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Aaron Kimball

@aaronk84.bsky.social
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Cat dad, cow owner, community theater superstar, recovering wedding deejay, gray ace, Utah dude Slava Ukraini Free Palestine Solidarity Forever

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 15h
A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.
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Boredwalk @boredwalk.com · 28/09/2026
Fuck teaching girls how to square dance in PE, teach them how to punch a creep so hard he swallows his own teeth.
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BD the Toon Dog @bdtoonzone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those planning to call Gavin Newsom about the Paramount merger, he's also considering gutting the state's Net Neutrality laws as well so go call him to protect the rules as well!
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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Utah's Potential Fossil Yield Classification Maps. Blues sections on state management map are Utah State Lands. This is our first filter in dealing with paleontological management issues (particularly mitigation) here in Utah. @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social
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Opinion Editor @ Bluesky @dly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Will Smith at the Oscars saying keep my mayor's name out your fucking mouth
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Steve Kenson ❌👑 @stevekenson.com · 24/09/2026
Welp. Can’t unsee that.
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Chernobyl Odinsdottir @eightpointvalkyrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I haven't been near 4Chan in damned near a decade now, and I don't really have a finger on the pulse of the culture over there any more. But from what I can recall, if even /pol/ thinks you've gone too far with blaming minorities, you may need to rethink your strategy.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 24/09/2026
This may end up being the most consequential story I’ve written, or one of them. “How many AI data centers are actually functional” is the most obvious question of the bubble - and the most important answer to understand what’s going on - yet answering it with any specificity has taken years.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Welp. According to Semafor, David Ellison has discussed bringing Elon Musk on as an investor in Paramount's merger with Warner Bros., which could mean Musk could have a stake in CBS News and CNN. www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
semafor.com
Exclusive: Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment
A cash injection from SpaceX billionaire Elon Musk could reduce investor Larry Ellison’s financial burden and bolster the deal’s investor base.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is my new favorite thing.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worth remembering that Oprah Winfrey is as essential to Dr Oz’s origin story as George and Martha Kent are to Superman.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 20/09/2026
Apparently things are so bad for Flock with contracts getting cancelled that the company has put together a voluntary severance program for its employees. Giddy thinking about detrimental Flock headlines when we get major corporate contracts dropped! www.wired.com/story/flock-...
wired.com
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Remember how far you le gom not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be. Says Skeletor always doing what he can to move forward, even if in the tiniest steps.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19/09/2026
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/09/2026
iOS 27 gives us Siri AI, which can dig deep into your device to find information, but introduces some new privacy problems to consider. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27
Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
erininthemorning.com
The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Forgiveness doesn't excuse their behavior. Forgiveness prevents their behavior from destroying your heart. Anyway, that's what I carved into their chest. Says Skeletor sometimes fed up with his own positivity.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who was dropped for making pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
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Ed Sheeran’s tour in trouble after opening acts drop out in solidarity with rapper Macklemore
Ed Sheeran’s tour of North and South America was plunged into chaos Tuesday when four of his supporting acts — including his touring band — abruptly quit in solidarity with the rapper Macklemore, who ...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 15/09/2026
“These records really confirm what advocates, providers and lawmakers have been warning about since WISeR was launched,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @marketwatch.com. “It’s troubling that CMS knew about much of this and didn’t communicate it to the public.”
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Medicare is using AI to approve claims. The result has been ‘alarmingly high denial rates.’
A pilot program using artificial intelligence to approve care for Medicare beneficiaries has resulted in high levels of denials and delayed decisions and prompted warnings from a vendor about a lack o...
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PaleoJim @paleojim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Love this discovery adding to strong dinosaurian ties between North America and Europe during the latest Jurassic. Certainly, the J/K boundary story is a shared Euramerican story. phys.org/news/2026-09... @utahpaleo-ufop.bsky.social @societyofvertpaleo.bsky.social @paleontologizing.bsky.social
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First confirmed Diplodocus outside North America reshapes Late Jurassic migration picture
In a discovery that challenges our understanding of dinosaur distribution during the Late Jurassic period, paleontologists have identified the first evidence of the iconic Diplodocus outside North Ame...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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"Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.

"If more than 20,000 white children were killed in another part of the world, everyone would be shouting about it at their concerts. Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer):  You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2026
Where are the GPUs? Undeployed, in warehouses because there's a cartel colluding to keep prices artificially high and keep the world dependent on inference capacity rented by about 6 companies.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Elon Musk is bankrolling an ad campaign to get you to check your voter registration through an innocent-sounding website. But his real goal is to collect and sell your personal data to advertising companies, Big Tech, and other Republican PACs.
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The hidden dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org
The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 09/09/2026
Despite major outrage from users when they initially rolled out age verification systems, Discord plans to make all accounts teen by default GLOBALLY & you have to scan your face or upload an ID to prove you aren't one. www.gadgetreview.com/discord-is-b...
gadgetreview.com
Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users
Discord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing.
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Kai Bones 🔜 Gateway Fate @kaibonesart.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reminder to cancel your Nitro. Best way to make them listen is hitting them where it hurts.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today marks the one year anniversary of people losing their jobs because they accurately pointed out that Charlie Kirk was a hateful bigot.
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Aaron Kimball @aaronk84.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Y'know, sometimes the Chess soundtrack just hits different.
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andy™ @andylevy.net · 08/09/2026
werner herzog on AI filmmaking (from here www.indiewire.com/features/int...)
Q: A couple years ago at IDFA, I saw this movie "About a Hero," which is this partly Al-generated hybrid documentary that tries to recreate the atmosphere of your films.

A: The intention of this young filmmaker was never to remake any [of my films], but making something in the spirit. And I immediately said, "You will fail. It is such a stupid idea. It's phenomenally, abysmally stupid. I will not take part in it." He wanted me to explain things and have my voice in it.
I said, "You are alone. There's such a thing as free speech, which I respect. So go ahead and fail." And it is a failure, period.
It's so standardized that Al can step in because there's not real storytelling. It's mimicry of something that has happened before. And I welcome Al to replace all the idiots who are into nothing but repeating, repeating, repeating until it's ad nauseam.
When it's ad nauseam, please, please, please let Al step in and do the job.
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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A WARRIOR FEARS NOTHING, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR HELP.
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Tweet from koyaanisqatsi heckler (@Arr):

*johnny cash in his final years, over a spare arrangement, his voice frail* he did a good job cleaning up the place, but his bosses didn’t like him so they shot him into space
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Says Skeletor urging you to use your power to change the future before there’s no future left.
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Lee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It may be small minded of me but no monetization is worth doing this to yourself.
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
James follows up on last week's episode and talked to Miles Gray about what it is like to lose your home in a fire and how people can continue to help fire survivors. @jamesstout.bsky.social @milesofgray.bsky.social www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Organizers and activists who oppose the Trump administration's policies should absolutely be paying close attention to this story: theintercept.com/2026/08/28/t...
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Trump Goes After Anonymous Email Provider in Italy. The Real Target Is Free Speech in the U.S.
Trump designated a collective that provides anonymous email services as a foreign “terrorist” group. It could curtail free speech in the U.S.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
lmao the Soap Girls — a band that spews white genocide conspiracy theories — is playing in Buena Park now, I’m sure this will go well
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Michael @mbelcher.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Margaret Killjoy has a great two part episode on Robin Hood that covers the connections between the Robin Hood mythos, and piers plowman and the 1531 peasant uprising. bsky.app/profile/cool...
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Goblin Introkate-o 🎲 @goblinkatie.com · 30/08/2026
We are doing this.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Meanwhile, engineers have admitted that model collapse with this Ai is inevitable. Meaning it ALWAYS eats itself and goes insane as it starts eating its own slop. This makes it largely useless at massive scale, as many of us already know. But the promise of it “getting better” is evaporating.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Without protections, lawsuits could cost the companies more than Ai saves, making human labor preferable in spaces they thought humans were gone from forever like customer service chatbots. This has killed growth, leaving all the unused data centers with little to no future users. This gen is dying.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As it is Skynet Day, it seems as good a time as any to share that data center based LLM Ai is caught in a death spiral which is going largely unreported in the media. In short, major insurers are creating carve outs for Ai, refusing to insure it, causing corporations to abandon its front facing use.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Milo stuff is the perfect picture of fascism. You think you're protected because you go as big as you can on racism, you spend years harassing the movement's perceived enemies, you even disavow your own sexuality. They'll still throw you in a cage over the tiniest disagreement already forgotten.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Lake America
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 27/08/2026
We bet you’ve started seeing Wikipedia rabbit holes everywhere since following us.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/08/2026
"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jillian.bsky.social told @reason.com.
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Rubio uses terrorism law to ban secure email service
The State Department doesn’t accuse Autistici/Inventati of doing anything more than providing surveillance-free email accounts. But that’s enough to declare it a terrorist organization.
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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Be strong enough to be gentle. Says Skeletor seeing yet another good one gone, and yet not the bad one we all want. RIP Peter Cullen.
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