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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 12h

Here's the text of the brief submitted by The BTI: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25... It was written by Richard Samp, a right-wing activist lawyer and member of the Federalist Society (fedsoc.org/bio/richard-...)

No. 25-170
In the
Supreme Court of the United States
SUNCOR ENERGY (U.S.A.) INC., ET AL.,
Petitioners,
U.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF BOULDER
COUNTY, ET AL.,
Respondents. On Writ of Certiorari to the
Supreme Court of Colorado
BRIEF OF THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE
AS AMICUS CURIAE
IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONERS

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AI is a fucking pied piper, and everyone else is a rat

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

equity markets go brrrrr

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

an accurate representation of how it feels to check up on US politics/discourse after being down with a cold for mere three days

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Ivan Turgenev's "Execution of Troppmann" is a short essay, published in 1870, that gives a first-hand account of the writer attending a public execution in Paris. Turgenev's details how the drunk, unruly crowd turned a somber moment into a carnival. A deeply moving essay; I encourage you to read it.

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Jimmy Two Heads 💀🎃 @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

They’re bringing back all the hits aren’t they

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nothing more perfectly sums up the institutionalization Of revolution more than French riot cops attacking French youth in a place they’ve been taught to celebrate revolution for their entire school career.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026

The thing is this: history is complex. Ethics aren’t

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

delighted to share with you a few slides from my powerpoint on the culture industry, which I first made in 2015 (?), pre-AI, and have added to, little by little, over the years, as the processes of homogenization have intensified & the smothering sameness of mainstream ideas become more choking: +

Slide from Culture Industry lecture: The Culture Industry / Art Under Late Capitalism. "The whole world is passed through the filter of the culture industry" (99).

Diagram from mid 2010s showing the consolidation of media conglomerates in publishing-- now hilariously (?) obsolete

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Guy Bundestrivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's so funny that they think they can buy the Pope the same way they think they bought the current president

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

AI #slopaganda is not so much about fakes or disinformation. It's about aligning the world with your preformulated descriptions of it, making reality disappear behind its formulaic image, rendering visible all your fears at once in order to enjoy them more. It's a technology of fascist daydreaming

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...

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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 15/09/2026

Computerisation is invisibilisation and precarisation of labour part 49462

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🚨New Paper🚨 From Socialization to Social Research: Felix Weil, Karl Korsch, and the Political Origins of the Frankfurt School Jacob Blumenfeld In: Contemporary Critical Theory and Latin America: A South–North Dialogue on the Crises of the Present (2026) PDF: philpapers.org/rec/BLUFST

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

None of these features is mere sloppiness, they're all symptoms of the way genAI works: the 3rd eye is added to the established pattern of a human face the model cannot deviate from; the Roman Empire is what «antiquity» means in a latent space derived from Hollywood epics: a costume, not an epoch …

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 11/09/2026

Here’s how the New York Times describes this moment in their coverage:

At one point Mr. Trump asked attendees to raise their right hands and pledge to him that he would vote with their family and friends.
Dutifully, they did.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

I still can’t deal with the fact that we live in a timeline that seems to have been written by a first semester gender studies student trying their hand at some bonkers masculinity-themed horror story

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's The Times trying to make masked fascists look good while one *does a Nazi salute in the story's cover photo*

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...

samf.substack.com

Sovereignty for sale

Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

I am so so so surprised that it turns out the plagiarism machine’s most „exciting“ research results that had mathematicians fear for their profession turn out to have been plagiarised

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Wim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yes, but neither was 1.5 with overshoot. If we just stick to what is politically/economically realistic, we might as well forget about the PA goals. The task has always been to do whatever we can to move the goalposts on what is realistic, and make the impossible not so. All else is inadequate.

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

all your faschismustheorien are lacking if they do no register that fascism promises cuddling huge rabbits in front of fantasy cathedrals

tim pool tweeted zu trump. trump in goldener rüstung hält einen riesigen hasen und kuschelt mit ihm.
der text: "You'll never know want or loneliness again." Trump said. "The world was cruel to you, but you have Trump now."

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 01/09/2026

REVEALED: #BigTech and #BigOil are teeming up to push new gas-powered #datacentres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emissions, worsening the climate crisis' deadly impacts. corporateeurope.org/en/2026/08/d...

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A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil | Corporate Europe Observatory

Big Tech and Big Oil are teeming up to push new gas-powered data centres, and greenwashing them with promises of carbon capture. But carbon capture is a paper tiger: new fossil gas just means new emis...

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 31/08/2026

An excellent thread on a new - seemingly coordinated – wave of German disinformation regarding EVs versus internal combustion engines. (And on how ‘Europe’s best university’ is not doing enough to uphold its academic credentials; with a non-public and non-peer reviewed whitepaper as ‘source’)

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

Can I get some reading material recommendations for a syllabus on 20th century political philosophy? I want it to skew towards contemporary questions. Curious what others would put in, especially re democracy, ruling class, fascism and the capitalist state. Recognizable names probably (meh obv)

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Karl Kraus, 1922

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Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Its disconcerting that the public encounters a "race realist" for the first time. Things like this have been standard online talk for over a decade, nerdy versions of richard spencer abound. Yarvin used to crank that handle

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

“It’s impossible that Jason Arday could have got his post without DEI,” say people about an industry which can find 200 academics willing to sign a letter in support of David Miller and another 200 academics willing to support Nathan Cofnas.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

You can’t understand it unless you recognise: the people doing it *loved it*, they had an absolute blast, just as they always do kicking fuck out of some despised unperson, until suddenly all their fun was ruined and they were left babbling excuses.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I am *extremely insistently* tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026

Tech guys: why do they hate us & our data centers so much? Also tech guys: hey, what if we built the biggest fossil fuel power plant ever?!

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Nvidia Backs OpenAI’s Plan to Build America’s Biggest Power Plant

On Belgium’s fire, African oil, and the Philippines’ trash

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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

historians.org

How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here’s a graphic projecting massive and devastating #climate driven drying out of soils right across Europe by mid-century… …oh wait, sorry, that’s an ACTUAL reading from August 10th last. My mistake.

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

psychoanalytic theory peers: does anyone have any writings to recommend on the subject of the relation between neuropsychiatry's findings re the biological dimension of mental illness and the non-biological dimension pertinent to psychoanalysis (aside from the well-known, ie Solms etc)?

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The thing that people (incl journalists) seem to willingly ignore is that 'right wing' (witch hunt or whatever else) includes you if you behave like it. These are not labels that are conferred onto 'others'. They become 'you' the moment you act like them. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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A rightwing witch-hunt focused on Jason Arday – but so did legitimate journalism | Hugh Muir

Amid the grief and rage at a tragic loss, it’s right to differentiate between those who fought a culture war and others who just sought the truth, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One of your writers was specifically told of Jason’s mental health and that he was distressed but he went on to publish 6 articles and do two podcasts in the space of eleven days anyway. “We were only doing our jobs” won’t fucking wash. You are part of this. Own it.

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afrelek @afrelek.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026

An addition: I think the overlap between this population and the AI-bros lies precisely in the hatred of intellectual work that involves frustration of the peculiar type inherent to deep work with textual sources. It’s the command “explain Deleuze to me or I’ll fucking kill you” directed at an LLM

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Ricarda Lang @ricardalang.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026

Die Hitzeschutzstrategie der Bundesregierung: Herbst.

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