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Jennifer Brandes Hepler

@jbhepler.bsky.social
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Writing Director, Thought Pennies Entertainment.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
There are a ton of far right influencers selling themselves as pro-Palestinian who are building up their progressive audiences right now. When the time comes, they will: 1. Recruit some of the new audience into the far right 2. Use their audience to spread far right propaganda further
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Jennifer Brandes Hepler @jbhepler.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Any time you’re writing off an entire group for its existence, not specific behavior, you’re ripe for being steered into more extremist versions of that hatred.
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Victor Serge Memorial Library and Explosives Workshop @shawninstlouis.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Haaretz is paywalled, but this coverage from The Hill is not. thehill.com/opinion/inte...
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The symbiotic relationship between Netanyahu and Hamas
With Hamas in power in Gaza, coupled with a deliberately emaciated PA in the West Bank, Netanyahu could claim there was no Palestinian partner for negotiation.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
a piece exploring this concept www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | In a total betrayal of principle, Mike Johnson accepts election results
Just because it was an election that happened to make him speaker, did that make winning a majority of votes suddenly a legitimate way of obtaining power?
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22/10/2023
This is horrific, horrific news. May Sam's memory be a blessing that reminds us that we are all in this together. May her murderers be found and may they experience just consequences. May there be no more deaths of any kind. May there be safety and freedom for everyone.
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Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll found fatally stabbed outside her home
Samantha Woll, 40, led the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since 2022. Police have not announced a motive or suspect.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 20/10/2023
you don't sound any less like a nazi just because you swap in someone else for the jews
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
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I thought I had a clear pitch! “I have never passed any legislation, I want to burn everything down, and I am friends with Sean Hannity. Put me in charge, or someone will send you a series of weird texts!” Yet this has not been working! I also tried tweeting that it was time to put aside our differences and come together, but apparently nobody could read that sentiment from me without bursting into hysterical laughter.

So you understand now what I was doing. Why I have made it my business to undermine our democratic institutions! You thought I was trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election for my health? Just because I love chaos and want to throttle any thriving institution until it perishes? No! I was doing it because voting does not work out for me.
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Jennifer Brandes Hepler @jbhepler.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Extremely well put.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
"The defense of innocent civilians on all sides is not an obstructive legal doctrine or battlefield annoyance but the entire purpose of a just war against an enemy that set itself against humanity. Contempt for civilian life is the hallmark of terrorist regimes and actors, not liberal democracies."
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Statement by Congressman Jamie Raskin: “The Terrorist Attacks on Israel, Israel’s Right of Self...
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darth @comradedarth.bsky.social · 15/10/2023
Man kann einfach nur heulen
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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
(interviewing Twitter CEO) Interviewer: Musk said all users of X will be “combined into a single giant ball of flesh” and “the ball will be sentient, it will remember the people it used to be.” Is that true? CEO: He said that? Yes, he said that. We discussed it. I know all about the flesh ball
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Jennifer Brandes Hepler @jbhepler.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Can’t decide if it’s hopeful or just deeply ironic for Italy to project the Israeli flag onto the literal monument celebrating their destruction of Judea. I think right now I need to believe it is hopeful.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
I wrote about the compulsion to speak about things we can't change, the confusion between posting and doing, the emptiness of meaning that pushes us to silence, and children facing death in Israel and Gaza: theswordandthesandwich.substack.com…
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Speech and Speechlessness
On the world of words, and the world beyond them
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Happy Indigenous People's day, the crimes of the conquistadors were known and recorded not just by their victims but by their cultural and linguistic contemporaries.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Sending thoughts of love to my dear friends & family in Israel. The pain is immeasurable. Seeing story after story come in from loved ones about those passed, captured… words cannot express the horror. May this be the end, even as many of us are preparing for it only beginning.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 09/10/2023
A reminder that you do not have to personally observe violent images in order to bear witness to history, and no one is under any obligation to do so as a means of activism or showing support.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 09/10/2023
Anyone who has witnessed the mountain of misinformation around Israel on X/Twitter should know now just how dangerous it is. Imagine what it will be like in the 2024 election. This is what Musk wanted. He succeeded. Stop framing his purchase as a failure.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 08/10/2023
Abandoning Twitter is not only a moral imperative, but also an epistemic one. Any oxygen given to it through people’s content or engagement provides further reach for the misinformation, disinformation, and worse that now swamp the platform.
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
“we’d go bankrupt if we paid our workers what they’re asking” yeah me too, that’s why I do not get to have a company
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
Now we're talking! A trivalent nasal vaccine vs mumps, measles and Covid, broadly effective vs SARS-CoV-2 variants, with expected long duration (using preS-6P), in multiple experimental models pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Seems kind of like union busting www.polygon.com/23903782/dra...
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Jana Hall - ON FRIDGE DUTY @ugobananas.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Kind reminder that even just "playing around" with AI tools (as they exist now) contributes to this in a way that matters. Just don't do it.
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Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Bad working conditions for nurses literally mean bad patient care. Endless solidarity for every health care worker striking for better.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
One reason that American life expectancy is declining is GOP opposition to public health practices that save lives www.washingtonpost.com/health/inter…
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How red-state politics are shaving years off American lives
Along Lake Erie, three states show how Republican lawmakers’ decisions over decades on cigarettes and seat belts are shortening life spans.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2023
Not to get too on my high horse, but this is one of the reasons anti-vaxx has had such staying power in mom communities in particular. Medical sexism like this feeds pregnant person distrust, which drives folks to "natural" approach quacks, who then preach anti-vaxx to those same folks postpartum.
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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
GOP learns the hard way: Turning the base up too high blows out your Speaker
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/10/2023
A great week for vaccines: -mRNA vaccine researchers win Nobel Prize - second malaria vaccine approved by WHO - Novavax COVID-19 vaccine approved by US FDA
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 04/10/2023
speaker of the house doling out the charm ready with a handshake and an open palm makes a saucy deal speaker yes siree till he gets the boot for the pro tempore
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
why is everyone mad? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | I, Matt Gaetz, have done everything right!
Florida voters did not send Matt Gaetz to Congress expecting him to just sit idly by while people passed legislation to keep the country operational!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
In all the obits of Dianne Feinstein I'm genuinely shocked at the absence of credit being given for the CIA torture investigation, arguably her most unquestionable accomplishment
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Dianne Feinstein vs. the C.I.A.
To expose the torture program, the Senator fought the agency—and the White House.
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Hexcraft (goth bf era) @hexcraft.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
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grim reaper on a claw machine meme with the caption “Dianne Fennstein?? Is Henry Kissenger even in this thing”
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
I waited the bee out and wrote this wapo.st/3EZ0Zui
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Opinion | I am having the government shutdown nightmare again
There is a bridge to safety. Kevin McCarthy is setting it on fire.
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
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Ron DeSantis: I’m here! And you know who isn’t here? Donald Trump. I am a person who is physically present in this room, which is how people are always describing me, except in those times when they refer to my presence as “a kind of bleak, charisma-less void that just sat in the corner, devoured the life force of several children, then belched.”
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 27/09/2023
One of the best parts of the WGA deal: AI has now hit a brick wall in Hollywood, *and that includes adaptations.* Based on the deal, AI can't be source material. So if you're a publisher, AI novels or graphic novels or whatever just became that much less appealing because *they can't be optioned.*
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Anna Megill @annamegill.com · 27/09/2023
Congrats and thanks to all the WGA folks who fought hard and put their livelihoods on the line to win the first real pushback on AI that I've seen. Not allowing AI-generated source material in Hollywood is a huge win for ALL writers
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
The WGA has “established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:” www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...
Artificial Intelligence

We have established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:

AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material under the MBA, meaning that AI-generated material can’t be used to undermine a writer’s credit or separated rights. 
A writer can choose to use AI when performing writing services, if the company consents and provided that the writer follows applicable company policies, but the company can’t require the writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services. 
The Company must disclose to the writer if any materials given to the writer have been generated by AI or incorporate AI-generated material.
The WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by MBA or other law.
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the2scoops @the2scoops.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Hot damn, the WGA won. The summary of what's been agreed to is in the link but just, wow. www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 26/09/2023
Hello #Bluesky #authors #writers. You have been an amazing support of the SAG-AFTRA strike, & against AI misuse. Perhaps you might lend your signature to the letter against Data3, which unlawfully used thousands of books (including mine) to train AI. (Link to open letter in article)
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9,000 authors rebuke AI companies, saying they exploited books as 'food' for chatbots
A letter signed by 9,000 authors calls out AI companies for allegedly using the writers' books to train chatbots without consent, credit or compensation.
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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 21/09/2023
if only there was a quicker way one could use those poets, novelists and humanities experts to generate good writing. we will never know
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