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@michaelwashboard.bsky.social
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MW (/ɛm ˈdʌb.jə/), he/him cis male, 21 years old Autistic Musician from USA, communist. See my Newgrounds paej for cool stuff michaelwashboard.newgrounds.com www.tumblr.com/michaelwashboard Banner photo: Francis Barraud's Nipper

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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And by war! The Soviet economy did benefit from this defeat of fascism. Read this scientific paper from 1986 which compares socialist and capitalist countries: leftypol.org/edu/src/1608... ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
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Economic development, political-economic system, and the physical quality of life. | AJPH | Vol. 76 Issue 6
This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development. The World Bank was the principal source...
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
1. The UK didn't fight the majority of the war, the USSR's red army did. 8.7 million red army personnel died to Nazis, while the UK's army AND civilian deaths to Nazis didn't even add up to 1 million. 2. The Soviet Union—when they won—gain much freedom from invasion, allowing more economic growth.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
who profess other religions, but a religious test of citizenship seems to me to be only admitted by those who take a bigoted and narrow view of one particular epoch of the history of Palestine, and claim for the Jews a position to which they are not entitled." ~Edwin Montagu
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"When the Jews are told that Palestine is their national home, every country will immediately desire to get rid of its Jewish citizens, and you will find a population in Palestine driving out its present inhabitants. […] I would not deny to Jews in Palestine equal rights to colonisation with those …
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Edwin Montagu (A Jewish Briton and Liberal member of parliament) was willing to call out Zionism and the Balfour Declaration, for its Jewish discrimination and Nationalism, in his 1917 Memorandum "The Anti Semitism Of The Present Government", why can't you? archive.org/details/the-...
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The Anti Semitism Of The Present Government
Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Balfour Declaration.
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mr-yoyito.bsky.social @mr-yoyito.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excellent political cartoon. It’s too bad Ed Sheeran won’t get it.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yeah, I bet it's "AI" too, how orignal. 🙄
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Everybody super sonic racing, are causing accidents on the road When you're super sonic racing, car traffic is just slowed You're just super sonic racing, taking up spots for my car to park Everybody super sonic racing, come on, just move to Denmark."
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They had to nerf sonic by putting him in a car, that's why Sonic & All-Stars Racing exists, because they removed the Sonic lane from Sonic R.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And, Jewish Briton and Member of Parliament Edwin Montagu said in his 1917 memorandum 'The Anti Semitism Of The Present Government': "When the Jews are told that Palestine is their national home, every country will immediately desire to get rid of its Jewish citizens." archive.org/details/the-...
2. When the Jews are told that Palestine is their national home, every country will immediately desire to get rid of its Jewish citizens, and you will find a population in Palestine driving out its present inhabitants, taking all the best in the country, drawn from all quarters of the globe, speaking every language on the face of the earth, and incapable of communicating with one another except by means of an interpreter. I have always understood that this was the consequence of the building of the ‘Tower of Babel, if ever it was built, and I certainly do not dissent from the view, commonly held, as I have always understood, by the Jews before Zionism was invented, that to bring the Jews back to form a nation in the country from which they were dispersed would require Divine leadership. I have never heard it suggested, even by their most fervent admirers, that either Mr. Balfour or Lord Rothschild would prove to be the Messiah, < Telaim that the lives that British Jews have led, that the aims that they have had before them, that the part that they have played in our public life and our public institutions, have entitled them to he regarded, not as British Jews, but as Jewish Britons. I would willingly disfranchise every Zionist. I would be almost tempteil to proscribe the Zionist. organisation as illegal and against the national interest. But I would ask of a British Government sufficient tolerance to refuse to endorse a conclusion which makes aliens and foreigners by implication, if not at once by Jaw, of all their Jewish fellowcitizens.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Zionism NEVER represented all Jewish people (rather they be Jewish Englishmen, Jewish Americans, Jewish Russians), Zionism represents Jewish Israelis and their nationalism. Zionism is the land theft and genocide of Arabs for the benefit of Israelis, not American Jews, but the Israelis who colonize.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Museum of Jewish Heritage hosted a "Rage Against the Hate" conference, where speaker Melanie Phillips said "There is no such thing as Palestine, there is no such thing as the Palestinian people." www.instagram.com/reel/DRdSqyI...
Instagram post by middleeasteye

During a speech at the "Rage Against the Hate" conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City last month, British columnist and broadcaster Melanie Phillips claimed there is "no such thing as the Palestinian people" and only Jewish people "have any entitlement" to historic Palestine.

“The Jewish world has never told the rest of the world that the indigenous people of the land of so-called Palestine are the Jews, that the Jews are the only people who have any entitlement to any of this land, an entitlement based in law, in history and morality,” she said.

Phillips, who writes for The Times, also claimed the "West" is facing a "death cult" in the "forces of Islam"
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nope. Pointing out that a mayor that refused to follow up on his promises to arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, then started funding Zionist institutions (like the Museum of Jewish Heritage), is not Jewish discrimination www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lt...
Brief TLDR re: Zohran-
Zohran has exposed his Zionism in full the past week.
- Protected Netanyahu when he could/should arrested him
- Met with Alex Soros, Trump. Endorsed Hakeem & Hochul.
- Formed a NYC business advisory council with the biggest Zionist billionaires including someone with strong ties to former AIPAC leadership
- Launched "the first municipal effort to combat antisemitism"
- Peddled NSPM7 pre-crime "left violence" hoax
- Jessica Tisch, SRG unit, arresting our comrades
- Diverted city funds towards Zionist institutions
- Barred protests from synagogues hosting illegal land sales of Palestine
- Zohran called for regime change in Cuba and Venezuela
- did PR for BARACK OBAMA, the BUTCHER of Libya himself
- He postered as a radical anti-zionist to buy votes during his campaign, even saying things like "globalize the intifadah," but after he got elected he switched up on nearly all of his rhetoric and became a textbook liberal Zionist.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hey, it's better than reading the Transphobic Times.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly worrying, when people start caring more about the health of some computer code, over the social murder committed by capitalists—non the less how car companies profit off of pushing car centric infrastructure, that ends in 36 thousand car fatalities in the United States alone.
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society’ places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live—forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence—knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which

1 When as here and elsewhere I speak of society as a responsible whole, having rights and duties, I mean, of course, the ruling power of society, the class which at present holds social and political control, and bears, therefore, the responsibility for the condition of those to whom it grants no share in such control, This ruling class in England, as in all other civilized countries, is the bourgeoisie. But that this society, and especially the bourgeoisie, is charged with the duty of protecting every member of society, at least, in his life, to see to it, for example, that no one starves, I need not now prove to my German readers. If I were writing for the English bourgeoisie, the case would be different. (And so it is now in Germany. Our German capitalists are fully up to the English level, in this respect at least, in the year of grace, 1886.)

The Condition of the Working-Class in England (1845), page 95

Next to the book excerpt, is a picture of Friedrich Engels from 1845.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sound the alarms, we have someone more politically unaware than DT here! DT was born to a capitalist family, and made his business in real estate. SOCIALISTS DO NOT ADVOCATE FOR PRIVATE PROPERTY.
URL: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch02.htm

All property relations in the past have continually been subject to historical change consequent upon the change in historical conditions.

The French Revolution, for example, abolished feudal property in favour of bourgeois property.

The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man’s own labour, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.

Hard-won, self-acquired, self-earned property! Do you mean the property of petty artisan and of the small peasant, a form of property that preceded the bourgeois form? There is no need to abolish that; the development of industry has to a great extent already destroyed it, and is still destroying it daily.

Or do you mean the modern bourgeois private property?

But does wage-labour create any property for the labourer? Not a bit. It creates capital, i.e., that kind of property which exploits wage-labour, and which cannot increase except upon condition of begetting a new supply of wage-labour for fresh exploitation. Property, in its present form, is based on the antagonism of capital and wage labour. Let us examine both sides of this antagonism.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don't forget attribution, the image's Creative Commons license demands it. Image by Mikael Colville-Andersen www.flickr.com/photos/16nin...
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A Short History of Traffic Engineering
Part of the design series of posters I made
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Same people who used Asian racism in their "Team America" movie. www.youtube.com/watch?v=flVk...
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Team America Is More Offensive Than You Remember
YouTube video by Yousef AbdulHusain
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Something needs to be done!" "Oh, we should shut down this restaurant before this becomes deadly" "Wait, no no no, not that way" "We should make and enforce more food regulations" "No, not that way either"
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"You are afraid of exe files because of viruses, I'm afraid of exe files because of Sonic.exe. We are not the same."
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
BTW, this video animation below came from Spooky Scary Socialist's video "Debunking Every Anti-Communist Argument Ever ", from timestamp 9:56 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjwL...
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Þis science paper from 1986 uses data from þe World Bank, and read its findings heavily suggests þat socialist did indeed provide food to workers. Economic Development, Political-Economic System and the Physical Quality of Life leftypol.org/edu/src/1608... ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Abstract: This study compared capitalist and socialist countries in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account the level of economic development. The World Bank was the principal source of statistical data for 123 countries (97 per cent of the world's population). PQL variables included: 1) indicators of health, health services, and nutrition (infant mortality rate, child death rate, life expectancy, population per physician, population per nursing person, and daily per capita calorie supply); 2) measures of education (adult literacy rate, enrollment in secondary education, and enrollment in higher education); and 3) a composite PQL index. Capitalist countries fell across the entire range of economic development (measured by gross national product per capita), while the socialist countries appeared at the low-income, lower-middle-income, and upper-middle-income levels. All PQL measures improved as economic development increased. ***In 28 of 30 comparisons between countries at similar levels of economic development, socialist countries showed more favorable PQL outcomes. (Am J Public Health 1986; 76:661-666.)***

[Skipping ahead to the other highlighted text] ***The World Bank's statistical reporting tends to be conservative,*** in the sense that overly enthusiastic statistics reported from specific countries are appraised and adjusted to obtain more accurate figures. Most importantly, the data are readily available for inspection and reanalysis by other scholars.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Capitalist class said "the superstructure of education doesn't conform to the industrial base", so they privatize and defund schools until it benefits the capitalist class. That's why AI is pushed super hard.
Diagram explaining the marxist Base-Superstructure dialectic. The image only mentions the means of production without taking into account the other category of productive forces, which is labor power.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Base-superstructure_Dialectic.svg
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"We asked all the big capitalists how much they enjoyed capitalism, and they responded with 'couldn't be happier!', but when we asked the small capitalists, they had a lot to complain about. We didn't reach out to working class people for their comment. Don't we all love the freedom of speech"
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/09/2026
Zohran Mamdani released 170K documents revealing that post-9/11 asbestos levels remained dangerous for months, despite officials saying the air was safe. As we saw at the start of COVID, officials still treat essential workers as expendable. This is a long-overdue step in the right direction.
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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️🐧 @redkagami.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
an underrated part of classic Star Trek is that the mechanics of every farfetched sci-fi plot were calmly explained at a nice staff meeting I really start to miss those when watching a modern SF plot that refuses to give a proper speculative explanation of the "science" part
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Joan of Arcades 🏳️‍⚧️🐧 @redkagami.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
- Roger E. Olson, The Mosaic of Christian Belief this is a great disclaimer that explains a lot of disconnect I have when discussing Christian doctrine with people - I'm primarily interested in what Christians *should* believe given their textual sources, not the sociology of existing beliefs
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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I'm muting "goo goo ga ga". i'm a grown man
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And when the working class (no matter their cultural background), will fight to raise their wages and gain more rights, the power of the capitalist class falls. As such, fascism arises from the decay of capitalism (falling of profits), to regain power and profits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnZ...
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Fascism & Social Revolution (1935) by Rajani Palme Dutt. Preface & Introduction. Marxist Audiobook.
YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's always anti-critical thinkers that have such hatred for Marxism, and does so blindly. Your hatred means nothing, if you can't disprove the theory of Marxism, which analyzes that the rate of profits will fall under capitalism's continued development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lskj...
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Capitalism Really Sucks, But Why?
YouTube video by Hakim
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Marxismus-hass: þͤ hatred of Marxist philosophy, and motivated attack to discredit all forms of Marxism, all forms of Socialism, and labeling all leaders of socialists countries as "evil dictators". People wiþ þis hatred also use þͤ pejorative tankie to mimic þe scientific racism language of Semite.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's the capitalist state protecting the capitalist class, it's the brotherhood of evil. www.marxists.org/history/erol...
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Proletarian Dictatorship Vs Bourgeois “Democracy”
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Non short URL link: archive.org/details/a-pl...
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Papa Mac @itspapamac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If you're still using Twitter as your main channel for announcements, here's a wakeup call to find somewhere else to post/share from. Remember, people without an account are VERY limited to what they can see when you share a Twitter link. You're closing the rest of the world off.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.flickr.com/photos/ercan...
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Injustice
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Sumathi Reddy is a sham writer, and this corp should be ashamed of publishing this.
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Socialism for All (S4A) ☭ Intensify Class Struggle @socialismforall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"We're criminals"
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micchiato 🎋 @micchiato.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
“Lebanese woman, Saja Sharara, was killed in an Israeli occupation strike on the town of Arabsalim in Al-Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, two days after her wedding.”
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 27/08/2026
Don’t worry guys socialists can take over the party no problem
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8Ui... www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
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What Lenin Understood about Organizing (that many Leftists still don't)
YouTube video by Bes D. Marx
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Also, go impale your brain with your "perfect candidate" shit, a genocide isn't done by one person, nor would a "choose one" be able to overturn centuries of racism and systematic oppression, done by the state. The organization—the collective—is much more powerful, and that's what communist use.
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You're a grown ass adult, you know quite well how childish saying this is. This is like saying "If you hate your boss so much, why don't you make your own successful business, you brokie." www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHQQ...
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Socialism 101 vs Electoralism: Do Communists Vote in Capitalist Elections? | Marxist-Leninist Reacts
YouTube video by Socialism For All ☭ Intensify Class Struggle
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Socialism for All (S4A) ☭ Intensify Class Struggle @socialismforall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Hasan Piker is the kind of "left" opponent the Democratic party wants - clueless on theory, vibes-based, a narcissist
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🩸𝕯𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝕿𝖆𝖗𝖔𝖚🩸 @darktarou.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A small tribute to the one and only Dolly Parton! 💕
Dolly Parton playing a guitar with roses around her turning from wilted to fully blooming
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Oh yeah, then why did most Soviet citizens vote to keep the Union back in 1991? 77.85% voted yes to "Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, […]" "will not work" my ass en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_So...
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1991 Soviet Union referendum - Wikipedia
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Riley did a very good blog about this as a Library Science nerd that’s worth reading aftermath.site/google-searc...
And in this presumption, Google tries to narrow and direct my search behavior in a way that infuriates me as a library science nerd. No database is neutral, but they generally tend to stay out of your way. When you go to your local library catalogue, your desires (and your skill at using a particular repository) are what move you through, not the library catalogue nudging you toward what it thinks you should be searching for.
Google, uninvited, attempts to steer me down the path it boldly presumes I mean to go, in the process inherently attempting to limit the information I encounter by pushing me toward itself instead of actual results.
Google has always done this with its opaque and changing priorities, but that priority has changed from making websites conform to its whims to trying to force me to conform to its obsession with Al.
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Neil Ramsay @neil-ramsay.com · 21/08/2026
🧵 Okay... I want to talk about just how BAD the conclusion is in this study, because I'm sure you're going to hear about it in the coming months. In this study, they took a bunch (up to 160,000) public domain images, fed them into a diffusion model, and asked it to create an image. 1/
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When AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
Images generated by AI models trained on massive datasets often can’t be traced to specific training images, MIT CSAIL researchers found. Removing individual images from the dataset didn’t change outp...
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 21/08/2026
"It should not have to be said that no word puzzle app is more important than our lives. No amount of recipes, book reviews and “serious” journalism are worth our rights to exist, as ourselves... These things can all be found elsewhere, in better quality and far less stained by our blood."
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MW @michaelwashboard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gZ2...
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The Reason You're Poor (It's more than just taxes)
YouTube video by Hakim
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