I am so tired of my country being a bully to the world.

offered without comment. #venezuela

My fam had already decided to stop using delivery apps starting Jan 1 this year because we're worried about our orders contributing to any danger to immigrant and non-⚪️ drivers from 🧊. With this info that's making the rounds on reddit!? We won't go back. This is some nefarious 💩.

You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

Pay attention people, and fight back against Republicans. Don't act like too many did with Project 2025, and pretend they didn't know.

“Building on an anti-spam cybersecurity tactic known as tarpitting, he created Nepenthes, malicious software named after a carnivorous plant that will ‘eat just about anything that finds its way inside.’”

I live all the way across the country and am so inspired by the ACTION being taken by @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for the people of his city on day one all the way out here. Thank you for starting strong (and for a needed dose of hope)

He's trying a bold new strategy of "doing things", I like it

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

One underrated thing Mamdani has going for him is that he has always known he is ineligible for the presidency The profession of elected official attracts a lot of people with delusions of grandeur and an agenda built around getting to the job they want rather than doing the job they actually have

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

I am pretty excited for the nest season! I'm going to have guests periodically (new!), a community (new! stay tuned), and more. :) Tune in and make sense of the world with me.

You cannot have “AI” without having “machine that almost solely exists to create nonconsensual sexually explicit images of mainly women and children.” The former exists in tandem with the latter. That’s how this industry has worked so far, and it has only gotten worse with zero accountability

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

*taps my book wild faith* as noted in literally the first chapter, the Satanic Panic never ended, it just took a nap for awhile this shit about daycares is literally just the 1980s warmed over. can we bring back cool hair instead of christian vigilantism www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

One of our most-read stories this year: A Pennsylvania county stopped charging people 'lodging fees' for detaining them in jail. Then it forgave $65 million in these fees. “What a light of hope this has been,” said one woman whose son owed $17,000.

Here's a really easy New Year's Resolution: If you're sick with something contagious, you will stay home if your circumstances allow. If you can't stay home, you will mask around others until there is no possibility you are contagious. By making these choices, you will literally save lives.

This is happening to **American citizens** right now. And by now, those still looking away are complicit in this madness. Shout. Get angry. Make noise. Write/call your representatives. Because silence is no longer acceptable. www.tiktok.com/@nytimes/vid...

Are you a resolution maker or a resolution avoider? #psychology

(November, 2024) "Scholars are Failing the GPT Review Process," a critical look at the disciplinary and cultural pressures which push people in academia toward (erroneously) thinking "Generative AI" is the answer to all their problems. online.ucpress.edu/hsns/article...

I can tell it's the last day of the year because my email inbox is full of emails begging me for money.

I was telling a story and said "but we can't assume their orientation, that's rude, we don't know, maybe they're queer" and my partner said "sure we can, someone saying anything that stupid has to be straight" 😂😂😂

The entire right wing media apparatus is in a rabid frenzy saying every childcare is fraudulent and now people are showing up to random daycare centers demanding to see the children and screaming at daycare workers. This is absolutely insane and I worry this is going to end in a major tragedy.

One of the biggest epiphanies I ever had that made the world make more sense is that people who abuse their power aren’t happier for it. They’re trading their happiness for that power. That’s part of why they cling to it the way they do—and it’s also why they can see themselves as victims.

Calling all social media researchers, if you have access to the TikTok research API or are doing research on TikTok via a browser plugin, you will soon be able to collect and analyze TikTok data via our research tool, @communalytic.org. No coding required. #CSS #ComSky #AcademicSky (ETA March 2026)

All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN! The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.

People/Media talk like this is one awful man at the helm of everything. This is a legion of complicit people surrounding this man ALLOWING HIM TO GET AWAY WITH BREAKING THE LAW AND HURTING PEOPLE, constantly. We all must stop helping move the Overton window on this.

Of all the dirty tricks: juking USPS rules so that the postmark of mail-in ballots won't reflect the date they were put in the hands of the Postal Service, creating a pretext to throw out the votes.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

My beautiful friend, a nurse, died at 31 last night. Her cancer treatment was delayed because a visitor did not wear a mask and she became terribly ill for weeks with the flu or COVID and following infections. If you're wearing a mask, thank you.

It could all be so very simple , but so many make it hard . You find out you clarify

If Marjorie Taylor Greene *really* cared about the Epstein victims, she would read the names of the perpetrators on the House floor (where she would have immunity) before she leaves office.

I was looking for something analyzing dancing with the stars' role in normalizing fascism, but this is a lot cooler ~ Seducing and Killing Nazis’ challenges us to resist, not adapt to, fascism www.peoplesworld.org/article/sedu...

There are moments the mask is removed, and all the lies evaporate. This quote by a District Attorney in California is incredible. He says the volume of shackled poor people brought to court--what he calls the "cattle call"--makes it impossible to consider them as individuals.

Substack is my least favorite way to read your stuff. It's so reader unfriendly.

Are you a resolution maker or a resolution avoider? #psychology

Since our tax dollars are paying for ICE.. I think we are allowed to record them committing crimes..

I feel like my brain is melting from how obvious it is that the United States is moving the Overton window in a bid to criminalize pro-Palestinian speech.

I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence. May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.

ICE on the Texas/Mexico border stopping and kidnapping people attempting to leave the US. (12/26/25)

One of the most popular subjects of conversation this year has been all of us loudly agreeing how much AI fucken sucks, can we please make sure AI doesn't win and Olivia's cool project does instead? Vote iHunt. It actually deserves to win and has something to say.

The US has had the most combative, organized and social movement oriented working class in the West over the last fifteen years, there are whole national street mvmts people have completely forgotten about (OccupyICE, anybody?) and anyone who fails to name this assessing the political situation 🚮

Pretty sure it’s illegal to fuck with people’s mail and if you’re law enforcement you have to have a warrant to touch it.

The loss of this bio repository would be a disaster. Hey @invam.bsky.social, how much funding do you need per year to remain fully operational?

"an internet witch hunt" Every single named person in this article who spread ugly lies about the Brown shooting, even putting an innocent student in danger, is a Republican. One is even a top DOJ official. This NYT headline makes it seem like it was an everybody problem. It was not.

New PsyberSpace episode on family estrangement, just in time for the holidays. The research is clear: adult children report abuse, toxic behavior, and lack of acceptance. Parents blame spouses, "entitlement," and third parties. This perspective gap explains a lot. Listen: bit.ly/4arBwux

New PsyberSpace episode on family estrangement, just in time for the holidays. The research is clear: adult children report abuse, toxic behavior, and lack of acceptance. Parents blame spouses, "entitlement," and third parties. This perspective gap explains a lot. Listen: bit.ly/4arBwux

This week we’re talking #NoContact #ParentalAlienation