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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 · 23/06/2026

Sorry for the lack of arxiv link so far! It's up for now at webmastery.ca/Practitioner... Thank you so much for your kind words! I loved your presentation too :)

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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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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

You haven’t earned our pickles, is why. #sovereignty

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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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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This was before they discovered that you just need to give a mermaid legs

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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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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Pahlavi->Khomeni, October 7->Gaza genocide, etc. etc.) Addressing the present violence at any cost has meant a net loss of peace & justice time & time again. There’s a real need to break the pattern, not just change the current situation.

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Looking forward to your answer next time. As to why so many of us ask it before focusing on the present violence: Much of it is bad faith, as you say, but also: Examples from history are not great. Mostly we find victors over violence going on to reinvent violence (Romanov->Stalin,

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Like, why do we even have to normalize it? It was already normal. Look, it’s right there in the constitution, normal li’l part of the civic order. The question is how th did it get ABnormalized? Lotsa people recoiling nowadays thought it was pretty normal in 1998.

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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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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

It’s wild how goldfish will continue to eat however much food is available even when it’s actively killing them. 🤷‍♂️ It’s what they do, 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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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

It’s a little unfair to equate LLMs to improv; they’re more like Rob Schneider’s Girlfriend Theater. youtu.be/mLyNPitX85o?...

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Rob's Apology - Saturday Night Live

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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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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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Are… are you at my Loblaws?

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Wait, I thought nutmeats were out this month?

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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 · 24/10/2025

I guess that’s grade 6-12, sorry if that’s not what you need

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Sasha Akhavi @sakhavi.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Related and somewhat reassuring, though not necessarily as to the human behaviour involved in these videos: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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Monologue: Don't Be Scared Of Sora

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/24/2025 · Bonus · 13m

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