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It would appear many states are so committed are they to maintaining the shroedingers murder dynamic of lethal injection that they just keep trying instead of going back to the quite effective but slightly less fake-nonviolent firing squad

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

The constant social media demands to "say something." Some of us have been DOING things for decades.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To put it another way, you can’t just tell your sons they need to take accountability—you need to hold them accountable. Start with small stuff. Don’t shield them for the consequences of their actions. Walk them through the process of doing the wrong thing and turning it into the right thing.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026

It is no coincidence that rationalists and EAs tend to be straight white guys from well-off families, because for everybody else, the world usually conspires to knock some sense into you about your inherent god-emperor genius by the time you’re old enough to drink.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I want to make another point here, that I think Faine does an excellent job of highlighting: there isn't anything particularly wrong with putting on sex parties with consenting adults A big issue here is that women are being pressured to attend in order to network *professionally*

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 23/09/2026

ME, VISIBLY ANGUISHED AND FALLING APART: It is what it is :)

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

They’re lucky a lot of people accepted DEI instead of revenge

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...

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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help

404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today I completed (I think) this year's cloud pruning of my Japanese andromeda (Pieris japonica), tomorrow I shall try to tackle my Satsuki azalea while channeling the grumpy old Japanese-British bonsai expert I like to watch

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not to brag but I helped teach a class on a hobby today and then came home and pruned plants meditatively and gave a friend some food and I feel like a true gentlemen scholar

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Holly Bemiss @bemissh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

30 YEARS IN PRISON FOR MOVING A BOX OF ZINES. For some context about why booksellers are concerned about being convicted as "antifa" under Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum-7 (NSPM-7), here's that wild, heartbreaking story of Daniel Estrada: inkstickmedia.com/a-prairielan...

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A Prairieland Defendant's Sister Speaks Out After 'Antifa Trial'

The sister of a Prairieland Antifa trial defendant speakers out against the Trump administration's crackdown on left-wing activism.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hot take: Not everything smooth in texture needs to be described as "buttery" especially not UNDERWEAR FABRIC

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Please tell me what children and below-16 year olds like this year, I am updating our toy drive wishlist!!!!! (room decorations and tech and that kind of stuff is all fair game also, just not bicycles or clothes)

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Where can I find a well composed and evidence based rundown of this "AI rationalism doomsday cult with sexual coercion elements" situation everyone is referencing? Ideally video or audio

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Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*5 seconds later* we regret to inform you that the museum is racist

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The people who are running the massively powerful and lucrative US AI industry pretty much all know about this chart, and quite a few directly participated in the proceedings. Speaking of the rationalist sex cult who regard a Harry Potter fanfic as their Bible, and who also have tons of money.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I, too, was a beautiful 17 year old and allowed my ambitious journey through a PhD in anthropological archaeology to contribute to me becoming an unmarriageable old spinster with three cats. I had so much promise as a moldable tradwife when coerced, even during said PhD, by men with power over me!

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

If the only thing you have to note about the rising tide of fascism is that we have to let it rise far enough to be over someone else's head in order to stop it, I don't think your strategy is particularly good.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The quality of my casual day to day writing has gone down precipitously in the past few years, presumably because I am not working in any context where writing well is valued. Writing in a way that attracts attention or communicates the most items in a list, yes, but writing well, no.

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Cassette Rokhausen XcX ccru/aud.int 🏴 @rokhausen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Man invents a Snickers "de-veiner" because he didn't like the feeling of the vein on his tongue, because it's "gay". It's a troll. Who fellates a Snickers bar before eating it? Fox news sincerely pushes it. I love this timeline.

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

something i discovered during research: cyril callister, the inventor of vegemite, was .... a total hottie? i also think it's funny that he started as a wwi munitions chemist and then went on to create arguably deadlier things (mostly Kraft processed cheese)

a black and white photo of historical hottie cyril callister. he's got valentino esque bedroom eyes, a sharp part, and high cheekbones

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I am so burned out with tasks but at least I have turned off new pet sitting client requests so that I don't bury myself in work that requires maximum executive functioning and takes away my remaining mental reset time

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

OK, people who follow tech & AI hype more closely than I do: my 20-y.o. daughter, a creative soul who hates AI & never uses it, has become convinced by recent cycles of tech-bro bullshit that humanity is doomed. I need articles/podcasts to show her that resistance works & is happening right now.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This process has already started, of course. And all the headlines saying that the doom is all but inevitable are just softening up the public to shrug their shoulders at each incremental negative outcome and give corporations infinitely more leeway to “fix” their “mistakes”

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you handle seeing/experiencing graphic violence without humor I commend you but am warning you now I am not one of those people and you may not enjoy the algorithmic impact I have on you today

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you’re wondering why people in AI continue to work on developing a technology that many of them believe could result in mass death and even the extinction of humanity, this is a good summary of the reasoning I’ve seen:

jasmine sun @jasminewsun
X.com
I hear roughly 3 reasons people keep working at Al labs despite believing in ~10% extinction risk:
1) Techno-determinism: Someone will build ASI no matter what, and I can do it better & more safely than China/ OpenAl/etc
2) Consequentialism: ASI might kill us, but it also might produce utopia/ immortality/superabundance, so it's a +EV bet
3) Self-interest: I am personally having fun & getting rich working on cool tech with friends. I don't think about the macro stuff.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You know what super helps you find out the resolution of something anxiety producing is just checking and rechecking and then checking a third time and repeating until there's no resolution so many times that you have to do other tasks

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

nature.com

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want to say that if you have ghosted on your comrades while part of an organizing group, it's never too late to get back in touch to explain yourself. Most people will appreciate that you followed up.

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demi 🪄 @deminlawrence.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

remote Portland workers: please join me this Wednesday in supporting @thesportsbra.bsky.social by working from the bar. yeah maybe not as much work will get done vs being home, but i wanna welcome the bar back from its Mon-Tues closure with lots of local love 🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is exactly how the right creates popular support for taking away women’s rights. They position anyone with empathy for Clancy as the reason why women shouldn’t vote, serve on juries, have autonomy, or even exist in public. And they use this as propaganda to make those positions seem reasonable.

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E.C.Reetz @ecreetz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've been quiet but busy here in Iowa, collecting TONS of data, crunching metrics, developing impact data & talking to congressional aides. This article is licensed for those who wanna adapt content for your area - go for it! Happy to share how I came up with some of the data. #Section106 #crm🏺

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density's child @foxdog.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

there’s no depth that American institutions won’t sink to in order to placate the most vile people in the country

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How many other quote tweets of this story will be from people who know professors who did this? Knowingly helping a predatory colleague build their credentials is not an ethical choice

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Shocking news everyone: "You talk most like someone from Massachusetts" (but only roughly 50%)

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Let me tell you about my day as it has been funny and chaotic imo: My tattoo appointment was cancelled so I decided to really dedicate myself to finding the hiding spot of the most hiding-est cat I've ever seen

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I suddenly realized that I don't have a frickin pencil sharpener in my 100 yr old house or garage, what the helly

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Many activists & organizers use the Signal app instead of regular SMS texting for increased privacy 🧵 Swipe for practical steps to: • limit records • lock your device • protect your identity • verify contacts • avoid scams Save & share with people who use #Signal! #DigiSec #SecurityCulture #OpSec

REMEMBER Signal is safer, not safe scroll for safety tips

COMMUNICATE SAFELY Signal is not permission to say anything. Keep communications in large or not-fully-vetted Signal chats to a bare minimum. Don’t write anything you wouldn’t want authorities to read, or to be read aloud in court. If someone’s phone is taken or accessed, your messages to them may be visible. Anything can be screenshotted! Whether readable for one day or one minute, it can still be screenshotted.

VERIFY PEOPLE & DEVICES Double-check that you are talking to the person you think you are through a trusted second channel, such as an in-person conversation, video call, or a question only the two of you know the answer to. Use Signal’s safety-number verification. Compare the safety numbers or scan the QR code in person when possible; if they do not match, stop using that channel until you can verify the person. Remove people from chats if they—or any of their devices—become compromised, lost, seized, or accessed by someone else.

MANAGE DATA Set disappearing messages for every chat you create or join to 1 week, 1 day, or shorter. Set a default disappearing-message timer for all new chats: Signal Settings → Privacy → Default timer for new chats. Delete Signal on your phone before traveling internationally. Delete Signal Desktop when you no longer need it, especially before giving away, sharing, repairing, or disposing of a computer. Be careful what you store in chat group descriptions—files, links, photos stored there are visible to everyone with a link to the chat.

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I still think one of the weirdest raps ever is 2 Chainz saying" sold out arenas you can suck my penis" but admittedly, I'm not qualified as a hip hop historian

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Has anyone asked Judith Butler if she knows about the Butlerian Jihad thing people say all the time?

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 28/08/2026

Before even reading this I am gonna tell you right now that the real reason some academics oppose the idea of unionization for post docs is because they rampantly exploit and abuse post docs, and post docs have next to zero protections because of that "bespoke mentor-mentee relationship".

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I am not sure if adult braces suck more than adolescent braces, or if I was so used to being in discomfort as a child that it did not register the same, but this BLOWS lol

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Important context for the recent federal antifascist demonization statement

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K @precatlady.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

FIRST DOLLY PARTON AND NOW TIM CURRY WHAT IN THE FUCK WHO IS THE THIRD ONE GOING TO BE

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