Butterfly Path
@butterflypath.bsky.social
it's the end of the world... don't you know that yet? (space is the place)
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its wild how many people still refuse to see this
December 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
its wild how many people still refuse to see this
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The Democratic Party isn’t even a party, it’s just 300 consultants stacked on top of each other in a trench coat
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The Democratic Party isn’t even a party, it’s just 300 consultants stacked on top of each other in a trench coat
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"I joined Sama in Nairobi, labeling data for Meta, my entry into the global AI supply chain. From there, I stumbled into digital work, chat moderation, a job advertised as simple online messaging but which turned out to be something else entirely" data-workers.org/michael/
the AI industry is fraud
the AI industry is fraud
December 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"I joined Sama in Nairobi, labeling data for Meta, my entry into the global AI supply chain. From there, I stumbled into digital work, chat moderation, a job advertised as simple online messaging but which turned out to be something else entirely" data-workers.org/michael/
the AI industry is fraud
the AI industry is fraud
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf
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this was a really powerful approach to questioning noem—bringing the actual people impacted by her reign of terror. from her perch it's easy to see these cases as abstractions but she needs to be confronted with them at every turn.
MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
NOEM: We haven't deported veterans
MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea
December 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
this was a really powerful approach to questioning noem—bringing the actual people impacted by her reign of terror. from her perch it's easy to see these cases as abstractions but she needs to be confronted with them at every turn.
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It is absolutely disgusting how ai is built upon slave labor while polluting Black communities just to generate fake Black people as a way to confuse, control, and divide everyone further.
And the output only further harms and confuses us, especially our children and elders.
And the output only further harms and confuses us, especially our children and elders.
I just saw an AI pic of Patti LaBelle cutting a ribbon to open a homeless hospital with a full article attached.
Zoom in and the scissors AND her hand are fused together.
It has 25k likes and almost 7k shares. Completely made up.
Zoom in and the scissors AND her hand are fused together.
It has 25k likes and almost 7k shares. Completely made up.
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
It is absolutely disgusting how ai is built upon slave labor while polluting Black communities just to generate fake Black people as a way to confuse, control, and divide everyone further.
And the output only further harms and confuses us, especially our children and elders.
And the output only further harms and confuses us, especially our children and elders.
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"I assigned Douglas Egerton’s book 'Gabriel’s Rebellion' about a rebellion of enslaved people with hidden text only ChatGPT could see.
39% cheated on a paper about a rebellion of enslaved people who sacrificed their lives for freedom, including the freedom to learn to read and write."
THIS!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
39% cheated on a paper about a rebellion of enslaved people who sacrificed their lives for freedom, including the freedom to learn to read and write."
THIS!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
December 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"I assigned Douglas Egerton’s book 'Gabriel’s Rebellion' about a rebellion of enslaved people with hidden text only ChatGPT could see.
39% cheated on a paper about a rebellion of enslaved people who sacrificed their lives for freedom, including the freedom to learn to read and write."
THIS!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
39% cheated on a paper about a rebellion of enslaved people who sacrificed their lives for freedom, including the freedom to learn to read and write."
THIS!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
The Day the Klan Came to Town by Bill Campbell is the best book I've read all year
December 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Day the Klan Came to Town by Bill Campbell is the best book I've read all year
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all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 5:25 AM
all i'm saying is that there were better options
At the checkout right next to the special commemorative Brooke Shields edition, the Ariana Grande Panini sticker album (stickers not included), holiday recipes with Campbell's soup cans, and Kiefer Sutherland reminiscing about 24. And some gossip about the Royals.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
At the checkout right next to the special commemorative Brooke Shields edition, the Ariana Grande Panini sticker album (stickers not included), holiday recipes with Campbell's soup cans, and Kiefer Sutherland reminiscing about 24. And some gossip about the Royals.
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water.
AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects.
So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends.
See how this works?
AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects.
So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends.
See how this works?
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water.
AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects.
So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends.
See how this works?
AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects.
So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends.
See how this works?
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1,000+ residents demanded a vote on the $15B OpenAI/Oracle data center—instead they watched police drag a woman across the floor for speaking out.
AI corporations + local officials are forcing projects that raise bills, strain water & worsen the climate.
People deserve a say in their own community
AI corporations + local officials are forcing projects that raise bills, strain water & worsen the climate.
People deserve a say in their own community
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
1,000+ residents demanded a vote on the $15B OpenAI/Oracle data center—instead they watched police drag a woman across the floor for speaking out.
AI corporations + local officials are forcing projects that raise bills, strain water & worsen the climate.
People deserve a say in their own community
AI corporations + local officials are forcing projects that raise bills, strain water & worsen the climate.
People deserve a say in their own community
The Supreme Court, a mighty bulwark
The court's Republican-appointed justices appear ready to eliminate most pockets of expertise and nonpartisanship on which the country relies as stewards of important economic, political, scientific, and regulatory power.
SCOTUS's GOP justices are about to hand Trump way more power
The court's right-wing bloc sounds ready to axe independent federal agencies—and the precedents that guard them.
www.motherjones.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The Supreme Court, a mighty bulwark
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Great thread and a good historic lesson on how vital the freedom of movement is, which highlights how much concern we should have with a national surveillance system that flags “suspicious” travel patterns.
This Day in Labor History: November 25, 1865. Mississippi created the first of the Black Codes. Designed to recreate slavery in all but name, this signified the South’s resistance to the freeing of their labor force and the lengths to which it would go to tie workers to a place under white control.
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Great thread and a good historic lesson on how vital the freedom of movement is, which highlights how much concern we should have with a national surveillance system that flags “suspicious” travel patterns.
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Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Most of us have no idea how bad it is inside ICE detention centers because they have kept it hidden. Then a truth teller shows up and says it plain.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
The conditions are filthy. The treatment is inhumane. The abuse is Systematic and routine.
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This is an amazing and disturbing story—not just the usual game park as neocolonialism, but added extra of EU funded hydropower project in DRC supporting a bitcoin mine managed by a Belgian (of course) aristocrat …
As Virunga National Park turns 100, Congo’s crown jewel faces crisis: rebel occupation, local anger, failed projects, and a controversial Belgian “prince” at its helm. Once a symbol of conservation, it’s now a battleground of power, poverty, and profit — even hosting a Bitcoin mine.
The Belgian prince, the national park, and the bitcoin mine
Emmanuel de Merode’s controversial stewardship of the DRC’s iconic Virunga National Park is giving him even greater powers.
continent.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This is an amazing and disturbing story—not just the usual game park as neocolonialism, but added extra of EU funded hydropower project in DRC supporting a bitcoin mine managed by a Belgian (of course) aristocrat …
Blink twice Usha www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Blink twice Usha www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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No, kidnappings have also not stopped at NYC's immigration court or in L.A. & D.C.
Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency
Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.
Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency
Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.
October 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
No, kidnappings have also not stopped at NYC's immigration court or in L.A. & D.C.
Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency
Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.
Corporate media apparatus will continue treating this all as disparate events rather than a national emergency
Children will go to bed without their parents tonight. Let's keep talking about that stupid video.
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gonna get to use this a lot, huh
October 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
gonna get to use this a lot, huh
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The Spotify app is there to track and sell your personal data, the music is not the point. Cancel and delete. Support artists directly on Bandcamp or through their own websites.
Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!
October 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The Spotify app is there to track and sell your personal data, the music is not the point. Cancel and delete. Support artists directly on Bandcamp or through their own websites.
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"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."
Brilliant. ~AA
Brilliant. ~AA
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."
Brilliant. ~AA
Brilliant. ~AA