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Studying the impact of tech on the most marginalized peoples informed by history, abolition, & my oversized heart. Made AlterConf & Fund Club. #STS #Sociology #PublicInterestTech #Tech #Surveillance #Inequality #AntiRacism #AntiCapitalist #AntiFascist
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Oh is it “dude posts about ephebophilia not being pedophilia and questions why we even have an age of consent” o’clock again?

BREAKING: SCOTUS conservatives block discovery relating to DOGE as part of a lawsuit over public records requests into the entity. The action was taken over the objections of Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson.

Help me I’m not good with numbers. Is it the sign of a bad economy when people have to finance their groceries?

That Dems are running after Elon Musk tells you everything about the state of the “opposition”. The man is a white supremacist, but they are willing to excuse that for potential money. They have no values they won’t shed for the rich.

Opinion | I have no meaningful relationships with Black people, Hispanic people, government workers, or women. Here's why Democrats should make a full push for Elon Musk to join their party.

My latest in @theguardian.com. It is not the nations on the travel ban that are a threat to US security. It is the US that robbed them of their wealth, destroyed their institutions & environment, & then denied them participation in safety built at their expense. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

More Solomon Burke this morning 💕 m.youtube.com/watch?v=Edaz...

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

We did not have any of this drama when Joe Biden’s clone was president.

Cheese you can rely on. Cheese that will pick you up at the airport.

authoritarian sociopathy eroded what was left of American ethical norms making indiscriminate mass murder more palatable and THIS GUY'S PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT IT

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

“‘Shut up and code’ is the new management mantra in Silicon Valley, Luca Belli writes. “The (un)spoken goal is to have as few workers as possible who are as obedient as possible.” www.techpolicy.press/ai-gig-worke...

We're never getting out of this.

I made a trans brick purse for Pride. It's literally a brick. Celebrating the first Pride and 2025.

I love how much this season of Doctor Who is inclusive of disabled people. Why can’t all media be so representative?

Ughhh unisex shirts aren’t unisex, they make curveless people the default.

one of my favorite things about adulthood is when you do a Medical Thing and it’s silent for about 11 months and then you get an email saying that everything is NOT FINE and you better pay within 30 days

About halfway through this book about how housing affordability and availability impacts homelessness rates in the US. It’s an angle I haven’t seen discussed in as much depth before. app.thestorygraph.com/books/625ca1...

where are the thinkpieces about AI from undervalued entry-to-mid-level workers who are NOT engineers and also not visual artists or writers? people with the most mundane underpaid $50k a year jobs that are a catchall for several types of work? those are the takes i want to hear at this point

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1 in 4 pregnancies ends in miscarriage. If people do this, emergency services won’t be able to keep up. If every miscarriage is investigated, every woman will be a potential criminal. Travel will be restricted, felons can’t vote, and police departments and prisons will have to expand— Oh.

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

#ForTinu

nailed it lol

I’m getting word that the Democrats have a plan! ::holds hand to ear:: Oh, no, just their usual bullshit. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“It has become clear that our journey towards being carbon negative is a marathon, not a sprint.” — Microsoft Lol; since 2020 Microsoft’s total emissions have increased by 23.4%! What’s the race where you end up behind the start line?

Joke's on you. Can't have a midlife crisis if the rest of your life is already crisis.

pay close attention to the way we talk about about human beings in conversations about AI. in cases like this, exploited workers in other countries are not footnotes to the story, they are the story

Yet another example that so much tech is someone trying to recreate a mother/wife/girlfriend. I think I'd find this so much more compelling if any of these "mundane tasks" put the perspective of caregivers and carers first. So many of the most important things in life are very mundane.

Are Microsoft and their ilk doing *any* due diligence with their AI investments? “Builder.ai lacked true AI, instead utilising a group of Indian developers who were merely pretending to be bots writing code.” www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

“These Could be Our Children:” Israeli Women Opposing the War, an Interview #auspol www.counterpunch.org/2025/06/02/t...

We’ll end DEI and employ people based on merit, they said 🤡

The “AI jobs apocalypse” heralded by AI CEOs like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman is a story with one particular audience in mind: the bosses who are eager to see it happen

A nice MLT. A mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich...when the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato's ripe. So perky. I love that.

“An innocent podcaster was arrested…” let me stop you right there — there are no innocent podcasters lol #DoctotWho

I continue to pay attention to all of the mutual aid that people are engaged in. The comrades at Friendly Fridge BX just celebrated 5 years of work [if you know about mutual aid groups, then you understand that this is really a milestone]. Consider a donation: www.friendlyfridgefoundation.org

Happy Pride Month 2025 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Be gay do crow stuff #pridemonth #pridecrows