Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/09/2026this is all awful but by far the most diagnosable part of this is his obsession with beards as destructive to unit cohesion. having a beard is as bad as being a communist to Pete. 10299876
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Link to "'Tremendous Hypocrisy:Dartmouth provost accused of using AI to write op-ed about AI use" in @bostonglobe.com. Our prez says, "Thoughtful people on our campus can and should disagree about those norms." What? We can disagree about violating ethics codes w/out disclosure? archive.is/JoJbAarchive.is 33911
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 26/09/2026“Food shortages…” www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comUK shares findings of damning climate crisis national security report suppressed under StarmerEl Niño poses critical threat to nations’ defences, says Ed Miliband in presentation to global foreign ministers 0418
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionSarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"In 2016, Trump’s goal was to control the media. In 2026, it is to destroy the media. He recognizes it as a depreciated asset. Trump is a corporate raider doing what corporate raiders do. He seeks to destroy the media as he seeks to destroy the US itself." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/gutting-th...sarahkendzior.substack.comGutting the Fourth EstateThe US media were willing cogs in Trump’s machine. Now he’s tearing it down. 215175
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 24/09/2026Millions of surveillance cameras watching our every move, but the cameras never seem to turn up any clues in these cases. Weird how that works.abcnews.comCases of Black people found hanged in the US South are a reminder of nation's lynching historyThe death of Tasia Fortune, a Black Mississippi woman found hanging from a tree, has stirred distressing memories of the grim U.S. history of lynchings 6485133
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I dont normally share paywalled links but if yr an academic you may have access to this @chronicle story by some sharp young reporters on an AI situation at Dartmouth. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...chronicle.comDartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm.The incident adds fuel to a debate at the college over its embrace of AI. 920460
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionWIRED @wired.com · 19/09/2026You can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help.buff.lyZuckOff Is a Free App That Sees Meta Glasses Before They See YouYou can’t always tell if someone is recording you with their smart glasses, but your phone can help. 724992
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...thedartmouth.comOp-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector PangramSchnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.” 701481490
Fables of the Reconstruction @fables.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The dystopian hellscape continues unabatednytimes.comIt’s Raining Boxes: Amazon Drones Overwhelm a Texas SuburbIn Richardson, a fleet of drones has started to deliver goods quickly. But the noise is drowning out life for some residents: ‘We can’t live like this.’ 000
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionThomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026If the construction goes through, how long until Fascists are firing on citizens from the Trumpful Arch? Next time there is a Million Man March there will be mass casualties. 122
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In one of the most important convos I’ve had this year, I talked with Sherry Turkle about how our interactions with AI platforms, simulated companions, and artificial personalities can reshape us, diminish our capacities, and alter our very conceptions of ourselves and what it means to be a person.truthout.orgArtificial Intimacy Is Changing Who We Are“We start to judge our human interactions by what the chatbot can deliver,” says author Sherry Turkle. 423095
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Earlier this week, I met the head of a nonprofit whose funding to help families stay housed has been sharply cut under this administration. Meanwhile, the U.S. is preparing a $2.8 billion arms package for Israel—including *forty thousand* 2,000-pound bombs—financed by American taxpayers.theguardian.comUS set to deliver 2,000lb bombs to Israel as part of vast arms dealPowerful bombs prompted such concern about mass deaths in Gaza that Biden officials paused delivery two years ago 412366
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026It's rad that Meta used a David Bowie song to advertise their AI and it's about how there are only five years before the apocalypse and they surely had no idea because these tech assholes have literally zero comprehension skills. Got to hand it to them. Dumbest bunch of motherfuckers alive. 828863
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionMark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Solidarity with my Rutgers comrade Noura Erakat! Free Palestine!aljazeera.comHuman rights lawyer Noura Erakat arrested at hearing against Israel BondsPalestinian human rights lawyer Noura Erakat was arrested in Florida after speaking against an Israel Bonds investment. 116563
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026Trump: "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" 5771676343
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionDann @dann1960.bsky.social · 13/09/2026youtu.be/lII5SIzQrrA #J.MichaelLuttig Concern is growing about what will happen after the midterm election. State attorneys general say they fear ballots will be seized and retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig says January 3rd is the day to watch out for. He joins The Weekend to explain why.youtu.beMidterm aftermath: Conservative judge WARNS Trump's GOP 'biggest threat' to American democracyYouTube video by MS NOW 163
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionDeborah Rose ❌👑 @deberupts.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026A conservative federal judge has told America: Republicans have a plan to steal Congress even if they lose the election. Judge J. Michael Luttig, a lifelong conservative who ruled under G.W. Bush, published a piece this week called “The Final Battle for America’s Democracy.” His warning: if […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 022
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 13/09/2026BOTH of these things can be true: • AI leaders are seeing capabilities in their frontier models that frighten them and have prompted them to urge “pacing” because of real world risks; AND • AI leaders want to control regulation if it occurs, externalize liability, and consolidate their positions. 99026
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionKim @kimoco.bsky.social · 13/09/2026NO NO NO We absolutely must get courts to stop this. 043
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionDavid Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Right answer. 1348890
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionGreen Country Collective @gsustulsa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026 320143582037
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression. 16852981516
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionWIRED @wired.com · 09/09/2026The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do. www.wired.com/story/apple-...wired.comApple Doesn’t Want You to Worry About the New Apple Watch's Listening FeaturesThe new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in. But the protections can’t change the facts of what the tools do. 126919
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionWIRED @wired.com · 12/09/2026And if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it. www.wired.com/story/you-do...wired.comYou Don’t Have a Right to Safe Drinking Water, Trump-Appointed Judge RulesAnd if your tap water is undrinkable, you have no “constitutional right to truthful information” about it. 14249150
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionDavid Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12/09/2026The governor of America’s biggest blue state — now running for the Dem presidential nomination — helped tech oligarchs by vetoing Dem legislation to require those oligarchs to be able to shut off their AI if it gets out of control. I don’t think it’s possible to overstate how big a story this is.levernews.comNewsom Killed The AI Kill SwitchBefore Big Tech researchers warned of a superintelligence doomsday, 2028 hopeful Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) vetoed a bill that would have made AI “kill switches” mandatory. 1918781
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026pay living wages for all workers. tax the shit out of billionaires. happy labor day. 3545781156
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Worth remembering this Labor Day: Manufactured exhaustion is a political weapon used by fascists to wear down public opposition and promote learned helplessness. Fatigue and sense of hopelessness in the current environment are not personal failings. Rest and community care are resistance. 418184
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionEssence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 08/09/2026 625466
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionPhyllis Levin @nothing2lose.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/a-philadel...thelettersfromleo.comA Philadelphia Nun Sits With Unaccompanied Children at Texas Deportation HearingsSister Rose Kuhn drives to the Harlingen immigration court every week to pray beside children who face a judge alone, some as young as four. 117550
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionGallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 05/09/2026everyone who said "you must reject the piker endorsement" and didn't say "you must reject the cheney endorsement" is a stupid asshole 541178
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895854675
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass! 273454907
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/09/20262026: Shackled abducted Black and brown humans crossing the Atlantic against their will, courtesy of the land of the free and the home of the brave. 7481194
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionTal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 04/09/2026welcome to america 2026, where the only jobs are word theft organizer and concentration camp guard 439559
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live hereamericamagazine.orgVatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new documentThe more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.” 981192360
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“Questionnaire” by the late poet, farmer, and environmental activist Wendell Berry 415258
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/08/2026Measles-linked deaths since RFK Jr became HHS Secretary now surpass those recorded in the previous 20 years combined. 371156563
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 31/08/2026So much news out of the US is like "Breaking: tuna recalled over screw contamination" 2335340
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionAlan Rosenblatt @drdigipol.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Trump and RFK, Jr. cut so much funding from food safety inspections that the fact that white rice is recalled for contaminants is not surprising, but VERY upsetting. And now Trump wants to allow every cattle rancher to process their own meat. That is like guaranteeing food poisoning.the-independent.comCheck your cabinets: White rice recalled in 13 statesFDA issued an update to the recall 23306178
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionWalker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Shut it down. 68032
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/08/2026The US government is canceling several cyclospora research studies in the midst of the biggest cyclospora outbreak ever which has made tens of thousands sick and killed two people. Make America Healthy Again. 15939011508
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionLiving in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Realize that climate change is already killing people on a daily basis all around the world, including in the US.nbcnews.comAt least 15 missing at Grand Canyon after extreme flash floodingAuthorities are searching for hikers and campers who may have been trapped in the area. 03513
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you” 3148051545
Reposted by Fables of the Reconstructionnotgoingwell.bsky.social @notgoingwell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026You’ve got these viscerally unpleasant billionaires who are more or less open about being Nazis who want to create an authoritarian surveillance state enforced by a robot army to create a permanent underclass complete with Eugenics and pedophilia. And nobody in power dares say: “they are bad.” 232743
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionRobert Raymond @robpertray.bsky.social · 30/08/2026the united states calls itself a democracy because every few years its brainwashed population votes in a popularity contest between two right wing ideologues who hate them 47733171
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionDave Conrad @dconrad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026I have just signed an executive order renaming Captain America to Captain Ontario 15611
Reposted by Fables of the ReconstructionWIRED @wired.com · 28/08/2026About 1,600 federal employees who work at the General Services Administration have been forced to relocate to a new office building that workers say has mice, a caved-in bathroom ceiling, and drinking water that needs to be run for 5-10 seconds before it is clear.wired.comMice, a Caved-In Ceiling, and Cloudy Water: The GSA’s New Office Is Falling Apart“Do we need to look at the ceiling before going to the bathroom? Can we actually trust the water is safe to drink?” asks one GSA worker. 913971
Reposted by Fables of the Reconstructionshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 28/08/2026it is not a big chance by any means but there's a very slight possibility we'll get to see a US navy ship actually mutiny 19116473