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Published: May 8, 2025 03:47

No but seriously, Fiona Apple making a protest song in support of Black mothers in pretrial detention in general and in the DMV area in specific? I didn't think I could love this lady more, more here we are. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki1nvcNbYH8 ā€¦

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Published: May 6, 2025 21:36

Just saw an American's for Prosperity ad just outright lying to claim that trumps billionaire tax breaks help the middle class. Peppy music, simplified message, North Carolina market. Needs an immediate response in the same register with at least doubleā€¦

https://bsky.app/profile/wolvendamien.bsky.social/post/3lojo72lj6c2l

Published: May 6, 2025 19:58

Allison Riggs' election win must be certified, according to a ruling yesterday from Federal District Court Judge Appointed by Trump. So at least some of these people still have some sense of Judicial Integrity. Now let's see if SCOTUS can find theirs.ā€¦

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Published: May 4, 2025 16:57

At this point, the perpetuation of harm feels fully intentional. But even if it's not, I once again point you to the words of @debcha.bsky.social: "Any Sufficiently Advanced Neglect Is Indistinguishable From Malice" [contains quote post or other embeddedā€¦

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Published: May 4, 2025 01:20

In this sociopolitical moment, with these sociotechnical concerns, Kennesaw Stateā€” the university where I'd taught the longest thus farā€” is getting rid of their degrees in philosophy, Black studies, & technical communication, & it's hard to not also feelā€¦

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Published: May 3, 2025 18:07

When your "anti toxicity" formula depends on anti-racism ==ing "toxicity," then your formula is, itself, racist. Rinse & repeat for any other technoscientific application + power-related bigotry. Just as a heads up for any technologists somehow stillā€¦

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Published: May 1, 2025 20:08

ā€¦ BRO. I justā€¦ 1) You see that thing at the bottom? It's asking him to verify the PIN for his TM SGNL (more below) account. The main way to remove that alert, is entering the PIN. If any video or even quick-succession photos of that exist, he isā€¦ in soā€¦

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Published: May 1, 2025 05:14

That Tesla CEO search news hasn't gone anywhere, butā€¦ Kick him out & take his money Kick Him Out & Take His Money Kick Him Out & Take His Money. KICK HIM OUT & TAKE HIS MONEY *KICK* HIM *OUT* & TAKE HIS *MONEY* KICK šŸ‘šŸ¾ HIM šŸ‘šŸ¾ OUT šŸ‘šŸ¾ & šŸ‘šŸ¾ TAKE šŸ‘šŸ¾ HIS šŸ‘šŸ¾ MOā€¦

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Published: May 1, 2025 00:02

I sometimes feel like I missed out by not starting a podcast several years ago (& buddy before you even *Think* about suggesting I start one now, I need you to understand that I barely have the mental & emotional wherewithal to occasionally *Appear* onā€¦

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Published: April 30, 2025 14:17

Kleptocrats gonna klept. It really sucks that these people have their hands on the levers of power; like it just fucking sucks to be made subject to the whims of such willfully, cartoonishly venal and gross people [contains quote post or other embeddedā€¦

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Published: April 30, 2025 13:43

I think it's really worth emphasizing here that this dude flew off the handle at a *constituent* expressing what they thought would be "in the best interests of our country & our democracy." *That's* what this politician is angrily, repeatedly insistingā€¦

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Published: April 30, 2025 01:53

I justā€¦ i really wish more people had taken disciplines like philosophy and social psychology seriously as having tools for recognizing, thinking about, and countering this kind of shit. I wish they would now. [contains quote post or other embeddedā€¦

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Published: April 29, 2025 15:03

Great thread on the non-neutrality of science, technology, and mathematics. For more on this, go read some Melvin Kranzberg, @merbroussard.bsky.social, @histoftech.bsky.social , and issues of The Journal of @4sweb.bsky.social, @sthv.bsky.social, TechnĆ©,ā€¦

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Published: April 29, 2025 02:19

These people can and must be opposed, and they can be stopped. Get loud, get persistent, whatever way you can. Believe me when I tell you that I am tired and I am scared, but there have been wins and these people Have been forced to reverse course inā€¦

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Published: April 28, 2025 23:01

@npr.org for every minute spent talking to a non-autistic person about autistic people's needs, you should be giving at least 2x that amount to actually autistic peopleā€” & not just in written stories, but on-air. Apply said rubric to any other group underā€¦

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Published: April 28, 2025 19:48

I missed this, but this is very very good news. Federal Judge David Briones destroys the argument for Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act, resulting in the release of two people, thus far, & halting the use of the Alien Enemies Act in west Texas, *Atā€¦

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Published: April 28, 2025 17:58

1) This bullshit is *costing* us a ridiculous amount of money. 2) It never was about "cutting costs;" it was always about control. ā€¦I said "THIS WAS ALWAYS ABOUT USING THE RHETORIC OF EFFICIENCY & BUDGET TO GAIN ACCESS & LAY CLAIM TO SENSITIVE DATA &ā€¦

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Published: April 28, 2025 14:44

Remember that time i said that it was gross and ableist as fuck for nanowrimo to dress their "AI" bullshit up in lineratory language and then a bunch of their sponsors dropped them and then seven months later nanowrimo went bankrupt? Yeah. Good times. ā€¦

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Published: April 27, 2025 18:30

As someone of the generation who were kids before the Cold War ended, were coming into adulthood when 9/11 happened, and can connect the historical and conceptual dots between Reagan era deregulation and today, a thought that often occurs to me is "is thatā€¦

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Published: April 27, 2025 01:52

On personal levels, today was mostly very good, but I am truly deeply fucking exhausted & I'm not going to get anything like meaningful extended rest until sometime mid-June. On the further upside, my official reappointment letter came through yesterday.ā€¦