Reposted by Reid PierceAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic. 473200657071
Reposted by Reid Piercedepths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026wikipedia has been ANNIHILATED with AI bot traffic for a while now (because LLMs can't get enough of it) which puts a huge burden on its tech and server costs. and now it looks like bots are making unauthorized edits to pages and trying to hack community tools diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/o... 111002292
Reposted by Reid PierceJon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct 62166597
Reposted by Reid PierceAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/05/2025www.thedailybeast.com/cartel-makes...thedailybeast.comTrump Struck Secret Deal With El Chapo’s ‘Terrorist’ CartelThe family members of infamous drug lord “El Chapo” were given access to the U.S., catching the Mexican president off-guard. 514329
Reposted by Reid PierceGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 15/05/2025The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws “ITS TORTURE,” says her family www.11alive.com/article/news...11alive.comFamily says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state lawAdriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care. 19520671030
Reposted by Reid PiercePavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.fortune.comAs Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliverJust 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology. 4753281969
Reposted by Reid PierceBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 12/05/2025This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from @404media.co www.404media.co/republicans-... 28351692750
Reposted by Reid PierceLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 08/05/2025A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...welcometohellworld.comThey don't need a warrantA federal kidnapping in Worcester 28057253022
Reposted by Reid PierceEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 23/04/2025This abduction in a Charlottesville courthouse is the uncanny valley of arrests. I've watched video of literally thousands of arrests in the U.S. I have never seen this behavior. They don't announce themselves. No visible ID, badges, or insignia. The full face and head wrapping is bizarre. 13242129
Reposted by Reid PierceGemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 20/04/2025“Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power.” You won’t be able to unsee this www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/anti...opendemocracy.netHow anti-trans activists silence their opponentsPeople claiming to be ‘silenced’ are being featured in national mainstream media platforms. There’s a word for that 11427178
Reposted by Reid PierceRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/04/2025@gavinnewsom.bsky.social, victims of racism and illegal targeting are never just distractions. And we can go after the tariffs and the targeting both. 1042354
Reposted by Reid PierceOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed 13873287
Reposted by Reid PierceChica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 17/04/2025April 25 1pm | I'm at William & Mary College Williamsburg Virginina | Talking about RAVING 0112
Reposted by Reid PierceChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 16/04/2025Trans women are women. 131433308
Reposted by Reid PierceCristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 15/04/2025The fundamental problem with the “alien enemy”-or-innocent binary in this story, as other binaries, is that it’s deeply flawed. Innocence should be irrelevant. Even Tren de Aragua membership should be irrelevant. What matters is that this is lawless invocation of a wartime power during peacetime. 7375128
Reposted by Reid PierceJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...npr.orgA whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor dataA whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official. 356111775390
Reposted by Reid PierceAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Constitutional Crisis Is HereThe Supreme Court told the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. So far, the administration is pretending to comply while re... 21377822912
Reposted by Reid PierceMikeHallTexas @mikehalltexas.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Here’s a story about a kid-a legal immigrant to the US-who Trump deported to the worst prison in the world. The kid wasn’t in a gang & didn’t have tattoos. Your federal government in action: no due process, no common sense, no decency. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.socialtexasmonthly.comThe Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El SalvadorEighteen-year-old Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his ... 6494210
Reposted by Reid PierceCasey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai... 192440607
Reposted by Reid PierceAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Once thing we can say for certain is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than some of the people he is deporting to a black hole in el salvador with no due process or recourse www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comTrump’s Salvadoran GulagTo be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough. 7865731728
Reposted by Reid PierceEvan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense 3573810315038
Reposted by Reid PierceWIRED @wired.com · 31/03/2025Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.wired.comHow to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy IntactCrossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data. 13425441162
Reposted by Reid PierceClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken. 511228057461
Reposted by Reid PierceHobbit Korkie @korkie.bsky.social · 23/03/2025None of the people kidnapped and sent to the El Salvadoran prison were Tren de Aragua. www.reuters.com/world/americ...reuters.comVenezuela minister says jailed deportees from US not tied to Tren de AraguaVenezuelan's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Friday that no one among the hundreds of deportees to a Salvadoran prison, whom Washington accused of being members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang, were related to the criminal organization. 10404146
Reposted by Reid Pierce祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Back up your data at home; delete it from your devices; turn off biometric unlocking; turn off your phone to cross the border 05821
Reposted by Reid Pierceevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...eff.orgEFF Border Search Pocket Guideborder-pocket-guide-2.pdf 6423321427
Reposted by Reid PierceNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 19/03/2025My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner | A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana. inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...inthesetimes.comMy Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political PrisonerA letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana. 04115
Reposted by Reid PierceChen Chen @chenchenwrites.bsky.social · 11/03/2025In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. —Adrienne Rich 1483104
Reposted by Reid PierceNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law. 5035221067
Reposted by Reid PierceAmal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 02/03/2025This is so horrifying & absurdkpbs.orgGerman tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facilityThe young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January. 719883
Reposted by Reid Pierceactioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 13/02/2025looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount. 201351056134
Reposted by Reid PierceChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20/01/2025We have a socialist solution: This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. This is what libraries are for. 171020227
Reposted by Reid PierceChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/01/2025“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.” chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...chuckpearson.wordpress.comThe ethical case for resisting AII had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of… 19598206
Reposted by Reid PierceSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”fortune.comAI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.It also guzzles enormous sums of water. 11739442469