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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
wired.com
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 21/09/2026
“Everything is 40% more expensive because of AI” is a great line for an opposition party trying to unseat the AI-supported incumbents, if any Democratic consultants wanted to take a short break from dehumanizing trans kids to actually try winning a contested election.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 20/09/2026
So Netflix is using "AI" to upscale old movies and shows, with obvious results. Using an algorithm to upscale old video isn't a terrible thing, but to do it right you need to have someone willing to go over every frame. Trouble is, dipshits think it's magic.
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 13/09/2026
I think "be your real ID self" might be the least meaning words have ever had
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
From the piece itself: "Hardened anti-immigration campaigners were using their newly developed tactics for the first time." How exactly are they hardened? On account of their many criminal records? Have they all been on a lot of 'protests' previously? How would we know given they all wear masks?
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Activists? Activists?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
So obviously this is just racism, when he says 'dirtier' he means 'less white.' But, like, also anyone paying any attention at all - America is richer and cleaner than it was in the 1980s when I was born. Like, come the fuck on. Y'all remember the smoking section at a McDonalds? Gross.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This airline rules so hard
Ryanair will dispute passenger's claim he was sucked out of window
CEO Michael O'Leary tells reporters the businessman was sucked 'towards' but not out of the opening
Business live -latest updates
Gwyn Topham
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Wtf do the government want from us here!? They plainly, *plainly*, do not actually want international students. Their whole line of policy for years has been making it more difficult for such people to come here or stay after they graduate! Why are they also out here encouraging us to attract more!?
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
slightly flummoxed by someone spending 15 years studying the impact of AI on society, writing a book aimed at explaining what AI means for children's futures, and then concluding with: we should focus on maths and English www.ft.com/content/bb42...
ft.com
How to teach the next generation in the era of AI
The Pisa results sound the alarm on the disastrous impact of tech on our basic skills
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"Fortunately, we have been here before. When the electronic calculator arrived in schools and exam halls in the 1980s, the fear was the same, yet over time we still found a way to flourish" I have not spent 15 years studying this, but fairly sure the fear was not the same
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
as always, very predictably, the overwhelming majority of American Jews continue to support Democrats, oppose Trump, Vance & MAGA, oppose ICE, oppose Netanyahu, oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza, and are not suddenly going to become single-issue Israel voters jumping ship to the GOP
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Stop calling far-right thugs 'protesters' ffs.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Not sure if this is a commentary on Agnes Callard, or Twitter
n case any of you follow me on Twitter and wonder why I haven’t posted there in a long time, the reason is that my account was hacked back in September and I reported this to Twitter, but it turns out the hacker was better at impersonating me than I am and they convinced Twitter that they were the real me and thus I can’t access that account ever again.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
(I do think the policing instincts are subsiding a bit, but absolutely stop doing copshit that puts educators on the same side as surveillance tech.) 👇🏻
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gregorg @greg.org · 27/08/2026
you had the choice to call out the bad faith and patently racist comments and actions by the admin w/r/t a painting by a Black American of the embassy's literal Black neighbors, and to raise a warning of ideological and racist purges of govt commissioned art, and you went with criticizing the artist
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Charles Murray was about to sign the open letter of support until he discovered this guy did not do a racism
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
This year's admirals are *always* last year's pirates, and they insist that what *they* did to their predecessors was progress, while anyone who tries to do the same thing to *them* is a thief. 18/
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Let me answer that with a selection from most recent episode of AV which has been haunting me (@cnewf.bsky.social speaking).
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"one day this will all be a data center"
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The single most impactful social/cultural development over the last decade (that virtually no retrospectives of "woke" have engaged in) is the new elite consensus that moral judgement is itself inherently illegitimate.
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alyson “october” greaves @badambulist.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
much as the murder of Brianna Ghey mysteriously stopped being about the climate of transphobia in the UK and became about teen access to social media, the death of Jason Arday is, equally mysteriously, no longer about racism and is becoming about free speech in academia
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We are engaged in struggle. Truth is, of course, a vital weapon in that struggle, but falling for bad faith appeals to academic freedom is not a route to enlightenment, but to the Lysenkoism of the Trump HHS, the suppression of climate data, the resurgence of eugenics and all the rest of this mess
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The terminally agora- brained who imagine that in defending Cofnas they’re defending an abstract space of disinterested academic inquiry may wish to look at his 2023 essay ‘How to Take Back Academia’, which makes it clear that he is engaged in a political project …
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/08/2026
Any frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces that attended those achievements. For example, I often tell people who want to get into tech, "If you lack the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you." 1/
An old-timey baseball player sliding into base in a great dust-cloud. The background is a high-magnification multicore CPU.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"What do you do for a living?" I go around telling rich people that their ideas are going to change the world
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026
Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m…
MYTH: The government will take away your money and give it to the poor.

FACT: You are the poor.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Most transphobia, or so it seems to me, is about wanting culturally contingent hierarchies and identity scripts to be Inscribed in Nature in some deep way that obviates the need for reflective examination, and getting very anxious and angry about anything that makes it clear that’s a fantasy.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Would have been more interested to know what Max Pemberton made of this, but I guess institutions and norms are less sexy than drugs and brains
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
SCAM ALERT: Do not order from www.fantagraphics-us.com, it is not a legitimate website! They have cloned our real website and are stealing people’s credit card information. If you want to order directly from us, please do so at www.fantagraphics.com.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
At some private schools, every single student is on a publicly funded voucher. Does that make the schools public or private? Read @megomatz.bsky.social's piece on how the schools operate mostly in secret.
propublica.org
At “Quasi-Public” Private Schools, 100% of Students Get Tuition Vouchers. There’s Almost No Accountability.
Private schools — even those that are heavily dependent on taxpayer funding — often operate without the scrutiny public schools are subject to. Following the money at one Milwaukee private school reve...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yeah, we bought eighteen tons of turkey, so we’re sending unemployed people to turkey boot camps to get job-ready.
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Evan Berry @ecothought.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Deep reading, careful listening, and constructive conversing" are forms of direct action because they "have been made harder to do by structural adjustments to our systems of media, politics, and economy on behalf of consolidated power. These adjustments are...are not inevitable or permanent."
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
sociologically: came of age in church singing the same hymns people had for generations, in the sample heavy era of hip hop, learning jazz (where learning "standards"/ transcriptions of others' improvisations was expected!) so maybe just never developed the view of originality others seem to have
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
the reason people think it's disappeared is because the big chain bookstore has been replaced by Amazon but the quirky indie bookstore survives. a reverse you've got mail
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
I see mass deportations have ushered in a golden age of American prosperity, exactly as promised.
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ada ciganlija @dorionniprock.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
adios literary men, don’t let the book hit ya where the good lord etc etc
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
We’ve spoken about capitalism versus socialism.

Do you want to talk about capitalism? Let’s talk about capitalism. Are you recording? Capitalism is about leveraging the laws of supply and demand to efficiently allocate capital expenditure to maximize value. When capitalism works, it’s because you have free entry and exit into markets. So if you believe in capitalism, you have to believe in government regulation to protect markets. In fact, right now, we have exactly the opposite. You don’t have to be a socialist to believe that you should be taxing billionaires their wealth. In fact, if you are a capitalist, you should believe in that. So, I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.
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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Hey @theguardian.com feel free to devote a few headlines to the total crisis afflicting literally most of the HE sector and the government’s complete abdication of responsibility for it. Or just keep going on about one guy at one place who might or might not have been over-promoted; whatever…
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026
Google is an absentee landlord. In 2019, they chose to *deliberately worsen* search results in order to make you search repeatedly to find the information you're seeking, because every fresh query lets them serve fresh advertisements: pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/b... 9/
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Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV (26 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/08/2026
If we're to have a landlord for our civilization's digital nervous system, let's not have it be an *absentee* landlord. 8/
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