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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 39m

I have a zine I published this year that focuses on US policing and tear gas: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

A [short] History of U.S. Police & Tear Gas

This is the 6th issue in Mariame Kaba's archival activations series. It was designed by Cindy Lau (October 2024).

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 38m

Autism $peaks raised ~$34m in 2024 and spent 1% on family services and grants to help Autistic individuals. They spend approximately 25% of their budget on lobbying and another 25% on research (primarily on genetic testing and causation, i.e. eugenics). They aren’t trying to make our lives better.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

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zhinxy and 1 other @zhinxy.bsky.social · 37m

I must add that eating disorder culture for women is also aspirational, unless it admits it's eating disorder culture - that's what gets bans and has to go underground, much diet culture for women is still highly disordered "wellness!"

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 3h

Nearly 40% of young men don't see sexual assault as domestic violence. This shocking statistic from a national survey highlights a dangerous gap in understanding abuse.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Anyone saying they’re not racially profiling is unserious

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mr pussy @mrpussy.xyz · 3h

Rosa Parks wasn't just a lady on a bus, she was intentionally chosen in an organizing mass meeting to participate in a civil disobedience. and she was chosen because of the optics and appearance of her refusal to move. the costumes are organic but it does the same kind of optically-strategic thing.

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 51m

To be frank, this kind of research—straightforward with profound global privacy and surveillance implications—is rare. There is usually some caveat that makes it niche or insubstantial. This one is not that.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 48m

one of the reasons Yglesias is the worst is that he knows what he’s doing and the people he writes for know what they’re being fed, happily paying him for slow, boring slop

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 56m

Yglesias of all people had a real insightful post on this 15 years ago, probably because he is prone to the same exact behavior archive.thinkprogress.org/four-reasons...

So that’s that. You can, however, always get more psychological. I was 21 years old and kind of a jerk. Being for the war was a way to simultaneously be a free-thinking dissident in the context of a college campus and also be on the side of the country’s power elite. My observation is that this kind of fake-dissident posture is one that always has a lot of appeal to people. The point is that this wasn’t really a series of erroneous judgments about Iraq, it was a series of erroneous judgments about how to think about the world and who deserves to be taken seriously and under which circumstances.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 40m

I can sadly personally testify that everyone I’ve talked to under 40 who reads Yglesias does not know what they are being fed. they don’t see the agenda and they think it’s the smartest of the smart kid stuff

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Dan Lamothe @danlamothe.bsky.social · 58m

Not signing Pete Hegseth’s new media restrictions at the Pentagon:

Washington Post
New York Times
Wall Street Journal
CNN
AP
NPR
The Atlantic
Washington Times
Washington Examiner
Newsmax

There are others.

Signing:

OANN.

End of list, at least so far.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 57m

“dressing up as animals is insulting, this is war” is kind of a particularly bad complaint for Portland because they’ve been doing black bloc streetfighting shit for like, years at this point and the feds clearly aren’t scared to come back. might as well give “embarrass them” a shot.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 36m

The typically useful psychotherapeutic move to examine how intense anxiety around large-scale world events may be functioning as screen for more proximate, repressed fears seems less and less reasonable as the gestapo are literally disappearing people each day from the neighborhoods in which I work.

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Jason Quarrilex @painttherosesred.bsky.social · 1h

To me, Matthew Willard will alwaysbe the guy who played Maniac in the Wing Commander movie.

SaltyBitchables @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 14h

Democratic candidate, Matthew Willard, was elected Council member for the division one race in New Orleans.

I can’t wait for the midterms, tRump and his regime have assholed themselves and other republicans out of their jobs.

#Pinks #ProudBlue

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Matthew Willard claims victory in Councilmember at Large for Division 1 race

Matthew Willard has claimed victory in the race for New Orleans Councilmember at Large for Division 1.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 47m

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 29m

I see a lot of self-congratulation for something that hasn't happened yet, and will never happen with the AI that we currently know how to build.

Buying more and more GPUs isn't going to make the difference between AGI and not-AGI. There are some fundamental unknowns that need to be solved first.

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 9h

This relatively short essay by Jack Clark (from OpenAI & Anthropic) is a good indicator of the attitude of many people inside the AI labs, and what they think is happening right now in AI.

You do not have to believe him, of course, but it is worth noting: importai.substack.com/p/import-ai-...

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 36m

this is sort of an extraneous point but after some gentle pushing from a number of folks on here, the Zohran account no longer posts without alt text.

that means something. it says something.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

"For too long, our leaders have forgotten New Yorkers with disabilities. We have been failed by those with their own agendas, those who care only about holding on to power to remain relevant and serve their own egos." - Quemuel Arroyo

Quemuel Arroyo, in a wheelchair holding a microphone, on stage with "Our Time Has Come" projected behind him.

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Adrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 2h

...hi all, i would recommend NOT responding to this request with any private information or receipts, especially if said receipts could make you at all unsafe.

Siobhán @shibbi.bsky.social · 7h

Hey y’all, gimme all the information you have on Laurelai Bailey. Primary sources, claims, receipts, etc. Reply here or DM me. I’m trying to synthesize an understanding of the issues involved.

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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 37m

Leverage broke apart into factions that fought with each other internally through occult rituals."

"One way that thinking for yourself goes wrong is that you realize your society is wrong about something, don’t realize that you can’t outperform it, and wind up even wronger." Or you follow a leader.

Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 37m

"Occult beliefs pervaded many research groups. Routine tasks, such as deciding whose turn it was to pick up the groceries, required working around other people’s beliefs in demons, magic, and other paranormal phenomena. Eventually these beliefs collided with preexisting social conflict, and

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Jake Hamby @jakehamby.bsky.social · 39m

This article on the many rationalist cults gave me a lot to ponder. The Zizians got all the press because they got sleep-deprived and murdered people, but there are a lot of ways you can go high-demand. "Leverage Research" got into the occult and cursing each other. asteriskmag.com/issues/11/wh...

Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk

There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going ...

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Just a Housewife 🖇 @justahousewife.bsky.social · 1h

Oh. My. God. Are they doing the goddamn rhesus monkey experiment life extension calorie and cystine deficit thing?

That kind of orthorexia will make you crazy af.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 1h

yeah so after reviewing this in more detail than is reasonable, yudkowsky is not on hgh, he has bulimia. i assume someone who might be able to do something will read this post: this is unquestionably bulimia and he needs eating disorder treatment

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John Q Public @conjurial.bsky.social · 54m

A party consisting disproportionately of college grads whose leadership is ~all college grads with a large number of advanced degree havers will include more people whose instincts run genteel

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