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Agreed. There's definitely a blind spot people get with AI where they think something AI-made is as good as human made because they don't know what "good" should look like. Doesn't mean they should face harassment.

Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

No one wants Elon Musk here. The problem is that's true of every nation. That's why we let him get obscenely rich to build rockets to Mars. It's the only way to ensure we get him off our fucking planet asap.

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Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 08/10/2026

Trying to hurt trans people when they've borne the brunt of Trumpism's extreme agenda for the past two years (alongside immigrants and Black Americans) is also a choice in the part of certain Democrats.

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And open source has been flooded with AI slop. It makes maintaining these projects worse. Even dangerous because some agents have made harassment campaigns when PRs don't go through. And when you point these issues out, AI-pilled people who rely on it now just get angry and defensive

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It's the celebration of making people jobless too. And the stark lack of knowledge. I see people raving about vibe coded software the same way musicians see people raving about AI music. I make both, and nothing the AI makes is good enough. "I vibe coded a banking app," and their security's gone.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But we are not yet at the point of AI dependency as we are with car dependency. We're at the phase where we can decide to build transit instead of destroying communities for highways. Choosing to promote cars at that juncture isn't the right path.

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Using AI is almost certainly harmful to us cognitively, emotionally, creatively, and socially. We should not use it. We should not normalize it.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Making anti-AI statements while using it instead of bringing people and community together or working to make necessary changes is like saying, "sure, we should boycott Starbucks for union busting, but the pumpkin spice late is good, something Starbucks haters tend to ignore."

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I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.

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I think of it more like knowing public transit would be better but still writing about the freedom and speed of personal vehicle ownership. We're sitting at a crossroads with technology with how we shape AI, and it feels like saying, "Sure, these new highways are bad, but cars sure go fast."

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It's impossible to have a real discussion with people who offset their own critical thinking with AI. They become defensive, and don't want to hear criticisms from experts in a field they believe AI puts them on the level with. It's easier to unfollow than find out what kind of AI user someone is.

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When Donald Trump was trying to paint Muslims as extremist, he lied about seeing them celebrate 9/11. Now his rabid followers cheer on a hypothetical massacre of millions of Americans.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026

The goal in detaining these children, a former official says, is “to make sure no one ever sends their kids to the US again.” Read @samanthamichaels.bsky.social + @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social report on the administration's new family separation policy that targets children in the nation's interior.

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

God, he just always comes off as so creepy.

Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The point of drag on the right is to mock femininity as lesser. Drag often celebrates femininity. The real issue they have is elevating womanhood to the levels respect they reserve for manhood. That's why no one on the right cares about what JD Vance did, they know he still hates women.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"At least it's not filming you" is unfortunately going to be an effective way for Meta (and Apple/others) to normalize always on audio recording

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I think the people who keep pointing out that Obama opposed gay marriage aren't really making a direct correlation with what is happening with trans rights today. The debate is over TAKING AWAY existing rights. So it would be more like Obama supporting recriminalizing gay sex.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When Democrats attempt to triangulate on trans rights, it's my sense that many liberals and people in politics don't understand why many trans people are so upset. I wrote about the differences between then and now, what trans people have lost, and what we still stand to lose

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This Is Not A Love Song

Explaining the “maximalism” of trans rights

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026

Gay marriage was a new right that we lgbtq people were fighting for back then. Trans healthcare, sports, gender marker changes, etc have been around for years, decades in some instances. This is like a dem coming out NOW and opposing gay marriage in 2026.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/09/2026

i don't care what the issue is, if your election opponent is running millions of dollars in ads about one single issue, you cannot, under any circumstances, say that your opponent is right about the issue.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

this shit sucks and it’s stupid. people respect candidates who stand on business.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10/09/2026

The sad thing is, its only going to get worse. This is what these dems are saying before the ad spend cranks up. Just wait until the debates, the ads, the consultants sweep in. Buckle up everyone.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 10/09/2026

Fuck James Talarico. Fuck these wishy washy Dems who think throwing my community under the bus gets them votes. Fuck a "big tent" party that includes these assholes. Fuck every single neolib saying I need to grin and bear it and get in line, my rights will come later. fuck you fuck you fuck you.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026

Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I still cannot believe Apple made an invasive creepy spy watch. How the fuck did they think that was okay? Oh, it's private, it's on device. Yeah, and cops can get that data, it's transcribing everyone without consent, and it could record sensitive information permanently. This is so gross.

Siri recap can summarize your chats to refresh your memory. Siri recap transforms your conversations into high-level notes so you can stay focused and present. Each recap includes a title summary and key points that you can review in the app on your Apple Watch or iPhone you can turn Siri recap on and off at any time from Control Center.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah, no, you can't wear your Apple Watch around me if you're recording everything we're talking about. Be present or begone.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Seriously. The good engineers might sometimes use AI in the way a good graphics designer might use an object selection tool in a photo editor. Then non-engineers will sit there and think we're spreading slop. Anyway, I'm a software engineer who doesn't use it at all. So weird how people give up.

Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

That makes a lot of sense. But the lawsuit also covers verbatim output—entire articles—w/o attribution, bypassing paywalls, & false attributions. I agree, much of what AI does is fair use, but this does take issue outside of that it seems. Also, I feel disgusting siding with the NYT on anything 😩

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I understand it for non-profit or educational reasons, but how does profiting off the content of others, taken verbatim, without consent, without attribution, fall under fair use? I'd love to hear other perspectives on this, especially yours as a fellow creative person. I cheered this on initially 😅

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Arrested for asking another useless AG to do their damn job and enforce the law. Healthcare providers illegally discriminated against trans people when denying them care. That can't be allowed to happen.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026

In his crusade to undermine American democracy, Donald Trump doesn’t have to win to win. He only needs to create a mess.

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How Trump can use chaos to cheat in the midterms

Even if his attempts at restricting mail-in voting fail, the uncertainty may scare off voters.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's wild to see people be like, "Generative AI is bad, but it's okay for code." Like. Why? My guess is they understand so little of software that they just assume only a machine could make it. But no. It's people with years of knowledge and passion, and somehow their work is belittled

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 31/08/2026

This is just brazenly Islamaphobic propaganda. This is what Bari Weiss has turned CBS into.

Screenshot of an X (formerly Twitter) post from CBS News (@CBSNews) dated August 31, 2026. The text reads: "As the nation prepares to mark 25 years since Sept. 11, 2001, Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Michigan, may be facing the risk of renewed scrutiny and fresh political attack." Below the post text is an embedded link card from cbsnews.com featuring a photo of Abdul El-Sayed speaking into a microphone at a podium, wearing a dark suit jacket over a black shirt, with campaign signs reading "FOR US SENATE" in the background.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I'm sorry. The Daily Wire, which calls for the end of trans healthcare (this kills off a group of people, aka, genocide), is listed as only skewing right? Genocide is an automatic far right. This chart was always a little too friendly towards hate groups, but today, this is absurd.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

there is no such thing as "age verification." All "age verification" is actually "identity verification." You can coat it in glitter and "privacy-preserving" wrapping paper. But in the end, mandating age verification means mandating surveillance be built into software and hardware. Period.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

AI and consent are always at odds, aren't they?

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I love how Trump's just falling asleep in this and everyone's just ignoring it because there's something even crazier happening with the other crazy old guy in the room.

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Dani @daniyells.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

They're telling on themselves. Anyone who has listened to a trans activist has said this.