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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says state targets leftist professors
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5563039-abbott-texas-college-professors-leftist-ideologies/

"This PR introduces a new utility, detect-fash, which scans a system for the presence of software and configurations known to be associated with fascist ideologies. This may help identify undesirable and/or malicious activity that may interfere with the intended operations of other systemd utilities."
It seems to detect the presence of Omarchy Linux, Ladybird browser, hyprland, and DHH's ssh public key.

Good to see Jay (CEO of Bluesky) turning into another Elon and purposely enshittifying Bsky with the ideologies of old (Twitter). 🙃
Context: https://www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySocial/comments/1nvjbdw/jay_is_actively_driving_users_away_with_th…

Artificial Authority: From Machine Minds to Political Alignments. An Experimental Analysis of Democratic and Autocratic Biases in Large-Language Models
Szymon {\L}ukasik, Natalia O\.zegalska-{\L}ukasik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25286

Artificial Authority: From Machine Minds to Political Alignments. An Experimental Analysis of Democratic and Autocratic Biases in Large-Language Models
Political beliefs vary significantly across different countries, reflecting distinct historical, cultural, and institutional contexts. These ideologies, ranging from liberal democracies to rigid autocracies, influence human societies, as well as the digital systems that are constructed within those societies. The advent of generative artificial intelligence, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), introduces new agents in the political space-agents trained on massive corpora that replicate a…

A Synthetic Theory of Socio-Epistemic Structuration: Capital, Ideology, and Agency in the Age of Digital Inequality
Ricardo Alonzo Fern\'andez Salguero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25259

A Synthetic Theory of Socio-Epistemic Structuration: Capital, Ideology, and Agency in the Age of Digital Inequality
This article proposes a synthetic theory of socio-epistemic structuration to understand the reproduction of inequality in contemporary societies. I argue that social reality is not only determined by material structures and social networks but is fundamentally shaped by the epistemic frameworks -- ideologies, narratives, and attributions of agency -- that mediate actors' engagement with their environment. The theory integrates findings from critical race theory, network sociology, social capita…

Soon, they might even try anti-fascist ideologies
#politics #resistance #resist #usa