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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The rhetoric of tech in a nutshell: I value convenience, efficiency, ease first and also have no capacity to recognize humanity, my own or others, but feel qualified to run the world. Someone send an army of divorce lawyers; after all this guy already wants to disconnect.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Billionaires ain’t broke, but they’re broken.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AI safety regs: Laughable, because the techbros don’t want safety. They are busy summoning demons. More accurately, they are feeding AI with destructive sources then standing back to see if the agents will act on them. Sure enough, they will. Move fast and break things, remember.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

International lawyer: “Stop pretending silence is moral… Silence makes this possible… say the word: Genocide.” From @DiegoParrhesia 🧵

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It should be obvious that the main reason most other rapist kids got off easy was not because of their potential future careers, but because their parents are wealthy and connected.

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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two years after Helene, we are still two cities The second anniversary of the storm sees a deeply divided city, between struggling communities still surviving the crises and an elite that's made the aftermath far, far worse. @davidforbes.bsky.social, with our latest: ashevilleblade.com?p=5399

A Blade graphic with the words "Two years after Helene, we are still two cities" over a photo of a flooded river.

In smaller text: Behind the marketing, Asheville remains deeply divided two years after Helene, marked by worsening inequality and a government that has made the aftermath far, far worse

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To add a little context to this story, both Cobb and Forsyth Counties are white flight suburbs of Atlanta. The story of continued racism from them could fill its own book. Cobb created its own bus service when Marta rail expanded into N. Atlanta to block Black Atlantans from going there.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Why snipers on the Arch? Aside from the ongoing stupidity with the whole idea, why snipers? In a tourist area? Who are they supposed to shoot? Besides us?

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So, take Isr**l, here you have a country, sketchily created, brutally murdering the inhabitants of the country they’ve taken and dehumanizing the whole original population. Included in their plans is to march the survivors out of the contested lands to some distant arid and unfamiliar terrain...

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This reminds me of how the social sciences have longed for credibility as an actual science for so long, we all forget that they are not. The downfall of all of these whiz kids is believing statistics can explain everything and forgetting that bias (& ignorance) can warp stat methods and results.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Rest in Power, Saint Dolly. We will always love you.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yes!! I keep saying this too, these are all Lex Luthor wannabes. Every utterance is monologing. Every idea has been scripted already and is inevitably overblown and ridiculous. 🧵

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The first three posts this morning: Tiffany Hayes wowing everyone with a 3 pointer from the logo, Angie Nixon beating a liberal transphobe with a fraction of $$$ in her Senate primary, and Wired mag just highlighted Tisha Johnson’s stylish and affordable new pickup truck design. Common denom? 👉

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Re-posting this blog post because AI still has some folks mesmerized. Don’t buy in to it - AI is the natural end to the centuries-old corporate war on labor. toreupbuttrue.blogspot.com/2024/12/lino...

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AI, Linotypes and Labor

(first posted on Medium Jan. 14, 2024) Is anyone old enough to remember these behemoths in action? A dark basement held 50 or more of thes...

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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson @ashdashlee.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Yesterday, Tennessee voted under the new jim crow map for the first time. Here's what the ground said back.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I live, temporarily, in a red town blanketed with giant warehouses and data centers, more to come. The companies import their tech folks from HQ, if any, and the only jobs are security and janitor, and those are low-pay jobs with a vendor company. So no, you won’t get an Apple/Meta/etc entry job.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Great article. I was an early adopter of the Mac for graphic design and web coding. I still use Apple stuff but Steve’s baby grew up into a slimy techbro. Having other Luddite interests (weaving, spinning, sailing, farming) I love that my forebears were political, directed, and worker-centric.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Trump et al is what you get when you vote businessmen into government. The corruption, the self-dealing, the incompetence, the yes men, all are abundant in corporate VP floors and C suites. They hate employees, and citizens look like employees to them. Business is about (their) profit, so QED.

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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"And so perhaps they’re in the back seat with a toy steering wheel. AI is the promise of wiring that toy steering wheel directly into the drivetrain of the car. It’s products without product designers. Workplaces without workers.... This is the promise." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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‘You can’t make billions without hurting people’: Cory Doctorow on Elon Musk, the AI bubble and bosses’ cruel fantasies

The writer who coined the word ‘enshittification’ tells us why AI will never deliver what it promises – and why it still appeals so much to those in power

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

These are the people who want to buy the country and put it on autopilot.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

21st century America is a multiracial democracy whose commerce, culture and cuisine reflect the influence of immigrants from every country on earth. The only people seemingly unable to assimilate into this society are white Republicans.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

More folks calling for this today. Yes!

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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.

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Tim Fernholz @timfernholz.com · 13/06/2026

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.

The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on

not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The news today: “The beatings will continue til morale improves.” I need to get off this plague ship.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini!!!

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Flash Gordon, Star Trek, Star Wars, Bab5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Think about AI data centers and the utilities required to run them. ‘Enough to power x cities’ is how that quantity of electricity and water is described. Enough to replace them is more like it. We have heard about 'robots taking our jobs’ since the 70s, but no plans for the aftermath. This is it.

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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 20/04/2026

The Trump administration profoundly misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence, writes @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social. But we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.

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Cooperation is more powerful than coercion

Trump misunderstands power as being synonymous with violence, but we can learn a lesson about real power from a humble source — flowers.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

It boggles the mind that these Masters of the Universe (Trump, Vance, Hegseth, Musk, MAGA, the billionaires and their spawn, et al) didn’t foresee that pissing EVERYBODY off was going to lower their favorability numbers, force backtracking, unnecessary time and expense and threaten the whole project

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is far less exciting than Orangeface dropping the F word, but worth noticing: wealthy neighborhoods have cheaper gas prices than rural and poor neighborhoods. This week, I saw 20+ cents per gallon location difference, same company. When the rich don’t believe prices are inflated, this is why.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I’m sorry, did a bunch of MAGA military cosplay bullies lose a big baseball thing to — fucking Venezuela! — and sulk off like babies? I love it. Karma is real.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Am i the only one who thinks Neo is a weird name for a laptop made for AI? Apple? How old is your marketing director, 18?

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

... the snake-oil salespeople pushing these hallucinating plagiarism machines on the rest of us think any compensation is too much! The executives ruining human discourse and the planet – they must be lavishly paid. Actual creators — we get exactly nothing. No money, no respect, no consent. "

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Musk gives away the plot when he claims “nobody dies for a ‘multicultural zone!’” What he’s saying is, only whites should succeed economically. He has no understanding of culture (nor any understanding of history), to him it’s all about the money. HE came here for the money, not the culture.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Reading posts today on ICE and the law, and how many ways ICE/CBP/DHS can be framed: “law enforcement”, rogue agency, racist gang, private army, etc. But today, I am adding Trafficking Org, kidnapping people for abuse - sexual, violent, and neglect with malicious intent. One big RICO case.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

If I were a good man Deedle deedle deedle deedle dum, All day long I’d feed and house the poor If I was a moral man! If I were a good man Deedle deedle deedle deedle dum, All day long I’d do my goddamn job Dydle deedle dydle deedle dum. Projection! Projection Projection! Projection.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Musing today about how, if nothing in life is certain for every person but death & taxes, billionaires want their corporations to be people. The ending of things is a fact of life, literally. Someday, even Ford Motors & Exxon will die, because they became finally irrelevant. Posting for no reason.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Two black journalists, reporting on a protest, have been arrested for being black and doing their job.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Watch the Raphael Warnock interview after the intro, about 4:39. (doesn’t Chris Hayes look like a malevolent gnome here? Weird vibe) youtu.be/bmJwnBtZIYE?...

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‘History is being made here’: Chris Hayes reports LIVE from Minneapolis

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Beginning to think AI is the white man’s magic wand. Whatever he can imagine will appear, fully realized, no reference to wizards or dragons necessary. It’s the same escapism from reality, but they are more desperate to believe it.

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Over the centuries, armies have gone to war to protect the women, children and elderly that kept the home fires burning. Even the KKK claimed to protect women. Now we have ICE, beating and killing women, children & old folks, on purpose, with expletives. How did women and children become the enemy?

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"This is a warning - he needs a body count. He wants to be pettier than Putin in his eliminations. He doesn’t care if you’re an oligarch or a hospital orderly. Venezuela is a testing ground for his need to imprison, torture and kill any of us who he imagines are enemies. " ToreUpButTrue.blogspot.com

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Tore up but true

Tore up but true: Blogging into the void since 2007

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Anyone else having a flashback of the TrekTNG episode where the Enterprise becomes a warship with a hot war in progress? Picard’s #1 barking kill orders, the command deck low lit and dark? A warlike people has brainwashed the crew, wiped memories so they wake up in the middle of a different reality?

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ardeewnc.bsky.social @ardeewnc.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Remember that CEOs hate tp pay employees, and always have. In fact, it’s more important to them to cut labor costs than to maintain product or service quality. If you need to actually perform a PR task, now you have Elon’s empty-headed clone, Grok do it. That is AI’s future: doing every job badly.

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