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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1h

What’s that quip about consistency & small minds, again?

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1h

Reposting a bit late for ‘Prime Day’ , but hopefully in time for holiday shopping madness.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8d

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1h

And ICE arrested a singing duo of giraffe & frog. Rendering Rod Stewart may be (debatably) a crime against Art; what harm (besides chilblains) in a naked bike ride, fercrissake?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 19h

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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Daniel Bachman @danielbachman.bsky.social · 5h

The mask debate on here is centered around SARS2/COVID (which is still totally not going well) but also misses other parts of what’s going on rn with climate breakdown & a fascist surveillance state. Masking is 100% the future, whether it’s against a novel virus, wildfire smoke, or police cameras.❤️‍🔥😷

Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 6h

All I can add to the “we reject universal masking” discourse is that it’s not about masks. You aren’t rejecting universal masking, which never happened; you’re rejecting having to think about wearing a mask, and maybe feeling badly about thinking about masks. Can’t help you there.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 3h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

Remember that insufferable AI bro Roy Lee?
The one who cheated on an interview with AI and got expelled from Columbia.
His "cheat on everything" AI company Cluely explicitly features this man tricking a woman on a first date with the AI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSiq...

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1h

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What’s particularly galling is that the stated reason that funds were yanked was because it used the word “equity”. Any online searcher knows, at least intuitively, that recall is often the opposite of precision, & that the simple presence of a word doesn’t mean much. Unthinking slash & burn.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1h

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My part in these initiatives was teaching seniors how to evaluate health information online, & how to find trust-worthy sources. That’s much more difficult now when we can’t trust health information from federal agencies — but it’s no less crucial. And now defunded.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1h

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And for teaching, not just recipients of accounts & devices, but reaching out to those who had some access but unfamiliar with using it.
Teaching internet safety / privacy, compiling trusted resource links, vetting social media (isolation is literally deadly, but …!).

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 1h

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The cancelled funds were intended to pay for seniors’ connectivity & devices smartphones (if they didn’t already have one) or simplified tablets, and to teach them how to use those, ideally in their own language. (The county has 5 official languages, but many more are widely used.)

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

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Older folks are among the most disenfranchised for Internet access. A significant portion of the population in Santa Clara Co., expected to be 1/4 of the total population in a 5 years. They’re disproportionally poorer for reasons obvious to everyone in the U.S.; ~ 1/3 of 65+ can’t meet needs.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

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When lockdown hit & libraries had to close, schools (colleges & some K-12) loaned out tablets or laptops — but a lot of folks had to camp out in places with public WAPs or wireless hotspots to log in so the they could do their work. Local community college parking lots became co-working spaces.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

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Think about it. Filling out forms (all those necessary forms!) using only a phone, when far too many aren’t formatted properly to be used that way. School forms, government forms, badly-designed healthcare portals, job applications …

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

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While the number of internet accounts per household in Santa Clara Co. are likely to be among the highest in the world, there are still large numbers of folks who rely on public libraries to get online - even if they already have a smartphone.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

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Getting wires /wireless into spaces is only the first step. Even so, areas you might assume are overly supplied with internet on-ramps, aren’t.

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

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Not to downplay the task of getting internet access into rural areas - as time-consuming, costly (or at least, wrangling over who will pay for it) as getting telephone service to the “last mile” in the 20th C. Tech advances don’t overcome problems of building infrastructure under capitalism.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 2h

Cancelling digital equity funds is just as bad as those of us working on better access online feared.

Not just in rural areas but even in Santa Clara county, Silicon Valley ground zero. College students, job seekers, working families, seniors especially.

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Trump Called Digital Equity Act ‘Racist.’ Now Internet Money for Rural Americans Is Gone. - KFF Health News

President Donald Trump called the Digital Equity Act unconstitutional, racist, and illegal. Then the $2.75 billion program for rural and underserved communities to gain internet access disappeared.

kffhealthnews.org

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 3h

As pointed out here, those same deplorables are Vance’s ticket to further office, if he can cash them in:

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 3h

Vance knows that other GOP staffers on other chat threads - the rising middle strata of the party - are his ticket to the Presidency, if he ever gets there. He needs them!

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

Our dim President illegally destroyed a law that was helping people (including his own supporters) access the internet affordably and safely because said law had the word "equity" in it

the press barely covered it, and when they did, they parroted his claims the law was "illegal" and "racist"

UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · 6d

The “anti-woke” crusade is costing Alabama real opportunities.

Trump canceled the Digital Equity Act, ending funding that gave rural families laptops and digital training.

This wasn’t about politics. It was about connection.
When you cut equity, you cut access.
alabamareflector.com/2025/10/09/t...

Trump called the Digital Equity Act ‘racist.’ Now Internet money for rural Americans is gone. | Alabama Reflector

The halt came after President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that the Digital Equity Act was unconstitutional and pledged “no more woke handouts based on race!”

alabamareflector.com

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 3h

A reminder, to the geographically-challenged apologists for senseless murder:

Ted Roe @tedroe-uap.bsky.social · 17h

FYI, its 1500miles from Venezuela through Cuba, to Florida. These open-hulled fishing boats can't carry enough fuel and drugs to make the trip. These fisherman are being murdered in their own territorial waters.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

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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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 4h

“College group chat”?!? If that’s how your Yale buddies talked, Vance, then all you’re saying is that you’re a Nazi oligarch-wannabe (which we already knew.)
Of course, this is what all those white-supremacists-hiding-behind-the-name-Republicans think. And how they politic amongst themselves.

Emily Tamkin @emilyctamkin.bsky.social · 4h

The thing that’s so funny ha ha ha is that Vance contrasted it with calls for political violence. Sorry …what do you think musings about sending foes to the gas chambers constitutes?

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

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Joanna🎃 @rainbowofcrazy.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Thanksgiving, Canadian friends! 🥰

a cat wearing a turkey hat is sitting on a bench and wishing everyone a happy thanksgiving .

Alt: cat wearing a paper crafted turkey around its head. "HAPPY THANKSGIVING!" Cat is delightfully chill and knows they look fuckin majestic while being a little silly at the same time.

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Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 16h

May have to try this! Do you have any trouble getting others to taste it - if you even care about that?
( got an Australian recipe for pumpkin jam that I adore - it’s flavored with lemon & rosemary instead of ubiquitous pumpkin spice. too many other folks are too weirded out to even try it. )

Lise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 16h

It is certainly partisan, MAGA Mike got one word correct.
The vote count has been verified & closed. Who is taking bets on how long they’ll stall, now that they’ve run out of even a scrap of plausibility?