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Claire M
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worker of/with texts, sounds, and images //
current masters student of film preservation

“estoy bien, escribo mucho. te quiero mucho.”
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yappelbaum.bsky.social
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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parkermolloy.com
The funny thing is that on the WaPo site, if you click on the comments section, it gives you an AI-generated summary of people's responses that is basically like "They all disagree with the paper's right-wing turn"
Highlights Summary The conversation explores a strong reaction to the Washington Post's editorial on Zohran Mamdani, with many participants criticizing the piece for its tone and language. Several comments express disbelief and disappointment at the use of terms like "Generalissimo" to describe Mamdani, suggesting that the editorial board's portrayal is exaggerated and biased. Some readers argue that the editorial reflects a rightward shift in the Post's perspective, aligning more with corporate interests and the wealthy elite, rather than providing a balanced view. Others defend Mamdani's focus on addressing economic inequality and supporting working people, contrasting it with the editorial's negative framing. Overall, the discussion highlights a divide between the editorial's portrayal and the readers' perception of Mamdani's priorities and worldview. Show less i This summary is Al-generated.
November 8, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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nenasoyomisma.bsky.social
Las librerías y los libros siempre serán un refugio seguro para la mente.
El ebook está bien, pero solo lo utilizo porque no puedo tener más libros físicos.
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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dissentum.bsky.social
This is one of the first things I point to when people ask me about Franco's Spain. 6,000 mass graves in a country under 200,000 square miles (for reference: Texas is 260,000 square miles)
rtvenoticias.rtve.es RTVE Noticias @rtvenoticias.rtve.es · 3d
El #MapaFosasRTVE es el primer mapa audiovisual con las 6.000 fosas comunes de la guerra civil y el Franquismo.

Los restos de más de 17.000 víctimas se han podido recuperar, pero otras 12.000 personas podrían ser aún exhumadas.

rtve.es/noticias/fos...
November 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.
November 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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eljaviparla.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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bluefuture.bsky.social
One thing that I wish is for humanity to reach the stars in a way that goes against everything Elon Musk stands for.
November 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
cmmullen.bsky.social
When writing to a journalist friend, I just said that it's a bit unravelling, right now, to be on the receiving end of this kind of belated real-time education in elite metabolization. Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It's so offhand you can think you're gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two "sides," or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Because what this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage. For no matter how unhinged the position you've taken, or paid someone marginally credentialed to sketch out on your behalf-"Can Woman Think?: We Investigate," "Is the Negro a Man: A Reconsideration" —that opinion will, by virtue of such provenance, possess all needed evidentiary gravity for the Times. And then some. (Only yesterday the Times ran this actual story, which is not parody.) I read it over now with this kind of full-spectrum cringe of the spirit. It's the rattle of a person going on and professorially on, quite as if the substance of a discipline, or its intellectual trajectory, or even just the nourishing joy of sustained and serious study, mattered at all to the person he was talking to, or to the majestic institution he represents. And honestly, what could be more feeble? It's not that those things don't matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering, and I wouldn't go on with the whole tedious business of teaching if I thought otherwise. It's just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less and less by the day. I should remember that, and so should you.
November 8, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
I think democrats should push for a thorough review of all Elon Musk govt contracts as part of their 2026-8 portfolio. Why are taxpayers financing the work of a racist near-trillionaire? Leaving that unexamined was one of the biggest failures of the last Dem majority.
November 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM
cmmullen.bsky.social
The human rights violations described in this thread are absolutely horrific.
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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zeboydgames.bsky.social
How about instead of bailing out the AI companies, we just don't?
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
cmmullen.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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histoftech.bsky.social
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages
Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.
futurism.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.

$META @reuters.com
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
cmmullen.bsky.social
The selected works of Eugene V. Debs volumes I-V are currently only $2 (ebooks) at @haymarketbooks.org

www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...
November 6, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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leguinbot.bsky.social
We're in the world, not against it.
November 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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mardealgo.bsky.social
la economía de la ia es la más estúpida imaginable. es un hueco cibernético, abismado, sin personas. sin mundo fuera de ese bluff sin nombre.
October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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shakespeare.lol
Good day and happiness
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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eljaviparla.bsky.social
Buenos días a todos y especialmente a los neoyorquinos que no se han dejado amedrentar por las amenazas de su presidente tarado.
November 5, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
"Virtually all investigations have also ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters."
Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startup...
www.propublica.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
cmmullen.bsky.social
This is such a blow.
leximcmenamin.com Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7d
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
cmmullen.bsky.social
poetry!
jamieson.bsky.social Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 6d
Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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carlaantonelli.bsky.social
El mayor retroceso de un glaciar en tierra, más de ocho kilómetros en solo dos meses, a un ritmo cerca de 10 veces más rápido de lo observado hasta ahora: “Es realmente espectacular” elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
El mayor retroceso de un glaciar en tierra, más de ocho kilómetros en solo dos meses: “Es realmente espectacular”
Investigadores documentan en el Hektoria, en la península antártica, una pérdida de hielo cerca de 10 veces más rápida de lo medido hasta ahora
elpais.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM