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@artact.io

Creative studio advocating for positive change @vote.ninja @earth.ninja https://artact.io

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

> […] It’s wrong. It’s so enragingly wrong. I hope everyone in the world stops using your service. Because a business built on theft is not a business, it’s a scam.

– @moryan.bsky.social

#MaureenRyan #IdentityTheft #Grammarly #AI #Slop #LLM
www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 08:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

> […] I do not want to hear even the slightest amount of bullshit about how you didn’t need to ask for permission to use our names and use our identities in your review function. You just wanted to steal, so you stole. You wanted to take things without permission, so you did.

– @moryan.bsky.social

11.03.2026 08:48 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

> You do not get to say that you don’t understand these very basic issues of autonomy, respect and self-control. You. Do. Not.

#MaureenRyan #AI #Slop #LLM
#IdentityTheft #Grammarly
www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

11.03.2026 08:40 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

you get invited to a meeting called “quick sync” and then Heather from HR is there wearing her bitmoji as she immediately lays you off

11.03.2026 03:08 👍 77 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 0

I think if I were to send the head of legal at Grammarly a note that said I broke into his house and took his wallet, but in future, he could opt out of me stealing his wallet, that would go great and they would be fine with that 👍🏻

11.03.2026 06:04 👍 388 🔁 108 💬 0 📌 0

"TOO MUCH CREDIT"??
bsky.app/profile/quee...

11.03.2026 04:29 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."

10.03.2026 15:34 👍 5309 🔁 2041 💬 123 📌 114

Trump is completely open that his goal is for the SAVE act to guarantee Republicans win elections for the next 50 years. He’s openly doing election interference. The whole bill is election interference.

10.03.2026 16:35 👍 772 🔁 234 💬 25 📌 10
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WATCH — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Every dollar we spend bombing people in the Middle East is one we’re not spending here at home. We’re always told we don’t have enough money for schools or healthcare or for veterans, but there’s always enough to bomb people on the other side of the world.”

10.03.2026 22:39 👍 10020 🔁 3195 💬 253 📌 146

how do tradeoffs work? what is proportionality? what is base rate neglect? are magnets powered by space wizards?

11.03.2026 04:38 👍 836 🔁 131 💬 45 📌 4
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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

10.03.2026 18:27 👍 3010 🔁 1762 💬 47 📌 89

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10.03.2026 18:00 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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To my Palestinian sister in ICE detention – I will carry you until you are free | Mahmoud Khalil One year ago, ICE arrested me for protesting for Palestine. Leqaa Kordia is still caged – also for daring to speak the truth

Free Leqaa Kordia and all the innocent political prisoners the corrupt and morally bankrupt “administration” calls “detainees.”

#MahmoudKhalil #LeqaaKordia #ICE
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

09.03.2026 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Imperialist undertones’: global south condemns US-Israeli war with Iran China calls it unacceptable to ‘kill leader of sovereign state’, while South Africa questions ‘pre-emptive’ justification

#SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 President Cyril Ramaphosa questioned the “pre-emptive” justification provided for the war, saying that self-defence was only permitted in response to an armed invasion & that “there can be no military solution to fundamentally political problems.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

06.03.2026 10:21 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“It is naive to believe that democracies or respect between nations can spring from ruins. Or to think that practising blind and servile obedience is a form of leadership.”

#Spain #España #USA #Israel #Iran

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

06.03.2026 10:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“To enable [Russian] oil [money] to keep flowing into [Trump’s pockets], the treasury department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil.”

“This stopgap [war] will […] take global energy hostage.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

06.03.2026 10:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boo hiss, unfollow

06.03.2026 10:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Spain's PM says Trump playing 'Russian roulette' with lives of millions
Spain's PM says Trump playing 'Russian roulette' with lives of millions YouTube video by Guardian News

“No to war.”

#Spain will “not be complicit in something that is bad for the world—and that is also contrary to our values ​​and interests—simply out of fear of reprisals from someone”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#España 🇪🇸 #USA 🇺🇸 #Iran 🇮🇷
youtu.be/X-agmRDMUBU

04.03.2026 20:00 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

This whole Iranian misadventure was always going to be good for the Russian oil industry.

Must be a total coincidence, right?

04.03.2026 16:19 👍 98 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 2
La cacería de inmigrantes en tiempos del presidente #47
La cacería de inmigrantes en tiempos del presidente #47 YouTube video by Neteando con Kate y Jessica

C.A.S.A. member, tireless activist and defender of immigrants rights, Juan José Gutierrez talks with Kate del Castillo...

Spanish language video - English sub-titles available:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Red...

Somos Uno Porque America es Una!
We Are One Because America is One!

21.02.2026 22:20 👍 39 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 0
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‘Imperialist undertones’: global south condemns US-Israeli war with Iran China calls it unacceptable to ‘kill leader of sovereign state’, while South Africa questions ‘pre-emptive’ justification

“This is a war of domination and subordination, therefore it has imperialist undertones and motives. It makes the world unsafe for all of us.”

– #SiphamandlaZondi

Undertones?! With due respect Professor Zondi, imperialism is not an underlying quality, it is it.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

03.03.2026 19:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump insists Israel did not force US hand on Iran attack as he meets German chancellor – live US president appears to contradict Marco Rubio remarks that Israel planned to strike Iran first, claiming ‘If anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand’

…Flip Trump lies, cont’d

“[I have] been terrible,” #Trump told reporters […] adding [that’s why he] told treasury secretary Scott Bessent to “cut off all dealings” w/ #Spain

“We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

03.03.2026 18:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trump insists Israel did not force US hand on Iran attack as he meets German chancellor – live US president appears to contradict Marco Rubio remarks that Israel planned to strike Iran first, claiming ‘If anything, I might have forced Israel’s hand’

This is one of those frequent instances where if you take what Trump says and flip it, you get actual truth:

“[USA] has absolutely nothing that [Spain] need[s] other than great people. [USA has] great people, but they don’t have great leadership.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

03.03.2026 18:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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People in the US: share your views of the Iran conflict Trump long promised to end ‘endless wars’, but the US has joined Israel in attacking Iran. We want to hear how people in the US are reacting

2016: “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.”

2019: “Great nations do not fight endless wars”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

03.03.2026 18:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iran continues to hit back at US-Israeli strikes as Trump says it is too late to talk Iranian drones hit US embassy in Riyadh as Israel bombs Tehran and sends troops into southern Lebanon

Behold stupid death incarnate, phony #FIFA peace prize recipient:

“Their air defense, Air Force, Navy and Leadership is gone. They want to talk. I said ‘Too Late!’”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

03.03.2026 17:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aluf Benn Aluf Benn - Breaking News, Features and Analyses From Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Haaretz

All articles by #AlufBenn, editor-in-chief of #Haaretz (including headline Guardian paraphrased above):

www.haaretz.com/ty-WRITER/00...

03.03.2026 10:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US embassy in Riyadh hit by Iranian drones as Israeli troops enter southern Lebanon Iran continues to target American bases and Hezbollah fires at Israel as conflict spreads across Middle East

#Haaretz: #Netanyahu Hopes to Ride the #Iran War All the Way to the Ballot Box. Never Mind the Casualties

“Israeli analysts suggested the Iran campaign came at a good time for Netanyahu and would boost flagging poll numbers before legislative elections.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

03.03.2026 09:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
MAGA ERUPTS After Qatar Bribes Trump To Get Military Base on American Soil
MAGA ERUPTS After Qatar Bribes Trump To Get Military Base on American Soil YouTube video by TYT Network

Hegseth to Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani at the Pentagon: “It’s just another example of our partnership. And I hope you know, Your Excellency, that you can count on us.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saoud_b...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOyf...

03.03.2026 09:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US announces it will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility in Idaho | CNN Politics Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on Friday that the US will allow Qatar to build an Air Force facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and...

Trump and Hegseth “allow Qatar to build […] facility at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, which will host Qatari F-15 fighter jets and pilots who will train alongside US troops.”

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

03.03.2026 09:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

…“a residential tower in Riyadh, a 47-floor Trump Tower in Jeddah. Trump International Hotel and Tower in Dubai, Trump International Golf Course in Doha and the Trump International Hotel & Golf Club in Oman.”

internationalviewpoint.org/Trump-Visits...

03.03.2026 08:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0