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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just from a quality-of-industry-feedstock perspective this can't possibly be worth it. you are losing more smart women than you're gaining smart sex pests

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Always keep an eye on so-called "effective altruists" because they are neither en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL

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TESCREAL - Wikipedia

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 27/09/2026

"it's just an optional after hours event that just happens to have all of your colleagues in positions of power"

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Women 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.

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I am disheartened by this as well. I already lost a bunch of followers for agreeing with @tautologer, but it's saddening to see local nerdy women being caricatured as Karen-like outsiders and getting pushed out of the scene. This is exactly why you hear so few concrete, names-attached stories of sexual harrassment and assault. I'm told there is a history of discrediting these because the "slut normalization" thing is top priority and these stories get inconveniently in the way of spreading this ideology.
I got roped into attending last year's Saturday Slutcon party because so many local and out-of-town friends were there (to echo sentiments @tautologer expressed about "slut events becoming central to the larger scenes). Mostly I hung out with people I knew and that was great. But in the course of my 3-ish hours there, there were 2 times my "no" was not accepted by a man I didn't know, and I was physically pushing a huge guy off of me who was rubbing his penis on me, who continued to do it despite my physical force against him, and after I finally wriggled away from him, told him I wanted to dance alone etc., he came back and did it again.
This was scary and bad, but it didn't even cross my mind to report this because one of the other people who didn't accept my "no" earlier in the night was the bartender (an officially sanctioned authority at the event), and I knew the event was organized exclusively by women into CNC (who are vocal about how rapey behavior turns them on), so I figured this sort of thing would just get me laughed at. And anyway, I heard there were a lot of other incidents like it. Later though, someone encouraged me to report this story to the organizers, and despite my embarrassment I did, so *they know* that this and other incidents happened. This is why they cut the Saturday night party this year and created a larger training program for the flirt girls - *because* of things like this last year. Yet the narrative bein…

People who haven't been to Slutcon are saying "it's just group therapy," "it's just innocent flirting." But the environment is much like a sex party in that many people are nude, there is making out and sex acts happening out in the open. I think it's pretty unreasonable to expect that every nerdy girl who likes rationalist bloggers or is into EA/AI safety should automatically be comfortable with this! That if she's not, there's something wrong with her, we don't want her in our scenes, etc.
Not to mention, it's explictly an event *for men*, where men are the clients and the "flirt girls" are the product. Last year I overheard an exchange where a man felt "led on" by a flirt girl and was trying to get her punished/kicked out. (A dynamic that seems inevitable in this context!)
Anyway- it does sound like they've upped their consent education a lot this year, are more organized, and that's good! As I've told my friends who are attending: I hope they have fun!
I heard several accounts last year of women who had no problems and really enjoyed the event. That's great!
Just... can we live in reality about this? There are real reasons why male-female sexual dynamics are tricky.
Encouraging autistic men who can't yet read body language to go around asking to see womens' boobs is maybe a bit ill-advised. Maybe not everyone should be/identify as a slut; maybe it's not for everyone.
And yeah, filtering the Bay Area Al safety scene down to only women who are super comfy with this eliminates *most* women - including many of the really smart, nerdy, weird women who've been in the larger scenes for years. What a loss for humanity.
I absolutely understand why people with a minority sexuality would want to create belonging, would want to create spaces for people like themselves. But why do it like this/at this cost?

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Greg Knaddison (greggles) @gknaddison.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In my work on the Security Team, I get direct visibility to the care that xjm puts into ensuring high-quality releases and accurate advisories. xjm would spend more time doing that with more sponsorship. If you want to make a high-impact investment in Drupal, sponsor xjm to keep releases moving.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Nazi tech-bros plan: infiltrate tech industry, hire white supremacists strategy for "secret agent" white nationalists to infiltrate by paying "lip service to diversity," moving up the corporate ladder, hire other mediocre white men who believe in racial superiority to fill the companies' vacancies"

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Seattle's Nazi tech-bros' plan: infiltrate tech industry, hire white supremacists

The Stranger's David Lewis snuck into the Northwest Forum, a s00per s33kr1t Nazi gathering in Seattle, and attended the speeches, including the keynote by reclusive white supremacist leader Dr Greg…

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Do you ever think about how different the world would be if tech bros were capable and willing to listen to anyone outside their privileged bubble? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

motherjones.com

A tech prophet finally gets her second coming

In 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.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 02/09/2026

Reading this it came to mind that the reason increasingly openly fascist tech leaders push for “no politics in tech” is the same for why white supremacists treat whiteness as non-racialized: it creates a societal perspective where fascism can be treated as the assumed default instead of a “politics”

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Travis Brown @travisbrown.dev · 24/08/2026

Thinking about how lonely software development has become, and it’s partly AI, but it’s also the fact that so many software developers turned into mask-off fascists the minute they realized they could get away with it without harming their careers.

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

If "AI" was being built, used, and planned for in responsible ways--the way a civilization designed to enhance human thriving would do--then a lot more people would be enthusiastic about its potential. But the people in charge of defining what AI will be are the fucking worst short-term scumbags.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 16/12/2025

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

title: Cheap science, real harm: the cost of replacing human
participation with synthetic data

author: Abeba Birhane

abstract: Driven by the goals of augmenting diversity, increasing speed, reducing cost, the
use of synthetic data as a replacement for human participants is gaining traction
in AI research and product development. This talk critically examines the claim
that synthetic data can “augment diversity,” arguing that this notion is empirically
unsubstantiated, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful. While speed and
cost-efficiency may be achievable, they often come at the expense of rigour, insight,
and robust science. Drawing on research from dataset audits, model evaluations,
Black feminist scholarship, and complexity science, I argue that replacing human
participants with synthetic data risks producing both real-world and epistemic
harms at worst and superficial knowledge and cheap science at best

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it. They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!

An interview with Twitter's Chief Product Officer title "X Wants Its Haters Back"

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Anything that attempts to prioritize truth over disinformation is inherently a threat to the US government.

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AJ Jefferies @moonjam.com · 04/12/2025

All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/11/2025

Software engineering needs a reckoning and a professionalism. It needs actual teeth with which individual workers can use to push back and say "no, I won't put my name on this work". It needs the structure in place for software to be held to a standard of quality befitting its societal criticality

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Please watch this video with a university professor explaining how AI is schools less equitable and less safe for Black students.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Some thoughts on why OpenAI et Al should be held accountable for all of the slop that comes out of their systems.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12/11/2025

every company in 2025

comic strip with call and response text.
who are we?
CEOs
what do we want?
AI!
AI to do what?
We don't know!
When do we want it?
Right now!

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

This is how you do wash trading. All these companies are investing in each other paying each other bits of the same trillion dollars in order to make it look like they’re so close to AGI so investors will keep giving them money to lose. This is also known as a Junkie’s promise.

A chart showing where the 15 main AI companies get and spend their money. The arrows show that the money flows out and back to themselves.

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 28/10/2025

Microsoft suspends the use of parts of its proprietary software by Israel Defense Forces, after months of escalation by organizers & activists. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports on the incredible, historic development in this worker-led revolt. inthesetimes.com/article/micr...

inthesetimes.com

Microsoft Terminates Elite Israeli Intelligence Unit’s Access to AI and Storage Services

The tech giant’s move, which suspends the use of parts of its proprietary software by Israel’s Unit 8200, came after months of escalation by organizers and activists within the company.

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tante @tante.cc · 27/10/2025

I am not a "tech critic". I am an antifascist, a feminist, an anticapitalist, an engineer. My criticism of tech flows from my politics and values. Not from a desire to save or destroy tech. Tech is an expression of power and that's what the whole conversation is about.

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We continue working for fairness and justice for everyone, regardless of attempts to shame us back into the closet. The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Era of DEI by @anildash.com: www.anildash.com/2025/10/07/d...

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The “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Era of DEI - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Just a chimp @pmihc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

It is easy to forget how amazing most tech services are, the levels of availability we get today are still high. But when things go wrong, even in smaller orgs, it is harder to restore due to poor management decisions sidelining or booting out experience staff. We might be annoying but we know stuff

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025

"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."

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edifiedlistener.bsky.social @edifiedlistener.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

That idea that culture eats strategy for breakfast rears its ugly head again. With Altmann, Zuck, Thiel, Bezos, M*sk, etc. leading the culture in tech, so much of what may be useful is made poisonous to society at large thanks to unbridled greed.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 16/10/2025

"ending remote work" is such a terrible, hostile, anti-worker thing that so many organizations have decided they need to do in order to subjugate their workforce further, and I pray it marks the beginning of a new and robust labor movement. senseless cruelty

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Natalie Cainaru @tinyredflowers.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Listen up, @pantheon.io: if you still host the websites of Heritage Foundation & their cursèd Project 2025 cuz of contractual BS, the least you can do is donate *100% of Heritage Foundation payments* to organizations that are working to protect communities targeted by Project 2025. And publicize it.

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

This is the ADF that Pantheon defended hosting a few years ago. There's a difference between platforming ideas you don't agree with, and enabling right wing terror and the dismantling of democracy. Still not sure Pantheon decision-makers know the difference. Or maybe they don't care?

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Being scared of being vulnerable is real Constantly maneuvering to make sure the other person is always at a disadvantage is predatory

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2025

Would be a good time to shut down Dreamforce. If I have friends who are still speaking there, this is a good reason to cancel.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 03/10/2025

These techbro douches are shit terrible at their jobs, & at being nerds. They misunderstand the media they claim to love, & they're terrible at building things— because they are, at base, incurious, & lazy. They should be snubbed every time they enter a room & anyone who fêtes them, viciously mocked

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 01/10/2025

Tech workers in the most corporate, nerdy, non-union, Northface-wearing-ass environment you can imagine have been putting their jobs, safety, and even immigration status on the line to try to stop a genocide, writes @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military

A grassroots campaign successfully pressured the tech monopoly to take an unprecedented step toward suspending its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Did they forget garbage in garbage out?

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I loved talking to Signal's @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, who is such a consistent, clear voice of sanity (and always a great interview). We talked about (of course) SignalGate, what AI means for Signal, why tech bros continue to be such a disappointment, and much more. Read, listen, etc!

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How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’

The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Tech profiteers keep acting like we don't all know this

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Don’t waste much time thinking about any ideology or policy reason for the H-1B visa change. This is so tech companies will have to pay Trump for exemptions. Same as they paid him for tariff exemptions. It’s just a standard mob shakedown.

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Who could’ve predicted this, other than every single critical data studies scholar, who’ve been highlighting data bias issues for years and years? Given this previous knowledge, it’s criminal that this technology has been deployed at scale. A triumph of willful ignorance and wishful thinking.

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

i’m a believer in ineffective altruism. i think that everyone in america should be issued a vga to s-video cable adapter and a bale of hay

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 16/09/2025

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

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What’s Up With Peter Thiel’s Obsession With the Antichrist?

The tech mogul is amping up his apocalyptic rhetoric—and adding a dangerous dose of extremism into the already-fraught culture war.

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 11/09/2025

We speak with five tech workers who have all been fired by Microsoft for protesting Big Tech’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. “The only way to stop our movement… is to end their complicity in the genocide.”

therealnews.com

The biggest labor story in the US right now is happening at Microsoft

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Unfortunately, they have not created an AI model that can replace your dignity

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/09/2025

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Drupal CWG @drupal-cwg.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Sign up for the #Drupal Code of Conduct training workshop happening next Wednesday! You can give back to the community without knowing how to code. buff.ly/Ahg3ttP

A coffee mug on a table that reads: What good shall I do this day?

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Richmond Eustis @reustis.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Please hold conferences of international interest outside of the US for the time being.

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DrupalChix @drupalchix.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

What happens when we don't hold leaders accountable to the community...

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