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John Palowitch
@johnpalowitch.bsky.social
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x-Google DeepMind. worked on models for language, graphs, and information ecosystems. Starting something new soon :) ml.johnpalowitch.com
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 3d
Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite.

To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.
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race scientist jack skellington @jazzpomegranate.com · 3d
so now link is suspended with no email
link pointing out that jay now follows jonathan chait and suggesting that it may be for transphobic reasons
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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 5d
I love this image so much. I smash that like button every damn time
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@ratlimit @ratlimit.bsky.social · 9d
This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 5d
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Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d
I am just so fucking proud of her.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6d
Memorizing this
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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 7d
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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 7d
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8d
I can’t remember the last time I read any tech news that didn’t register as another win for fascism.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 11d
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 12d
Sinclair is caving and bringing back Kimmel.

Money, folks. Public pressure. They dont have the numbers. Remember this and increase the efforts.
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 11d
THE HILL Opinion Opinion - Kamala's newest lie: Trump will send the army after you Derek Hunter, Opinion Contributor Wed, October 16, 2024 at 7:00 AM CDT • 4 min read
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 14d
So many women have been talking, writing and warning people of the dangerous ideologies and biases of tech in Silicon Valley, for decades, and it’s so infuriating that so many men (not OP here) just flat out ignore it and act surprised at the technofascists infecting it now
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 15d
This October, the #InternetArchive celebrates an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved & available for access via the #WaybackMachine.

Join us!
📆 Oct 22
🎟️ IN-PERSON ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
💻 VIRTUAL ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...

#Wayback1T
Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 18d
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 18d
Anyone who signs this pledge is not a journalist.
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NPR @npr.org · 18d
The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
Defense Secretary Hegseth requires new 'pledge' for reporters at the Pentagon
The Pentagon is implementing new guidelines that will require journalists to sign a pledge and agree to report only approved and officially released information.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 19d
“We are living through fascism and the primary way we connect with and inform and organize w/ each other is under lethal attack.

No one is coming to protect the internet for us, and people won’t even have a clue how catastrophic this can become until it’s over” @kattenbarge.bsky.social
Is anyone going to defend free speech online?
Government censorship on social media is already here. But it can get so much worse.
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Internet Archive Europe @internetarchive.eu · 19d
We had an amazing launch of our new headquarters in Amsterdam. Thank you to everyone who made it a fantastic afternoon and it was a beautiful sunny day! Such great luck. Sebastian’s photos did a great job capturing the atmosphere and enthusiasm.
Internet Archive Europe Open House, 19 September 2025
The Open House event on 19 September 2025 celebrated the official opening of Internet Archive Europe's new headquarters in Amsterdam. This significant milestone marks Internet Archive Europe’s commitm...
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John Palowitch @johnpalowitch.bsky.social · 19d
Uh question does @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social have a security detail or can we crowdfund one (please)
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19d
Much of the violent, racist rhetoric from the man arrested for allegedly threatening the life of Zohran Mamdani is almost indistinguishable from what top GOP politicians were saying in the days after Mamdani won the primary. (Also similar to what Girdusky said to me on CNN!)
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20d
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for very wealthy, privileged people who are capitulating to fascism and/or staying silent because they’re “scared.” People are being dragged out of their homes and people who could be next are *still* speaking up. Silence won’t protect you but it emboldens them
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 20d
Nothing about us without us.

We're at today's House Oversight Committee hearing about DC to make it clear DC communities don't want Congress's interference in our judges, prosecutions, sentencing, or police.

They can't talk about our communities without expecting to hear from our communities.
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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 20d
i really hope it sticks now for any lost young buckaroos who find something interesting about a libertarian trot or similar way: these people have been fakin it the whole time. none of them actually care about free speech. they are either: 1 embarrassed conservatives or 2 dummies
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20d
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23d
Before streaming or YouTube—there was cartoonnetwork․com, 📺 home to Flash games, clips of Ed, Edd n Eddy & Powerpuff Girls, + Cartoon Orbit battles.

The site’s gone, but the Wayback Machine lets you time-travel back ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19981001...

#Wayback1T
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "CARTOONNETWORK.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Cartoon Network website from October 12, 1999, alongside a stylized computer window labeled "Now", featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the site is gone.
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Jeff Harris @nemalki.bsky.social · 23d
The internet was never a perfect place, but at least a lot of these media companies gave a darn about kids and gave them safe, fun spaces to be fully entertained online.

Alas, this generation will never have that experience. Maybe those that had these places will bring them back for the next one.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23d
Before streaming or YouTube—there was cartoonnetwork․com, 📺 home to Flash games, clips of Ed, Edd n Eddy & Powerpuff Girls, + Cartoon Orbit battles.

The site’s gone, but the Wayback Machine lets you time-travel back ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19981001...

#Wayback1T
Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "CARTOONNETWORK.COM". Below is a Wayback Machine capture of the Cartoon Network website from October 12, 1999, alongside a stylized computer window labeled "Now", featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the site is gone.
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