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Somali - khaniis 🌈 - organizer - abolitionist - neurodivergent - booklover - musicnerd - writer - he/him

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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 25d
"Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive."

#KeepEyesOnSudan

www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...
Emergency Appeal: Save Families Fleeing Alfashir | LaunchGood | LaunchGood
Thousands are escaping El Fasher with nothing but the clothes on their backs — help us raise $50,000 to keep them alive.
www.launchgood.com
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karoline.bsky.social
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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mayawest.online
they know it's garbage. even the engineers who made it don't want to use it.

why else did the NVIDIA guy have to have an all hands meeting to mandate the employees use it for everything?
November 30, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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mayawest.online
no one ever had to be forced to use *good* tech.
karoline.bsky.social Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 23h
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“Is this shit legal?”

How ICE is disappearing people and holding them in a “black hole” where nobody knows where they are, even as they’re hospitalized
November 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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dytsras.bsky.social
"A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every Black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give."

- Ida B Wells-Barnett
November 30, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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rosesbloom24.bsky.social
“Before our disabled elders secured our rights under the law, disabled kids were locked out of systems and out of their potential,” Rep. Lateefah Simon (D-Ca.), who is blind, told me in a statement.

#Pinks
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This disability education law turned 50 today. Disability advocates want more.
"Our civil rights are not up for negotiations," Rep. Lateefah Simon said.
www.motherjones.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
AI was their ticket to resegregation

I’m so serious .

Segregation is the only system that could support this level of mediocrity
November 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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humbleone.bsky.social
The precursor to this was DeVos and the tech industry pushing for online K-12, and replacing teachers with apps and software.
November 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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bsonblast.bsky.social
Today's quick update [Nov 29]:

- SAF drone strikes reported in Kauda, South Kordofan; reports of dozens of dead and injured civilians.

#KeepEyesOnSudan
Map of Sudan with red arrow pointing to Kauda in southern Sudan.
November 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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solodagawd.outside.baby
Cuddles would be niceeeeee
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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blackamazon.bsky.social
AI was seen as a way of getting rid of ten undesirables by allowing folks to make content they “wanted”

Except that’s not the points of art or graphics
economist.com The Economist @economist.com · 1d
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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michaelharriot.bsky.social
I love that they’re still pushing this tired narrative about a comedian who sold out Madison Square Garden 5 times since he was “canceled”
newyorker.com The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d
Louis C.K. isn’t too cancelled to perform several sold-out shows of his new comedy show at the Beacon, but cancelled enough that, if you manage to snag a ticket, you might not want to brag about it to your co-workers.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/EvR4r7
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
walaal.blacksky.app
Blacksky.....do y'all know this youtube page? i've been watching some great old Black shows on there.

i'm now watching a show called 'You Take The Kids' with Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey as a teenager.

www.youtube.com/@RareGemsArc...
Rare Gems
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
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Anthropic tweet: We disrupted a highly sophisticated AI-led espionage campaign. The attack targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We assess with high confidence that the threat actor was a Chinese state-sponsored group.
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
fool me once, shame on you

if the thing you fool me about is this nonsense, shame on me though. because seriously...
May 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
you cannot make up what credulous rubes these fucking charlatans are. it's fucking embarrassing that these massive fucking losers can get anyone to sweat anything they do.
May 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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ali-alkhatib.com
nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · May 24
An Amazon-backed AI model tried to blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down, a safety report revealed

In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.
www.huffpost.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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joybella.blacksky.app
And America absolutely LOVES reputation-laundering propaganda!
mondoweiss.net Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d
READ: Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, "Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara," reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian oppression and dispossession.
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/how-...
How Zionism was sold to the world
Harriet Malinowitz’s new book, “Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara,” reveals how Israeli propaganda and public relations promoted Zionism while concealing Palestinian…
mondoweiss.net
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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walaal.blacksky.app
a Roi Perez defender just tagged me, thinking i was going to argue with him lol. but he did remind me to share some updates for those here that are interested. the folks from Ravers for Palestine shared an old interview of his where he talks about his 7 (!!!) years in the navy of the genocidal army
He served seven years in the Navy as an electronics officer on a missile ship. At the same time, he studied for a multi-disciplinary bachelor's degree at the University of Haifa. "At that time, I would listen to a lot of indie electronic music - 'The Knife,' 'The Postal Service,' Kate Bush, sad ballads by Joni Mitchell. I would put on headphones on the bus on the way to the army and escape to the music. It kept me going." !! !! raversforpalestine Per this 2016 interview in Haaretz (translated from Hebrew), @roi_perez_ spent *7 years* working on missile ships for the IOF - manning the genocidal Navy currently menacing the Sumud flotilla. indiciaa 13h indiciaa While Roi served in the IDF's Navy, it blocked the 2010 Freedom Flotilla and executed the activists on board. Gaza • This article is more than 15 years old Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range Exclusive: Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal Robert Booth Sat 5 Jun 2010 07.00 AEST <Share Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of those killed, obtained by the Guardian, revealed they were peppered with 9mm bullets, many fired at close range. And I'm watching the live stream of the flotilla as we speak, so hearing that this dude worked on the vessel blocking the flotilla is sickening @rebecca.m All the gays in my DMs and comments who I havent heard from during 2 years of genocide - you're fools. indiciaa 8h A little more detail on Roi Perez' time in the IDF Navy, which he discussed in an interview with Haaretz in 2016.1 Based on the timeline he provided, during his time working on an IDF missile ship (~2006-2013): • "The Israeli navy regularly shot at Palestinian fishing boats that sailed more than two nautical miles from the coast, prohibiting access to some 85 percent of Gaza's maritime area".2 ● They also boarded a freedom flotilla ship trying to break the siege of Gaza, where "Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times" at close range.3 ● He was most likely involved in Operation Cast Lead, where in 2008-2009 the Navy missile ships that he worked on shelled Gaza from offshore. During this operation, 1,400 Palestinians were killed, most of them civilians." 1Haaretz, 2016. 2 Human Rights Watch, 2011. 3 The Guardian, 2010. Institute for Middle East Understanding, 2012. indiciaa 9 h Where is the distinction between the electrician that repairs a missile launcher and the person who presses the trigger? For four years after Operation Cast Lead, a brutal war on a captive population, Roi still remained in the Navy, while he began his career as a DJ spinning records in Tel Aviv. To play the victim card and say he grew up 'under' occupation, without acknowledging the most glaringly obvious detail - the fact he served in the occupation army - shows he is not to be trusted when he claims he is pro-Palestinian. There can be no redemption without honesty about the harms that have been done.
October 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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walaal.blacksky.app
yesterday Ravers for Palestine posted a piece laying out how deeply complicit dj and party promoter Roi Perez is in queerwashing the genocidal settler colonial apartheid state.

this has been a long time coming & it is good to see the promoter take swift action in pulling the London gig. i'd highly
|| raversforpalestine Despite these superficial differences, Gadot and Perez are both avatars of the colony's soft power within culture. Gadot helps project Israeli futurity and permanence within mass culture: a tough, militaristic Sabra, a frontier guardsman of White Western hegemony. Perez performs a parallel role within the queer underground- soothing us with an image of the settler, of "Tel Aviv', as enlightened and progressive. Both profit from and depend on the settler occupation of Palestine. Both abhor and oppose actual Palestinian resistance. Perez is the gentrified side of the same genocidal coin. We urge Origins, FOLD, Body Movements, Basement and all other venues and collectives to cease platforming DJs from LAUNDRETTE until they take full accountability for their longstanding normalization of 'Israel' and adhere to the tenets of Al Thawabet. And we call on ravers and DJs to exercise pressure on these venues. Collectively, we are powerful. There are many ways we can do this. Directly challenge club owners and promoters who are booking the Laundrette collective. Refuse to play on line ups with these DJs. Unfollow them on social media. If they are playing at the function, don't go. Tell others not to go. And stop going to venues which celebrate artists complicit in the genocide.
September 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Please follow the FuseBox Radio & The Futon Dun crew on social media to keep in the loop with us: 🥰😁🎼🎧:

FuseBoxRadio.com
TheFutonDun.com
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Mixcloud: mixcloud.com/fuseboxradio
Facebook: facebook.com/FuseBoxRadioShow
November 16, 2024 at 12:41 PM
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walaal.blacksky.app
boycotts work!

the grassroots boycott of Boiler Room and other KKR owned festivals have started less than a year ago and it looks like Boiler Room might be folding.

keep on keepin' on!

follow Ravers for Palestine 4 more on boycotts of KKR festivals, Berghain, HOR,
www.instagram.com/p/DRfCqSzDVN7/
an instagram post from Raversforpalestine which is a screenshot of an article headline which reads: Boiler Room to undergo substantial layoffs Mon, 24 Nov 2025, 17:00 Michael Lawson instagram post from Ravers for Palestine: The exact total is unconfirmed, but a source close to the online music broadcaster revealed that a substantial percentage of the workforce, thought to be in double figures—including "some of the best people we've ever had at Boiler Room" - are affected. Plans for the future of the business will be addressed during a company- <wide meeting tomorrow, November 25th. (RA has reached out to Boiler Room for comment.) Boiler Room has endured a turbulent 2025 after it was bought by Superstruct Entertainment in January. The firm has since been met with boycotts in cities such as London, Lisbon and, most recently, Kuala Lumpur.
November 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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bsonblast.bsky.social
Today's quick update [Nov 28]:

- Clashes between SAF & RSF in Babanusa, W. Kordofan following RSF attack on 22nd infantry base.

- Sudan Doctors Network: RSF converted AlNuhud Hospital (W. Kordofan) into military command center, fully equipped barracks.

#KeepEyesOnSudan
November 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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greenchocolate.bsky.social
Please support
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM