Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Now the country's two largest unions, UGT and CCOO, have agreed to strike together for the first time in 14 years, with other unions set to join as well. 018519
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Rising rents and evictions have taken center stage in the country over the last month, leading to massive protests and a proposed eviction moratorium which was shot down by the conservative element in Parliament. /2 117017
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 07/10/2026HUGE: Spain’s biggest unions have announced a nationwide general strike over housing issues on November 11, just two weeks before a newly called snap election. /1 4500124
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialNOlympics LA @nolympicsla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Wait and see, we're gonna have all the leverage in the world." No. We won't. Signing the host city contract obliterated any bargaining power. 161
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialNOlympics LA @nolympicsla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There are two movements — labor and transit advocates — who decided not to fight the LA24/28 bid a decade ago, choosing instead to heel and embrace the Olympics. The strategy was to do nothing for a decade and 'leverage gains' out of LA28 and the IOC. Where are those gains now?latimes.comL.A. struggling to get Olympics transit money from SacramentoL.A. Metro asked the Legislature for $379 million for Olympics-related capital projects, and got just $20 million. 151
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialJoey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Latest from me for @lataco.bsky.social x @lapublicpress.bsky.social: Los Angeles County Supervisors voted 4-1 to delay the vote on a motion that’d publicly identify deputy gangs within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. lapublicpress.org/2026/09/lasd...lapublicpress.orgLA County supervisors delay vote to identify deputy gangs in sheriff's departmentA new proposal is the latest effort to address LA's notorious deputy gang problem. 25535
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialjenn schiffer 😎 @jennschiffer.com · 17/09/2026a lot of folks are asking how someone can do something so "stupid" as hard coding a secret token, and i'm telling you that you are holding software developers and companies on way too high a pedestal if you still think there's secure, quality code being sent out into the world 71055197
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialWIRED @wired.com · 11/09/2026Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. www.wired.com/story/one-of...wired.comOne of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons. 15454194
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread" 6758327
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/09/2026Rogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions did thebulletin.org/2026/09/rogu... (by @eryk.bsky.social)thebulletin.orgRogue AI didn’t breach Hugging Face, human decisions didAt the core of the Hugging Face hacking incident were a series of human choices that traded security for speed. 812433
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialAlissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Wow! Former LA city heat officer Marta Segura brings receipts after Karen Bass' statements in last week's environmental policy mayoral debate. Bass said Segura was removed due to her office's supposed failure to complete a climate action plan. Read here: martaspeaks.medium.com/the-real-cit... 224365
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026They didn’t send a reporter to the school. They didn’t call to check his employment status. They didn’t even run a google search on this guy to learn about his extensive online history. “Black seniors can’t read” went from their phone screen to the airwaves in one of the 5 biggest cities in the US. 212719
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026Again, this guy…THIS GUY, made one post and was able to get a “Black HS seniors can’t read” story all over the local news in a major US city. 1118242
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This is so awful 😞 RIP “In resigning as professor of sociology of education, Arday wrote in a statement that ‘the relentless accusations, speculation and public commentary have taken a profound toll on me and on those I love.’” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...washingtonpost.comYoungest Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found deadA British sociologist who resigned from the University of Cambridge last week following plagiarism accusations was found dead Friday 38620
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14/08/2026They used to call this malware.cultofmac.comChatGPT just learned to watch everything you do on your MacChatGPT Computer History tracks your Mac activity to build a searchable timeline, no screenshots involved. 3829781137
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026institutions of higher education are shuttering entire departments and laying off staff while signing multimillion dollar contracts to provide students with access to the plagiarism machine 4867182
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026our entire global financial system is currently leveraged to the hilt on the premise that it was good and right for a small cadre of US companies to steal all of the intellectual work ever produced by humanity and sell its back to us without credit or remuneration to the authors (plagiarism) 2434581034
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialJesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 09/08/2026‘In July alone, more than 150 towns and counties passed temporary or permanent bans on data centers, many adopted in emergency meetings. That brings the nationwide total to more than 500.’ www.theinformation.com/articles/dat... 301119370
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialCosmDevil @cosmdevil.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Fun fact: I literally stopped eating Raising Cane's because of the AI ads and promotional materials. I specifically keep track of companies that use Gen AI because if they're willing to cheap out on the advertising, that indicates to me that they are also cheaping out on the product/service. 34679140
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialʟᴇɢꜱ ʙᴇɴᴇᴅɪᴄᴛ ✨ @maybecam.blacksky.app · 07/08/2026This is not a mistake, they started with Black women, as always, and we told them they would come for you. 3226167
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026Flock has justifiably received tons of outrage, but Axon (and a bunch of other companies) are also purveyors of mass surveillance. Canceling a Flock contract and replacing it with an Axon one is just changing your flavor of authoritarianism. 7657316
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialYour Evil Twin, Skippy 🇵🇸 🏳️⚧️ @twinskippy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams: “There’s a lot of discourse around trans athletes and what they can compete in. I would welcome a trans athlete on my team or against my team. Anytime. I don’t think it’s a problem in the world, it’s just another way to kind of attack trans people.” 105157593496
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Newspaper conglomerate sees declining referrals because of LLMs cannibalizing their traffic, turn to the most evil incarnation of data warehousing and analytics to wring out the remaining value from readers 59126
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialDan Ross @1danross.bsky.social · 05/08/2026“We don’t have a comprehensive picture of the chemicals associated with the fire, particularly potential toxic gases" - my piece @lapublicpress.bsky.social on EPA's information request letter sent to Lineage, and major questions marks being raised over efficacy of the community air monitoring:lapublicpress.orgEPA demands info on possible hazardous chemical release at Lineage warehouseThe federal agency asks the company for 18 items of information including what chemicals were potentially released, air monitoring results and investigative findings. 0104
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.social🇲🇽🕷️rustbelt rebel🕷️🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 04/08/2026You guys. This interview goes so deep and my sexy ass voice son of bitch says you can die from doing capitalism and my lady parts were not ready for that. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuUs...m.youtube.comAmber Gray & Patrick Page Talk About Their Tony-Nominated Musical, "Hadestown"YouTube video by BUILD Series 042
baritonepats.bsky.social @baritonepats.bsky.social · 04/08/2026when you're at the movie theater to see the movie featuring the spiderman actor and it's not the Odyssey or Brand New Day, but rather it's Hadestown 110
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialNOlympics LA @nolympicsla.bsky.social · 30/07/2026What a pernicious, untruthful statement that erases so much tenant organizing in LA. Shameful. 2112
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialNOlympics LA @nolympicsla.bsky.social · 28/07/202610 Reasons the World Cup Was a Failure for Angelenos nolympicsla.com/2026/07/28/1... 2176
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialJak @jaksays.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The entire story equates to "we were testing a cron job and it started calling some APIs" Except they changed "we" for "the AI" and changed "cron job" for agents" and changed "Calling some APIs" with "it started hacking into some remote systems" 710012
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Observe the rank anthropomorphization here. Models don't "conclude" anything, nor do they "hack", "wriggle", or "cheat". You simply can't write clear informative articles about this stuff if you displace agency away from the people (organized into corporations) responsible. /fin for now. 1143893
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The jump the journos are making here to imaginary x-risk scenarios (read: bad sci-fi, unfortunately getting too much traction among policy makers because money) is frankly journalistic malpractice. >> 322330
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026And note to readers: Any journalist who uses such sensationalist language is not going to be a reliable reporter. >> 326526
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialCarceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Pennsylvania roads are being coated in radioactive wastewater − here’s why theconversation.com/pennsylvania...theconversation.comPennsylvania roads are being coated in radioactive wastewater − here’s whyWastewater from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas wells is salty and radioactive, and doesn’t suppress dust. Two researchers explain why it keeps ending up on rural roads. 034
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The intensity of this wildfire season is calling attention to the fact that the Trump administration closed all nine regional offices of the U.S. Forest Service, and shut down 57 of its 77 research facilities. 7467183
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal. 20328811424817
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialcamacho @bencamach0.bsky.social · 13/07/2026GEO Group forced to hand over videos related to brutal attack on detained people at Adelanto Dispatch from me over at @thesouthlander.com: thesouthlander.com/geo-group-re...thesouthlander.comGEO Group forced to hand over videos related to brutal attack on detained people at AdelantoOur motion unsealed these records. Now we need your support to continue our reporting on GEO Group’s violence. 02721
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialunraveled @unraveledpress.com · 13/07/2026You can and should point out that police killing people daily is the "norm" in America. But that doesn't mean you *accept* the normalization of this violence and the way some people rush to smugly point these things out contributes to collective fatigue. Your horror has been stolen from you. 2347151189
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialDave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Abolish ICE should be the MINIMUM position demanded of any candidate. 210615
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialFuturism @futurism.com · 06/07/2026"This isn't something we normally test for."trib.alMeta's AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly BacteriaMeta's AI data center campus in Wyoming is in trouble after local officials linked the facility's wastewater to a deadly pathogen. 16650385
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialNancy Armour @nrarmour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant 27791972410
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/06/2026In another installment in this govt’s full-on embrace of white supremacy. I do not want one dollar of taxpayers’ money going to support this. An absolute disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...nytimes.comA Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees 26608196
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 25/06/2026The myth of the 20x engineer… From Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Beware the 20x Engineer”! w/ @emilymbender.bsky.social 1256
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialjj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 25/06/2026i do not care to read three cis gays using the laverne cox article as a jumping-off point for an article that blows up trans intracommunity discussion about our safety for a general audience. slate gonna slate but also fuck off with this shit 627738
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialThree Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 25/06/2026There's something deliciously ironic about Ford--the assembly line innovator--having to hire back veteran engineers to fix quality problems induced by AI. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 8336101
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialKatie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026THE LATEST OUT OF VENEZUELA: At least 188 people were killed, more than 1,500 injured, and 200 were trapped in the rubble after back-to-back earthquakes damaged at least 250 buildings yesterday www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...nytimes.comHere’s the latest. 14327137
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialUNITE HERE @unitehere.org · 26/06/2026Statement from UNITE HERE President Gwen Mills on SCOTUS Haitian TPS Decision: "The Supreme Court’s ruling today on Haitian TPS is a disgrace. It is an insult to the 100s of 1000s of Haitian workers who currently hold legal status, have registered with the government, and passed background checks. 299
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialChantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 24/06/2026The US was keeping millions alive with USAID & also using it as a tool to jerk lifesaving aid before the third world to manipulate according to its agenda, those things can both be true, the staggering loss of life DOGE caused can still be mourned. 14617
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialJoey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026The dept doesn’t say this when they shoot and kill someone, btw. 2566
Reposted by @baritonepats.bsky.socialKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/06/2026killing minorities in Memphis is necessary to protect national security, you seewired.comDOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is ‘Vital’ for National Security in NAACP LawsuitIn a bid to dismiss a lawsuit over xAI’s polluting gas turbines, the Justice Department claimed the company is integral to military operations—including the Iran War. 10340101
