British publicly & brutally executed (South Asia) dissenters in 19c because the empire’s violence was intended to terrify people into compliance. By 1930s they took to secretly murdering rebels because they were afraid of the people’s response. 1/2

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Pentagon says it plans to livestream an execution. Pete Hegseth said the public will be able to watch the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooting, scheduled for December 3. Turning a government execution into a livestream should alarm everyone.

RIP Simon Andriesz. You did your part in exposing the psychopathic, murderous Epstein class. www.bbc.com/news/article...

How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower

Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.

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Everyone needs to read this. Reality is, in fact, stranger than fiction. Reality is worse than anything we can say about these people in a few words, media appearances, op-eds, or other conversations. Read the whole thing. ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/urbits3/sitf...

these people care more about a computer program than the humans their work is actually exploiting

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2w ago

for real though the "model welfare" people who are worried about the ethical treatment of nonsentient computer programs are absolutely deranged, very well-funded, and extremely dangerous; is also the core ideology of Anthropic

Please help my sister Om Jameel chuffed.org/project/1839...

Help us Survive the War(om jameel)

northern Gaza, in the yellow zone under occupation.

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🪙⛲️Paradise 🇵🇸❤️‍🔥@paradis3gained.bsky.social · last wk.

Om jameel:her health is deteriorating.Despite suffering from a heart valve condition,she has suffered uterine& tore wall hemorrhaging&urgently gather $300 surgery to stop the bleeding Her situation is dangerous Stop her tears kids by donating &returns to her kids embrace😭 chuffed.org/project/1839...

Saeed and his family are living in extremely dangerous conditions in Gaza. Please repost, share, and donate if you can!

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

Suzan is a little girl in Gaza who suffers from malnutrition, cerebral palsy, seizures, and hyperactivity. She lives with her siblings and parents in an extremely dangerous part of Gaza where bombings and gunfire are constant. Please share and donate if possible! chuffed.org/project/1984...

Help Suzan's family before it's too late!

Hi beautiful people we are Melissa and Lucien and today we want to tell you about Suzan!

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Folks, we're terribly sorry to announce that there was a LinkedIn spill that broke containment and leeched into Bluesky. While the spill is being handled, we ask that you refrain from discussions about synergy, hustle, paradigm shifts, and praise for grind culture. Thank you for your cooperation.

Kai Ryssdal@kairyssdal.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m sorry, but if you bring an iced coffee - or any damn beverage at all - to a job interview, you’re disqualified. It’s not hard, people.

Please help our comrades in Gaza! Repost, share, and donate if you can!

Death@insatiableone.bsky.social · 3w ago

I've given birth via C-section. A week later, my health deteriorated from surgical complications & infections. I urgently need support for medical treatment, milk, & essential supplies for my baby. Any help could save our lives. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 ✅Molly Shah chuffed.org/project/save...

we’re at the stage where they just describe the dystopian prison they are building with AI without the pretense. Almost refreshing

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Linda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to them...the beauty of that is the student almost has a one-on-one tutor...I have seen it work so well"

Book 24 was Neuroqueer Heresies by Nick Walker (narrated by Janet Metzger). Favourite quote: “Neuroqueer is active subversion of both neuronormativity and heteronormativity. Neuroqueer is intentional noncompliance with the demands of normative performance.”

Please share and amplify! We must not forget our comrades in Gaza!

Jamal and Leila are an elderly couple from Gaza looking after their family. Don’t forget our siblings in Gaza! Please share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1844...

💔 Leila & Jamal’s Family Struggling to Survive in Gaza 🙏

Hello, my name is Leila Mohammed, 63 years old, and together with my husband Jamal, also 63, we are trying to keep our family alive in Gaza.

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Urgent Request to Halt Deportation of Sami Kupiszeski - Sign the Petition! c.org/tBQkcwZN6n via @change.org

Sign the Petition

Urgent Request to Halt Deportation of Sami Kupiszeski

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Meta is so unbelievably evil. They make a technology primarily designed to enable abuse, harassment and privacy violations, but also embed real disability aids. The tactic now is to use an entire community as human shields to defend against criticisms www.engadget.com/2236054/meta...

Meet Mohammad and Mirna, they are trying to hold on to hope amidst the genocide. Please don’t forget our comrades in Gaza! We must continue to stand with them and share their stories! tinyurl.com/4rycmjm5

When Food and Medicine Become Dreams: Support Ziad & Mirna’s Family of 4 🫂🍉

From the heart of Gaza and the ruins of houses, we write to you with hope amidst the pain. As the parents of Ziad and Mirna, we have lost our livelihoods, facing a harsh reality that threatens our chi...

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As always, Bluesky is muting and deleting accounts from Gáza. Please help Sama’a and her family! Share and donate if you can! chuffed.org/project/1575...

Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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Big Tech and AI companies have refined these prior industrial tactics into what I call 'algorithmic agnotology': the exploitation of technical complexity to obscure accountability and naturalize inscrutability as inherent to digital systems.

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

The more you know. www.librarian.net/notoai/

Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's a reason why "these are just statistical predictions" hasn't caught on in the discourse, and it's not the tech press. It's that people see them reading and writing and reasoning and scheming and they realize that the stochastic-parrots framing is outdated and inadequate to the moment

Sama'a and her family need our help to survive. Food and clean water are scarce in Gaza, and both cost dearly. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋@carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

Gaza is not just a passing news item; it is the life of millions of people who face fear, hunger displacement, and the loss of loved ones every day. Behind every number is a story, and behind every child is a dream waiting for a chance to live in peace. Do not forget Gaza chuffed.org/project/1575...

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

the beggars out of here getter@milesklee.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

AI “training” is offering the illusion of control and mastery by displacing awareness of how it is being integrated into civic institutions to the disadvantage of people with an illusory self-awareness of “appropriate” use. It’s just a form of on-boarding. 3/n

This is wild. 93% of the renewable electricity generation added to the Irish grid over that last decade now powers data centers, rather than reducing fossil fuel use. Data centers have pretty much annihilated the health and climate benefits those renewables could have provided.

Hannah Daly@hannahdaly.ie · 3mo ago

What is even more striking is that data centre demand has matched 93% of the growth in renewable electricity generation (wind + solar + hydro) over the past decade. If we measure since 2020, data centre demand has grown nearly 3-times faster than renewable electricity growth.

Reminder: the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire by Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social is on this Thursday 12-4pm at the @ucdhumanities.bsky.social H204! Join @hammurab1.bsky.social + @melacholictrees.bsky.social if you work on migration, gender, empire, and everything in-between!

TNH-PhD network@tnhphdnetwork.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Come to the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire on Thursday 7th May 12-4pm at the UCD HI H204. Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social of the University of Picardy Jules Verne is the keynote speaker + workshop facilitator! Sign up now at tinyurl.com/3c7yy9cs

Organised by @hammurab1.bsky.social and @melacholictrees.bsky.social! Stop by if your work intersects with migration, gender, empire, and everything in-between (or come for a fix of interdisciplinary goodness)

Come to the Masterclass on Migration, Gender and Empire on Thursday 7th May 12-4pm at the UCD HI H204. Dr @mariejruiz.bsky.social of the University of Picardy Jules Verne is the keynote speaker + workshop facilitator! Sign up now at tinyurl.com/3c7yy9cs