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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Support @trekcore.com because it is an excellent repository of #StarTrek images, articles, podcasts, and iconic sounds—among other things. It gives us access to the details of 60-year-old franchise without impenetrable ads. www.trekcore.com

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TrekCore Star Trek Multimedia Screencaps and Information!

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Aditya M @almostinfamous.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Welcome to the age of Nepomaxxing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026

Mamdani's speech at the Knicks parade was easily the best I've ever heard at an event of that sort. I posted the whole thing on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Highly recommended.

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Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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European Democrats @europeandemocrats.wsocial.eu · 21/04/2026

After France, Denmark is moving too: its Digitalisation Ministry plans to phase out Microsoft, switching to Linux and LibreOffice in the coming months. The goal is clear—reduce dependence on a handful of global tech giants and strengthen digital sovereignty.

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Sam Reich @samreich.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

get ready for a home game changer... ✨GAME CHANGER: HOME EDITION✨ launches on kickstarter may 5th!!!

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Inject it into my veins.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/02/2026

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

Flock off

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 01/01/2026

Former SOUTH PARK writer Toby Morton got an angry letter from Trump’s lawyers because he registered the Trump-Kennedy Center domain names (check out www.trumpkennedycenter.org 😃) and his response is 100% Pure 2026 ⭐️

wordclown posts:

Re: Kennedy Center .org/.com Domains

Noted.

Satire is protected speech. Confusion is a legal requirement, not a feeling. Political parody is not infringement. Criticism is not cybersquatting, and trademark law isn't a panic button for institutions that don't like being laughed at.

I'll proceed accordingly while you go fuck yourselves.

Dog Bless 🐶🙏

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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia

The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.

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Max Read @maxread.info · 07/11/2025

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

One way of thinking about Twitter, especially in the Elon Musk era, is as the latest and most sophisticated version of the mailing lists that have powered the conservative movement, and the various scams and cons and schemes that constitute it, since the 1960s--in other words, as a huge and immediately accessible collection of suckers, waiting to have their avidity and paranoia exploited for cash. The predictions markets here are happy to play the same role with heavy X.com users as crypto scams and meme-stock hustlers did on the same site a few years ago, or as cash-for-gold ads did with Fox News viewers a decade before that, or as direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes did with Goldwater voters deep in prehistory.1

But the demand for dumb money created by the increasing annexation of our everyday social and cultural lives into casino-market hybrids like predictions markets (or, arguably, social media itself2) isn’t going to be satisfied solely by a pre-existing population of Birchite suckers. We talk a lot about the “male loneliness crisis” but in my estimation we don’t talk enough about the “male suckerfication crisis”: The process by which young men are continuously cultivated--by politicians, influencers, podcasters, sportscasters, and the very structure of social networks--as dupes and suckers, both for the enrichment and empowerment of Trumpist politicians and movements but also in service of the profits an ever-expanding roster of gambling and gambling-adjacent industries, among them app-enabled retail day-trading, crypto speculation, predictions markets, and of course, actual sports betting.

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Welcome to the Anthropic Copyright Settlement Website
Are you the legal or beneficial copyright owner of a book included in the Anthropic Copyright Settlement?
You could get a payment from the $1.5 billion Settlement.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The fucking protein powder has a shrink wrap arbitration agreement now? This is like a nightmare law school hypo

READ THIS: By opening and using this product you agret
to be
bound
Ayall do not agree to be bound, please return this product immediately,
IN PEEL BACK
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 06/08/2025

A federal judge struck down a California law blocking large platforms from hosting deceptive AI-generated content related to elections, citing Section 230 (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

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404 Media @404media.co · 28/07/2025

NEW: a second breach at women's dating safety app Tea has exposed more than one million direct messages. The DMs includes discussions of abortions, cheating, etc. Hard to overstate how sensitive this data is, and it can be used to unmask anonymous Tea users. www.404media.co/a-second-tea...

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A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating

The more than one million messages obtained by 404 Media are as recent as last week, discuss incredibly sensitive topics, and make it trivial to unmask some anonymous Tea users.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Brazil is considering halting the grant of patent monopolies to U.S. drug companies as retaliation to Trump's attacks www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Unlike intellectuals here, Lula recognizes that patent monopolies are NOT the free market.

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Brazil Weighs Measures on US Dividends, Tech Firms, Reports Say

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government is intensifying its deliberations on possible measures after the US government announced it was revoking visas for some Brazilian Supreme Court justice...

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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

them: dont come in here with your tree shit me: [coming in with my tree shit]

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

BREAKING: Documents filed in court today assert that officials from El Salvador told the United Nations that it "facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure" by the U.S. but that "the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the" U.S.

As set forth in the attached Report, the Government of El Salvador responded to the UN
inquiry opened by the four families asking about the disappearance of their family members:
1 The attached exhibit has redacted personal identifying information for the four men discussed in the WGEID report. Petitioners can file an unredacted version of the exhibit under seal at the Court's request, with the exception of one of the cases for particular privacy reasons related to that individual.
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Case 1:25-cv-00766-JEB Document 160
Filed 07/07/25
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The Salvadoran State emphatically states that its authorities have not arrested, detained, or transferred the persons referred to in the communications of the Working Group. The actions of the State of El Salvador have been limited to the implementation of a bilateral cooperation mechanism with another State, through which it has facilitated the use of the Salvadoran prison infrastructure for the custody of persons detained within the scope of the justice system and law enforcement of that other State. In this context, the jurisdiction and legal responsibility for these persons lie exclusively with the competent foreign authorities, by virtue of international agreements signed and in accordance with the principles of sovereignty and international cooperation in criminal matters. In this regard, the actions attributable to the Salvadoran State are limited to its sovereignty and territorial jurisdiction, and therefore it cannot be held responsible for the failure to observe the principle of non-refoulement with respect to the persons mentioned.
Ex. 1 at 6, 9 (emphasis added).

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/07/2025

Los Angeles residents were outraged after dozens of federal agents marched through MacArthur Park, in one of the city’s most immigrant-heavy neighborhoods. Homeland Security officials said it was an immigration enforcement operation, though it was unclear if anyone had been arrested. trib.al/JYW5IsU

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Micaela Mantegna @abogamer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Finally I could get my copy! ❤️🇵🇸

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/07/2025

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Big tech’s role in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza takes center stage at UN "AI for Good” summit in Geneva. Dr. @abeba.bsky.social, a leading responsible AI and AI ethics researcher, calls out big tech’s complicity in war crimes. #NoTechForGenocide #NoAIForGenocide

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

As the FBI assigns hundreds of additional agents to focus on arresting people for deportation, agents "have been told by supervisors not to document moving resources away from high-priority cases toward immigration-related work." www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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Xnet - Instituto para Digitalización Democrática @xnet-x.net · 28/05/2025

🌐 3| Profesorado #Tecnopolítica y Derechos en la Era Digital: Gemma Galdon, @eldanigranados.bsky.social, @jaimeobregon.bsky.social, @maadix.bsky.social, Dr. Jorge Malem Seña, César Manso Sayao, @abogamer.bsky.social, @guillemmartinez.bsky.social, Rafael Martínez Portillo 🔗 xnet-x.net/es/posgrado-...

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

ICE carried out an Iraq 2006 style convoy raid using half a police department, 2 multi-million dollar armored vehicles, and a drone to question a suburban college kid about his anti-genocide and anti-ethnic cleansing posts online. Millions in tax payer dollars to harass a kid.

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Micaela Mantegna @abogamer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I walk through my town as if it is #BaldursGate. Cats included 😻 I have no proof, but I have no doubts 🤭

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WIRED @wired.com · 30/04/2025

SCOOP: A young man with no government experience who hasn’t even finished his undergrad degree is working for Elon Musk’s DOGE at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and has been tasked with using AI to rewrite the agency’s rules and regulations.

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DOGE Put a College Student in Charge of Using AI to Rewrite Regulations

A DOGE operative has been tasked with using AI to propose rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's regulations—an effort sources are told will roll out across government.

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WIRED @wired.com · 01/05/2025

For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever. www.wired.com/story/north-...

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Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea

For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.

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José Orta @orta69.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thank you Greyhound!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

summarize: One, after trial, the Court found that Apple's 30 percent commission
"allowed it to reap supracompetitive operating margins" and was not tied to the value of its intellectual property, and thus, was anticompetitive. Apple's response: charge a 27 percent commission (again tied to nothing) on off-app purchases, where it had previously charged nothing, and extend the commission for a period of seven days after the consumer linked-out of the app.
Apple's goal: maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. Two, the Court had prohibited Apple
from denying developers the ability to communicate with, and direct consumers to, other
purchasing mechanisms. Apple's response: impose new barriers and new requirements to increase friction and increase breakage rates with full page "scare" screens, static URLs, and generic statements. Apple's goal: to dissuade customer usage of alternative purchase opportunities and maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. In the end, Apple sought to maintain a revenue
stream worth billions in direct defiance of this Court's Injunction.
In stark contrast to Apple's initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option. To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his
finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter
to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether
criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate.
This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order. Time is o…

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 09/04/2025

The results from Germany's big 3-year UBI experiment are out! 122 people got €1200/mo for 3 years. All were age 21-40 and employed with incomes between €1100/mo to €2600/mo They were happier, healthier, saved more, gave more, enjoyed more social time, and DID NOT WORK LESS than the control group.

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Studie: Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen macht zufrieden und mental gesund | MDR.DE

Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen – ohne reduzierte Arbeitszeit – steigert Zufriedenheit und mentale Gesundheit. Das geht aus der ersten Langzeitstudie zum Grundeinkommen hervor.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Elon Musk trying to prove his worth to online teens gets destroyed by commenters as he live streamed Path of Exile 2 whispers. Commenters said “YOU HAVE NO REAL FRIENDS AND WILL DIE ALONE” & “DIE” as he frantically tried to hide them, then lost his hardcore permadeath character due to Starlink lag.

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Revista Mecha @revistamecha.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Tu indignación por la "Ghiblificación" puede ser una ventaja para las grandes companías. ¿Cómo? @abogamer.bsky.social, especialista en derecho digital y propiedad intelectual, nos ayuda a entenderlo y propone cómo combatirlo. Por @jimeronica.bsky.social revistamecha.com.ar/ghibligate-e...

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arcticfriend.bsky.social @arcticfriend.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

A Tesla dealer in Rome, Italy. #TeslaTakedown

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide have taken to the streets to protest Tesla. Trust the process. #3E #TeslaTakeDown

A domino effect illustrates how figures like Tesla, Elon, and Trump lead to collapsing an oligarchic influence involving global powers.

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Patrick Iber @patrickiber.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Went canvassing for Judge Crawford today. Another canvasser said Musk has paid canvassers on UW campus offering $100 to boys who will pledge to vote for his candidate, and a lot of them are taking the money

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