IrishNinjⒶ

@irishninja.bsky.social

“treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity" | antifascist | abolitionist | 🇵🇸 BDS | here for comics, hip hop & classic sega https://backloggery.com/IrishNinja

The Trump administration is reviving Cold War tactics. A new State Department report invokes 1970s far-left violence, portrays progressive U.S. groups as part of a Cuban influence network, and praises McCarthy era blacklists, all while the far right remains the deadliest domestic terrorist threat.

Trump's Red Scare

The Trump administration is reviving McCarthy-era tactics, portraying political opponents as communist threats while targeting protected speech, protest, and association. A recent State Department min...

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This may be one of the worst headlines I have ever read. “Found in rubble” erases who killed them. “Nearly a whole clan” turns parents, children, grandparents, aunts and cousins into a vague mass. “Mass funeral for 112” makes the burial, not the massacre, the story. Every word shields the killers.

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It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough

A lot of columnists have lost their minds in recent years because social media has allowed people to talk back to them, whereas before they could say any old vile shit with next to no pushback

if a coach was stifling exciting young prospects to let all the codgers run around falling on the ground a mf would have the door hitting em where the lord split em but in consultocracy this is common sense

The framing of these Democratic primaries by many news orgs is "how did the party let these radicals take over?" instead of "what is going on in the country and the world that leads so many people to vote this way?"

Aside from the knock to the ever-dwindling music journalism ecosystem, I just think about what this all means for smaller and mid-tier bands. If you're not already huge, who is going to cover your album? Who is going to post about your tour? Who is going to…

Leor Galil@imleor.bsky.social · 13h ago

“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Look all I know is that they're driving environmental harm and I don't really care how much help anyone thinks they are at coding, data centers are sucking up water and power at a rate that is harming actual human beings and the world around us and therefore LLMs can get fucked.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 9h ago

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).