The exact people who constantly warned us not to "give in to peer pressure", were the same ones to fold completely on actually important things like uncritical genAI adoption, masking / covid-19 prevention, and the "Palestine exception", then punished everyone who did, in fact, resist peer pressure.

The thing about fascism is that performative public resistance to fascism actually is resistance to fascism.

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it's like our entire sense of morality has been filtered through the act of consumption, and the highest good we can imagine is feeling good and clean and pure as individuals, unpolluted by the obvious evil are around us meanwhile, real change requires the kind of work you need a drink after

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

A brief 🧵 about the implications of Carney’s AI Minister meeting with Israel. #cdnpoli #Canadasky

Grassroots worker-led efforts to provide transparency around what is ACTUALLY happening within firms re layoffs is broadly important as a tool to see beyond the hype and gather a more accurate picture of what’s going on. That’s precisely part of why companies punish resistant transparency.

This is a critical tension right now as tech CEOs use AI as a public excuse for layoffs. These statements from execs are part of building a public narrative about what they say is the capacity of AI tools to replace workers, as a way of justifying capital expenditures & marketing their products.

Engineers at Pinterest “sought clarity by monitoring changes within internal communication systems” so they reportedly created “custom software scripts… to identify the names and locations of workers who had lost their jobs.” Then they got fired. www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/a...

the most cynical reading I have about why this landed so poorly: do dog owners see their own dogs as more "people" or "family" than delivery drivers, "porch pirates," or actual humans that look different from them? ring has always been this for actual humans, but the dog thing hit different

"Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers as a law enforcement tool. After years of saying it wasn’t doing facial recognition... it has now explicitly launched 'friendly' versions of [FR] and [FR]-adjacent technologies".

There is a dynamic I've observed in various contexts, that I want to name & describe b/c it's likely to happen more & more [narrator: it did] as things worsen politically & materially for bigger & more privileged groups of people. Let's call it the horseshoe theory of clout-driven principles. (1/25)

Oop. (“You’re a doctor so you know all things about public health” has been one of the most frustrating things)

Dang I'm honored to be included in this extremely ambitious thread

This whole thread is really insightful (and quotes me?!) but please read it and amplify @cyn-k.bsky.social

Well worth a read: the horseshoe theory of clout-driven principles on what happens when prominent / dominant people start talking about what marginalized people already knew and talked about all along.

This is such a good thread with multiple threads within it, all worth reading, please do.

I've been sitting on this thread since maybe this time last year. Not in a tea-spilling way, in a procrastinatn/self-doubt way. I thought it'd become redundant. But we've endured like 4 major cycles now of "everyone realizing" what marginalized ppl ALREADY KNEW ALL ALONG. So here we go: 🧵

If you also believe that ISED using AI tools to "process" submitted comments just added more layers of sham & illegitimacy to an already poorly conceived consultation process... might I suggest contributing to the People's Consultation on AI #PCAI instead? Thread with more details here:

And most of them also knew that they could do most of it poorly because they people they targeted were so dismissed by everyone else

The reason it's important for normies to recognize that what they want & are doing to fight the regime is leftism is they don't have to reinvent the wheel, they can tap into what humanity has been building to take care of this, & listen to the humans who have been aware all along things need fixing.

This is why higher ed complied in advance with getting rid of DEI. They didn’t want the Black people or the programs. They didn’t want to talk or hear about white supremacy. They didn’t want students protesting against genocide. They had the money but didn’t want the ideas.

Your semi-regular reminder that "left wing" men can absolutely 100% be vile misogynist pieces of shit too.

Thinking yet again how swiftly both administrations and their supporters hustled us back to “normal” life as soon as they saw us starting to see that government is in fact capable of caring for people, for free, and without strings

Yeah, it's a reflexive familiar form of social violence that makes us feel like we have rhetoically delivered a blow. Easier to beat on the fat, the old, the disabled, than fascism, The latter takes more thought, deliberation, and is less instinctive and engrained.

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

I think a lot of men genuinely don't understand that women HAVE to credential ourselves in these conversations ("I say that as an organizer with over 20 years of experience"). Most especially in discourse about male-coded fields, organizing being one of them. We get dismissed outright if we don't.

Exactly, there's no winning. It's either, "you obviously know nothing, you silly dilettante" or "I see, you're an egomaniac gatekeeper." And yet for all the accusations that we're making the conversation about us, somehow the one thing they never want to talk about is the merits of our argument.

There's the Epstein list. But I also want the crisis comms agencies and boutique law firms helping these invertebrates weasel out of culpability list.

it's only politically acceptable to talk about this subject at all if you're using it as a gotcha against "the other team," whether that's RW men calling immigrants rapists while crying that metoo went too far, or leftist men gleefully dunking on epstein while crying that metoo went too far

At this point it feels very deliberate to other the problem & avoid having a larger conversation about men's sexual abuse & feminism in general. If it were billionaires, priests, Republicans, immigrants, scary men in trench coats jumping out of bushes, it's not systemic beyond that group of bad men.

Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.

I haven’t been invited back since

All the white creators start giving these paragraph long replies connecting the shows they watched to their lives, or songs they listened to that expanded their world view And I just commented “im black”, it got the most likes and ended the conversation

The funniest YouTube interaction I ever had was being in the Palestine group chat last year for fundraising with all these (white) creators at 1 mill+ And they ask “what radicalized you“

we’ve only had a few years of going unmasked & not stopping the spread anymore. now the average person has had 5 infections. 49% of which were probably asymptomatic, meaning yr only aware of 2-3 infections. every infection causes damage & increases your chances of a wide range of health problems.

Oh no Ontario, Covid is VERY HIGH & increasing 😬 Just like you put on a toque when temp drops, put on a K/N95 when… well, all the time in public places because Covid damages vascular & immune systems, organs, even your brain 😷 Check your province, side tabs: lookerstudio.google.com/embed/report...

Wyden was doing the same “hey, over here!” routine about the §215 bulk phone program long before anyone heard the name Edward Snowden.

This seems bad.

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

This is insulting to everyone who took time and care to submit input to ISED's consultation, probably at the expense of other priorities given the forced urgency. To reverse that quote on reading genAI writing: why should we bother to write when the government can't even be bothered to read?

It'd be amazing if the overwhelming deterioration of online info services loops back around to a mainstream resurgence in library use and irl research. Also can't help seeing that as precursor to Sarah Gailey's _Upright Women Wanted_, ft queer librarian outlaws smuggling books while on the run.

But bastions of free expression 🙃🙃🙃 How many women's and other equity-denied people's lives, futures, careers, health, opportunities, rights, and actual freedoms, were sacrificed over the years to help prop up that lie?

Apple is real quick to remove tracking apps warning people ICE is around but still hasn’t removed CSAM app X. Just in case you need more evidence that Big Tech fully supports this regime.

don't mean to blow anyone's mind with this shocking insight but the direct line between epstein, 4chan, gamergate, tech bro fascists etc is misogyny. prolific rapists, guys who believe women have inferior intelligence, and guys who hate women for rejecting them all have something big in common!

I used to be a writer on a blog called Angry Black Woman with @nkjemisin.bsky.social and @ktempestbradford.com and I think we were getting random bouts of racism every few weeks in 2009 or so. The chan forums were brigading Black writers online for kicks before Twitter really got big

CBP shot this woman and then defamed her using every means at their disposal. In a just world they would have to turn their whole yearly budget over to her for punitive damages

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

At its core, it is misogyny. They hate women, and it makes them furious that the women they hate have some power to keep themselves safe. Which shouldn't surprise us, because it has been their whole M.O. since forever.