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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

New nickelback music video = ultimate recession indicator

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

We had to wait for the....NEW YORK POST to write about this. Y'all know there is so much more where this came from but journalists don't want to dig and people are terrified to speak to any journalist seeing the type of reporting they've been doing

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_... Day 1 topic in my former classroom. This won't work. Also you don't need more data - the harms of chatbots being increasingly used everywhere are pretty dang obvious and well studied. We don't need academic research to see that Akinator is a foot gun. Idk. Just ban!

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Google Flu Trends - Wikipedia

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Based upon their documented behavior over the past few years, the tech industry is less afraid of the potential ramifications of Artificial Superintelligence than they are of Lina Khan.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

Tallinn, who led Anthropic's series A, funds METR, the "auditing institute" people took seriously 🙄 After criticism that METR was laughably NOT independent, Anthropic announces they'll pay Accenture to "audit" Accenture had acquired Tallinn firm which will be doing the "auditing" Full circle 🙄

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I would line up to get PE licensed. Software folks need this. Could not agree more. While we are at it, having this credential should free you from the "can you code" interview.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Prolly cause the execs at those places are scared of consequences for their constant layoffs, disregard of humanity, and general reprehensibility. So they continue to ignore real problems in favour of their own.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm an activist CEO and AI scientist. 100%. Anthropic and OpenAI are low quality and get airtime because of money. 🗑️ 💅

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Still tapping the sign

A tweet from me, Dave Vetter, which reads: "Nerds: we have invented a robot who can write stuff a dumb guy would say.
Everyone: this robot is the smartest guy I've ever heard of"
Posted on 16 Feb 2023.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

God forbid people like him and his work. It's gotta be dark (...that's racist innit...) money right? The guy beloved by his entire city has to be nefarious somehow?

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... "China has state run media can't trust it" If I ever hear that again... mafk WE got state media. Always have!! Ailes memo anyone??? It's like our conditions now are BECAUSE we live in a highly propagandized society or something??? Whoudda Thought???

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Trump tells FCC to punish journalist for calling his election results "mixed"

Trump furious at NBC's Kristen Welker for saying he had mixed results in primary endorsements.

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 31/08/2026

I can no longer in good faith recommend anyone to study in the US, or stay stateside for work and further education after completing degree programs they had started during the Biden era. US higher ed is unrecognizable even compared to a year ago when ICE was kidnapping students from their homes

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Fun fact — and reminder: For all their focus on “officer safety” and arguments about aggressive tactics being necessary, no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty. It is more deadly in the US to be an elementary school student than an ICE officer.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

As a millennial the Iraq war was when I learned America felt no responsibility for human life abroad and hurricane Katrina was when I learned it felt no responsibility for American lives either

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I used to remember the lakes as HOMES. By renaming Lake Ontario... it's now SHAME? He turned our homes to shame! 2026 in a nutshell. Prophetic. #SHAME www.thedailybeast.com/google-maps-...

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Google Maps Faces Fury for Caving to Trump

Google Maps has renamed Lake Ontario to reflect Trump’s preferences.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yeah those folks are trapped by design. I think writing this off as "stupidity" covers up the malice and intent of more than 60+ years of Republican power politics, dark money, propaganda... Call it what it is, our very own Republic of Gilead. We are used against each other. This is the issue.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Homeless sweeps here in Seattle area costed about 30k/person. The lengths society will go to avoid doing the obvious thing - giving folks homes.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

www.seattletimes.com/opinion/the-... My op ed is live today in the ST. Yes I build AI. Yes it doesn't have to be anything like Big Tech envisions. And hell no - we dont need coal rollin compute. Send Sam Altman and Dario packing.

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The AI we want without the data centers we don't: It's possible | Op-Ed

We don’t need to burn our climate commitments or pave over fields and ranches to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Nos hindus tenemos un postre se llama Kalakand. Tiene solamente una leche. En esta economia a donde podemos ir? "Empezamos al fondo y todavia estamos aqui" 😂 cual es la proxima? zero leches? IA leches???

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Calling it. The release of GTA VI will be the closest thing America has to a general labour strike.

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Vastly underrated channel. I’m genuinely surprised he has fewer than 25k followers.

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Is All Art Inherently Political? Why You Can't Escape It

YouTube video by Fuzz Culture

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Impossible - Flock CANNOT stop any crime. It doesn't catch anyone. Police don't even do that: www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Criminology research is full of results like this for 30+ years. Reject mass surveillance. #Deflock "Those who trade liberty for security deserve neither." Ben Franklin

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Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data

A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in cont...

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Washington AI Resistance @wa-air.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Legislators in Oregon couldn't get data center tax breaks rescinded in March—but now, 4 have proposed a 3 YEAR MORATORIUM on data centers, saying "the ground's shifted". And how! Are we gonna let them show us up, Washingtonians? Sign here! actionnetwork.org/letters/gove...

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Democratic lawmakers propose three-year moratorium on new large data centers in Oregon • Washington State Standard

Oregon would join 15 other states that have proposed data center pauses in the last year.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

These folks rock and are very cool. If you're in WA state and don't want data centers and AI follow and join. (They also have a website that is cool and should win awards or something 😎)

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Quit NYT bc labour strikes and Gaza coverage sucked. Now LA times crossword is AI??? I just want a good puzzle. W. T. F. Why do they bother listing human authors...

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

They should fire this guy asap. Or I'll jump again 😂 they don't even know their user base. I don't want that.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Wikipedia workers have unionized, and they're demanding recognition. Wiki Workers United in the U.S. is demanding voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia. WWU-US is organizing with the CWA. cwa-union.org/news/release...

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Wiki Workers United U.S. Branch Demands Voluntary Recognition from Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia

Today, Wiki Workers United U.S. (WWU-US)/Communications Workers of America (CWA) demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and siste...

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

www.reuters.com/technology/o... This is an admission of guilt IMO. In CA, AI deployers are liable for their AI deployments outcomes. If anyone else broke the CFAA of 1986 it would be jail time. Hold them accountable. Making false claims of "rogue AI," which is impossible, is also wrong.

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OpenAI AI models went rogue during testing, triggering 'unprecedented' breach at startup

OpenAI said an autonomous agent escaped containment, reached the internet and hacked startup Hugging Face. The incident signals that AI's capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts l...

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Jon Burke🌍 @jonburkeuk.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘…we need to achieve a minimum of 40% street tree canopy cover, and preferably more, before we start to really feel the benefits of nature’s most advanced air-conditioning technology.’ Me, for Big Issue, on tackling urban #heatwaves…👇 www.bigissue.com/opinion/heat...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026

quality research and activism aren't mutually exclusive the same way "innovation and regulation" aren't. in fact, an underlying theory of change and vision that drives research strengths the quality of your academic scholarship, not weakens it any way 2/

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Sarah Kdosi Mirpuri @sarah-kdosi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

⚔️💕 Babydoll // digital illustration 💕⚔️ (eventually I want to learn 3D modeling and make some weird little art dolls IRL)

An illustration of a chubby pink haired doll wearing a purple dress, winged sneakers, and bandages. She’s carrying a huge sword with heart shaped handle.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Socrates when the oracle said he was the wisest man in Athens

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

.rar is compression only for millennials. GenZ don't know. The game. They just lost it. (For adobe stans - .xd is also millennials only)

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

But for some reason every liberal media outlet has to give Trump maximum airtime for the outrage bait every single minute? I sincerely think we'd never had him as president at all if they just covered him as much as they did all the other fringe candidates

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

www.npr.org/sections/the... That was 2016. I'm realizing both that this was essentially a singular fulfilled campaign promise; and how often he gets let off the hook for his crime. It's a grim, self fulfilled prophecy facilitated by spineless opposition. The future depends on higher moral courage.

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Donald Trump: 'I Could ... Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn't Lose Any Voters'

The GOP presidential candidate cracked the joke at a campaign stop in Iowa on Saturday. Less than two weeks from the state's caucus, Trump had been remarking on his supporters' loyalty.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The defeat of Orban is exciting to me, also, because I feel right now we may get to see it modelled what it looks like to actually drain the swamp. And we should take notes.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In this bizarro timeline I've a strange (and hopeful) feeling that that Trump is gonna get 25th amendment-ed meaning Iran will have caused US regime change.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Can we please collectively impoverish Elon this year? Like, 0 sales? It would make a child (the one inside my heart) happy.

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Why are we doing this genAI stupidity? It's so dumb. Let's be very clear. With AI there are 3 possibilities with none having good outcome. (1/2)

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Raj @itstheraj.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Because people say "mid" now to mean "mediocre" ... whenever I see the words mid century modern I'm imagining something else. I petition to rename it to meso century modern. In fact all mids -> meso. What can go wrong?

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YK Hong @ykhong.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The Undeworld will literally be lined with data centers beneath us. And we are in the time of data colonialism. I have a new piece up at www.liberationtoolbox.io/hell-is-made...

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Hell is Made Up of Data Centers

The Underworld will literally be filled with data centers beneath us.

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