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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 18h

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 4h

Minnesotans! The polling suggests this could be the case here. Don't get complacent.

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 7h

OMG HELL YEAH flove Anne Carson

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19h

And, of course, I wrote about this at @theflytrapmedia.com earlier this year, and this has been a topic of conversation in a LOT of circles for a very long time.

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Algospeak Will Be the Unaliving of Me

Maybe we want to bare our teeth.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 20h

I REALLY like this @anildash.com piece on 'unalive' and algospeak in general, particularly the exploration of the implications for a generation of people growing up steeped in it.

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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

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The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hi. I have something to say about Cornell and who needs to learn what about consent.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“You kidnapped my son”

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)

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Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools

According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar

At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026

And if you live in Texas and recently registered, you might not be. Check today. #BlueWaveIn30Days Get it handled. Then help somebody else do the same. IWillVote.com

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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026

Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The part I dont miss? Getting truly lost. I once tried to go to a party in Jamaica Plain & literally never found it. I tried and tried and tried and eventually gave up and went home. And at least then I knew how to find home! You had to ask for directions at gas stations if you got desperate. (3/3)

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

and the part I actually miss is over time, you would develop a really robust mental map. There was a time in my late 20s/early 30s I knew a ton of neighborhoods in the Boston area like the back of my hand, no directions needed. Now I use GPS so much Ive forgotten most of what I knew then. (2/3)

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just before GPS, there was @mapquest.com - you would print off directions and pray you didnt miss a turn bc then you were on your own. Before that, whoever was inviting you somewhere would literally give you turn by turn directions over the phone and you would write it down. BUT THE COOL PART (1/3)

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EducateUS @educateusaction.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When someone complains about sex ed in schools, all we hear is "I think the amount of rape in this country is just right. Keep it up, rapists!"

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Madisyn Parisi (they/them) @madisyn-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AI 🤝 Rape culture All the way down.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Here's what Tucker Carlson is up to when he talks to his own audience, instead of interviewers from NPR or NY Times: Explaining that white people are facing extinction and the ADL is trying to cover it up. He concludes, "Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence." www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carls...

TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): Again, what possible interest would the Anti-Defamation League have in attacking whites in South Africa who say they're being killed, especially since there are many, many hundreds who have been killed? And that's documented. That's not a guess, and it's not a conspiracy theory. And every single one of them was killed by a Black South African. This is intra-racial crime, and it is racially motivated.And the testimony of almost every survivor corroborates that. So why is it in the interest of the ADL not simply to deny it's happening, but to attack the survivors of it and their family members? You have to ponder that for a minute.

Here's Wikipedia's response to this racial conspiracy theory. Quote, white genocide is a political myth based on pseudoscience, pseudohistory, and ethnic hatred, and is driven by a psychological panic often termed white extinction anxiety.

White extinction anxiety, often referred to as white extinction anxiety. So let's just, I don't know, get the demographic numbers, which are publicly available for the biggest white countries in Europe and North America, and ask a really simple question. Is the percentage, the proportion, of the white population going up or down? Say over the past 50 years, has it gone up or down? Well, it's not only gone down, it's bottomed out. United States went from nearly 90% white over 60 years to probably less than half white.

So that's white extinction anxiety? No. Those are facts. So again, it's not enough to pretend that it's not happening. Wikipedia, like the ADL, like CBS News, like ABC News, feels the moral obligation to attack anyone who happens to notice what's happening. The facts are themselves racist. Objectively, again Wikipedia, white people are not dying out or facing extermination. The purpose of the conspiracy theory is to justify a commitment to a white nationalist agenda in support of calls to violence.

Noticing is hate. Noticing is violence.

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

just voted, thanks for the reminder!

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Purity test is shorthand for “you care about the people I have already decided are expendable.”

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

People have asked why we aren't involved with Neil deGrasse Tyson...this is why. @standupforscience.net does not endorse candidates with accusations of sexual misconduct and we do not collaborate with people who have accusations of sexual misconduct. PERIOD. Welcome to the matriarchy.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Update on this: ICE took down these reviews, which they initially posted. The site where they were now just says "not found." But @prospect.org downloaded the files when they were first available, and you can read them at our story.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

i hope that men notice how whenever a rape story gets widespread coverage, women use it as an opportunity to vent about how fucking disgusting we think many of you are and how many have made our lives measurably worse, and take a few moments to deeply process that.

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Gretchen Van Ness @gvlaw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Turns out there are effective existing programs that could be instituted immediately at colleges and universities everywhere.

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Teaching boys that 'real men' would stop rape

A project in Kenya is teaching boys how to intervene to stop sexual violence

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

think all straight people who discoursed at great and punishing length about a western mass lesbian bar should have to give equal airtime to this. it’s your own community this time!

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026

If you were in camp “focus on the important things” when they were restoring Confederate monuments and base names here but can recognize the danger there you may want to interrogate some things.

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Dr. Alexis Turner @surliertexan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI propagandists are more willing to believe a computer program feels pain than a woman or black person.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Susan Collins is always horrified by the predictable results of her own vote, which means Mainers who genuinely care about Susan Collins should elect Troy Jackson as he won’t vote for things that wind up upsetting Susan Collins, unlike Susan Collins

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...

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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 24/09/2026

One thing that encourages me is that despite individual Democrats capitulating on trans rights, I think if the polling holds, we will elect the most pro-trans congress and senate in US history.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

O hey Reminder that in (homophobic) '94 as Dookie was blowing up, Green Day picked queercore Pansy Division to open for them + a lot of venues pressured them to drop them as openers -- Green Day told the venues they wouldn't play if PD didn't - and the venues (mostly? all?) backed down. huh.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If the Dem consultant class were just "following the polls" they'd be encouraging candidates to go hard against "ai," stop arming the Israeli regime and embrace impeachment. They are doing the opposite, and their targeting of trans people is, likewise, about their own twisted ideology and cruelty.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2026

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care

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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is so important for so many movements (including the climate movement). If you read one thing this week, let it be this. Also, I just bought a bunch of books! Thanks, @chanda.blacksky.app!

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The Spectrum of Allies is Better than Pessimistic Binaries

A theory and tool that can help you rethink the work head

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/09/2026

okay while we’re all having a great time dunking on Ed Sheeran, and don’t let me stop you, but I just wanna pop in quickly and remind everyone that the “redheads don’t have souls” thing comes directly from medieval antisemitism, like directly, so let’s give that a miss. okay carry on

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

At this vital time in understanding propaganda and authoritarianism, a reminder that we have free copies of Copaganda for teachers, students, and anyone who sends books to people in prison. If you want copies, link is in next post! My grandma says the book is amazing.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

well, now we know why they didn't want him on video

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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

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AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore

The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

look I know Hacks doesn't need me to defend it but GODDAMNIT THAT FINALE WAS A WORK OF ENDURING ART GIVE IT A FUCKING EMMY ALREADY

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Out of concerns about antisemitism, I’m joining my friend Robert Kraft in banning Israel critic Macklemore from my stadium. Here’s a link for Kanye West tickets at that same stadium. by Jerry Jones

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He is, but the rank and file postal workers sure aren't

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A huge relief, at least in the short-term

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Jaclyn Friedman @jaclynf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tonight's Emmy red carpet trends seem to be blah colors and three-dimensional boob adornments and I would like a refund

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"More than anything, what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded in poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.

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