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Alex K. 🔆

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🟡⚪️🟣⚫️ Posts en/in Spanglish: Justicia transformativa, acompañamiento psicosocial, protección holística y resiliencia digital. Transformative justice, psychosocial accompaniment, holistic safety, and digital resilience. @ comun.al / @ mnemozine.xyz

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · Jul 7

Gran parte de lo que tengo qué decir sobre lo que ha pasado/está pasando en 🇲🇽 con las reformas recientes, la CURP biométrica, bases de datos centralizadas y darle poder total al Estado por “seguridad” las escribí en “Violencia Digital en México: El Estado vs. La sociedad civil”. Recomiendo, la neta.

Tecnosolucionismo: obstrucción en el acceso a la justicia : Alex Argüelles : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Tecnosolucionismo: obstrucción en el acceso a la justicia fue escrito por Alex Argüelles. Es el capítulo 7 del libro Violencia Digital en México: El...

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 14h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
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A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 9h

this is true across theaters and contexts: the people who commit heinous deeds don’t disappear after the reporting, or after the conflict, or after a few decades, or even after amnesty. The perpetrators of evil will do nearly everything to avoid accountability or discovery, but: they remain.

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Myanmar Internet Project @myanmarip.bsky.social · 11h

Digital Repression Incidents in Myanmar (October 6 to 12)

#FOE
#InternetShutDown
#Surveillance
#Digital_Repression
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#KeepItOn

Full Report >>> myanmarinternet.info/digital-coup

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John Flournoy @johnflournoy.science · 12d

This is, perhaps (I'm about to make a claim I'm unqualified to make in order to make the interestingness of this stand out), one of the most important results of our current moment as a technological society. A simple, elegant proof that AGI is not an inevitability, but rather intractable.

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · Aug 17

The intractability proof (a.k.a. Ingenia theorem) implies that any attempts to scale up AI-by-Learning to situations of real-world, human-level complexity will consume an astronomical amount of resources (see Box 1 for an explanation). 13/n

Box 1 in the paper, intuitively explaining the implications of the intractability result.

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Thorsten Möhlmann @thorstn.bsky.social · 10h

«The input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors wrote those, not the search query!» via @olivia.science via#2 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social - thank you

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

important on LLMs for academics:

1️⃣ LLMs are usefully seen as lossy content-addressable systems

2️⃣ we can't automatically detect plagiarism

3️⃣ LLMs automate plagiarism & paper mills

4️⃣ we must protect literature from pollution

5️⃣ LLM use is a CoI

6️⃣ prompts do not cause output in authorial sense

5 Ghostwriter in the Machine
A unique selling point of these systems is conversing and writing in a human-like way. This is imminently understandable, although wrong-headed, when one realises these are systems that
essentially function as lossy2
content-addressable memory: when
input is given, the output generated by the model is text that
stochastically matches the input text. The reason text at the output looks novel is because by design the AI product performs
an automated version of what is known as mosaic or patchwork
plagiarism (Baždarić, 2013) — due to the nature of input masking and next token prediction, the output essentially uses similar words in similar orders to what it has been exposed to. This
makes the automated flagging of plagiarism unlikely, which is
also true when students or colleagues perform this type of copypaste and then thesaurus trick, and true when so-called AI plagiarism detectors falsely claim to detect AI-produced text (Edwards, 2023a). This aspect of LLM-based AI products can be
seen as an automation of plagiarism and especially of the research paper mill (Guest, 2025; Guest, Suarez, et al., 2025; van
Rooij, 2022): the “churn[ing] out [of] fake or poor-quality journal papers” (Sanderson, 2024; Committee on Publication Ethics,

Either way, even if
the courts decide in the favour of companies, we should not allow
these companies with vested interests to write our papers (Fisher
et al., 2025), or to filter what we include in our papers. Because
it is not the case that we only operate based on legal precedents,
but also on our own ethical values and scientific integrity codes
(ALLEA, 2023; KNAW et al., 2018), and we have a direct duty to
protect, as with previous crises and in general, the literature from
pollution. In other words, the same issues as in previous sections
play out here, where essentially now every paper produced using
chatbot output must declare a conflict of interest, since the output text can be biased in subtle or direct ways by the company
who owns the bot (see Table 2).
Seen in the right light — AI products understood as contentaddressable systems — we see that framing the user, the academic
in this case, as the creator of the bot’s output is misplaced. The
input does not cause the output in an authorial sense, much like
input to a library search engine does not cause relevant articles
and books to be written (Guest, 2025). The respective authors
wrote those, not the search query!

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 14h

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

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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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 11h

El artículo sin paywall:

archive.ph/QMvAI

Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 11h

Mentiras no dijo.

Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 11h

Pues todo muy bien con la “inteligencia” mexicana 🥲🥲🥲

Con estos manejos tan responsables de información sensible, súper sí dan ganas de confiar en administrarán y resguardarán la base de datos biométricos de toda la población con medidas de alto nivel y sin miedo a/riesgo de filtraciones 🫠🫠🫠

Mexican telecom Telmex also transmitted unencrypted voice calls, the researchers found. The researchers further discovered that AT&T Mexico transmitted raw data over satellites that included users' internet traffic-most of which was encrypted with HTTPS by the apps or browsers they used —but also some calling and texting metadata. They also found decryption keys that the researchers believe could likely have been used to decipher other sensitive information the AT&T Mexico network transmitted-though they didn't attempt this.

For Mexican military and law enforcement, the exposures were far worse: The researchers say they found what appeared to be unencrypted communications with remote command centers, surveillance facilities, and units of the Mexican military and law enforcement. In some cases, they saw the unprotected transmission of sensitive intelligence information on activities like narcotics trafficking. In others, they found military asset tracking and maintenance records for aircraft like Mil Mi-17 and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, sea vessels, and armored vehicles, as well as their locations and mission details. "When we started seeing military helicopters, it wasn't necessarily the sheer volume of data, but the extreme sensitivity of that data that concerned us," says Schulman. The Mexican military did not immediately respond to WIRED's requests for comment.

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 12h

George Carlin lo dijo muy bien:
“It’s all bullshit. And it’s bad for you.”

Así los Freedom Fighters™️ 😵‍💫

Axios @axios.com · 13h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 15h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14h

What I learned from Miss Major was persistence and also keeping a sense of humor. I was lucky to see her work in various organizing meetings over the years. She was a model of how to be a good elder. Truly grateful for everything she did to make the world better. Time for the rest of us to continue.

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 14h

Here’s some Richard Salcido art to make your Monday a little better.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 15h

What the tech bros think is their rightful destiny youtu.be/Jwaw24W2bW0?...

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17h

From Indonesia and Nepal to Peru, Madagascar, and Morocco, the "Gen Z" revolt has assumed different forms on three continents.

We spoke with two feminist activists based in Casablanca to understand the events and significance of the "Gen Z 212" movement in Morocco.

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Morocco: The Gen Z 212 Uprising

An interview with participants in the Gen Z 212 movement in Morocco.

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sarah clark (they) @sarahclark.bsky.social · 23h

if you want to support a nanticoke who makes little magazines this indigenous peoples day, here are the little magazines i make

www.ANMLY.org — intl art & lit that's never boring
www.beestungmag.com — non-binary, two-spirit, & genderqueer writing
www.ALOCASIA.org — a journal of queer planty writing

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 19h

Oh FFS, "chatfishing" when your online connection uses chatbots to craft messages instead of themselves: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 20h

Conseguí mi título en 2018, recién había acabado la carrera y lo necesitaba para aplicar a una maestría (que no se armó, en robótica social 🥲).

Hace poco me lo pidieron (por primera vez desde entonces)… Pensé que lo había perdido, por nunca usarlo. Sigue siendo un desmadre carísimo tramitarlos 🫠

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Colin Childs🍁 @phoul.bsky.social · 20h

The number of insanely wealthy people jumping on these projects and then claiming they were just innocent smol beans incapable of learning the plights of others is infuriating.

Fuck anyone participating in this audiobook or that upcoming TV show.

Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 1d

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

a bullshit statement from Keira knightley saying she was not aware of a boycott against jk Rowling before taking a job on the new audio series and that she's "sorry" and "we're all going to have to figure out how to live together and we've all got very different opinions"
She can fuck off.

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 21h

Tú di rana y yo 🐸🐸🐸

Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 21h

🤣🤣🤣 Las rentas no se pagan solas. Pero nada, igual siento que ese mundillo ya está implotando… No siento compasión alguna por quienes siguen charlateneando desde ahí, en el estado actual de las cosas.

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Alex K. 🔆 @kafsofit.bsky.social · 21h

Lo dirán de broma, pero sí es un modelo de negocio para quienes hacen disque ONGerismos con financiamientos del norte global 🥲

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