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Sam B. Rambling

@sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network
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Disabled itinerant archivist moving into chaplain work. Cascadia made me, Third Coast raised me. MLIS Drexel 2014. Former associate prof in archives at Virginia Tech + ex-doc student at UA ischool. rant.li/sambramble

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 14h
"Farmworkers are 35 times more likely to die from heat‑related illnesses than workers in other industries ... [Farm labor contractors] such as Florida Orange Gold operate with impunity because they are allowed to—by lawmakers, landowners, state and federal agencies, and local officials."
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12h
Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....
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Surveillance Watch
This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.
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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 15h
Y'all, I got a diagnostic steroid injection in my left SI joint today and it temporarily released whichever muscle keeps my left leg aggressively contracted around the hip joint. My whole leg rotated out at least 30° and I felt muscles relax to a posture I haven't felt in years, bizarre experience
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 21h
A long time ago, when I interned and a later contracted there, that use to be my favorite part of the building. How awful. Just yuck.
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yep.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Sing it, choir
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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 27/09/2026
They used to trap evil spirits in circles. The spirit wanted to keep moving AI circles around too. Like a clock from trust to no trust AI hype cycle as a Tudor evil spirit trap
Tudor mansion circles carved in wood of wall. AI clock face of good and bad, trust and no trust
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cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh no Gen Z is going to learn how fucked up tv was. They’re going to learn that we had psychics on the news like they were legitimate sources of information
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/06/2026
Destroying history is a feature not a bug
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 26/09/2026
anything helps. the point is to try. tinyurl.com/helpretaj
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On Tues evening we launched our first two Cross-Reference Coalition publications at the Ctr for Bklyn History 🥰 Anyone can download digital copies — libraries (we’ll prioritize Metro members) can request FREE print copies — via the pubs’ respective pages! crc.metro.org/projects/ (📸 by Mina Leazer)
Four people on a stage in a fancy room, with a set of zines projected on a screen behind themThe crowd at the end of the night, holding candles to recognize the equinox. Xinan Helen Ran, a member of the Search & Discovery cohort read a lovely acknowledgment Our colorful Misfit book and Search & Discovery zine set A cross-cohort planning team planned a range of activities — like bingo (card displayed here) — to help folks meet one another at the event, to promote social
“cross-referencing” :)
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
[skate park] ME: hey watch this *does sick kipflick* wait *does sick flickpip* no wait *does klikcfip* hang on *klifpick* *fipklick* *pilcklif* *likfkpic* *ckilpifk*fuck
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 24/09/2026
If you appreciate my work I would greatly support! Not mandatory and all of it goes towards my fund to move out of Texas and also prepare for grad school.
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Emissary of Night is writing about US foreign affairs
I analyze and write about US Palestinian relations, among other things
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"In 1980, there were 25 women in prison in Idaho. By 2022, that number had risen to 1,296 women — an increase of more than 5,000%. ... [M]ore than 60% of women in prison are there for a probation or parole violation rather than for only a new conviction."
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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Border wall threatens tribe’s way of life. Trump administration plan would split the Tohono O’odham nation apart, damage sacred sites, tribal leaders say. ictnews.org/news/southwe...
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Border wall threatens tribe’s way of life - ICT
Trump administration plan would split the Tohono O’odham nation apart, damage sacred sites, tribal leaders say.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/09/2026
Think Hudson’s Bay Company: a private enterprise whose immense economic power became intertwined with state authority, creating a formidable quasi-monopoly. In this case, a consortium of US companies leads it, using the imprimatur of US government military might to try to corner a market.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/09/2026
The AI fearmongering is a convenient smokescreen for imposing #digitalimperialism: restrict access, lock users into proprietary platforms, consolidate control over the technology, and turn that control into enormous rents.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/09/2026
In case you need an example of how a powerful company can leverage its influence over government to enlist the power of the state in advancing its interests, this just happened yesterday. bsky.app/profile/soci...
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BD the Toon Dog @bdtoonzone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those planning to call Gavin Newsom about the Paramount merger, he's also considering gutting the state's Net Neutrality laws as well so go call him to protect the rules as well!
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Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Almost that time of year to find that random $10 and a bag of Doritos in ya winter coat pocket.
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/09/2026
Hey, who remembers that time that Arnold Schwarzenegger said that nazis and confederates were losers, and that if you support them, then you are a loser too? And then half of the GOP turned against him and said "Don't call me a loser?"🤡 And so Arnold told them again, louder this time? I remember!
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Atiba Ellis @atibaellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dear media — if you’re doing a story about breaking court rulings (esp. re the election) please for the love of a cat include a link to the actual ruling. The public deserves to read for itself what the judges wrote, and you have the opportunity to shed that light. Thanks - the rest of us!
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✪ Gray Skies Ahead ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
=___=
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Beacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rather than an aberration from societal norms, lynching was an evolution of a European cultural tradition that systematized cruelty towards children. Dr. Stacey Patton makes her unflinching case in STRUNG UP.
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Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children by Stacey Patton
“Lynching was not just a tool of terror, but a method of socialization” that “groomed white children into cruelty,” according to...
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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 24/09/2026
Just started an ARC of the audiobook
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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They are trying so hard to silence us. Glad I spoke about Ida B. Wells in my classes today.
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Nur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This sounds less like a "rogue" AI and more like there were next to no guardrails placed in the instructions? Computers do Exactly What You Tell Them To Do and Computers are very very very dumb at the same time.
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"If a derelict landlord allows dozens of units to sit empty for more than six months, that’s fewer units on the market. It’s holding desperately needed housing units away from the very Minneapolis residents this housing is supposed to serve." minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/23/m...
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Minneapolis needs a stronger rental housing vacancy fee • Minnesota Reformer
A vacancy fee can begin to repair a usurious housing system that punishes average renter families, saps homeowners of nearby property values, and keeps city government chronically three steps behind a...
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nai 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
things are coming together, so the preparation can be done and the lessons can be learned, the cycles can be broken and renewed. here's to a new season.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Time to bring back the old ways. Start moving like our parents/grandparents. Vigilance in regards to one's social circle might hurt a few feelings but it will help keep you alive.
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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
And peptides. Dudes in the gym swearing by unregulated, untested shots THEY GIVE THEMSELVES, while terrified of vaccines.
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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 22/09/2026
Why the fuck would people pay this when the job listing is ai slop and the hr sorting tool is ai?! Be so fucking for real for two seconds 😂
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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026
This speech at the UN General Assembly hall is patently unhinged. Unhinged.
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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026
Trump has just announced at the UN General Assembly that he's rebranding it as "Super Intelligence" lol
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Dr. JMW @jamarmontez.com · 22/09/2026
May his family and loved ones know peace and realize justice one day.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“[The prosecution] was intended to silence speech about Palestine, and for everything that they threw at this case, they have failed.” quoted: Amy Zhai, one of the five students targeted in the prosecution www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Charges dropped against Stanford students over pro-Palestine protest
Students faced prison terms and thousands of dollars in restitution over campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza
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BLACK BELT JEFFERSON @ruffandtuff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a reminder, The key point (to not lose track of) within discussions about this so-called "Ai" era is whether this iteration of deeply faulty human puppeteered tech can legitimately replace experienced, educated, accountable, and emotionally responsible humans. The answer is clearly NO.
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Michael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help.
ALT: Michael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help.
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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026
Tuned into the UN General Assembly today on Al Jazeera just in time for some bronzed gasbag to vomit words all over the podium.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
"There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law," Mr. Saul, a professor of international law at Australia's University of Sydney, concluded.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Axon cameras. More like, ax me before you turn on those cameras, am I right??
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
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Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Many of us need to step away from screens and the perpetual frontlines —and seriously invest in our mental, spiritual, and relational well-being. Or we won't get through what's sure to come next.
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🌙 Orbiting Elegance 💫 @adornedalchemist.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026
🗣️You gotta shake ya ass.
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Tambourine
Eve · Tambourine · Song · 2007
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BIG CHEECH CAKE @chelsisright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here is what will "fix" public schools in low income communities. 1. Money 2. Ability to attract high quality professionals + Money 3. Reduce food insecurity + money 4. Address social emotional and mental health issues + Money 5. HEALTHCARE: More clinics + Money 6. Finally, eliminate racism
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
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Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 21/09/2026
Sometime I feel like the whitest hotep, because tbh there's something to the notion that white men were bred and raised to be a danger to others. I'm eagerly awaiting the broader release of Haile Gerima's Black Lions - Roman wolves.
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