Doug Sackman

Are there other class action suits on behalf of authors whose work was stolen by the other gen AI outfits, besides Anthropic?

"The danger is garden-variety fascism, where rich guys ruin everyone’s lives by deskilling workers, suppressing wages, and concentrating wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs."

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historians.orgWhere Are We Driving? – AHABig promises are being made about how AI could revolutionize education. But what problems might it introduce?

My take for History: www.historians.org/perspectives...

Facebook Faceplant

Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

City of Detention, not Destiny

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Putting up signs and notes at an ICE facility in Tacoma, Washington. More chaotic good please… Thanks

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Ike: D-Day Pete: Drop-Day

Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social

Another success story for the "who needs an expert" guys

So (mis) Anthropic is set for an IPO? Without my consent for the intellectual labor they stole from me.

aha, what gives?

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social

Here is a non-paywalled version archive.ph/se3uL

archive.pharchive.ph

@emilymbender.bsky.social

"I think we’re fundamentally not superficial. And I think people are going to wake up and punch back and there’s going to be massive movements in music and massive movements in live theater and massive movements of people getting together. We’re not done. We’re an ongoing poem."

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Dr. Vaughn Joy

@gvaughnjoy.bsky.social

Replying to @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social

As James Baldwin wrote so beautifully: "I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." That's patriotic love. Healthy, I formed criticism with the goal of understanding and improving.

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Emily M. Bender

Replying to @emilymbender.bsky.social

More generally, "you don't use it so you don't have standing to critique it" is a move to construct expertise narrowly and erase the expertise of people best qualified to expose the harms. >>

(Continue to) Boycott Target.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov

My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

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David Corn

@davidcorn.bsky.social

Social Security is socialism.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports

I guess I'm going to be the minority on this one, but I thought Digger was grand.

Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)

Nazi scum. (And yes this genealogy can go back to the American eugenicist nazi influencers)

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@thetattooedprof.bsky.social

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What a fucking joke. Vichy-ass tabloid

theguardian.com‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – liveDefense secretary summons military leaders for speech railing against diversity policies * Sign up for the Breaking News US email Rachel Leingang and Riley Messer Some of the biggest food and agriculture corporations in the US are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to combat elements of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again platform, according to an investigation by the Guardian and Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project. Continue reading...

Cause he likes his fifths

The Guardian@theguardian.com

‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – live

If they put their heads together, like really hard and quick, I could get behind this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hegseth: "Project Meridian will be co-led by three of our nation's best minds: Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich"

abcnews.comCalifornia farmworker dies after 30-foot fall during ICE raid: ReportA farmworker whose union said he suffered injuries in a California ICE raid has died, according to ABC Los Angeles station KABC.

His ICE thugs killed Jaime Garcia, who fell to he death. abcnews.com/US/californi...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "The greatest ballroom ever built -- it's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. Be careful. Don't fall over the edge. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall."

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Bron but Spookier 👻 🩷💜💙🎃

@bronwen.bsky.social

This is why we are not giving up trans rights. You will get trans rights out of my cold, dead cis hands.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

When it comes to Jack Smith's history, Schmiddt is a real Hawkeye! Can't getting anything past this fellow!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

PS Funny that Minnesota's Kobuchar has to step in to clarify things in regards to Iowa.

like, "race is a racist invention by racists to justify their racism"? I'll take my million in Tubman 20s, please.

tagerai.bsky.social@tagerai.bsky.social

lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.

The only good thing about Rahm is Obama's quip: he explained, Rahm lost half of his middle ginger in an accident, rendering him practically mute.

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social

Oof oof oof I just … its not even good writing.

ms.nowTrump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s TheatreThe playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.

23 Sept

I'm surprised he isn't just going with renaming it the Booth Theater

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Trump is preparing to give the order that his name be affixed to historical sites all across Washington, DC, starting with Ford's Theatre, where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Just because he can. www.ms.now/news/trump-f...

22 Sept

A reminder that @agordonreed.bsky.social had proved it before the first dna test, and now they are using DNA to erase the work history, claiming to uncover the real, hidden history etc etc

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His cerebral hemisphere is severely deranged?

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buff.lyThe conversations we don’t have about safety outdoors - High Country NewsThe stories we inherit about the outdoors deserve remembrance. The experiences we create today help determine what future generations believe is possible.

Read this excellent piece, and appreciate the work Rue Mapp does with Outdoor Afro.

High Country News@highcountrynews.org

History instructs Black Americans to fear the outdoors. But creating new memories outside will inform our future. buff.ly/8bjhIbq

historynewsnetwork.orgIn the “Bramble” of Central Park, a Showdown Over Nature and RaceThe viral video of the confrontation between birder Christian Cooper and dog walker Amy Cooper in Central park illuminates how nature and race have been constructed in America, giving privileged acces...

I tried to write about some of these issues, in the wake of the tense Central Park standoff between a dog walker and bird watcher in 2020. Here: www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/in-t...

hnn.usThe Right to Breathe Free: A Showdown Over Race and Nature (Part II)Over time American nature has been retrofitted with an infrastructure of racism, one that gives some people open access to land, clean water, and good air while constricting the access of others to th...

and here: www.hnn.us/article/the-...

20 Sept

arch nemesis? arc de fiasco? doomsday ark? arch-villainy

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NY Times Pitchbot

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

20 Sept

Whether it’s Donald Trump banning media outlets he doesn’t like from the White House or the Oberlin student Senate banning use of racial epithets during student debates, both sides have a free speech problem.

@lucagalletti.bsky.social

20 Sept

arch nemesis

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Luca

18 Sept

I love this woman. If only her words could reach all human ears. A must watch till the end, Speaker-Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and antiglobalization author. #WomeninLeadership IG: @maturedgirl

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NY Times Pitchbot

@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

16 Sept

My kids have measles, I can't afford gas or steak, I can't get a mortgage, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors. But at least now there are signs outside the Smithsonian accusing the curators of political bias.

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

16 Sept

Replying to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

My man looks like MEMENTO if it were about a man who couldn't remember the Fourteen Words

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

16 Sept

Replying to @kevinmkruse.bsky.social

My man looks like he was patched into a biker gang called GEL'S ANGELS

theconversation.comHow soybeans took over the American diet – without anyone noticingA century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.

15 Sept

Fascinating thumbnail environmental history of the invisible yet pervasive soybean by Edward Melillo.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com

A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places we don’t look or expect. An environmental historian explains how soybeans took over our diet:

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

14 Sept

Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision striking down Trump's policy of mass arrest and incarceration without trial ends with a big brushback reminder of what the US government did to Japanese Americans in 1942: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

@americanstudier.bsky.social

7 Sept

they are now body snatching authors to write emails. + the "learn why this is important" note. the world now rests on a bot, and another bot, and after that, bots all the way down

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Ben Railton

7 Sept

Replying to @americanstudier.bsky.social

After all, as I argued in this Labor Day column, no history of the holiday or labor in American should exclude enslaved Americans. www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2022/09/cons...

saturdayeveningpost.comConsidering History: No History of American Labor Should Exclude Slavery | The Saturday Evening PostIf we link the history of slavery to the labor movement, we can better understand the true interconnectedness of all Americans in the process.

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United Farm Workers

@ufw.bsky.social

7 Sept

Join us in celebrating the people who labor in the fields to put food on our tables. #WeFeedYou #LaborDay

2 Sept

apple & google: rich beyond belief, but so insecure, plaguing us with their cartographobia, bowing down the to fiats of an emperor of fits "In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land