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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 02/10/2026

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

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The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm leftovers-maxxing. Mogging the pantry.

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Brett Favaro @brettfavaro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I always thought cyberattacks were illegal but I guess not

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some good news for a change: Overcoming a massive and aggressive tech lobby and a squeamish, Silicon Valley-friendly governor, the labor movement has managed to pass a raft of first-of-their-kind AI laws aimed at protecting workers in California.

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California just passed the strongest AI labor laws in the US

Finally, some good news

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks Google, but I don't have a petacup scoop

Google interpreting ml as cubic miles instead of milliliters in a unit conversion query

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Johnny Normality (Spooky Mode) @probgobl.in · 01/10/2026

So the plan is to spend millions (billions?) to put satellites into low earth orbit that contain server hardware that can only run for 15 minute bursts and can never be recovered, recycled, or repurposed? Forgiving these dipshits would be a massive moral failing.

Once commissioned, the satellite will fire up its TPU in 15-minute bursts to avoid straining the satellite’s power and thermal management systems. This satellite is based on a standard platform built by Planet Labs, but the two companies are working on a demo expected to take flight next year that will see two satellites more purpose-built for advanced compute. Those future versions will attempt to collaborate via a laser communications link.

The good news, at least, in Google’s updated research, is that it seems likely that its chips will survive the radiation of space. The company had to redo tests blasting the chips in a particle accelerator after they realized the configuration of the chips provided more shielding than they would actually experience. This produced slightly more errors in the chip’s logic circuitry, but the company is still confident its chips can handle large inference workloads in orbit for the five-year lifespan of a satellite.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 30/09/2026

if the tech broligarchs don't kill us all their super fans sure will

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026

oh man, I just tried it and america.gov really does get REAL weird when you tell it to “play Minecraft”

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America.gov

Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Fake it til you make it" Ok but you're an airline pilot

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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snoobles @snoobles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A car salesman the other day was talking about how the billionaires are exploiting us and we have to do something about the concentration of wealth at the top. A CAR SALESMAN.

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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Revenge is necessary to create a disincentive to try this again and to sweep the guilty out of power.

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Religion where the afterlife is just a train depot where you can ride all your lost trains of thought

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

Sometimes the end of the honeymoon is just the start of the wonderful, loving marriage. A lot of the time, actually. Maybe not for the opinion side of the WSJ, but for normal people.

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Kinds of ice, in order of evilness: 6. solid water 5. diamonds (lab-grown) 4. meth 3. internal combustion engines 2. diamonds (natural) 1. the gestapo

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Imperial China ran on a eunuchs-based operating system.

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Thing you need to understand about English is that bulls and horses defecate lies, dogs defecate poor quality, and bats defecate insanity

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Harry Potter theme park? You mean Joannestown?

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Gun show? You mean the harmers market?

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Kid: My lion wants to marry someone. Me: Ok, well let's start with a dating profile. Lion, what's the number one thing you look for in a mate? Kid: Meat.

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Kids love chocolate in a way that doesn't care whether that chocolate sucks, and adults in a way that does. Who is to say which love is more pure?

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lizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

you shouldn't take an iced coffee to a job interview because you shouldn't be trying to get a job. you should be digging an enormous pit or a complex system of tunnels

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Adam @ahaberlach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They really loved having a workforce that was terrified of being deported so the could pay them absolute minimum wages under the table. They just didn't want to see them deported because now they need to find someone to actually do the work.

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“james adomian” @jadomian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People who unironically advocate AI “labor arbitrage” (job killing) should stop being regarded as people

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The bell that cannot be unrung

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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guy sitting in front of a computer: “before we start this ai training session, I’d like to acknowledge I’m coding on stolen data”

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Disco Gnostic @mazov.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What work are they going to get back to @duckworth.senate.gov? Long hard days of telling us that better things aren't possible?

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🎃trash🎃 (haunted) @dollarpbr.gay · 23/09/2026

there’s nothing i want more than to witness Random Scalper Attempts To RICO The Pokémon Company International we’ve all earned this

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sailingthepuddle.bsky.social @sailingthepuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Man, at work we the list of handy things we can’t do because of security is like 6 miles long, but sure, Lockheed can just ship the super secret jet parts with door dash.

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Mom Friend S. Pumpkins @momfriend64.northsky.social · 22/09/2026

The one-two punch of Gavin Newsome allowing Trump ally Larry Ellison to have control of all of Paramount and Warner Brothers/HBO, and him vetoing a bill that would protect gender care doctors from being extradited to other states for criminal charges How again is this different than a Republican?

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The sole promise of using LLM's in war is to entirely remove a Stanislaw Petrov from the decision chain. (Oh, remember how LLM's were found to advocate nuclear strikes in 95% of tested scenarios?) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Ash @fishyash.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Friendly reminder that Duolingo was initially concieved to trick people into translating articles for free, which they later used as training data for MTL algorithms. Duolingo's primary purpose has NEVER been about teaching you a language, even from the start! slate.com/technology/2...

If it doesn’t charge users and, so far, doesn’t serve them any ads, how does Duolingo make money? It tricks you into working as an unpaid translation service. At the end of some lessons, Duolingo will ask you if you want to practice by translating a real-world document. Which will turn out to be, say, a BuzzFeed article. By melding together enough stabs at this task from high-level Duolingo users, the app can render a surprisingly accurate translation. Which is worth good money. So far, Duolingo has contracts with BuzzFeed and CNN to translate stories from English into languages such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. This service is already earning Duolingo hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but von Ahn predicts he will be adding a raft of new clients soon. “The language translations market is huge,” he says. “It’s a $30 billion per year market.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I don't have the energy to rebut everything in this piece, but it reaffirms the impression that these people did not know or care how government works and never bothered to find out. The reporter's framing is pretty credulous "many people disagree" with stuff that is easy to fact check.

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Giant Space Ants @spaceants.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Maybe the "in his sleep" part is just putting them off because they'd prefer some suffering

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isaac @sevier.io · 21/09/2026

"what stood out to me about the process of photographing these devices was geography: they exist at the boundaries of rich neighborhoods like Piedmont to track who enters; they exist embedded into poor neighborhoods to track the people who live there. Place exposes their purpose."

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Frankie's Husband Craig! @haveacraigday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They say if you give fascists an inch they’ll take a mile, but what if there was a *special* inch that would make fascists so happy they forget about the mile altogether? A lot of people’s politics revolve around finding that special inch, regardless of how many miles they give up in the process

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dark @darkswordsman.com · 20/09/2026

To be clear, this doesn't mean we need to let up our efforts. It means that we need to push harder because it's actually working.

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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 20/09/2026

going back in time to tell my teenage secular atheist self that when the war comes i am fighting on the side of the pope against the libidinous rationalist forces

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Fiat monkey @abitnervis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My 5yo is obsessed with this: meet Princess Aurora's loudmouthed, inappropriate cousin, Fingerora. Whatever silly one-off thing you do as a parent, beware it could become a constant request.

A Princess Aurora doll dress with my two fingers sticking out the neck hole

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

NYU Langone is paying the government $8.5 million in addition to ceasing gender-affirming care for minors. Cowardly loser shit.

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Ms. Deathwish #Exist2Resist @msdeathwish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Parents know what's best for their kids" So what about parents like me who have a trans kid k support and affirm 100%. We've got to matter too right?

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18/09/2026

Never forget that for many of these tech billionaire creeps, "disrupt" has always just meant "break the fucking law."

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

i think some parents believe they get to decide what becones a “core memory” for their child

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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R Subramanian (he/him) @rsubramanian.com · 17/09/2026

"NPR tracked down equipment and found that some of it was auctioned, donated or thrown in the trash... NASA donated hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of radio communications equipment to Capitol Technology University without the knowledge of the scientists who used it"

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