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Aaron Denney

@aaron-denney.bsky.social

Scientist, mathematician, coder, liberal. Previous affiliations: ADD, CIT, UNM, AMI Joy and non-state connections are anti-fascist praxis.

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D Lavoie@djlavoie.bsky.social · 6h ago

"Don't you see, your money's not here. Your money's in Tom's Nazi Ape NFT and Ned's international hash smuggling ring and Sara's teen sextortion racket..."

Still from the bank run scene of "It's a Wonderful Life"
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 2d ago

The number of people who do not know that Trump has once again been credibly accused, THIS WEEK, of rape or sexual misconduct by 5 different women while in or near the presence of Jeffrey Epstein... is truly shocking to me. I know the legacy press is trying to bury it, but Christ alive it's working

Crip Dyke@cripdyke.bsky.social · 2d ago

I want to take a moment to go back to something I touched on in my long-ass sports fairness thread, but this time as the focus: Tiered citizenship is bad for democracy. It's literally bad for everyone in an entire society, with the possible exception of a few hundred or a few thousand true elites.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2d ago

I looked up the firm currently arguing for preschools' religious right to refuse to enroll kids w gay parents turns out it's the same firm that argued for a right to refuse to provide adoption services to gay couples, & to opt kids out of books w LGBTQ characters ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/st-ma...

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7d ago

Hearing reports that RFK’s HHS is developing a line of inexpensive MAHA lard and tallow aimed especially at Christian consumers. The goal is to address the affordability crisis while also raising funds to support the HHS mission. The government fat will be marketed as “Rendered Into Caesar.”

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.

I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

"The Publisher may not use artificial intelligence in any manner in relation to this Work, including to reproduce, translate, narrate and/or produce art for the Work without the Proprietor’s express permission, nor does the Publisher have the right to sublicense others to use artificial intelligence in any manner to reproduce, translate, narrate, and/or produce art for the Work without the Proprietor’s express permission. Furthermore, the Publisher will not use cover or interior artwork generated by artificial intelligence. "In addition, the Proprietor expressly prohibits the Publisher from using the Work in any manner for purposes of training artificial intelligence technologies to generate text, including without limitation, technologies that are capable of generating works in the same style or genre as the Work. The Proprietor reserves all rights to license uses of the Work for generative artificial intelligence training and development of machine learning language models. The Publisher will use best efforts to include a limitation in any sublicense of the Work prohibiting the use of the Work for training and developing generative artificial intelligence technologies."
Distributed Denial of Secrets@ddosecrets.org · last wk.

Hexane (281 GB) Internal material from the far-right #German party #AfD (Alternative für Deutschland/Alternative for Germany) and its surrounding infrastructure. ddosecrets.org/article/hexane Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

Hexane - Distributed Denial of Secrets

Internal material from the far-right German party Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) and its surrounding infrastructure. The data includes more than half a million emails,…

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · last wk.

Land use and transportation policy is not sufficient to redress the harms of past land use and transportation policy choices, which were part of a much larger unjust system. Attempting to use land use and transportation policy to do so perversely reinforces the inequalities you’re trying to redress.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

jkavanagh.bsky.social@jkavanagh.bsky.social · 2w ago

Republicans “have no intention of cleaning up the criminality in their party. As long as they’re committed to maintaining the GOP’s professional pipelines as they exist, the only way to root corruption out of politics is to make people of low character think twice about entering those pipelines.”

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elissa Slotkin said good oversight should deter young right wingers from engaging in the kind of corruption that's become rampant in Trump's regime. The freakout is a confession: Rs like their school-to-grifter pipeline and they won't be cleaning it up themselves. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-gop-...

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w ago

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 2w ago

Somebody said "They voted for racism and got poverty" The thing is... social scientists and economists have been saying for the last 50 years Racism is austerity