Thinking of the long arc of who got harassed out of the category, whose books got campaigned out of existence, only for us to arrive here, at bestselling YA author Ross Douthat
honestly I think if the army gets to livestream an execution by firing squad, Bluesky mods should be a little less uptight about people saying they wish billionaires would be a little less alive
Ladies! Do you feel like an unlovable hog? Have you tried cake? @griffinkelly.bsky.social has, and it worked for her! 'InfoWars HQ' is now live. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJey...
Navi Pillay’s career in international human rights law includes work as a defense lawyer for anti-apartheid activists, president of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a former judge at the International Criminal Court and the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights from 2008 to 2014.
Navi Pillay, South African Jurist, Wins Nobel Peace Prize in “Stinging Rebuke to Donald Trump”
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, the South African jurist who led the United Nations commission of inquiry that concluded that Israel had committed genocide in ...
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On Sivarasa Anojan, the 24 year old Tamil migrant worker from Sri Lanka currently sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for a "blasphemous" Facebook comment during an online argument www.tamilguardian.com/content/expl...
Explainer: Sivarasa Anojan, the Facebook comment and the death sentence in Saudi Arabia | Tamil Guardian
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A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in victim's car when ICE agents shot at it.
ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
ok I made this poster for @theworldsgreatestwriter.com's event for Lit Crawl in SF (come out, it'll be fun) and I feel like I have succeeded in my aims of making this look like it was created in Berkeley in 1971
Robots should look and sound like robots. There is no benefit to allowing AI to appear human, and companies will exploit the confusion to demand “AI rights,” further cementing their oligarchical control. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ban-lif...
Ban Lifelike AI Immediately
Robots should look and sound like robots. There is no benefit to allowing AI to appear human, and companies will exploit the confusion to demand “AI rights,” further cementing their oligarchical contr...
currentaffairs.org
According to MIT News, Margaret Hamilton died at the age of 90. "A profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program". This famous photo 🔽 inspired the For All Mankind character Margo Madison.
bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 2d agoah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
In Lochiel, Arizona, where people have been resisting the construction of the border wall, one brave activist locked down to construction machinery—and Border Patrol drove it away with them locked to it. "We're taking you to the middle of nowhere where no one can hear you scream."
Max Granger@maxgranger.info · 2d ago🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.
🇺🇸🔥 Cabeça de Donald Trump é pendurada em estátua de Padre José de Anchieta no centro do Rio de Janeiro durane manifestação estudantil
When colonization came to call in the US, many folks wrote about america as a pristine Eden whose forest were filled with delights and bounty. This was because indigenous folk (Like mine) built up food forest. Things that were razed and destroyed as a part of racist violence. Colonization is ongoing
Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d agoTo put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
Barring the planned publication of the 10th, I expect we should still be able to push this out on the 12th, the very latest. A massive thank you to everyone involved in creating this anthology.
October 10th: I've edited a small anthology book by the title PsyBomb Survivors. I've been facing small but still annoying delays on the last leg of finally having the book published due to Amazons many quirks resulting from their "let's cut out the human element as much as possible" policy.
I cannot stress enough that ICE is acting the way cops have acted for years. These are just "starlight tours" for Indigenous teens applied to the rest of the population.
ProPublica@propublica.org · 4d ago4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
The new season of American Horror Story sucks (and yes, I'm still watching it, I do what I want), but last episode had an amazing scene where they were sacrificing the souls of horrible women to Satan (Ayn Rand, Brigitte Bardot, Elena Ceaușescu, Thatcher, etcetera).
Horrifying: Arizona Democratic congressional candidate Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by a man after he knocked her out. Another man approached her to do the same. “She began swinging her foot at him. ‘Not even worth it,’ she heard the man say as he moved away.”
Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
phoenixnewtimes.com
People: "we are starving while a few billionaires hoard all of the wealth". Capitalists: " let them eat plastic cookies".
@soniasulaiman.bsky.social is going through a difficult time right now. please help her out so she can feed herself and take care of other important issues during her loss. pic included for alg0 purposes: ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman/
This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.
Picturing the most cynical possible outcome of all this being that a defeated Chuck Schumer's final act in Congress is to anoint Cory Booker as his successor, to ensure that — if nothing else — the Democratic caucus remains committed to Israel
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3d agoCory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:
🚨 BREAKING Y-AXIS 🌊🌡📈 Record warm waters in the main El Niño region reached >30°C for the first time in the @noaa.gov Sea Surface Temperature dataset. We've ain't seen nothing yet of the impacts this will have around the world.
Adam McKay@ghostpanther.bsky.social · 4d ago
if you aren’t otherwise familiar, bobby kotick is the guy who drank an employee’s breast milk out of the office fridge.
IGN@ign.com · 3d agoFormer Activision CEO Bobby Kotick is joining David Ellison's board of directors at the newly christened Skydance following Paramount's now-completed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. https://bit.ly/470r7D8
