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Not (A.) I. @aerialeverything.cryptoanarchy.network · 1h

I don't think we talk enough about the very fundamental and insidious role by EdTech consultants in the whole fascist project. And, the fact that administrators defer to them and dismiss or even punish educators that contest or question the AI in education paradigm is telling.

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 1h

Yesterday I received three(!) emails from Pearson trying to sell me AI ed tech that they marketed as explicitly "safe for students." They know this stuff is dangerous and are desperate to head off the criticisms.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1h

For those of us in higher education this company has snaked its way into our institutions—and this is the kind of care and thought they put into the risks of their products.
Do you imagine our students are safe with these people?

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 1h

Welcome to the capitalist innovation museum we got

- scam machine
- psychosis inducing machine
- weapons of mass destruction
- button you push that makes the planet hotter
- markets that intentionally starve people
- clothes that fall apart after washing them 1 time
- medicine you can’t afford

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

Like, you have to be using zero community moderation tools, for their account to even be visible to you.

Like, did *you* know that Heritage Foundation was here? Probably not, if you use pretty much any community moderation tools.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

Note: if you use basically *any* community modlist, you won't even see their account. Very British Bigotry, Asuka, etc already block em for you.

You have to purposely expose yourself to all the worst fucking people around, for you to *even be able to see it*

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1h

The craziest thing I’m chasing down: I don’t believe that stargate abilene has even close to enough power, nor is it possible for them to build it before the year 2027. They have a 200mw substation and an unfinished 350mw gas turbine plant.

They need 1GW+ and it’s still in the design phase!

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

1. Buy a mothman costume for your spouse

2. Call exterminators and tell them you have a bad moth problem

3. When the exterminators arrive, keep insisting that you are not talking about your spouse, that's just a mothman costume, but real moths. Please ignore my moth spouse, this is serious.

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Julie Lavender Menace @2tickytacky.bsky.social · 3h

Be sure to come to my book signing! Today, I'll be signing "It", by Stephen King. Next week, I'll be signing the owner's manual to my 2006 Honda.

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Dune, Link, and now Gwen? no thank youUuuUuUuuu @trashphalt.beauty · 2h

Alt text: a series of screenshots indicating that Rose Wang, the COO of BlueSky, follows the Heritage Foundation

Jojo she/her @jojofe24.bsky.social · 15d

Um.

Just um. Yeah.

This is a problem.

Is bluesky safe?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1h

The COO of bluesky, Rose, is following the heritage foundation account on bluesky.

Soyweiser @soyweiser.bsky.social · 2h

She is the COO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_o... of bsky. This is worrying because after the 'we are turning waffles into an anti-trans thing' by the CEO the CEO started to follow a transphobe. Shows a pattern.

Wonder when we find out one of them follows the discovery institute.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 2h

The President of the United States is calling for the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois to be jailed.

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 1h

sam i think you should keep saying shit like this then asking people for money

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2h

a year ago, AI companies were promising "superintelligence" that would make 40% of workers redundant and fundamentally reshape human productivity and the economy.

now, they making slop versions of tiktok.

altman is cooked

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2h

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 12h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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don't hug me I'm porksweats @porksweats.bsky.social · 2h

huge Has Anyone Really Been Far Even as Decided to Use Even Go Want to do Look More Like energy

Lord Arse! 🕹️ @lordarse.com · 10h

Congratulations GTA 6. I think.

Rockstar confirms that GTA 6 is there were once they are did.

They became the first ever to have the first as in the video game of that when of PS5 began.

Congratulations.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me

A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity

What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

horses can SERIOUSLY injure you with their jaws - do not ever antagonize enormous animals with opinions

Rivikah @rivikah.bsky.social · 2h

My grandfather was missing a finger and a half from his right hand due to it being bitten off by a horse.

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New York Focus @nysfocus.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: The ICE detention center near Buffalo has banned book deliveries, New York Focus has learned.

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and “The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work.”
nysfocus.com/2025/10/08/b...

New York’s Biggest ICE Detention Center Bans Book Deliveries

Rejected books include a Spanish-English dictionary, a Spanish translation of a George R.R. Martin novel, and "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage…

nysfocus.com

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2h

ICE was expanded under democrats. Students had the shit kicked out of them by cops for speaking out about palestine under Biden. Literally read anything about drone strikes in the middle east. This is what our government does. And they will continue to do even when He's gone. Unless we do something.

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 2h

The thing about the current horrors is that they're not new. For years the US government has separated families via deportations, murdered foreign civilians, and violently suppressed civil liberties. The problem is that now they're all social media addicted freaks so they post about it.

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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 17h

Tumblr poster: Why is the Fantasy Protagonist's Cool Animal Companion always a wolf, a bird of prey, or something cool? If you live in a medieval-ish society, even if you have cool powers to bond with an animal, it's probably going to be a farm animal.

What about a fantasy book where the heroine's Spirit Companion Animal is a pig. And not a cute piglet, but a huge fucking sow. As clever as a human, but absolutely as ruthless as pigs can be.

And the protagonist is like "should I quit eating pork? Does it disturb you, that milk piglet could have been yours." And the pig is like "bitch first of all the difference is that it *isn't* mine, and don't fucking pretend that - given the chance - I wouldn't eat a human child."

keuhkopussirotta: "What are we going to do with him?"
"I propose murder."
"Where would we put the body?"
"I volunteer."
"Are you suggesting we should kill him *because* you want to eat his corpse?"
"I'm sure there are plenty of other good reasons to kill him here, I just can't think of them all right now."

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

i have met a number of pigs, including pigs i later went on to eat (we have small farmers in our family) and quite frankly, getting to know pigs has made me feel even less bad about eating them

they would 100% eat us if given the chance

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2h

i have heard so many more upsetting "pigs eating people" stories from this thread than i was expecting to receive

KCL655321 @kcl655321.bsky.social · 17h

Every time I drive my mom by this one farm, she always tells the story of a guy that wrecked his car late at night & got thrown into the hog pen. When they came across the wreck & went to find him the next morning, there wasn't much left of him.
They'll definitely partake on that sweet tangy flesh.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 2h

Bluesky search isn't broken, the devs are just overloading the system trying to find posts that they can use to ban random trans women

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5uki5en5or @5uki5en5or.bsky.social · Apr 29

evergreen

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clyde bruckman's ghost's final repost says free link @ultralaser.bsky.social · 9h

fucked up that this is all just landlords swatting their own buildings to get rid of all the working class residents so they can raise the rent or sell to a developer who'll flip them into high end condos or w/e

like it's a real estate scam! it's a fucking land grab! a fire for the insurance money!

I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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