Reposted by S.E. SinkhornCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 3hThere is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o... 442359760
Reposted by S.E. Sinkhorn#DVpit - Diverse Voices Pitch @dvpit.bsky.social · 5hTwo hours into #DVpit 2026 and we're already seeing some amazing pitches! For anyone new to the event, here is a summary of the rules. For full guidelines go to dvpit.carrd.co 08854
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornSt. John Barned-Smith @stjbs.bsky.social · 5hNEW: ICE published — then removed — internal mortality reviews detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...sfchronicle.comICE published — then removed — internal reports detailing medical failures in detainee deaths across U.S.The reports, briefly posted online, examined the deaths of 33 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody between September 2019 and January 2026. 0185114
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 16hThe jackals are out, as they usually are for a woman who speaks up in a way that challenges patriarchy. (And a lot of why victims don't come forward or withdraw--as a Weinstein victim did--is because the misogynist public and legal system launch their own punitive assaults.) 5707143
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 15hTbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping 171893302
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 39062291719
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornMichael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 19hIt's a myth that's more unbelievable than Bigfoot, crazier than CRT and wilder than "wokeness." Its existence can't be supported by scientific, historical or biblical evidence. Yet we believe it. There is no such thing as an "evangelical Christian"dlvr.itMedia’s Little White Lie: There’s No Such Thing As an ‘Evangelical Christian’How evangelical Christianity became part of the biggest myth in American media. 615144
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19hNEW: SCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness. A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. Tonight, at Law Dork:lawdork.comSCOTUS allows third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessnessA split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts. 214256
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 18hspeaking of: www.almanacnews.com/ae/features/...almanacnews.comStanford journalist's new book explores dark side of university's relationship with Silicon ValleyTheo Baker, whose reporting led to the resignation of the university's president, looks at how Silicon Valley has shaped Stanford in his new book, "How to Rule the World." 010
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 18hyou don't have to abolish Greek Life but you should absolutely abolish Greek Housing and "secret societies" that everyone in university admin know about but pretend don't exist 020
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is” 303106663
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 29/09/2026I think it's pretty neat that one of the legit breakout indie success stories this year is a game about painstakingly designing and sewing opulent ballgowns store.steampowered.com/app/4019220/...store.steampowered.comDressmaker on SteamBecome a dressmaker! Choose fabric, cut out patterns, and sew them all together to satisfy (or sabotage!) townsfolk in this cozy crafting game inspired by real dressmaking. 291274377
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornStephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Writers, if you are against AI, do not put your writing into ANY tool that is itself AI. Not to check grammar, not to "prove" you wrote it yourself. Everything you give them becomes part of their data, even if it's only to "improve their service" or whatever BS they tell you. 7608227
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornAnna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 20hI believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED. 31331235
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 20hSpecifically the QUEER romance. Most people loved the QUEER romance being given the treatment that usually only straight romances get. 36620
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornMrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 29/09/2026This is like a fucking SNL skit where studios keep making hockey shows instead of gay shows 543060561
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 19hI still think about the lady I was on a call with to report debit card fraud and she asked me questions and I just... gave her the answers, and she was like, "just... thank you. thank you for knowing things. so many people don't know their last purchase. I probably shouldn't say that." 000
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornAnne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 20hThis is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 4629051026
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornKane (Minkmoding) @kanexan.bsky.social · 21hLmao oh my god I think it’s trying to ape the writing in the post-Ender Dragon cutscene because that’s the only written material in Minecraft. Like look at this!! 47010
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21hAmerica.gov runs off of Gemini and Grok (of course), by the way: www.cnbc.com/2026/09/29/t...cnbc.comNew AI-powered government website uses Gemini, Grok, Trump official Gebbia saysTrump called the new website, America.gov, "a restoration of America's founding promise." 1017528
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 21hThird Way are weathervanes and this is what it feels like to have the wind at your back again 464680
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots. 3582123
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2025If you're wondering why they don't go to court with their high paid lawyers for an easy win, it's because this allows Google to bribe Trump. All the big players are way over their skis on AI investment and are sure they will need a bailout at some point. It's 2009 but for tech instead of housing 453326971
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23hstrongly agreed. fines and criminal penalties should not merely communicate a finger wag but actually change the strategic situation of a would-be white collar criminal 16770154
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 20hI mean can you "turn" on someone when they turned on you first 010
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23h“Senior editor Cereese Qusba spent months reporting on the case before breaking the news of the lawsuit on September 18.”thecut.comHow Student Journalists Broke the ‘Cornell Seven’ Case“Our coverage was absolutely completely raw from the lawsuit and nothing was concealed. At a minimum, that’s what we can do as the student newspaper.” 211475510
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 22hJFC. Another unsigned ruling by rank cowards. How many dead bodies will the fascist Justices be responsible for by the time the next hearing date rolls around in December?. Fascist Supreme Court Justices are an enemy of the people's rights. Pack the court, soonest. Or else lose the Republic entire.nytimes.comSupreme Court Allows Rapid Third-Country Deportations, for Now (Gift Article)The court also announced it would hear arguments in December on the legality of the Trump administration policy to swiftly deport immigrants to countries not their own. 34123
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 20hI would say lol lmao, but unfortunately she has caused so much harm by being an asshole that it's not really worth the chuckle. this is good. 030
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornSan Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 20hMonths before he was killed, a 40-year-old games engineering director at the New York Times alleged his wife and in-laws abused him for being transgender, court records show.bit.lyNew York Times engineer’s killing followed years of conflict, alleged anti-trans abuse by in-lawsMonths before he was killed, a 40-year-old games engineering director at the New York Times alleged his wife and in-laws abused him for being transgender, court records show. 0103
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026impossible to tell what's a troll and what's incompetence anymore, honestly 000
Reposted by S.E. Sinkhorngita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are barely any women or black people in games media and I can think of a couple reasons why but no one will like it 6581127
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026I am here begging more people to read Careless People because its author is still under gag order while tied up in litigation with Meta and she can't talk about it. read what she wrote. it's important for the public to know. it'll be out in paperback in January. bookshop.org/p/books/care...bookshop.orgCareless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism#1 New York Times BestsellerA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE!“Care... 100
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornErin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters. 121248393
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 11128843556
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026we bought our house because we happened to be buying RIGHT at the lull after the housing market crash when interest rates were decent and housing prices were climbing but not insane. it was 2013. our house is now "worth" over double what we purchased it for. we could not do that today. 020
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026you should, in fact, stop to consider how you're interacting with other people, whether it's appropriate for the setting, and how they might be receiving it. it's an important part of living in a society. 010
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Tennessee plans to execute a woman tomorrow. She was 18 when she committed the crime. She's now 50. Like most on death row, she's also a victim. And like most on death row, she's a far different person now than she was then. No one humanizes the condemned better than @lilianasegura.bsky.social.theintercept.comThe “Satanic Panic” Made Her a True-Crime Obsession. The Truth Is More Haunting.After 30 years on death row, Christa Pike faces execution for a grisly murder she committed at 18. 3337114
Reposted by S.E. Sinkhorns. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026Our phones have become such essential chroniclers of so much of our lives.prismreports.orgSmartphones hold entire archives of life in GazaAs Israel destroys all signs of what Gaza once was, Palestinians hold on to records and memories on their devices 183
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Many people are asking.prospect.orgWhy Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American ProspectOpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them. 319561
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026mmmmm cool that's going to be fun to bring up at the next community meeting after the police insist, again, that Flock absolutely does not do facial recognition because it "can't" 010
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026my assumption as well, with a side of being able to blame the government when they can no longer deliver for their investors. which they never could to begin with, but they don't want the investors to know that. 010
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornAlex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026With alt text. I yelled 1297123
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornSandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Transphobia is just sexism, hope all the TERFs who’ve supported ending my trans rights can go stare long and hard in the mirror, then get a good therapist. 234488
Reposted by S.E. SinkhornJUCIFER🗑 @jucifer.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026so often you'll see ppl say about incarcerated folx, "well that's why it's called punishment" meanwhile this story is not an outlier 0197
S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 29/09/2026excellent use of just letting the competition dig themselves into a hole with their own words 000