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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 2h

When you want to post a rant but parts of your computer are broken:

I have no mouse and I must screed

Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 7h

It’s time once again to mention that a lot of the world's chocolate supply is produced by child labor and slave labor.

For some further info, see my 2015 blog post (www.kith.org/jed/2015/02/...) and the Food Empowerment Project’s chocolate list: (foodispower.org/chocolate-li...).

» Chocolate produced by slaves

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 12h

Some assorted notes and updates about what I’ve been up to lately:

www.kith.org/jed/2025/10/...

» Life updates

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 12h

List of lawsuits against OpenAI, with info about each one. (There were 10 on the list when I first posted it, two years ago; there are 20 now.)

originality.ai/blog/openai-...

OpenAI and ChatGPT Lawsuit List – Originality.AI

We looked at all lawsuits occurring against OpenAI and listed them below. In addition to the relevant detail we had a lawyer provide some commentary. This list will remain updated as an easy-to-refere...

originality.ai

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Konrad Aderer @konraderer.bsky.social · 12h

Shortly before the pandemic I began my obsession with Tessaku ("Iron Fence"), the Japanese-language literary journal of Tule Lake Segregation Center...and last year I started production of film adaptation and hybrid documentary expanding on a 1944 short story from the second issue. buff.ly/LxiolpO

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1d

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

Submission guidelines for sf magazine Translunar Travelers Lounge.

Up to 5k words; 3¢/word; looking specifically for “fun” stories.

Deadline for current submission window: Oct. 15.

translunartravelerslounge.com/submissions/

Submissions

Broadly defined, the type of fiction we are looking for is “fun”. [Go to Submissions]

translunartravelerslounge.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3d

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

“the California Legislative Black Caucus…proudly announces the signing of Senate Bill 518…establishing the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery and continuing the recognition and healing for the savagery of forced human slavery in the [US]”

blackcaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/governo...

Governor Newsom Signs Landmark Bill Creating Slavery Descendants Bureau | Legislative Black Caucus

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

“‘The works in _Tessaku_ challenge the longstanding and damaging myth that the death of Japanese-language Japanese American literature was inevitable—that assimilation and monolingualism were the only possible fates for later generations of Japanese Americans’”

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

“the ultimate goal of the project is to translate and publish the literature written in Japanese by the Issei and Kibei Nisei at Tule Lake, in particular the high-quality, curated literary magazine known as _Tessaku_, or Iron Fence.”

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

“Project to translate and republish the literary magazines of Tule Lake”

(Article from 2023.)

(Via Konrad A.)

resisters.com/2023/12/14/p...

Project to translate and republish the literary magazines of Tule Lake | RESISTERS.COM: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

resisters.com

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the explanations and the link! And the translation project sounds great.

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 3d

An introduction to mutual aid concepts, plus info about several recommended books.

(Article from January.)

lithub.com/we-only-have...

We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid

For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities…

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 4d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Chicago

sevedge @sevedge.bsky.social · 4d

photo of a Do Not Enter traffic sign on a Chicago street, but someone has altered it to say Do Not -Let ICE- Enter

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

Overview of some of the “many lawless and unconstitutional provisions” of the “compact” that Trump wants universities to agree to.

www.cato.org/blog/univers...

(I don’t often link to Cato, but I found this piece worth reading.

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact"

The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 4d

Listening to Peter Gabriel’s song “Wallflower.”

youtu.be/81NIqD5Oa-g?...

Wallflower

YouTube video by Peter Gabriel - Topic

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Jed Hartman @elysdir.bsky.social · 5d

Some of Discord’s records have apparently been hacked.

I think the article is saying that 70,000 users’ government IDs were exposed, mostly age-verification documents and info about Nitro payments.

(CW: mention of Charlie Kirk shooter.)

(Article may be paywalled.)

www.404media.co/the-discord-...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6d

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics.

“Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 6d

The number of times I've heard that what education is has to change because AI! When people say this to me now, I just say, "no." Usually they stop talking for ten seconds because no one is ever telling them no, and that's the whole problem

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 6d

The basic structure of so much commentary, some in the guise of academic study, reduces to:

(1) generative AI products are detrimental to the goals of education

(2) therefore, the goals of education must change.

Without the tacit axiom that AI has authority behind it, that just doesn’t follow.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 6d

Do you carry documents that prove your citizenship everywhere you go? Cause I sure the fuck don't, and to do it would need to carry birth certificate, previous marriage certificate, and name change order to prove the man on my ID is the baby girl on my birth certificate.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 6d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 6d

When immigrants have no due process, none of us have due process.

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Milwaukie Man Says ICE Abducted and Held Him for Hours Despite His Proving Citizenship

The case may be the first incidence of a documented Oregonian and U.S. citizen being swept up by ICE in an immigration raid.

www.wweek.com

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