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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

"I asked ChatGPT, and--" ...the ghost of Ada Lovelace appeared and punched you in the face, I hope.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

With the Trump administration having terminated multiple contracts providing lawyers to unaccompanied migrant children, we're back to the bad old days of toddlers representing themselves against deportation.

In shelters across New York, migrant children sit in front of computer and TV screens, appearing virtually in real court proceedings. They swivel in chairs, walk in circles and play with their hair — while immigration judges address them on the screens in front of them. “The reason we’re here is because the government of the United States wants you to leave the United States,” Judge Ubaid ul-Haq, presiding from a courtroom on Varick Street, told a group of about a dozen children on a recent morning on Webex. “It’s my job to figure out if you have to leave,” ul-Haq continued. “It’s also my job to figure out if you should stay.” The parties included a 7-year-old boy, wearing a shirt emblazoned with a pizza cartoon, who spun a toy windmill while the judge spoke. There was an 8-year-old girl and her 4-year-old sister, in a tie-dye shirt, who squeezed a pink plushy toy and stuffed it into her sleeve. None of the children were accompanied by parents or attorneys, only shelter workers who helped them log on to the hearing.

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Melissa Barber @mbarber.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening. PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Portraits: A 10-year-old, a house painter and a mom who are running out of HIV pills

HIV medications were supposed to be exempt from U.S. aid cuts. In Zambia, for example, those on the ground say otherwise.

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Nick Michalak @nmmichalak.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“If you or I went to someone and went like hey look I’m going to lose $5B but I promise god will come out of the computer, they’d institutionalize you or me; they’d definitely institutionalize me.” @edzitron.com talking about OpenAI

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WIRED @wired.com · 16/04/2025

“I want people to know about what they did to Americorps. For many of us, this was our way to pay for college, to get away from home, to figure out what to do with our lives,” says 19-year-old Coloradan Noe Felix Burns, who was rebuilding houses in Philadelphia damaged by 2021’s Hurricane Ida.

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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs

The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is evil and awful and trans people everywhere deserve better than what's happening right now. And I think it's impossible to overtstate the pivotal role that JK Rowling played in mainstreaming hateful and false ideas about trans people. Every dollar you give her goes toward efforts like this.

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Seems like plainclothed agents who obscure their faces, roaming the streets, and kidnapping a student who is there on a valid visa without a warrant, in broad daylight, is a sign of how things are escalating in the US.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/03/2025

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow

As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“I never thought the leopards would eat MY face,” says the man who gave the leopards absolute immunity from criminal prosecution.

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We’re still not shopping at Target.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

from senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social chris murphy's recent floor speech, via @davidcorn.bsky.social ... link.motherjones.com/public/38940...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 11/03/2025

Get in loser, we're tanking the economy

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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, in which disabled activists discarded their mobility aids at the foot of the Capitol steps to climb them in support of passage of the Americans with Disabilities Ac. Jennifer Keelan-Chaffins, 8, told reporters "I'll take all night if I have to!"

Three people in sky blue shirts and jeans climbing the steps of the US Capitol, including a young blonde girl wearing a red and white bandanna around her head and turning to look at the camera

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/03/2025

Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

Picture of police guarding a Tesla dealership.

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EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Oh this is so very 🎯

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10/03/2025

It’s hard to reconcile the “they’ll go after ideologies they don’t like next” talk with the fact they’ve been openly targeting a whole suite of them associated with Black scholarship already. They’ve already threatened to defund any university teaching critical race theory. Why doesn’t that count?

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Josie Young @josieyoung.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident with a green card, was taken into custody by federal immigration authorities on Saturday night, who reportedly said that they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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‘Reeks of McCarthyism’: outrage after Ice detains Palestinian student activist

Arrest of Mahmoud Khalil a ‘targeted, retaliatory’ attack on his first amendment rights, say civil rights groups

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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

This all started with disappearing minors seeking asylum. Remember when they lost all them kids back in '17? We've had 8 years to prepare...

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

There’s nothing efficient about shutting down U.S. National Parks when they collectively bring in over $55B a year yet cost over $3.5B a year to upkeep. This is the kind of stupid bullshit what you do when you deliberately want to crash the economy.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

The AIDS Memorial Quilt displayed on the National Mall, October 1996, by James Di Loreto. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

thousands of quilts, each representing a life lost to hiv/aids

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Josie Young @josieyoung.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It’s the relentless stupidity that makes this all hurt so much more

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

How do you “accidentally” fire someone? Can the media stop pretending these aren’t just incredibly stupid people making stupid decisions that they aren’t qualified (or legally allowed) to make?

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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

If you are receiving social security survivor benefits I recommend getting all of your paperwork and documentation in order immediately

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New from 404 Media: a Musk ally has demanded administrative access to Notify.gov, a system that lets the government text the public. The access would give them large swathes of the publics' personal data too. A worker has resigned in protest rather than give access www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New investigation by @apnews.com on the IDF's use of OpenAI models in Gaza. I spoke to them regarding this first confirmation of commercial foundation models being directly used in warfare and the implications of using highly error-prone AI for life or death determinations apnews.com/article/isra...

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As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services.

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The word “women” is on the list.

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This is the Great Deconstruction. They want to dismantle everything they think enabled the Obama coalition and America's impending multiracial majority. They're preparing for white minority rule. They even hired a white South African expert consultant...

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 16/02/2025

They literally just did a search for key words and then fired everyone. This is the laziest fucking coup in history. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

The DOGE team identified 131 agencies within the federal government, then assigned one of at least 30 reviewers to examine all the agency’s sub-offices and employees. DOGE staffers searched each agency’s structure and personnel for the terms “diversity,” “equity,” “inclusion,” “DEI” and “justice.” Reviews were often completed within a day or two, records show.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Apparently, OpenAI is already aligning its LLM to the expectations of the new fascist government – racism, lies, and conspiracy theories will now be sold as «multiple perspectives on controversial subjects» techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/o...

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OpenAI tries to 'uncensor' ChatGPT | TechCrunch

OpenAI is changing how it trains AI models to explicitly embrace "intellectual freedom … no matter how challenging or controversial a topic may be," the

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 14/02/2025

Thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE, our adversaries now have access to sensitive information about one of our intelligence agencies. Elon Musk and DOGE staff should NOT have access to sensitive national security information. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

“People are scrambling” to see if their sensitive information has been accessed by Musk’s programmers, said one federal intelligence employee.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15/02/2025

A federal judge ordered the CDC to restore some pages that the Trump admin deleted. The pages were restored today, but they removed terms like transgender and nonbinary, and pinned this discriminatory note to the top of the pages.

Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 14, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

RFK Jr said he wants to send folks who are taking antidepressants and ADHD medications to "wellness farms" in rural America where they will be forced to labor by growing organic food to "cure their addictions." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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RFK Jr. wants to send people addicted to antidepressants to government "wellness farms"

The farms will "reparent" them.

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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 13/02/2025

A thing I have been saying for the past couple years is that AI is labor devaluation scheme. There are very few areas in which capitalists are so perturbed by costs as in labor. The goal is to reduce labor cost to nothing. There are only a few ways to achieve this. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

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Elon Musk’s A.I.-Fuelled War on Human Agency

Musk seeks not only to dismantle the federal government but to install his own technological vision of the future at its heart—techno-fascism by chatbot.

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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

with the industry doing so well now, im really regretting not going into oligarchy after college

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🔥 David Hell 🔥 @davidl206.city · 13/02/2025

Article is funny but this picture of the mayor is even funnier. This is the official facial expression of not just the mayor but this council. It's easy to picture Kettle, Saka, Moore, Rivera all making it too.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 11/02/2025

I can but they're all trans people

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 11/02/2025

Stop policing the politics of marginalized people and start demanding more from the politics of white cis abled people.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Bureaucracy is feminine (bad) and violence is masculine (good) is a worldview that’s opposed to the rule of law itself.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

“Yes, Donald Trump and his horde of monied incels are shredding the constitutional order and working to re-impose a racial & gender caste system on public life. But I had a self-righteous nonbinary undergrad in one of my classes, so who is to say whether the left or the right is worse?”-every pundit

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Surreal exchange I just had with an Education Dept operator to connect me with their press office. Q: What is the topic of your call? Me: "Oh, the dismantling of the Department of Education."

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Khadijah M Silver (they/them), JD/MPH @khadijah.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

They’re deleting websites while we watch the Super Bowl This one for CHILD TAX CREDITS

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