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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Citation is credit without political economy; credit is citation with political economy.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'you're cognitively offloading'. yes. correct. that is what i wish to do. i do not wish to expend cognition figuring out which pharmacist takes my insurance and is closest. i want to offload it & be told who that is. you are free to continue manually doing this task you evidently find so meaningful

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

the 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 in

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How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

The emails show the “anti-woke” crusaders are afraid of accountability.

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 29/09/2026

I had therapy and pointed out to my therapist that many people tried to motivate men with extravagant praise Me: "I'd like some extravagant praise too." (Pause) "Actually no, it wouldn't work for me, I'd always wonder if it was fake." My therapist: yeahh gendered thing

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An Unspoken Nightmare @abrightgreencity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have known so many women who have found themselves charged with assault when they finally fight back against there abusers.

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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I feel like a major lesson of Trump is that people like him will act in bad faith or violate the law no matter what, so it's literally not possible to Trump-proof a policy except through robust removal and punishment provisions for people like Trump.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One answer (not the only one) to the false dichotomy between identity politics and class politics is credit. Credit is both recognition/acknowledgment and an institutionally legible claim on social provision. The commodity form is not a “real abstraction” we live under; it’s an interpretation.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What if the politics of representation was the politics of credit. To give credit, after all, is to bestow recognition in a way that is institutionally actionable.

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Meriendismo 🍉 @meriendismo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

David Graeber would have loved this. Madrid, Puerta del Sol tonight. Madrid Housing Protest: Hundreds Pitch Tents in Puerta del Sol After Pensioner’s Eviction Sparks Outrage. I met David in OWS in 2011, with a group of Spanish "Indignados". They are occupying again. @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

…About a year & a half after that, i wrote "Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…[: On Occultation & Magical Logics in the Realm of 'AI'"], discussing how claiming that a system is "too powerful & unknowable" acts to both hype the technology *And* offload humans' responsibility, similar to the above…

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PREPRINT: “Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…”

Preprint Working Paper Only. Cite as: Williams, Damien Patrick. “Any Sufficiently Transparent Magic…” American Religion 5, no. 1 (2023): 104-110. muse.jhu.edu/article/916425. DOI: 10.29…

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Tired: Transcending difference with class Wired: Building institutions powerful enough that our differences can make claims on the future without each experienced as a loss by somebody else

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ALOK @alokvmenon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'm working on it!! what are you working on?

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 24/09/2026

"This book made me feel bad" is real, your feelings are real, but its not necessarily because the author has done something wrong. Competing needs are a thing, some people need things that are antithetical to what others need. Someone needing what you don't like is nt a reason to completely dehinge.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As far as I can tell, Effective Altruists are Utilitarians who are relieved that in the Trolley Problem, saving 5 people justifies their innate desire to kill the one guy

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Laughingjohn @laughing-john.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"If we extend personhood to these climate-shredding, water-chugging AI models, their personhood will demand the sacrifice of animals, the natural world, and our own wellbeing."

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...

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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets

The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.

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Amelia Sandrine Reisinger 🏳️‍⚧️ @ameliasandrine.com · 17/09/2026

Gonna start referring to Democrats who take anti-trans stances as “Biological Republicans”

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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's the minority opinion in the field because they've already fired anyone who isn't a yes-man. Ideological purges tend to create compliant atmospheres. Why do you think I changed subfields to focus less on AI? bsky.app/profile/moul...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026

There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Worth noting, as Macklemore was banned by NFL owners in what will be dubbed "fighting antisemitism", that Kanye, who - sold merch with swastikas - said on Alex Jones that he idolizes Hitler - tweeted he was "going Defcon 3 on Jewish people" is currently on a multi-city tour of NFL stadiums

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/09/2026

Bosses *claimed* they were buying improved efficiency, but what they were really after was *reassurance*: reassurance that the workers whom they relied upon were engaged in nothing more than a set of reducible, mechanical steps.

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CW: sexual assault - every month or so you find out yet another story about men across the country using the internet to mass sexually abuse a randomly selected woman or girl and it really throws all the handwringing about "appealing to men" and "male loneliness" and "smoothgroins" into sharp relief

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This to me is maybe the most maddening comprehension failure in politics now.

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samantha is the spectre haunting europe 👻👻👻 @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

under a republican congress you'll get outraged. you'll say this is disgusting and that trans rights are human rights and you stand with us. but when talarico is writing anti-trans bills that schumer whips votes to pass you'll suddenly think they simply have 'valid concerns' about 'fairness'

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samantha is the spectre haunting europe 👻👻👻 @commiesamantha.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this is what we're all telling you. a democratic majority that includes talarico and others like him is more dangerous to us. because the 'reasonable' versions of anti-trans bills will get written and passed and you all will go back to brunch and not care. you don't care what happens to us.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 14/09/2026

Here's a familiar chant: "money for __, not for war." Many of us have said it in the streets. All of us get its logic: let us invest in one thing rather than the other. Its aspiration is noble, but its logic is premised on an incorrect, or at least incomplete, assumption about how *money* works. 🧵

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bubbe yaga @ellearmageddon.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

my worry about ai isn’t that it will become sentient, it’s that the cognitive impact of outsourcing critical thinking to computers combined with the proliferation of slop making it increasingly challenging to validate information will dissolve society’s already-tenuous grasp on consensus reality

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ive been saying for a while now, that the fear and disgust of disability and aging and death is driving the technofascists' apocalyptical thinking, in addition to their extreme eugenicist thinking. They truly believe they and they alone deserve to survive and thrive in this world.

Thiel’s philosophical assumptions might sound bizarre to outsiders, but they appear to be widely shared among the tech elite. “A.I. and its capabilities represent something analogous to the Second Coming,” Jeremy Nixon, a founder of an A.I. hub called A.G.I. House, said in May. The technology, some tech titans believe, will allow humans — at least some humans — to escape the bounds of earth and even perhaps the inevitability of death. It represents liberation from hopelessness and decay.

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

Like I appreciate the faith in people. It's understandable to want to believe that seemingly smart people must be making absurd claims because they're pursuing a rational strategy to obtain money. They are in fact making absurd claims because they are absurd people who believe absurd things

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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 11/09/2026

Listen you sound nuts if you try to explain that a bunch of silicon valley luminaries are involved in a weird cult that started with a harry potter fanfic and that their weird bboard flame war has spilled over into the real world That's absurd is what that is But also... It's true

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Gautam Hans @gshans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Some centrists need to look up the approval ratings for MLK in 1964.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

If you don’t like deeply engaging with people, art, culture, and information that’s your choice, though you and people like you are destroying society while I and people like me are what will ultimately save it when you’ve cooked your brains and broken systems so irreparably that you need a grownup.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026

I am not chasing efficiency or trying to maximize output. I like being in conversation with people and their work. I’ve never had complaints about the pace or quality of my work which suggests that perhaps I know what I am doing.

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Jennifer ScareCrow @writerjencrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Art is a conversation between human beings. We create art to connect with people, to enlighten, to bring joy or spark questions. Art crosses oceans, it bends time, it enables us to see the humanity of people with whom we share no language except the glory of making things.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Slop education fitting for the coming slopocalypse.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/09/2026

The modern conservative project explicitly supports impregnating children. The trans panic, anti-abortion politics, fearmongering about "over-medication" and disability support: it all comes back to a patriarchal freakout about losing control over who they see as their reproductive property.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 01/09/2026

The value of Graham Platner is that right up until all his red flags came toppling down upon him is that he is the most naked example of the amount of grace & credibility Simply Being White grants you. Compared to Abdul El-Sayed, who has to re-earn every ounce of credibility he has on a daily basis.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/08/2026

I will never vote for a Democrat that abandons transgender people. It's a cancer and I'll take the pain of a Republican over losing Democrats as a party and therefore losing our rights for an entire generation with nobody left to fight for us. We cannot reward this at all.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Welp, there it is. The CDC is now officially manipulating data and their count of measles deaths in 2026 now stands at ZERO. My understanding of reportable diseases is that the CDC would usually use a state health department’s determination as the final say. The new CDC Director is failing us.

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The CDC left two measles-associated Pa. deaths out of its latest count after RFK Jr. sparred with Gov. Shapiro

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused Pennsylvania of not cooperating with the CDC in its handling of a measles outbreak.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

right. watched a fairly AI critical guy get called a booster because he was watching open weight models get better at hostile cybersecurity tasks one reason to slowdown is that I don't think society is ready for that kind of threat model

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

CONGRATULATIONS @hhpak.bsky.social! YOU ARE THE YOUNGEST-EVER WINNER OF A HUGO AWARD IN A PROSE CATEGORY! YOU BEAT THE RECORD HELD BY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN WHO WAS 26 YEARS AND 10 MONTHS OLD WHEN HE WON FOR "A SONG FOR LYA" IN 1975!

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

are supposed to be, so they can try and use the LLM to speed up real tasks AND KNOW HOW TO DOUBLE CHECK THE WORK. You don't have to be a Luddite to oppose handing children tools they are incapable of using reasonably or well. You should, in fact, oppose that, even if you are in support of the tool.

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 30/08/2026

Currently, so much labor is not only uncompensated but publicly unaccounted for. Because this labor doesn't exist on public ledgers, it's hard to treat their provision as matters of public responsibility. We need a public finance system that recognizes all the activities we want to coordinate. 🧵

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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 29/08/2026

If the public relies on taxing the rich to fund public goods, we'll need the rich to stay rich. 🤔 If we replace the rich (i.e., elite hoarding) with democratic ownership, we'd still need profits. 🤔 We must re-design public finance so that we need neither the rich nor profit to fund public goods. 💡

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