Tribalmoon
@materobscura.bsky.social
I’m an Indigenous advocate now working as an AI ethicist, focused on the Alignment Problem and its intersection with culture. My advocacy work is now primarily in Indigenous data sovereignty.
Public-facing writing: https://medium.com/@mater.obscura
Public-facing writing: https://medium.com/@mater.obscura
¡Welcome to Native American Heritage Month, y feliz Día de los Muertos!
This month we acknowledge the sacrifices, past and present, of Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian peoples, and celebrate their inextricable contributions to American life and culture.
#Indigenous #Indigisky
This month we acknowledge the sacrifices, past and present, of Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian peoples, and celebrate their inextricable contributions to American life and culture.
#Indigenous #Indigisky
November 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
¡Welcome to Native American Heritage Month, y feliz Día de los Muertos!
This month we acknowledge the sacrifices, past and present, of Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian peoples, and celebrate their inextricable contributions to American life and culture.
#Indigenous #Indigisky
This month we acknowledge the sacrifices, past and present, of Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian peoples, and celebrate their inextricable contributions to American life and culture.
#Indigenous #Indigisky
Happy Indigenous Peoples Days! Here is something I created for this year that highlights the origins of the day, the states that stand with us, and its current legal status. If you'd like to learn more about our people, find me and my writing at: medium.com/@mater.obscura
#Indigisky #Indigenous
#Indigisky #Indigenous
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Happy Indigenous Peoples Days! Here is something I created for this year that highlights the origins of the day, the states that stand with us, and its current legal status. If you'd like to learn more about our people, find me and my writing at: medium.com/@mater.obscura
#Indigisky #Indigenous
#Indigisky #Indigenous
What a damning article. I decided to block & ignore any entertainer that went, & will do the same to entertainers who go in the future. My lone voice doesn't matter in the larger scheme, but it does my soul good to know my orbit favors integrity while the world is aflame.
"To paraphrase TS Eliot: and was it worth it after all?" writes Guardian columnist Hannah Jane Parkinson.
"A question to ponder for the comedians who have taken the coin of a government once described unequivocally as 'the worst of the worst' by a human rights advocacy organization."
"A question to ponder for the comedians who have taken the coin of a government once described unequivocally as 'the worst of the worst' by a human rights advocacy organization."
‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
What a damning article. I decided to block & ignore any entertainer that went, & will do the same to entertainers who go in the future. My lone voice doesn't matter in the larger scheme, but it does my soul good to know my orbit favors integrity while the world is aflame.
Good evening! I have penned two more articles, this time on Indigenous Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Please have a look, and pass the word around. :) #Indigisky #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty
The Struggle for Indigenous Sovereignty
How Indigenous Nations resisted erasure, and why recognition still fails to define us
medium.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Good evening! I have penned two more articles, this time on Indigenous Sovereignty and Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Please have a look, and pass the word around. :) #Indigisky #Indigenous #NativeAmerican #Sovereignty #DataSovereignty
Instead of empowering Palestinians to govern themselves, the plan inserts foreign technocrats, gives Israel veto power through “milestones,” then places Trump himself in the literal chair of authority. It’s the opposite of self-determination - it’s colonial stewardship dressed up as redevelopment. 🍉
BREAKING: Trump says Israel would have "full backing" of U.S. to defeat Hamas if it doesn't accept the White House's proposed peace deal.
Live updates: Trump gives Israel ‘full backing’ to destroy Hamas if new Gaza peace plan rejected
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss ending the war in Gaza as Israel grows increasingly isolated.
bit.ly
September 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Instead of empowering Palestinians to govern themselves, the plan inserts foreign technocrats, gives Israel veto power through “milestones,” then places Trump himself in the literal chair of authority. It’s the opposite of self-determination - it’s colonial stewardship dressed up as redevelopment. 🍉
I'm sorry, was this about US/ICE, or Saudi Arabia? ➡️ "A recent U.S. State Department report on Saudi Arabia's [...] record in 2024 listed [...] 'arbitrary or unlawful [...] disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, and serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom,'"
The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.
Marc Maron, Human Rights Watch and others slam Saudi comedy festival
The participation of big name funnymen, including Dave Chappelle, Aziz Ansari and Kevin Hart, provoked criticism from fellow comedians and human rights groups.
n.pr
September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm sorry, was this about US/ICE, or Saudi Arabia? ➡️ "A recent U.S. State Department report on Saudi Arabia's [...] record in 2024 listed [...] 'arbitrary or unlawful [...] disappearances, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, and serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom,'"
The optics are devastating. States know cameras are rolling, and walking out en masse says to the world: “This man does not speak with legitimacy.” For Netanyahu, who thrives on projecting strength, the isolation will sting worse than any resolution or report.
The majority of the UN walked out of the General Assembly hall as Netanyahu, representing Israel, tried to brag about his criminal actions in Gaza and the region, loud booing ensued leaving Netanyahu visibly shaking in anger.
September 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The optics are devastating. States know cameras are rolling, and walking out en masse says to the world: “This man does not speak with legitimacy.” For Netanyahu, who thrives on projecting strength, the isolation will sting worse than any resolution or report.
This tells us two things: how brittle the façade of power is, & how desperately the world wants someone to remind it that courage still exists.
There’s something deeply ironic here too. She’s mocked endlessly for being “just a kid,” but this "kid" was enough to shift state-level military calculus.
There’s something deeply ironic here too. She’s mocked endlessly for being “just a kid,” but this "kid" was enough to shift state-level military calculus.
Human rights defender Greta Thunberg: "I am not scared of Israel, I am scared of a world that has seemingly lost all sense of humanity. What we are doing here is trying to show there is some humanity left. That there are still people willing to step up when all other means fail." #3E
September 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This tells us two things: how brittle the façade of power is, & how desperately the world wants someone to remind it that courage still exists.
There’s something deeply ironic here too. She’s mocked endlessly for being “just a kid,” but this "kid" was enough to shift state-level military calculus.
There’s something deeply ironic here too. She’s mocked endlessly for being “just a kid,” but this "kid" was enough to shift state-level military calculus.
Huzzah! I have published my first Medium article. This is the first hybrid academic/blog I've created. I pulled on my academic studies and lived experience as an Indigenous woman to craft an essay about the language of Indigenous identity. Here's the hoping it's well received! #Indigenous #Medium 🪶
The Language of Indigenous Identity
How Indigenous peoples reclaimed the right to self-identify , and why language still matters.
medium.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Huzzah! I have published my first Medium article. This is the first hybrid academic/blog I've created. I pulled on my academic studies and lived experience as an Indigenous woman to craft an essay about the language of Indigenous identity. Here's the hoping it's well received! #Indigenous #Medium 🪶
Netanyahu nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize made me laugh out loud. Then I remembered we live in a moment where a genocidal war criminal can nominate a fascist autocratic demagogue, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee might actually entertain it. That's not funny. @nytimes.com #GiftArticle
Trump and Netanyahu Meet Amid Gaza Cease-Fire Negotiations
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Netanyahu nominating Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize made me laugh out loud. Then I remembered we live in a moment where a genocidal war criminal can nominate a fascist autocratic demagogue, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee might actually entertain it. That's not funny. @nytimes.com #GiftArticle
🧪 The NEET–incel–blackpill pathway isn't just a product of internet culture, it’s a cultural feedback loop rooted in systemic abandonment. We are watching a new class of ideologically disenfranchised youth emerge, not from fanaticism, but from weaponized apathy. This isn’t just radicalization.
Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care
A growing number of incels are NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). That should concern us all.
arstechnica.com
May 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🧪 The NEET–incel–blackpill pathway isn't just a product of internet culture, it’s a cultural feedback loop rooted in systemic abandonment. We are watching a new class of ideologically disenfranchised youth emerge, not from fanaticism, but from weaponized apathy. This isn’t just radicalization.
🤣 MAGA “Jesus" is less a sandal-wearing revolutionary flipping tables in temples & more a white suburban dad with anger management issues, a gun rack & a DUI. What better way to prove you're full of Christian love than rage-screaming at software for questioning your soul’s alignment (✅Lawful Evil).
MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was up in arms after X's AI chatbot Grok stated that her actions "contradict Christian values."
MTG Furiously Lashes Out At Musk's AI Chatbot After It Questions If She's A True Christian
www.comicsands.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🤣 MAGA “Jesus" is less a sandal-wearing revolutionary flipping tables in temples & more a white suburban dad with anger management issues, a gun rack & a DUI. What better way to prove you're full of Christian love than rage-screaming at software for questioning your soul’s alignment (✅Lawful Evil).
Structural oversight? DOGE'ed. Families have no alternatives. Institutions get more protection than the people they harm. This isn’t just policy failure, it’s about whose bodies are protected, & whose are disposable. Tell me again how MAGA “protects children" & are about "family." @propublica.org
A Teacher Dragged a 6-Year-Old With Autism by His Ankle. Federal Civil Rights Officials Might Not Do Anything.
The Garrison School is part of a special education district that had students arrested at the highest rate in the country. It had pledged to change how it disciplines kids after a ProPublica-Chicago T...
www.propublica.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Structural oversight? DOGE'ed. Families have no alternatives. Institutions get more protection than the people they harm. This isn’t just policy failure, it’s about whose bodies are protected, & whose are disposable. Tell me again how MAGA “protects children" & are about "family." @propublica.org
🧪 RFKj wants to build a parallel institutional reality, using “health sovereignty” & "systemic reform" to mask a coordinated dismantling of global health governance - science optional, diplomacy adversarial, and “wellness” a shield for ideological purification. @politico.com @who.int #Resist
RFK Jr. calls for global health cooperation outside the World Health Organization
The health secretary also rejected a pandemic agreement member countries of the U.N. agency just adopted.
www.politico.com
May 20, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🧪 RFKj wants to build a parallel institutional reality, using “health sovereignty” & "systemic reform" to mask a coordinated dismantling of global health governance - science optional, diplomacy adversarial, and “wellness” a shield for ideological purification. @politico.com @who.int #Resist
This isn't a principled stance, but a personal proximity pushing policy. Melania is one of the most deepfaked women online. Trump isn't known for compassion toward women. He is known for retaliating when what's “his” is threatened. It doesn't invalidate the positive utility of the law. It's overdue.
Trump signs bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakes
Trump signs bill criminalizing revenge porn and explicit deepfakes | TechCrunch
President Donald Trump is expected to sign the Take It Down Act today, a bipartisan law that enacts stricter penalties for distributing non-consensual explicit images, including deepfakes and revenge porn.
techcrunch.com
May 19, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This isn't a principled stance, but a personal proximity pushing policy. Melania is one of the most deepfaked women online. Trump isn't known for compassion toward women. He is known for retaliating when what's “his” is threatened. It doesn't invalidate the positive utility of the law. It's overdue.
There’s no "Stage 5" in standard cancer staging. Ofc, we don’t look to the Trumps for intelligence. To mock Biden’s cancer & Jill’s creds fits their worldview: everything a reality show & human suffering mere set dressings. This isn’t politics, it’s cruelty as branding - brand they wear with pride.
May 19, 2025 at 1:24 AM
There’s no "Stage 5" in standard cancer staging. Ofc, we don’t look to the Trumps for intelligence. To mock Biden’s cancer & Jill’s creds fits their worldview: everything a reality show & human suffering mere set dressings. This isn’t politics, it’s cruelty as branding - brand they wear with pride.
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I saw this headline & didn’t blink b/c we’ve crossed the Rubicon of absurdity. We live in an era where satire & policy are indistinguishable. The horror isn't the mistake of believing this headline, it’s in the plausibility. The Onion didn’t write a clever joke. They wrote a future headline. #Resist
“The discrimination these people are facing is absolutely sick—they’re literally hunting them down,” said Trump
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Trump Grants Refugee Status To Former SS Guards
WASHINGTON—Condemning what he described as the disturbing and unjust treatment of the group, President Donald Trump granted refugee status this week to former SS guards. “The discrimination these people are facing is absolutely sick—they’re literally hunting them down,” said Trump, who greeted the small group of centenarians on the tarmac at Dulles International Airport and […]
theonion.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I saw this headline & didn’t blink b/c we’ve crossed the Rubicon of absurdity. We live in an era where satire & policy are indistinguishable. The horror isn't the mistake of believing this headline, it’s in the plausibility. The Onion didn’t write a clever joke. They wrote a future headline. #Resist
AlphaEvolve is pressing against the membrane of AGI. It’s alarmingly close to something we might call proto-AGI. If DeepMind added a cognitive scaffolding around it then they’d have a machine that can think better than we can about how to think better than we do. Exciting! 🧪 #Science #STEM #AI #AGI
Google DeepMind creates super-advanced AI that can invent new algorithms
AlphaEvolve has already made Google’s data centers more efficient and improved Tensor chips.
arstechnica.com
May 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM
If they were insulated, privately funded, & openly discriminatory as a matter of doctrine, fighting them may feel like forcing a 🟡 into a 🟦. B/c they swim in public waters while trying to build private moats, they can’t pretend it’s about sacred values. It’s about power, image & structural leverage.
Yeshiva University in New York has once again banned its LGBTQ student club, saying the group’s actions are “antithetical” to the Jewish educational institution’s religious values.
Yeshiva University bans LGBTQ student club again after yearslong legal battle
The New York-based Jewish educational institution reversed course this month after it had reached a settlement recognizing the student group in March.
nbcnews.to
May 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
If they were insulated, privately funded, & openly discriminatory as a matter of doctrine, fighting them may feel like forcing a 🟡 into a 🟦. B/c they swim in public waters while trying to build private moats, they can’t pretend it’s about sacred values. It’s about power, image & structural leverage.
It's a world tour of elite self-dealing wrapped in palace linens & shielded by private jets paid by the world’s most unaccountable wealth. In truth, it's The American Grifter’s Roadshow, sponsored by authoritarian opulence & glazed in oil money. Not diplomacy, but influence-peddling in a gold suit.
President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia is focused on economic deals — and compliments to the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, NBC News’ Peter Alexander reports.
May 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's a world tour of elite self-dealing wrapped in palace linens & shielded by private jets paid by the world’s most unaccountable wealth. In truth, it's The American Grifter’s Roadshow, sponsored by authoritarian opulence & glazed in oil money. Not diplomacy, but influence-peddling in a gold suit.
Simulation Hypothesis Meets Grumpy Realism
If this were a sim:
❌ The resolution is weirdly high for rocks, but very low for customer service empathy.
❌ No patch notes. No admin contact.
❌ Terrible RNG: why do some people get 3 yachts and others get 3 autoimmune diseases?
Or... we're playtesters.
If this were a sim:
❌ The resolution is weirdly high for rocks, but very low for customer service empathy.
❌ No patch notes. No admin contact.
❌ Terrible RNG: why do some people get 3 yachts and others get 3 autoimmune diseases?
Or... we're playtesters.
Gravity Could Be Proof We’re Living in a Computer Simulation, New Theory Suggests https://gizmodo.com/gravity-could-be-proof-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation-new-theory-suggests-2000601707
Gravity Could Be Proof We’re Living in a Computer Simulation, New Theory Suggests
Gravity may not be a fundamental force of nature, but a byproduct of the universe streamlining information like a cosmic computer.
gizmodo.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Simulation Hypothesis Meets Grumpy Realism
If this were a sim:
❌ The resolution is weirdly high for rocks, but very low for customer service empathy.
❌ No patch notes. No admin contact.
❌ Terrible RNG: why do some people get 3 yachts and others get 3 autoimmune diseases?
Or... we're playtesters.
If this were a sim:
❌ The resolution is weirdly high for rocks, but very low for customer service empathy.
❌ No patch notes. No admin contact.
❌ Terrible RNG: why do some people get 3 yachts and others get 3 autoimmune diseases?
Or... we're playtesters.
Propaganda laced in nationalist sugar: “Bring jobs back! America First! Protect our own!” Then SB owners, who rely on China for base materials because no other pipeline exists, realize it's only the tech oligarchs & legacy corps who offshored everything & hedged supply chains being protected.
Small-business owners facing steep China tariffs are laying off staff and withdrawing personal savings, trying to hold on and hoping for a trade deal
How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: ‘Nobody in Power Seems to Care’
Owners are laying off staff and withdrawing personal savings, trying to hold on and hoping for a trade deal with China.
buff.ly
May 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Propaganda laced in nationalist sugar: “Bring jobs back! America First! Protect our own!” Then SB owners, who rely on China for base materials because no other pipeline exists, realize it's only the tech oligarchs & legacy corps who offshored everything & hedged supply chains being protected.
It’s not even about cost-cutting. It’s about ideological purification: clearing out career scientists, public health defenders, & experts who won't bend the knee/kiss the ring. A state-sanctioned intellectual purge, w/ life & death consequences disproportionately hitting the elderly, poor, & sick 🤢
Trump’s Latest NIH Purge Kills the National Cancer Hotline https://gizmodo.com/trumps-latest-nih-purge-claims-another-200-jobs-and-the-cancer-hotline-2000598598
Trump’s Latest NIH Purge Kills the National Cancer Hotline
Roughly 200 more employees at the National Institutes of Health will be laid off, reportedly to balance out recent rehires.
gizmodo.com
May 12, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It’s not even about cost-cutting. It’s about ideological purification: clearing out career scientists, public health defenders, & experts who won't bend the knee/kiss the ring. A state-sanctioned intellectual purge, w/ life & death consequences disproportionately hitting the elderly, poor, & sick 🤢
Firing Shira Perlmutter & Dr. Hayden, 2 of the most credentialed, principled guardians of American intellectual infrastructure, because they refused to let Elon Musk rummage through the national IP vault like it’s a clearance bin? That’s not just unethical. That’s a State-sponsored epistemic coup.
Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights
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May 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Firing Shira Perlmutter & Dr. Hayden, 2 of the most credentialed, principled guardians of American intellectual infrastructure, because they refused to let Elon Musk rummage through the national IP vault like it’s a clearance bin? That’s not just unethical. That’s a State-sponsored epistemic coup.