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Kolt (rustled jimmies)

@knivesonly.bsky.social

neurodivergent 🧠 biodivergent 🧬 genderdivergent 🏳️‍⚧️ they/them here to build community with new & known, & share information disability justice forever! also, dogs

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Eric Ravenscraft@lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 21h ago

holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social · yesterday

Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1

borderless@borderless.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh hey it's that thing I said Seriously tho print this article out and take it to your next city council meeting and ask them if they're willing to invest in air defense systems for your town too.

AWS Says It Can’t Restore Some Data From Mideast Facilities Struck by Iran

Amazon’s announcement is the first indication that some data stored exclusively in Bahrain and the U.A.E could be gone forever.

wsj.com

borderless@borderless.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Need another reason to oppose AI data centers in your hometown? If the company running them has DoD contracts, they are legitimate targets of war. So is the local power and water infrastructure feeding them. So are the employees (defense contractors) working there and living in your neighborhood.

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2d ago

Macklemore pledges to donate $1M from Ed Sheeran tour to Palestinian aid organisations - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/macklemore-pledges-donate-1m-ed-sheeran-tour-palestinian-aid

Macklemore pledges to donate $1M from Ed Sheeran tour to Palestinian aid organisations

<article data-history-node-id="447839" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/macklemore-pledges-donate-1m-ed-sheeran-tour-palestinian-aid" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/macklemore-pledges-donate-1m-ed-sheeran-tour-palestinian-aid" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Macklemore pledges to donate $1M from Ed Sheeran tour to Palestinian aid organisations</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>American rapper Macklemore said he will donate the entire $1 million he earned from Ed Sheeran's Loop Tour to six organisations supporting Palestinians,</p> <p>"I want to center the parents carrying their children into hospitals without the basic resources to treat them, and the physicians, paramedics, journalists and aid workers who keep going back in," he wrote in a statement on Instagram.</p> <p>"Writing a check is one of the least costly forms of solidarity available to me. I am doing it because I can and because these organizations&nbsp;are doing the work while much of the world debates it."</p> <p>He added that he will "continue to stand with the Palestinian people their fight for liberation".</p> <p>On 4 September, during his opening performance, Macklemore called for a “Free Palestine” during a two-minute speech before performing his pro-Palestine anthem "Hind’s Hall", named after five-year-old Hind Rajab, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2024. His speech drew both praise and backlash from across the political spectrum.</p> <p>The pro-Israeli group Israeli American Council (IAC) launched a petition to pressure Sheeran to drop Macklemore as his opening act from future tour dates following the speech.</p> <p>In a detailed statement on Monday, the US rapper announced that “Ed Sheeran and his team” removed him from the tour after billionaire Robert Kraft rallied other stadium owners to threaten Sheeran with blocking him from using their stadiums if he didn't drop him.</p> <div alt="MACKLEMORE_AFP.jpg" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ff43fdf7-0f7e-48cd-b0fa-bff7ed9db73f" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/MACKLEMORE_AFP.jpg" width="1024" height="678" alt="MACKLEMORE_AFP.jpg" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>

middleeasteye.net

Gallifreyan Jedi@jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 2d ago

wild that the head of trust and safety just posted a whole thread explaining that the rules pretaining to harassment and threatening/wishing/glorifying violence are intentionally vague so they can be arbitrarily enforced against people they don't like and relaxed or ignored against people they do

Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW from us: India's rapid clean power expansion has kept power sector emissions flat for two years, for the first time in over 50 years, and sharply reduced fossil fuel imports. Oil and gas consumption have also fallen for two years in a row, helping alleviate the Hormuz shock.

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Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · 2d ago

NEW – Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge ✍️ Written by @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social and Anubha Aggarwal @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/JIwsTKV

Chart titled "India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge" and subtitled "Power-sector emissions, MtCO2 per half-year". Source: Analysis for Carbon Brief by CREA. H1 and H2 emissions rise from around 500 MtCO2 in 2020 and level off between 600–660 MtCO2 from 2024 to 2026. (alt text generated by Google Gemini)
Mike Honey@mikehoney.bsky.social · 2w ago

Many children of a certain age band (too young to be vaccinated before 2023) will now go through their entire adult life unvaccinated. Plenty of scientific evidence pointing to that being a truly dumb approach, likely costing more in poor health than the federal department’s “savings” ffs …

Denis - The COVID Info Guy@thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Brain Blood Flow Linked To Fatigue After Covid" A study found people with Long COVID had more fatigue and slower reaction times than healthy people. Researchers also found lower cerebral blood flow (perfusion) in the brain, which may be linked to cognitive difficulties following COVID infection.

Brain Blood Flow Linked To Fatigue After Covid

People with post-COVID-19 condition reported higher levels of fatigue and showed slower reaction times than healthy individuals. A new study from

miragenews.com

Prof Melanie O'Brien@drmelob.bsky.social · 3d ago

New research has determined that the pre-colonial Indigenous pop'n in #AUS was far more than previously thought. 2.22M. Over 90% of whom died (by disease & violence) in the 70 years after the invasion (1788). Cannot be denied that this was a genocidal process. theconversation.com/more-than-2-...

More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research

Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.

theconversation.com

💜 phonakins 🍉🌲@phonakins.com · 3d ago

The NT government has announced residents at a Darwin homeless shelter will be moved south to Batchelor after negotiations over the site's future failed to reach a resolution. Some residents affected by the move say they will struggle to access jobs and services from outside the NT capital.

NT government moves 150 Darwin homeless shelter residents out of town

Up to 150 residents at a Darwin homeless shelter will be relocated 100 kilometres south to Batchelor after the site's owner and the Northern Territory and federal governments could not agree on a fund...

abc.net.au

Kieran@toadally.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cannot put into words how frustrating it is to hear people say "this is my escape from politics, so I don't want to see politics here." It is an immense privileges if you can "escape" politics. People whose entire identities are politicized just by how they look do not have the same benefit.

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 6d ago

Maggie Gyllenhaal compares NAZA, about the tactics used by the Israeli military to kill civilians in Gaza, to Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust film The Zone Of Interest. “It reminded me of The Zone Of Interest in the way it was about systems,” said the #Venezia83 jury president. (Movie International)

Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 6d ago

Some of One Nation's most virulent racism is directed at Indigenous & First Nations people Yet Labor, Trades Hall & GetUp persist with counselling respectful engagement with "their legitimate economic concerns" This is their solidarity & principles in action⁉️

One Nation is not new or unprecedented. It is a product of Queensland's specific brand of anti-Indigenous racism

Even weeds need specific conditions to grow, and it just so happens that One Nation thrives particularly well in the blood-soaked soil of Queensland.

blackwitness.com

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 6d ago

As long as there is no end to the white progressive effort to rebrand bloodthirsty and authoritarian xenophobia as "economic anxiety", Pauline Hanson's going to keep fucking winning. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Do not call her a racist: anti-Pauline Hanson strategists tell campaigners character attacks won’t work in Victoria Exclusive: strategic rethink urges progressive activists to respectfully steer one-on-one conversations with One Nation supporters towards economic concerns Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
Bree Lundberg@breelundberg.com · 6d ago

If capitalism didn’t exist I’d still be making/buying little trinkets. I like art put on everyday objects as much as I like paintings and prints. 🤷🏼

Kolt (rustled jimmies)@knivesonly.bsky.social · 6d ago

as an Art Enjoyer™️, I love being able to a) display art in lots of places (eg. clothing, water bottle, journal, desk etc) & b) afford MORE pieces of art to enjoy smaller items are truly so valuable to a lot of us out there 🖼️✍🏻🫟

Bree Lundberg@breelundberg.com · 6d ago

I don’t make stickers, pins, notepads, etc because it’s more marketable. I do it because I genuinely enjoy art on physical products that are useful/used to express oneself. I can’t speak for all merch artists, but that’s me. I’m annoyed when assumed we’re all trend chasers out to make a quick buck.