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Cate Eland

@romancingnope.bsky.social
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Intrusive, intense, and annoying. she/her

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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 21h
SCOTUS continues to be a lawless body creating legal cover for Trump based on nothing more than naked partisanship and racist malice. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘third country’ deportation policy
It’s the second time the court has rejected lower court rulings that immigrants must be able to object before being sent to countries where they have no connections.
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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 23h
She was doxxed by a Chi Phi alum who implored his followers to “help a Chi Phi.” Just in case anyone thought that organization was remotely redeemable.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
4a. This isn’t rogue. It is a model following the instructions given to it. The genie isn’t to blame for fulfilling a wish in a way you don’t specify.
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Kindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 28/09/2026
Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged Eric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in tree: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged
Eric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in tree
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Claude appears to be engaging in academic dishonesty, which could be fireable for a human researcher. But one of AI’s major functions is ethics displacement, a shield that allows cheaters and other bad players to escape accountability.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It *is* illegal.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 28/09/2026
5 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade?
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5 suicides in 5 weeks. What’s going on at Cyber Command at Fort Meade?
Five people whose work supported missions at U.S Cyber Command and the National Security Agency at Fort George G. Meade died by suicide within a month of each other this summer. Lawmakers are asking questions...
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John Q. Barrett @johnqbarrett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
President Trump is a massive liar. It’s why he’s unfit for office, and for every other decent person role. Thank you for this essay and for all of your work, Daniel Dale. @ddale8.bsky.social www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Sysfin @sysfin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta ban the whole damn industry.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The meaningful divide in the Democratic party for the foreseeable future is going to be a lot less about center vs left ideology and a lot more about people who grasp this vs people who don’t.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's telling that the only demographic focused on in this article is boys under the age of 18 being diagnosed with autism or ADHD, and the people most likely to be harmed by imposed delays in assessment are those who have already been missed and delayed because they aren't little white boys.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of my most galaxy-brained takes is that politicians and political groups should talk more about workers’ share of national income. It's one of the clearest, simplest ways to describe how billionaires and corporate elites captured so much of the economy--and something policy can change.
axios.com
U.S. workers' share of national income falls to a new low
Labor's bargaining position has worsened markedly in the last half-decade.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jensen Huang doesn't know his own zip code not because of AI, but because he's so absurdly rich, he's outsourced virtually every daily activity where an address is required (i.e. paperwork, bills, mundane purchases) to administrative staff who barely get paid enough to afford a 1 bedroom apartment.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Honestly, this kind of thinking has infected K-12 education, and I think a major reason kids are struggling with math and reading the way they are is because standards have been pushed down to increase rigor, but the knowledge required to underpin more rigorous standards has been removed.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am so sick of the flipped classroom mess for middle and high school students. My 9th grader is on the third year of "watch a video at home, and we'll do a couple of example questions in class together tomorrow" for their high school-level math classes.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Democrats absolutely do not need to sacrifice trans people to win this election, but they might end up costing themselves the election by making it clear they have no morals or principles and will gladly surrender someone else's human rights for a few hypothetical votes.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
opb.org
Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I have now seen the Converse ad like 12 times and each time it stops my scrolling in its tracks. We need to get back to a time where this sort of shit would be treated as brand-ending
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/08/2026
Dear media, please be even a little bit critical and suspicious of whether the people with literally trillions of dollars & the world economy riding on you believing what they tell you might have reason to lie about what's happening inside their products that they refuse to let anyone else analyze 🫠
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026
if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
protecting, maintaining and improving the health of il Minesotans
RABID BAT FOUND ON SIDEWALK
On Tuesday, September 15 at about 12pm, a bat was found on the sidewalk on Hennepin Ave between N. Washington Ave and N 3°St.
The bat died and was sent for rabies testing. This bat tested positive for
rabies.
A woman was seen crouching by the bat and putting it into a bag. She was described as a 25-to-30-year-old white woman, about 5'5", with curly brown hair and a curly-haired golden retriever-like dog. If this was you, please call 911 and ask to be connected to Animal Care & Control.
Bites from bats are tiny, may be painless, and may not leave a mark. An person who had physical contact or touched this bat should talk with health care provider this weekend for assessment. During the week, Minnesota Department of Health can also provide rabies assessments at 651-201-5414.
If vou did not touch or have any contact with the bat, you have no risk of rabies and do not need shots.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
Kinda feel like if you build something that destroys the world you should perhaps lose your fucking assets. All of them.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I'm a holiday person, and this year, I don't think I'm going to decorate for Halloween or Christmas. We usually throw a blow out Christmas party. At its peak, we would host nearly 70 people (in our house which can comfortably host about 15). I don't know I have it in me to put up a tree this year.
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I was just a little more condescending, I'd start a web series where I sit down with someone who thinks LLMs are inherently harmful, help them install one on their laptop, and then we sit and wait for it to do something harmful on it's own. 30 minutes of uncomfortable silence. "Any moment now..."
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"He wants the election to be a referendum on how you feel about trans issues while trying to make your local community louder, more polluted, and more expensive with nothing in return."
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
“New students enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin can no longer major in studies focusing on Africans and the African diaspora, Mexican Americans and Latinos, or women and gender.” Puts a lot of “regain trust” rhetoric into proper relief.
texastribune.org
Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.” 9/16/26 … Gift link. … 1/
nytimes.com
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump is dead serious. See this chart from March: www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Chart showing that prior presidents including Trump’s first term grant disaster requests from blue and red states roughly equally before Trump 2 started rejecting most requests from blue states
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Guys but it's the fictional machine god that needs to be regulated and that we should worry about. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...
prospect.org
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Labor share—the fraction of economic output that accrues to workers as compensation in exchange for their labor—in the nonfarm business sector was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level ever recorded [since 1947]." www.bls.gov/opub/ted/202...
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don't know what's more ridiculous: insisting the Paramount- Warner Bros. merger doesn't undermine competition or insisting states that challenged the merger should pay Paramount $1.88 billion. It's good to be in Trump's circle of trust (pun intended). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Justice Department Sides With Paramount on Demand That States Post $1.88 Billion Bond
The government stressed that it concluded in its investigation that the merger won’t undermine competition.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Trying to figure out how much (more) I should be worried. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/o...
cnbc.com
Oil’s safety net is fraying as Saudi Arabia races to restart a key pipeline
Analysts warn oil prices could rally sharply if the pipeline remains offline beyond an estimated five-to-seven-day inventory cushion.
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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t just want mass market paperbacks back, I also want the return of the 180-200 page mass market paperback. Make brevity the soul of wit again!
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/09/2026
Attempting to frame these bigots like they’re brave pragmatists breaking from some kind of stalwart trans-affirming norm is the type of enormous lie where the ground should open up to pneumatic-tube you directly to hell.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Is it bad I'm waiting for the catch? www.cnn.com/2026/09/14/p...
cnn.com
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s plan to limit mail-in voting in midterms | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned w...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some of you on here simply never know who you should ACTUALLY be mad at and instead spend your time punching down. You should ALWAYS punch up but some of you seem afraid to do so.
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I wish people were as quick to fire off a social media comment at Democratic candidates publicly making anti-trans statements to tell them their positions are wrong as they were to fire off a comment at people actually worried about trans people's lives to tell them they're overreacting.
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026
in 30 years people are going to wonder how we got caught up in the AI extinction hysteria while a real mass extinction was happening and we did very little to stop it
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I grew up in the woods, and let me tell you, there is nothing more stifling than the politics in a small town where every single person knows you, your mama, your granny, and your third cousin Beulah Ann.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 12/09/2026
Trans people have leverage now. You cannot abandon us and expect us to be part of your coalition to help everyone else. If you’re going to throw us away to win an election, don’t be surprised if we don’t show up for you. Especially if others in the party are considering it, and it could spread.
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Witch Cabell, PhD @cabell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look. The reason university administrators want to force LLMs into everything—and are willing to pay for the privilege—is that their ideal institution has no faculty or academic staff. They’re probably actually willing to pay MORE for that.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A neurotypical member of the IACC silencing criticism from an autistic member of the IACC by telling him "We represent a vast majority of the community” really says it all.
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Cate Eland @romancingnope.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I try not to talk about my day job a whole lot here, but in my professional opinion, the biggest threats coming from AI in the next 10 years are environmental, economic, and political, almost entirely due to the outrageous greed and unchecked power of tech oligarchs.
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...
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Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect
Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.
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