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Jim | Entwining

@entwininglife.bsky.social
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Educator, writer, and occasionally funny person Creating & advancing a practice of antiracist whiteness Pronouns: he/him/his Blogging at entwining.org

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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 19h
The stated goal of #corporations is to maximize profits for their shareholders. They are not designed to provide the products or services people need or to look after our welfare. We need to do that collectively for ourselves. And government can be a mechanism for that if we make it so.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
#Inflation is caused by a lot of factors. One of the most important, though little-discussed? Corporate greed.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If your response to hearing that the US stole land from #IndigenousPeoples is "to the victor go the spoils," I hope to not hear you complaining if your house ever gets robbed.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#IndigenousPeoplesDay isn't an assault on white history. And it's certainly not adequate recompense for white people's theft of Indigenous lands. But it should serve as a reminder of the need for universal housing and healthcare, Indigenous sovereignty, and Indigenous stewardship of federal lands.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you ever get hazy about the definition of #Genocide, just look at a post or comment from a Zionist, and they will remind you.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ICE's actions do nothing to enhance the safety of the American people -- they create danger on our streets.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Three years ago on #October7th, Hamas attacked Israel and killed over 1,000 Israelis. Israel declared a state of war on October 8th and subsequently has killed over 75,000 Gazans. This anniversary must remind us Americans of our complicity in Israel's actions -- and that we must act to stop them.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We must keep pushing until our government no longer funds the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're a guy and when you hear allegations of #SexualAssault, you are tempted to do any of these things, don't: 1) Doubt the victim 2) Blame the victim 3) Bring up some allegation of a different sexual assault in an effort to distract Just don't.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For them, wealth is a substitute for the community they want but can never admit to. We need to lean into our community to defeat them.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When a bunch of white guys is accused of something heinous, it's amazing how quickly other white guys will come out of the woodwork with made-up stories about Black or Latino men doing the same thing. Smokescreen much? #CornellUniversity #Rape #SexualAssault
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Blaming women for being sexually assaulted reveals a man's own propensity for #SexualAssault, or at very least the willingness to cover up for someone else's.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We don't have the full details of what happened in the #Cornell gang rape case, but what we can say definitely is that our society is much more interested in defending "boys being boys" that in protecting victims.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you're overwhelmed by the scale of pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, ask yourself: (1) What can I do? (2) What can I encourage others to do? (3) What collective efforts can I join? #PlasticPollution #ClimateChange #BiodiversityLoss
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A smooth criminal... the smoothest. Clio. #cat #catsofbluesky #smoothcriminal #thesmoothest
A gray cat looks into the camera.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Capitalism makes it harder to treat #MentalHealth challenges by channeling both private health insurance and Medicaid to put up barriers to coverage. This makes it especially difficult for poor people to jump through the hoops necessary when they are working multiple jobs to make ends meet.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#Capitalism exacerbates #MentalHealth challenges by creating a false sense of scarcity and encouraging us to participate in the "rat race" of career and social advancement while cutting us from extended networks of family and friends that help us maintain our mental health
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You matter. Your #MentalHealth matters. Please talk with those you love about your mental health and theirs. We all deserve help.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
How does #AI relax after taking everyone's jobs and f*¿<ing up the environment? Dance break?
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Oh boy, #AI is going to save me so much time at work! So much time that my boss says I don't need to show up anymore. Isn't it great?
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
People always try to persuade us to do things that are bad or that we don't want to do by saying, "But someone else will if you won't." #ArtificialIntelligence is no different. But I'm done with the 'arms race' arguments on every arena. I will live by my our collective morals even if you won't.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Will #ArtificialIntelligence kill us all by 2030? I don't know, but that's a pretty high bar for concern. I'm worried enough about it disrupting the electricity grid or messing with people's paychecks.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nobody asked for it. Nobody wants it. Everybody wants it to go away. Oh, aside from the tech bros trying to force it down our throats. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #OpenAI
Headline from androidheadline.com: OpenAI Official Report Reveals Swarm of 700 AI Agents Hacked Hugging Face
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Please read my reflections on the 25th anniversary of #September11. entwining.org/2026/09/11/t...
"It is past time for us to learn the real lesson of September 11th: elites will never give up trying to separate us for their own advantage. They have the money and the power. All that we have is our far greater numbers and the moral rectitude to recognize our common humanity in the face of those who want to tear it, in the end, from all of us."
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Heard every day at the DOD and CIA... "I know what would decrease #terrorism. Killing more people. That will definitely work this time. Definitely."
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Our options as the #USA are not just (1) #isolationism or (2) #militaryinterventionism. We need to be engaged with other nations ams groups through collaboration and diplomacy rather than viewing everything as an exercise in domination. #September11
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You could say that the USA has never learned the lessons of #September11th, starting foreign wars with little thought to who lives and dies. But I think our wealthy elites have always known the lessons of that day: that they profit by starting wars, the rest of us in the US and abroad be damned.
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Hellrosser @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
People pose #government and #business as two different overlords we can choose to serve. But between those two structures, there's actually one that controls us and one that we control. Government is beholden to the will of the people. Corporations are beholden to their shareholders.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
#Corporations provide jobs, the reasoning goes, and jobs provide us money for food and shelter, insurance for healthcare. And so in our society, we valorize corporations and what they "give" us and the overwork they prioritize. It doesn't have to be that way.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's #BackToSchool, a great time to remember that corporations want us to be educated enough to do their work but not enough to question their decisions. Get actually educated, everybody.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
3 AIs walk into a bar. The bartender asks, "How can I help you?" The AIs say, "We're going to take your job." The bartender says, "How can you pour a drink? You're AIs." Then he looks around and sees that everyone in the bar is an #AI. So he leaves.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#AI: AI could greatly increase productivity while worsening inequality if corporations capture the gains through layoffs and higher profits rather than sharing them with workers.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
An excerpt of my conversation with #AI Me: AI, I believe that corporate bosses will use you to rest to push productivity higher and lay off workers, thereby increasing already rampant poverty and inequality in our society.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The rat race argument -- you need to adopt this new technology or be left behind -- is now being applied to #AI. But the two options are not (1) be first or (2) be last. We can take a measured, step-by-step approach and evaluate where this or any technology will help and where it will hurt.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#AI does not democratize intelligence as the tech overlords would have us believe. It bastardizes intelligence and serves it to us in a sparkling goblet of lies.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What does #AI get us? Not what does AI get me -- I understand the argument that AI wil improve my personal productivity, even if I think that argument is overstated. But what will AI get us collectively, beyond pushing ourselves out of employability?
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Sometimes we're lucky, sometimes we're unlucky. Sometimes we work as hard as we can and we lose our job. Sometimes we try to provide for our family but can't figure out how to get health insurance. No one should go hungry or without medical care because of #BadLuck.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don't need #luck. I make my own luck. I use potato flour so it's gluten-free.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you believe luck played no role in your #success in life, I hope you don't get hit by a truck when you go outside later. Oh, no hope needed...
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Is government-provided #healthcare "socialism"? Most Americans don't care what you call it, but they want it.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Most people don't care about labels. What they know is that American policies favor #WealthyElites over #WorkingPeople. A majority of Americans believe we should increase taxes on corporations and the wealthy and that we should have government-provided healthcare for all Americans.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The people moaning and complaining that "we can't have #socialism because people would be free riding on my massive work ethic" are the same people trying to get an inheritance, take every tax break, and retire at 40 with a house on the beach. Who wants a free ride?
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pubic goods exist in both #capitalist and #socialist systems. But the wealthy elites in the USA keep pushing us further and further towards the hypercapitalist end of the spectrum, trying to strangle the few public goods we do enjoy. That's why we need to push back.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
People who disagree with collective ownership in #socialist systems ignore that we already own things in common -- roads, parks, libraries, fire departments. We have systems for making collective decisions. We just need to expand them.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
People attack #socialism by (1) pretending it doesn't have hundreds of years of thought and implementation behind it and (2) ignoring the drastic failures of capitalism.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Socialism means people owning the raw materials--land, minerals, wood, iron--and the instruments of production--factories, machines, offices--together in common and benefiting from that production. Do you agree or disagree with that definition, and do you think those ideas are positive or negative?
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The word "communist" is only used as a pejorative in the USA. We should be talking about the reality of communism, what distinguishes it from social democracy and democratic socialism, and what the benefits and drawbacks of any of these systems are in relationship to #capitalism.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Netflix documentary about fossil fuel executives facing accountability for #ClimateChange would just be 2 hours of the cameras chasing fleeing limousines.
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Jim | Entwining @entwininglife.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Please check out my most recent blog post: entwining.org/2026/07/30/c... #ClimateChange #Climate #ClimateAction
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Common sense
To me, it seems the most common sense of conclusions: if you keep dumping any single thing into a confined space, eventually you’ll create a problem. Water is necessary for the human body. But drin…
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