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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 4h

"renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity"

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 5h

this is why activism (for the preservation of fundamental rights) has become costly

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maddy varner @regret.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: A recently unsealed court filing that heavily cites government-produced documents + DHS agent depositions alleges that yes, there *is* a DHS database that's filled with protesters, called ICM. It's built by Palantir. www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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tante @tante.cc · 5h

Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea of "AI" is build upon. That's a bad argument for relegitimizing X.

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tante @tante.cc · 5h

There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there".

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CNN @cnn.com · 5h

European officials are holding crisis talks as the United States piles pressure on the region to tap into its emergency stocks of diesel to cool surging prices – or face a possible ban on US exports of the fuel. cnn.it/4dStcET

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 7h

grant proposal: the prevalence of x on y is unknown and my proposal will explore this using method z reviewer: there is no empirical evidence that method z shows the prevalence of x on y

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 18h

History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.

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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the year I've been working w/ air pollution regulators on data center on-site emissions, I've seen almost no acknowledgement of this trend from energy-side advocates of data center buildout. This isn't just bad actors-it's a corporate playbook and a roadmap to a future of unconstrained emissions.

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Ben Green @benzevgreen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first copies of Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice have arrived! It's pretty surreal to hold a physical copy after years of staring at Word docs and PDFs. The book comes out next week, so get your preorders in now! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

A picture of Ben Green hold up a physical copy of the book Algorithmic Realism: Data Science Practices to Promote Social Justice.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 19h

It shows you how bad the problem is that limiting people to 24 submissions a year will make a meaningful difference.

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Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 17h

“AI” in education Is like a fire in a library

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interviewee at The Bulwark argued recently one of Vance’s most important projects is to signal to MAGA base that—despite being married to the daughter of immigrants and the father of mixed kids—he, too, is a true believer in the myth that immigration poses an existential threat to white America.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026

I'll be on a panel debating "rogue" AI on RTE Prime Time tonight, 9:30pm stay tuned

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Dylan Schwilk @schwilk.org · 30/09/2026

My car went rogue when i forgot to set the parking brake, left in drive, and exited it.

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Craaawwwwl Daddy @crawdadding.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The relatively small sliver of local radio shows I listen to have been more thorough on this in the 6 days since this skeet was posted.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's cool that Bill Gates' own wife thought the Epstein Files stuff was bad enough that she divorced him, but for the Thought Leaders he's still a guy in perfectly good standing

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's a shame that left & non-regime journalists are still focusing on and replaying Schmit's self-own and failed gotcha moment over and over instead of Sen. Cory Booker's 12 min speech in full. What most journalists magnify reflects the algorithms that keep us in the same downward spiraling loop.

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'This hearing is a farce': Sen. Cory Booker goes off during Jack Smith Senate hearing

YouTube video by The Hill

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Benjamin @benjami.no · 29/09/2026

From what I understand: Instead of YOU having to prove that a tech company DIDN'T follow GDPR obligations, The tech companies now instead have to prove they actually DID follow GDPR. Burden of proof is on them. They cant just blanket deny everything. Huge if true! Nice one @iccl.bsky.social

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SomeBody @kevin-on-earth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👏👏 They won! On behalf of 450 million Europeans! And yet,

Quote from ICCL: "We need your help. ICCL is a nonprofit organisation. We take no funding from government, and the State blocks us from raising commercial funding to pay for litigation like this. Please visit ICCL.ie and donate whatever you can to help our work. Every contribution, no matter the size, adds up to ensure ICCL can keep defending rights and liberties for another 50 years."

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Huge congratulations to our colleagues at @iccl.bsky.social on this win! In a landmark ruling on 25 Sep, the ICCL secured a precedent that will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations across the entire EU enforce.ie/digital-data...

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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce

Landmark ruling will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in court for EU-wide GDPR class actions

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

unsolicited brag: dug into the data -> ai -> surveillance pipeline in class this morning and received a standing ovation at the end of class. genuinely did not expect it. now i’m in tears. first time for everything

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Paul Murphy TD @paulmurphy.pbp.ie · 27/09/2026

Police arrived at top of Garvaghy Road with threatening audio saying protestors will be arrested.

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s interesting to think about this fake award on the same day that nature published the story on fake academic societies. Billionaires creating new awards for ideological capture and to launder their reputations is also a scam, but its not treated as such and gets a ‘Newsvertisement‘ in the WSJ

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It’s funny but very sad. The worst people you know will get rich, and after they win, media outlets will quote their ass opinions and then after their name write “winner of the 1M carob trust prize, awarded to brave academics”. Just another avenue for billionaires to launder influence

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tagerai.bsky.social @tagerai.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

lol how did I miss this I just got an email advertising a prize for 1 MILLION dollars to 5 ‘social scientists who tell controversial truths at great professional cost“. The head of the committee is Roland fryer, it’s got Vanderbilt report alums, and it’s bankrolled by Bill Ackman And NerI Oxman.

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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.

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Exhausted sociologist @iaracpassos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

@mozilla.org launched a campaign against the tech billionaire class during the UNGA — and my face is in NY. 🧵 The ad places me next to Zuckerberg: he manufactures surveillance eyewear; I build local AI to expose political violence in Brazil, with Instituto Fogo Cruzado.

Triad of posters from the Mozilla Foundation campaign. First panel, left: Mark Zuckerberg; second panel, center: Iara, a white woman wearing glasses. Above, the text "Mark gets into eyewear / Gives creepers, peepers" over Zuckerberg and "Iara builds local AI / Exposes political violence" over Iara. Third panel, white background, all caps: "The powerful shouldn't choose what we see", below: "We all decide."

Triad of posters from the Mozilla Foundation campaign. First panel, left: Jeff Bezos; second panel, center: Rose Njeri Tunguru. Above, the text "Jeff builds a rocket. Celebrities go to outer space." over Jeff and "Rose builds democracy tools. Kenyan voices grow stronger." over Rose. Third panel, white background, all caps: "Joyrides won't build a better future", below: "We all will."

Triad of posters from the Mozilla Foundation campaign. First panel, left: Elon Musk; second panel, center: Rudy. Above, the text "Elon buys the blue bird. He trashes the place." over Elon and "Rudy builds Blacksky. Communities call the shots." over Rudy. Third panel, white background, all caps: "Wannabe kings don't rule the internet", below: "We all do."

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Annmarie O'C @annmarietg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

When you think it can't get any worse. #StopTheGame #SpeirGorm

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

How about if they visit Gaza? Oh but you guys don't let people do that do you?

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gavin Bazunu statement on withdrawing from Ireland squad

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Statement - Gavin Bazunu

Representing my country means everything to me. I have the utmost respect for every single one of my team mates, the Manager, his staff and the Irish people

However I have reached a decision that I have hot taken lightly. I am a man of strong faith and try my best to be a person of character and principle therefore 1 feel it would be wrong to participate in the upcoming fixtures against Israel.

My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong.

It is important to note that my stance is not in opposition of the Israeli people or the Jewish community but against the atrocities in the region.

There are few times where you get a chance ir ife to stand up for something bigger and strongly believe that this is one of them

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A better way to phrase this Variety headline would be "Publicity Seeker Who Invented A Program Continues Long Con"

Variety headline: Tilly Norwood Would Love to Work With Tom Holland and Olivia Colman, ‘but Only If It Were Their Digital Twins’ on an ‘AI Production’

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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Janice Turner has no background or training in medicine, neuroscience, psychology or psychiatry.

Janice Turner: Is your ADHD diagnosis really helping you?
A huge increase in those claiming the condition as well as receiving Pip to cope with it risks creating a lost generation

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dear Ireland, Please understand that your Deliveroo/Just Eat delivery person is similarly shafted by these companies.

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michaeledward @michaeledward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not. Photo: AP News

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

"ChatGPT says"?! please make it stop

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That's because the anti-intellectualism of the populists and Far Right is in direct contradiction to the basic foundations of any civilisation

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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth! @panic.gay · 25/09/2026

THIS. AI isn't "going rogue" any more than those exploding Samsung galaxy phones from 2016 went rogue. Human engineers poorly deployed a technology and there were negative consequences. The responsibility falls entirely on humans.

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Dreams~2~Realization @platinumray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

100% RTÉ radio uncritically playing Altman’s bullshit sound bites as news over several days this week, it’s infuriating

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