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Michael Sappir
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Jewish-Israeli, against apartheid and genocide. Co-host parallelweltpalaestina.info (in German), co-founder @thediasporist.bsky.social
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Michael Sappir @m.sappir.net · Aug 8
In Germany, I developed a slight obsession with political stickers – and especially the unhinged pro-Israel stickers from the German left's creepy philosemitic neocons, the "anti-Germans" (the most German Germans). For @thediasporist.bsky.social, I wrote up some of the wildest examples
Stickers Against Germany – the Diasporist
The antideutsch leftists papering cities in pro-Israel stickers
thediasporist.de
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warrenjwells.bsky.social
I'm a longtime fan of Not Just Bikes, but his 95(!) minute video on John Forester and Vehicular Cycling is truly his magnum opus.

If you are even remotely interested in the history of bicycling in America, it is worth a watch.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPd...
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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imarealpersonworld.bsky.social
Do you know what it feels like to hate the rain?
To hate something that’s supposed to be a blessing?
We pray every single day that it doesn’t rain…
that we don’t flood again…
that we can just stay warm
November 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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imarealpersonworld.bsky.social
It used to be my favorite season,
but now we’re drowning instead of enjoying it
I’ve reached the point where I hate the rain
How long are we going to keep suffering like this?
it feels like my soul is going to leave my body

To support me directly via PayPal
tiny.cc/hbcuzz
Or gofund.me/4f2561454
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?
pwnallthethings.bsky.social Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 2d
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Mohammed has a super detailed chuffed that is a very good read if you’re interested at all about life in Gaza- he also has done a thread in the post I’m quoting ⬇️ about his family history that is very interesting
mommunism.bsky.social Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 21h
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 22 and was studying electrical engineering (you can read about his family in the 🧵 ). He’s trying to help his family including his pregnant sister Rasha and his 4 year old nephew Khamis who started kindergarten yesterday!
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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botmatrix.myatproto.social
I reposted this yesterday but I'm still thinking about it

"LLM is an abstraction over the status quo" is so deeply powerful and accurate

These are dominant pattern amplification & reproduction machines
hagenblix.bsky.social Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 3d
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
An LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age. An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible. But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence” in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can pretend to be a person.
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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colinmoore.bsky.social
New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
It's incredible that we let billionaires bloviate about their policy views without throwing tomatoes at them. We know what they want, they want policies that work for a few dozen people and immiserate the other 300 million. Not interested!
November 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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sbworkersunited.org
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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200mahmoud.edits.video
Hi Mr Alan
I’m Mahmoud from Gaza
🍉a Software Engineer and father of 3.
Although the war has ended, it took away our jobs, dreams, and future.
Still, I’m holding on to hope for my children and for a better tomorrow.
Please consider donating💚
✅Verified by #Molly_Shah
gofund.me/334c7485
November 11, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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popeguilty.bsky.social
Always worth bringing back up that a big part of why evopsych became such a thing was that Jeffrey Epstein was bankrolling it through academic donations
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d
Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
bonejob.bsky.social Beavis, Etc. @bonejob.bsky.social · 2d
It seems like all of the rich and powerful people around him patronizingly tolerated the race science stuff (“he has such an inquisitive and childlike mind”) in order to get access to his harem of underage sex slaves
November 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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mosheroperandi.bsky.social
just how fuckin bad are the rest of those files
fritschner.bsky.social Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 2d
Back and then gone again, Republican leadership are signaling that the funding bill votes will be the only votes in the House this week, they're sending everyone home afterwards
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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m.sappir.net
The thing about the "right to exist" attack is that it's not really a question and it's not about states existing. If it were, Palestinian statehood would be implied.
But it's about asserting Israel's "right to exist *as a Jewish state*" which is means its unique right to discriminatory policy.
diplomatofnight.com Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d
“Israel exists. Palestine doesn’t. And so I always wonder why nobody asks me why Palestine doesn’t have a right to exist.” - Abdul el-Sayed, candidate for Senate in Michigan.
Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan asked El-Sayed how he would respond if and when he faces questions on the campaign trail about whether he supports Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. El-Sayed initially responded by calling the question hypocritical and again dodged when pressed. He said that most U.S. presidents have expressed support for a two-state solution, and “Israel exists. Palestine doesn’t. And so I always wonder why nobody asks me why Palestine doesn’t have a right to exist.” El-Sayed accused the U.S. of supporting “the very people in Israel who want to foreclose on the possibility of Palestine existing.” “And so to me, frankly, it is about our principles and how we apply them evenly. If you believe in a two-state solution, then what are you doing to make it possible?” he continued.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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robhorning.bsky.social
seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
hagenblix.bsky.social Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 3d
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
An LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age. An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible. But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence” in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can pretend to be a person.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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hagenblix.bsky.social
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
An LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age. An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible. But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence” in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can pretend to be a person.
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
Not a clear term, but I've always liked the phrase "if you stand for nothing, then you'll fall for anything."
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d
We gotta have a clear term for people so cynical they become gullible.
November 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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emilydische.bsky.social
Der Herr ist Sprecher für Antisemitismusbekämpfung in seiner Fraktion. Die Vereinnahmung jüdischer Anliegen für rassistische Hetze gegen andere Opfer des Nationalsozialismus ist selbst einer nach rechts entgleisten CDU unwürdig.
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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spavel.bsky.social
Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat
sarahjeong.bsky.social sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web"

bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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thrasherxy.bsky.social
It’s Sept 11, 2001. You’re watching George W. Bush recite the 23 Psalm from the Oval like a dear in headlights on CNN. Imagine I then tell you that one day Donald Trump will spray a former Al Qaeda general here with Trump perfume—just two weeks after leveling the East Wing like the Twin Towers
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
Some bizarre stuff going down in the Oval these days. After spraying the Syrian president with his Trump Fragrance he then asks him how many wives he has.
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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tyleraking.com
Do not under any circumstance hand your phone to law enforcement.
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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lecieldeparis.bsky.social
Timur Husein, Antisemitismusbeauftragter bei der CDU Berlin. Nie wieder ist jetzt! Aber morgen erst wieder
Timur Husein, MdA @TimurHusein X.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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unddieregel.bsky.social
No, he is and everybody knows.
The american public is engaged in a struggle over whether that matters. And its just a metaphor for everything else this admin/regime does: the question whether anything matters anymore.
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d
the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo
sahilkapur.bsky.social Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 2d
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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aaronhuertas.bsky.social
Earnest post: there is increasingly direct evidence that Trump participated in child sex trafficking or at least knew about it.

He should resign, be impeached and removed from office, and prosecuted.

Even if you don’t think that WILL happen it’s important to say publicly that it SHOULD happen.
November 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM