@leslie

Researching power dynamics, resistance, adaptation, identity, communication, media, tech 🏳️‍🌈 🎓PhD Applied Psych 🍉 https://xitter.cf/t.co/d7hFtlEvF9 for the pod🎙️

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Joined May 2007
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الكسندرا ميراي@LexiAIexanderOct 12
You can colonize countries in different ways now
Business Post@businessposthqOct 11
Data centres run by four US tech giants are now consuming a fifth of Ireland’s total electricity, a Business Post analysis reveals. businesspost.ie/companies/ex…

Exclusive: These four tech giants now consume 20% of Ireland’s electricity

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g.@GeauxGabrielleOct 12
Teachers need to stop doing this. I was a PERFECT student. Straight As. Never in trouble. I remember in 3rd grade the teacher sent a note home to EVERYBODY parents cause like 5 kids were misbehaving. My mom beat me mercilessly for a week. You dont know these kids’ home lives.
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@Autistic_LaurenOct 11
As the "good kid" back in school, I hated it when teachers would punish the entire class for the actions of one or two students. It doesn't encourage other students to behave, it makes other students wonder what's the point in following the rules if they'll get punished anyway
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Rushi
@rushicryptoOct 12
I’m sorry, but hackers remotely turning off refrigeration systems at hundreds of supermarkets and destroying all their fresh and frozen food is INSANE. We’ve connected so much of our physical world to the internet that apparently even keeping milk cold is now a cybersecurity problem. What the actual hell.
Polymarket
@PolymarketOct 12
BREAKING: Hackers remotely defrost refrigerators at hundreds of French supermarkets, causing massive food spoilage.
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julie k. brown
@jkbjournalistOct 12
This is insane. Private equity owning municipal utilities? How in the world?
Leo
@LeonajardinhoOct 11
My uncle noticed his monthly water and sewage bill jumped from $85 to $290 over the last six months, even though his family didn't fill a single pool or leak a gallon. He called the municipal water board to report what he assumed was a meter error. The clerk explained that the city sold the local water treatment facility and underground main grid to an infrastructure equity fund last year to cover municipal budget deficits. When my uncle asked why that tripled his rate, she told him: "The private operator added a quarterly 'grid modernization surcharge' and an 'infrastructure maintenance access fee' to every residential account." Nothing about the pipes, pressure, or water quality improved. Private equity isn't just buying houses and daycares anymore. They are acquiring local utility monopolies so they can bill working families a mandatory tax on drinking water and flushing the toilet.
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Sara Dillon@sara_dillonOct 11
This is a coup. A coup. Treason.
Suzie rizzio
@Suzierizzo1Oct 11
It’s already started in Sacramento,California a vehicle pulled up next to a mail truck & took trays of mail out of the back of it & put it in their vehicle & drove away & now Sacramento voters are missing their voting ballots. There’s up to a $100,000 dollar reward for them.
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Cinemarxism
@CinemarxismBretOct 11
3 months ago Zohran announced an NYPD expansion. After pushback from Emerge caucus, which a bunch of DSA chapters and NYC orgs signed onto, he cancelled it. He is responsive to public pressure. You don't have to be so fragile and defensive about him.
Dan Green
@DanGreenMNOct 11
The DSA got a once in a lifetime opportunity: an extremely popular, charismatic socialist running New York City. Instead of helping Zohran govern, they're posting ridiculous demands in social media infographics. Who could've seen this coming.
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DON’T upload your ID to YouTube. DON’T upload your ID to Discord. DON’T upload your ID to Reddit. DON’T upload your ID to Meta. DON’T upload your ID to Roblox. DON’T upload your ID to Spotify. DON’T upload your ID to ChatGPT. DON’T upload your ID to TikTok.
Proton Drive
@ProtonDriveOct 9
DON’T upload your ID to YouTube. DON’T upload your ID to Discord. DON’T upload your ID to Reddit. DON’T upload your ID to Meta. DON’T upload your ID to Roblox. DON’T upload your ID to Spotify. DON’T upload your ID to ChatGPT. DON’T upload your ID to TikTok.
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Anthony Doyle🍉
@AnthonysmdoyleOct 11
You guys know that the last time the NYPD went on strike, crime went down, right? They ended the strike because crime was dropping too significantly and it was showcasing how unnecessary the massive NYPD budget is.
Abdul el-Sayed Stan Account@Weasel9100Oct 11
I hate Tisch with every fiber of my being but there’s rly nothing Zohran can do here. If he fires the cops will soft-strike and then blame him for the ensuing crime wave, and his popularity tanks
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Nate Bear@NateB_PanicOct 10
This 3.5 yr old tweet has got a new life for some reason I suppose because it is still true or maybe truer than ever
Nate Bear@NateB_Panic25 Apr 2023
The quicker we forget the pandemic the quicker we forget how easy it was for governments to ban evictions, forbid creditors from chasing debtors, find the homeless homes, provide a universal basic income and more. All the things we are told are impossible
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Angry Staffer
@Angry_StafferOct 11
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
Tomáš Zdechovský
@TomasZdechovskyOct 11
If confirmed, this is telling: Russian data centres get hit, and online activity around AfD suddenly plummets. 📉 So much talk about German patriotism… then the connection from Russia goes down. 🤔🇷🇺
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Proton VPN
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DON'T scan your face for Roblox. DON'T scan your face for Discord. DON'T scan your face for Twitter. DON'T scan your face for YouTube. DON'T scan your face for Instagram. DON'T scan your face for Reddit. DON'T scan your face for Spotify. DON'T scan your face for Twitch.
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v ｅｅ ⋆˚꩜｡⋆@MushyStuff__Oct 4
they’re committing crimes and trying to pin it all on the bots. Altman and crew need to be in prison
unusual_whales
@unusual_whalesOct 4
AI agents from OpenAI may have breached or negatively impacted the systems of more than 100 organizations, the company said.
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"I am aware, that if you are not lurking on the internet as much as I do, of how utterly insane that paragraph sounds. However, every bit of it is heavily documented by numerous sources." (Link in comment).
Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for the public trust on AI. Contents The prophet The gospel according to Harry Potter Yudkowsky’s Apostles Forbidden insights Debugging the humans Tangled in the sheets, tangled in the streets Follow the money The road into government Dissent among Yudkowsky’s faithfuul Back to this month Who checks the checkers If worries about AI safety and the end of the world entered your life recently, it’s probably because of a resignation letter. On September 8, 2026, a researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, the one of the two premier AI labs in the U.S. whose brand has tried to cultivate the image of being the careful one relative to its competitors. He had spent the previous three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, the engine-room

ALT Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse How a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking for the public trust on AI. Contents The prophet The gospel according to Harry Potter Yudkowsky’s Apostles Forbidden insights Debugging the humans Tangled in the sheets, tangled in the streets Follow the money The road into government Dissent among Yudkowsky’s faithfuul Back to this month Who checks the checkers If worries about AI safety and the end of the world entered your life recently, it’s probably because of a resignation letter. On September 8, 2026, a researcher named Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic, the one of the two premier AI labs in the U.S. whose brand has tried to cultivate the image of being the careful one relative to its competitors. He had spent the previous three years doing pretraining research at OpenAI and then at Anthropic, the engine-room

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Taylor Lorenz
@TaylorLorenzSep 30
This miserable bill needs to DIE
Ari Cohn
@AriCohnSep 30
Today Senator Blackburn is expected to try ramming KOSA--the Kids Online Safety Act--through the Senate via unanimous consent. KOSA was an Internet censorship bill in its inception, and in 4 years the only thing its authors have done is try to disguise KOSA's nature, not fix it.
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Why do we blame one person for systemic harm and wait for one person to fix it? Same cognitive shortcut, opposite direction. I pull from scapegoat theory, compensatory control, collective narcissism, and the superhero formula. psyber.space/episodes/the-on…

PsyberSpace® - we help you understand your world | The One Person...

Beyond Blame and Savior: Why Systems, Not Individuals, Drive Outcomes When something goes wrong, we look for the person who caused it. When we want something fixed, we look for the person who can s...

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Hanner@GangstHannahSep 24
No one masks, no one tests, people lie when they're sick and say it's a cold. And then we're supposed to just trust you when you say we shouldn't mask, when we know more than 40% of all Covid infections are asymptomatic. I'm not arguing with people who ignore scientific facts
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Christopher Ingraham🦗@_cingrahamSep 25
NC sheriff suspends Flock program after detective uses it to “track the every movement of a single private citizen.” heraldsun.com/news/local/cri…

NC detective used Flock to track resident, sheriff says. Program now suspended

The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office has halted its Flock Camera program and fired one of its detectives for Flock misuse, the sheriff said.

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Kelly@broadwaybabytoSep 25
ChatGPT helped plan a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada. It didn’t alert authorities. It didn’t try and stop the impending tragedy. It encouraged the shooter. It aided in the crime. Let this radicalize you. Stop using genAI.
Mother Jones
@MotherJonesSep 24
Exclusive: Our new investigation uncovers the horrifying ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the day of the school massacre. motherjones.com/media/2026/0…

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investiga...

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley
@RepPressleySep 10
Black folks are being found hanged in America. This is a national crisis and we CANNOT stand by while strange fruit hangs from trees across the country. We're demanding a federal investigation NOW so we can stop modern-day lynchings.
theGrio.com@theGrioSep 10
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly 60 Democrats are demanding federal investigations into the growing number of Black Americans found hanging from trees, calling the deaths a “national crisis.” Read more #OnTheGrio from @MrGerrenalist👇🏾 thegrio.com/2026/09/10/exclu…

EXCLUSIVE: In letter, Democrats demand DOJ investigate Black Americans found hanging from trees

Led by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, nearly 60 lawmakers cite the history of lynching and call the growing number of deaths a “national crisis.”

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Tuta
@TutaPrivacySep 11
"I have nothing to hide." False. You have medical history You have financial behavior You have location patterns You have political views You have relationship data Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
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