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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 6h

are you allowed to opt out? (students aren't allowed to use it in my classes, and tell me about how they're forced to use it in other classes when they don't want to, and, honestly, instructors should not be forcing students to use it :( but I know that it isn't always possible to push back, sigh)

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 7h

“the internet is a store but it used to be a library but before that it was a DARPA funded decentralized military network designed to maintain command structures after a nuclear war”

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 6h

Mask up, punks! And get vaccinated!

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 6h

(there's a project I've been wanting to do and building up to for over a decade now that keeps being put on the back burner because I have to do this AI shit 😒)

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 6h

I absolutely resent having to engage with AI in any shape or form! I am forced to! and I am also trying to help people understand why it's bad. like it's part of my job. and I resent it.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 8h

Tressie why do you hate the economy

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 20/10/2026

Things are changing whether people like it or not. The only way I see out of this is to push hard to the left to bring us into a future where we care for everyone, including the land and water. First Nations, Inuit & Metis can lead these conversations as we are already well versed in how to do this.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 20/10/2026

I also think the answer to "yes" on the rest of the questions reveals what Indigenous people already know - a person can vote against separation, wave the flag of Canada, be patriotic, and still be deeply bigoted, racist, anti-Indigenous, and anti-immigrant.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 20/10/2026

I think this is important to remember because First Nations voices were not centred in this process and they should have been, and now that the "win for Canada" is being claimed, First Nation votes and voices and the reasons why they voted are being grouped in with "proud to be Canadian" ones.

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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 20/10/2026

I'm very glad that voters in Alberta resoundingly defeated the question on separation. Voter turn out among First Nations broke records. But to be clear, First Nations were voting because Alberta is Indigenous land. And separatists don't have any right to do this without First Nation consent.

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 20h

I defy any leftist with a platform to have us on air to discuss this essential, life-preserving project for Palestinian children who survived torture in occupation prisons. We also need - Arabic to Italian translator - Book interior formatting linktr.ee/healmindsgaza

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/10/2026

For more than 40 years, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has advised Congress and the president on what to study in the far north. Trump appointed a venture capitalist and MAGA influencer with no formal science background — and ties to Russia — as its chair.

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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser

As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 20/10/2026

Now in this panel moderated by @alexhanna.bsky.social, Dr. Caleb Dawson mentioning how Micheal Brown's family had said that he knew that the whole world would know his name. They can now go to campus-protest.org/about and see how many people mobilized ❤️ www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

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dair_institute - Live on Twitch

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 | Streaming science & technology.

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

We won our case against DOGE for violating the privacy rights of current and former government employees! The case is AFGE v. OPM, Case 1:25-cv-01237-DLC Document 241 Filed 10/20/26 if you can't get it from the ECF link ecf.nysd.uscourts.gov/doc1/1271405...

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SDNY CM/ECF NextGen Version 1.8.5

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 20/10/2026

saw 2 cops holding a small woman in handcuffs, a third cop used a computer in a car. kept watch for a bit. a guy watching said “don’t you have anything better to do than harass a 5’2” woman??” a third cop car rolled up and husbs was like “oh thank god they’re here to help with this dangerous woman!”

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D. Merrill @terebifunhouse.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Billionaires, racists, developers, and Rob Ford's policy guy all love Brad "Bad" Bradford. Don't let him run Toronto please

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Robert: The Autumn's Lost Son || Mr. 404 @robertinthewires.bsky.social · 20/10/2026

Toronto, we have six days to make sure this fucking freak and his allies don't get a single seat. Make me proud.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 20/10/2026

Important in light of the arrest of a women for obstructing a delivery #robot in Philadelphia. We are moving towards a situation in which corporate security and surveillance devices have more rights than people. PS: #robotrights advocates are complicit. www.gadgetreview.com/philadelphia...

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Philadelphia Woman Arrested for Blocking Uber Eats Delivery Robot

Philadelphia woman arrested for blocking an Uber Eats delivery robot sparks debate over labor rights, automation protest, and Pennsylvania sidewalk robot laws.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 20/10/2026

A pro-life white woman ruling that a law officer was justified in killing a Black baby seated in his mother’s lap, shooting her as well because of suspicion of stealing diapers is as accurate of a summation of how the US has historically wielded its institutions against Blackfolk as I can think of.

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 28/08/2026

In a remarkable omission, this article on young people involved in Alberta separatism shouts out the podcast of two young women interviewed—but fails to mention what sort of programming they produce! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A screencap of a CBC article, accessed online on August 28 2026 at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-quebec-separation-youth-vote-9.7317726. "Where do young people stand in Alberta's separation debate?" The headline image features two far-right social media influencers, MayCee and Madison Holmes.

A screencap of a YouTube title card, taken August 28 2026. Madison and MayCee Holmes are hosting a collaborative episode with two fascist conspiracy theory channels, 'Canadian Patriot Press' and 'SuperSpreaders.' It is titled "Black Sun (Esoteric Fascism)"

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

Many of the labs named in this peice are named not for their egregious behavior but for the clarity with which it can be described. I personally have been well treated, at least in forward facing outputs, by most of these labs. But Liz has not. And that difference is the point.

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Amal From Gaza @amallk.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

What does $5 mean to you For a mother in Gaza begging for her injured child, every little contribution matters I'm Amal, and my son Mohammad was injured by shrapnel while we searched for food. He urgently needs treatment outside Gaza. Please, don't underestimate your help chuffed.org/pay/campaign...

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

I know you know me better than to assume I would want people to lose the vehicle that they need to use for work or travel.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 19/10/2026

This is exactly what they've been planning since the 1960s But nobody wanted to listen to black folks who tried to warn everyone Now here we are

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

(oh that’s nice that the publisher gave them the opportunity to do that.)

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

my answer would probably still be this blacksky.community/profile/did:...

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

an interesting/troubling question! I think I would say that Claude is using its prior training (on everyone else’s stolen words and works) to manipulate this author’s words recasting and reconstituting them based on statistical models that skew to the mean of the stolen works Claude was trained on.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

💯 was just playing along with your suggestion and noting that a place that seems to be explicitly accepting white supremacist refugees is the US 😔

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

ah this is where the logic breaks for me (and is maybe not clear to folks who haven’t been researching ai/llms): if claude or whatever is involved, then it is not the “closed” that people might think it is, and all the issues of claude etc. are at play, making the work problematic/inauthentic :(

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

the US seems to be taking in “refugees” from South Africa — maybe separatist Canadians can get in on that

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

(sorry if this sounds annoying, but I’m trying to understand :)) sets what up? copy-pasting your writing into a word doc doesn’t organize the writing in any way, does it? (aside from of course fonts, and highlighting grammar, which one could argue is doing something, but quite different.)

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

that’s what folks have told me as well. I’m always curious about what was fed this? like how did that thing come to be?

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Liz Jackson @lizjackson.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

My latest with @fractalecho.bsky.social: Labs Suck is about the proliferation of disability-themed labs that cosplay as mythical spaces where humanity meets innovation in order to obscure broader practices of extraction, exploitation, and erasure. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

Screenshot of the Lab Suck headline with the following paragraph: 'When the lab’s champions are confronted with their parasitism, they sequester inward and upwards as a shield against critique. What began through the co-optation of community-led change movements inevitably turns it into a mausoleum for the end of the world. The lab is a model of knowledge production which requires extraction to function. Put simply -- Labs Suck.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

I’ve heard this explanation before and rarely get a clear answer on what a “closed LLM” is. how have folks described it to you?

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

The All-New Child.

A kid in a red backpack in front of à la ge gnc truck
Invisible
The all new 2026 child

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

5/ Mélenchon “suggested the government was deliberately allowing violence to spiral to justify its own crackdown and discredit the legitimate aims of the student protests. “The heart of the matter is the protesters’ demands, the problems facing students and the high cost of living,”

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Emmanuel Macron faces political firestorm after riots

Worst street violence in years comes six months before one of Europe’s most closely watched elections

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UMAW @umaw.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

UMAW calls on all sectors of the industry to safeguard and properly compensate human labor.

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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

aarrgghhhhhhhhh ffs

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19/10/2026

This story

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ceej @ceej.online · 19/10/2026

rare non-shitpost from your pal ceej: if you self-host plex you’re gonna wanna update asap. crypto miner malware started hitting installs yesterday, it got me and I’m usually pretty up on this stuff

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 18/10/2026

🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 asking why they can’t be like 🇫🇷 : because racism and capitalism hold you back. There is a cult of property that means that any damage to it is the moral equivalent of mass murder. And you’ve had protests for equality from racialized ppl: Blk ppl in 🇺🇸 Indigenous ppl in 🇨🇦 . You demonized them

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 19/10/2026

(tfw your mother-in-law tells you about a relative who knew Virginia Woolf!!)

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