This is an excellent piece that comments on the damage that GenAI causes. "I hate that I’m forced to make art, or to enjoy it, in an age where technology, industry, and individual choice conspire to undermine our trust in each other at every turn."

I started playing "Rocky Road to Dublin" on repeat in April 2025.

Great open letter from @moryan.bsky.social. Inject this righteous anger directly into my veins.

The US is at war and repression at home is going to get worse. I'm old enough to remember during the Iraq war the FBI infiltrating quaker meetings and vegan potlucks and cracking down on anti-war groups and outspoken Muslim leaders. The US surveillance state has grown exponentially since then. 🧵

Holy sh.. - the most powerful piece of writing I've read in a long time.

"No experience? No problem. Gone are the days of unpaid internships. We’ll train any motivated individuals with the skills they need to succeed: writing, editing, and plowing the fields."

Excellent piece describing this administration's hunger for a one-stop shop with all of our personal data. DOGE, guided by Elon Musk, supercharged this effort by eliminating the traditional boundaries between data held and managed by separate government agencies.

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The oligarchs have chosen a side. youtu.be/PzLDO49-wBk

"They can't take us all down." - Giancarlo Esposito❤️

OMG. @mluckovich.bsky.social goes straight to the heart.

Great piece, as always, @willbunch.bsky.social. MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail is one of my favorites because it so effectively calls out this perennial "why can't we just all get along?" type of cowardice.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I gotta log off and write. Go read this poem. Just go read it.

Does everyone have a warm bed? Does everyone have enough to eat? Does everyone have a place to be safe? Whose getting snatched in the night? - Junauda Petrus, "Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again"

I will never forget the chill I felt the first time I read "About Face" by @natepowell.bsky.social I didn't want to accept what it said about the future that is now staring us in the face I encourage everyone to read it now that we no longer have a choice popula.com/2019/02/24/a...

"Yesterday's civilian becomes tomorrow's insurgent after today's atrocity." - @mikeduncan.bsky.social, Revolutions, Season 4, Episode 19

Yes to all of this.

Really good article by @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer about AI and why the biggest problem with it isn't "hype" - it's how it's enabling assaults on democracy, workers and anyone who disagrees with the current political project of those in power.

It was weirdly fitting that the Charlie Kirk murder blended into the 9/11 anniversary as once again Americans were told to “watch what they say” The hypocritical censorship around a “free speech hero.” My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

I'll echo this recommendation. "Why We Fear AI" provides a refreshing take for anyone who's read the hype-filled books written by tech bros, offering a much deeper dive into the real-world implications of "AI" (which is not really intelligent) and the motivations behind the companies pushing it.

Really happy to review Why We Fear AI by @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer. I encourage people to read the book, because it's a refreshingly thoughtful take on the current state of so-called "AI" and why the tech is being promoted so heavily despite its many flaws and limitations.

hi @politico.com my name is marisa kabas and i publish the handbasket and you basically copied my story and then linked me in the 23rd paragraph of your story without specific attribution: www.politico.com/news/2025/07... here's my original: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-david...

I talked with @astra.bsky.social about the apocalyptic politics of Christian Nationalists and tech oligarchs, how AI is capturing and altering us toward fascist ends, and how we can fight "end times fascism." Audio + transcript:

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social is always so good, but today's cartoon really says it all.

Great episode - highly recommend.

Merkley had a pretty effective day. Or will have, if you make this go viral.

Talked about this some time ago; AI models are self-poisoning. RAG does help, but ultimately you will need something isolated and local to keep it from deteriorating. TL;DR: LLMs suffer from brainrot. ;) www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/o...

Yes, this needs to be a group effort - the damage being done is far too great for one or a couple of people to track on their own. (And I know that's intentional - it gets back to Steve Bannon's call to "flood the zone with sh..") Let's get this going with @froomkin.bsky.social.

Another monstrous potential impact from DOGE - disappearing public art.

Calling all archivists - time to scour the NOAA research websites and save as much as you can.

Every part of this thread is worth reading. I wish more people would take these arguments to heart.

This is such a brilliant way to understand MAGA's determination to destroy everything: "Fascists are residual culture that refuse to go away." It goes back to the fact that the US never adequately punished/held accountable the Confederacy's proponents after the Civil War.

So look at that. DOGE has cost the US Treasury fucking half a trillion dollars. HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS. This is your cost savings.

A very helpful thread for anyone planning to fly these days.

I've switched to Duck Duck Go instead of Google because Google's results (and user interface) are increasingly awful and useless. But this looks like another alternative to use to supplement Duck Duck Go searches.

This quote from Chrisman Frank, co-founder of the Musk/DOGE-friendly AI-powered Synthesis Tutor, is horrifying - & also sums up what Trump/DOGE believes: that AI is capable of replacing humans in any task. (It's not, & it won't, but we're all going to suffer the impacts of their current experiment.)

Such a good post. As disheartening as it might be to hear that none of the large, powerful institutions that COULD save us WILL actually save us (and I've come to accept that's true), this piece also reinforces something I very much believe: ultimately, fighting back is up to WE THE PEOPLE.

Excellent update from ‪@marisakabas.bsky.social‬ about the infuriating Trump/DOGE assault on the US Institute of Peace.

This is a brilliant thread, and this part in particular sums up my own take on GenAI-for-writing nonsense: "To know what's a WORKABLE idea, you have to know how the work is done."

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Just watched this again last night: the final episode of season 1 of Andor. Such a powerful show.

Folks in Southern coastal states had better hope their governor can pick up the slack. DOGE is straight-up sabotaging Florida. Trump and Musk fired a scientist working on hurricane resilience right before a major storm—to “cut waste.” Now Florida’s left even more exposed.

This is a really good video that goes into the fundamentals of how the Tesla Takedown movement could have a major impact on Musk's wealth, which is heavily paper-based.

This is probably a really good time to remind everyone there are two special elections in Florida on April 1 for Congressional seats (and another in NY later in the year). If Dems win two of three, we take back the House. Make sure you're registered to vote!! @joshweil.bsky.social

This is a great idea.