allison
@allisonturner.bsky.social
digital artificer and security witch. PhDropout. everything for everyone. class traitor to silicon valley. anarchist. (she || they). fuck nazis, terfs, and those who defend them.
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allison
@allisonturner.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Border Aid
Border Patrol detains migrants at open-air sites in the desert. Community volunteers provide the only food, water, medical care, shelter, or sanitation.
borderaidsandiego.org
a collection of organizations, but I'll highlight Al Otro Lado and Border Kindness.
In San Diego, nonprofits, Mutual aid groups, and locals care for migrants when border patrol detains them in camps without food or water: borderaidsandiego.org/what-is-happ...
In San Diego, nonprofits, Mutual aid groups, and locals care for migrants when border patrol detains them in camps without food or water: borderaidsandiego.org/what-is-happ...
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This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.
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mother anarchy please forgive the hope inspired in me by a politician
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
mother anarchy please forgive the hope inspired in me by a politician
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
programming out of context for the day, C++ edition
November 4, 2025 at 8:40 PM
programming out of context for the day, C++ edition
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“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/...
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
November 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Grocery stores throw out far more food than is shoplifted. Why don't shoplifters just take the food from the dumpster then. Because they have cameras on the dumpsters and security will be sent out when they see them on the monitors.” ~ mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/...
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
Grapes of Wrath 1939:
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This is why IT departments hate every one
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is why IT departments hate every one
this song (MTV Get Off the Air by Dead Kennedys) was written to be about MTV and its effects on engagement with music as an art form and subculture, but it's 150% relevant to the conversation about GenAI- and LLM-produced content
![Lyrics to "MTV Get Off the Air" by Dead Kennedys
[Intro, repeats in background]
Fun, fun, fun in the fluffy chair
Flame up the herb, wolf down the beer
[Spoken Intro]
Hi, I'm your video DJ!
I always talk like I'm wigged out on quaaludes
I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
My job is to help destroy what's left of your imagination](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3gh3mbjdn2cag2jqcyozimgp/bafkreihmggikg3yts44spmj6nm2zy6ttxmsqmflzdugza73tsa4gdtnniu@jpeg)
![[Spoken Intro continues]
By feeding you endless doses
Of sugar-coated mindless garbage
So, don't create; be sedate
Be a vegetable at home and thwack on that dial
If we have our way, even you will believe
This is the future of rock and roll
[Shouted musical intro]
MTV, get off the air!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3gh3mbjdn2cag2jqcyozimgp/bafkreiemmllc5icfucclgilzsjfuroazs45hdmfgqeuxrozywhdwmksh5q@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
this song (MTV Get Off the Air by Dead Kennedys) was written to be about MTV and its effects on engagement with music as an art form and subculture, but it's 150% relevant to the conversation about GenAI- and LLM-produced content
don't listen to him I can totally be trusted to act normal in the craft supply store
November 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
don't listen to him I can totally be trusted to act normal in the craft supply store
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this is the middle aged white man energy we need to see more of
Here's a short video of an Edison Park man confronting border patrol. You can hear others in the background. #chicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:05 PM
this is the middle aged white man energy we need to see more of
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i don't care if you're here legally and i do not care what you buy with SNAP. you could not pay me to care!!!
October 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
i don't care if you're here legally and i do not care what you buy with SNAP. you could not pay me to care!!!
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I really loved Sinners but how come we don't get to see more of the Native vampire hunting group? They deserve their own movie, or maybe a series.
October 31, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I really loved Sinners but how come we don't get to see more of the Native vampire hunting group? They deserve their own movie, or maybe a series.
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REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
October 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”
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Don't care what people use SNAP on and never will, fuck you if you care
October 31, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Don't care what people use SNAP on and never will, fuck you if you care
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on knol writers got paid a portion of ad revenue generated from the articles they wrote. unfortunately this incentivizes people to maximize traffic at the expense of quality hence the clickbaity spam and cursed vibes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
on knol writers got paid a portion of ad revenue generated from the articles they wrote. unfortunately this incentivizes people to maximize traffic at the expense of quality hence the clickbaity spam and cursed vibes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
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In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
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Hey y'all, this interview is a really important look at what trans protesters are facing, especially when the cops haul them off to jail on allegations like...writing "trans rights are human rights" in chalk.
BREAKING - Overnight in August, the city of Orlando, Florida took down the Pulse Nightclub memorial rainbow crosswalk. The next day, people began protesting. TNN interviewed one of the protesters, who recounted horrific human rights abuses after her arrest. Written by @thefreeradical.org
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Abuse, detransition, deadnaming and preaching: Trans Orlando protester describes horrific jail ordeal
A transfeminine protester of Florida's removal of the Pulse Nightclub memorial crosswalk recounts her horrific experiences in state jails in an exclusive interview with TNN
transnews.network
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Hey y'all, this interview is a really important look at what trans protesters are facing, especially when the cops haul them off to jail on allegations like...writing "trans rights are human rights" in chalk.
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Seeing a lot of posts like "they want say we are angry, but we showed them we are all about joy"
It's ok to be angry, too. Anger is necessary, actually.
It's ok to be angry, too. Anger is necessary, actually.
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Seeing a lot of posts like "they want say we are angry, but we showed them we are all about joy"
It's ok to be angry, too. Anger is necessary, actually.
It's ok to be angry, too. Anger is necessary, actually.
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This is the way.
accompanied a friend to a small rural demonstration today & despite all the flag waving it was nice to see folks get together. this was my last-minute contribution 🖤
October 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
This is the way.
out of context Linux kernel
October 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
out of context Linux kernel
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commodore user, magazine, excerpt (1986) archive.org/details/Comm...
October 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
commodore user, magazine, excerpt (1986) archive.org/details/Comm...
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important note from libcrusher:
October 15, 2025 at 9:11 PM
important note from libcrusher:
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postmodern finance theory
October 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
postmodern finance theory
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I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it
October 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I know it’s the most obvious thing in the world but it’s really sad that so many people have absolutely no desires or dreams in life except to accumulate money and our entire world is becoming a fucking pit because of it