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@mildbannered.bsky.social
millennial | boston | chaotic good | fuck ai
Again, what do you think the police are doing to people you can’t name if they’re willing to do that to the mayor?
Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629@feralrobots.bsky.social · yesterdayI beg people to remember that NYPD openly threatened the lives of Mayor deBlasio's children.
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 4d agoThings got more insane just about as soon as I posted this last night. DHS is now arguing that we cannot even put the names of ICE officers in our lawsuit against those officers. Their position is that, if a defendant works for DHS, they cannot be named in a lawsuit. Never seen anything like it.
i personally would like to live in a large house in a nature preserve with no neighbors that is a five minute walk from grocery stores, nightlife and amenities, a good school, and my six-figure job. i don't see why this is so difficult
That goose said “fuck what you thought!”
Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith@mewefree.bsky.social · 2d agoGeese are insane: Example #2,987,304
Protests that started in Spain and then spread to France and Brazil have now started in Belgium. People are sick of being told there is 'no money' by billionaires who are becoming trillionaires.
speaking of public executions: "as open enrollment begins this month, roughly five million people will be forced to switch plans because their current policy has been canceled or is no longer offered in the county where they live" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/b...
Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
nytimes.com
We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.
Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South
At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.
theintercept.com
lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible
Mike Bithell@mikebithell.bsky.social · 3d agoIt is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
Repeating my sotto voce refrain that I think we are very soon going to have to deal with the plain (but seldom spoken) fact that police are simply not under the control of the political leadership who command them on paper.
George Pearkes@peark.es · 3d agoI hope Mamdani clarifies whether NYPD support for this action was at his direction or if the NYPD acted on its own; if the latter, why do they have that latitude and what is being done to reign in a rogue agency?
the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it
Gianmarco Soresi@gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 4d agoMan who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
This by Courtney Maum is where I am too. I am grateful to her for the words...
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 5d agooh my GOD
*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.
Bolts@boltsmag.org · 6d agoMany states require that mail ballots be postmarked by a specific day. But due to a USPS rule announced late last year, voters may need to put their ballot in a mailbox days in advance.
I continue to think that being “too big to fail” is **exactly** their plan for how to navigate the coming crash, and it’s why they’re pushing so hard to get everybody using pricy commercial AI products all the time for everything, even in cases where there is a clear downside (ie, education)
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · last wk.Krishnan is asking a good question about New Yorkers having retirement funds tied up with "A.i." and if there's a crash what the fuck happens. "How can you ensure that you are not too big to fail?" Companies are just blathering and dodging. Talking about their tools, etc.
👀 “We’re doing this experiment on an entire generation on cognitive development, with no control group." — fmr Google research scientist Mikel Rodriguez. He said people inside Google privately worried about how their AI use was affecting their own cognitive skills. 🎁 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/goog...
Google Pushed AI Into Schools—and Even Students Say It’s Gone Too Far
The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash.
wsj.com
there are moral arguments against the death penalty in its ideal form but in real life you never need to get there. the prior question is "can the state be trusted to end the life only of the rightly convicted without torture?" and the answer is no
shawn@mulchy.bsky.social · 2w agotwo doses of lethal drugs and still alive. heartbreaking and barbaric
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better
"To be fair, I'm not doing so great with men. I told my most recent date that I was working on a novella. 'Because you're Mexican?' he asked. I asked what he meant. 'Isn't a novella a Mexican novel?'" -- oh wow
JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
"The judges said they want to review whether her allegations of sexual abuse and rape as a child were fully considered before she was sentenced to death."
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2w agoBREAKING: The execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee's first of a woman in 200 years, was halted by a court an hour before it was set to take place.
