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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15m

unequivocal support for and unending pride towards our students last night and always www.voxweb.nl/en/pro-pales...

Pro-Palestine activists occupy Goudsmitpaviljoen: ‘We are not going to allow research to be done in this building’ - Vox magazine

Pro-Palestine activists occupied the Goudsmitpaviljoen behind the Huygens building this morning. They have locked the building from the inside and a number of activists are also at the door, secured t...

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 7h

And one of the reasons why my project www.artificiallifecoach.com is called Artificial Life Coach was in anticipation of AI life coaching blowing up and the hope that when people googled for these they could get the message: Believe in Yourself. Not Big Tech.

Artificial Life Coach

Believe in yourself. Not big tech. GET STARTED Curious about AI? Let Astrology Be Your Guide HOROSCOPES Your astrological sign is the day you were launched into the world! ...

www.artificiallifecoach.com

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 8h

Like other sectors, spirituality embraced AI chat bots to meditate interactions w followers. The leaders are of two camps: people who are hustling new profits and true believers trying to help more people. Both camps lack AI education and are inadvertently harming their communities & the planet.

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TyGrey @itstygrey.bsky.social · 9h

That, and if I’m not mistaken it’s sole purpose to replace human tasks. Humans are customers as well. So less human paychecks less need for companies products. They are streamlining themselves out of business over a tech that No One Wants To Use.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

Sometimes a user will post a joke and then that very same user will post something sincere. And I as the reader am expected to understand this, using my brain?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 7h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 12h

Why are we still paying Jared Leto to do things, I thought we learned our lesson about that

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7h

The reason people are targeting disabled people with prosthetics with the ‘clanker’ epithet on social media is because of ableism—not because of AI hate.
Disabled people get slurs, targeted harassment, epileptics get flashing gifs sent to them; I think it’s interesting how some people suddenly care.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 7h

The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 5h

not directing this at Greg but this is what BLM was all about. trying to explain to people that the guns they aim at Black folks just minding their own business will be turned on everyone if we dont course correct and here we are.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

On the verge of a lot of potential Kent State situations out there. Be careful, friends.

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 4h

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4h

Trump just posted what looks like an old DOJ memo about President Kennedy’s use of the National Guard in Alabama to desegregate schools in 1963.

It’s a gross comparison, given the fact that Trump is basically George Wallace and he wants to use the Guard to invade cities, not advance civil rights.

Trump: U.S. Code. Those provisions authorize the President, when faced with such unlawful obstructions against the authority of the United States as existed in Alabama, to "call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary" (10
U.S.C. § 332) and to use
"the militia or the armed forces,
or both, or
• other means" (10 U.S.C. $ 333). The
militia of the United States includes the national guard, meaning the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the several states. 10 U.S.C. § 311 and $ 101 (9), (10), (12) .
In furtherance of the President's order the Secretary of Defense immediately called into active military service all of the units and members of the Army National Guard and Air National Guard of the State of Alabama to serve in the active military service of the United States for an indefinite period and until relieved by appropriate orders.
This call was transmitted by the Secretary of the Army, acting by direction of, and under delegation of authority from, the Secretary of Defense.
Copies of the Department
of the Army message (No. D.A. 340638, June 11, 1963) were furnished immediately to the Governor of Alabama and to the commanding officers of the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of the State of Alabama.
It is apparent that the Alabama National Guard was properly called into federal service pursuant to 10 U.S.C.
§5 332-4, and in accordance with the procedure provided in those sections. Since the call to federal service did not invoke the authority of 10 U.S.C. $ 3500, referred to by Mr. Bowen, the procedure prescribed by that section was
not
used.
I trust that the foregoing information will be of
assistance to you.
Sincerely,
¡enera.
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10/7/25,

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 9h

bluesky decentralization in action:

- bluesky the corp bans a user
- user’s data is alive on their blacksky PDS, an indie server
- blacksky will deploy their own API server which will bring back the user to everyone else
- user keeps their data, identity, followers. nothing is lost

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 10h

TL; DR
In the next 5 business days you should be able to go to Link's page on blacksky.community and see his posts and he'll be able to post but people using the bsky mobile apps won't see it.
After that we'll get Blacksky-only posts up.
After that we can talk about purging bsky mod tools
fin/11

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3h

Delicious you got triggered, but begone

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3h

Go away

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 9h

The logic is hilarious — I have low brow humour granted — because if it's true we're all harmed the same then all the massively oppressed white guys should deal with Hinton for us, we can chill 🤣

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 10h

And it hurts so much to see brilliant women with prescience and acumen being ignored. I just hate it so much.

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Pirate Jenny @ljndawson.bsky.social · 10h

This photo is incredible. It's like a distillation of exactly who white techbros don't listen to because they've got their heads so far up their own asses, they simply cannot see (or don't care about, because it'll never affect them) the damage they are doing.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 9h

So kind ✨ thank you

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 9h

It's relevant because look at the demographic of who the critics are, for one.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 10h

To a privileged, out of touch, white dude like him, a hypothetical magical fairy tale scenario that both makes him a godmaker and justifies the current harms this endeavor results in, is clearly more important than real world issues the rest of us face.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 10h

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar.

The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

www.rollingstone.com

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