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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10h

I am so upset.

Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 2d

To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 13h

Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.

Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.

Margaret Mitchell, who was famously fired from Google after co-authoring the seminal "Stochastic Parrots" paper, has been posting on X lately because she is caught up in mass blocklists of AI industry people on Bluesky, making the platform borderline unusable for her.

Here she's on X quote-tweeting fellow AI ethics researcher Giada Pistilli, who is in the same boat.

Pistilli said: I really wanted 🦋 to work, but it looks like I’m on the worst block lists out there. Oh, well.

Mitchell said: I think what many 🦋 Bsky users may be overlooking is that they’re blocking people in positions of influence *who want to listen to them*. As someone influentialish in AI ethics, it’s important for me to know what creators, critics, Luddites, etc., are thinking and seeing.

Mitchell added in a second post: I’m an advocate in tech directly aligned with a lot of their values in the very spaces where decisions that affect them are being made. I need the stats, articles, hot takes…all the deets they can give me so I can be prepared when talking to regulators,academics, techies, etc

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 8h

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9h

Someday I'll have more to say, but for now it suffices that no queer person alive will be surprised by this.
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...

Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family

A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.

www.them.us

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I slapped SCOTUS and Ouiser Boudreaux @nwayne66.bsky.social · 1d

Re: #SNAP loss - everyone seems to focus on families with kids, and rightly so, but people, please check on your #elderly neighbors. They may not be as connected or aware, they might not drive, and the need will be significant. Please make sure they have access to #food as best you can.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 20h

Ukraine’s integration into Europe’s ENTSO-E grid was meant to guarantee energy independence. Instead, it created a new battleground.
Russia’s drone and missile strikes now hit the infrastructure that powers half a continent. Each impact is a stress test for European and Ukrainian resilience.

From grid to gunpoint: How Ukraine became an energy battleground

Russia’s war on Ukraine isn’t just fought with drones and missiles—it’s waged through the power grid.

euromaidanpress.com

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Santa Clown” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 23h

Reposting with Alt Text. Location of free food pantries in Atlanta for those in need.

WHERE TO GET FREE FOOD IN ATL

The following distros offer free food to anyone who shows up. No strings attached, no requirements, no BS.
Last updated 12/16/24.
FOOD
FOR THE PEOPLE!
DOWNTOWN:
• Atlanta Justice Alliance, Saturdays 12pm @ Woodruff Park
• Sol Underground Free Store, 1st Fridays 7-10pm @ For Keeps Books; 2nd + 4th Fridays
7-10pm @ 48 MLK Jr Dr SW
SOUTH SIDE:
• FoodLife Weelaunee Distro, Wednesdays 4-6pm @ Gresham Rec Center
• FoodLife South ATL Distro, Fridays 6pm @ Jonesboro Rd SE + Hutchens Rd SE
• FoodLife Lakewood Distro, Saturdays 12-2pm @ Lakewood Ave SE + Rhodesia Ave SE
• South Bend Commons Distro, Tuesdays 5-7pm @ 1799 Lakewood Ter SE
• New Life Community Alliance, Tuesday-Saturday 10am-12pm @ 3592 Flat Shoals Rd
EAST SIDE:
• FoodLife Edgewood Distro, Sundays 1-2pm @ Mayson Ave + Hardee St
• Intown Food Pantry, Tuesdays + Saturdays 10am-12pm @ 1026 Ponce de Leon Ave NE
• Hillside Presbyterian Church, Tuesdays 12-3pm @ 1879 Columbia Dr, Decatur
• United Methodist Church, Thursdays 11am-1pm @ 2067 Columbia Dr, Decatur
WEST SIDE:
• Another Chance Atlanta, Fridays 11am-4pm @ 176 Troy St NW
• Community Church, Wednesdays 10am-1pm @ 850 Cascade Ave SW
• Salem Bible Church, Tuesdays and 2nd + 4th Thursdays 9am-1pm @ 2267 Baker Rd BUCKHEAD:
• Water Drop ATL (they have food too!) Sunday mornings near Lindbergh Center; DM
@c.u.n.t.s.usa on IG for time and location
OUTSIDE THE PERIMETER:
• Food4Life Clarkston Distro, Tuesdays 4pm @ Milam Park, Clarkston
• Malachi's Storehouse, Wednesdays 9am-12pm @ 4755 N Peachtree Rd, Dunwoody
• Rock Church of Atlanta, Tuesdays 11am, Wednesdays 9am-3pm, Thursdays 11am, and Fridays 2pm @ 4815 Courtney Dr, Forest Park
• Salem Bible Church, Tuesdays and 2nd + 4th Thursdays 9am-1pm @ 5460 Hillandale Dr, Stonecrest / Lithonia
MAP ON REVERSE SIDE!

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 16h

Meta's AI plan is to automatically create personalized advertisements for companies that are different for different users, further siloing people

Zuckerberg says advertisers will "be able to give us a business objective and a credit card" and AI will do the rest

www.404media.co/the-future-o...

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You

"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

www.404media.co

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Pau Amma @pauamma.bsky.social · 11h

War profiteering.

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 14h

Belgium’s stance on frozen Russian assets reveals a paradox of profit and principle.

It earned €1.7 billion in taxes from Euroclear last year, yet its veto now traps an $8 billion IMF loan to Ukraine.

As rates fall and time runs out, Europe risks letting legal caution outweigh moral clarity.

Ukraine’s $8 billion IMF loan trapped by Belgium’s frozen assets veto

Ukraine’s $8 billion IMF loan hangs in balance

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 16h

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (born 1943) is a Northern Irish astrophysicist best known for discovering pulsars—rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit beams of radio waves—in 1967.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 13h

JUST IN: 11th Circuit politely tells Judge Aileen Cannon to get moving on motions seeking to unseal remainder of Special Counsel Jack Smith's final report. Basically, gives her 60 days to act or appeals court will take further action. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#11 in In re: Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Unive (11th Cir., 25-13403) – CourtListener.com

ORDER: Motion for writ of mandamus filed by Petitioner American Oversight is HELD in abeyance. [10567702-2] in 25-13400, Motion for writ of mandamus filed by Petitioner Knight First Amendment Institut...

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meg jones wall // 3am.tarot @megjoneswall.bsky.social · 16h

i wish there was some setting on my computer that would let me universally tell every program, app, website, and service that i will never want it to "help me write."

literally my job is to be a messy imperfect human writer. i don't need or want a plagiarism machine to help with that, ever. fuck AI

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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) @autisticadvocacy.org · 12h

Three years ago today, we lost Lois Curtis – a woman who had a huge impact on disability rights. Today, we remember her legacy. Read our statement remembering her: autisticadvocacy.org/2022/11/asan...

Gray textured background with a gray box with the text: Remembering Lois Curtis. On this day in 2022, we lost Lois Curtis. Today, let’s remember her legacy. Lois Curtis was a disabled woman who lived in institutions. She was part of a landmark Supreme Court case that said disabled people have a right to live and receive services in the community. There is a photo of Lois Curtis, a Black woman with short hair laughing and holding up two pieces of art she made.

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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 14h

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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Dylan @grannyrocko.bsky.social · 12h

Nothing makes my autistic heart soar quite like a website that tells you the exact aisle number/letter a product is located in so you can go to that store and know exactly where to find the item.

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Pau Amma @pauamma.bsky.social · 16h

#Alt4You
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Wild that we don't audit billionaires, but y'all will dissect a single mom's grocery cart like it's a crime scene.

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 1d

If you blame migrants collectively for the horrible actions of a few but do not hold white people collectively responsible when white people commit heinous crimes, that's racism. Just saying.

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Chris Luxford @luxfordc.bsky.social · 1d

It was established months ago that the Daily Tism have installed listening devices in the homes of all known autistic people.

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Pau Amma @pauamma.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry to hear.

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Pau Amma @pauamma.bsky.social · 1d

"I have autism"? Ewww!

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

I really wish more people understood that food assistance programs, both at home and as overseas food aid, are agricultural subsidy as much as (more than?) they are charity.

MM Schill @mmschill.bsky.social · 1d

The birth of SNAP started as a "kill two birds with one stone" situation. The food producers needed annual bailout due to trade instability, and the impoverished are hungry.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

When ChatGPT was asked to rate 40,000 résumés, it ranked the older male candidates as better quality than the younger female applicants.

Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature

Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differ...

www.nature.com

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Pau Amma @pauamma.bsky.social · 1d

Peace be with him, and God's mercy, and God's favor. Or appropriate alternative words.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

These laws all specifically exempt "bilateral mastectomy for treating gynecomastia in cisgender boys" and "genital surgery on infants and young children to 'correct' intersex conditions" (scare quotes because it's a perfectly normal human variation that doesn't need 'correction' in 99% of cases).

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

I also don't think it's moral (and should not be legal) to prevent a treatment for trans kids that cis kids have zero problems accessing when they're in need of it! We have a word for that concept! It's "discrimination" (and also "disparate impact") and it's a bad thing!

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