Rmcgrudiva
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VOTER. Respect my existence or expect my resistance. Intrepid eater. All things sparkly, syllabic, tuneful, funny, and joyous. Pretty goddamn horrified. 🤘🏾
Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
This is indistinguishable from the white nationalist comments at our city council meeting last night, including the part where they started shouting “White man fight back”
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d agoDonald Trump is an absolutely vile racist. Trump: “The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!”
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
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.
22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million so far to defeat Prop 40. By spending their fortunes trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, they're making the argument for a billionaire wealth tax more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could.
Um, so the goal of a liberal arts education is now a job in an AI company???!!
![As [SFSU President] Mahoney sees it, one solution for the university - and the city — is to embrace a new vision that moves beyond education for education's sake.
"I don't think a young person today who says, 'I want to go to college because I want to make a good living' is being greedy. I think they're being realistic," Mahoney said.
So this summer, she hired Ines Barbosa from Northeastern University in Oakland to aim the campus in a new, industry-connected direction, with details yet to be determined.
"Her job is, very intentionally, to help us connect with every industry and every organization - government, arts — and possible partner in San Francisco," said Mahoney. "To start to build pipelines from every (academic) major to that employer."
The idea is not to kill the liberal arts, said the president, whose own field is history.
"We need English majors. And we need philosophers. But we probably need them working for Al companies. How do you build a path from your Intro to Philosophy course to a career at Anthropic?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:otpj2dofkavlh7rz6mi2zfxf/bafkreie3e77jfkomij7oenowaypfdtdhf7pvdo37fop75qvpq526hbc7li)
San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 23h agoSan Francisco State is finally growing after years of enrollment declines. But in the face of the city’s affordability crisis, the university is rethinking its future.
‘We’re in a brotherhood now’: the Bill Pickett rodeo – photo essay
‘We’re in a brotherhood now’: the Bill Pickett rodeo – photo essay
For several years, Chloe Kerleroux has been photographing African American cowboy communities in the southern US. Her work has mainly focused on trail rides: large gatherings where horses, music, dancing, family and community life come together. This year, she explored rodeo culture including at the Bill Pickett invitational in Atlanta
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And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2d agoAll three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response ...
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.
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Lmao if you want your freak shit to stay anonymous, draw it yourself.
404 Media@404media.co · 23h agoHuman contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. www.404media.co/humans-readi...
This is going to get worse because of the OBBA and it’ll do little to dampen enthusiasm for Republicans because Dems love to talk about how they “abandoned” rural voters.
Clayton Tucker@claytontuckertx.com · yesterdayNo mother should have to plan her delivery around a hospital's funding problems. While billionaires get tax breaks, rural Texas hospitals are struggling to keep their doors open, leaving families with fewer options for lifesaving care.
Conservatives are talking about drugging women with oxytocin so that they stay in marriages/relationships with men. Should we send out a calendar invite for when we're gonna burn this shit to the ground?
Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."
Knocking out the Russian troll farms before the elections is incredible strategy.
WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦@waterblusky.bsky.social · 2d agoCloudfare: Russian troll activity on X drops to 49%, after Ukraine strikes Yandex Russian data center. 🤖 🫤 Could this disrupt the midterms for the GOP?
Two children were walking in a crosswalk when a driver ran a red light and hit both of them. They were on the way to the library. Car culture is out of culture. Reckless drivers need to lose their license and have their cars confiscated.
Forest Hills Residents Call for Safety Measures After Crosswalk Collision Injures 2 Kids - Queens Ledger
BY KYLIE VOLAVONGSA | news@queensledger.com On September 28 around 4:28 pm, two children — a brother and sister — were struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Metropolitan Ave and 70th Ave in Fores...
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Crime may not pay, but it damn sure bills... 😖
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · yesterdayPeople also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos
I like looking at nice stuff. I really do. But no sense in that if my babies got mediocre air to breathe. Backwards hustling
It's tiring to say, but this is debt slavery.
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · yesterdayPeople also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos
I know Trump is president but it seems absolutely absurd to me that we are buying the justification “but if we don’t do it, China will do it first” to let these companies keep existing and operating in the way they do. :/
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d ago(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
Y’all’s mans DHS Sec. Markwayne is on with Jake Tapper right now. @cnn.com His FIRST sentence was Markwayne 😂 insisting the latest I.C.E. shooting victim “had already fleed.” Fleed. Before this, Markwayne was the sole Congressman—House or Senate—without a college degree. Now, he RUNS I.C.E.
Obscene. The profiles say they're “a member of Yukon First Nation,” “of Dene heritage,” “an Inuk raised in the North” — all were created using AI. "The space [Indigenous journalists] fought so hard to get, the stories they fought so hard to tell are just taken away, [we're] taken out of it...”
‘Very harmful’: website uses AI to generate northern Indigenous news ‘correspondents’ | CBC News
The website WE NEWS has three northern Indigenous 'AI correspondents.' Their profiles say they are 'a member of Yukon First Nation,' 'of Dene heritage,' and 'an Inuk raised in the North.' Experts in t...
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Michael Erard@michaelerard.bsky.social · 2w agoOne of the first things I did on summer holiday was have this really great conversation with @carrieg.bsky.social and @meganfigueroa.bsky.social about The LANGUAGE BEAT and writing about language. New episode, just released! vocalfriespod.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...
I don’t think there is any coming back for this country from a live televised execution of a paraplegic.