Reposted by Sam B. RamblingAnodyne @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." 076
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 12hFriends, 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....dair-institute.orgSurveillance WatchThis interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. 3188112
Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 15hY'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 120
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingJustin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 21hA 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. 0102
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingAlastair Somerville @acuity.design · 27/09/2026They 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 001
Reposted by Sam B. Ramblingcognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026 021
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingBrendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Oh 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 1304897564
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 28/06/2026Destroying history is a feature not a bug 415257
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingDr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 26/09/2026anything helps. the point is to try. tinyurl.com/helpretaj 046
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026On 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) 13513
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does 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. 5843121177
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, 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. 🧵 19595893517
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingFrovo @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 740084
Reposted by Sam B. Rambling#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 24/09/2026If 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.buymeacoffee.comEmissary of Night is writing about US foreign affairsI analyze and write about US Palestinian relations, among other things 8341146
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingAnodyne @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." 1137
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingUAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Border 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...ictnews.orgBorder wall threatens tribe’s way of life - ICTTrump administration plan would split the Tohono O’odham nation apart, damage sacred sites, tribal leaders say. 05030
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/09/2026Think 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. 192
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/09/2026The 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. 11010
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 25/09/2026In 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... 01211
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingBD the Toon Dog @bdtoonzone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For 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! 15162
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingRoy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi @roywoodjr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Almost that time of year to find that random $10 and a bag of Doritos in ya winter coat pocket. 1239032
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 26/09/2026Hey, 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! 9777133
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingAtiba Ellis @atibaellis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dear 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! 022
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingBeacon Press @beaconpress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Rather 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.publishersweekly.comStrung 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... 012
Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 24/09/2026Just started an ARC of the audiobook 000
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingEric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 24/09/2026They are trying so hard to silence us. Glad I spoke about Ida B. Wells in my classes today. 03410
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingNur Shahir, PhD (Hire me!) @gigiomics.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This 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. 152
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingBill 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...minnesotareformer.comMinneapolis needs a stronger rental housing vacancy fee • Minnesota ReformerA 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... 16518
Reposted by Sam B. Ramblingnai 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026things 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. 012
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Time 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. 119358
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingArif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026And peptides. Dudes in the gym swearing by unregulated, untested shots THEY GIVE THEMSELVES, while terrified of vaccines. 310739
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingGenie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 22/09/2026Why 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 😂 3549
Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026This speech at the UN General Assembly hall is patently unhinged. Unhinged. 000
Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026Trump has just announced at the UN General Assembly that he's rebranding it as "Super Intelligence" lol 120
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingDr. JMW @jamarmontez.com · 22/09/2026May his family and loved ones know peace and realize justice one day. 063
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingOlúfẹ́mi 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...theguardian.comCharges dropped against Stanford students over pro-Palestine protestStudents faced prison terms and thousands of dollars in restitution over campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza 227874
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingBLACK BELT JEFFERSON @ruffandtuff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Just 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.static.klipy.comMichael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help.ALT: Michael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help. 001
Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 22/09/2026Tuned into the UN General Assembly today on Al Jazeera just in time for some bronzed gasbag to vomit words all over the podium. 120
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote. 11096298
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Axon cameras. More like, ax me before you turn on those cameras, am I right?? 217020
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.wired.comNapster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone TeachersOnce the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom. 1128161
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Many 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. 833046
Reposted by Sam B. Rambling🌙 Orbiting Elegance 💫 @adornedalchemist.blacksky.app · 21/09/2026🗣️You gotta shake ya ass.open.spotify.comTambourineEve · Tambourine · Song · 2007 151
Reposted by Sam B. RamblingBIG CHEECH CAKE @chelsisright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Here 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 19234
Reposted by Sam B. Ramblingjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026i 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." 513352644
Sam B. Rambling @sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network · 21/09/2026Sometime 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. 000