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Dave Stevens

@noviceanarchist.bsky.social
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Settler on stolen Clackamas, Cowlitz, Chinook land. Free Palestine. Antifascist BLM Trans rights are human rights. He/him

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 6h
AI has talked kids into suicide, fueled paranoid delusional that led to murder, degraded education quality in both k-12 and higher ed, run roughshod over copyright law, increased spam, fueled spam, fueled fraud, degraded the environment, put people out of work, the list goes on and on.
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am less than 10 minutes into this interview and the analysis from @timnitgebru.blacksky.app is absolutely razor sharp. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI Says Timnit Gebru
Podcast Episode · Uncanny Valley | WIRED · September 29 · 32m
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Arizona Right Watch @azrww.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The only world fascists envision is one of metal beams that protects their concrete prisons. These trees did more for our world than any one of these fuckass brownshirts ever could.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
Remember when us phil-tech types said effective altruism was just utilitarianism taken to its worst possible extents? This is what we meant: Real harm for unquantifiable potential benefit. "…'we believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology….'"
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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI
The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A friend introduced me to The Mighty Mighty Boss Tones in college back in 1992. TODAY, while listening to a Dropkick Murphys song about the Red Sox, I realized that the Boss Tones are from Boston. Pretty sharp, I know.
Mighty Mighty Bosstones at Riot Fest 2017
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
AI has lost the Mandate of Heaven I’m afraid. WSJ saying it’s a “when” the ai bubble bursts. SNL dabbing on their biggest names for being weird. FT says 50% of chips sold in 2026 and 2027 have nowhere to go. Hundreds of billions short on revenue for even 10% ROIC. A disaster.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a few months of living the AI native lifestyle, I now believe the default state is that it makes you worse at your job overtime as you understand less and hand off more thinking to AI. You’re more productive but it takes a lot of effort for your work quality not to drop precipitously.
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SometimesPDX @sometimespdx.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Christine Drazan on a podcast agreeing with the hosts that schools need to stop encouraging diversity, equity, and inclusion and stop affirming trans kids. Drazan uses lots of dog whistle and euphemisms so her transphobic, homophobic, and white supremacist MAGA audience knows exactly what she means.
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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
theonion.com/reince-prieb...
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Reince Priebus Forced Back Into Ancient Puzzle Box After Being Tricked Into Saying Name Backwards
WASHINGTON—Startled sources at a GOP fundraiser confirmed Thursday that after being duped into saying his own name backwards, ancient elfin mischief-maker and Republican National Committee chairman Re...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What I want white folks to understand is when you let your friends, business partners, elected officials, consultants talk about us this way, we don’t trust you either. So ask Walmart & Hewlett Packard about the ppl they pay as lobbyists.
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P🐸X Protest Info @pdxprotestinfo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Transphobes OUT Of Portland! Defend Portland from Tommy Allen and other far right extremists. Sunday, September 20th at 3:30pm at the Sports Bra.
Transphobes out of Portland!
-Thomas Allen out of Portland!
-Say no to Trump and MAGA!
-Right wing extremist Thomas Allen is planning another protest at the Sports Bra to harass trans people. He attacks anti-ICE and anti-Trump protests and police refuse to arrest him! Defend Portland from his hate!
-Sunday, September 20th
-Meet at 3:30 PM
-2512 NE Broadway, Portland, OR 97232
-FRSO
-PDXCD
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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If a politician abandons or betrays a marginalized group and then loses the votes of that group and people who care about them, I would simply pressure the candidate to do better instead of trying to individually scold and pester every voter. That just seems like common sense, to me.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I used to frame this as: If we could pass a constitutional amendment guaranteeing trans people access to comprehensive gender-affirming healthcare, the bathroom of their choice, etc., in exchange for us giving up sports, do you think the people who don't want trans people in sports would go for it?
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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“There are people in my community, and people who share my values, who are having that experience around Steinem’s death. These are people I care about, and people I intend to struggle alongside. If I do not take their experience of grief seriously, I will incur a cost for that choice.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026
moulton is a good example of someone who fucked up his career because he misread 2024. many such cases.
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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
“History will judge them harshly,” requires that we, “Speak ill of the dead.”
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 16/08/2026
I don't know how I can even be surprised anymore, honestly, but here the fuck we are I guess
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 12/08/2026
Now it has been nine years since anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally, an effort to establish a fascist street movement. Today, many of these fascists are working for ICE. The fight continues. crimethinc.com/Charlottesvi...
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Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024
Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. A retrospective.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“We would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists and the antifascists… They saved our lives, actually. We would have been completely crushed, and I’ll never forget that.” - Dr. Cornel West crimethinc.com/2017/08/17/w...
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Why We Fought in Charlottesville
I am one of the thousands of people who confronted Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. This is what would have happened if we hadn't confronted them.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/08/2026
Democratic 'strategists': You guys we gotta just steadily erode trans rights because they're too divisive, too bad, so sad Democratic voters:
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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I’ve been a nurse for over twenty years. I like to periodically share this, especially whenever vaccines are in the news. I was antivax when my kids were born. I had little trust in the medical establishment and I was determined to protect the most precious beings I had ever seen. 1/4
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 10/08/2026
We told you this would happen. ♥️🕊️👍🏿
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10/08/2026
Evil.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
🏳️‍⚧️ Please read, use, and share these safety resources for trans folks and their allies! 🧵
Resources for trans people & allies swipe!! IC logo
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matthew @pahuski.com · 10/08/2026
The ads alone are worth the price of The Onion’s print edition
Ad in The Onion: a stock photo of a man holding his neck in pain, with the United Healthcare logo and the text: “Walk it off.”
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 10/08/2026
For my newsletter, I spelled out once simple trick for the WNBA to shut down that transphobic publicity stunt by two former NBA players: www.burnsnotice.com/heres-how-th...
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Here's How the WNBA Can Win the Anti-Trans Controversy
The league has a golden opportunity to make a definitive and educational point about trans athletes–if it has the courage to do it
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Joshua Bowman @thalesdisciple.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Working on an A.I. policy for my calculus classes. Decided to be upfront about the current situation with LLMs and to give a heartfelt explanation for why the course still matters.
Al policy

Context

Artificial Intelligence, or "A.l.," Is a broad term used to refer to several different kinds of technologies. The kind most relevant to this class are Large Language Models (LLMs), which use mathematics to analyze large amounts of human-produced text and then generate new text that simulates what a human might write in response to prompts or questions. Some examples of LLMs are OpenAl's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.Current LLMs can provide a solution to any calculus problem I give you. So why should we work on them, you might ask? Here's the thing: for the most part, the problems were already solved anyway. Calculus as a subject is nearly 400 years old. It has reached into virtually every modern scientific and economic field. And while I would like to believe that I have crafted a few new problems with some small amount of originality tailored to this class, for the most part I have curated a collection of exercises drawn from my years of teaching calculus. Those exercises come from textbooks, workshops, friends, and other fields of study, as well as my own invention.
And they nearly all have known solutions, often with fairly standard approaches.
Before A.I. became widely available, you could find those solutions in another textbook, or from a friend's notes, or through a repository on the internet.The point of this class is not necessarily to solve problems that have never been solved before. It is for you to develop habits of thinking that are used by mathematicians, scientists, and policymakers-to develop a sort of mental toolbox that can be applied to new problems. If along the way you happen to find a new way of solving one of the class exercises, that's great! I am constantly learning new things from my students. But you will be bereft of discovery if you rely on a LLM for solutions to the calculus problems before you. Here I mean the discovery of having your own realizations, crystallizing your own internal understanding, claiming the knowledge in a way that cannot be taken away from you.
That ownership is what I want for you, and that is what the course is built around.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I keep criticising the nyt’s leaders bc their unprofessional and unprincipled coverage of trans ppl has directly led discrimination so sweeping that it has in turn given license to the violence we just saw in Louisiana. It nyt’s years-long record of anti-trans bias is despicable. The lowlights 🧵
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Dave Stevens @noviceanarchist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Before the pandemic really hit, when we were just hearing about this “novel virus,” Kelly Hayes was the person in my info network that was the most prescient about how it would impact all of us, even more than my nurse and doctor colleagues and friends. I’m listening to her about disaster prep, too.
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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
bloomberg has a fun article today arguing that the Cybertruck is the biggest flop in automotive history. it includes this glorious graph.
A graph showing how the edsel and Cybertruck both performed based on their sales target and actual year one and year two sales. The edsel was expected to sell 200k units in its first year. It sold slightly over 50k, and less than 50k the next year

The Cybertruck had a sales.target of 250k in its first year. They sold around 40k, the next year they sold about half as many.
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Black kids protecting their Latino neighbors from ICE
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.plus · 14/07/2026
"terfism is fundamentally a pro-rape ideology" continues to be the most succinct and cutting analysis of that current
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My god. The Heritage Foundation, which mercilessly attacked transgender kids in order to protect the "integrity of women's sports," is now attacking the legal basis for women's sports. The transgender student decision is barely 2 weeks old.
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
[everybody, all at once] we fucking told you
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo called Houston home for 35 years. On Tuesday, an ICE agent shot and killed him. His family learned of his death from a video before anyone bothered to knock on their door.
New York City stands with the Salgado family in demanding a full, independent investigation and real accountability. To the Salgado family and any immigrant family in this city living in fear: we grieve with you and we will continue to stand beside you in the pursuit of justice.
Abolish ICE.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Hey, fellas, before you write that white hot take about how rape is such a tricky thing and, I mean, who can really say what happened and, you know, maybe we should not be too judgmental, I'd like to remind you that instead you can simply shut the fuck up.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The ICE murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo deserves the same fury as Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Hey @chicagotribune.com Editorial Board: Why did you describe me as a “bomb-throwing influencer”? This is wrong, inflammatory, and racist. Change it. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/05/e...
So far, the Democratic Socialists of America's success has been confined in large part to deep-blue city districts. Meanwhile, in suburban areas and in statewide contests establishment Democrats generally are winning against progressive challengers. Chicago saw its own version of this dynamic in March in the hotly contested and crowded race to succeed retiring Rep. Jan Schakowsky in the 9th Congressional District. The bomb-throwing influencer Kat Abughazaleh, 27, won the portions of that district in Chicago's North Side lakefront neighborhoods, but suburban votes gave savvy
Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss the win.
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Jess Kali 🏳️‍⚧️ @jessicakali.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Patriot Front was in DC for like two seconds for a photo op today because they were afraid of antifascists clowning and pants-ing them again, equating to timid and fearful showing on their part. They forgot some of their stickers but don't worry, Tommy, we took them down for you!
Itsa me in gay white stetson, the gayest of hats
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
My latest: I don’t respect America at 250. The only thing I can think of is how America is still a young, spoiled brat of a nation that no one is able to discipline. Foreign writers have been commenting on the US's developmental problems for centuries. karenattiah.substack.com/p/america-ne...
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America Needs to Grow the Fuck Up
Once you understand the moral psychology of America's immaturity, everything about America's 250th birthday makes sense.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It’s important that cable and network news start bringing on leftists to talk about this moment. Their perspectives are infinitely more important than those of folks like David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart, who didn’t see this coming, fought it, and don’t understand it.
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 30/06/2026
Well now that the sports issue is settled i am sure all those politicians who said they would support trans rights otherwise are getting to work on that
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Every Watches Women’s Sports,,, now we at The Tipping Point Letz see what brands really step up to really support them. www.forbes.com/sites/dougme...
Flavor Flav in Forbes discussing SHE Weekend
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The next Dem president should also issue a Day 1 EO saying he will fire any exec official who complies with a very long list of SCOTUS cases he doesn't like. "SCOTUS said law X is unconstitutional. SCOTUS itself acted unconstitutionally saying that. We will enforce X, anyone who refuses is fired."
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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Jersey.Noah on IG: #transmarch #transmarchsf “At least 100 cops stormed trans people tonight while we were celebrating Trans Pride in San Francisco's Transgender District, making multiple, violent arrests.” www.instagram.com/reel/DaEvoG-...
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
1000x this
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