Reposted by Edwardo LoboDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 9h"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph 3974388
Reposted by Edwardo LoboMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 4h!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 326291
Reposted by Edwardo LoboJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 5hHe is so good at messaging. It's really kind of unreal. 2784678
Reposted by Edwardo LoboMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9hCalling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants. 242127413911
Reposted by Edwardo LoboPhil @pi8you.bsky.social · 7h"The court found the video crossed the line, saying it didn’t reflect actual events and presented statements made in the footage as coming directly from the victim." No fucking shit. 032
Reposted by Edwardo LoboLee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 6hIt’s simply not true that “no one has a good answer on what to do with rapists.” In fact, there is a depth of feminist scholarship on exactly this subject. It’s just that people won’t engage with it seriously since none of it says “nah you gotta be nice to the rapist cause that’s your buddy.” 425280
Reposted by Edwardo LoboCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 10hI also think it’s ok for every victim to never ever trust anyone who did something like this ever again. actions have consequences. I am more interested in how to protect victims than in how to rehabilitate abusers 111111
Reposted by Edwardo Lobotamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 7hOctavia E. Butler described Toni Cade Bambara as "probably incapable of sitting back and saying, 'Someone ought to do something about that!' whatever 'that' might be. She just goes out and does it." Like Bambara said, "The most effective way to do it, is to do it." 08117
Reposted by Edwardo LoboRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7hWould like to note here they are more interested in human rights for their product than for women.futurism.comAI Community Linked to Disturbing Culture of Sexual AssaultAn investigation has uncovered numerous cases of sexual harassment and rape allegations at prominent AI "hacker houses." 38212
Reposted by Edwardo LoboJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9hIt's hard to tell which is weirder: the fact that these guys seriously suggest that models like Claude have consciousness/sentience or that they actually invest time and money (weird!) trying to convince the Pope as well as theologians and legal scholars of this belief. 80953233
Edwardo Lobo @edwardolobo.bsky.social · 7hAll because they laid off the long-time, underpaid and under promoted woman who knew how to do literally everything using her weird custom Excel sheets and hired a bunch of unskilled bros because they "fit the culture." 010
Reposted by Edwardo Loboillumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 9hlol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd. 1375603993
Reposted by Edwardo Lobove, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 14hThis is like I was saying the other day how it is a norm in the VC world to hire college dropouts (and encourage people to dropout) so that tech workers are easily malleable and not curious or knowledgable of the harms they are participating in. 110421
Edwardo Lobo @edwardolobo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026No, he did it to kill those people. He just did it in the form of a joke to add insult to injury. 010
Reposted by Edwardo LoboErnie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 30/09/2026To fight unauthorized scraping, Reddit is making its platform worse for people who don’t scrape 083
Reposted by Edwardo LoboNico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 30/09/2026Seriously... Do you hear yourselves? Liberals or Democrates -- Conservatives or Republicans -- it literally makes no difference if they both want me to have fewer rights and freedoms than I do now. 1222
Reposted by Edwardo LoboNico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 30/09/2026Every person who supports a liberal "centrist" over a more progressive candidate is simply outing themselves as conservative. Trans people: I have fewer human rights today than I did five years ago. Liberal: But if I don't vote for the transphobic "centrist," *my* rights get taken away too. 16014
Reposted by Edwardo LoboNico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 30/09/2026If the systematic removal of our rights and freedoms doesn't matter enough to you to push candidates back towards equal opportunity for everyone to succeed, then what are you even doing here. None of us are free until all of us are free. 1194
Edwardo Lobo @edwardolobo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Without looking, I'm assuming the reason is because I can't afford to. But if I win the lottery... 011
Reposted by Edwardo LoboAngus McIntyre @angusm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A question I often ask is "Is this technology that I use working for me, or is it working for someone else?" Social media pretends to work for you, but actually works for someone else. Even some software you paid for keeps trying to sell you things: you wanted a tool, but it's really a storefront. 1452
Reposted by Edwardo LoboThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411304342
Reposted by Edwardo LoboErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Yes and it's when the true customer became the investor. 74715
Reposted by Edwardo Lobove, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 30/09/2026The idealized form of the future American subject (nee citizen) is as a walking surveillance camera or listening device. 45222
Reposted by Edwardo Lobo𝙷𝚎𝚗𝚜 𝙱𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 🎨 @hensbreet.art · 30/09/2026The only profitable use for “AI” is fraud, disinfo, and surveillance. 121
Reposted by Edwardo LoboLuke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There are no upsides. There are no phony equity or accessibility positives. There's certainly no consciousness or sentience. It's the biggest con in recent memory. 1144
Reposted by Edwardo LoboLuke Stark @lukestark.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Tech companies are trying to use the ELIZA effect and cute animation to sell you devices that will surveil you constantly, convince you they're your best and only friend, sap you of your cognitive capacities, and push your purchasing habits and opinions in whatever way they please. That's it. 23513
Reposted by Edwardo Lobojamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026me too was a flawed movement, and it was also less than ten years ago. the details of my experiences, and so many others, were put out into the world in the hopes that someone would give a shit less than ten years ago, and there's an eerie deja vu to watching it happen again. love to everyone 129517
Reposted by Edwardo Lobojamie loftus @jamieloftus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026feeling this hard -- i am so glad that there is an actual conversation that's taking place around cornell, and that survivors coming forward isn't being dismissed as 'woke 1' or whatever the fuck. and it's also hard to ignore that we've been here before, in the recent past, and nothing changed. 388396
Reposted by Edwardo LoboMaria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 30/09/2026Aside from how freaking good The Prisoner is, it’s so comforting to watch a show with such vibrant colours, instead of the drab greyness that dominates visual media these days. 5918
Reposted by Edwardo LoboPrincipia Discordia @principiadiscordia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026You Go 'Eris Nyx'!!!!! -><- 0121
Reposted by Edwardo LoboDom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 30/09/2026No bear has ever doxxed a rape victim 256790
Edwardo Lobo @edwardolobo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This just seems relevant, again/ always. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulabi_... 000
Reposted by Edwardo LoboDalillama @dalillama.northsky.social · 30/09/2026When they've been dragged out of the frat, brutally beaten, and set on fire by a crowd of angry fellow students, then we can talk about "mob justice". Until then, it's a thing we call "people telling them that they're assholes". 09111
Reposted by Edwardo LoboKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions 123174396
Reposted by Edwardo LoboKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused 253564415
Reposted by Edwardo LoboAdi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026the past week reminds me of this @lopatto.bsky.social piece about *just how much* of the past several years has been shaped by powerful men dismantling the court of public opinion, because it was the last court they might face any consequences intheverge.comHow the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeTooThe emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability. 18740
Reposted by Edwardo Lobodustin @godfrey.work · 29/09/2026BREAKING: Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx's charges are being thrown out. she said they did a public service "at considerable personal cost." 5260114
Reposted by Edwardo LoboMatthew R Francis (backup account) @matthewrfrancis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026this is the part that fucks me up. I don't use any Meta products, but many people I know do. So if we message, Meta has access to my messages. Which I did not consent to. ZUCK IS RAPE CULTURE. 24617
Reposted by Edwardo LoboLindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere. 12680852004
Reposted by Edwardo LoboHell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026Heraclitus: the original poster, pure honed perfect nuggets of weirdness & memes. Socrates: quote-posts every bad take and demolishes it in an umpteen-post thread. Plato: umpteen-post threads of his own bad takes, a gazillion followers who all suck. Diogenes: total shitposter, troll par excellence. 62811
Reposted by Edwardo LoboHell Dunkin @halduncan.com · 29/09/2026A correction to my previous post, sorry: CSAMagotchi gonna romance scam your fourteen year old kid, *upload their nudes to the cloud*, and then tell them to kill themselves 0246
Reposted by Edwardo LoboDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Just to clarify, unlike the FB marketplace incident, this was not just someone scolding the muse "Agent" like a naughty child. In this instance, Muse read messages it explicitly should not have been able to get at because the hard-coded app permissions were set to deny full access to the disk. BAD. 15015
Reposted by Edwardo LoboMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore 322764
Reposted by Edwardo LoboWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Cornell rape story and the Silicon Valley professional orgy culture story are the same story. 2373113
Reposted by Edwardo LoboJK @miniver.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Predatory men make an effort to cultivate friends who cannot imagine their predatory behavior < thread >miniver.blogspot.comThe disorientation of men around MeTooPersonal blog of Jonathan Korman 1142
Reposted by Edwardo LoboSuzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Women and girls know the ways in which their lives are secondary (or lower) to those of boys and men. When people say they don’t want these young men’s futures to be ruined, what they’re really saying is it’s okay for young women’s future to be destroyed. 1458