jonathan rodney slamdunk

jonathan rodney slamdunk

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Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.

en.byd.comTruck American Workforce - Technological Innovations for a Better Life | BYD USABYD TRUCKS BYD MOTORS american workforce Over 750 unionized employees work together to build battery electric buses and buses at BYD's 556,000 square foot manufacturing facility in Lancaster, Californ...
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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social you suck so fucking much @democrats.org do not fucking run this idiot for president. He will fumble it

Gwen C. Katz@gwenckatz.bsky.social

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

cornellsun.comEDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We WillThe Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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ICE agents chasing him in a car ran this guy over a week ago, horribly injuring him. Needs some media attention beyond this: www.walb.com/2026/09/23/i...

walb.comICE releases statement after man run over in Dougherty County operationImmigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is now releasing more information about an incident that happened in Dougherty County on Sept. 17 when a man was run over by an ICE vehicle.

𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐭𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐄𝐝𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚-𝐆𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐳 𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐦.🚨 Edgar is yet another 28 year old victim of ICE along with Wilber Rafael Garces Perez who was shot on Sunday. Here's a thread of #ICELawlessness, actions you can take to push back & some good news as well.

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If these dorks seriously believe there's a significant near-term risk of developing an AI that results in human extinction, the solution is simple and obvious: hang everyone who's trying to build AIs, for crimes against humanity and attempted genocide. The "panic" is bullshit from start to finish.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

All reasonably emotionally mature adults should ask themselves when they have ever made a good decision of which they are proud while panicked.

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It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:

foreignpolicy.comCivilians Need Better Protections in the Drone AgeHunting noncombatants from the sky is growing disturbingly common.
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

AI didn’t “go rogue.” People connected a computer system they know can mess with another computer system in unpredictable ways to less advanced computer system and it messed with that computer system in unpredicted ways. As @tressiemcphd.bsky.social argues, don’t lose sight that *people* did that.

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Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

It’s people - not AI systems - who are choosing to murder civilians with small drones at ever escalating rates around the world, as I recently wrote about with Yale’s Nathaniel Raymond for @foreignpolicy.com:

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The public deserves to know how AI is driving decisions about seniors’ healthcare. EFF is releasing records obtained through our FOIA lawsuit to gain transparency into an experimental AI program that could jeopardize Medicare beneficiaries' access to care. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

eff.orgNew Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior AuthorizationEFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of

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technology would be so cool if our collective well-being was the point

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I see a lot of people actively losing their minds about the AI stuff and I'm honestly starting to feel bad for them. But it's blinding them to the real problems. These things are not your girlfriend, but they're probably going to smash-and-grab passwords and attack bank or government data.

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"Milo got arrested!" "That's good!" "By an unaccountable secret police force" "That's bad" "He supported them, though, so there's delicious irony at play." "That's good!" "But they came for him because fascist power has reached a point where petty infighting can lead to arrests" "That's bad"

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The sword dangling over my head had lowered a touch over night. Still not close enough that I was freaking out but I could sense its movement.

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Joan Sebastian Guerrero is the name of the victim of the fatal ICE shooting this morning in Biddeford, Maine. say it, spread it, make it as known as the other names of lives taken by ICE

lizard says boo 🦇@lizzzard.bsky.social

no problem. when they release his info, i want to be part of the effort to make sure everyone knows his name by tomorrow.

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Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

Man: people on bluesky don't engage in roiling debates Bluesky: lol u r so fucking dumb Man: *turns off comments*

Corey Atad@coreyatad.com

when this critique is made, it often feels like it's about politics, like the answer is to just let the Nazis on here, but that misses why X, despite it all, is still a more fun place. it's because the "no fucks given" style there means *more* willingness to engage in roiling, exciting conversation.

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I guess everyone can believe what was always obvious this whole time now. Despite the president any many others lying by suggesting they had bombed themselves. With the kind of missile that we use and that they do not have. For some reason. www.welcometohellworld.com/what-do-thes...

welcometohellworld.comWhat do these people want from us?Says here in the newspaper that the U.S. was in fact responsible for the strike on an elementary school in Minab that killed 175 people. Most of them children. So I guess everyone can believe what was...

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"While it’s bad enough that we cause so much suffering what’s worse is that then on top of that and also like cops we need to be big fucking pissing babies about it whenever anyone tries to call us out on our bullshit. Barbarians and martyrs at once... Crying and hitting you..."

Luke O'Neil@lukeoneil47.bsky.social

Expecting us – with good reason based on history – to all thank them for their service. Fuck your service and fuck you. Saving a life is brave. Being instructed to kill and saying no I will not do that is brave. But killing like this? It is the least human thing you can do.

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Replying to @unburntwitch.com

You probably can’t personally stop the war in Iran today. Is there something you can do for your neighbors hiding from ice? For a trans person in Kansas? Any local aid orgs or rapid response networks? Phone banks? Anyone already doing good shit that just needs a hand?

Fuckin get em. Ive had Crohn's since I was 14, and was on these exact meds. Every insurance company I've ever been on has tried all these dirty tricks, and I'm glad someone caught them.

ProPublica@propublica.org

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

there is no drawdown, and there is no compromise. ice out everywhere.

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

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Replying to @ceej.online

the failure of democratic leadership to fight back against this tyranny is wholly disqualifying. jeffries refusing to whip votes against ice funding is effectively a tacit approval of the street executions of americans by an unaccountable federal paramilitary. I dunno, man. they’ve abandoned us

It's working

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social

Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them. “At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”

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"ICE is out of control and beyond reform. We must fundamentally change the way we approach immigration: it’s time to abolish ICE." See, Dems? You can actually say it, and even draft legislation about it! It's possible to do!

themetrodetroitnews.comMichigan U.S. Rep. Shri Thanedar Introduces Bill to Abolish ICEDetroit area Congressman Shri Thanedar has introduced legislation in Congress that would abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The proposal, called the ‘Abolish ICE Act’, would dismantle t...

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Getting a lot of messages. A lot are like "Can I come help?" (appreciated, but unless you know the area very well, probably not THAT useful) or "Can I send money?" (not to me, please). But the best ones are like "I want to build what you guys have back in my home city." YES, DO THAT. DO IT NOW.