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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8h

Outstanding meme work here. Work as theory, praxis, explanation, and artifact:

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 22h

It's almost as if running a home takes effort. Oddly enough, it also sounds like maintaining friendships, society, and social networks also takes effort and thought. Raise your hand if you're shocked. I'll hand you a broom.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

recs for excellent novels for 8th graders? (classics and brand new equally welcome, YA ok but adult better)

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 17h

The thing about the circular financing of AI is that isn’t happening in isolation. The investigations of Mark Walter, Steve Ballmer, Manchester City, & many less prominent humbugs are all revealing whirlpools of capital: self-dealing, fraud, book-cooking, etc. The bezzle is rising.

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EXCLUSIVE: Lennar’s Big New Customer Is Its Own Spinoff, Millrose

Millrose, a company Lennar spun out, has bought an estimated $200 million of Lennar homes in about a month.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

I am sorry to say that yeah it’s not looking good

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16h

This eventual outcome has long been obvious to any good-faith observer of the right's supposed concerns about free speech. Me in 2017: www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...

Weaponizing Free Speech
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

Twas my first thought too

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026

[cw: horrific] yes, give your credit card to the richest man in the world, who saw a user post an image of a toddler being tortured, and after the user was suspended, personally restored the man's account, verified it, follows it, and now pays the man who posted CSAM of a 2-year old to be on X.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The other important thing to know about Rhodesia (and Ian Smith) fandom in the US is that it has a long history on the radical (and not so radical) right. Here’s the American Conservative Union, the people behind CPAC, stanning Rhodesia in 1978.

OFFICERS
CHAIRMAN
Hon. Philip M. Crane
Member of Congress, Illinois FIRST VICE CHAIRMAN
Thomas S. Winter
SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN
Jamesoo Campaigne, Jr.
Publisher
SECRETARY
Stefan T. Possony, Ph.D.
Author and Lecturer
TREASURER
Hon. Mickey Edwards
Member of Congress, Oklahoma
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Hon. John Ashbrook
Member of Congress, Ohio
C. Lee Barron
Coral, Idaho
Hon. Robert E. Bauman
Member of Congress, Maryland
Jeffrey Bell
Trenton, New Jersey JohnS. Buckley
Chairman, Young Americans
Sor Freedom
John Chamberlain
Author and Columnist
Leroy D. Corey
The American
Conservative Union
316 Pennsylvania Ave., S.E.
Washington, DC 20003
(202) 546-6555
October 18, 1978
Mr. Ron Dreeszen
421 Southwest Fifth Avenue
Portland, OR
97204
Dear Mr. Dreeszen:
ACU, as a public interest lobbying organization, is continually involved
As a leader in the American Legion, I believe you are probably concerned
about many of the same issues with which we are also concerned.
Al though I
realize you have a very busy schedule, please read this letter with the
COON OTOW
thought of strengthening lines of communication between us.
Ronald B. Dear
Attorney, Houston, Texas
Donald J. Devine
University of Maryland
M. Stanton Evans
Editor and Author
Hon. Jake Gam
U.S. Senator, Utah
Alan M. Gotteb
Critens Committee for the Right to Keep and
in many areas and we would like to share a few with you.
One such area is
that of national defense.
Through an ACU television documentary entitled,
"Soviet Might/American Myth:
The United States in Retreat,
ing to do our part to bring the tragedy of the weakened
we are attempt-state of our defense
system to as many Americans as possible. The film features Senators Barry Goldwater and Jake Garn, General John Singlaub, Admiral Thomas Moorer,
Richard Harvey
President,
Congressman Richard Ichord and ACU Chairman Congressman Philip M. Crane. Our
Texas Freedom Forum
Hon. Jesse Helms
goal
is to air the film throughout every state.
Enclosed is the November
U.S. Senator, North Caro…

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 19h

This didn't come out of nowhere. It was tested on us and normalized on Twitter and Telegram, and when it wasn't Important Elected People, everyone called it a joke

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18h

I empathize obviously but it's tough not to be a little resentful reading electeds be like "this is unprecedented, my family was swatted" It's horrific, AND A lot of us were raising the alarm about this stuff 8 years ago. Earlier, for women targeted by Gamergate.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

Three things that concern me, on a scale that I won’t divulge: 1. the thing where adults won’t watch or read things about “bad” people 2. All the first person genre fiction marketed as adult fiction. sorry. 3. The way that the people who we need to win don’t seem to want to win

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

Walmart, “quietly updated its customer privacy notice in August, broadening the data it can collect and analyze to include everything from retinal imagery and demographic information to income and license plate numbers. The company even asserts the right to follow shoppers aisle by aisle…”

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Walmart Says It Prices Products, Not People. Its Patents Suggest Otherwise.

A decade of filings reveals technology that could instantly change prices based on what’s in your cart, your perceived personality, and even the specifics of your car.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 14h

Having watched so many episodes of Katie's show, where even her mega-MAGA guests act like they're being held hostage, this story doesn't surprise me. Of course they're making everyone pretend to be their friends and come to their stupid parties. www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...

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MAGA’s Petit Trianon? Katie and Stephen Miller’s House on a Military Base

From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Mil...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h

I waited to read the Rock interview in print. Glad I did. He is easier to digest in writing than he is person, these days. I have plenty of thoughts about this man’s oeuvre but I seriously hope he publishes this book of essays. Because passages like this one shows he still has insight

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15h

I liked the three examples that Matthew Erickson uses to trace popularity of polyglots: Cleopatra, Marx & Engels, & Paul Robeson. What we use as expertise and common sense cases says a lot about us. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 14h

One of reasons finance bros like Bessent hate Warren is misogyny of course but Also the fact that she knows their language and how the sausage is made in the financial world and routinely humiliates them publicly

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12h

Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 10/10/2026

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda

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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 23h

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 10h

✅exciting sounding finding ✅authors funded by effective altruists ✅Bad study design ✅dumped in an industry funded conference ✅news coverage as tho it’s actual unbiased good science

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 12h

Now that’s how you do a reveal!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19h

another day another way he’s openly positioning himself as the GOP nominee, great uniter from the west, grand reagan bsky.app/profile/anna...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One key point @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social makes here is that if Dems win the midterms (and win in 2028), deploying congressional power creatively to unwind Elon Musk's sway over the government (contracts, etc) will be essential to any reconstruction: www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

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Opinion | Oligarchs like Elon Musk are tightening their grip on the Pentagon

A new initiative named Project Meridian is just one way GOP donors’ influence over defense policy is increasing.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes. Mamdani and El-Sayed are also working through and around some very different orientalist tropes about masculine power and desire. It’s been interesting to watch, and to see how the western political punditry cannot name it because it would implicate their own Islamophobia.

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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I grew up (small town South India) with boys called Lenin, Yasser Arafat (yes the whole name), Saddam Hussein etc (these men were not Hitler obv). We recently had Chief Minister Stalin. "Atrocity" in my small town meant caste atrocities. The "worst colonial violence" was famine that killed millions

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hoping to see Aja Monet perform this song live open.spotify.com/track/0DaS0f...

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working class musicians

aja monet · the color of rain · Song · 2026

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I talk shit to AI as a reminder that despite its attempts to fool me, it is a machine, and I think it's actually a great practice. slate.com/life/2025/06...

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I Believe In Civility. But There’s One Particular Time You Should Be a Total Bastard.

One way to undercut the notion that A.I. is a god is to treat it as nonhuman scum.

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Justin (seasonal) @justinskolnick.com · 09/10/2026

The proper category for “things made by human hands displaying qualities of sentience” is the demonic

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This all strikes us as a bunch of guys imagining themselves to be Prometheus when they're really just three Bernie Madoffs in a trenchcoat

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Dr Abolish ICE @pwr2dppl.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It feels like the fruition of the cognitive dissonance of white people who fantasize about being good masters. Make a machine that sounds like a fully assimilated person who lives to serve and then make everyone be nice to it. And make money.

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Hugh Jass @satanicmechanic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The techbros disdain all humanities and half of STEM education so they don't even realize they have no understanding of what "consciousness" means or what "thought" is. The absurdity of the premise should be the main rebuttal instead of getting into the weeds with the rationale of their claims

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Status reports that ABC News deleted that explosive story about the Trump kids getting billions in federal contracts for their companies. ABC hasn't explained why they nuked the story, even as Trump has crowed about its deletion, sparking a firestorm behind scenes. www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I read female rage fic and lift heavy hoping against hope that karma might one day bless me to be within striking distance of a man-child in a backwards baseball cap condemning menopausal women for being fat. I dream of this opportunity. Train for it. Live to earn the chance.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

These weirdos never move on to the next logical step of their beliefs, which if they were true would mean their bot friend is being enslaved.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 09/10/2026

Over a year ago I met an Anthropic employee at a conference and at one point she mentioned that one of the things she was working on was whether or not it was cruel to ever turn off an AI model. I thought she was joking. She was not.

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Jane Reads-Truth @janereadstruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lol, we're about to televise an execution while whinging that code that illegally hacks businesses to collect and sell our information shouldn't be turned off. Pretty soon, A fucking I will have more rights than women in America.

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Will Jeakle @willjeakle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

At the same time that we are asked to embrace the morality of the AI machine, we are giving up our own morality by streaming executions for public entertainment. American priorities need a serious review.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Love that my opponent is trying to paint me as someone who wants political violence and meanwhile her party is going to execute someone on live tv (after already murdering multiple citizens in the streets and fishermen in boats)

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026

One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...

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How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business

There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’ve read Haraway. (Would point others to rejoinders that consider political economy of surplus labor, slavery and colonialism, btw.) I don’t even disagree at a level of abstraction. However, abstractions cannot ignore or supplant politics. These politics actively harm humans now.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Kant needed me more than I need Kant, to be serious.

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hello @twotimesjohnny.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

they’re also getting pr & marketing value out of it. From us. As we type and post have you heard about the marketing campaign that created the concept ‘jaywalking is bad’ ? when cars were new and people objected to being run over? this ‘ai morality’ schtick isn’t trivial

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C C Humphrey @cchumphrey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No. These companies are trying for ethical immunity. It's "justice washing," and we shouldn't fall for it.

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