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@nausicaa.northsky.social
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librarian. coder. writer. game designer. bad at guitar. good at cats. also at xoxo.zone/@nausicaa. 🏳️‍⚧️ ᏥᏣᎳᎩ, ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ. she/they.

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nausicaa @nausicaa.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's now possible to remove #AppleIntelligence from your Mac and reclaim a few gigs of space a modicum of control on your machine github.com/omlahore/Rem...
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GitHub - omlahore/RemoveMacAI: Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible.
Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back. One command, fully reversible. - omlahore/RemoveMacAI
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
blog.documentfoundation.org
Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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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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bloodless girls @bloodless-girls.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
You can also get my music on the benefit compilations Always Here, vol. 1 & 2. All proceeds go to Iowa Trans Mutual Aid! alwaysherecomp.bandcamp.com/album/always... alwaysherecomp.bandcamp.com/album/always...
alwaysherecomp.bandcamp.com
Always Here: A Compilation of Sounds from Iowa, by Always Here
20 track album
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bloodless girls @bloodless-girls.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Or get it for slightly less on #Mirlo #BandwagonFM #Subvert & #JamCoop since, unlike #Bandcamp , they give musicians a fair cut every day of every month. - mirlo.space/bloodless-gi... - bandwagon.fm/69ca7fdf8120... - www.subvert.fm/bloodless-gi... - jam.coop/artists/bloo...
mirlo.space
pink pills for pale people
An album by bloodless girls Released 2026-03-21 Scruffy bedroom pop in the vein of Tobin Sprout, Lou Barlow, and Girly-Sound-era Liz Phair.
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bloodless girls @bloodless-girls.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey, it's #BandcampFriday ! A perfect day to buy pink pills for pale people on bloodlessgirls.bandcamp.com/album/pink-p...
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pink pills for pale people, by bloodless girls
4 track album
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bloodless girls @bloodless-girls.northsky.social · 02/10/2026
This #BandcampFriday help support the Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund and get yourself some of the finest sounds coming out of the Midwest! Get Always Here, volumes 1 & 2 today! alwaysherecomp.bandcamp.com
alwaysherecomp.bandcamp.com
Always Here
ALWAYS HERE is a series of compilation albums featuring songs, sounds, and poetry by Trans and Nonbinary people from Iowa. Proceeds go to the Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund
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bloodless girls @bloodless-girls.northsky.social · 24/09/2026
Show coming up next Wednesday in Ames! See you at Mary Jane's
Shadow Work presents The Black Dog U.S. Tour with Anchoress and bloodless girls on Wed, Sept 30th at Mary Jane's. $10. 9pm. 21+
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sure, on the one hand Muse doesn't really do anything, but on the other hand it opens up a massive attack surface on literally all your shit
arstechnica.com
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23/09/2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back. (Published March)
propublica.org
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 23/09/2026
🎉 Acorn is officially open. You can now create a space for your community on the open social web - no wait required. acorn.blacksky.community
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Mags Visaggio 🏳️‍⚧️ @magsvisaggio.com · 21/09/2026
please boost! clients have been slow in coming last couple weeks and i depend on this income
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nausicaa @nausicaa.northsky.social · 18/09/2026
Once again asking myself, "Am I going to end up subscribing to a sports website for its culture and animal content?"
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PFAS in the blood of 97% of Americans
fortune.com
Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool | Fortune
A new ChemSec report finds most of the world's largest PFAS producers are expanding output to meet demand from AI data centers.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
"white empiricism" is a shorthand for the broader ways in which white supremacist patriarchy assigns the property of "scientist" and "rational thinker" only to thinkers who embody white supremacist patriarchy in some legible way or who at least openly align with it
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Making Black Women Scientists under White Empiricism: The Racialization of Epistemology in Physics | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society: Vol 45, No 2
AbstractIn this article I take on the question of how the exclusion of Black American women from physics impacts physics epistemologies, and I highlight the dynamic relationship between this exclusion...
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404 Media @404media.co · 15/09/2026
Want to know what AI is up to? @jasonkoebler.bsky.social is here to tell you that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a 100% chance of being annoying as hell, and is already ruining the internet.
404media.co
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Counterpoint: raising the price of gas is the primary goal. In Canada, increasing demand (hence price) of fossil gas is viewed a key benefit of AI. www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...
desmog.com
Mark Carney Advisor Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ For Gas
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)
A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neckA photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."
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Jennifer Kelly @jenpkelly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“The Womack Sisters’ take on classic 1960s and 1970s soul in this debut album, slipping into the silky sophistication of the Supremes in one cut and honing the hard funk edge of LaBelle in another,” writes Jennifer Kelly. www.tumblr.com/dustedmagazi... @daptonerecords.bsky.social
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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 1 · The Womack Sisters — S-T (Daptone) · The Womack Sisters - Monster The Womack Sisters’ take on classic 1960s and 1970s soul in this debut album, slipping into the silky sophisticat…
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
5 years ago, there were over 100 multidisciplinary gender clinics for trans youth. Today, there are less than 31 (as of July 2026). bsky.app/profile/esqu...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Again, 5 years ago, none of these policies existed. 15 states require the forced outing of trans students 16 states ban medicaid coverage of gender affirming care 14 states have "Don't say trans" laws banning discussion of trans people's identities. 29 states have banned participation in sports.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026
Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth
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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
Censorship, AI, and the role of librarians in a country with crumbling public institutions.
404media.co
Fighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)
Censorship, AI, and the role of librarians in a country with crumbling public institutions.
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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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bloodless girls @bloodless-girls.northsky.social · 10/09/2026
Always Here, vol. II is out! Proceeds benefit Iowa Trans Mutual Aid Fund alwaysherecomp.bandcamp.com/album/always...
alwaysherecomp.bandcamp.com
Always Here: Volume II, by Always Here
29 track album
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king ned ludd 🇨🇦 @grumble.social · 10/09/2026
AI companies are setting up this boogeyman in order to get a bail out from governments when their money runs out and the power to data centers gets turned off.
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king ned ludd 🇨🇦 @grumble.social · 10/09/2026
LLMs don't do anything on their own, if they did every data center would melt into a puddle with the cost of a system generating an infinite amount of prompts for itself. Stop buying the hype. The only danger LLMs present is that they convince CEOs they can fire workers.
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king ned ludd 🇨🇦 @grumble.social · 10/09/2026
the thing I don't think non-programmers get about this "AI threat" nonsense is that the system currently needs to be manually proded to do anything. making it "autonomous" would require someone programming a feedback loop which could easily just be turned off with a fuckin' database flag.
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Trip Kirkpatrick @triplingual.myatproto.social · 09/09/2026
You are present in the moment,* and the data-you is present for the rest of the life of Apple's (and sooner or later the State's) servers.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This follows research from the Tech Transparency Project (@ttp-updates.bsky.social) that found more than 350 ads on Metas platforms in recent months that contain AI-generated child sexual abuse The TTP says that even today—after its report yesterday—more abuse ads have appeared on Meta's platforms
wired.com
Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: The San Francisco City Attorney has hit Meta with a cease-and-desist telling it to stop publishing ads with AI-generated child sexual abuse. The letter asks Meta why the same ads keep running. Meta says the ads didn’t run in San Francisco and they are outside the city attorney's jurisdiction
wired.com
San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
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nausicaa @nausicaa.northsky.social · 09/09/2026
Buddies, LLMs cannot become superintelligences. They can't become intelligences in any sense. They are (and by their nature always will be) non-sentient. They're inefficient statistics programs. LLMs do harm in numerous ways, but becoming evil megabrains isn't and won't ever be one of them.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
Essay from 2023 that I had not seen until now. “Pretending that AI poses an existential threat only elevates the status of the people closest to AI and suggests easier rules they’d love to play by. This is not a mistake society can afford to make.”
undark.org
AI Creators Want Us to Believe AI Is an Existential Threat. Why?
Opinion | A public fixation on extinction from AI could empower industry insiders and distract from AI’s more immediate harms.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Like "ai" is genuinely dangerous, but in the late capitalism "destroy your local communities and environment so the tech gentry can chase another scam" kind of way, not in the "give us more money to contain this awesome sci-fi power (that we made up, again)" p.r. way.
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
It is worth being highly skeptical, to put it mildly, of any claims coming from "ai" companies about how secretly powerful and dangerous their technologies are. Especially when serious signs of a bubble are beginning to show even to their backers and it gives them a handy excuse to do this.
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bloodless girls @bloodless-girls.northsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's #BandcampFriday ! Become the proud owner of "pink pills for pale people" today! bloodlessgirls.bandcamp.com/album/pink-p...
bloodlessgirls.bandcamp.com
pink pills for pale people, by bloodless girls
4 track album
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 03/09/2026
has everyone gone insane or what www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1passwo...
alilleybrinker.com
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CEO Faugno told employees the company doesn't endorse David Heinemeier Hansson's views (they're a lot like Lunduke's), noting that Omarchy is the 2nd most used Linux distro among 1Password's users: 1Password Just Pledged $300,000 to DHH's Omarchy, and its Own Employees Aren't Happy buff.ly/7TcEeEG
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1Password Just Pledged $300,000 to DHH's Omarchy, and its Own Employees Aren't Happy
Internal Slack messages show the CEO and cofounder gave staff two very different explanations for the decision.
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matt @matt.evil.gay · 03/09/2026
1Password just shooting themselves in the foot over and over and over and over and over
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FxChiP @fxchip.net · 03/09/2026
now is a great time to figure out getting off of 1Password www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...
theverge.com
1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 02/09/2026
Just added 12 more artists to HireHumanArtists.com! 🌟 We're 12 artists away from 600 who have pledged to NEVER use gen AI! #hha
hirehumanartists.com
Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists
Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
theverge.com
There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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Lum @brokentoys.social · 31/08/2026
anger is, in fact, an energy
brokentoys.org
Your Racist Linux Distro Is Very Nice
sometimes, you know, you should be judged Today I found out my password manager betrayed me. No, not like that - it didn't leak my bank account login to the Uzbek mafia or anything nearly that drama...
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mildmojo @mildmojo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Required reading. Really crushing to hear @frame.work doubled down on throwing money and support at Omarchy/hyprland, I used to really admire and advocate their modular hardware.
Screenshot from the quoted linked post: "Speak up on this. Boycott aggressively. Let people know you don't support Cloudflare, Shopify, 37signals, Dell, 1Password, Framework, Block, Coinbase, Dropbox, TapTap, and any other company enabling the spread of dangerous and harmful political ideologies that will continue to result in further violence and death. And let people know the harm these companies are actively doing."
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Matthew @mattleidholm.com · 02/09/2026
Hey @1password.bsky.social! I am a long-time family plan subscriber, I am disgusted that you are giving money to an avowed supporter of ethnic cleansing in Europe. Stop immediately, or I will unsubscribe. www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1passwo...
alilleybrinker.com
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/08/2026
feels like it’s inevitable these days that every tool you rely on is one garbage founder or funder away from their app’s version of this post
alilleybrinker.com
1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker
1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.
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