Joby Gelbspan
@outgrained.bsky.social
Strategic research & finance for anti-oppressive movements & communities. Consultant: https://corporateaccountability.org/, Treasurer: https://resist.org/, Member: https://www.idha-nyc.org/. Personal acct, she/her, Philly. Words: https://www.outgrained.com
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Every bit of this:
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
December 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every bit of this:
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
"I do understand: you want permission. ....You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you."
EVERY time, someone is like "I just use it to" "I mean otherwise X sucks SO much..."
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
(h/t @jacquelyngill.bsky.social)
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DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.”
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
Exclusive: 911 calls from migrant detention center highlight dire conditions
About 90 emergency 911 calls have been made from the Camp East Montana immigration detention center in El Paso, Texas, during the 15 weeks since it opened.
www.elpasotimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
DHS said that accusations of abuses in Camp East Montana are “clickbait.”
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
But 911 emergency calls from the massive detention center I obtained paint a different picture, with emergency being made for life-threatening illnesses and acute mental health crises.
My story:
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The Groundings Podcast, S3 E5: "The Anti-Black Pinnings of Ableism" feat. Dustin Gibson
Audio: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
Transcript: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
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#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Groundings Podcast, S3 E5: "The Anti-Black Pinnings of Ableism" feat. Dustin Gibson
Audio: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
Transcript: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
Audio: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
Transcript: groundings.simplecast.com/episodes/abl...
#IntroDisabilityJustice #BlackDisabilityPolitics #DisabilityJustice
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Take ACTION: Tell President Noboa to reject this unjust award and stand with the people of Ecuador, not Chevron
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
Tell President Noboa: Do Not Pay Chevron a Single Dime! | Amazon Watch
Tell President Noboa to stand with the people of Ecuador, not a corporation that poisoned them!
amazonwatch.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Take ACTION: Tell President Noboa to reject this unjust award and stand with the people of Ecuador, not Chevron
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
- the corporation that poisoned them! #CleanUpEcuador amazonwatch.org/take-action/...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Medical AI is not intrinsically alienating or harmful. It is alienating and harmful when it is designed and deployed within health-capitalist systems to augment their capitalist goals. It will remain so until we force major structural changes. 3/
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Medical AI is not intrinsically alienating or harmful. It is alienating and harmful when it is designed and deployed within health-capitalist systems to augment their capitalist goals. It will remain so until we force major structural changes. 3/
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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This is a poem I wrote in 2021 as part of this essay on the vaccine apartheid. It is so depressing how in more ways than we can count, for more and more people, this earth is deliberately being made a mass grave. One day, "some will die" may become "all must die".
folukeafrica.com/the-vaccine-...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is a poem I wrote in 2021 as part of this essay on the vaccine apartheid. It is so depressing how in more ways than we can count, for more and more people, this earth is deliberately being made a mass grave. One day, "some will die" may become "all must die".
folukeafrica.com/the-vaccine-...
folukeafrica.com/the-vaccine-...
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Love to see the appetite for action against the corporations facilitating US fascism. But slapping your own, weaker, demands on a handful of companies already under boycott is not the way. E.g. the Target boycott demands investment in Black biz & HBCUs, and Dell is a target for Palestinian BDS.
A Gen Z-led advocacy group announced a boycott campaign targeting major corporations “that enable, profit from, or directly collaborate with ICE.” Beyond the Ballot launched “Not With My Dollars: ICE Out of My Wallet” just days before Black Friday kicks off.
Boycott Campaign Targets Companies Tied to ICE Ahead of Black Friday
The Not With My Dollars campaign takes aim at Amazon, Whole Foods, Dell, Microsoft, Home Depot, Spotify, and Target.
truthout.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Love to see the appetite for action against the corporations facilitating US fascism. But slapping your own, weaker, demands on a handful of companies already under boycott is not the way. E.g. the Target boycott demands investment in Black biz & HBCUs, and Dell is a target for Palestinian BDS.
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"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"My mentor always tells me, 'Kim, dogs don’t bark at parked cars." They’re coming after critical race theory, 1619, intersectionality because these ideas mobilized people. They gave them the language to actually articulate what they were seeing with their own eyes," says Kimberlé Crenshaw.
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“Nearly one hundred people had just one item on their list as they entered the Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper worth a little less than a dollar.”
Day laborer organizers protest Home Depot, pressuring it to "scrape ICE out of their stores."
Over one hundred community members gathered at the Home Depot in Monrovia Saturday to pressure the company to stop the immigration raids taking place at its locations.
www.latimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“Nearly one hundred people had just one item on their list as they entered the Home Depot in Monrovia on Saturday: a small ice scraper worth a little less than a dollar.”
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
- Right-click
- Unpin
Gone!
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I saw this on Maddow the other day. This campaign needs to go national. Boycott AT&T until they rescind their ICE/CBP contracts. Petition here --> actionnetwork.org/petitions/at...
November 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I saw this on Maddow the other day. This campaign needs to go national. Boycott AT&T until they rescind their ICE/CBP contracts. Petition here --> actionnetwork.org/petitions/at...
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6. In the interim, it is unclear how or if ICE detainees are receiving medication or obtaining outside medical care. According to two federal class action lawsuits, numerous ICE detainees have not been receiving medically necessary care since October 3.
EXCLUSIVE: How the Trump administration sparked a health crisis for ICE detainees
An abrupt decision on October 3 left thousands of ICE detainees without access to vital medical care — a crisis that is ongoing.
popular.info
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
6. In the interim, it is unclear how or if ICE detainees are receiving medication or obtaining outside medical care. According to two federal class action lawsuits, numerous ICE detainees have not been receiving medically necessary care since October 3.
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FYI - AI is now auto-enabled in gmail by default. Here's how to turn it off:
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#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
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#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
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In the General Tab, scroll down to "Smart Features" and UNC…
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November 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
FYI - AI is now auto-enabled in gmail by default. Here's how to turn it off:
www.tumblr.com/imonthemooni...
#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
www.tumblr.com/imonthemooni...
#fuckai #allmyhomieshateai #googlewtf
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I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
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Indigenous people at #COP30 want change and power, not just visibility.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tussles break out between protesters and security at Cop30 in Brazil
Dozens storm venue at climate conference that has encouraged NGOs and Indigenous groups to play unprecedented role in talks
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Indigenous people at #COP30 want change and power, not just visibility.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Andrea Pitzer has been a consistently grounding & clarifying voice throughout this past year, but this week's episode feels especially important in marking the latest inflection point on our collective descent into hell.
Trump's immigration policies may be echoing Nazi history, but that doesn't mean there's nothing we can do about it.
Why Trump Wants Chaos
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Andrea Pitzer has been a consistently grounding & clarifying voice throughout this past year, but this week's episode feels especially important in marking the latest inflection point on our collective descent into hell.
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Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
New from Bellingcat: “‘Pattern of Extreme Brutality’ — Tear gas, pepper balls among weapons used by federal agents at Illinois immigration protests.”
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Read the full investigation:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters
A judge recently issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents in the state, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz.
www.bellingcat.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Appreciate this coverage but it is hard to explain to people not in the Chicago area that THESE ARE NOT PROTESTS.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
This is people coming out of their homes, doing anything in their power to try to stop their neighbors from being kidnapped.
It is coming for your city next, please be prepared.
One year ago, a skinny, dirty, stray cat marched right in and made himself at home in my house & my heart. Today, we’re celebrating our 1st anniversary as a family. Happy Gotcha Day to Boo, my Halloween surprise!
October 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
One year ago, a skinny, dirty, stray cat marched right in and made himself at home in my house & my heart. Today, we’re celebrating our 1st anniversary as a family. Happy Gotcha Day to Boo, my Halloween surprise!
Nice way to support neighbors this year: in addition to candy, offer kids a bag of chips or pretzels too.
October 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Nice way to support neighbors this year: in addition to candy, offer kids a bag of chips or pretzels too.
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Rev Sekou isn't on here, but on FB he wrote this gem and it applies to all kind of things.
October 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Rev Sekou isn't on here, but on FB he wrote this gem and it applies to all kind of things.
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It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.
October 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.