“A hunger & labor strike by 300 ICE detainees at a controversial private jail in Newark, NJ … has been dismissed by 47 at a midday press conference where he said the protestors at the site were being paid without offering any evidence.” #DelaneyHall HT @stucknation.bsky.social CC @bjmendelson.com

Different campaigns have different roles: some must be waged to till the soil to make the impossible possible ten years later; others, to show many that victory is possible; and finally, still others to "harvest" the fruits born of prior labors to obtain victory. The last role is the least frequent.

I’m struck by how many far left policies from a decade ago are supported by a majority today. What capacities and foundations can you build today that will change the world in 10-15 years?

And so it is with all infrastructure. Today’s tradeoffs and exclusions reflect nothing more than yesterday’s limited political vision. That’s why it’s important that public investment is the prime mover and not downstream from “markets”

Impossible today is not impossible ten years from now. Politicians and pollsters do not think like this. That’s always been our advantage.

Oh my god. (I'm glad my Dad, an MIT undergrad & grad alum, isn't alive to see this).

It's from the upcoming book that will be out next month! :-) The book is FREE as an audiobook and .pdf. Over at www.stupidsexyprivacy.com :-)

“Every professional I spoke with on the 🇺🇸 side said the same thing, in their own words, w the quiet urgency of people who have been watching a slow catastrophe & waiting for someone to ask. ‘Get out while you can. This place is broken.’” HT @mizalisa.bsky.social CC @nharnie.bsky.social #Alzheimers

I see an apparatus with at least five fingers of uptake

The model of art/observer is more like art/variegated infrastructures of uptake and translation. But alas. Brevity, you see.

everyone hates AI, i know how to do tech stuff without AI, i keep thinking it might be time to start doing private consulting specifically for people who hate AI “human touch data services” instead of just jamming chatbots into everything you do we’ll actually solve the thing you need solved

This is huge. Dark Horse needs a union. #UnionStrong

When I see “human supremacy” framed as an oppressive ideology that must be defeated, I both sympathize with the idea and start looking for other signs of misanthropy. Historically, opposition to “human supremacy” is closely linked to white supremacy and eugenics.

Telling people to use WhatsApp over Signal, or in conjunction with Signal, is stupid. PLEASE do not use ANYTHING owned by Meta for resistance work. I promise you, whatever excuse or reason you're thinking of does NOT matter. You are not safe using Meta products. Period.

Excellent paperwork-trail work confirming via court records frontline orgs' observations: • More street arrests than appt-based arrests • Only 1 in 10 arrested filed habeas petition • It's all racial profiling @meganpiont.bsky.social's How to Report ICE (NYC)👇 drive.google.com/file/d/15mPM...

Only $5 short of raising $300 tonite. Can we do it?

My 12-year-old: When I move out, I'm gonna get a dog. Me: Oh yeah? Why's that? 12: I really like companionship. But I don't know when I'll meet a person I want that kind of relationship with. And I don't wanna end up jumping into something too soon. So, I'll just get a dog.

“Nearly every American who wants a job has one…” “Nearly” is doing a lot of work. I was laid off in January and no one who claims to be hiring seems to be.

The gentleman detective for the 21st Century: a homeless man who sleeps under a bridge with a pack of feral dogs.

Our guest analyzes the cluster of masculine metaphors that ground and mobilize the European Monetary Union’s hard-line opposition to so-called “soft” money politics.

I love this idea.

hey all -- if you would like to promote your own work, i would love a thread so I can see what you're up to and give some support. post a reply with a link and i'm happy to check it out and give a like or repost

Politico union wins major victory in shutting down AI tools.

anytime someone pitches ai I reply "so you hate humans"

“Let the largest city in the nation deliver the largest municipal housing renewal this country has ever seen” @mayor.nyc.gov “Mayor Z! Mayor Z,” shouts the crowd. www.youtube.com/live/aPcXDdA...

"UFC president Dana White says that there is no way that Donald Trump is racist – because the president was friends with Michael Jackson." So let's play this theory out.There is no way Trump wasn't a child sex offender cause he was good friends with Jeffrey Epstein. sports.yahoo.com/articles/dan...

This organization is disgusting and shameless. NYT bends over backwards to frame everything in the most pro Israel way possible, but if they even report what's being done to Palestinians a little bit they're basically Hamas

Important NYC & Black history right here!

😂😂

Poop: Also Human in Origin. Also not advised to firehose that into your eyes

Embedded veracity assumptions in their characterization of the LLM (it does not test or know fact from nonfact when it parses what might be said next in an average text)

This bot is out here engaging with a v v specific audience on v specific topics.

Thin veneers, and whoever these people are. Will find that out later.

The not yet published "academic" paper by Nyx Redondo

IamI website and hustle is a skin for Ronin Institute 2.0

5 months after a convo has no replies a pro LLM nonprofit jumps into the replies 🤔

This is why monetary design matters. Extending public credit to marginalised people and communities is not charity and it is not redistribution – it’s a direct challenge to the scarcity logic that makes marginalisation seem natural and inevitable in the first place. 3/

This is no accident. The ongoing marginalisation of queer folx, women, disabled people, PoC, and the economically disadvantaged is produced by the same scarcity logic that fuels the far right – a logic that treats public provisioning as a zero-sum threat and not an expression of trust and care. 2/

As we @moneyontheleft.bsky.social have long argued, austerity’s endless ‘hard choices’ about who to impoverish are structurally, rhetorically, and ideologically inseparable from heteronormativity, ableism, classism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. 1/

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This week’s show is up! Haven’t been able to book a live guest, but did record something worth some attention. youtu.be/8CwxkiCrTsg

Ahhh it was eugenics all along!

Thank you. I know I need to just block (& I did) but I needed to get it off my chest first. And also I have a more complete picture now of What The Fuck Was That All About (Turns out it was eugenics again. I guess it always is?!)

I’m literally quoted in news articles. Good fucking god. Having compassion for people with long covid means I’m anti mask?! Does having compassion for POZ mean I’m anti condoms?! This is my best attempt to interpret this person. Or maybe they’re confusing me with someone else? That’s all I got….

I have many flaws to be sure but that is not one of them.

You will never believe what the person I’m replying to accuses me of (I guess internet searches are now impossible)

Are you fucking kidding me? I mask everywhere. I literally organized to defeat the ny mask ban. I’m the last person you should lecture about masking. Ultimately bad things can happen to good people. We don’t live in a just world.

People…we are in some deep trouble here.

The thing I’ve noticed about collectives is that people are all really openly appreciative of everyone else because nobody is trying to stomp on your head or undercut your work to get themselves one step ahead in the hierarchy than everyone else. Also: cowboys are lonely and boring.