Sign in

pacquah.blacksky.app

@pacquah.blacksky.app
991 followers 851 following 4.2K posts
PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 1h
This is obviously disgusting in so many ways. Gonna highlight one: Servicemember beard exemptions are all on religious or medical grounds. They're either Sikhs (mostly South Asian) or have a skin condition related to shaving curly hair (mostly African American). "No beardos" is racist as hell.
10655127
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 1h
Somehow, I was still deeply surprised when I pressed play and heard that the text of this post is a direct quote, not a commentary.
100
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 17h
This should be an existential decision point for the national organization.
010
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 19h
Oh shit. Is anyone aware of another instance of a university town doing this?
051
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 19h
This is just a Hegseth-style staff cut.
010
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.
nytimes.com
Cornell President’s Car Bumps Into Students After Confrontation Over Gaza
643445799
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21h
Even if Smith had been in Atlanta, there really was nothing to Schmitt’s false accusation that he met Willis that day than that he happened to be in one the nation’s biggest cities?!
3090686
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22h
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
322691335
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 21h
Before Trump came down the escalator, the Cotton letter established a bedrock Republican policy on Iran of lawless, limitless, self-defeating aggression. It's not that Trump does whatever he wants. It's that he's the first POTUS who gave the Senate Republican Caucus what it wanted.
100
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 21h
Good luck making a deep state, red meat highlight video out of a white man repeatedly fanboying over Caitlin Clark. But seriously, Klobuchar should move for censure.
000
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
This part of the muse privacy and security debacle manages to be worse than it agreeing to lowball offers in your name on marketplace, giving the buyer your address, and then telling them you're home when you're not; because this part? The "it reading messages you explicitly told it not to" part?…
appleinsider.com
Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
210840
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
While telling them, Donald Trump claims his lies are true, or that he really believes them. Chris Rufo does not, but his lies still create a permission structure to repeat them as something experts earnestly believe nonetheless.
000
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Guy with a Ford pickup just made fun of me in the auto parts store parking lot. "I thought Hondas weren't supposed to break down?" Indeed, and yet here I am.
000
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
11129313574
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The thing about Conor's "I'm not mad, just disappointed" routine is that the first sentence (hell, the first clause) is just a lie.
949554
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Did he ever take it down? Is it not still published on his twitter profile where anyone can read it?
110
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it is crazy that he did a straight-up supervillain monologue about how he had planted this in right-wing media and that the NYT was going to pick it up, right in front of the NYT, and they did
11825139
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I remember learning that "they only sell the McRib every once in a while" wasn't a marketing gimmick but a reflection of how McDonalds was basically doing commidity ag arbitrage whenever pork was really cheap bsky.app/profile/mark...
840033
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
burger joints push nuggets and chicken sandwiches when beef prices go up. (trump take beef)
12939106
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Kent right now @bookshrike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One of the things missing from the Huckabee feedback is that she only thinks that whites should get Welfare. Hence the ad. She and Trump are working on cutting off all Brown and Black citizens. Hence the white centric ad. They don’t want benefits for all US citizens.
064
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Goodness.
010
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
And here I thought OpenAI would go pop first
000
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
This is bluesky at its blueskyest.
000
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The article asserts that digital price labels "let stores change prices instantly from a central computer" but do the labels Walmart uses actually have that capability?
100
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
It's wild to me to see academics just now learning the hard way why you shouldn't put valuable unpublished work into an offisite, unsandboxed LLM, when corporations figured it out and started adding it to their security training within days of the first public release of Chat GPT, years ago.
100
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US healthcare: She went to the ER for migraine. They did vitals & then told her to sit in the waiting room. After vomiting every 10 minutes for hours, she left for another ER. The 1st one charged her $410, & her insurance refused to pay because she'd left. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
washingtonpost.com
She waited for hours and left untreated. The ER billed her anyway.
The hospital said her visit began as soon as “care,” which could mean registration and nursing assessment, was initiated.
27230
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
disconnect.blog
The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
271738585
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
The Cotton Letter should be mentioned in the first paragraph.
010
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Do libertarians still say that we don't need food safety regulations because companies won't risk harming their own business by poisoning customers to death, or have they clued in on that one?
130
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are Black Democrats not a thing or…
181477200
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Science Optimist 🌌 ☀️ 🪐 🌎 🌗 @jmalyon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The risks in using AI without paying attention to what's going on under the hood are plainly foreseeable. But it feels like one of those dangers where every single person is going to have to learn it for themselves by getting burned.
06617
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I used to love Talenti, but this reported feature at Wirecutter explains how the recipes changed over the years, and turned so many fans off: www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
nytimes.com
What Happened to Talenti?
Over the past 20 years, Talenti has changed from a small, independent brand to a piece of a corporate conglomerate. Has that affected its quality?
1813728
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Micah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026
his list of crimes is so extensive and terrible that this is fairly low down on it but it is obscene that this man has built a massive campaign war chest and is so determined to steal it for himself that he’s using taxpayer money on these self-soothing ads
201062131
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
Lots of complaints in the replies about celebration, but that's the fundamental hypocrisy of football. Knocking offensive players out of the game is a basic tactic that undelies strategy on both sides of the ball, but when the defense succeeds, everyone is to act as if it's a lamentable accident.
010
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
You don't even have to look outside the US for this. What do you find preserved along the main street in Colonial Williamsburg? Taverns and coffee shops where reenactors in tricorns tell you that the American Revolution was launched over drinks from the table you're sitting at.
010
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Bunnicula'd berries @frozen-cranberry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is ahistoric in every way (both politics and union organizing have strong social roots), and also oddly seems to presuppose religious organizations as the lone space of finding community which is not true.
1214
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/09/2026
huh
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
1520053
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m sorry, what? This piece was not a joint publication/ reporting job (as some are). It was @propublica’s alone and the Times followed with a summary. This is so indicative of NYT. If they don’t ignore proper credit, they just go for stolen valor.
623737732
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is like saying 35% of people never put in a claim on their car insurance, and this is a statistical impossibility so they must be committing fraud Mind numbingly stupid
73809267
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:
theguardian.com
Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people
Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’
9147371723
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
Fact that a lot of people would read that and think well of course there were racists but… is perfect demonstration of the point.
2836
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Ramiel 🐇 @pawberry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Fandoms used to be full of nice ppl before covid and then all the bullies and popular kids joined" is literally an "the earth is flat" tier false belief to me
1433956870
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.
theguardian.com
ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?
Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.
10886510
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
I don't think I've ever seen an in-person job interview, as a candidate or as an interviewer, which didn't begin with the offer of a beverage if one wasn't already in hand.
210
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
Post Punk-y Brewster @krismeana.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Iced Coffee is Gen Z’s avocado toast moment lmao
1164
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/09/2026
The Justice Department said on Thursday it had ended its watchdog role in more than 50 cases enforcing racial desegregation in schools, mostly in the South. The changes are the latest in the Trump administration’s bid to overhaul civil rights enforcement in the U.S.
nyti.ms
Justice Department Scraps Dozens of School Desegregation Cases
Critics said the changes, mostly in the South, moved the nation “back toward the Jim Crow era.” Justice Department officials said the decrees were outdated.
166936
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To paraphrase Tom Wolfe, we are witnesses one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely that the dark night of AI-Job-Replacement is always descending on the humanities and yet lands only in math and computer science.
14726102
pacquah.blacksky.app @pacquah.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
how difficult it is to inventory unauthorized activity tied to its agents" Not as difficult as they pretend if you do due diligence in advance.
000
Reposted by @pacquah.blacksky.app
public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
dems haven't been willing to adequately invest in latino outreach, especially in spanish-language new media, so this is a legit question. haven't really seen any evidence party leadership is interested in evolving on this
1015023