SmallAxe @smallaxe0621.bsky.social · 01/10/2026“AI is happening whether you like it or not” keeps making more sense. It’s a practice. 030
Reposted by SmallAxeAriel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20... 7457160
Reposted by SmallAxePavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The result is the same result as all other algo-washing: lossless pass-through of the biases and inequalities of the world directly into your decision-making.reallifemag.comFriction-Free Racism — Real LifeSurveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination 1447
Reposted by SmallAxeCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026There 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... 11571832059
Reposted by SmallAxeAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked. 6330151672
Reposted by SmallAxeTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026Bless their soul but who is going to listen? I want to break it to them how long we've been warning about these cults funded by unlimited amounts of money being behind these companies which themselves claimed to be created for "AI safety" 🙄 AND how the press has been doing stenography for so long. 28610
Reposted by SmallAxeVerite News @veritenews.org · 14/09/2026Volunteers flood Louisiana in Summer ’64 to get Black people registered to vote Louisiana Freedom Summer volunteers were on the frontlines, challenging obstacles to voter registration.veritenews.orgVolunteers flood Louisiana in Summer ’64 to get Black people registered to voteLouisiana Freedom Summer volunteers were on the frontlines, challenging obstacles to voter registration. 0145
Reposted by SmallAxeTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026The last few days is like a DDOS attack from these companies 🙄 I just finished drafting an op-ed and then see another OMG Machine god is going to kill everyone 😱 post Ok walk me through the step by step action this super intelligent chatbot takes to render everyone us extinct? 481125233
Reposted by SmallAxeChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 09/09/2026"I'm resigning because the thing we're building is going to wipe out humanity" No. What happened is that your options grant fully vested. 738360
Reposted by SmallAxeRich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Pope to Catholic Legislators: “Sadly, we are presented with a subtle form of domination when algorithms decide who is seen, who remains invisible, when digital platforms shape public discourse without accountability, and when the dignity of workers is subordinated to the optimization of systems.” 3278108
Reposted by SmallAxeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026"The USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t able to be resupplied because the U.S. Navy’s main resupply base in the Gulf of Oman was destroyed by Iranian strikes—a fact that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth chose not to make public, said David Rhode [natsec reporter for MS NOW]" newrepublic.com/post/214510/...newrepublic.comHegseth Covered Up the Real Reason the USS Lincoln Wasn’t ResuppliedAccording to a report from MS NOW, the USS Abraham Lincoln wasn’t resupplied because Iranian strikes destroyed a key Navy resupply base in the Middle East. 502526817
Reposted by SmallAxeRafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"Federal neglect—and restrictive aid conditions—have broken the infrastructure meant to sustain human life in the Caribbean U.S. colony." From Coenia Sanchez for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/puer...inthesetimes.comCongress Has a Responsibility to Reverse the Water Crisis It Caused in Puerto RicoFederal neglect—and restrictive aid conditions—have broken the infrastructure meant to sustain human life in the Caribbean U.S. colony. 0158
Reposted by SmallAxeJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026New from 404 Media: here is the manual for ICE's electric shock gloves. ICE plans to spend tens of millions on gloves that give electric shocks to incapacitate people. But I found the user manual online, and it says the gloves can contribute to "sudden death" www.404media.co/heres-the-ma...404media.coHere's the Manual for ICE's Electric Shock GlovesICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.” 16214122
Reposted by SmallAxeChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026NEW: CNN is reporting as an "exclusive" that the former CFO of SPLC, Heidi Beirich, was arrested in California today. They have a quote from Blanche at a news conference and say this is "part of a superseding indictment," but the docket does not yet reflect the superseding indictment.cnn.comExclusive: Former Southern Poverty Law Center CFO arrested on fraud charges | CNN PoliticsA former chief financial officer at the Southern Poverty Law Center has been arrested in California and for her alleged role in overseeing secret payments to informants inside of White supremacist gro... 31899352
Reposted by SmallAxeAli Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Some obvious errors here but this is clearly bad and part of the XRW’s revenge campaign for the SPLC’s effective targeting of hate groups - which absolutely includes Kirk’s TPUSA 04214
Reposted by SmallAxeChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 29/05/2026The idea that an oppressed populace will naturally and inevitably rise up to overthrow a dictator is one of the most persistent, romanticized myths in Western political thought. Most people living under dictatorships do not revolt. They survive and adapt. Most dictatorships last for decades. 4291
Reposted by SmallAxeJessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026🎧 We've got a new episode of Paper Trail out tomorrow and for the first time, it's a story reported by... me! 🫣 Subscribe here so you get it first thing in the morning, all the cool kids are doing it: www.propublica.org/series/paper...propublica.orgPaper TrailInvestigative reporters at ProPublica chase down evidence of wrongdoing and bring it to light. Each episode, you’ll ride along as we talk to reporters and their sources, uncover hidden facts and show ... 06618
Reposted by SmallAxeProPublica @propublica.org · 10/08/2026Louisiana’s AG has pushed back against almost all compensation claims brought by the wrongfully convicted, even in cases where men were exonerated by DNA evidence. “She knows people are innocent but she doesn’t care,” one man said.propublica.orgHe’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The State Says No.Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore... 481193615
Reposted by SmallAxeWill Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Transportation secretary Sean Duffy benefited from millions in corporate donations to make a show about road trips. But two months after Duffy said the show would premiere, it doesn't appear to exist at all. My latest False Flag @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/what-the-h...thebulwark.comWhat the Hell Happened to Sean Duffy’s Road-Trip TV Show?Three months after it was announced, the secretary of transportation’s summer show—funded by companies he regulates—hasn’t aired a single episode. 1573289999
Reposted by SmallAxeMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Among potential 2028 contenders, Newsom seems the most committed in trying to turn Trump's allies into his own allies, hence constantly kissing the assess of the worst people in the country, like this gift for the Ellisons. Bold strategy, Cotton, let's see how the Dem base likes that. 51698160
Reposted by SmallAxebad clerk @badclerk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026just to be clear, republicans, it's NOT the drug-addicted poor who are abusing and defrauding medicaid. it's the treatment industry. i.e. corporate health care providers. 41097
Reposted by SmallAxeProPublica @propublica.org · 30/07/2026Internal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors rejected patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. (Published March 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)propublica.orgHow Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading ThemInternal documents and former company executives reveal how Cigna doctors reject patients’ claims without opening their files. “We literally click and submit,” one former company doctor said. 721011610
Reposted by SmallAxeMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03... 16154702515
Reposted by SmallAxeMurshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Imagine the shitstorm Republican electeds and their friendly cut and pasting stenographers in the legacy media outlets would have raised - if Barack Obama or Joe Biden withheld or rejected disaster funding strictly for red states. Reasonable to assume they’d be impeached w/in weeks. 8894113
Reposted by SmallAxeEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/20267. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one mood (Troubled). 432853241
Reposted by SmallAxeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/07/2026to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities 902400409
Reposted by SmallAxeProPublica @propublica.org · 28/07/2026This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.youtube.comRussell Vought: The Shadow PresidentYouTube video by ProPublica 9816731052
Reposted by SmallAxeThomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Power, Opportunism, and Ideology in Republican Politics About cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Right. My new piece - about Lindsay Graham and about so many more like him:steady.pagePower, Opportunism, and Ideology in Republican PoliticsAbout cowardice and conviction, the complicity of conservative elites, and the permission structure that governs the Right By Thomas Zimmer, July 26, 2026 A note before… 18027
Reposted by SmallAxeWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=g79G...youtube.comNeuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TVYouTube video by Apple TV 24759621516
Reposted by SmallAxeKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 24/07/2026CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 25673183619
SmallAxe @smallaxe0621.bsky.social · 26/07/2026It’s not ironic. That is the plan. The parts of the world that will suffer first, suffer the worst, for the longest time period are the global south. Just like they are now. That’s the plan. Stay woke. 010
Reposted by SmallAxeThe Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 23/07/20264/ Ben Gvir’s comments about Israel’s “ownership” of Al Aqsa and “a lot of progress on Temple Mount [but] more to do” are worse than you might initially think. Awful lot of ominous messaging in those words — and it won’t be lost on anyone for whom the implications are intended. 1163
Reposted by SmallAxeThe Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026See also: “the strait of Hormuz is secretly gay (and grooming your children)” 121
Reposted by SmallAxeAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026OSSOFF: So we entered this war on false pretenses. Sound familiar? Not the first time the United States has been dragged into a quagmire in the Middle East on false pretenses about weapons of mass destruction. 332137413977
Reposted by SmallAxeHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Ketamine freak has completely lost what’s left of his mind because there’s a Black lady in a fictional movie. 733165513670
Reposted by SmallAxeKyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Here's a new one: ICE *prevented* a man from self-deporting by a June 11 deadline — he asked ICE to let him leave and had a one-way plane ticket for June 10. Then ICE re-detained him because he missed the deadline. Due process violation, judge rules. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 561850671
Reposted by SmallAxeThe Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026But fascist power consolidation is easiest of all when those in charge can convince the public that the war “over there” is inseparable from “the war at home.” 7/11 1519
Reposted by SmallAxeThe Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026What connects the State Dept Cuba report, Trump’s “election interference” speech, the NSPM-7 domestic terrorism expansion, and the recent “Ministerial Summit on Political Violence” to the Iran War? In a word — fascism. “Be alarmed” isn’t enough. Get prepared. 1/11 www.state.gov/wp-content/u... 613053
Reposted by SmallAxeSoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 21/07/2026This particular criminalization of parental poverty, used to disproportionately pathologize Black women and steal their children, is called Jane Crow. And it's proliferating because of deliberately cruel, punitive administrative policies like what's happening to SNAP and Medicaid. 7477260
Reposted by SmallAxeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This is the first main part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act kicking in. The second part, restricting Medicaid, is timed to happen after the midterms. 5126631344
Reposted by SmallAxeAmanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Really really enjoyed this interview with Mamdani - as always, a masterclass in communication. His answer on creating a big tent party is both excellent and low key savage. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/m... 181665302
Reposted by SmallAxeutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18/07/2026Now organizing a metro wide educator, parent, and admin meeting to discuss workplace rights and organizing responses to ICE at schools 0291
Reposted by SmallAxeA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026It's the fraud economy. A bubble made of bubbles. A puff pastry of whipped bullshit with a nothing filling, held up with stilts that are resting on a plummeting grand piano. 251303263
Reposted by SmallAxeAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC NewsNamaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about... 1416821046
