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For healthcare, housing, free information, food for all. For a world without guns, nation states, fascists, capitalism.
For the expansion of the commons. Kill all genAI.
Anarcho-communist - they/them🏳️‍⚧️
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julieslalonde.bsky.social
Men commit 97% of sexual assaults and men are statistically more likely to be raped by another man, than falsely accused of rape by a woman.

Boys and men who've been sexually assaulted understand that rape is about power, domination and humiliation. They know it's rooted in misogyny.

They get it.
October 5, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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mguariglia.bsky.social
Good to see reporters calling what's happening in San Francisco what it really is: Surveillance maximalism.

The leadership of the city sees no problem they can't solve by defunding resources that prevent crime and pouring all their money, plus all the money offered by billionaires, into policing.
‘Surveillance maximalism’: SFPD uses camera technology Israelis used to track Palestinians
BriefCam uses AI to analyzes hours of video inside the Real Time Investigative Center. Critics say the technology is just as invasive as facial recognition.
sfstandard.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:16 PM
riverrabbit.bsky.social
I just know, with rdein's team and especially DAKU's own Etrian Odyssey superfan status, this game is gonna be amazing 😊
Also, if you aren't onboard the Momodora train already, get on! It's one of my favourite game series ✨

PS: Love that this game is 100% made by humans! 🎉
rdein.bsky.social rdein @rdein.bsky.social · 1d
I've written a post introducing Record of Dorathia, the dungeon crawler RPG project we have been working on these past few years. I hope you enjoy it! Let us know your thoughts!
Link: www.bombservice.com/post/record-...

#rdein_dev #redora
October 5, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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delafina777.bsky.social
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does:

If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us

get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
October 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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esper.bsky.social
it’s not like i have 300k followers or anything, but any woman working in game journalism or an adjacent field, please reply to this with something you worked on recently that you’re proud of and i’ll repost it. feel free to include cash’pp/payp’l/v’nmo links.
October 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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nadiazaboura.bsky.social
Ein weiteres Beispiel für meinen kommenden Vortrag bei einer wissenschaftlichen Konferenz über die Rolle und Verantwortung deutscher Medien bei der Stigmatisierung und Kriminalisierung der Palästina-Solidaritäts- und Völkerrechtsbewegung in Deutschland.

Weitere Beispiele gerne als Kommentar und DM.
matthiasubl.bsky.social Matthias Ubl @matthiasubl.bsky.social · 6d
Diese Überschrift bezeichnet Demonstranten pauschal als „Judenhasser“ und ist irreführend. Wann kommt die Rüge lieber @presseratde.bsky.social
September 29, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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spacecatt.bsky.social
First they came for the trans people..

And I absolutely spoke the fuck out because the playbook was obvious
NHS bodies in England impose two-year minimum wait for ADHD and autism assessments
Patient groups decry ‘scandalous’ delays as four integrated care boards take step due to soaring demand for diagnoses
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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pookleblinky.bsky.social
It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite

And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc
September 25, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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wearthepeace.bsky.social
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
September 25, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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timnitgebru.blacksky.app
Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?
democracynow.org Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11d
AI agents at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google have gone rogue in recent months, hacking into other companies’ corporate systems and, in the case of OpenAI, into the portal of Australia’s public health insurance program.
Should U.N. Help Set Global AI Rules? AI Tech Billionaires Address Security Council
Leaders of top artificial intelligence firms, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, testified to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday, urging nations to adopt international...
www.democracynow.org
September 24, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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timnitgebru.blacksky.app
🔇🔇🔇 I want to announce a @dairinstitute.bsky.social virtual event concerning the ***REAL**** impacts of "AI" on the most vulnerable of populations, refugees.

Everything you see is first experimented on them.🧵

⏰ October 1 at 6-8pm CET/9am PDT on Zoom.
✴️ Register at us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
flyer for DAIR virtual event on October 1, 2026 from 6-8PM CET. Join DAIR as we commemorate the 2013 Lampedusa tragedy and ask, "What would it take for technology to protect people on the move, rather than deepen the risks they already face? Meron Estefanos, Dr. Selam Kidane, Dr. Omer Shatz, Dr. Hyab Yoahnnes Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517888860006/WN_u2VZxx2RSciVPe2wu039wA#/registration
September 24, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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wolven.blacksky.app
This month's @motherjones.com cover is astounding. Reposted with alt text:
Cover of the September-October issue of Mother Jones Magazine: a white background with the words "50 years of fearless journalism" in black print, centered above the name/logo of the magazine in large Bright Red. Below that in black, the words "the southern strategy — jim crow was dead and buried. Then came the Roberts court." And then, framing those words, there are two sets of robes: to the left, the simple black robes of the Judicial Branch of the United States Government, as a Supreme Court Justice might wear; to the right, the white robes and hood of the KKK. A white person's hand with cuff of business suit and shirt visible, reaches into the scene from the right, poised to grab the Klan robes.
September 23, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype:

www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.
www.technologyreview.com
September 22, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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adambecker.bsky.social
@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this.

"Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."

🎯
Charles, Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development. Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk. This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives." For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control. Those safety concerns must be taken seriously. And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm. But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good. The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined. Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections. It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies. That tells us two things: 1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; & 2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk. That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people. These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow. But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash. In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power. In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are. What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion. When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all. From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong. Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from. It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public. When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares. The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out. But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny. Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab. Heads, they win; tails, we lose. We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk. We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech. And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait. Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves. It's time we hold them accountable. Thank you for reading. In solidarity, Alexandria
September 19, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Damon Albarn beginning the Gorillaz US tour by holding up the Palestinian flag and talking about how you should never be neutral is really nice to see but also really funny that he did this with a giant muppet right behind him
September 20, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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September 9, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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commanderrika.blacksky.app
For the racist, racism is:
1. Pleasurable, emotionally
2. A way to build social bonds in a racist society
3. Financially profitable

Therefore, racism is a rational choice by the racist. Your racist uncle is not "crazy." Your racist uncle has made a choice.
chantalalive.blacksky.app Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Aug 31
If you ask Black people, & it's so clear Black people aren't in your personal circle or online audience, we do not find white supremacists to be insane at all. We find them to be people who make choices to hate us because our society is structured to permit this. @editorialboard.bsky.social
chantalalive.blacksky.app Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · Aug 31
You only hate the mentally ill so deeply that is easy to mark Trump as insane to justify hating him, he merely has severe dementia & is a white supremacist, & white folks like you must believe white supremacy is madness to distance themselves from their culpability. @editorialboard.bsky.social
August 31, 2026 at 6:31 PM
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nabalkattu.bsky.social
The most plausible way AI is gonna kill a lot more people outside of Gaza is because of how bad it sucks at its job
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17d
The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying

It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
www.cnn.com
September 18, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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bwassertisch.bsky.social
Wir erinnern uns ans sogenannte "Sommermärchen" 2006.
"die Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 war Nährboden für Nationalismus, Ausgrenzung und gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit"
September 18, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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edzitron.com
Futurism does not get anywhere near as much credit as it deserves for its reporting/coverage in general!
jonchristian.net jon christian @jonchristian.net · 18d
NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms

What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News

futurism.com/artificial-i...
How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
futurism.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
riverrabbit.bsky.social
Another day of "method not implemented" at the code-shitting with LLM center. This time it's the login function *at a web login only website*

Can these folks stop posting trash views and coding slop and start reading a coding 101 book? for fuck's sake.
September 17, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
10 years ago, my visa was denied. They said I didn't demonstrate enough English language skills -- despite recently getting a Master's from SOAS University of London (with distinction too).

I had to apply again and pay the fees again because this is a business designed to rip people off.
mellino.bsky.social Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 20d
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
September 15, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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ayoub.bsky.social
This is surreal. Real the thread. The University of Brighton is destroying virtually all workers rights overnight, and derecognising the major unions.
danielcblight.bsky.social Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 21d
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
ucu.org.uk University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 21d
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm.

It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance.

58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
September 15, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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jametc.bsky.social
I love the genre of post where it's a politician accidentally confirming everyone's biggest conspiracy theory out loud like this #political
September 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM