Shagalabagala
@shagalabagala.bsky.social
Thrill-, Justice-, Ramen-seeker
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
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In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.
dlvr.it
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards
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Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.
Fun Fact: They remade Hitchcock's Rear Window in 1998 with Christopher Reeves in the L.B. Jeffries role.
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Fun Fact: They remade Hitchcock's Rear Window in 1998 with Christopher Reeves in the L.B. Jeffries role.
Meta Business Admin will get constant calls from Meta Support until something goes wrong with the account. Then, they ghost ya.
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Meta Business Admin will get constant calls from Meta Support until something goes wrong with the account. Then, they ghost ya.
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This is some accommodationist bullshit. We are NOT required to treat racist arsonists as if they signify something deeper than bigotry and pyromania.
Tell the truth.
Tell the truth.
Yes. And, yet, this arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I am begging people not to sanewash this man. Is he "winning", Chronicle of Higher Education? What does that mean? Driving other schools into the ground?
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This is some accommodationist bullshit. We are NOT required to treat racist arsonists as if they signify something deeper than bigotry and pyromania.
Tell the truth.
Tell the truth.
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sheet music is like the exact opposite of an audio book
October 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
sheet music is like the exact opposite of an audio book
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this is basically portland's version of a haka
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
this is basically portland's version of a haka
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Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
September 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.
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Matthew Silverstone, victim in Evergreen High School shooting, still “fighting for his life,” family says
Matthew Silverstone, victim in Evergreen High School shooting, still “fighting for his life,” family says
Cards sent to Silverstone, who turned 18 the day before he was shot, credit the teen with making sure others made it to safety
coloradosun.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Matthew Silverstone, victim in Evergreen High School shooting, still “fighting for his life,” family says
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September 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Tired: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
Wired: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about anything
Wired: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about anything
New in PN: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."
"The right response to Trump’s authoritarianism isn’t to say 'maybe he has a point.' It’s to attack him and his allies for their dishonesty, their thuggishness, and their failures. That’s how Democrats avoid looking weak."
Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
They're wrong on the policy and wrong on the politics.
www.publicnotice.co
August 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Tired: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about crime
Wired: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about anything
Wired: Don't listen to centrist Democrats about anything
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legit laughing my ass off
August 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
legit laughing my ass off
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ICE was created post 9/11 to combat terrorist threats. If they aren't combatting the number one terror threat to America - Domestic Violent Extremism and white supremacists - then they don't need to exist as an agency.
June 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
ICE was created post 9/11 to combat terrorist threats. If they aren't combatting the number one terror threat to America - Domestic Violent Extremism and white supremacists - then they don't need to exist as an agency.
FUCK DJT. FUCK ICE. FUCK A FASCIST USA.
June 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
FUCK DJT. FUCK ICE. FUCK A FASCIST USA.
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Let whoever posted this run the party.
May 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Let whoever posted this run the party.
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Disappearing an elected official.
Alina Habba tells Fox News that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested and is being held in a secret location right now.
Martha MacCallum: "Where is he being held?"
Habba: 'I'm not going to speak to that right now. He's obviously in New Jersey."
Martha MacCallum: "Where is he being held?"
Habba: 'I'm not going to speak to that right now. He's obviously in New Jersey."
May 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Disappearing an elected official.
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NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
May 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
NEW: GlobalX, the company doing many deportation flights for ICE, has been hacked. Hackers claim to have stolen flight manifest information and flight details, and have also defaced the website
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
www.404media.co/globalx-airl...
Glad we got the woke out of the military
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
www.cbsnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Glad we got the woke out of the military
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
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A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.
Count the Dead by the Millions
From HIV and tuberculosis infections to millions of dead children, the deadly impact of Rubio, Musk and Trump’s agenda has been quantified.
www.rollingstone.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.
Hope you all read plenty of Philip K. Dick to prep for this A.I. nightmare...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hope you all read plenty of Philip K. Dick to prep for this A.I. nightmare...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
www.wired.com/story/massiv...
What might it sound like if King Gizzard recorded R.E.M.'s Chronic Town? Maybe like this... Ventifacts recorded a microtonal version of Chronic Town ventifacts.bandcamp.com/album/chroni...
Chronic Town, by Ventifacts
5 track album
ventifacts.bandcamp.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
What might it sound like if King Gizzard recorded R.E.M.'s Chronic Town? Maybe like this... Ventifacts recorded a microtonal version of Chronic Town ventifacts.bandcamp.com/album/chroni...