Reposted by Bastet8300Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15hanti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind. 37930298
Reposted by Bastet8300Nilah "Nine Jobs" Magruder @nilahmagruder.com · 05/10/2026AI tech bros really said "what if we took the uncanny valley and made it a business model" and now they're mad that people are creeped out by their uncanny valley business 1234
Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Look at this perfect round birb! @moonpanther22.bsky.social 020
Reposted by Bastet8300azteclady @azteclady.bsky.social · 05/10/2026🧵 "Just because someone who is literally selling something makes extraordinary unfounded claims about it doesn't make it true."👇🏽 02713
Reposted by Bastet8300Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It’s interesting how the standard bearer for the party whose message used to be “Democrats suck because they just buy votes by giving people free stuff” has decided the closing message for the midterms will just be “how many more checks do we have to send you in order to earn your vote?” 991619453
Reposted by Bastet8300PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Had the BEST conversation with Florida Senate Candidate Angie Nixon. I’m telling you, we can flip that seat and actually get a senator who puts the people, not the president first. Let’s go!! AngieNixon.com FULL INTERVIEW HERE--- youtu.be/tM51JFEAPQI 532479869
Reposted by Bastet8300MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026Historian Tim Snyder compares what Trump is doing in Latin America to Soviet tactics in Eastern Europe after WWII: rig elections, apply threats, install the leadership you want. His description of Trump’s approach: “smash and grab.” 421739698
Reposted by Bastet8300Gender Liberation Movement @genderlib.com · 01/10/2026As hospitals across the country cave to the Trump administration’s threats to cut federal funding and abandon trans youth, actor Elliot Page speaks out. In New York City, NYU Langone, Mount Sinai, and NewYork-Presbyterian abruptly ended care for trans kids in response to these threats. 101535529
Reposted by Bastet8300froggher @froggher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026personally i think it’s based for john kramer to come out of retirement to torture ai like honestly ai isnt valuing its own life enough it kinda has it coming plus at least this with maybe jigsaw will finally stop putting people who smoke cigarettes on saw traps and move on to more deserving targets 011
Reposted by Bastet8300Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 01/10/2026AI safety expert Timnit Gebru says tech leaders are promoting greatly exaggerated claims about "superintelligence" and "existential risk" as a way to distract from the real threat — their own unregulated companies.democracynow.orgThe Real Existential Risk Is AI CEOs Avoiding Oversight: “Alternative Nobel” Winner Timnit GebruWe speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind... 18706306
Reposted by Bastet8300Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Three people, including a child, drowned in the Channel today. Our politics is so broken that the debate is never about how we stop these deaths and always about how we can come up with harsher policies that make more deaths inevitable. 28135
Reposted by Bastet8300conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026History teaches us that the American people are capable of building great movements against powerful corporate interests. Let’s hope we can prove it once again. www.commondreams.org/opinion/popu...commondreams.orgWanted: An Organized Political Movement to Counter the AI Oligarchs | Common DreamsHistory teaches us that the American people are capable of building great movements against powerful corporate interests. Let's hope we can prove it once again. 8269111
Reposted by Bastet8300chercat208.bsky.social @chercat208.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Ever notice how everyone screaming about cutting social security as an 'entitlement' are the politicians who will retire with a comfy pension or the obscenely wealthy who have enough money for a thousand lifetimes? Raise the damn cap!!! 17446151395
Reposted by Bastet8300404 Media @404media.co · 27/09/2026While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. Heres what we now know: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...404media.coHackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and PeopleWhile people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. 9282122
Reposted by Bastet8300Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations to buy and sell politicians so they can rig it against the rest of us. Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. 20359921811
Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Sexism is, at its heart, very simple. Women are not like me, they can do stuff I can’t do, and that is unfair! I’m terrified of what I don’t understand. I must control them. What do you mean this isn’t logical or rational? 020
Reposted by Bastet8300Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20743501112
Reposted by Bastet8300Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026by the way, this freak's rep who dropped him in April is back handling PR around the rape accusation. The rep is Mitchell Jackson—fka Mitchell Sunderland—who got fired by Vice for siccing Milo Yiannopoulos on his women coworkers at Broadlypeople.comClavicular's Rep Drops Him Days After Suspected Overdose, Says Influencer 'Will Not Take His Health Seriously' (Exclusive Source)Mitchell Jackson, a publicist for Clavicular, has stopped working with the controversial influencer over his drug use, PEOPLE can confirm. 12572147
Reposted by Bastet8300Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Since its foundation in 1824 the bravery of Royal National Lifeboat Institution volunteers has saved more than 146,700 lives at sea. Hundreds of those volunteers have died attempting to save others. They are the best of us. 493616946
Reposted by Bastet8300Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 01/06/2026There are no “legitimate concerns” about trans people. There aren’t any about women’s safety or fairness in sports or kids being kids or fucking toilets. If there were you’d have heard of them before 2018. I am a cis white woman so you have to listen to me or I’ll cry. 23547965
Reposted by Bastet8300cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026the "iced coffee at a job interview" discussion is obviously stupid but also a great representation of the fact that every single HR person/recruiter has their own different made up rules for candidates and all of them think they are absolutely correct 423350441
Bastet8300 @bastet8300.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Something that has been helping my mental health: Every time I learn about new awful things, get up, move around, and do something to improve my immediate surroundings. Empty a trash can, sort mail, do dishes, etc. it really helps! 010
Reposted by Bastet8300k8lin @k8lin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hey, if you're teaching in a classroom right now, you'll want to mask up with a kn95 or better. Yeah, they're less comfortable to teach in, but covid is ticking up, and I truly want you to be well. 4395
Reposted by Bastet8300Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good morning, team. We have 3.5 days until Drexel closes the Academy of Natural Sciences. It’s time for you- yeah YOU- to make some calls. Step 1: Tell the following people we need help pressuring Drexel to keep the museum open: Josh Shaprio 717-787-2500 Mayor Parker's 215-686-2181 8279221
Reposted by Bastet8300Oceanoxia @oceanoxia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They don't want you and the people around you to have the skills, knowledge, or resources to question their lies. 19036
Reposted by Bastet8300Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know I've posted this quote before, but it applies to almost everyone in the Trump administration. "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishmen 25712
Reposted by Bastet8300mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026i strongly suspect the reason that they are hiding this is not because cops are moonlighting for ICE contractors off duty but because many of them are working for ICE contractors *while clocked in* 18871203
Reposted by Bastet8300Sawah Mwa! 😘 @sawahmwa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bibi is a good friend and offers adorable merch~ Please give her shop a look! 156
Reposted by Bastet8300Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026“Dozens of Black employees at Tesla’s flagship plant in California said they were subject to racist slurs, unequal pay and promotions, and bullying by supervisors on a daily basis, a situation management did little to nothing to fix.”theguardian.comBlack Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trialLawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in California 38335
Reposted by Bastet8300Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 21/09/2026as a hater let me acknowledge something ai is good at: producing irritating discourse at scale this is usually because, like "ai" itself, people are talking about different things like they are one thing so let me disentangle, with statements numbered for easy disagreement 6403116
Reposted by Bastet8300Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 21/09/2026The government moving or hiding jailed people to avoid review by courts isn't some loophole in our habeas corpus rights. This government behavior has been considered a violation of the people's habeas corpus rights since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_... 4827911164
Reposted by Bastet8300Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Another data point for the very clear trend. 46614
Reposted by Bastet8300"Horrifying Monster" Ella Tailor 🎃🎃 $295/$700 @garaktailor.com · 20/09/2026Thank you kind Neighbor. Moxley says she is ready for her close up. Only $150 to go. 03922
Reposted by Bastet8300Harlot🔞 @harlotprincess.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I dont know how to explain to you that democrats putting out attack ads on a minority currently facing global genocide instead of on their opponents are not the kind of people who will fight for anyone. those are the kind of democrats that side with Republicans when it comes to ice/police budgets. 3400133
Reposted by Bastet8300bobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026someone should make a movie called “nazis getting shot in the face.” and that’s all it is. $1 billion domestic box office 1639252
Reposted by Bastet8300🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026Advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care is not advocating for Paxton. It's advocating against Talarico's new rightward tack on trans kids in sports and gender affirming care. 603667450
Reposted by Bastet8300Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026the big chatbots hide all of this from you INTENTIONALLY to create an illusion to fool you and that’s why i think consumer-facing chatbots should be illegal it is a DELIBERATE trick. they carefully crafted it to trick people. it’s not “how llms work.“ the secret nature of it is a choice 214715
Reposted by Bastet8300Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026llms only “exist” to give one reply at a turn you: x llm: y then the whole process starts over. there is no continuity. each reply is 100% fresh. the context of your previous “conversation” is included, hidden from you, in every request you make. continuity is an illusion 1032574
Reposted by Bastet8300Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026when you interact with an object or environment produced by people, every single part of it is downstream of active human choices. and that means they can be legislated. for example: we can make it illegal for chatbots to call themselves "i" and pretend to be a person. that is a deliberate trick. 16823
Reposted by Bastet8300Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Once you start conceding ground to the “protect sports” angle in order to win an election you’re not fighting for anyone’s rights 493590360
Reposted by Bastet8300kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Iowa lawmakers hate reading whole books almost as much as they hate gay kids. A look at the implementation of SF 496 and a new proposal to make things even worse. If you're in Iowa, you need to comment before September 22. Details on how, what, and why. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...buttondown.comIowa Lawmakers Hate Reading Books Almost As Much As They Hate Queer KidsThere's no requirement for a whole book to be read before it's banned in Iowa under SF 496. A new proposal to the bill could speed up bans even more. 03830
Reposted by Bastet8300kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What have five years of relentless book bans and attacks on libraries looked like? This report is from those on the ground doing the work, sharing their challenges, wins, and the opportunities ahead in protecting the right to read. bookriot.com/book-censors...bookriot.com“We Need To Tell The Story”: Literary Advocates Nationwide Reflect On Five Years of Relentless Attacks on the Freedom to ReadAdvocates for the freedom to read across the country share their wins, challenges, and opportunities as the work enters year six. 03224