Liminal Owl

I rode the subway daily in NYC as a teenaged girl. In the 1970s. I was harassed a couple of times maybe.

This is VERY cool.

How Epstein’s biggest financial client shaped millennial teen culture Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch taught a generation of young people what was desirable.

This hit home as a millennial woman.

I can still smell the perfumes.

We were mass groomed by people like Les Wexner. Predators were allowed to shape culture.

We have to do better for our children.

#Pinks

(Gift Article)

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Thank you. That’s lovely.

Artist Builds Giant Butterfly Wings From Thousands of Tiny Porcelain Fragments Did you know that a butterfly's wings are made up of tiny scales? Rebecca Manson is inspired by these minuscule details.

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First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

I don’t think we talk enough about how the foundational, most aspirational premise of the AI industry is “what if there was a human-level intelligence that didn’t have human rights.” Like. Exploitation is literally the whole point! Of COURSE they hold human life, intelligence and labour in contempt!

Democrats should remind people that Trump is blocking new solar and wind power facilities every time they talk about $100/barrel oil.

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care About half of middle-income households said they have delayed a major life event because of medical costs, new Gallup polls found.

One-third of Americans skip meals or other needs to afford health care

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Epstein’s New Mexico Ranch Gets Scrutiny at Last. It May Be Too Late.

This is backed up by NY Times reporting last week: “A state-led inquiry into Mr. Epstein’s actions was taken over by federal prosecutors in 2019, and then apparently fizzled, according to New Mexico officials and recently unsealed records.” NY Times Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...

People with psychopathic traits don't lack fear—they actually enjoy it A new study reveals that people with high psychopathic traits don't lack fear. Instead, their hearts race during scary situations, but their brains uniquely interpret this physical arousal as an excit...

People with psychopathic traits don’t lack fear—they actually enjoy it www.psypost.org/people-with-...

1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

That is an incredibly stupid statement, which I will excuse by not assuming that you are being malicious.

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@thethinblackduke.bsky.social

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

Fascism has a shallow playbook, and so Kirby speaks to past and present with this stuff.

Illinois Prison's Plan To Use Female Inmate As 'Rape Bait' For Predatory Counselor Did Not Go Well And the officials involved will not be getting their qualified immunity.

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Dani Swan

Virginia Giuffre’s ‘invisible ghostwriter’ on the Epstein survivor’s legacy: ‘She wanted to name all of them. They deserve to be named’ Amy Wallace spent years helping Giuffre write her life story. Now she reflects on what the survivor would have thought of the release of the Epstein files

Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl chronicles her survival of #Epstein global #SexTrafficking network. Since Giuffre’s 2025 suicide at 41, the book has sold millions, highlighted institutional failures & spurred ongoing #Investigations into her abusers.

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Pay your taxes! Serve on juries! VOTE! Jesus people, it’s not that fucking hard.

My god, Trump is a p-zombie, isn’t he?

Anyway, Read Theory

Central Dallas, before-and-after government-funded highway construction, a process which displaced thousands during the 1950s-80s in the primarily Black and Latino neighborhoods surrounding Downtown. More info, maps, and historic photos/plans at: www.segregationbydesign.com/dallas/highw...

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.

ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”

@thethinblackduke.bsky.social you were saying?