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Daniel José Older
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Writer of books and comics. Story architect for STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC ✨ he/him patreon.com/djolder
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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Aug 19
I wrote about a genAI author scam and where all this catastrophic mess is heading

www.patreon.com/posts/166720...
Anatomy of a Gen A.I. Marketing Scheme (and notes on the bub... ○ Daniel José Older patreon.com/djolder Our institutions - the ones responsible for information. education. life and death - want to have it both ways: Plagiarism, the theft of words and ideas, is on the one hand, such a high crime that the punishment is endless harassment. lives wrecked, loss of income oss of life. And on the other, it's just a silly necessarv foible that our new robot servants /overlords must do in order to secure a grand sparkly future. The end result of this nonsense is tragedy, collapse destruction. The plunder at the rotten heart of qenerative A.l. is not an opinion or up for debate. It's or the public record. The companies have admitted to it. The only question that is left is whether that plunder matters, which is to say whether plunder matters at all Universities lose any standing from which they can lecture students about academic integrity when they invest in technology that built on intellectual theft. It's that simple. is As Ijeoma Oluo recently wrote: "Do you know why Al can write a book that is almost indistinguishable from the work of popular writers? Because it STOLE OUR WORK." Generative A.l. is an ideology, as mandy prown writes in this must-read essav. Anc it's an ideology that, like zionism, cloaks itself as something else, performs a strateqic slight of hand that allows it to slip all that destruction, militarism, theft into our evervdav discourse. Normalizes itself. /t can't be that bad, this masquerade insists, it's merelv a technology, a culture. Ignore the self-proclaimed colonizer, the emperor, the angel of annihilation behind the curtain.
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Former staff people and others in MI knew what she was like and kept their mouths shut.
November 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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harmscommitted.com
"21,500 people have been officially reported missing."

"Most have since been confirmed dead, including 8,000 who remain buried under the rubble, but the fate of 6,000 people is still unknown."

"Thousands more have never been reported."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Torture
Thousands of people in Gaza are missing without answers, as Israel withholds information from their families
More than a year after the October 2025 ceasefire, Palestinian families are still searching for loved ones who vanished during Israel's genocide in Gaza.
mondoweiss.net
November 2, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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headquartersnews.bsky.social
Abdul El-Sayed: Democracy is about the work we do together. The divide in our politics is the people who are locked out vs. the people locking them out. I hope that I can continue to coalesce folks so we can actually get legislation that's befitting of the movement that we're building.
November 2, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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pdjeliclark.bsky.social
Guess I made it.
October 31, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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runwithskizzers.bsky.social
If you're going to repost an interview about this whole thing, make sure it's El-Sayed's and not little-miss-look-at-me over on cnn
headquartersnews.bsky.social Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 1h
Abdul El-Sayed: Democracy is about the work we do together. The divide in our politics is the people who are locked out vs. the people locking them out. I hope that I can continue to coalesce folks so we can actually get legislation that's befitting of the movement that we're building.
November 2, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
DNC Black Caucus Chair: “MI Democrats are proud to stand behind Abdul El-Sayed as our nominee for U.S. Senate and in two days we will elect him to serve us in Washington.

We are dismayed that Haley Stevens has revealed herself to be a sellout who used Black Michiganders for a political stunt.”
A statement from DNC Black Caucus Chair Virgie Rollins: “Michigan Democrats are proud to stand behind Abdul El-Sayed as our nominee for U.S. Senate and in two days we will elect him to serve us in Washington. We are dismayed that Haley Stevens has revealed herself to be a sellout who used Black Michiganders for a political stunt. Congresswoman Stevens has lost her way, and Michiganders know that Mike Rogers is a shill for Trump and has failed Michigan. We are ready to elect Abdul on Tuesday.”
November 1, 2026 at 6:21 PM
djolder.bsky.social
LMAO in a time of absolute chaos, this is one of THEEE most chaotic spin outs we've seen.
tyleraking.com Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h
My condolences to Rachael Blade.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h
HALEY STEVENS: Anderson, this is a broader point about what's going on in our party

COOPER: It's actually not. It's really just a question of why you changed your mind

STEVENS I haven't cast my vote yet

COOPER: So you might change your mind again?
November 2, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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ashoncrawley.bsky.social
mood.
November 2, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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sababausa.bsky.social
I’ve been reading on what this racist conspiracy theory even entails, and what the relevant law is, and it is pitiful & disgusting for the NYT to parrot this w/o followup, or corroboration, or contextualization

The whole racist myth is hidden behind “allegedly“ and “sources say” with zero specifics
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d
Nasty work by the Times here. Law enforcement sources say they found "some evidence" that Ilhan Omar married her brother, but the paper doesn't say who they are or what the evidence is.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/u...
November 2, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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katelynburns.com
The details emerging about the fiance are not great
quoproquid.bsky.social QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h
what the fuck is going on with this relationship? how do members of both parties keep winding up with severe emotional and psychological problems.
November 2, 2026 at 12:42 AM
djolder.bsky.social
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
ayannapressley.bsky.social Ayanna Pressley @ayannapressley.bsky.social · 5h
Haley Stevens lied to me. I will not sit by while she tries to use Black folks as a prop and costs us our lives. Vote for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social.

AbdulForSenate.com
November 2, 2026 at 12:28 AM
djolder.bsky.social
🤍🤍🤍
November 1, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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bibiladiva.bsky.social
Om Amir: I have a serious retinal disease threatening my remaining sight I urgently need eye drops painkillers medicines and medical supplies My family is struggling to survive in a damaged tent in Gaza Every donation even $5 makes a difference Donate here 👇🏻
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La maman d'Amir à l'hôpital La maman d'Amir a l'hôpital avec un enfant en pleurs.
November 1, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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ayannapressley.bsky.social
Haley Stevens lied to me. I will not sit by while she tries to use Black folks as a prop and costs us our lives. Vote for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social.

AbdulForSenate.com
November 1, 2026 at 10:31 PM
djolder.bsky.social
aged like fine cheese on a hot summer day 🤌🏼🌞 🧀
thebulwark.com The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2d
"For a lot of progressives, Stevens hasn’t done enough. No matter how many times she says she’s supporting El-Sayed, progressives are sure that, in her heart of hearts, she doesn’t really mean it. She doesn’t truly love El-Sayed. To which I say: Grow up."
Stop Whining. Just Win.
Republicans are babies. Some progressives are, too.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 1, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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guncelawits.bsky.social
Dude keeps demonstrating that a better world is imaginable and even possible. No *wonder* he’s under attack!
November 1, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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johnmoe.bsky.social
I understand the Haley Stevens thing. All of us, if we’re being honest, have at some point gotten a little mad about being passed over for something we wanted and, in response, blew up our career and reputation and betrayed everything we supposedly believed and all who sacrificed to help us.
November 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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kim-hu.com
when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷‍♀️

(but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)
Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird. The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free. Al companies turned all of it into products worth billions. And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable. We built the library. Someone else started charging admission.
November 1, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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dame.is
oh. my. god. hasan piker dressed up as ms rachel for his halloween stream lol
October 31, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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amandasmith.bsky.social
Don’t tell me autism didn’t exist in Ancient Greece and Rome, someone had to remember every line of the Iliad and it sure wasn’t Pliny the Neurotypical
amandasmith.bsky.social Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 3d
I could remember all the basic trigonometry functions, but instead, I remember every lyric to sugar ray’s “fly”
October 29, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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gonebabygone.bsky.social
The number of guys who can pass for chuds exploiting it for bits is one of my favorite b-plots
hsack121.bsky.social haversack @hsack121.bsky.social · 1d
Ohio voter asks Vivek Ramaswamy why he is associated with so many pedophiles.
November 1, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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ffrancavilla.bsky.social
🎃🎃🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! 🎃🎃🎃
The headless horseman rides! Skull in the full moon in the red sky
November 1, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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mickeykuhns.bsky.social
'Star Trek' actor Wil Wheaton tells Stephen Miller to keep Patrick Stewart's name out of his 'Nazi mouth': "He despised you, and everything you stand for."
October 31, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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josie.zone
HOLY SHIT

MALCOLM MCDOWELL SAID "TRANS RIGHTS"

AND SO MUCH MORE

AHHHHH I AM CRYING
October 31, 2026 at 7:16 PM
djolder.bsky.social
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He also told Claude that he asked ChatGPT for help as well, prompting it to write an intro- duction to his paper. He then used Claude to review Chat- GPT's responses. The paper, which was published in Septem- ber in Chemistry Europe, an as- sociation of European chemists, did not include any disclosures of his AI use. It b 2 dumbass girls telling each other "exactlyyyy"
October 31, 2026 at 11:32 PM