Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3w ago

Remarkable: An Iowa right wing radio host just leaked word that GOP polling shows House Rs in peril even in districts Trump won by +10. The culript? Trump and the war. On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains: newrepublic.com/article/2158...

New article! On access journalism, AI replacements for people, and Trump's latest attack on freedom of the press: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...

Gutting the Fourth Estate

The US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

motherjones.com

Trade publishing is collapsing right along with these corporate empire states. Don’t be fooled by the industry’s propaganda. Put all your books in their bins at your own peril.

Y'all, beloved community, that I care for as you care for me in true understanding we share of loving mutuality so we all survive, at this time I badly need mutual aid. This ain't no scam. I'm not secretly rich. I'm on medicaid. I'm recovering from the serious trauma of getting committed by cops.

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Hello friends! It's me, the author of the novel NONE BUT THE RIGHTEOUS and the novella FES IS A MIRROR and poetry and essay that touches your heart. You might know me from Bluesky where I constan...

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“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

orlandosentinel.com

Do not make the mistake of determining a person’s value/valor on how many “books” they’ve manufactured; how many “followers” they’ve amassed; the profile of plantations for whom they prophet|profit.

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

Op-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector Pangram

Schnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”

thedartmouth.com

This is a devastating read on what it was like to work in an ER in Palestine in November 2023.

24 Hours in the Emergency Room at Al-Shifa Hospital

A Palestinian nurse recounts an average shift at Gaza’s largest hospital in November 2023.

conversationalist.org

AGAIN! You do not need to fear "superintelligent AI" "going rogue" & killing humans, when HUMANS keep putting regular, everyday shitty-assed, extremely error-prone "AI" into potentially life-&-death-crucial systems. It does not have to be "powerful" to do that! It can do that & still be very shitty!

I just mind my business.

🧵 Today, we're going to delve into the remarkable story of James Forten—a Revolutionary War veteran and former P.O.W. He became one of the most influential Black abolitionists in early American history. Pull up a seat🪑, my friends. (cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

My number one rule about culture writing is that craft cannot compensate for contempt. If you hate the people, you cannot write about their culture. Apropos of nothing.

Photo caption: “Rodrigo, a 58-year-old Los Angeles green-card holder, was detained for 10 months and denied access to medical care as a tumor in his throat grew to the size of a lemon.”

St. John Barned-Smith@stjbs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Many activists & organizers use the Signal app instead of regular SMS texting for increased privacy 🧵 Swipe for practical steps to: • limit records • lock your device • protect your identity • verify contacts • avoid scams Save & share with people who use #Signal! #DigiSec #SecurityCulture #OpSec

Relatedly: “As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director.”

In Defense of the Harvard College Writing Center | The Harvard Crimson

As current and former Harvard College Writing Center tutors, we write to condemn the dissolution of the Writing Center as an independent entity and the laying off of its director, Jane Rosenzweig.

thecrimson.com

This Wednesday, join our friends at BAJI for a call @ 5pm ET about how Haitian TPS holders & their families are facing continued uncertainty following recent court decisions & changes to their Temporary Protected Status (TPS). Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Conversations with BAJI: Haitian TPS — Where We Stand & How to Get Involved . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the web...

Event Description: Haitian TPS holders and their families are facing continued uncertainty following recent court decisions and changes to the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) timeline. We’ll cover...

us02web.zoom.us

I assume what AP means is: "Lies about noncitizen voting are being used by Trump to attack elections his party is set to lose and to set up an authoritarian effort to overturn the results" If so, they should just say that.

Inviting people to (re)visit my 2023 interview with Professor George Yancy. talilalewis.com/blog (second piece on the blog) Focus on: Humanity, eugenics, anti-Blackness/Indigeneity, dishumanization, enfreakment, settler colonialism. English text+audio (voiced by me).

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not only that, they are demanding that they not be called racist when they are observed to be signing up to support the racist

"race realist", "human biodiversity", and even "race science" are euphemisms. We need not accept them.

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Race realist” is the euphemism they want the media to use, hoping to leverage the sense of truthiness in the “real” part. Media orgs that publish the phrase “race realist” without commenting as such are falling for the lie/showing the racism of whoever’s responsible for the text.

if capitalism breeds innovation why do so many companies fight to become exactly the same as their competitors?

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

The app now allows men to make the first move, suggesting its women-first positioning was limiting growth. It joins other dating apps now throwing everything at the wall in a bid to stay relevant. www.wired.com/story/bumble...

As an attorney who has worked for 20 yrs to free countless wrongfully arrested & convicted people in the united states I am horrified & enraged by flock & it’s “use” by policing+state-corporate systems. This’ll lead to *many* deaths & wrongful accusations+arrests+convictions. This is technofascism.

WIRED@wired.com · 2mo ago

Flock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plates. www.wired.com/story/flock-...

At this point, I won’t be accepting apologies. My reparations are the end of alla yalls plantations.

FTR they’ve been astroturfing me fr hundreds of accts across SM for the entire year—they’ve human+nonhuman bots/ops. most accts claim oppressed IDs & leftism politics to some degree or other, w/ the “black” ones writing how she/they write Us in this “book” slip jus a draggin’ in violent caucasity.

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, rather those who are inflicting it upon me.” -Frederick Douglass

“Slavery has been called a great many names, and it will call itself by yet another name; and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form this old monster will assume, in what new skin this old snake will come forth next.” - Frederick Douglass

In written &/or spoken English/Spanish, please use my full name, Talila. Thank you. addtl notes: -citations: Talila A. Lewis (add "TL" at the end if/as needed to clarify). -sign: use given+accepted sign name fr that land aft spelling name full -sound: tuh-LEE-luh, English; Da/Ta-LEE-lah, Español

deaf/signing communities: 1. what signs are folks using for misinformation, disinformation, propoganda, etc? 2. deaf/hearing interpreters and captioner skilled/experienced in moving info on these topics in english/spanish/asl? thanks!

Supremacism/eugenics comes before the fall.