Youn Jung Chung
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Youn Jung Chung
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Sensei was my favorite part of One Battle After Another.

He's single-handedly one of the most badass characters in the movie and so nonchalant about it. Like solidarity isn't a performance, it's just something he does.

He's part of an underground railroad and literally has friends everywhere.
2025 vibes- this banger
Childish Gambino - Lithonia (Audio)
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December 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I saw this insane reddit post about this bridge that will probably kill people in Pittsburgh.

People have been complaining for over a decade and it doesn't sound like there's any orchestrated movement to fix it.

It made me want to workshop a website that could drive collective action to fix it.
December 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
This week I accidentally coded a website to ID lead pipes in an hour without having Python or an IDE installed on my laptop.

And then just tonight, I again vibe-coded a "Tail-Risk Convexity Screener" in an hour without any expertise and still without Python or an IDE.
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Kawaiicon brilliantly merges cybersecurity's transparency with public health after installing a real-time, DIY CO2 monitoring "antivirus" system. Hacker conference utilizes technical skills to provide the needed data for making informed personal risk assessments, effectively closing major info gap.
This Hacker Conference Installed a Literal Anti-Virus Monitoring System
At New Zealand's Kawaiican cybersecurity convention, organizers hacked together a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.
www.wired.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Fun fact about the Tao te Ching- it came from political collapse, the breakdown of the Zhou dynasty, 400 BCE!

There was famine, violence, elite infighting, loss of trust, and collapsing institutions.

So it's about why societies break and how to govern without adding more chaos. 📖
November 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Solidarity is the most powerful tool we have in the face of authoritarianism.

It's on all of us to stand with each other, stand up for each other, and refuse to accept the fear and division the White House is trying to exploit and use against us.

🎥 Matt Todd
November 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It's been a rough 72 hours. I've gotten moral injuries from opposite sides of the world. 🤣

The worst part of this year has been the nonstop moral injuries.

Even worse when we might be repeating the same mistakes, decades over decades.

Feeling pretty Rogue One these days. 😭

Remember self-care 🛌
November 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/SQ0LTb0
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Spotify is helping ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. Stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops running ads for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
November 21, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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As we know I have Strong Feelings about academic journals expecting free peer review, charging people to publish, and charging people to read. This article framing that as part of a 'triple tax' on scientific research is really interesting!
The Triple Tax on U.S. Scientific Research
Opinion | The hidden economics behind federal research funding causes Americans to pay three times for the same body of research.
undark.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Sensei was my favorite part of One Battle After Another.

He's single-handedly one of the most badass characters in the movie and so nonchalant about it. Like solidarity isn't a performance, it's just something he does.

He's part of an underground railroad and literally has friends everywhere.
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by the Trump administration. n.pr/3KcqSNg
How could Trump interfere in the midterms? Here's what voting officials are watching
Less than a year from the midterm elections, state and local voting officials from both major political parties are actively preparing for the possibility of interference by the Trump administration.
n.pr
November 21, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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📢 BREAKING 📢
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: www.eff.org/press/relea...
EFF Demands Answers About ICE-Spotting App Takedowns
SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) today to uncover information about the federal government demanding that
www.eff.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I've been horrified to see this bs repeating here in New Zealand.

Like the same politics in the US and NYC, is somehow almost literally parallel to what's going on here in NZ too and it's honestly a little terrifying.

Trying my best to do something about it. 💪
It's being reported that New Zealand has banned puberty blockers for transgender youth. I removed New Zealand from my recommendations to families fleeing a while back after the far right saw a surge in power in the country.

Sad day for NZ trans youth.
November 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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NOW UPDATED: @meganpiont.bsky.social's "How to report ICE" zine includes the ✨new ICE hotline number for NYC✨

For those new to this type of guide: "SALUTE" is an acronym to help us remember what steps to take.
November 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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On the multiplier effect of @socialists.nyc & allies’ electoral campaigns and the monster roster they’re bringing into 2026.

Really one for the @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social files: I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

(w/alt text, this deserves reach!)
November 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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The government is throwing tons of taxpayer money "at this idea that they can somehow collect and organize everything that they know about us and only use it for good,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @NOTUS.org. “We ought to be very, very skeptical of this.” www.notus.org/immigration...
ICE Detention and Surveillance Translate Into Hundreds of Millions for Companies
“We've never seen anything like this before,” Geo Group founder George Zoley said.
www.notus.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."
November 5, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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*This* is why they are freaking out about Zohran Mamdani.
Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office -- one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.
June 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM