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Eric Rosenfield

@ericrosenfield.bsky.social
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Makes a media and politics thingy. He/him YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@LiterateMachine Blog version: literatemachine.com PodCast: Literate Machine on your favorite podcast service

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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 18h
This btw is one of the reasons I don’t use Meta anything, including WhatsApp.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling 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.
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
*whispers* stunt on these hos
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Really striking that the ruling class has gone all in on gambling & AI to squeeze a just little more profit & power from this collapsing system. They might have taken steps to make it appear more stable & just, but doing so cuts against their claim to power. So instead they ensure its collapse.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yesterday's terrible news should be on the front pages everywhere. Atrocities that history should never forgive us for. Destroying asylum seekers for sport.
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I can’t tell you how intensely I’d say you should just read an f’ing book
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026
a simply *classic* Kaleckian moment, with some tech-specific wrinkles www.wired.com/story/agains...
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Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump
Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also rallied against Silicon Valley, their backers turned to Donald Trump.
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Patrick Fenelon @patrickfenelon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Not a fan of the government having the ability to just disappear people
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
AI so often three people in a robot suit
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries.........
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today is the day you think about what you’ve done and how you can be better. Let’s be better. G’mar chativah tova.
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wtf
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17/09/2026
As the @wired.com article above makes clear, the main point of tech layoffs was never to 'rightsize' coders' 'make-believe' jobs. It was to take a chainsaw to careers — Elon Musk 'let that sink in!' style — to cow workers who survived from challenging their billionaire bosses.
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This video about why the DSA is good, actually from a leftist perspective by @radicalizeme.bsky.social is really well done: youtu.be/YXAdSBLw0pA?...
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DSA vs. The “Real” Left
YouTube video by Radicalize Me
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Jon Scherdin @jonscherdin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This from @marisakabas.bsky.social is really good. She brings all the receipts www.thehandbasket.co/p/republican...
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Kay Orchison @kayorchison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A pack of Dunning-Kruger cases cooking up a Temu Yaldabaoth out of Potter fanfic was much funnier before they achieved ownership of all the main surveillance and communications systems outside of China, took political control of America and fired up the genocide engines.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Brotha Tiptoe @thesuburbanthug.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
What is happening is called Elite Capture. That’s when the ruling class co-opts the language of the working class to undermine a movement. If your oppressors are sounding just like you while still oppressing you, it’s time to reevaluate.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Onion has created a machine that will kill everyone on Earth that is coincidentally running out of money and the only way to slow it down is if my staff and I take a six-week vacation to Cabo San Lucas.
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jon Husted’s staffer took part in “Nazi military exercises” & had a “Tales from Rhodesia” Spotify playlist. The fact that significant swathes of the media ignore the multiple major Republican campaign staffers outed as Neo-Nazis (to focus on Hasan Piker instead) is journalistic malpractice.
Nazi military exercise from 2018 that Husted's staffer took part in. Credit: The Libs are Resisting
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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The point of shit like this is not to make a claim, it is to demonstrate that he can and will make any claim he likes and face no consequences, that he can construct a fake reality of his own liking and force everyone else to live in it, or at least acquiesce to him living in it.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
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Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is Strom Thurmond level shit, just breathtaking in its unapologetic racism
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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you don't have to like him- no one is asking you to ignore the years of hate and harm he caused or forgive him- i sure still don't like him; but i do think it is important that we acknowledge that charlie kirk has gone an entire year without saying something racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, anti immigrant, or otherwise bigoted and i think we could all stand to recognize that it is possible for people to change for the better.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
www.bklynlibrary.org/craft-library
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Craft Supply Library | Brooklyn Public Library
New at Central Library: BPL's Craft Supply Library!As many people look to get offline and into more analog hobbies, crafting has become an increasingly popular pastime. Here at the library, we know th...
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
maybe I'm biased (by teaching climatology last semester) but it's so weird seeing people arguing about the dangers of AI in a "robots kill you, singularity!" sci-fi sense, some sort of future possible danger and not this immediate threat to our livable planet
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/09/2026
NEW: Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The boat-strike murders and third-country removals are among the constant reminders of our nation's global lawlessness under the Trump administration.
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Zetsubo @zetsubo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The ancient paranoia of the slavers. Your oppression brings you no peace, for the ghosts of those you've damned torment your every dream.
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Viridian Lakes @viridianlakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Oddly enough, I ran across this, which gives imo a very good overview of this sort of thing, from its origins to today, from @ericrosenfield.bsky.social youtu.be/0hLWHAaPy7w
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Gaiman/Trump and the New Thought Behind the Abuse
YouTube video by Literate Machine
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am sympathetic to Silicon Valley guys ascribing human-level consciousness to AI because if I had to talk to people from Silicon Valley all day I’d probably have a real low bar for sentience too
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Happy (late) Labor Day, nerds
O'Brien and Rom from Star Trek DS9 superimposed over a poster with the words "The boss needs you, you don't need him! Labor is entitled to all it creates"
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 08/09/2026
This really is the fundamental toxicity of this technology that just can't ever be escaped; even if it wasn't the object of economically destructive hype, even if it wasn't being overdeployed in environmentally harmful ways, etc, it's like asbestos for the brain
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Good thing he's not a Twitch streamer without any formal role in government or his entire political party would be compelled by the media to denounce him. Just a Nazi working in the State Department. No big deal!
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
So because of the recent Man Carrying Thing video I idly looked at the opening pages of the Mr. Beast/James Patterson collab. The premise is that Mr. Beast (in the book) designed a series of games to find the person most worthy to get a billion dollars and use it to single-handedly save the world.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 06/09/2026
The entire "AOC is courting MAHA" discourse this weekend has been courtesy of Politico. (taps the sign)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state
Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I’m not sure people understand how much of the economy right now is propped up by AI
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The US is murdering civilians in an illegal, immoral war that has never had a clear endgame and never will. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...
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U.S. Strikes Iran Over Strait of Hormuz Mines, Trump Says
Iranian officials said the strikes caused significant damage, including killing four people and injuring several dozens at a wedding. Iran said it retaliated by firing on U.S. bases in the region.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Every Republican candidate and elected official must immediately condemn Republican influencer and activist Catturd for this terrible opinion, since those are now the rules.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
IT WAS NEVER THE IMMGRANTS IN SMALL BOATS The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is It will never reach you
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This isn’t scary at all
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Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I see no lies here
Bad shit happens next year
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Meanwhile, in a non-widely-reported piece of news, the all-out assult on renewable energy is ongoing with a nationalistic twist: pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/08/27/e...
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Executive order bans foreign-produced transformers, inverters, and circuit breakers for U.S. power grid - pv magazine USA
President Donald Trump issued an emergency executive order banning the acquisition, importation, transfer, or installation of foreign-produced electrical grid equipment from designated foreign countri...
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Eric Rosenfield @ericrosenfield.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We all understand that they’re going step by step to brand anyone opposed to them as terrorists now, right? Each thing like this happened is another degree higher on the boiling frog.
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Lance Parkin @lanceparkin.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Who'd have thought that the carbon capture technology the fossil fuel lobby say is 'realistic' (and allows them to carry on unhindered) still doesn't exist but solar generation is exceeding the wildest projections.
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brad @bradiscranky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this headline neuters the truth of the absolutely bullshit move this is, creating a new majority of votes seated without election by the party chair herself. this was in response to the primaries resulting in her losing enough support to lose the position
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