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attila @haqistan.net · 21h

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 19h

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Jul 20

Look, i know a lot of us live for the schadenfreude of the crash & burn but i don't think some of you realize just in how many ways we are all in the fucking plane.

Some of the biggest buyers-into of this "AI" hype cycle have: your medical data, your identity data, control over the carceral system…

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 5d

“Good scientists…know the cure for their ignorance is to actively & rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion…boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician.

It’s time to make that connection explicit.”🧪🛟

“Good scientists are intimate with the limits of what they know and stand ready to learn in domains outside their expertise. They don't just claim they are right. Instead, they know the cure for their ignorance is to actively and rigorously test their own assertions. That kind of humility is no different from enduring the hardships required to become a champion middleweight boxer, a great rock climber or a master musician.

It's time to make that connection explicit, and the best place to start is with members of Gen Z themselves. If I could talk to that young man on the plane again, I would not simply tell him to exercise caution when it comes to fringe experts. I would instead explain the long traditions of scientific discipline and determination that built the jet he's flying in. Einstein's relativity, evolution and genetics, climate physics on any planet (even alien ones) - these topics are a thousand times more compelling than faked moon landings because they are not the fever-dreams of hucksters but a direct vision of nature's outrageous beauty and complexity. Make the effort to walk down that road, embrace its honesty and humility and you'll be hooked forever.”

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 5d

fascism has money for gestapo tactics and won’t feed the poor

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A

‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

I talked with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social and @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social about immigration raids and the violent repression of protesters in Chicago, the administration’s war on free speech and the organized left, and lessons from our upcoming book, Read This When Things Fall Apart.

Holding the Line Through Tear Gas and Censorship

“There is no neutral ground in this moment. You’re either resisting or you’re complicit,” says Eman Abdelhadi.

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La Tanya S. Autry (she/her) @artstuffmatters.bsky.social · 5d

"critical black memory emerges out of and is motivated by both survival (“We keep our souls”;“the conviction that the future depends upon a realization by the race of what it is justly entitled to and a determination to secure it”); and failure (“They [continue to]murder our bodies”)."
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Kamau Franklin @kamaufranklin.bsky.social · Aug 9

This is the eleventh anniversary of Mike Brown's murder. Still for his family and our community, no justice has been had.

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💖💄 Aoife ♿💖 @aoiferocksitout.bsky.social · 9d

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Housing should be recognized as a human right but it is not!
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 11d

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 9d

However we live in one of the most violent countries in the world; just that we accept regular types of violence of mental, emotional, economic and ecological harm on some, and yes, physical too, and refuse to call it violence.

It's not "violence is not the answer" it's the response to it, you hate

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 9d

Fundamentally the question at the center of "violence is never the answer" is what recourse do you have to stop active, immediate, or repeated harm? What method do you have to protect victims?

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 9d

“resisting metaeugenics in technology”

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Disabling Intelligences

This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10d

To do what they are doing at this scale you have to dehumanize. It's just not possible to be this cruel and believe that these people are just like anyone else. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Man detained in Cato ICE raid wrongfully deported, separated from his family

Body camera footage released from the raid shows agents referring to immigrants as 'animals.'

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

WOW. This entire story is HORRIFIC. This is FOIA of a body cam from the raid in upstate New York the same day as the Hyundai plant. It catches a Border Patrol agent on camera only bragging about denying medical care to migrants detained at the border under Biden — who he says are all "animals."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 10d

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 10d

old enough to remember the “anarchist jurisdictions” designations of yore

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11d

2020 was a real wakeup call for me in terms of 1) what police mistreatment my aging body was (not) equipped to take, and 2) what new mistreatments police were ready to dish out.

2025 is going to be that squared for a lot of people. It is already, in a number of cities

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11d

thinking about how now that I'm five years older my body is gonna be way less resilient about getting thrown down the stairs by federal agents

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 10d

So-called progressives do enjoy punching down.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 11d

So the suppression of universities & current phase in the (bipartisan!) war on knowledge is the logical outcome of a long assault on the idea of academic expertise, esp in the humanities, & it’s probably time to get over the awkwardness + insist that people who know things actually do know things.

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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 11d

We’ll be homeless on the streets tomorrow.

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Matthew Salesses @salesses.bsky.social · May 12

If someone who asks what America is like just tell them about the msg scare of the 90s, when this country was so afraid of Asians people didn’t want their food to taste better.

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