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Jason Raitz
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Jason Raitz @jasonraitz.bsky.social · Jun 3
I shared this with my SO, saying: This is one of the biggest problems with generative AI. It lies constantly and confidently.

SO: like men?? That could be a problem. 🤔

Me: 💀💀💀
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erlend.sh
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink.

But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
This hit so fucking hard today.
CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi.

He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael.

At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk.

Wael died on Friday at age 30.

ICE caused his death.

They didn’t get to say goodbye.
Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization
It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.
www.wfaa.com
January 24, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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margaret.bsky.social
I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
People not in Minnesota: please read this excellent summary of what life is like in Minneapolis since the murderous scum ICE swarmed here. And more are on their way. By local reporter / writer / bike dude / legend @dbrauer.net .
Text: “A friend said those of us who live in Minneapolis should write about what's going on here for folks who live elsewhere. You need to know that whether you're a Republican, Independent or Democrat, the Constitution is being violated by our federal government. This is not about catching criminals, or even deporting people. It is about punishing an entire state, including citizens, for not supporting the president. Everyone in my part of Minneapolis is affected. On our streets, ICE is stopping people of color and demanding their papers. In America. US citizens do not have to prove citizenship to ICE. Yet people are being intimidated, some cases beaten up and detained, for requiring ICE to follow the law. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter homes. Yet there are documented cases of them ignoring the law - violating a bedrock constitutional principle. Americans of color are staying home, afraid to go to work, school, to grocery shop, or fill their cars with gas. This isn't just "illegals" or immigrants with valid work permits, it is citizens who have had their cars rammed by ICE for merely looking Hispanic. Businesses are closing. Schools are 50 percent full. When they are open, fascists are calling in bomb threats because the president decided to make us a meme. After a daycare teacher with a valid work permit (through 2030) was snatched from her workplace, parents (and grandparents) have had to organize to watch their SCHOOLS, to make sure conditional rights are observed. This is being repeated throughout Minnesota. Imagine trying to do your job or live you life while also taking volunteer shifts to make sure the federal government doesn't act extrajudicially. Because of ICE's documented abuses, neighbors have organized to monitor federal actions. This observation is legal, as long as it doesn't interfere with a valid action. Yet since ICE killed Renee Good, they are increasingly stopping this observation, breaking car windows and …”
January 13, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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pbump.com
"the worst of the worst"
gaykwon.bsky.social Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 25d
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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hoovybaby.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Today is the four year anniversary of Starbucks Workers United unionizing its first store.

Since then, they've won over 650 union elections but Starbucks still hasn't negotiated a fair union contract.

Until then, don't cross the picket line. Show solidarity like Bernie and Zohran.
December 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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ucbscholcomm.bsky.social
Congrats to @ninabegus.bsky.social on publishing "Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI." It’s open access on @uofmpress.bsky.social; OA publication made possible in part from UCB Library’s Berkeley Research Impact Initiative. www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...
Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI
<I>Artificial Humanities</I> explores how literature, history, and art can deepen our understanding of artificial intelligence and its development. By examining fictional representations of AI in para...
www.fulcrum.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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pantspants.bsky.social
There’s no better way to stuff a stocking this year than with a pack of Pants Playing Cards. The ultimate holiday gift.

Are you ready to stuff?

theartofpants.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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theintercept.com
California’s Law Enforcement Mutual Aid fund has been used to fight fires, floods, earthquakes — and Gaza demonstrations.
How California Spent Natural Disaster Funds to Quell Student Protests for Palestine
California’s Law Enforcement Mutual Aid fund has been used to fight fires, floods, earthquakes — and student protests at public universities.
interc.pt
November 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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themountaingoats.bsky.social
we chase these rats back their holes, no disrespect to actual IRL rats
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
jasonraitz.bsky.social
This is devastating. The world loses another bright light.
November 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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gabriellehecht.bsky.social
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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jbau.bsky.social
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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adamkeiper.com
"Here I am, this middle-aged black man, I'm in my best suit. I actually argued the case at the Supreme Court that we were trying to implement. I've got all these degrees and awards. And I'm still required to laugh at my own humiliation."

Bryan Stevenson with @katiecouric.bsky.social
The Exhausting Reality of Being a Black Lawyer - Bryan Stevenson's Truth
YouTube video by Katie Couric
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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gwillow.me
I mean yes this is funny, but the fact that these unconstitutional stormtroopers are so directionless that they literally stand around waiting for random nonwhite delivery guys to bike past them is just pathetic. No mandate, no mission, no clue. Just racism.
marmel.bsky.social Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · Sep 29
ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 AM
jasonraitz.bsky.social
This captures a lot of what I've been feeling as well. I've read some history and various opinion pieces, but I know I probably don't have the full picture. However, nothing I've seen explains what's going on other than genocide.
mcsweeneys.net McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Sep 22
"It’s hard to believe my words matter when I don’t know how many more civilians will have died by the time this column is published. So I’ll just ask one more question: Where is the end?"
On Being Wrong
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies...
buff.ly
September 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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erinnthered.bsky.social
Amazing
oysta.au Christopher Owen @oysta.au · Sep 21
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
September 21, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away.

We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”
September 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah

very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme

knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...
Facebook post by Tyler Robinson's mother of him dressed as a gopnik meme, wearing a track suit and squatting on the ground
September 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
jasonraitz.bsky.social
The actual quote is both not as bad as this and worse. He wasn't talking about all black women, but was definitely saying that about 4 of the most successful and intelligent black women in politics (including Obama). And he continues...

xcancel.com/RichardHanan...
September 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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cstross.bsky.social
Slightly diminish a book

1983
dtmooreeditor.bsky.social David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book

The Landlord of the Rings
rjbarker.bsky.social RJ Barker @rjbarker.bsky.social · Sep 8
Slightly diminish a book

12 Irritable Men
September 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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faineg.bsky.social
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with:

“What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
What could be more obvious than the fact that, whatever intelligence a computer can muster, however it may be acquired, it must always and necessarily be absolutely alien to any and all authentic human concerns? The very asking of the question, "What does a judge (or a psychiatrist) know that we cannot tell a computer?" is a monstrous obscenity. That it has to be put into print at all, even for the purpose of exposing its morbidity, is a sign of the madness of our times. Computers can make judicial decisions, computers can make psychiatric judgments. They can flip coins in much more sophisticated ways than can the most patient human being. The point is that they ought not be given such tasks. They may even be able to arrive at "correct" decisions in some cases-but always and necessarily on bases no human being should be willing to accept. There have been many debates on "Computers and Mind." What I conclude here is that the relevant issues are neither technological nor even mathematical; they are ethical. They cannot be settled by asking questions beginning with "can." The limits of the applicability of computers are ultimately statable only in terms of oughts. What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.
August 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Aug 26
Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.
August 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM