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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1h

People who side with the monsters who do this are monsters themselves

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 20m

Universities considered “the best” (and many others) have transformed themselves into great factories of unlearning, cathedrals to ignorance. This was already the case, to be sure, but Palestine forced the hands of the trustees & donors who don’t want their money undermining their social position.

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 51m

My hot take is that art isn't "gimme gimme gimme gimme."

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 12h

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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Spookadler 👻 @seeadler.bsky.social · 1h

Too few techbros have read or seen Pet Sematary.

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

So do White people in the west just believe it’s okay to resurrect the dead to make them dance and perform for your pleasure?
Is this a cultural difference?
Because where I come from, disturbing the dead usually comes with consequences.
Bad ones.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2h

So do White people in the west just believe it’s okay to resurrect the dead to make them dance and perform for your pleasure?
Is this a cultural difference?
Because where I come from, disturbing the dead usually comes with consequences.
Bad ones.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 1h

that they don’t have benches all over train stations because maybe a person might sleep there is disgusting, cruel, and ableist

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 10h

The chief strategist of Google is bragging about how they restored and ancient Indian mural using AI. Who is gonna tell him it sucks?

www.linkedin.com/posts/neilho...

#google #lifeatgoogle #history #ai #culture | Neil Hoyne | 12 comments

This is INCREDIBLE! 😲 My colleague Govind Ramu has been on a journey to use Google's AI tools not to predict the future, but to rescue the past. Specifically, the only known portrait of the great Chol...

www.linkedin.com

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 10h

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

www.cnn.com

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 10h

Fuck your Thankstaking.

Regards

Tanya Tagaq - Colonizer [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by Tanya Tagaq

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 10h

It was terrifying. I ended some 20 yr old friendships, dumped my therapist, completely went invisible at work, blocked dozens of people on social media to avoid being surveilled. After a while stopped explaining myself.

It was a genocide then. It is a genocide now. It was never about antisemitism

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 10h

He took a year off bw jobs so he can support my mom going through a demanding time at her job and took care of my 12 year old emo hormonal version and did most of the housework while giving zero fucks about people trying to emasculate him about this

He is the standard I set all my partners against

Ź🖤🥀 @lalaspeaks.bsky.social · 1d

What’s ONE green flag about your father?

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12h

By their own teachers, professors, schools and universities.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 18h

we taught you how to grow corn, now let's all learn to block lakota manicotti once and for all

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 2d

“McGill faculty pass historic resolution supporting academic and cultural boycott of Israel”

It’s gonna be fascinating to see how the business school and architecture school will survive without their historical partnerships with settlements and building settler infrastructures as class homework

BREAKING: McGill faculty pass historic resolution supporting academic and cultural boycott of Israel - The Tribune

On Oct. 10, 2025, the McGill Association of University Teachers (MAUT), which represents full-time professors and librarians, passed the Resolution to Endorse the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Isra...

www.thetribune.ca

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 2d

The next Nobel Prize for peace should go to the president of Weyland-Yutani Corporation

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Limón de Beauvoir @ottomanvampire.bsky.social · 2d

“Academics having non-transactional relationships with each other”challenge

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Mira Al Hussein @miraalhussein.bsky.social · 20h

“No one in the Middle East and likely beyond will ever forget the Israeli slaughter, nor the U.S. weaponry that facilitated it, nor the U.S. mercenaries of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" who murdered starving people seeking aid.”

FOREVER WARS @foreverwars.bsky.social · 20h

“If Israel wants to actually prevent the next October 7, in whatever form it will take, it must free Palestine,” writes @attackerman.bsky.social. “The rest is commentary. Or avoidance.”

‘The Barbarism of The Enemy’

Notes on the third ceasefire, and prayers that there won't have to be a fourth. Free Marwan Barghouti. Free Palestine

www.forever-wars.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 19h

Keep it going. Get your family and friends to join
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Boycotting Israel has gone mainstream: ‘We’ve never seen such traction before’

After decades of being dismissed as fringe, the boycott call has been taken up by leading figures across arts, sports and politics

www.theguardian.com

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