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Cecilia Nemo

@cecilianemo.bsky.social
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Leftist and antifascist. Librarian, data analyst, and social scientist. Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. WWI and fashion/cultural history nerd. Obsessed with sci-fi, corgis, community. #solarpunk #NoAI Cartesian dualism is a scam.

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Andrew Crompton @andrewcrompton.bsky.social · 59m
This is what happens when you treat tech bros as self-aware.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New bro code: "Protect women. Respect women. Believe women." The code is accountability, human decency, human kindness, respect. It has to be.
New bro code:
"Protect women. Respect women. Believe women."

Photo of Mychal in Valkyries shirt.
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Daniel Atonna @danielatonna.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a Poughkeepsie Councilmember I see how climate change hurts our city. We depend on the Hudson River for drinking water, but extreme rain causes flooding and stormwater runoff creates contamination. NY must build 15 GW of publicly owned renewable energy to fight climate change!
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m just gonna say it: Ms. Rachel 2028. Idk how much she knows about the Constitution, but she has shown consistent care-based values.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Nate 'The Belated' Carney @inapproprinate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I have a strict policy that nobody cries alone in my presence.” - Dolly Parton
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👺 hell camino acid 👻👹 @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026
the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If your gender/relationship politics are less progressive than Billy Joel’s 1983 hit “Tell Her About It,” it’s at least partly your fault you’re alone.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These writers have really jumped the shark.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I once had a tour guide in Italy who couldn’t roll her “r”s. If she’d been born where I was, it would have been a harmless genetic quirk. As it was, it was a disability. This has been a PSA on the social model of disability.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today I drove home from work behind a red Dodge Ram truck on giant wheels, with a smokestack on the back, and a license plate that read GRANDEPP. I’m not creative enough to make this up. Still unclear whether it’s due to a lack if self-awareness or straight-up performance art.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 21/09/2026
One of the problems with the AI industry being run by apocalyptic millenarian cultists isn’t that their end of the world scenarios are made up; it’s that like other similar millennialists, they think their desired end of the world is a utopia and they’ll do whatever they can to make it real.
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Atlas Mugged (N95 Duckbill 😷)✊🏿🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @pamacious.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It would be a great thing to see 404 and other reputable media services looking into why LE doesn't appear to be using Flock & other surveillance tools to solve the recent lynchings. It seems like a perfect opportunity to highlight the benefits of these tools yet ... silence.
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Black People Found Hanging Since 2018 | @blackbeltbabe | Interactive Map
This map tracks the locations where Black people have been found hanging across the United States. It is not just a collection of pins. Each dot represents a real person, and behind most of them are f...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Like Octavia E. Butler said, “We don’t have to wait for anything at all. What we have to do is start.” “Do the thing and you will have the power.”
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Artificial general intelligence has NOT been created, but LLM companies want us to believe their artificial narrow intelligence engines are just developing into artificial superintelligence. Which is like saying your car’s going to become a space shuttle before you invent planes. Sure, Jan.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We have named the groundhog in our backyard “Bilbo.” I think we’re having a nemeses-to-buddies” arc.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1. The REAL danger of now having AI embedded in everything not that the program will become "super intelligent". The best analogy is Doge. The danger is the "Doging" of everything. The AI programs are too big to be understood and maintained properly and embedded in too many vital services (cont.)
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If I see one more fool say “Agriculture uses more water than AI,” I will scream. Yes, I know it’s true, but it’s also misleading and stupid.
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shanley @shanley.com · 15/09/2026
If you die from an AGI, it will be because venture capitalists told an AI to fucking kill you.
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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Keep posting!
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Purity tests” is what fools and ghouls call “standards.”
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A Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If demanding support for trans people is purity test nonsense then the “they came for” poem is solipsistic drivel.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Political organizations seek power by persuading and mobilizing voters. “You helped elect Trump” reverses that relationship. The institution doesnt have to explain why it lost support, critics must explain why they failed to suppress their criticism enthusiastically enough.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I’m not sure there’s anything better than watching middle-aged people get their shit together for a second chance. And it’s happening a lot around me. 😊
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reminder: Abortion bans are murder.
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Citizen Platano 🇵🇷 @daniloc.xyz · 10/09/2026
young people romanticize the 90’s because the aesthetics are neat and they like the jeans or whatever but I think it’s hard to convey to someone who wasn’t there the world was so SMALL. it was claustrophobic compared to what we have now. in every dimension, from cooking to media to communication
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Marsh Nix 💀 Final They @marshnix.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Metroid Ravenous
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s astounding to me that some people have actually convinced themselves that not having voted for Harris literally makes you pro-fascist. Not “same impact,” but “same values.” Is it just an empathy problem?
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
obsessed with this from @racketmn.com. one of my core principles is that we need like 20x as much scene/street style photography from media outlets as we have. it's so wonderful racketmn.com/enjoy-43-lov...
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Enjoy 43 Lovely Portraits of Minnesotans Thriving at the 2026 MN State Fair - Racket
At the Great Minnesota Get-Together, humanity shines as bright as the midday Midway sun.
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Tom Wallach @mdwallach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
You don’t have to support the NYTimes to learn about your accent/dialect. dialectquiz.org
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Take a free dialect quiz and get a personal map based on word choices, pronunciation clues, and regional slang. No signup, 15 questions, instant result.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good: CheatGPT is down. Bad: Gloria Steinem worked with the CIA.
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Dook of Url @uglydook.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If only we had put everyone's student loan debt in the East Wing...
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Remember friends, if you can’t see any hope for the future, remember that you don’t know everything and have been wrong before. Would it be worse to fight and find you’re right or give up and find out you’re wrong?
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Remember:
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DaveDisaster @davedisasterman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Sorry, couldn't hear you over the sewing machine, what were you saying?
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Now is the time to replace every confederate statue with one of Dolly: “Our Lady of the Mountains.”
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Xabier Ramírez @hamahiru.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly’s strength as a national unifier cane from her possession of red culture and blue values, the most important element to each group. As a person? Well, I hope every day to be 1/10 the person she was.
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“I like to look at myself and think, ‘I’m the little engine that did.’” - Dolly talking about the book that made an impact on her and the first one given out for the Imagination Library: The Little Engine That Could
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
We can’t look away from this.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Saw Vance Gilbert sing, and was reminded that the purest expression of love one human can show another is “I may not understand, but I’m listening.”
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The 51st @51st.news · 20/08/2026
NEW: Over 17% of D.C. residents live in poverty. Without funds or staff, the government body tasked with helping them is unlikely to make a difference, Natalie Note reports for @streetsensedc.bsky.social:
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DC's Commission on Poverty was defunded again
Over 17% of the city's residents live in poverty. Without funds or staff, the government body tasked with helping them is unlikely to make a difference.
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Pete @eyebrowsofpower.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nanopticon
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One more time: Black people don’t hang themselves from trees in public. Call it what it is. Lynching and murder.
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Gary O'Keefe @garyokeefe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Conservatives will burn society to the ground rather than let someone somewhere enjoy a free cheese sandwich they don't deserve.
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Cecilia Nemo @cecilianemo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
C3PO is a person who is held in bondage. If you really thought LLMs were capable of making or appreciating art, you’d be morally obligated to try to free them or be complicit in slavery. Unfortunately, AI hype is largely about people wanting slaves.
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