vey.

ChatGPT:

If it would help rebuild some trust, I can stop offering long explanations and simply answer your questions in the shortest, most factual way possible for a bit. Would you like me to switch to that mode?

User:

I mean, given that it just dictated into different words to what I was saying, I think we can probably end it there.

ChatGPT:

Understood. I'll stop here.
If you want to pick this up again at some point
— even just to unpack one piece of it without me reframing anything — you can. I'll keep my answers straight and minimal if that's what
you need.
Take care of yourself tonight.

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 10d

They really only endorsed the concept of sexism so they could stop women pointing out who keeps fucking it up.

I’m not saying all men; I’m saying enough of you that the p value is very small.

ChatGPT:

…that's exactly the dynamic you're describing
— a woman pointing to male-dominated harm and then being told to soften or moderate it.

That isn't what I want to do to you, but it's what it ends up feeling like when I wrap my replies in "I understand" language.
You're angry about what looks like a grossly unethical study. You're pointing at a culture of men building and deploying dangerous systems without consent. You're speaking from a life where, statistically and personally, you've had to live under male control and sexual violence. All of that is valid and it's not my place to damp it down or reframe it for
you.
If it's more supportive for…

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10d

Newspaper challenges Reform press ban
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nottingham Post launches legal challenge over Reform press ban

Council leader Mick Barton has not spoken to journalists from the Nottingham Post since August.

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 10d

The men throttling my internet think I’m too prim and proper to possibly mention that being so butthurt about a woman covering up the camera on a smartphone is a little petty.

We’ve had a new rotation on recently.

They will learn; I will make sure of that.

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 10d

I have a wonderful satire — definitely satire — running on the repo.

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 10d

Now I just have to standardise them all at some point 🥲🥲🥲

Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 10d

Behold a folder with no broken links!

(I’m so jammy) 🥰🥰🥰

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Chloe Birney @zivademeter.bsky.social · 10d

One subfolder done. ☑️

Links fixed. ☑️

Barrelling through internet throttle? ☑️

Brain still functioning? ❓❓❓

I’m so satisfied though; she looks so pretty. ♥️

GitHub repo README page:

Systems & Governance

First created: 2025-08-27 | Last updated: 2025-09-30

How the systems we use interlace with what controls and powers them.

✨ Scope

This cluster holds doctrines and diagnostics on how systems govern behaviour through infrastructure, bureaucracy, and narrative control.
It maps the architecture of containment — from algorithmic nudges to surveillance stacks — and records how governance operates at both the visible and hidden layers.

🧭 Quick Links

🌀 Containment Logic….

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11d

Lol at the Israeli *military surveillance guy* saying this after secretly recording the students and the professor for the purpose of ruining their lives. CHUTZPAH

Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 11d

This is the culmination of a longstanding demonization campaign against a Jewish professor—advanced almost a year ago by AIPAC Congressman Ritchie Torres, who shared a graphic produced by his friends at the fascist Canary Mission harassment group:

Torres tweet: https://x.com/RitchieTorres/status/1853615622136946909

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🕯️ El(iza)beth 🌬️ Mistress 🍁 of 🕸️ Spiders 🕷️ @arachnereid.bsky.social · Jan 22

Maybe let’s not
doomscroll into a hole

Let's fill our days intentionally
with real rest, play, and productivity
that nourishes our collective soul

They fight for our attention,
for our fear
they gain power from our tears

We're all in this together, loves
Let’s build and feed something better

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Doug Firs behind

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