Amanda McLoughlin

“For three decades the goal of tech development has not been to improve our lives or serve the public good, but to maximize shareholder value & increase the power of the companies that control it..the root of so many of the social harms that the tech oligopoly have saddled us with”@parismarx.com

two men in suits are sitting next to each other on a news show . ALT: two men in suits are sitting next to each other on a news show .

Trust this elder Millennial when I say that this #heatedrivalry moment is exactly what the 2009 Star Trek movie press junket felt like, but explicitly queer.

Kim!! Come work with queer ppl!!

I always ADORE talking to @amandamc.bsky.social and @juliaschifini.bsky.social and this was no exception!!!! come listen to us talk about demons!!!

Did not know this about Old Bay

Congrats!! Audiobook recording is no joke.

A small Palestinian girl in a bright coloured, patterned dress, with a little sheep bag and a bracelet made from shiny pink and white beads, stands in a room giving a thumbs-up signal.

I had mistakenly thought that Julia was already three, but no, today is her birthday. She's going to get some sweets, but if donations are good today, she might get other presents too. gofund.me/db56c7ce3 @mommunism.bsky.social @lexialex.bsky.social @fairshare.help #MutualAid #SkyAid #Gaza 🍉🎁🎂

If you want to help a person who really hasn’t raised anything yet- this is a good opportunity

Freya Marske’s a Marvellous Light series is also rad

I’m so sorry, just saw the screenshots!

I hope you’re already deep into KJ Charles! If you’re open to trans historical romances A Lady for a Duke remains the goat

We loved having you!!

I asked my doctor to test my immunity to MMR recently, and turns out my Rubella antibodies were too low. I got an easy booster, and we’re good to go!

DC friends! I wish I could make it, so you have to go for me <3

Also, please understand that AI surveillance is not "biased." Its purpose is racial capitalism. AI surveillance is a "racial project."

AI is a race-making technology. It encodes racial logics to arrange social hierarchies. Race has always been both a social AND sociotechnical construction.

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

The Enduring Lessons of Wages for Housework Emily Callaci’s history of the international feminist movement examines the influence of their intellectual and political victories.

So there is a review this week in @thenation.com of a book that is 1/3 about my mother and grandmother and their organizing work, and this is now the nth review that states the misinformation that the Wages for Housework Campaign ended in the 1980s.

This is completely false. 🧵

Wait this rips

@alexjaffe.bsky.social hello, has the actual Pope ever appeared in DC comics?

Nearly a decade of making @spiritspodcast.com has led to this: interviewing @jathansadowski.com about capitalism and its mythos. This episode is hot fire, folks, don't miss it 🔥 pod.link/1080871005/e...

“The question throughout all of folklore is ‘Can I have sex with it, and if not, why not?’”

If you are remotely a podcast person and don’t listen to @spiritspodcast.com, you really really should.

What RFK Jr. Doesn’t Understand About Disability The HHS secretary’s ignorance of the political history of disability shows he is the last person who should have a role in shaping its future.

I’m in @thebulwark.com! Writing about how RFK’s idea of disability — from vaccine-preventable disease to autism and beyond — is out of sync with disabled Americans’ reality. www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-jr-doe...

Shout out to Judge Patricia Millett and the DC court of appeals for also identifying this as a troubling juxtaposition. The Right hate being called Nazis but the US has treated (actual/proven/documented) Holocaust-committing Nazis more humanely than LatAm migrants.

Here's another one: Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, has been selling 1.2% of his total holdings every fortnight for the last 4 months. Making $28-37M per sale. Wonder why that's happening? d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-00016399...

We got photos of the vinyl from our friends at @certifiedcrucial.bsky.social and it looks so good!

LOOK AT CHAD! He's just peeking out!!

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It's always a good idea to sign up for public financial filing alerts for your least favorite corporations.

Today: BlackRock purchased so many shares of Hasbro, they're mandated to file a special public form. They now own 5.4% of the company. investor.hasbro.com/node/37206/h...

wait beehiv dot com this skeet SLAYS

Fantastic interview with @fzierer.bsky.social for @beehiiv.com! Never before has an interviewer quoted one of my vlogs back at me 🫶🏻

it finally happened and i witnessed it

someone asked to talk to @amandamc.bsky.social's supervisor and she said "I'm the CEO"

My brilliant friend @ivanplis.bsky.social co-authored a talk about the humanity of editing in the age of AI. So much to love here for editors of all kinds. Thank you Carolina for recapping!