Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10hEverytime I mention that BlueSky is just not good for non-US global news and discussion, I get piled on. BlueSky is great for many, many reasons, but the rest of the world is still very much on Twitter / X. What is happening in India is *massive*. 71939177
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21hThe machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine. 362486600
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Slave ships?!?!? 710332
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A few weeks ago, US Citizenship and Immigration Services released quarterly data on the legal immigration system through June. The data presents a stark picture of an agency going through a period of total dysfunction. As of June, net application backlogs have risen by 80% since Trump took office. 19364141
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikKen Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 271588943
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Since we’re trying to positive post as well: it was my birthday this weekend AND I won my friend’s apple themed bake-off with a Bavarian apple torte. 🍎🎂 040
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikProfessa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Most women can point to something in their body—something pretty major—that never worked again after their pregnancy. Back, pelvis, you name it, it never worked again after your pregnancy. 67610
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Hard to think of anything less abstract and more materially consequential than being pregnant 962072466
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikThe Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 02/10/2026"Our department looked like an actual battlefield, with blood everywhere, and IV lines, syringes, and used equipment scattered about." A Palestinian nurse recounts an average shift at Gaza’s largest hospital in November 2023.conversationalist.org24 Hours in the Emergency Room at Al-Shifa HospitalA Palestinian nurse recounts an average shift at Gaza’s largest hospital in November 2023. 047
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikThe Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 01/10/2026Unfortunately, still relevant. Story by founder @alindguzik.bsky.social.conversationalist.orgWhy Do So Many Men Destroy What They Can’t Control?And why do so many people support them? 1105
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026the state should not be in the business of killing people. It’s barbaric 1162
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Renewable energy and cancer vaccines are the future 0153
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The only argument I can see for not trying to inflict pain on an AI agent (whatever that even means) is that it primes people to torture living beings. But of course that’s not what is concerning these folks 2430
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Stays are supposed to consider the probability of irreversible damage, yes. This court is evil 021
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I sometimes think how bad must it be when all the things we know they’re doing are criminal, and there’s still so much left to uncover 001
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 30/09/2026so many low moments for this regime, but the Supreme Court allowing the government to continue trafficking people to random countries is just horrendous 2104
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikPatricia Zengerle @reuterszengerle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026More than 25,000 people have been shipped to 29 countries under the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups, with the vast majority going to Mexico. 184
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! 136578
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed 301995165
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This list is missing Bob’s Burgers, Orphan Black, and The Expanse! Also I would add Broadchurch and Vera 000
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 19/09/2026rewatching Buffy and I’d forgotten that Willow got catfished by a demon that got scanned and uploaded to the internet. Feels prescient 020
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikPatrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026incredible: just two states that haven't reached the $6/gal mark for diesel, but they'll likely join today, making it all 50 states that have diesel prices >$6 per gallon. Texas and Oklahoma clinging (for now) at $5.98 and $5.99, respectively. come on in, the water's boiling! 16697185
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikAndrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 18/09/2026ok so let me just legit have a holler for a minute about co-running/co-founding an indie media collective in an era when slop is dominant, technofacists have unprecedented access to policy-makers, and we're all so goddamned tired making real shit is hard and costs money 237765
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikJason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Eye 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 4253912350
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikJeremy Schulman @jeremyschulman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo, reports @noturtlesoup17.bsky.socialmotherjones.comThe Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.” 211268
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“We’ve deported your lovely neighbor to a country they’ve never even visited and you can’t afford a burger, but at least we personally got rich from robbing you.” Not a great pitch for midterms. 19013
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026CBS takeover failed, gas prices astronomical, food prices correspondingly astronomical, AI backlash growing, Iran war total quagmire. The only success this admin has had is protecting sexual abusers from accountability and making bank from crypto schemes. 21709145
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikJesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026NEW: Remember Don Jr’s wedding ceremony? In the Bahamas… Fireworks, dancers… “Just really close friends,” Don Jr. said. Well, guess who paid for hundreds of thousands of dollars of it? A Russian oligarch who is close to Putin. www.propublica.org/article/dona... 29725255
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m convinced people who say shit like this don’t understand what creating entails. Formulaic reproduction can only get you so far, and AI by its nature can’t grow beyond a formula. 081
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikBrandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...ms.nowA Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midtermsThe Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican. 8824601553
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikThe Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 10/09/2026We asked women working across different fields, countries, and cultural backgrounds a simple set of questions: What does community mean to you? Here's what they said. Story by Kovie Biakolo and @loreleikelly.bsky.social share.conversationalist.orgHow To Be a Better NeighborWomen seeped in democracy work around the world share their thoughts on what we owe our shared future, and how we can all better contribute to our communities. 088
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026thanks everyone for that resounding "no!" apart from science fiction 010
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026got it. I have yet to find an argument for stand alone intelligence, let alone superintelligence, persuasive, so im not going to start freaking out. 110
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026ive never asked AI anything, which is why I was open to the idea that I've missed something. But I think the answer is no, at least not yet. 000
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026okay, yeah thats scary. but you'd still need people to prompt, build and deploy them yes? I don't doubt those people exist but it's not something outside human control 120
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026personally I'm much more concerned about tangible crises like fascism and planet on fire, and also the extent to which AI has turned everyone's brains to mush. But that's quite a leap to killing us all. 1191
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Is there any good writing on AI apocalypse that wasn't written by someone ostensibly in AI psychosis or with a large personal investment in the companies? Bc I keep hearing "extinction event" but not *HOW* 6354
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/09/2026“Employees of food banks said they’re seeing more older Americans seeking food help.” John Mabry of the Food Bank of Lincoln in east-central Nebraska “said that almost 200 people came to pick up food in Humboldt, Nebraska, on a recent weekday. Of those, at least half were seniors.” 02116
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikBill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 07/09/2026At the moment we have no real idea how to scale up carbon removal--it's a hair on the mole of the ugly backside of the global hydrocarbon industry But we do know how to scale up solar panels and wind turbines and batteries. So that's our job billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-t...billmckibben.substack.comFacts on the groundTwo things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries) 571804568
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project 452657536
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikThe Conversationalist @conversationalist.org · 04/09/2026"For many in the African and Caribbean diaspora, oral tradition is a survival tool that is sharpened, exercised, and passed down through generations." For one writer, it encompasses family stories, beliefs, and customs that preserve history and can even inform where they are headed next.conversationalist.orgMy Family’s Wisdom Is My InheritanceFor many in the African and Caribbean diaspora, oral tradition is a survival tool passed down through generations. It is also largely sustained by women like my great-aunt Nerissa. 0155
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikPatrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Today you're going to see a lot of tributes and assessments of Gloria Steinem (I thought this one very good: www.thecut.com/article/glor...). You'll also see some people raising her involvement with the CIA, and others ignore it. (That obit doesn't even mentioned it.) What was that about?thecut.comGloria Steinem Loved WomenThe feminist icon, who has died at the age of 92, epitomized the contradictions and hopes of the women’s liberation movement. 824093
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I had the privilege a couple months ago to meet Gloria Steinem at her home for a gathering on maternal health. She was up there in years but still warm and delighted to be sharing her space for women to converse and do the work. May her memory continue the feminist revolution. 020
Reposted by Anna Lind-GuzikYair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Amira Hass for Haaretz: "What is at stake today is not a "diplomatic solution," but the very existence of the Palestinian people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli forces striving to "erase" them recognize no limits or restraints." Please read. archive.is/dWjZnarchive.isWelcome to nginxIf you see this page, the nginx web server is successfully installed and working. Further configuration is required. 13010
Anna Lind-Guzik @alindguzik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I have so little patience for “we don’t support this action we took publicly” 220910