Reposted by Grahammolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2hdon’t turn my mailman into a cop, that sucks 301101286
Reposted by GrahamJohn “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 1hI have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like. 1444652
Reposted by GrahamBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 1hEveryone in politics and media does spooky voice about high corporate taxes and high top marginal rates, and then you look up the period of history where we had that and it's called ~the golden age of capitalism~ 14851136
Reposted by GrahamNash @radiodeadair.com · 49mThis is so pathetic. "Training." Like they're just trying so hard to help us but can't because they don't know the right way. Policing is a malicious institution, and pretending otherwise won't change anyone's mind. 25016
Reposted by GrahamKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 1hdon't amplify lies in the headlinearstechnica.comOpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concernsOpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip. 48813
Reposted by GrahamMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2h"First Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It Anyway" Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Read/share/subscribe:zeteo.comFirst Draft: 📺 Trump’s White House Agrees His ‘Midterm Ads’ Are Illegal. They’re Doing It AnywayDonald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself. 3130886
Reposted by GrahamDivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 2hLt. Christopher Couet was picked to replace Matthew "It's time to fuck people up" Didier as head of SPD's anti-protest unit. Couet's bad at giving and taking orders, but he's great at covering for his superiors. www.divestspd.com/p/baseball-card-crg-commander-christopheropen.substack.comBaseball Card: CRG Commander Christopher CouetThe new head of the Community Response Group, Christopher Couet, is bad at both taking and giving orders but, boy, is he great at covering for more senior officers. 031
Reposted by GrahamCommander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 4hIs it any wonder Ubisoft’s executives are excited about AI game development? A virtual employee won’t report them for sexual assault. 17687139
Reposted by GrahamJakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 8hMarc Thiessen, using a photo of 1944 Warsaw and pretending it's 1945 Dresden to dunk on *checks notes* Piers Morgan, who, incredibly, is not on the wrong side of things for once regarding Israel and Gaza, is peak 2026 Twitter. 418245
Reposted by GrahamRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15hTime for this classic again. 117123594206
Reposted by Grahammore mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 7hdems love to act like the left just appears out of nowhere at election time to sabotage them, as if they haven't spent the last two to six years actively denying leftists any voice within the party and openly collaborating with republicans to delegitimize and even criminalize leftist movements 125358
Reposted by Grahamjosh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026people like my parents or people back home often ask me if the reason why the industry is being killed in slow motion is due to AI, and it's a 15 minute long conversation to understand the real reasons why, at the heart of which are: people who own TV don't make TV and don't want to make TV 8432150
Reposted by Grahamjosh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026when you're a venture capitalist stooge or an MBA flunkie, your immediate quarterly report can stay black if you greenlight nothing, make nothing, cancel everything for a tax writeoff, and then pretend like everything is fine. the next quarter doesn't matter, you've moved on. 117244
Reposted by Grahamautumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Just talk to another human already jesus fucking christ 1123223647
Reposted by GrahamWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 7hI don't think this will end well. I get it, though. 59510
Reposted by Grahamrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 7htalking to rahm is like sex, it's bad. right? it's boring and bad and a waste of four minutes. right? it's like that for everyone? right? 1443226
Reposted by GrahamCharlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 7hhilariously he has disabled replies and quotes on the “please report transphobia” post lmao 416544
Reposted by GrahamMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 38261601705
Reposted by Grahammimi smartypants @mimismartypants.bsky.social · 6hwHy DON't WoMEn JuSt rePORT IT 318871
Reposted by GrahamJacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 6hAgain: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know. 3353102
Reposted by GrahamK.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 5hI would watch every single one of their ads, too, and not toss their Act Blue texts right into spam. 320128
Reposted by GrahamAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6hTech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down... 643589562
Reposted by GrahamTieTuesday @tietuesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026screaming "trans rights free Palestine fuck all recruiters tricking the young gambling is a blight and i think we will look back at it the same way we do cigarettes now" at the start of every stream to give everyone an ad-free experience 1833781147
Reposted by Grahammoby dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 11hRFK Jr just coming straight out and admitting that the purpose of genAI is to allow fascists to pretend that inconvenient truths aren't true. Sounds to me like a good reason to ban it at once! 5397181
Reposted by GrahamCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11hHere’s the moment @labourlewis.bsky.social read out the letter at a fringe event at Labour conference hosted by @the-citizens.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/the-... 9300111
Reposted by Grahamshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 8hi know a lot of people really, really want gaza to be a two-sides issue that maps cleanly onto US electoral politics, but it isn't. the mainstream of both parties supports the genocide, because the US as an institution supports the genocide. i know that's uncomfortable but you can't run away from it 121343168
Reposted by Grahamshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 8h& 5 minutes later when the next shipment of weapons arrived as scheduled, netanyahu concluded that biden was a weak bluffing fool who he could completely ignore to zero consequence 81697179
Reposted by GrahamBrett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 21hIf we can auto enroll every child into Trump accounts we can auto enroll every child into Medicare is the easiest layup of 2029. 12821231
Reposted by GrahamJay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 18hI am an AI doomer inasmuch as I feel strongly that AI is doomed and that it is our responsibility to accelerate that doom. 131279286
Reposted by GrahamKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16hIf rapists actually faced consequences for their actions we wouldn’t have nearly as many rapists. In reality many rapists actually benefit from their actions 112930366
Reposted by GrahamKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16hSeeing people post about how unfair the “mob justice” against the Cornell rapists is doesn’t really move me when there is no justice for survivors. The system doesn’t work; it enacts further punishment on the victims. Society is even crueler. So spare me the “mob justice” rhetoric about the accused 203277374
Reposted by GrahamKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16hA truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system 11665811243
Reposted by GrahamOnisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This really looks like AI model collapse has already happened. arxiv.org/abs/2604.03136arxiv.orgStoryScope: Investigating idiosyncrasies in AI fictionAs AI-generated fiction becomes increasingly prevalent, questions of authorship and originality are becoming central to how written work is evaluated. While most existing work in this space focuses on... 411217
Reposted by GrahamJustin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Most state attorneys general released Meta from Cambridge Analytica-related claims as part of the child safety settlement. New Mexico wasn't part of that deal, and a jury there just found 26 of 29 past claims about Cambridge Analytica, hate speech and misinformation willfully deceptive.techpolicy.pressEight Years On, Cambridge Analytica Scandal Catches Up With Meta in Santa FeA jury found that Meta—then Facebook—misled the public in statements about Cambridge Analytica and its policies on hate speech, violence and misinformation. 9884287
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In this moment, I hope all of us are thinking about how to support the survivors who are demanding more. College campuses are often the source of social change. The students find optimism in the places the rest of us are cynical. And they will be more powerful if we stand in solidarity with them. 222741
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There is a truism in campus sexual violence advocacy that schools can violate students’ rights because they can reset the movement every four years. On the flip side of that, there is also a new cohort of students every four year who still believe rape is wrong and expect better of their schools. 125832
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For every story like the Cornell gang rape, there are thousands more that couldn’t make it into the light. I wrote about a few dozen of them at one university in On the Wrong Side. The university’s treatment of survivors is eerily similar to what Jane Doe at Cornell experienced.bookshop.orgOn the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence"Bedera dispels deeply ingrained campus rape myths and puts the innate violence of the campus sexual assault reporting process into focus."--Jezebel"The book's grim conclusions are tempered with a hop... 2431145
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And that brings us to present day. The most reliable way for a campus sexual assault story to make it into a newspaper is for the survivor to file a lawsuit against their school. And the two main vehicles survivors used to do that have been closed for years. 129551
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In 2025, Trump was inaugurated into his second term and immediately ordered the Department of Education to stop investigating complaints about sexual violence or other violations of women’s Title IX rights. 131670
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026In a Title IX context, “emotional damages” was interpreted to mean any damages resulting from trauma. That decision is in a long legacy of treating women as “hysterical” for being hurt by sexual violence. 127241
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And in 2022, SCOTUS ruled on an ADA case with huge ramifications for Title IX. In Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, PLLC, SCOTUS ruled that even if an individual’s civil rights are violated, they cannot seek “emotional damages” from the discriminating institution. 125339
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026(There’s a separate thread to write about why Biden’s Title IX regulation was also very bad. It was written by schools, not survivors, so it actually expanded perpetrator impunity and increased surveillance of survivors. We’re honestly better off without it—even though we’re still in a bad place.) 231246
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026There was also a sense that Trump losing re-election would fix everything. But Biden dragged his feet on undoing the damage of Title IX. And then HE lost re-election and his Title IX regulation was vacated before it ever really went into effect. 135458
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump’s Title IX regulation went into effect in 2020, where it received almost no media coverage during the pandemic. There were also few students on campus to participate in or protest the process. Schools went above and beyond in implementing hostility toward survivors. 132565
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026At the time, the draft received an unprecedented amount of comments raising concern about violations of survivors’ rights and the risk of turning Title IX into a vehicle of gender discrimination. They were systematically ignored. Only pro-perpetrator recommendations were accepted.spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com 132039
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Trump rescinded prior guidance on Title IX during his first year in office, then put out a new regulation that experts warned would retraumatize survivors and offer perpetrators impunity. It literally had provisions designed to allow confessed perpetrators to get away with rape.time.comA New Title IX Rule Essentially Allows Accused Sexual Assailants to Hide Evidence Against ThemA mere three months after its release, the DeVos administration’s new Title IX rule goes into effect on Friday, August 14. With the rushed timeline... 3421127
Reposted by GrahamNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31795616