monika bielskyte
@monikabielskyte.bsky.social
Founder @protopiafutures. Futurist in Residence @Nike. From SciFi to reality, prototyping science-informed, life-centric, joyful visions of tomorrow.
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hewwo 🤪 banned for 3 days bc i called a tech bro afraid of public transit a pansy ass bitch. anyway they're on trains in my city trying to promote eugenics
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
hewwo 🤪 banned for 3 days bc i called a tech bro afraid of public transit a pansy ass bitch. anyway they're on trains in my city trying to promote eugenics
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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Absolutely brilliant, dead-on piece by @anandwrites.bsky.social re: Epstein and the elites who rule us. (I use that term purposefully.) So much self-regard, so much posturing and self-dealing, so little if any actual compassion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Absolutely brilliant, dead-on piece by @anandwrites.bsky.social re: Epstein and the elites who rule us. (I use that term purposefully.) So much self-regard, so much posturing and self-dealing, so little if any actual compassion.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
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I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I had a popular account with a valuable audience and my Twitter payout was $80 a month-ish, to the point where I disabled monetization instead of uploading my ID. Payouts are only material if you live in a developing country, so “guy in Nigeria posting right-wing Amerislop” has taken over the site.
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Fascism built in.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia cites Stormfront — a neo-Nazi forum — dozens of times, study finds
An analysis by researchers at Cornell University is the first comprehensive look at Grokipedia since Musk launched his project last month.
www.nbcnews.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Fascism built in.
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Every single person he is nice to is someone who demonstrates being able to wield power. Every person he is not nice to is someone who cannot.
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Every single person he is nice to is someone who demonstrates being able to wield power. Every person he is not nice to is someone who cannot.
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The only thing Donald Trump likes is power. He likes people who can amass it. People who can wield it. He likes being in photos with it. So he can osmose it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The only thing Donald Trump likes is power. He likes people who can amass it. People who can wield it. He likes being in photos with it. So he can osmose it.
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No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.
Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
No single person, especially someone with zero expertise, should be able to just change the CDC website on a whim. The fact that federal health and science pages are no longer trustable is a catastrophe for public health and democracy.
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
New from me: I talked to CDC staffers about the new vaccines and autism page. They said things like:
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
“The best way I can put it is it feels like we’re on a hijacked airplane.”
“I think people are starting to see that we can’t fulfill our mission here.”
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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There are currently too many villains named Epstein
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
There are currently too many villains named Epstein
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@mattpolprof.bsky.social wrote about how the core emotional appeal of reactionary thought is it lets you feel like a conquering king and put-upon victim at the same time
a border patrol agent literally crying to the cops about being doxed? yes. this.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-modern-f...
a border patrol agent literally crying to the cops about being doxed? yes. this.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-modern-f...
November 15, 2025 at 7:48 PM
@mattpolprof.bsky.social wrote about how the core emotional appeal of reactionary thought is it lets you feel like a conquering king and put-upon victim at the same time
a border patrol agent literally crying to the cops about being doxed? yes. this.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-modern-f...
a border patrol agent literally crying to the cops about being doxed? yes. this.
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-modern-f...
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“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
“Parents who, after consulting with a doctor and a psychologist, allow their 15-year-old child to transition commit child abuse. The child is too young to consent!”
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
--Megyn R. Kelly
“Grown men who have sex with your 15-year-old? Big whoop! It’s not like she’s 8. LOL!”
--Also Megyn R. Kelly
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This is such a well-argued and thorough rebuttal to the reflexive assumption that only liberals and feminists have agency in the discourse about masculinity.
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
Swiping Left on MAGA
The thing about a ‘no girls allowed’ treehouse is it doesn’t have any girls in it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 21, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is such a well-argued and thorough rebuttal to the reflexive assumption that only liberals and feminists have agency in the discourse about masculinity.
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
I especially like the point of how trying to pander to childish misogyny will only backfire.
www.liberalcurrents.com/swiping-left...
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The "advice" offered by manfluencers couldn't be better-designed to keep young men sexless and lonely. I'd argue that is the goal. Happy men don't hand over their paychecks to "pick-up artists." They need to keep them lonely, to keep selling them the fake "solutions."
www.salon.com/2024/04/12/l...
www.salon.com/2024/04/12/l...
Latest "masculinity influencer" leads his followers into loneliness
Self-described "alpha male" Nick Adams gives young men "advice" that will alienate them even further
www.salon.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The "advice" offered by manfluencers couldn't be better-designed to keep young men sexless and lonely. I'd argue that is the goal. Happy men don't hand over their paychecks to "pick-up artists." They need to keep them lonely, to keep selling them the fake "solutions."
www.salon.com/2024/04/12/l...
www.salon.com/2024/04/12/l...
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Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
www.psypost.org
January 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
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Men would rather destroy civilization than evolve.
January 18, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Men would rather destroy civilization than evolve.
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When u miscalculate that aligning yourself with men’s power will neutralize the fact that society sees your gender as an inferior class.
November 15, 2025 at 8:28 PM
When u miscalculate that aligning yourself with men’s power will neutralize the fact that society sees your gender as an inferior class.
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You can be a woman head of state of a whole ass country and the lowliest nothing of a man will make sure you dont forget.
November 15, 2025 at 8:33 PM
You can be a woman head of state of a whole ass country and the lowliest nothing of a man will make sure you dont forget.
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A lot of the people hand wringing about the crisis among young men should probably be using those hands to dismantle the things actually harming them even if it’s their entertainment.
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A lot of the people hand wringing about the crisis among young men should probably be using those hands to dismantle the things actually harming them even if it’s their entertainment.
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The amount of AI used for necromancy is unsettling. There's worse use cases, like decisions over who gets to keep living, but there's something especially ominous about AI companies marketing products that essentially let people create undying simulacra of their loved ones, subscription implied.
November 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The amount of AI used for necromancy is unsettling. There's worse use cases, like decisions over who gets to keep living, but there's something especially ominous about AI companies marketing products that essentially let people create undying simulacra of their loved ones, subscription implied.
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So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.
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What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.
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