Jon P

3 ways to fight election disinformation and rumors 1. THINK before you engage or share 2. SHARE accurate information about the election 3. EDUCATE yourself — and people you know The post goes into detail on each, with examples, infographics, videos, and links thenexusofprivacy.net/election-dis...

My standing search on the phrase "stochastic parrots" regularly turns up people labeling it a "thought-terminating cliché". I think maybe they're right, but not the way the think they are: >>

This is yet more of the shit that traps people into a cycle of epistemic & hermeneutic injustice and deception— frameworks where people don't know what they think they know and can't trust the mechanisms that are supposed to help them gain knowledge. Not only that, but now they have false CERTAINTY…

Some of the Blacksky team will be traveling to Barcelona for Mozfest this week. We are showing up to speak truth to power, build our coalition, and show what it looks like to build alongside our community. TL; DR of the talks @rude1.blacksky.team will be doing: Lookout for us with zines + stickers!

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

We won not only against Bolsonaro, but against the full force of the USian's Big Techs, Meta, CIA, Trump, the Brazilian right-wing elites, the billionaires' press and more.

⚠️ New: Target have installed ALPR surveillance cameras at the Redmond, WA location!! These appear to be the Axis Q1800-LE model: www.axis.com/products/axi... It sounds like this might be rolling out nationwide, much like Home Depot and Lowe's have done with Flock! 😩

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

The NYT is again credulously doing PR for #BigTech. See this: it’s all fun and games until #MUSE or some other *agent* unilaterally messages the Principal at your kids school, falsely accuses him of SA, empties your bank account then books a one-way ticket to Moscow www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/t...

"People who really care about girls’ sports should be working to address real issues facing girls in sports, like sexual harassment and abuse, not putting up more barriers to play, as I-638 will do," writes Zeke Smith in a letter to The Spokesman-Review. Vote NO on I-638 by November 3rd. #NoHate

Don’t forget that spooky season is right around the corner! Which means you should pin and like the Halloween feed! It ranks posts based on who your social circle, thanks to a new feature from @graze.social! Check it out & see what your friends are posting for the best holiday of the year 🐈‍⬛ 🎃 👻

Day 300+ of asking @bsky.app to expose the pronoun fields on our profiles that is already present on @mu.social, @blackskyweb.xyz, and the ATproto lexicon

Our research team is doing real-time coverage of emerging news and rumors related to election integrity. We put out several outputs this week. Several of the rumors we covered are still percolating. Some of the stories may become seeds for conspiracy theories later in the cycle. Some highlights...

Weird how this keeps happening

jfc … yes it’s a racist Islamophobic post from Truth Social targeting Ilhan Omar. DON’T SHARE IT!!!! Even if you’re pointing out how bad it is, you’re still amplifying propaganda and subjecting everybody who sees it to racism and Islamophobia. Why are you doing that????

Buckle up, friends. This is going to be a thread. A thread of thanksgiving, my gratitude for the people of the city and the province I love. The people who stood united to defeat a dark and narrow vision of Alberta's future. The people who stood in defence of Canada. 🧵 #Alberta #Canada #yeg

jfc … yes it’s a racist Islamophobic post from Truth Social targeting Ilhan Omar. DON’T SHARE IT!!!! Even if you’re pointing out how bad it is, you’re still amplifying propaganda and subjecting everybody who sees it to racism and Islamophobia. Why are you doing that????

WIP Demo of @blackskyweb.xyz Cash. - @interledger.org open payments integration - e-cash stored directly on PDS via permissioned spaces, encrypted, with device enrollment - peer-to-peer (DID2DID) payments made by handle and sent to recipient’s inbox All done on protocol. Spec to be published soon

Conservative big corporate interests continue shoveling money at their favorite conservative Democrat in #WALeg, Amy Walen. They're hoping the money can beat the many. Our members are fighting back by raising money to elect progressive Jessica Forsythe and defeat the corporations' puppet politician

A short thread of Washington state-focused election defense links ... DOJ is sending election monitors to King County (not surprising, they’re doing the same in a lot of blue areas bsky.app/profile/wash...

the tech ceo and incel overlap has never been stronger

Here's our team's "election rumor rundown" for yesterday. It was a busy day with reports of machine glitches and mail-in ballot concerns. These (mostly real) issues were spun into false rumors that suggested they were intentional efforts to tilt election results. uwcip.substack.com/p/fa68f983-1...

if we take the idea that _we_ keep each other safe – both offline and online – does it make sense to support a feature where your followers (or people you choose and trust) can hide comments or QT's to your posts they think you'd find harmful?

“The thing we’re doing will destroy really important stuff but don’t worry it’ll eventually get better, probably. Anyway, give us all your money.”

Graze's Midterms project: Now with added @boltsmag.org , @taniel.bsky.social, @votehub.com and @the-downballot.com! Follow your state's feed here (you'll find them in our feeds tab) or get involved below:

Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

This is how racism and ableism work together to construct Black peoples as less than in thinking (we are not smart enough) and behavior (we steal). And it’s a perfect example of what I mean when I say intelligence can be distributed or withheld because ability is a property right of whiteness.

Fake ladies and real threats - Brazil is on the front lines of the technofascist wars. Pay attention... @astra.bsky.social @democracynow.org

Lots of election rumors circulating today: machines allegedly flipping votes, stolen mail w/ ballots, voters receiving multiple ballots, ballots returned to sender. Many of these are REAL issues that may end up getting wrapped into false rumors (around impact, intentionality, and remedies).

Worth watching this emerging story: Wedgewood Polls alleged to be fake; has been picked up & amplified/integrated by established sources & other pollsters; may be tied to prediction market trading; is likely to throw doubt upon current poll numbers (which will feed "rigged election" rumors later).

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

Somewhere away from "We'll just win elections and make the big platforms behave!" and "All that matters is winning so we should just use whatever platform gets us the most eyes!" there has to be a recognition that Meta/TikTok/YouTube/X are permanent thumbs on the scale until we crush them.

Midterm Election Jitters? No idea where to work out some of that anxiety? Come join us in making the news instead of being taken by it. Volunteer below to help make the Graze midterms feed the space you're looking for while doomscrolling on Nov 3:

I went on NPR CodeSwitch to discuss what really happened w/“defund the police.” As a slogan it's not popular, but the idea that we can't raise questions, while police budgets, ICE & surveillance go wild is crazy. We get into the data. Worth listening to the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk7b...

Now in this panel moderated by @alexhanna.bsky.social, Dr. Caleb Dawson mentioning how Micheal Brown's family had said that he knew that the whole world would know his name. They can now go to campus-protest.org/about and see how many people mobilized ❤️ www.twitch.tv/dair_institute