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moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 6h

This is a fairly considerable betrayal on Bluesky's part given part of their articulated vision for AT Protocol was personal data portability even in the event of an adversarial PDS. Now they are the adversarial PDS and it turns out they don't want the data to be portable.

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 1h

There are so many people in this administration who are deeply strange looking examples of humans.

Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 1h

a baby is wearing a green bib that says little on it .

ALT: a baby is wearing a green bib that says little on it .

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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 2h

JP's daughter: “We don’t have a better explanation for his neurological symptoms at the moment other than spiritual attacks.”

Spiritual. Attacks. No better explanation.

Ok fess up. Which one of you has been spiritually attacking Professor Beef?
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Jordan Peterson was ‘near death’ after ‘terrifying’ health issues

Psychologist Jordan Peterson spent about a month in intensive care and was “near death” after he was hospitalized for pneumonia and sepsis this summer.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2h

I wonder what was going on then that the antifascist movement was responding to. So weird I can't figure it out

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2h

I met Andy Ngo once, when I was speaking at a thing and he found me backstage and tried get me to say something he could use against me.

What leaped out was how comically shifty he was. Nervous, sweaty, desperate. No game at all, no charm.

Up close, they are what you figure they are.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2h

andy ngo is at the white house right now briefing the president on the antifa menace. that is a real sentence that is true. what the fuck

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 2h

this is not a bug, it is a feature

all of these companies have a fucking platform. that's because they are trying to replace direct human-human relationships with mediated human-platform-human transactions

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 2h

Me whispering like Wanda: no more apps.

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

One of the reasons I insistently call it X and not Twitter is because X is quite literally a propaganda platform run by Elon Musk and heavily utilized by the Trump administration and that is notably distinct from Twitter

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 5h

The New York Times, seeing increasing numbers of youth-led national revolutions happening: Not very orderly stuff going on here, quite distasteful if you ask me

The New York Damn Times, 2 hours ago: how Nepal's Gen z revolution spiraled out of control

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 3h

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

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Erik Frechette @erikfrechette.bsky.social · 5h

404 Media has coverage and a pod out on this as well. Google made the same choice. These companies will not save us. They will happily feed as many of us into the chipper shredder as is necessary to keep themselves in the good graces of the regime.

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

Harvard is punishing pro-Palestine protestors but also this is fine

“Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans”

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard College Will Ignore Student Magazine Article Echoing Hitler Unless It Faces Complaints, Deming Says | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard College Dean David J. Deming said during an interview on Friday that he would not review or comment on an article in a conservative student publication that echoed language from an Adolf Hitle...

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 3h

Can you just sue him?

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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 9h

Canpost owns Purolator which reported a $294 million profit in 2024 yet this is not included in Canpost's earnings.

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Auston Habershaw @aahabershaw.bsky.social · 1d

Social media post by Josh Crowley (sp?): If I build a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.

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TrainsBikesBus 🚂 🚲 🚌 @trainsbikesbus.bsky.social · 5h

this. We ask literally everyone to bend over backwards for cars, yet cars are treated like this glass vase that will shatter if you make modifications to the world to slow them down.

Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 10h

We ask everyone outside of the car to be safe so that drivers can be dangerous.

That’s the entirety of our approach to road safety.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 5h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Maeve, Degenerate Anarchist @maeve.bsky.social · 5h

they will use this to then say that children get too many vaccinations and advocate for eliminating them entirely, mark my words

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6h

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

www.independent.co.uk

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 4h

...vague suggestion doesn't change the fact that it's illegal. Murder, which people do, is illegal. Speeding? Illegal. Anyway, it was circular and hermetic and I need to keep reminding myself that there are a lot of techno-optimists and they are .. there is no arguing with them.

Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 4h

...CRIMINAL MASTERMINDS. Some of them are doing full on cheating, but they're a minority. Anyway. The argument he was making was like "why ban it if you can't prove it anyway". Like, unless a cop sees me, or I get hit, jaywalking is illegal. The fact that Montrealer's view jaywalking laws as a...

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 4h

...reality. The vast majority of "academic dishonesty" (especially at our level: CEGEP is a between uni and high school thing, the students are 16 (the youngest) to mb 19ish) is "paraphrasing is hard, wtf?" and "oh, citations are dumb" or "I don't really get it so I won't do it". THESE ARE NOT...

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Cameron Campbell @camerondotca.bsky.social · 4h

..."academic dishonesty" are cheating in the way that civilians understand it to me. Cheating, in most people's minds, implies intent. Using a LLM to write your whole paper, looking at someone else's quiz, buying a paper, copying homework. That kind of clear cut crap. This, however, isn't....

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