notlisalu.bsky.social
@notlisalu.bsky.social
this keynote on storytelling, place, and technology really resonated with me:
"Machines learn for us, remember for us, speak for us, organize us.
In outsourcing all that knowing, we risk forgetting what makes us worth remembering in the first place."
open.substack.com/pub/elainemc...
Place, Story, and the Machines We Built
On the Shifting Role of the Storyteller
open.substack.com
June 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🚨A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by @dropsitenews.com
www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-dat...
Leaked Data Reveals Massive Israeli Campaign to Remove Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram
A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to inter...
www.dropsitenews.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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NEW: 404 Media has seen parts of a Palantir-powered ICE database that allows for highly specific filtering of people, which allows for searches of students, people with tattoos, from specific countries, by visa status, etc:

www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...
Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People
The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plat...
www.404media.co
April 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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“The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals”.
Well spotted, @jeetheer.bsky.social .

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals
As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.
www.thenation.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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As immigration controls are violently targeting pro #Palestine students & other migrants, their low-tech tactics remain the most dangerous & authoritarian, Afsaneh Rigot writes.“The oppressed know the oppressor better than it knows itself.” We can outsmart them. the-decenter.ghost.io/dehumanized-...
April 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Dubious treatments for obesity and dubious gender affirming procedures for cis people have always been fine in the eyes of the state though.

*squints*
Hey David you know what’s a side effect that you admit to not knowing in your lede?? Going through years of puberty that changes and contorts your body in ways that feels as if it’s mangling it beyond your recognition making your own life no longer your own for what feels like FOREVER.
December 8, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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Both Texas and Georgia are destroying evidence of all maternal mortality, blocking proof that women are dying from abortion bans.

This story has a lot more going on than you think. Especially since Republicans are lying about the public cases.

www.salon.com/2024/12/02/d...
Republicans don't care if women die from abortion bans — but they don't want you to know about it
Women will keep dying, but the GOP is working hard to destroy the evidence
www.salon.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no
December 4, 2024 at 7:36 PM