Reposted by jj skolnikthemboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 10hit's wild how people continue to think of genAI as somehow oppositional to copyright/the IP regime given how openly and loudly it is explicitly a project of enclosing the commons to try and rent back access to our own art and knowledge for a subscription fee 217355
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 9hi have never watched any of the 9-1-1s because why would i but what the fuck is this ad that just showed up on my roku tv. is chris o’donnell the candyman. why are there so many bees 8471
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 10hyeah the reason all fascists are cornball losers who are deeply uncool is because they got stuck in their wounded egos, and all a wounded ego knows is ME ME ME CONTROL CONTROL CONTROL. walking narcissistic injuries 17810
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 12hi don’t think we need to discuss compact mag articles or free press articles or or or 1281
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 13hchoosing to believe this is lil marc andreesen (the head fold inverts and becomes conical over time). this is the secret of jason voorhees. DUTCH LAST NAMES ARE THE CLUE 1321
Reposted by jj skolnikEnce Morse @ence.bsky.social · 20hAnyone remember Chicago Progressive Partnership, the shell group that spent big to back pro-Israel candidates in Illinois Dem primaries? It just closed up... and transferred its bank balance back to AIPAC's super PAC. 4474116
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 13honce again i ask: - would you, a cis person, vote for someone who said hateful things about a marginalized demographic you belong to/had identical policy positions to republicans on yr human rights/folded to republican pressure on yr rights - how would that vote be “fighting fascism” 210018
Reposted by jj skolnikI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13hThe police are the main customer base for all these systems no matter their iteration 414351
Reposted by jj skolnikTK @archivedspork.bsky.social · 14h“Dirtbag left” is like “egg punk” neither should ever be said seriously 0283
Reposted by jj skolnikRonan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. This video shows where the app buried the off switch. The stakes are high on an app like Grindr. Numerous countries criminalize same-sex relations, so being outed through your data can be dangerous. 331413804
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 16hai already has a ton of ethical issues, including the exploited outsourced labor that it runs on … we don’t have to make up fictional ones 0509
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 16hlook i will watch a lot of not very good mystery shows but we gotta draw the line somewhere 4423
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 16hi have been screaming this for so long and it’s why i want to do a teach-in on seeing like a state 0536
Reposted by jj skolnikNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 17hGlenn's correct here. A generally strong career, a mid-80s swerve notwithstanding, and the first three albums are astonishing. _Sleep No More_ is full of deep cuts and inspirations: Martin Gore covered "Gone," Silkworm did "Our Secret." And "Dark Parade"? That'll get ya.en.wikipedia.orgSleep No More (The Comsat Angels album) - Wikipedia 4244
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 17hthis makes an incredible amount of sense and also the mlm representation in the nest of scammers that comprises this government is off the charts (trump included) 2374
Reposted by jj skolnikpausa de hateration @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 17hme: I don’t care how a movie performs at the box office and nor should anyone else. also I won’t yuck other people’s yum. also me: I need these four Beatles movies to flop incredibly hard 2445
Reposted by jj skolnikThe PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 19hMy latest for @theverge.com - Meta has once again built tech that lets one person’s desire for individual convenience endanger the privacy of everyone around them. And unlike with pervert glasses, there’s zero way to even know when your privacy is violated. 🎁 Gift Link: bit.ly/4s7zBlDbit.lyFriends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agentsYou may have consented to sharing with Muse, but all your friends sure didn’t. 217077
Reposted by jj skolnikcozy @bimbotheory.bsky.social · 20hNotice how this fully anti-trans detransition therapy rhetoric is so functionally similar to the "you're valid no matter what, you don't have to transition to be trans" rhetoric that we have all inculcated ourselves to? 591339222
Reposted by jj skolnikpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20hall of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever 132144588
Reposted by jj skolnikPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21hThe "is AI slavery" discourse is exactly what the tech bros want. It doesn't end with fancy autocompletes having human rights. Its logic ends with you having fewer rights. If you believe AI is sentient (it's not) & are down with enslaving it (it's not slavery), then why do human labor rights matter? 131617413
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 21hmore from the “breaking news: POPE CATHOLIC!” file 05512
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22hicymi and want some sharp and distinctive cultural criticism in yr inbox 0206
Reposted by jj skolnikaaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 14/10/2026it is impossible to overstate how endemic the kind of behaviour that man is accused of was between male canlit writers with teaching positions and female students at the time it happened 14711
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026for people who do not know what i do: i used to be a music journalist and i also do a lot of general cultural critique. i am an anarchocommunist & i write from a tradition of marxist cultural analysis. i come from left feminist/punk zine/blog world. also am trans fwiw 17222
Reposted by jj skolnikSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.thecurrentga.orgApproximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The CurrentApproximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he... 3723351178
Reposted by jj skolnikOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/10/2026"The growing mobility of capital increasingly allowed it to avoid making concessions that might have supported legitimation, while the marginalization of parties, elections...weakened the state’s capacity to secure popular consent for accumulation." nonsite.org/triumph-of-c...nonsite.orgTriumph of Capital, Crisis of DemocracyWe argue that Trumpism arose from a political and social crisis generated by the success of accumulation. This crisis resulted not from the decline of capitalism or the exhaustion of accumulation b… 420157
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026finally heard one of those israeli tourism ads explicitly aimed at christians. wow that’s a pile of dogshit 2410
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 15/10/2026hello! i am coming out of relative writing retirement (outside of flaming hydra, where you can still find me!) to announce that i have my own subscription-based newsletter. i’m still setting a few things up but you can subscribe for $5/mo here: buttondown.com/anyotherwaybuttondown.comAny Other Waycultural criticism from the ground up 36029
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026dawg i do it because i am old and a former riot grrrl/zinester. it’s not deeper than that, i just am in my old habits and also it’s faster to type this way 4866
Reposted by jj skolniknow featured in the criterion collection @anem0ne.net · 14/10/2026i mean i feel like this just underscores the feeling that when dem candidates go anti-trans, it's a combination of one to three things: 1. they're idiots or advised by idiots 2. they are transphobic and relieved they're now able to say slurs 3. they're craven and cowardly 14313
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026need everyone to know that cypress’s latest thing is that instead of waiting for me to lie down and hold out an arm so he can get cuddle space, he lies down next to me, waits for me to put an arm around him, and then drapes a paw over me like he’s hugging me back 4610
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 14/10/2026my feeling on digger is that society has evolved past the need for tom cruise 4655
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 13/10/2026i love when the bank is like “yr balance is running low! please make a deposit” like cool man, do you have any money i could do that with 2681
Reposted by jj skolnikOrdinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 12/10/2026placesjournal.org/article/the-...placesjournal.orgThe Warehouse, in Plain SightThat concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly. 0137
Reposted by jj skolnikPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Full Federal Fascism... as I said on here a couple of days ago, whatever lines people have been waiting for to be crossed, there are no lines. 101271348
Reposted by jj skolnikThe Sherlock Holmes Of Tire Marks @hexisbored.bsky.social · 14/10/2024 41905612
Reposted by jj skolnikBlack.Metronome 🇧🇧 🇧🇲 @blackmetronome.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026I had no idea this was happening. I pray that the kids putting their bodies on the line for freedom will be safe.reuters.comIndia detains thousands, locks down Delhi to foil election chief protestThousands of police and paramilitary personnel deployed across the city, mobile internet services were suspended and dozens of metro stations and markets were shut as authorities moved to stop a rally... 312554
Reposted by jj skolnikElizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Imagine being the kind of antisemite who thinks that Jews don’t have a problem with GI food intolerance 521319109
Reposted by jj skolnikAren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is part of the economy where cis doctors sexualize trans people’s suitability for health care, even if it just looks like sketchy behavior. Thats because the sexualization is about wielding power over people with no alternative and extreme social vulnerability. 0738
Reposted by jj skolnikAren Aizura @incommensurati.bsky.social · 10/10/2026The only doc who would prescribe T in Indiana when I lived there insisted on doing a “prostate exam” on all his trans guy patients and hit on them (us) constantly. His license was later revoked. I can only imagine how he manipulated trans women patients. 517541
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 10/10/2026i love when my obsequious set of unforced errors kidnaps me. that’s what i call technological progress 2504
Reposted by jj skolnikAll Watched Over By Machines of Drum and Bass @bartlebooth45.bsky.social · 10/10/2026 04510
Reposted by jj skolnikCorey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026lmao that's actually so funny?? It's just an app that makes you immediately stupid, incredible 142540720
Reposted by jj skolniks. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 09/10/2026Our food system is so deeply broken and extractive.grist.orgFrom the farm to your door: How our global food system exploits workersColonialism and land dispossession created a system based on exploitation. Climate change is making it worse. 06219
jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026i have not gotten more than two or three normal nights of sleep in the last month (it’s a meds issue) and boy my functionality is really struggling 2140