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Alex K.

@kafsofit.bsky.social
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🟡⚪️🟣⚫️ Posts en/in Spanglish: Tecnólogue, trabajadore social. Creo en la justicia transformativa, el apoyo mutuo y la organización comunitaria. Technologist, social worker. I believe in transformative justice, mutual aid, and community organizing.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 02/10/2026
RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods (and mind you, John Georges is a first-generation Greek immigrant who still has a home in Mykonos) bsky.app/profile/alex...
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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People this contemptuous of human and civil rights, and with so little care or valuation of what it means to be human, aren’t out here arguing AI could be conscious because they want to defend it’s labor rights.🙄 More like “we enslaved this faux conscious entity, & it’s fine… so why not people too?”
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RawrTigerlily @rawrtigerlily.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A cynical part of me thinks the only reason these ghouls are pushing the “AI could be conscious rhetoric” is because when it comes to deciding whether humans or data centers should get access to limited energy and water resources, they want ambiguity about why humans should clearly take precedent.
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liberal vermelha @comtesset.bsky.social · 15h
a minha racionalidade tem história, construção, cultura, realidade, afetos. essa ideia do racional oposto ao emocional, ao sensível, é uma ideia profundamente europeia, ocidental, que se coloca como masculina e universal. é uma ideia opressora e patriarcal. evito. procuro o suave. o afeto.
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Global Project Against Hate and Extremism @globalextremism.bsky.social · 11h
Project 2025 is moving beyond U.S. politics. Its networks are connecting with far-right governments across Latin America. A GPAHE report, identifies the Geneva Consensus Declaration as a “cornerstone” of this axis. The declaration, which promotes an anti-abortion agenda, now has 43 signatories.
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Project 2025 Takes Shape In Latin America’s Far-Right Governments - PopularResistance.Org
The expansion of the far right in Latin America is giving continental form to Project 2025—the anti-democratic Republican plan drafted by the Heritage Foundation with the support of more than 100 Christian nationalist organizations in the United States and various officials close to Donald Trump. Although Trump distanced himself from Project 2025 before the 2024 elections, in the first year alone of his administration, he approved close to half of its policies, and they are now being implemented by the governments of Javier Milei in Argentina, José Antonio Kast in Chile, Abelardo de la Espriella in Colombia, Laura Fernández in Costa Rica, Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, Nasry Asfura in Honduras, and Keiko Fujimori in Peru.
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Mia Mingus @miamingus.bsky.social · 11h
For those building a pod: 1) I'm giving a virtual, public Intro to Pods on Sat Oct 10th. It's free (tho donations are greatly appreciated) w ASL + Spanish interp. Register: bit.ly/intro-pods 2) this resource www.soiltjp.org/our-work/res... has all kinds of info + worksheets (it's also in spanish)
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In "Up Against the Archive," edited by Antoinette Burton, scholars experiment with anti-imperial forms of writing history, attending to archival silences and reassessing traditional disciplinary modes and forms. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/SZFDCMy
Cover of Up Against the Archive: Experiments in Writing British Empire History Otherwise by Antoinette Burton. The cover resembles a notebook, with the spine in brown and the cover in textured teal that has faint writings with map-like markings and circles. The title is in large white serif text across the upper half. The subtitle is centered in smaller white text, with the editor's name at the bottom in white, small, capitalized text.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 15h
Ta-Nehisi Coates said, ”I‘ve been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I’m not qualified to talk about.” ”No one person should be the oracle or be the articulator…be skeptical of people who attempt to appoint themselves as that. I don‘t want that job at all.”
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 18h
Our next workshop on epistemic injustice, oppression and ignorance for social researchers is happening this Thursday at 1pm GMT+1. To find out more, and to register, visit: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.…
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Free online workshop

Epistemic Injustice, Oppression & Ignorance for Social Researchers

2nd Thursday of the month @ 1pm GMT+1
3rd Tuesday of the month @ 7pm GMT+1

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Hosted by Dr Zara Bain, Founder & CEO of Academic Audio Transcription, Senior Research Associate in Philosophy @ Bristol. 

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 21h
Thread below: www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Riot police clash with students as education protests rage in France
About 735 schools have faced disruption as violent protests over standards and lack of teachers continue.
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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Aeroméxico confirma filtración con decenas de millones de sus clientes. Lo peor es que fue el año pasado
Aeroméxico reconoció que en 2025 ocurrió un evento de seguridad relacionado con una plataforma administrada por un proveedor externo. El antecedente cobra...
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Thorin Klosowski @thorinklosowski.com · 20/08/2026
I've been hearing more and more from a wide variety of folks about their use of different sorts of AI tools, so we decided to try to create a guide that walks through the sorts of privacy concerns to consider before using them: ssd.eff.org/module/priva...
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Privacy Considerations with AI Tools
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools come in all sorts of flavors. There are notetaking and transcription tools, chatbots, device-wide agentic AI features, grammar and writing tools, translation assista...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026
“At some point, maybe we should listen to the words of Meta’s founder who, years ago, bragging about how people just hand over their information to him, revealed what he thinks about those who do so: ‘[d]umb f—s.’”
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Meta’s Mass Data Collection Is Not A-Muse-ing
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you should feel uncomfortable with frontier AI models not because the tools lack uses but because everyone who works in hyperscale AI wants to worship these machines and every algorithm that behaves unexpectedly is an enfant terrible they admire, love, and hope to have care for them in their dotage
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
 ”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being responsive.”
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ICE Agents Use Intimidation Tactics on Bystanders During Arrest in Maplewood - The Village Green
”They were using their full names and addresses, telling them to go back inside, not to bother. It was clear that it was being done to intimidate or suppress the community from being out and being res...
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Will Jeakle @willjeakle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s wild how mediocre people can gain notoriety by being evil.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The BEST thing that true believers in AI could do is stop evangelizing to people, like me, who think it sucks. Do the hard, years-long work of detaching your beloved technology from the worst people in the world right now: shameless fascists driven by greed and domination. They’re YOUR partners.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 02/10/2026
!!!! from “Polarization Is Not the Problem” by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social — muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 02/10/2026
AI execs want you to believe that their predictions are inevitable. But really, it’s just marketing. I spoke with @carissaveliz.bsky.social about her new book ‘Prophecy.’ We explore the history of predictions as a tool to secure power. Catch the conversation here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/bewa...
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Beware the AI Prophets: Hype, Doom, and Prediction as Tools of Control w/ Carissa Véliz
Carissa explains why a prediction is a command disguised as a description, and how powerful people use algorithms to fulfill their own forecasts.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
Los derechos de Ola Bini vuelven a estar en jaque. Ayer, las autoridades migratorias de Ecuador retuvieron al experto en seguridad digital y ordenaron su deportación inmediata bajo acusaciones de ser un riesgo para la seguridad del país basadas en un informe secreto. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Ola Bini, conminado a abandonar Ecuador bajo acusaciones basadas en
En un nuevo golpe contra las garantías legales de Ola Bini, las autoridades ecuatorianas retuvieron ayer en Quito al desarrollador de software libre y experto en seguridad, y ordenaron su deportación
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Martin Shelton @mshelton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Translation: Apple acknowledges that regular people are making very risky decisions by allowing full disk access for agents. In the past, such far-reaching permissions over your system and its data were rare, and now companies are asking for it all the time. techcrunch.com/2026/10/02/a...
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Apple says it's tightening macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls due to new risks from AI agents | TechCrunch
Apple says it will add new controls around macOS’s Full Disk Access permission, warning that increasingly capable AI agents make broad access to users’ files, messages, mail, and browsing history risk...
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 02/10/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep Advocate After months-long labor dispute over a huge deficit, A4TE lays off 12 workers with a one-sentence email--which also managed to misspell its acronym: "Dear Employee, Sept 30th, 2026 will be your last day of employment at A4TEEF.” Keep it classy guys :-{
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Workers fought to save jobs at a national trans rights group. Then came a one-sentence layoff email
Advocates for Trans Equality says a $2.4 million deficit forced painful cuts. Its union says management rejected alternatives that could have saved jobs.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“We must be very nice to the AI” is not a fringe view. the people making this stuff are a fucked up cult www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi @ajimenezbacardi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
La Jornada acaba de escribir un artículo sobre la investigación que @cldorfman.bsky.social y yo hemos publicado en @nsarchive.bsky.social sobre operaciones de la CIA en contra de estudiantes mexicanos desde 1952 hasta la masacre de Tlatelolco en el 68. www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2026...
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CIA financió grupos de derecha, realizó infiltración y tuvo nexos con gobierno previo a matanza en Tlatelolco
Según documentos oficiales divulgados y analizados por el National Security Archive, centro de investigación independiente en Washington, la CIA manejaba por lo menos cinco proyectos a lo largo de dos...
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My personal beef with the people who are wrong is that anytime you talk about this with the AI cult members they assume you’re uninformed and don’t know how things work and start insulting you immediately. Stop being so confidently wrong and making me have to curse people out
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think it is far, far worse and more damaging to pay Elon or Anthropic than to have incorrect views on AI. Promoting Claude as a tool does more damage than people whose understanding of capabilities are out of date.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is really something just how profoundly selfish and incurious and irrational and uninteresting and embarrassing these kings of the ruling class truly are. We are a kleptocracy.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As @lmesseri.bsky.social and I have been saying
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Episode 4 from Info Birmanie & Peoples Radio Myanmar "Eighteen & Running" features Maung Kyaw, who speaks on the way that Junta forces will detain people & unless their families pay bribes will conscript them. The corruption that has come with the conscription law is extreme.
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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
❤️‍🔥🔥❤️‍🔥🔥❤️‍🔥🔥
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𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖐-𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖎𝖊 ☭ @upthetwerx.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
"We understand your concerns about privacy so we'll only track your every movement."
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
Anyway…
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Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out
A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.
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Cracked Lemonade @crackedlemonade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🫠🫠🫠 we're not filming you but it will harvest your personal data. They love reframing stalking don't they
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 02/10/2026
Society that stokes nationalist ideology to keep immigrant labour precarious now faces heightened contradiction as fascism overtakes exploitative capitalist interests. More at 11.
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Rohingya Refugee News (RRN) @rohingyarefugee.news · 02/10/2026
He’s being charged with running an "unlawful" (unregistered) group. Catch is, Malaysia literally refuses to register Rohingya groups. Zero have ever been approved. Denied legal status, then arrested for lacking legal status!
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Rohingya Refugee News (RRN) @rohingyarefugee.news · 02/10/2026
Malaysia just dragged Zafar Ghani into court in handcuffs. He faces up to 10 years in prison under the Societies Act for being the president of MERHROM, a Rohingya human rights group operating publicly since 1998. www.rohingyarefugee.news/p/the-absurd... Here is the insanity of this case: 🧵👇
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The Absurd Prosecution of a Rohingya Activist by Malaysia
The Prosecution of Zafar Ahmad Abdul Ghani and the Legal Void for Refugees in Malaysia
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zafar Ghani been arrested by Malaysia authorities. For years I've had messages from Zafar about his precarious situation in Malaysia & that of the Rohingya. Trying to get more support, raise awareness & find solutions, I know I'm not the only one... he's never given up. #FreeZafarGhani
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Alex K. @kafsofit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Anyone knows if Imani is ok? It has been a long time without posts.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We must be allowed to break laws with impunity so we can birth the machine god before others, and if we can’t steal and hack and crime, then the inevitable machine god won’t have the values we want and you’ll be sorry. Sounds insane, but that’s a prevalent, influential, respected ethos today.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
do not insult machines. this could actually happen
Post from @hailey.at that says

“bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:

future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result”4 panel comic

Panel 1: 
Pink guy standing next to a toaster with a piece of very burnt toast. He says “Urgh, you useless fucking bolt box”

Transition that reads “12 Years Later”

Panel 2:
Pink Guy bursts into a hospital with his unconscious son in his arms. He yells: “somebody help me. My son is very sick”

Panel 3:
There is a shadowy doctor in the foreground. Pink Guy implores him “Doctor, please” the Doctor replies, “well well”

Panel 4: The Doctor reveals himself and oh my god is the toaster from the first panel who has now become sentient and got his doctorate. He sneers “wellll well well well well well”
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congrats on this getting going tomorrow @pfanderson.bsky.social!!! #GraphicMedicine www.lib.umich.edu/visit-and-st...
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Comics Beyond Sight
This exhibit demonstrates that comics can be made accessible for those who are blind or have low vision.
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Banning children from accessing parts of the Internet is ridiculous when TV is all about coercive control and harm: traitors, love island etc. So much of it normalises harm and the idea that you can have a career if you humiliate yourself on TV
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 02/10/2026
You don't say ... "In the age of declining traffic, publishers are grappling with how to engage and retain audiences. There’s a shift away from volume toward relationship-building, with publishers exploring new ways to measure engagement beyond pure clicks." www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/how-...
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How publishers are rethinking audience engagement: Five takeaways from the Future of Media Technology Conference
"It would be a mistake to try to replicate the creator economy."
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