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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26m

Despite seeing clearly for the past few years who the U.S. criminal punishment system is for and what it's purpose actually is, people are still all in...

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 26m

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 1h

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Bria "tries to write a book" Horses @thevoidencore.bsky.social · 5d

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21m

Let. It. Go. Twitter 2009-2012 is never coming back.

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 29m

the problem i keep having with everybody i come across whether it's a friend, relative, coworker etc is the same: americans are so used to relative comfort, they don't see it as privilege. they see it as THE TRUTH. as REALITY. every problem they know of has a ready solution.

they think we're kooks.

✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 38m

I don’t even know what the fix would be for communicating how bad shit can get.

Do you remember the recent blackouts in Texas because of grid failures? Imagine that, nationwide, during an extremely cold winter.

Do we need to start fear-mongering?? It’s feeling like we need to do that!

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✬Communiggty Centric✬ @urbanaudacity.blacksky.app · 44m

I think one of the challenges of AI discourse is that many people have not yet felt or seen the consequences of overusing water and electricity, and so everybody pointing out that queries use a ton of both means nothing to them. Yet.

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Bernie is a failure, and AOC is a poser!!! @africanprincess7.bsky.social · 2h

No. You were not suckered by Fetterman. You willfully chose to support him despite warnings about his character. You did that.

kiwijohn.bsky.social @kiwijohn.bsky.social · 2h

We were suckered by Fetterman.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Maria Bartiromo tries to reassure Fetterman: "You know, senator, what you just said, it's really shamefully on your colleagues. You feeling isolated -- that is absolutely outrageous. You are a breath of fresh air. I know our viewers are grateful."

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 17m

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science |
“Science Under Siege,” by @michaelemann.bsky.social
and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science, writes @danfalk.bsky.social @undark.org.

Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science - Bucks County Beacon

“Science Under Siege,” by Michael E. Mann and Peter J. Hotez, is an impassioned manifesto against attacks on science.

buckscountybeacon.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17h

Men would rather collapse a government than go to therapy

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 13m

Probably the actual advice that most young men need is that no one finds self pity appealing.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

Making people afraid of marginalized strangers, and avoiding cultivation of skepticism of state power essential to any meaningful democratic civic life, is one of the most dangerous aspects of so-called Abundance and other various corporate neo-liberal attempts to co-opt a coalition against fascism.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

When this ends, we enter a period of the total, corrupt weaponization of state power for vigilante purposes, which then can lead to total repression through anticipatory regression into private spheres because any public articulation of decency is corruptly and publicly crushed.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

As I wrote in The Punishment Bureaucracy, in some sense this is always how the legal system has functioned, but there have traditionally been checks on this power and an ability to use the system's own need for legitimacy to force people in power to abide by some of their stated values.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

Much more generally, on a variety of fronts, we are seeing the attempted wholesale conversion of the coercive power of the state into a tool for extremely small, organized groups of people to command obedience (bullies, universities, schools, businesses, etc.).

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

First the basics: The vast bulk of physical and sexual violence in our society is *not* perpetrated by strangers, but by people who know each other. Obscuring this fact is a critical feature of copaganda in the news. People are shocked to hear it. Why?

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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 12m

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Young Brolic @audaciouskay.bsky.social · 1h

Palestinians themselves pleaded for us to choose Kamala but their voices were irrelevant.

In the same way this person says Kamala was accountable, surely they are holding themselves accountable for the continued bombing of Gaza under the current administration since that’s what they chose.

JikissGamer @jikissgamer.bsky.social · 1d

She deserved to lose and I don't regret withholding my vote in that election in the slightest. I could not in good conscience reward her for what the Biden Admin did in Gaza with her as VP.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2h

Anyway this week for the Times I reviewed this incredible book, which asks the question “what if we kill them back” in a way that I found very moving and sad

In This Graphic History, an Unflinching Look at Black Activism

www.nytimes.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

Like a piece of shit eating itself.

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Australian Catholic University used an AI tool to falsely accuse students of cheating us an AI, taking months to clear their name.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 5h

So thankful that dudes without game now have the option of driving all of our energy bills up to come up with devastating lines like it was nice to meet you

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 4h

The Gates Foundation’s bias toward assessable skills, mass testing, and “workforce training” virtually ensured that Common Core standards would give short shrift to any academic discipline not grounded in quantitative learning.

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at a university campus in Mississippi on Saturday night. A child was injured in a separate shooting outside a college football stadium in the state capital, the authorities said.

At Least 1 Dead and 3 Injured After Shootings at Mississippi Universities

The shootings at historically Black institutions occurred within about 24 hours of three other shootings across rural Mississippi that left at least eight people dead.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 4h

Bring back shame.

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