Reposted by EquirahOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 14/10/2026Even JSTOR, whose archives Swartz was trying to make more available, asked for charges to be lightened. The prosecutor brought down every hammer she could and we’re all worse off for it. 116253
Reposted by EquirahSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026it’s just great marketing 3383172064
Reposted by EquirahAida @aidap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Bluesky's Head of Trust and Safety handed his block list to a bot. 1,271 people blocked in eleven days. He says it never looks at who you are. Blocks are public, so I checked. Trans people were blocked at 2.5× the odds of everyone else, for posts of the same harshness. 🧵 4527301099
Reposted by EquirahReLins @repimlins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Do @brianmier247.bsky.social : "A Meta Brasil whistle-blower told reporter Laís Gouveia that it fired and replaced most of its content moderators with AI during election season. "Decisions are now coming from a single automated command [from US] designed to boost some content & bury the rest”".panamericandispatch.orgWhy did Meta Change its Moderation System Before Brazil’s Elections?A Meta Brasil worker tells of mass content moderator layoffs and their replacement with AI during the lead up to Brazil’s 2026 presidential elections. 0454239
Reposted by EquirahNandaskid @nandabel23.bsky.social · 09/10/2026A mídia brasileira está mostrando? Alguém sabe? Os protestos contra Flávio Bolsonaro e família estão aparecendo no mundo inteiro 341475515
Reposted by EquirahDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026"In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental right to data protection" noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-mem...noyb.euAI: EU Member States plan “digital expropriation” of Europeans in the interest of AI companiesIn a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of AI companies to make profits should take precedence over the fundamental rights of Europeans. 19468293
Reposted by Equirahshe/herberus @spiderdork.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"trans rights are human rights" doesn't really cut it when libs have decided that human rights arent all that important actually "trans rights or else" hits them where they actually give a shit: themselves 101795461
Reposted by Equirahemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 13/07/2026this is where your money goes when you buy harry potter stuff. rowling isn’t shy about it. amnesty wrote an even-handed report that laid out what anti-rights groups do; rowling uses her billions & clout to suppress it. when you give rowling money; she spends it on stealing people’s human rights. 127791394
Reposted by EquirahAdriel Wallick @msminotaur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Remember that time PlayStation won a ton of goodwill with consumers when they made a big show about how you could just lend each other your physical games? 1345
Reposted by EquirahLia @liasae.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Oh boy. That's... going to be interesting to watch. (Do not celebrate uncritically, this is a VERY slippery area of law and the EU is not inherently good, far from it) 022
Reposted by EquirahMatt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 15/06/2026Banning children from social media? 24984465
Reposted by Equirahunangbangkay @unangbangkay.bsky.social · 05/05/2026"The only ways to make the deletion stick are to disable Chrome's AI features through chrome://flags or enterprise policy tooling that home users do not generally have, or to uninstall Chrome entirely" Hey if u need chrome for work or manage your loved ones' tech, get digging and unflagging. 2123109
Reposted by EquirahLula @lulaoficialbluesky.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Hoje é um dia importante para a dignidade da família, de quem constrói o Brasil todos os dias. Encaminhei ao Congresso Nacional, com urgência constitucional, um projeto de lei que acaba com a escala 6x1 e reduz a jornada de trabalho para 40h semanais. E, importante, sem qualquer redução no salário. 131408350
Reposted by EquirahDown Here For Your Soul @bombsfall.bsky.social · 31/03/2026just gonna keep bumping this when necessary because I cannot personally make anything this large 123297890
Reposted by EquirahSuzanne ✨🌑 @tendermiasma.com · 28/03/2026I read through the article and through the letters sent to these paypros and you guys should too (like please actually read them, don't rely on me). It specifically cites religious and political views but the language is wide open. This is good 1632471870
Reposted by EquirahMike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces. 3948641225
Equirah @equirah.bsky.social · 17/03/2026You can find charts on how to properly and safely pet these dogs 021
Reposted by EquirahDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 05/03/2026One of the wildest things about the AI movement is that people suddenly consider it not just acceptable but good to say, in front of the internet, their own bosses, and everybody: “I have stopped doing the majority of the job you hired and are paying me to do.” 35614
Reposted by EquirahFelipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026I wish I could translate the poetry of "Estragos Fudidos da America". 616014
Reposted by EquirahRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/02/2026Annexing the West Bank is the Western 'red line' on Israel after it crossed red lines of genocide, forced starvation, war crimes, destruction of infrastructure, massacring children in incubators, gang rape, solo rape, torture, execution of medics, kidnapping, aparth edition.cnn.com/2026/02/15/m...edition.cnn.comIsrael advances registration of West Bank territory as state land in move decried as “de facto annexation” | CNNFor the first time since Israel occupied the West Bank in 1967, the government will create a mechanism to officially register large swaths of land under the state. 118053
Reposted by EquirahEuropean Left Alliance @leftallianceeu.bsky.social · 13/02/2026ELA expresses full support and solidarity with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. We strongly condemn the French government’s call for her resignation, driven by disinformation. Full statement here: leftalliance.eu/news/ela-sta... 0147
Reposted by EquirahAllister Jones 🍃🐦アリスタ 🔜 KinshokuCon @allisteranim.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable". 43131686059
Reposted by Equirahrowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 07/02/2026hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this 3878403187
Reposted by EquirahStevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S... 3122405611922
Reposted by EquirahMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 31/01/2026Freeze dried take: It already is. 432742
Reposted by EquirahAllie @rally.luckyraven.cc · 31/01/2026Now I gotta explain to my mom who Moot is and why no one in the federal government recognizing his name as worth redacting to protect themselves is an historic fuckup. 111715
Reposted by Equirahhammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Also psst If Europe starts putting nation state efforts into open source suites that replace teams/zoom/office 365 that have hipaa/ferpa and security That’s the ballgame They’d have to ban them in america else the entire economy would tell Microsoft and Google and Adobe to fuck their own faces 420040
Reposted by EquirahAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/01/2026Not just any journalist, she won the goddamn Triple Crown of broadcast journalism (an Emmy, a Peabody, and a Murrow) in 2024 for her reporting on Gaza. This is textbook censorship of the highest degree 4379413426
Reposted by EquirahW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..." 7689872773
Reposted by EquirahZoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 24/01/2026I deleted TikTok back when the Oracle purchase was announced but if you've still got it, you GOTTA dump it. Especially for trans folks. It straight up says in the new TOS that they--Oracle, the company that has active ties to the Trump admin--are monitoring and documenting trans and NB users. 621751860
Reposted by EquirahDerek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 21/01/2026I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.irishtimes.comAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warnsBig tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth 20882082206
Reposted by EquirahBeccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 10/01/2026LGBTQ stands for "Let's Guillotine Billionaires & Tyrants Quickly" 2225
Reposted by Equirahinnes mck @innes.bsky.social · 03/01/2026"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers" 65136664150
Reposted by EquirahRami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 03/01/2026As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again. 1842131496
Reposted by EquirahBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 18/12/2025We got all the hits: - purchased by private equity firm - hid a bunch of layoffs - invested a bunch of money in AI - tried to make that money back by ruining the best product it now owned 2124821078
Reposted by EquirahZoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 16/12/2025Look man I don’t think the people being poisoned by data centers really care if you remove the generated assets before shipping, and I don’t really care if you “only” use the machine that stole my shit and convinced teens to off themselves for internal PowerPoints. Cool motive. Still bullshit tho. 2049421572
Reposted by Equirah🜏 Machine Saint 🜏 @shoehead.itch.io · 10/12/2025When we said we wanted a GDC outside of the Us I guess we should have been WAAAY more specific 17513
Reposted by Equirahmodmad @modmad.bsky.social · 21/11/2025THEY ADDED NEW GARBAGE reblog to save a life 6339742982
Reposted by EquirahWorking Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 16/11/2025#OtD 16 Nov 2019 Chilean riot dog Rucio Capucha was injured by police water cannon during a protest in Santiago. Rucio frequently joined protests, and became a target of deliberate police violence. He survived the attack, and was adopted by a family shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/... 116647
Reposted by EquirahJennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️⚧️ @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 12/10/2025It's fun that the Steam store pages for certain, AAA multiplayer games now go "uhhhh your system isn't Rootkit ReadyTM" 1143
Reposted by EquirahErrol 🦇🏳️🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay. 5032271195
