Tech oligarchy is a form of technophobia. #Software practitioners and #tech scholars are the true technophiles, and we should join forces to oppose oligarchy.

Science as Culture@sciasculture.bsky.social · 3w ago

📢 In the latest contribution to the Forum on Tech Oligarchy, "Tech Oligarchy is not Tech," @sakhavi.bsky.social reflects on tech oligarchy's rejection of the immanent politics of tech practice. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

It was clear then & only cleared now that we need leverage beyond Big Tech or the state to curb this perilous combo. B/c Big Tech nor gov are incentivized to make the safe, reasoned, technically grounded, human rights preserving choices when billions $ and geopolitical advantage hang in the balance.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Starting a “male enhancement” business but it’s just listening skills

This is the same fallacy as “If you hate America, leave.” Loyal opposition is a concept our party should really get our heads around, given that’s its current function in government. Know who hates the Democratic Party? Republicans. Let’s be less like them.

Jaime Harrison@jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign.

Delighted to have had the opportunity to review this valuable book in the LSE Review of books! #Software practitioners are a complex and under-studied lot; it’s great to have a study like this looking at their (our) potentials for class identity.

LSE Review of Books@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: The contradictory social codes and class identity of tech workers. The Social Codes of Tech Workers by @robertdorschel.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk @mitpress.bsky.social, a sociological study of class among mid-level digital labourers, reviewed by @sakhavi.bsky.social 👇

These ghouls act like they've discovered some novel secret: "Hey, guys, GUYS! Did you know that we can just kill people whenever we want?" Yes, you absolute idiot, that's ALWAYS been true. We just chose not to, for good and self-interested reasons which the entire world is about to learn yet again.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Lindsey Graham: "If we get in a fight, I want to win it quick. I'm in Miami. You see this hat? 'Free Cuba.' Stay tuned. The liberation of Cuba is upon us. We're marching through the world. We're clearing out the bad guys. Cuba is next."

You should be able to trust software. It should do what it was sold to do. It shouldn’t be broken. It shouldn’t be designed to actively hurt its users. I’ve spent my career building trustworthy software. In Congress, I will make sure companies are liable when they don’t.

Beth for Democracy | Bethany Andres-Beck for Congress

Bethany Andres-Beck is a candidate for Congress running to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.

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this is going to be so helpful for improving performance

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

hannah gais@hannahgais.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICE/DHS launched a database with "the worst of worst criminal aliens." As a piece of propaganda, it's reminiscent of work put out by white nationalist or nativist outlets, which selectively highlight migrants accused of or convicted by crimes. Here's a 2024 article from VDARE, framed similarly.

Vote for you why? So you can fund the war against us? Oppose. Abolish and prosecute ICE, impeach and remove and refuse to seat Republicans, pack the Supreme Court, imprison Trump and his cabinet, defund the police; fight the fight before us and win in a massive landslide or gtfo forever.

things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

The lack of empathy, gaslighting, & lies coming from this Administration is shameful and dangerous. A woman has died. People are scared. Over 30 people have died in detention. They are inciting violence and endangering our communities. It must stop. Which is why I’m joining the effort to impeach.

Rep. Stansbury: The Trump Admin is gaslighting the American people

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I just hope you eventually identify the nations responsible for the situation. Let me know if I can help

@ericbkennedy.bsky.social you may have already seen reports if stuff like this, but it struck me that you might be interested infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/1...

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

And you will know my name is the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee, Charlie Brown.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

We all float down here, Charlie Brown

So now I always ask: if you're some faculty member posting loudly about gender justice or whatever, do you know the name of just one single person on your campus who deals with these cases? No? Then what are you doing.

Respectfully, what’s the debate? The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush. As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.

National Constitution Center@constitutionctr.bsky.social · 9mo ago

President Trump’s recent statements accusing Democratic lawmakers of making “seditious” comments to military and intelligence community members have ignited a free speech debate. #ConstitutionDaily unpacks the constitutional obligations of those who serve the country: https://ow.ly/fXXk50XvVxB

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

Or to actually call for political murder.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I guess one way to distract people from your friendship with a sex criminal is to claim that you are friends with a political murderer.

Sorry, but this is not enough. The Democratic Senators' posts/videos about the outrageous Thing also need to go the next step & demand his immediate impeachment & removal. No, it won't happen. Doesn't matter. Normalize enforcing the rule of law & the Constitution. Articulate what must be done.

Captain Mark Kelly@captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

Oh, Hakeem, we keep telling you. Impeachment and conviction of this unfit President is the only way. And you keep dodging it, even at the point where your colleagues get death threats from him. What are you doing, man?

Hakeem Jeffries@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut.

Opinion: Why do we need a cure for diabetes when I don’t have it?

Opinion: Why do we need a cure for diabetes when I don’t have it?

Brandon, Manitoba – Millions of Canadians live with diabetes, and the Government of Canada has spent billions on diabetes research and treatment. But here’s what I don’t understand: Why do we need a c...

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The queer pop anthem this administration did not ask for. 💕🐴🤥 #BigPhonySchmuck #NewVideo #parody

Big Phony Schmuck! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow

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"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...

Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy

“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...

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People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles