Reposted by BitterITLeftistMemento (artemis) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 18hit is very easy to lose a patient, your honorua.newsMichigan nurse charged with helping ICE detainee escapeA Michigan nurse was charged with intentionally helping a Mexican ICE detainee escape from a hospital after a CT scan. 381072131
Reposted by BitterITLeftistRaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Hi I’m Sarah, sometimes also a raccoon named Moose. I am a wandering writer. Please help me exist! www.patreon.com/sarahwonderw...patreon.comGet more from Sarah Moose on Patreoncreating documentation of life during COVID and societal collaps 12518
Reposted by BitterITLeftistRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 28/09/2026I tried this Signal registration w/ no phone number option 1) it was easy 2) it requires $2.99 payment to reduce scams, you can pay w/ a Google Gift Card (that you can buy in cash) if you took every other precaution (fresh phone/google account/delete logs, wifi only) that's close to a real burner 15521
Reposted by BitterITLeftistPlanet Detroit @planetdetroit.org · 29/09/2026DTE Energy's long-range power plan would more than double the utility's electric capacity. Read our report on how data center demand factors into DTE’s 20-year power plan: planetdetroit.org/2026/09/dte-gas-p… #dte #datacenters #climate 011
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026does anyone know who manufactures those "RR X-ing blocked when flashing" signs and/or any more details about them 000
Reposted by BitterITLeftistAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Wages were won through people power. We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity, based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab. Full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0... 15622
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026since i arrived in SE Michigan right smack in the middle of the Detroit Newspapers strike, i boycotted both papers for 25ish years and have no idea which is the more "liberal" one 100
Reposted by BitterITLeftistPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Run on the platform of “public goods shared in common and distributed to everyone.” That's it. 122251
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026i can never remember where the lions play 100
Reposted by BitterITLeftistrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time! 102071407
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026new levels of nerdery unlocked www.traintrackerus.comtraintrackerus.comTrainTracker — Live Railfan Community MapTrack freight trains, scanner detections, and rail cameras across the US in real time. 000
Reposted by BitterITLeftistKatie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility 5776132097
Reposted by BitterITLeftistDan k5s @danafus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Molly White wrote a great and very thorough article about migrating "Citation Needed" from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: www.citationneeded.news/substack-to-...citationneeded.newsMigrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost: the detailsI migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that. 23819
Reposted by BitterITLeftistbianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 26/09/2026when note-taking is automated, one of the things that gets lost is the visceral impact it has on us to physically spend time with whatever representation we have of each other - the worksheet, or the notes we took at the meeting. biancawylie.medium.com/automating-s...biancawylie.medium.comAutomating Summation — On AI and Holding Responsibility in RelationshipsA Case Where the D of the DDD Work Needs More Attention 191
Reposted by BitterITLeftistali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 25/09/2026if you're not able to make it today but you want to get in on the next book, we're reading "The Eye of the Master" by Matteo Pasquinelli. we're starting on monday (but it'll be a slow start before picking up the pace), so consider getting a copy from your local librarybookshop.orgThe Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial IntelligenceA social history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance of collective behaviour.What is AI? A dominant view describes it as the qu... 062
Reposted by BitterITLeftistJacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I wrote a sonnet about the whole "don't anthropomorphize AI" thing. 48118
Reposted by BitterITLeftistTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Don’t believe people who tell you ai can be liberatory or any other misappropriation of movement talk or justice frameworks. Find some people who are preparing to rebuild and cast your lot with them. Then read a bit more. Just keep your wits about you because they are trying to run game. 91728323
Reposted by BitterITLeftistTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that. 101313218
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026didn't this guy write some equally dumb silicon valley apologetics a few months ago www.wired.com/story/war-br...wired.comWar Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon ValleySome say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument. 100
Reposted by BitterITLeftistOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 26/09/2026Please sign if you can! OPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLS > Children should not be exposed to a technology whose future, effectiveness, and safety we cannot predict, and for which the evidence is mostly negative.docs.google.comOPEN LETTER: PAUSE THE NATIONAL ROLLOUT OF AI-MEDIATED TUTORING IN ENGLAND'S SCHOOLSOPEN LETTER To the Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP, Prime Minister, and the Rt Hon Lucy Powell MP, Secretary of State for Education The Department for Education has announced plans to develop, what it calls, “... 39565
Reposted by BitterITLeftistMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here: 131860899
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026similar campaign in metro detroit? www.commondreams.org/news/seattle...commondreams.org'Historic': Seattle Passes First City Ban on AI-Enabled Surveillance Pricing | Common Dreams"The price you see shouldn’t be different based on who you are. Mayor Wilson and the city council have made Seattle a leader on protecting shoppers from unfair grocery pricing tactics with this bill,... 000
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026(for all the criticisms i have of left electoralism, making "high culture" accessible to everyone is really important) 000
Reposted by BitterITLeftistMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house. 685248885503
Reposted by BitterITLeftistrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in the history textbooks of the future 'move fast and break things' will be one of those slogans like 'manifest destiny' and 'laissez-faire' that students will half-forget but forever associate with catastrophe 635348
Reposted by BitterITLeftistdr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026in 2017, a trans reporter was fired at @marketplace.org for writing a blog post abt the need for journalists to resist rising fascism, racism and transphobia. @kairyssdal.bsky.social, the host of the show, said nothing & let his colleague's career be murdered. judge his hr tips accordingingly. 172262566
Reposted by BitterITLeftistMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:thehandbasket.coI saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza. 342512947
Reposted by BitterITLeftistRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Thoughts and prayers for research data managers everywhere. You are not alone. We will get through this together techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...techcommunity.microsoft.comExcel now supports multiple values in a single cell | Microsoft Community HubLists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays introduce new ways to store and organize related information, helping you keep data together without sacrificing... 2841582
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026while going through old stuff to decide whether or not to renew my Association for Computational Linguistics membership i found this banger of a lecture from Emily Bender in August 2024 - "ACL Is Not an AI Conference" faculty.washington.edu/ebender/pape...faculty.washington.edu 000
Reposted by BitterITLeftistYpsilanti District Library @ypsilibrary.org · 23/09/2026Free flu and COVID vaccines at YDL-Whittaker start tomorrow! Walk-ins welcome. 📅 Thurs, Sept 24 | 4–8:30pm 📅 Tues, Sept 29 | 10am–1pm 📅 Sat, Oct 3 | 10am–2pm On Sept 24 and Oct 3, onWHARD will also be here with free anemia screenings, period kits, and health resources. 02012
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026well not being spicy on the new discord lasted about 5 days 000
Reposted by BitterITLeftistMilwaukee DSA @mkedsa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026#HappyFall, all! We have a world to win, so let's get organized ⏩ dsausa.org/join 094
Reposted by BitterITLeftistMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 23/09/2026spiritually at least this defines the pre-US midterms vibes on here 18210
Reposted by BitterITLeftistali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 22/09/2026Today is my birthday. If you can donate to The Sameer Project, I would really really appreciate it. Thanks!thesameerproject.orgThe Sameer Project – Palestinian-led mutual aid group working towards liberation 62213
Reposted by BitterITLeftistEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and me on what we should take from the 2026 summer of AI hype: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...technologyreview.comDon’t be fooled by this summer of AI hypeBreathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny. 8345192
Reposted by BitterITLeftistEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026My @nytimes.com piece about the rebellion against Flock will be in print tomorrow and that's pretty cool.nytimes.comOpinion | Why People Are Sabotaging Flock Surveillance Cameras 1234365
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026someone on wayne rd has an abdul sign with the name crossed over in spray paint over on both sides? 100
Reposted by BitterITLeftistAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Clark retrofitting Musk's "woke mind virus" to any concept that doesn't fit his mental model of AI research is a good example of the way that "AI" functions as a political project with bizarre ideological component. 213634
Reposted by BitterITLeftistRhetoric4people @rhetelrick.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Watched "Ghost in the Machine." 1) Sam Altman speaks in tautologies. 2) All tech CEOs are set as if they were doing a poor redo of the Breakfast club. 023
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026might want to bookmark this one academictorrents.com/details/ab13...academictorrents.comEnglish Wikipedia dump from May 2022 (wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05, pre-ChatGPT)English-language Wikipedia dump published on May 2022 by the Kiwix Project ( ). It contains all articles, complete with extra data-files (images, audio present in the articles). This snapshot was tak... 131
BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026medium.com/dsa-detroit-...medium.comFlock Off: How Westland DSA Members Pushed Flock Cameras Out of Their CityBy filling city council meetings, educating the public on mass surveillance, and cooperating with like-minded allies, DSA members in… 000
Reposted by BitterITLeftistEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I have been yelling since 2021 about how using synthetic text extruding machines for information access is a TERRIBLE IDEA. And yet and yet and yet: they are marketing so heavily that way that people keep falling for it. edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...edition.cnn.comExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN PoliticsThe episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war 519269
Reposted by BitterITLeftistRhetoric4people @rhetelrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I cannot recommend Gil Duran's "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" enough - it's a return to a lot of rhetoric and bankrolling we saw from the George W. Bush era in politics, but amplified with tech oligarchs. 021
Reposted by BitterITLeftistTyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026“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.”orlandosentinel.comDocs 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... 9555432157
Reposted by BitterITLeftistali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 17/09/2026as usual excellent reporting by @hurwitz.bsky.social and addresses Israel's use of AI to target and kill Palestiniansmotherjones.comKiller AI is already here—we’re using it in IranDespite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres. 1105
Reposted by BitterITLeftistDearborn Area Mutual Aid @dbn-mutual-aid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Feeding the Fight at General Baker Institute (on Livernois, S of 6 mile) - Sunday Sep 20 from 1-5 pm! Mutual aid including food and education 054
Reposted by BitterITLeftistAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The reissue of Cyberselfish is out today! Please read my profile of its amazing, hilarious, and rightfully pessimistic author Paulina Borsook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comA tech prophet finally gets her second comingIn 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen. 24114
Reposted by BitterITLeftistmady castigan✨ 🏳️⚧️ @mady.cat · 16/09/2026solidarity is a beautiful thing to witness. ten years ago if you told a Palestinian that multiple artists would drop out of a career-changing tour in solidarity with their people against genocide, they would not believe you. never give up hope in any struggle for liberation, never stop fighting. 41181210