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BitterITLeftist

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SE Michigan based, Madison born. Nothing is too good for the working class. Free Palestine and abolish "AI". linguistics stan.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 14h
HYPERSCALE tells the full story of the data center buildout and the backlash it’s facing. It’s out in just two weeks — but I need a favor! If you’re planning to buy it, it would make a huge difference if you place a preorder. Get your copy today: bookshop.org/a/18331/9798...
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Hyperscale is out in two weeks!
Preorder your copy to get the full story on the AI-fueled data center buildout
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 20h
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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Flaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 17h
TODAY: @annaleen.bsky.social on recovering from academia. “There is no simple way to talk about intellectual trauma, but it is very real.” flaminghydra.com/academia-bro...
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Academia broke my heart
Some people with doctorates like to show the world what they’ve done. They write their names with “Ph.D.” as a suffix, or refer to themselves as “Dr. So-and-so.” I do not. Instead I call myself a reco...
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The wonderful @marisakabas.bsky.social let me go long on the grim historic parallels between the Prairieland defendants and 19th century America’s brutal repression—and execution—of anarchists, union organizers, and political dissidents. We are all antifa now. www.thehandbasket.co/p/haymarket-...
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From Haymarket to Prairieland: How dissent has unleashed the long arm of the law
The Prairieland sentencing has dark historical parallels, Kim Kelly writes. But we can change the end of the current story.
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 16h
(zine created by Students for a Democratic Society in 1970)
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 16h
u-m has been a wholly owned subsidiary of the military industrial complex for a very long time michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/antivietnamw...
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Alex Press @alexnpress.bsky.social · 17h
I reviewed a very good book by two tech worker organizers trying to figure out what the movement got right and what it got wrong
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Reckoning With the Failures of Tech Worker Organizing
Two organizers who helped build the tech worker movement ask why its victories proved so difficult to turn into lasting power.
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 22h
(unfortunately this mentally ill uncle has nukes)
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 22h
as someone in the Diaspora who has never had any ties to the genocidal ethnostate supposedly acting in my name, i kind of see this stuff as "mentally ill uncle reaps what he has sowed for the past 60 years" liberationday.substack.com/p/when-settl...
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When Settlers Eat Each Other
On the breakdown and self-cannibalism of Israel's vicious society
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
the people (me) demand more small dog content
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream, we’re so excited to chat with authors of the new book, Against Tech Oligarchy! @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine will join me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to chat about tech industry labor: Mon, Oct 5, noon Pacific twitch.tv/dair_institute
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dair_institute - Twitch
Twitch account for The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). — dair_institute streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is no way to reduce deportations without a substantial defunding of law enforcement in rural areas, who have long operated like a baronial class unto themselves.
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
increase in (ypsi) smeet frog discourse recently for some reason aadl.org/ypsigleaning...
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Legend of the Smeet Frog | Ann Arbor District Library
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
the dilemma of whether to buy more physical books or ebooks when you might be moving soonish
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i finally got a response on meshcore by loudly doubting the existence of meshcore
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.thedriftmag.com/socialists-i...
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Socialists in Office
NYC-DSA Is Put to the Test
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i see arguments like this sometimes and ... what's the thing. what is this "everyday annoying task" that an AI could actually do and that you could trust it to not totally fuck up? i cannot imagine the things. and tech/robots have made a lot of tasks more efficient but there's always more shit
there are so many everyday demos that could make ai, personal agents, & agents in general feel insanely powerful to normal ppl & yet ai companies keep choosing things like booking flights, planning travel, or god forbid planning a god damn wedding.

these are not everyday problems. they're relatively rare events & worse for a lot of ppl they're actually part of the joys of life. the best demo should make someone feel pain they already are familiar with disappearing. almost every company gets this wrong. they optimize for spectacle instead of relief which is fine in some cases but it doesn't last.

one of my favorite historical examples is a product called head on.

the ad showed someone with a headache, then showed them applying the product directly to their forehead while repeating:

"head on. apply directly to the forehead."

beautifully simple. you instantly understood the product, the problem, & the value. ai companies should be doing the same thing.

show me the annoying thing i deal with every single day then make it disappear. it's not sexy, i guarantee it will work. when jobs demo'ed the iphone he picked universal simple problems that the iphone did better than anything else on the fucking planet.

anyway, thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
your moment of calm
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Lucy Goodchild @lucygoodchild.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m absofuckinglutely thrilled to be writing a paper on what’s happening syntactically when we shove a swear word into the middle of a perfectly whole other word (aka tmesis). I’m also intrigued about whether (and how) this happens in other languages. Have you got any examples? #linguistics
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 01/10/2026
Really happy to have @ketanjoshi.co back on the podcast to learn more about all the emissions being generated by the gas plants to power the tech industry’s data centers. There’s no chance of truly addressing climate change if the industry gets its way!
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 02/10/2026
CalTech mathematicians force OpenAI and Anthropic to drop their sponsorship of a student hackathon event edsource.org/2026/caltech... Look, @barbarafantechi.bsky.social
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Caltech students organized a ‘Mathathon’ sponsored by Anthropic and OpenAI. Then came the backlash
Caltech undergrads organized a math competition sponsored by AI companies, prompting global backlash from mathematicians. Instead, students redesigned the event to help answer the question of what rol...
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ask me sometime about my knowledge of democracy now's fact checking skills going back to 1999
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
dr. gebru was amazing as always but it was disheartening to hear democracy new reporters parroting (ha) "AI" industry talking points www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xqxb...
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"They're Not Superintelligent": Timnit Gebru Discredits Big Tech's AI Claims
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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Planet Detroit @planetdetroit.org · 01/10/2026
Wayne Disposal in Van Buren Township has accepted more than 650,000 tons of elevated radiation waste, according to Monday court filing. planetdetroit.org/2026/10/wayne-dis…
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the university of michigan is run by fascist bootlickers and authoritarians
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it probably helped that rashida and regent candidate amer makled were there also
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
umich cops tried to break up a GEO rally today, the crowd nonviolently stopped them though
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What a thrill to get to interview Keoni Mahelona of Te Hiku Media for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis... Keoni, @alexhanna.bsky.social and I had a wonderful conversation about technosolutionism and colonialism in language technology.
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
attempting to be less frantic by ignoring several signal chats
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
(i mean it's probably the same way that all of us who work there manage the cognitive dissonance)
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
with all the environmental devastating that is going to entail
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i was on a webinar hosted by umich SEAS today and it was nice but i kept thinking, how can these students manage the cognitive dissonance of being environmentalists at a university that is trying to foist an unwanted data center on a neighboring community
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it is very easy to lose a patient, your honor
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Michigan nurse charged with helping ICE detainee escape
A Michigan nurse was charged with intentionally helping a Mexican ICE detainee escape from a hospital after a CT scan.
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RaccoonMoose @raccoonmoose.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Hi I’m Sarah, sometimes also a raccoon named Moose. I am a wandering writer. Please help me exist! www.patreon.com/sarahwonderw...
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Get more from Sarah Moose on Patreon
creating documentation of life during COVID and societal collaps
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 28/09/2026
I 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
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Planet Detroit @planetdetroit.org · 29/09/2026
DTE 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
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
does anyone know who manufactures those "RR X-ing blocked when flashing" signs and/or any more details about them
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
lol, more of this please
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wages 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...
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
assuming it's the Freep?
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
since 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
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Run on the platform of “public goods shared in common and distributed to everyone.” That's it.
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
(i always think it's still the silverdome)
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i can never remember where the lions play
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
think 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!
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BitterITLeftist @bitteritleftist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
new levels of nerdery unlocked www.traintrackerus.com
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TrainTracker — Live Railfan Community Map
Track freight trains, scanner detections, and rail cameras across the US in real time.
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