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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Tech oligarchy is a form of technophobia. #Software practitioners and #tech scholars are the true technophiles, and we should join forces to oppose oligarchy.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It was clear then & only cleared now that we need leverage beyond Big Tech or the state to curb this perilous combo. B/c Big Tech nor gov are incentivized to make the safe, reasoned, technically grounded, human rights preserving choices when billions $ and geopolitical advantage hang in the balance.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Starting a “male enhancement” business but it’s just listening skills

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This is the same fallacy as “If you hate America, leave.” Loyal opposition is a concept our party should really get our heads around, given that’s its current function in government. Know who hates the Democratic Party? Republicans. Let’s be less like them.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Delighted to have had the opportunity to review this valuable book in the LSE Review of books! #Software practitioners are a complex and under-studied lot; it’s great to have a study like this looking at their (our) potentials for class identity.

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Eric Lee @saintgimp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

These ghouls act like they've discovered some novel secret: "Hey, guys, GUYS! Did you know that we can just kill people whenever we want?" Yes, you absolute idiot, that's ALWAYS been true. We just chose not to, for good and self-interested reasons which the entire world is about to learn yet again.

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Beth Andres-Beck @beth4ma.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

You should be able to trust software. It should do what it was sold to do. It shouldn’t be broken. It shouldn’t be designed to actively hurt its users. I’ve spent my career building trustworthy software. In Congress, I will make sure companies are liable when they don’t.

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Beth for Democracy | Bethany Andres-Beck for Congress

Bethany Andres-Beck is a candidate for Congress running to represent Massachusetts' 6th District.

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Thorn @coelliptic.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

this is going to be so helpful for improving performance

A graph of accuracy and speed tradeoff curves with an arrow pointing up and to the right labeled "improved performance"

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Vote for you why? So you can fund the war against us? Oppose. Abolish and prosecute ICE, impeach and remove and refuse to seat Republicans, pack the Supreme Court, imprison Trump and his cabinet, defund the police; fight the fight before us and win in a massive landslide or gtfo forever.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny - health care subsidies - seeing pronouns in an email - being suspended from a social media platform - pride month - baking a cake for a same sex wedding - legal rulings against donald trump - EV benchmarks

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

The lack of empathy, gaslighting, & lies coming from this Administration is shameful and dangerous. A woman has died. People are scared. Over 30 people have died in detention. They are inciting violence and endangering our communities. It must stop. Which is why I’m joining the effort to impeach.

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Rep. Stansbury: The Trump Admin is gaslighting the American people

YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I just hope you eventually identify the nations responsible for the situation. Let me know if I can help

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”

Homeland Security tweet says “there us no room at the table for invaders.”

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 27/11/2025

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

Photo of an Oct. 1 Time Magazine article that attributed a quote to US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, when it was actually made up for a Beaverton article.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

And you will know my name is the Lord, when I lay my vengeance upon thee, Charlie Brown.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

So now I always ask: if you're some faculty member posting loudly about gender justice or whatever, do you know the name of just one single person on your campus who deals with these cases? No? Then what are you doing.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Respectfully, what’s the debate? The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush. As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Or to actually call for political murder.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Sorry, but this is not enough. The Democratic Senators' posts/videos about the outrageous Thing also need to go the next step & demand his immediate impeachment & removal. No, it won't happen. Doesn't matter. Normalize enforcing the rule of law & the Constitution. Articulate what must be done.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Moxon’s Shaving Cream: “Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.”

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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 20/11/2025

Oh, Hakeem, we keep telling you. Impeachment and conviction of this unfit President is the only way. And you keep dodging it, even at the point where your colleagues get death threats from him. What are you doing, man?

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 10/11/2025

"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...

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Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy

“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

People who hate Zohran and everything he stands for: Now that Zohran has won, the most effective thing he can do is betray all of his principles

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

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Tim Cappalli @timcappalli.me · 30/10/2025

DHS / ICE appears to have rolled out their new cell phone tracking platform in DC. I'm getting these every 5-10 minutes on my phone. Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, and Pam Bondi need to be jailed for life.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The decision to kill other people's infants is a personal one.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Ha, that road to hell sounds like a doozie, I sure would hate to be on that road, gosh. Hey, why are we in this handbasket anyways?

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Socks the Macro Wolf Dad @socksthewolf.com · 04/10/2025

Windows 10 End of Life is in less than 2 weeks! But you don't have to upgrade to Windows 11!! This video will show you how to extend the life of Windows 10 by 3 more years via Extended Security Updates program safely, for free. MS throws you to the wolves, but the wolves will throw you a bone.

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NPR @npr.org · 13/10/2025

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

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https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

• We value free expression, as clearly described in the MIT Statement on Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom. We must hear facts and opinions we don't like - and engage respectfully with those with whom we disagree.
These values and other MIT practices meet or exceed many standards outlined in the document you sent. We freely choose these values because they're right, and we live by them because they support our mission - work of immense value to the prosperity, competitiveness, health and security of the United States. And of course, MIT abides by the law.
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.
As you know, MIT's record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America's research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.
Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

NEXT ARRIVES THE HOUR OF LIGHT SNACK AND RETURN SOME EMAILS. THEN SOX-YANKEES.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 29/09/2025

in related news i'm excited to announce that i'm selling sam altman's house unless he asks me not to

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Priztker: if federal agents fired upon journalists and protesters, when unprovoked, what would we call it? I don't think we'd have any trouble calling it what it is. Authoritarianism. So let's not pretend it's something else when it happens in our American cities.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

This isn’t just explicit antisemitism (which it is), it’s a continuation of the Christian nationalist cooption of Jewish history, ritual & trauma for their own supersessionist purposes— Jews don’t count / aren’t real, we’re the real victims, let’s blow a shofar, etc. and of course:

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The Red Heifer, Christian Zionism, and the Dangers Of Now

How a Holy Cow encapsulates an unholy zealot alliance

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

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National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders

National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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