Mel
@craftygrrrl.bsky.social
Maker of Things. Library & Information Technician, Radical/Guerrilla Cataloguer Following in the steps of Sanford Berman.
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I will accept no moral high ground from a government that refuses to ban a platform that is actively, in real time, right in front of our faces, creating child sexual abuse materials.
They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts.
Fuck Carney.
They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts.
Fuck Carney.
Canada not considering a ban on X over deepfake controversy, AI minister says
The platform, which is owned by Elon Musk, has been embroiled in controversy over sexualized deepfakes of women and children created by X’s chatbot Grok.
www.thestar.com
January 11, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I will accept no moral high ground from a government that refuses to ban a platform that is actively, in real time, right in front of our faces, creating child sexual abuse materials.
They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts.
Fuck Carney.
They're not banning it and there are still government departments with official Twitter accounts.
Fuck Carney.
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“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.
January 9, 2026 at 12:06 AM
“Fuck ICE!” chants & a brass band performing “Which side are you on?” as hundreds march in Manhattan, NYC against ICE and in solidarity with Minneapolis.
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October 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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This deadline is very soon. Anyone with an gender marker other than M/ F traveling to the USA should be aware of this www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul...
www.cbp.gov
October 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This deadline is very soon. Anyone with an gender marker other than M/ F traveling to the USA should be aware of this www.cbp.gov/sites/defaul...
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After 200 years can we admit that The Luddites were right all along. Automation leads to fewer jobs, lower wages, devalues skilled labour and leads to exploitation by the rich company owners.
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
After 200 years can we admit that The Luddites were right all along. Automation leads to fewer jobs, lower wages, devalues skilled labour and leads to exploitation by the rich company owners.
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one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)
the program is tokenizing inputs into vectors, then doing matrix multiplication to probabilistically compute which token should follow those tokens.
as usual, you are mystified by systems beyond your understanding and come to a bad conclusion (coincidentally the one you know will get you yelled at)
as usual, you are mystified by systems beyond your understanding and come to a bad conclusion (coincidentally the one you know will get you yelled at)
August 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
one of the great tragedies of our age is how many people are willing to view AI as magic because they don't understand how it functions but unwilling to exhibit any humility at all towards more important things they understand even less (like the climate or medicine)
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.
Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.
Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.
July 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.
Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.
Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.
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Live your life so you do not have to fear being on the Jumbotron
July 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Live your life so you do not have to fear being on the Jumbotron
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It's always this stupid. Always.
Honest question for the historians of empires: is the end always this stupid or are we breaking new ground here?
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
It's always this stupid. Always.
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ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY
This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:
This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:
February 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ITS SHUT THE FUCK UP FRIDAY
This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:
This is a very important message you should share with the people in your life that may be hitting the streets to protest: never talk to the police! WATCH:
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What this means is that we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into retrocomputing.
ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977
Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.
futurism.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
What this means is that we need to invest hundreds of billions of dollars into retrocomputing.
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wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
May 31, 2025 at 6:43 AM
wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees
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We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.
Why Are They Hiding Their Faces?
If ICE agents' actions are perfectly acceptable, they shouldn't have to mask their identities
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 7:01 PM
We’re watching transparency erode as law enforcement begins to resemble secret police more than public servants. This piece unpacks how we got here, and why it should alarm us all.
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Tell him, Pedro!! 👏
Pedro Pascal Slams Trump's Scare Tactics In Impassioned Rant At Cannes Film Festival
Wise words from Pedro.
www.comicsands.com
May 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Tell him, Pedro!! 👏
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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
About this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
Search America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi...
www.loc.gov
May 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss
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"Stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited" is perfect, made even more brutal by being a basically polite critique.
I want to follow JKR around whispering it to her like the guy who would say "remember thou art mortal" to Roman generals during triumphs.
I want to follow JKR around whispering it to her like the guy who would say "remember thou art mortal" to Roman generals during triumphs.
Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?
May 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
"Stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited" is perfect, made even more brutal by being a basically polite critique.
I want to follow JKR around whispering it to her like the guy who would say "remember thou art mortal" to Roman generals during triumphs.
I want to follow JKR around whispering it to her like the guy who would say "remember thou art mortal" to Roman generals during triumphs.
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Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?
May 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Remember that time Ursula K. Leguin called JK Rowling a basic ass nasty bitch?
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it's so fucking funny that all these dipshits think Kneecap of all people are scared by the threat of being locked up
you fuckers have no idea who you're messing with
you fuckers have no idea who you're messing with
April 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
it's so fucking funny that all these dipshits think Kneecap of all people are scared by the threat of being locked up
you fuckers have no idea who you're messing with
you fuckers have no idea who you're messing with
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Jesus CHRIST.
Zuckerberg is a monster, my god.
Zuckerberg is a monster, my god.
April 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Jesus CHRIST.
Zuckerberg is a monster, my god.
Zuckerberg is a monster, my god.
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jesus was a leftist revolutionary and yet the history of christianity itself is the clearest and longest-running example i can point to of the dangers of creating power structures
April 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
jesus was a leftist revolutionary and yet the history of christianity itself is the clearest and longest-running example i can point to of the dangers of creating power structures
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people.
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
January 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
TikTok was never going anywhere. The TikTok creator gave millions to Trump and they orchestrated this whole PR stunt just so Trump will be seen as a 'hero' to young people.
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
It was literally the Kidz Bop version of the Reichstag Fire
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'The January 31, 1933, New York Times story on Hitler’s appointment as chancellor was headlined “Hitler Puts Aside Aim to Be Dictator.”'
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days
He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.
www.theatlantic.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
'The January 31, 1933, New York Times story on Hitler’s appointment as chancellor was headlined “Hitler Puts Aside Aim to Be Dictator.”'
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Anita Bryant isn't going to see your hurtful posts and jokes about her death but your friends who enjoy them will so that's what they call a win-win situation
January 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Anita Bryant isn't going to see your hurtful posts and jokes about her death but your friends who enjoy them will so that's what they call a win-win situation
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In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees
January 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
In case you're curious, this is the internal Meta "fuck DEI" announcement received by Meta employees