sinajo.bsky.social
@sinajo.bsky.social
Feminist theorist, urban studies/critical geography afficionado, teacher, writer, renter, nerd. Assoc Prof of WGS at LMU. All opinions my own, yadda yadda.
The term everyone is dancing around is "secret police", a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
Jared@jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 2d 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.
Perhaps worth noting, in this context, that Bezos went on Fox News to tell its audience (and AI pushback is bipartisan, by the way): "you're not going to need to have a two-earner income household" if we let AI accelerate, in his vision. www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-a...
Jeff Bezos says AI could power a return to single-earner households as it turbocharges productivity
Bezos, the world's third wealthiest person, said more families will need only one parent to work and people will work for three days per week.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d agowe are watching a massive transfer of wealth during an era of massive wealth creation (however much it might be just paper money it’s powerful) — reinscribing gender during this moment is a choice about who will be a citizen for the next three hundred years.
Sam Altman said people are just gonna have to die in order to implement AI. In the very same week, Anthropic claimed it’s a human rights violation to be mean to the computer. These people need to be held accountable. They think lines of code are a person with rights but living people are debris.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoOver the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”
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Assistant Professor Women’s and Gender Studies
Who We Are The Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a Carnegie-classified R2 institution in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks outsta...
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A European once asked me "will it take a Savita Halappanavar to finally get America to end it's abortion bans?" Wasn't sure how to explain that we already have many Savita Halappanavars
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · last wk.For weeks, Tierra Walker and her family continued to ask medical providers about ending the pregnancy For weeks, medical providers continued to tell her, “Your baby is fine” Walker, however, was not ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
This is exactly it. Melinda Cooper argues in her essay ‘Epstein Family Values’ that the tech billionaires want to create a world of servants so that they can play the masters. Some of us will be playthings, some helpmeets to reproduce the master race. Useful, or abandoned. We need a better future.
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 3w agoReading proofs from book & remembering what I wrote in 2015: "I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one-dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.”
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
Just can’t get enough White Sox/ Pope content. Lord, I have seen what you’ve done for Villanova
The company’s announcement of a new AI safety system comes amid its billionaire CEO’s rejection of AI slowdown and regulation pushes.
Nvidia Launches New Safety Platform, Says It Can Prevent AI Agents From Going Rogue
The company’s announcement of a new AI safety system comes amid its billionaire CEO’s rejection of AI slowdown and regulation pushes.
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You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
Deb@sailebed.bsky.social · 2w agoUpdate: abcnews.com/US/district-...
This is in part a Project 2025 goal to push women out of higher education, by eliminating federal loan support for degrees that tend to graduate majority women students.
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoTrump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
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Gregory Pratt@royalpratt.bsky.social · 2w ago“Talking to Rahm, it’s like middle-age married sex,” said John Anzalone, a Democratic pollster who has known him for decades. “It’s focused. You know what you’re going for. And it’s short.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/u...
The White Sox have to retire Munetaka Murakami's number immediately. This is the greatest interview of all time.
Murakami loving his first clubhouse celebration 😂
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
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This conversation with Timnit Gebru was so hugely insightful. It really helped me to understand the eschatological, ‘effective altruism’ side of the AI delusion as a form of eugenics.
Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 3w agoToday on #VibeCheckPod, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains what’s really going on with these so-called AI whistleblowers. Also, I let the chopper spray on Robert Kraft, Ed Sheeran, Pink, Jasmine Crockett and Chris Brown. Also, I read a lovely poem by Hieu Minh Nguyen.
It’s amazing how the media cooperates to make some issues salient and completely ignores others. We went from North Carolina being protested against for an anti-trans bathroom bill in 2016 to now every politician being asked their position on a dozen or so athletes in ALL of K-16.
🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 3w agoI just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
This thread really did help things snap into focus. And now whenever I hear one of these weirdos speak, all I hear is ‘Aaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeeee’
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 4w agoOnce you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
We are not going to get out of the fascism problem by accepting just enough fascism to turn the heads of the fascism-curious.
I joined Bluesky to bully @harvilla.bsky.social into devoting an episode of 60 Songs That Explain the 90s: the 2000s to Songs:Ohia’s Farewell Transmission
I wish we could just forget 9/11. It would be better if we could. But we live in the world that the global war on terror has created, a machine that manufactures endless war through genocidal lies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w agoTrump links 9/11 with his war against Iran: "We will never ever forget. That's why we fight today."
It’s hard to judge such things but the firing of the Stars and Stripes EIC is a huge scandal, or should be.
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4w agoLast month, the Pentagon fired the publisher and editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes. Two opposite headlines this morning show the results were swift.
