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Sheila Rogers

@thoughtsunravel.bsky.social
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[she/her] 56 year old who loves art, photography, video games, and is a spoonie (Discoid Lupus & Mixed Connective Tissue Disease) living in Chicago. [avatar by AnneMarie Rogers]

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23h
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h
Just saw BlackRock ceo warning that data center moratorium would trigger a massive recession, which is fear mongering. And also hahahahahahhahahahaaaa.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
This Cornell Chi Phi alum's story of being sexually assaulted as a pledge—and his ensuing mental health struggles—has really stuck with me. (Chi Phi is the fraternity where Jane Doe was gang raped.)
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GUEST ROOM | I Lived at Chi Phi in 2012. Now I Say Tear It Down and Build Something New
Jared Hoffman '15 shared his experience as a member of the Xi chapter of Chi Phi. He calls for the tearing down of the Greek system and of the Chi Phi house.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Elon Musk is now using his control of SpaceX, a US government contractors, to wage his own private foreign policy which is directly at odds with US government policy and instead supports a mortal adversary. This, in a word, is treason.
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Ukraine Says New Limits on Starlink Are Disrupting Its Military Operations
Ukrainian officials say the limits imposed on the terminals have blunted their ability to attack Russian targets and intercept drones.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
i'm credited with discovering the first ever rootkit in an IM worm infection, used to power a large botnet, way back in 2005. i know my way around a worm and how they spread. please allow me to repeatedly slam my head in an oven door
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Jeff @jeffreadwrite.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Generative AI specifically was created via massive theft of human works, without consent of those humans, for the goal of concentrating massive wealth to a few humans via the eventually replacement of human workers. A "Charter" containing nicely sounding words cannot change this horrible fact.
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Every movie, song, and book that you love was made without the technology that people who don’t make art are now insisting is necessary for making art.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"what gets you out of bed each morning?" my bladder mostly
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Roxanne Darling 🍁 @roxannedarling.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and released ALL of the Epstein files, I’m betting they’d suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026
If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New Fed estimates of wealth by age are out. Under-35 wealth dropped 23% over these three years www.wsj.com/economy/affl...
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Affluent and Older Americans Got Much Richer in Postpandemic Years
A Federal Reserve study found overall median net worth rose 2% between 2022 and 2025.
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don't mean to be controversial or political but I think the paramilitary force full of violent failsons that acts with absolute impunity is not good
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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Idk y'all I think the secret police that violently terrorizes our neighbors and doesn't bother following any laws nor vetting the people they hire for mental health problems and histories of violence, and that recruits with nazi iconography may be bad actually
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The Gray Sage @walterdgreason.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Congratulations to Navanethem Pillay for this historic recognition! May everyone learn more about peace and international law over the next year. #LegalSky
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Godspeed, ma'am. "Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
@CethanLeahy

Me: oh wow, this shop has everything my heart desires!

Spooky shopkeeper: yes, I will warn you... every item comes with a price.

Me: yes, I know how shops work

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Spooky Shopkeeper: The price may be more than you expect to pay.

Me: Yes, I know how US taxes work, too.

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Shopkeeper, increasingly exasperated: I'm trying to tell you that I'm evil and offering these wares with no regard for the harm they will do!

Me, also increasingly exasperated: I know what capitalism is too goddammit
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Mike Rugnetta @mikerugnetta.com · 07/10/2026
Hi! It's me, the "Corporate media is hostile to you and your way of life" guy, here to say: corporate media is hostile to you and your way of life. It must be left behind. All of it.
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FRUITBLUSH @fruitblush.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
After the Fire
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'll say it again: WE DO NOT NEED THESE COMEMIERDAS AND THEIR WASTEFUL LYING POLLUTING COMEMIERDA COMPANIES FOR A SINGLE THING. The internet is us.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NOT A SINGLE FUCKING THING. There was already so much to read, look at, learn, explore, collage, so much weirdness and trueness and falseness and brilliance on the internet. And it got fucked up not because people wanted to earn money, but because a few people were determined to earn a LOT of money
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
This is what they've done.
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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Is the company that makes "Claude" going to pay for all these rescue missions? How does one establish culpability in these cases?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026
So the AI users are going to feed our original work directly into the chatbot and make it different enough to avoid detection, rather than using chatbot output trained on our work. Eg - recently, I found out Electrek was just copying my blog posts for profit on their website, to run ads against.
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Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co)
WTF is this - @fredlambert.bsky.social from @electrek.co just ripped my post and reworded it? And even generated some garish slop to use as a header?? Did he do this manually or did a chatbot just do…
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In NJ, they did something similar with an lead organizer during the Delaney Hall uprising. Dumped him in the middle of the Meadowlands (an old mafia dumping ground, for those who don't know) with no phone in the middle of the night.
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Huh. The Secretary of Defense announced that he is violating the Posse Comitatus Act. apnews.com/article/nsa-...
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Hegseth says national security, military cyber forces will guard US election systems during midterms
The U.S. National Security Agency and military intelligence forces are set to guard election systems during the November midterms.
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Natasha 🏴🌻 @alterici.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Anyway, I think all ai data centers should be leveled so that we can re-establish prairies, or plant food forests, build community gardens, whatever best serves the area.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 04/10/2026
Happening now in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview: A few hundred people are out protesting right-wing provocateur Jake Lang and his attempted "crusader march" on the local Palestine Fest going on nearby. Police in riot gear just formed a line, with Lang's group behind them.
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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rage towards those who will sooner question the woman describing harm, rather than the man causing it. I used to think that education could fix this. How do you educate someone to see you as human, as equal? The disconnect is so deep. Raising a son in this world is terrifying.
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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Rage towards those who feel the need to define us as a man’s relation (someone’s wife, daughter) in order to empathise with our pain (are they? Or are they empathising with the shame a man feels when his possessions are defiled?).
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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I struggled to contain my rage this past week reading about the Cornell Seven. Rage towards men who use the degradation of women as a bonding activity. Rage towards the cowards who stay silent and perpetuate the system they benefit from.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
The thing about the “no, you don’t understand AI could be used for good people” is that they're constantly yelling at the people pointing out the harm happening now, and I don’t see a ton being done to make this hypothetical good come to fruition.
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Scott Stubbs @lavvyheid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Those who were sacked went on the record saying not to boycott it. One of many articles on it out there. www.ign.com/articles/do-...
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Do Not Boycott GTA 6, Fired Rockstar Workers Tell Fans: 'There’s a Better Way to Support Us and Hold Rockstar to Account'
The first Rockstar workers who are embroiled in a legal battle with the company have told fans they shouldn’t boycott GTA 6 to protest on their behalf.
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Sam Burgess @oceanterra.org · 02/10/2026
#Climate change is not just raising temperatures. It is increasing the likelihood of prolonged periods when heat, water stress and wildfire risk occur simultaneously. Understanding these compound extremes is essential for building resilience across our water, food, energy and health systems.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026
If you, btw, would like an example of a place where data centres are *actually* being restricted by legislation, go look at Denmark - where they are now last in the grid connection queue, prioritising socially valuable load growth (like electrification, heating, cooling, new homes) first
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Denmark Puts Data Centers Last in New Grid Law
Denmark's emergency grid law puts data centers last behind households and green-transition projects, formalizing rationing that began in February 2026.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 01/10/2026
This is going to break people. This SHOULD break people. WTF are we even doing? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike was tortured yesterday by the state of TN in every single USians name and the fact is that this is a country that is mostly OK with this. This says everything about all of us. We are all implicated in this barbaric practice. It's sickening.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vivid numbers in this overview of Illinois’s new Net Zero carbon plan: “improvements in air quality alone would lead to between 392 & 631 fewer premature deaths per year. That translates to between $8.8 and $13.8 billion in avoided healthcare costs & increased worker productivity.” #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Illinois EPA releases ‘Comprehensive Climate Action Plan’ to reach ‘net zero’ emissions
SPRINGFIELD — Illinois has made substantial progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in recent years, but it is not yet on track to meet its goal of reaching net-zero emissions
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Sheila Rogers @thoughtsunravel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is so tiring y'all. None of these incidents are a mistake. This is what the tech companies want. blockclubchicago.org/2026/09/29/o...
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OpenAI Alerted Chicago It Accessed City Database Amid Reports Of Its Agents Going Rogue
City officials don't believe sensitive data was accessed. The alert follows reports that OpenAI's agents exceeded instructions and even accessed nonpublic information from government sites around the ...
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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I don't think agents replying to your emails or booking a restaurant for you is worth this stuff, sorry
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop telling women what to do. Stop telling us to do all of the work. Stop acting like you know more about our struggle than we do. Stand up for your fellow human being without any reward because that’s what we’re supposed to do. Ffs.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
fucking really
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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard
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