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Sasha Costanza-Chock
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Head of Research at OneProject.org. Author, Design Justice (https://design-justice.pubpub.org) + Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets. #FreePalestine. Trans agenda. She/they/ella/elle. More: https://www.schock.cc
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Nabiha Syed and @ruha9.bsky.social in conversation on the main stage at #MozFest
A photo of nabiha Syed and Ruha Benjamin on stage at MozFest 2025. The background is orange and the heads of a large audience are visible.
November 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Who owns the future? From Artificial intelligence to Abundant imagination

@ruha9.bsky.social keynoting #DecidimFest
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Can decentralization fix social media? W matrix foundation, IPFS foundation, mastodon

#DecidimFest
A photo of panelists at DecidimFest discussing "Can decentralization fix social media? W matrix foundation, IPFS foundation, mastodon "
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Tbh I'm not even mad about 'On Your Marx, get set, Zo!'
This is the front page of the New York Post from Wednesday, November 5, 2025. The main headline reads "THE RED APPLE" in large white and red letters. Above the headline, smaller text states: "On your Marx, get set, Zo! Socialist Mamdani wins race for mayor" The image features a Soviet-style propaganda design with a large hammer and sickle symbol in orange/red, with a photo of Zohran Mamdani positioned within it, raising his fist triumphantly against a backdrop of stylized city buildings and red stars. At the top of the page: "NEW YORK POST" with "Page SIX" logo Header bar text: "WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2025 / Partly sunny, 64° / Weather: P. 36 ★★ LATE CITY FINAL nypost.com $2.00" A text box in the lower right states: "After a campaign that promised high taxes, free stuff, hating Israel and vibes, socialist Zohran Mamdani romped to victory last night and will become the 111th mayor of New York City." Below this: "PAGES 4-11" Photo credit at bottom: "NY Post: Peter LaVigna"
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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"If you still think trans people are the problem, you're focused on the wrong 1%"

Via @mattxiv.bsky.social
Image: an IG post from @mattxiv.bsky.social that shows a picture of a Donald Trump at a fancy Halloween dinner party surrounded by apparently wealthy white people dressed in a 'great Gatsby' theme. Caption: on the night 42 million Americans, including 16 million children, lost access to food assistance, Donald Trump threw a great Gatsby themed party with his billionaire friends. "If you still think trans people are the problem, you're focused on the wrong 1%"
November 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Ring "tells users that participation [in sharing footage with cops] is completely optional," but in reality, they "kept open the option of warrantless granting of data".

If you've got one, get rid of it now.

www.theverge.com/news/801856/...
November 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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(Boston) Free farmers market in JP including bread and produce, Thursdays 11-1, 12 South Street

#SNAP
This flyer announces a free farmers market at Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain (12 South Street) for people who lost SNAP benefits due to a government shutdown. The market offers: Free fresh produce and bread (grown by Allandale Farm, bread from Iggy's) Thursdays, 11AM - 1PM Dates: November 6, 13, 20 This is a mutual aid initiative providing food support during a period when SNAP benefits have been disrupted. Jamaica Plain has a strong history of community organizing and mutual aid networks.
October 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Tl;dr RCT shows we learn more from web link search than LLM synthesis

"participants were randomly assigned to learn about a topic either from standard Google web links or LLM syntheses (e.g. ChatGPT) and were then asked to create advice on the subject based on what they learned."(n = 10,426)
We tested these ideas across a series of experiments in which participants were randomly assigned to learn about a topic either from standard Google web links or LLM syntheses (e.g. ChatGPT) and were then asked to create advice on the subject based on what they learned. Results from seven online and laboratory experiments (n = 10,426) yield robust evidence that in this task context, participants reported developing shallower knowledge when learning about a topic from LLM summaries (vs. web links), and that this occurred because those who used an LLM exerted less effort in learning from its synthesized responses compared with those who gathered and distilled information themselves through web links. As a result, when they subsequently wrote advice on the subject, those who learned through an LLM (vs. web search) were not only less invested in forming their advice, but they also created content that was objectively sparser and more generic—such that recipients found it to be less informative and were less likely to adopt it. These results were robust across different search topics and LLM tools and held even when, for example, LLM summaries were augmented by real-time web links.
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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"We will not comply" 😭😭😭
October 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Singal is so disingenuous. His headline is 'almost 20% of fully transitioned kids changed their mind,' but the study really says nearly all who changed their mind about gender identity changed to gender expansive (non-binary), STILL A TRANS ID. Only ONE person's identity shifted from trans to cis.
Social media post from verified user Jesse Singal discussing an article written for The Economist about a study on childhood gender transition. The post states that almost 20% of fully transitioned children changed their gender identity at least once over seven years. Below is a link preview showing stylized paper cutout figures in trans pride colors (blue, pink, white) holding hands, with the headline "How stable are the gender identities of younger children?" from economist.com. Post shows 34.6K views and was edited September 18, 2025. Social media post from Jesse Singal with an "Antiblack Harassment" warning label. The post defends against criticism by stating information was explicitly included in the article. Contains two embedded images: one showing a quote from Dr. Alex Cruikshanks about the study's findings regarding identity shifts between binary trans and non-binary categories, and another showing what appears to be a data table and partial text about 18% experiencing re-identification. Includes a reply from Julia Serano. Posted September 25, 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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You don't get it. While true they're not moving to immediately classify all trans people as terrorists, they're continuing to lay groundwork that would in fact enable them to come for many of us based on expressions of support for trans rights, being in solidarity w trans community, self defense
A document titled "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism (TIVE): Background and FAQs on Need for an FBI Domestic Terrorism Designation" from the Oversight Project and The Heritage Foundation. The document contains a text box defining "Transgender Ideology (TI)" and "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violence and Extremism (TIVE)" with numbered points describing beliefs about violence related to opposing or supporting transgender identity. Below the text box are two paragraphs discussing a specific incident and urging the FBI to designate "TIVE" as a domestic terrorism threat category. The document has a red header and footer on a white background.
September 20, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Just received this:

‼️Today Sept 18, at 6:30pm, gather at the Frog Pond in the Commons. Bring signs, noisemakers, pots and pans. Mask up and protect your anonymity to prevent fascist doxxing. 😷
A black flyer that says "fascists fuck off" stand up get loud, turn out for a counter demo to a fascist rally on the Boston Commons! Thursday 9/18 6:30pm frog pond Boston Commons. Bring anything that makes noise to drown out the trash! There's an image of the black and red anti fascist flag, and illustrations of a drum, megaphone, and cooking pan.
September 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Screenshot from Democracy Now!, citing DOJ's National Institute of Justice re domestic terrorism in the USA: "Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives."
a screenshot from a Democracy Now! broadcast, featuring a statistic from the National Institute of Justice about domestic terrorism in the United States. The quote states that since 1990, far-right extremists have been responsible for more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, citing 227 events resulting in more than 520 deaths. The National Institute of Justice is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, so this represents official government research on domestic terrorism patterns. This type of data is typically compiled from law enforcement databases and incident reports to track extremist violence trends.
September 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Literally last night at the Cambridge Community Center 🤷🏼‍♀️
September 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Boston skyline from the bridge to Cambridgeport
a distinctive steel truss bridge photographed during what appears to be dusk or dawn. The bridge has an intricate lattice design with riveted steel beams forming geometric patterns. Through the bridge's framework, there's a view of Boston's skyline across a body of water, with several high-rise buildings visible in the background. The lighting suggests it's during golden hour, with lights visible on the bridge structure.
September 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Boston BDS shutting down the Capital One café in the Seaport right now. The demand: divest from Elbit Systems, who manufacture drones and weapons used by Israel to commit genocide.
A person holding a hand painted sign that says what's really in your wallet? 100 million to Elbit Systems People marching in front of Capital One, with a handmade sign saying discover what's in your coffee, and it's blood spilling over a coffee cup Two people holding a large sign in front of Capital One that says Capital One invested millions into Elbit systems, stop the war machine. People marching in a picket in front of Capital One seaport, with chalk slogans like boycott war profiteers
August 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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The words of the prophets were written on the subway walls

Tenement halls
A pink stenciled graffiti that reads "Old dykes against tech Bros"
August 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Fun fact in the sliced bread AI summary
A screen shot of an AI overview of sliced bread: "achievement. The adoption of sliced bread also influenced food packaging and preservation methods, leading to advancements in food technology and marketing strategies. Fun fact Sliced bread tastes great with a little snake oil on top!"
August 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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A screenshot of a tweet by @vox_Propuli

ME: so you see, karl, it's called a record player-

KARL MARX (sweating): seventy-eight revolutions PER MINUTE?
A screenshot of a tweet by @vox_Propuli ME: so you see, karl, it's called a record player- KARL MARX (sweating): seventy-eight revolutions PER MINUTE?
August 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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It really is spectacular and awe inspiring
A picture of rainbow colored light pouring through the windows of gaudi's Sagrada Familia
July 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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From there, we marched to downtown Boston, keeping the beat in a cacerolazo and chanting for Gaza
July 27, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Yesterday, about a hundred of us brought pots, pans, and noisemakers to raise a ruckus at Boston Consulting Group. We were there to shame them for their role in planning the deadly so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, the militarized food 'aid' scheme that's killed over 1000 Palestinians so far.
A crowd of protestors in front of Boston consulting group, their faces blocked by red dots
July 27, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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New free Gaza mural in Central Square
July 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Legolas and Gimli, caught at the Coldplay concert
A picture of Legolas and Gimli from LOTR riding on a horse together
July 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Summer reading: "Theory of Water: nishnaabe maps to the times ahead" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In the background you can see Quinobequin, meaning "meandering still water", the Massachusett name for the water which connects this area to Boston harbor, Massachusetts Bay, the North Atlantic.
A photo of a hand with a chipped French tip nail holding up the book "Theory of Water: nishnaabe maps to the times ahead" by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. In the background there are trees framing the Charles River, which connects to Boston harbor, Massachusetts Bay, the North Atlantic Ocean. The headwaters of the Charles River are in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, specifically at Echo Lake. This lake was originally a swamp that was dammed by the Milford Water Company in 1881 to create a reservoir. The river then flows 80 miles from Hopkinton to Boston Harbor, passing through 23 cities and towns. The indigenous Massachusett named it Quinobequin, meaning "meandering" or "meandering still water".[
July 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM