any suggested articles/materials criticizing the concept of "progress" (particularly re: technology)?

computer slow? couldn't possibly be the 3,023 tabs i have open

Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down. The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains: Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.

Moving into my long term housing next week. The property management company just asked for an a deposit because I am “a potential liability.” They want $500. I can’t move in unless I pay it. This is some bullshit. But it’s the only housing that works for me at this time.

not trying to minimize AI's contribution here at all but we should all also be critical of the energy usage of streaming video, especially short form. curious to see how bytedance/tiktok compares, and if google and meta break theirs down such that youtube and reels can be separated from other uses

New York pals, here's a chance to comment opposing a data center

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

OS level age verification is a Meta lobbying project Pass it on

long but worth it spectrejournal.com/municipal-so...

Some tips on giving digital privacy/security advice: if you tell people they absolutely need to do a long list of difficult and expensive things before they travel, people will nod and smile and then not do it at all. This is why my advice focuses on harm reduction and understanding trade-offs.

We have NINE days left, final countdown! 457/1557 to finish this campaign for kids who got out of occupation torture camps!!! chuffed.org/project/hmg

thinking of writing a degrowth-adjacent blog post/rant/polemic begging tech workers to care about the imperialist resource extraction and labor abuses that power our jobs and related technological advancements. but idk who will see it

This is a fucking nightmare.

it's so nice out and i'm so sick wtf

The pattern is unmistakable: The more U.S. bombs have fallen on Iran, the more ICE has arrested and abused Iranians en masse in the United States. As of September 2025, 320 documented final orders of removal had been issued to Iranians.

i gotta get back into carrots and hummus

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When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

it's a very scary time to be trans in this country, but you also should be aware of what is actually a problem, what is actually something you have to worry about, and what is yet another nothingburger. you can't fight the actual fight if you're too busy swinging at ghosts.

you don't do anything for yourself as a trans person by being aware of every single bill ever considered in a state legislature and every single petition filed with the government. all that will do is drive you mad. i'm not saying to bury your head in the sand, very much not,

this is great and reminds me of growing up with a shitty Acer laptop. kids should be allowed to explore the bounds of what your computer can and can’t do. if you aren’t hitting a wall trying to do something you think you might want to do, if computing is Easy Forever, what’s the point?

Never related to a meme harder than I do with this one right now

"Your silence will not protect you" Seen in Portland, Oregon, along 1-84

Three weeks to do something really amazing: research-informed, Palestinian-led mental health support for nearly a hundred children who suffered extreme torture in the occupation's detention camps. We have THREE WEEKS. Let's show up for these kids. chuffed.org/project/hmg

I think this is an important pattern that will become more important. Our society is laden with well-intentioned rules and policies that do limited harm only because the humans don’t implement them faithfully.

cool www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/d...

Al-Naqb Center, Burj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp, via Aid4Lebanon (see below). venmo.com/u/tasbeet #Lebanon

Mutual Aid To Support Those Forcibly Displaced In Lebanon, d2.fromthesouth (instagram) Really long list of help they’ve been able to offer in the last 3 days alone. chuffed.org/project/1729... #Lebanon

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Small, steady, sustainable. Every time you click “weekly” or “monthly" on ANY campaign, it's a bit of dignity and dependable help as the occupation continues its forced starvation policies Help six families + a camp of fifteen more. Pledge a coffee! chuffed.org/project/hope...

“Hundreds of people from Santa Monica to Los Feliz are strapping cameras on their heads and hands as they do chores at home so bots can watch how they make coffee, scrub toilets, water plants and wash dishes.”

we live intentionally and on purpose and by choice in a way most never do. in some ways, the things people label as "common eccentricities" of trans people, to me, are instead examples of our explicit humanity in action

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

OpenAI’s push to become crucial infrastructure in education should not and cannot be separated from its broader entanglements with the US military and mass surveillance that includes students and teachers.

In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism.

We have FOUR weeks left! Help empower almost a hundred kids who were in occupation prisons. Workshops for mental health, healing, & community, plus a recovery kit! Every bit helps to make it happen. Full breakdown of activities and impact here: chuffed.org/project/hmg

I know that @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social wrote a great piece on a related topic: how disability tech and technologies of war and violence are entangled for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social It’s a must read to understand disability and AI discourse newrepublic.com/article/1793...

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

The IDF just ordered the forced evacuation of *all of Dahieh* a day after ordering the forced evacuation of all of South Lebanon. Israel is taking advantage of the focus on Iran to destroy Lebanon

is anyone on Puzzmo

Alright February was absolute ass . It’s the last Day of Black history month you can throw in a ol it would help. If you know of ANYONE hiring a project manager, tech policy researcher/consultant , writer , cosmic galactic muse or sugar librarian or sugar cougar Please send em to me

Love it when our nation’s defense contractors all spend their Friday nights subtweeting each other about killing everyone in the world

those tech people who do advocate for slowing down, being critical, or refusing to adopt it are routinely misrepresented as wanting to stick their head in the sand, it's not good

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listed 20 types of pasta off the dome last night and now i'm tempted to really start memorizing. i think i could get to 30

After a federal judge banned the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from using 40mm foam projectile launchers in crowd-control settings, the LAPD replaced the 40mm with another “less-lethal” launcher: the FN303. The full story: lataco.com/lapd-fn303-j... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Hell yeah.

In this addendum to Phil Neel's recent article, two participants offer a balance sheet on anti-ICE struggles in the Twin Cities. illwill.com/proto-politi...

Your periodic reminder that "human-like AI" is a near-meaningless framing with deeply ableist, sexist, racist, colonialist, eugenicist roots. Stop uncritically deploying it.