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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 2h
arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/a... With #AI coding agents, programmers do less #programming and more #codeReview. Would make work much less satisfying for those who enjoy programming.
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AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
Study finds coding efficiency gains get "absorbed" by human review "bottleneck."
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Homeless housing at former Comfort Inn in Dorchester opens - www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/08/b... #Boston #homeless
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Neighbors fiercely protested this housing project for formerly homeless people. It opened anyway. - The Boston Globe
The former Comfort Inn on Morrissey Boulevard transformed into 99 units of permanent supportive housing.
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f the new york times @fnyt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Judge Throws Out Last Defendant’s Confession in Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo (Gift Article) f the nyt
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Judge Throws Out Last Defendant’s Confession in Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo (Gift Article)
The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
On 30 October, dockworkers on the Mediterranean are mobilizing against the war machine. Join me in contributing to their strike fund. refusetomove.org?source=blues... #labor #Gaza #Iran #Sudan #Cuba #Venezuela
refusetomove.org
Strike Fund — Refuse to Move
On 30 October 2026, dockworkers across 40 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated action against militarization and war.
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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 06/10/2026
The good folk at Progressive International are helping coordinate this strike fund for dockworkers refusing to load weapons on 30 Oct. Pitch in if you can! refusetomove.org/strike-fund/
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Strike Fund — Refuse to Move
On 30 October 2026, dockworkers across 40 Mediterranean ports will take coordinated action against militarization and war.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This starts with her aggressively trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood. I'd like to see someone turn the tables on this. "You're Christian, right? Did you support Timothy McVeigh? Did you agree with Dylann Roof? Or Eric Rudolph? Robert Lewis Dear? No? Even though you share their religion?"
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/10/2026
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/05/p...
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-... #SamiAbuShehadeh #Israel #Zionism #democracy #apartheid
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The trial and humiliation of Sami Abu Shehadeh
Palestinians with Israeli citizenship are no longer asked to pledge allegiance, but to renounce their own history. Palestinian Knesset candidate Sami Abu Shehadeh did exactly that before Israel’s Supr...
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
An extraordinary story, and I hope you read it.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“While the sit-in was scheduled to end at 5 pm, several members of the syndicate’s general assembly announced that they would remain inside the syndicate, keeping the sit-in open-ended until the Matsda2sh journalists are released” storage.googleapis.com/madamasr/en/...
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Dozens join syndicate demonstration to call for Matsda2sh journalists’ release
Dozens of journalists participated on Saturday in a symbolic sit-in inside the Journalists Syndicate to call for the release of the Matsda2sh journalists, whose whereabouts remain unknown after securi...
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I just saw a map of the 1,300+ factory farms in California at FactoryFarmWatch.org. I encourage you to check out this informative map and learn more about how factory farms are impacting our state. You can also contact your legislators through the site to ask them to take action. #factoryFarms
factoryfarmwatch.org
The #1 resource on factory farming in California
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LeeDay22 @leeday22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Summer retreats in Port Clyde, Maine for Chief Justice Roberts include protests about how the Court has reshaped American life . Neighbors, calling themselves “kayak-tivists,” form flotillas facing his island home, holding waterproof signs of disappointment and dismay. By Jodi Kantor @nytimes.com
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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John Mullinax @johnmullinax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This discussion with @doctorow.pluralistic.net is great. Really worth watching the whole thing. Starts with some of his thoughts on AI but, IMHO, the best bit is the stuff on digital sovereignty.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026
Since January 20, 2025, ICE has deported more than 66,000 people identified as members of a family unit, about one in ten removals. Family detention is back too, at Dilley and Karnes in Texas. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-has-de...
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ICE Has Deported More Than 66,000 Family Members Under Trump Administration, Family Detention Is Back at Dilley and Karnes
New ICE data show more than 66,000 family-unit deportations since January 20, 2025, about one in ten removals, with an August spike above 20 percent, as family detention reopens at Dilley and Karnes.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.wired.com/story/experi... #WestBank #Palestine #checkpoints #Israel
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Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.dropsitenews.com/p/uae-alp-se... #USA #UAE #Muslims #LorenzoVidino #smearCampaign
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How the UAE Financed a Plan to Smear American Muslims
Leaked documents show how an Emirati defamation campaign extended into the United States, creating a blacklist that includes mainstream Muslim groups and dozens of American citizens.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Meta #dataCenters #taxBreak
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The story of out-of-state consultants homogenizing Troy Jackson is more complicated, Bob Kuttner reports. It was Jackson's own close aide, BJ McCollister, who encouraged him to use Chuck Schumer's team, because McCollister's consulting firm stood to make a fortune from ad placement.
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Chuck Schumer Neuters Troy Jackson - The American Prospect
Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 29/09/2026
Fresh update to our Habeas case tracker: More than 83,000 immigrants have filed cases challenging the legality of their detention so far since Jan. 2025. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...
A screenshot of the ProPublica Habeas tracker showing a big 83,328 — the number of cases filed since Jan. 2025.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026
There's less need to stress about advertisers following where you go online when you have Privacy Badger installed. privacybadger.org/
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Privacy Badger
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JennyB @iheartmaps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don't know how to deal with you if you read these and don't feel an immense ache for the lack of humanity we are showing to our neighbors.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026... #browsers #firefox #ai
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Interview: Firefox's chief on why he hopes a redesign will help win users from Chrome
Mozilla's Ajit Varma explains why a redesign suits the fight for the open web.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
1. Jay Feely, a former NFL kicker and a GOP candidate for Congress in Arizona, has made “protecting women’s sports” a centerpiece of his election campaign. So I reviewed years of Feely’s podcast appearances to see what he actually thinks about female athletes. 🧵
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Critchley on Heidegger @critonheidegger.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Dr. Simon Critchley NYT Opinion Guest Essay: "The Id, the Ego, and Superintelligence" Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/o... #philosophy #newyorktimes #simoncritchley #AI #memory
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Opinion | The Id, the Ego and the Superintelligence (Gift Article)
Artificial intelligence isn’t coming for philosophers’ jobs — it needs philosophers, and always will.
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RalfGrahn @ralfgrahn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How the Democrats went along with Israel's genocide in Gaza www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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How Democrats Were Torn Apart by the War in Gaza (Gift Article)
In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... China AI: Data centres rise from the rolling plains of Inner Mongolia The BBC visits Inner Mongolia, an unlikely frontier in Beijing's AI race with Washington. #China #AI #dataCenters
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China AI: Data centres rise from the rolling plains of Inner Mongolia
The BBC visits Inner Mongolia, an unlikely frontier in Beijing's AI race with Washington.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DoorDash agreed to a $131.5 million settlement with the city for failing to pay workers' wages.
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Mamdani Delivers Largest Labor Enforcement Action in City's History
DoorDash agreed to a $131.5 million settlement with the city for failing to pay workers' wages.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Thanks for sharing, Senator and for your work on this issue. Link to the piece here: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/o...
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Opinion | Why People Are Sabotaging Flock Surveillance Cameras
The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.
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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder. Bush admin messed up, 9/11 happened, then lied the country into an illegal war. Tortured people. There was financial corrution everywhere. Rule of law was undermined. Obama blocked prosecutions, said "look forward as opposed to looking backwards." www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/u...
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Obama Reluctant to Look Into Bush Programs (Gift Article)
Barack Obama indicated that he was unlikely to authorize a broad inquiry into Bush administration programs like domestic eavesdropping.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.dropsitenews.com/p/ulm5-elbit... #Ulm5 #Germany #Elbit #Gaza #genocide #Israel
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The Ulm 5 Trial Dramatizes Germany’s Complicity with Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Five activists who vandalized an Elbit Systems factory aim to put Germany and the Israeli weapons company on trial.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Google the net worth of the CEO of the Gristedes supermarket chain---> think about how when the price of groceries exceeds "reasonable" it's going to him ----> think about how a state-run grocery store does not need to jack up food prices because there is no CEO who wants to be a billionaire.
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nfariousactivities.bsky.social @nfariousactivities.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
——————————- The Elimination Project: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank A just-published report referenced in the op-ed below, by the human rights organization, B’Tselem. www.btselem.org/the_eliminat... Thanks for the post & gift link!
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
sick society
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
theconversation.com/the-typical-... We've known about this feature of the Walmart paradigm's efficiency. Taxpayers contribute to the company's profits, and that's effectively normal in our capitalism. The feature appearing in the gig economy is a logical progression. #gigEconomy #labor #capitalism
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The typical gig worker is changing – and struggling more than ever to make ends meet
For many gig workers, app-based work is no longer just about extra cash but economic need, a new survey finds.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#genocide #Israel
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w... There were reports that before their guilt was determined, the Muslim men arrested in the initial dragnet after 9/11 were treated much like the ICE treated these deportees. "This is not who we are" is a wishful thought. #ICE #deportation #thirdcountry
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=SLxY... #India #Pakistan #Burma #Bangladesh #GCC #empire #partition
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The story of how a Greater India was shattered into 12 modern states | Sam Dalrymple | UNAPOLOGETIC
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
There's a bigger problem here than just the egregious cuts to #H2A workers' wages. Trump is pairing aggressive deportations with lower H-2A wage requirements to "make it easier for growers to transition to a legal workforce." But legal ≠ good. www.newsweek.com/trump-h2a-wa...
newsweek.com
Judge says Trump H-2A wage rule could hurt American farmworkers
The Department of Labor's efforts to address labor shortages and cut costs failed to consider U.S. workers, the judge said.
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@IlainME Vote Blue-your vote matters! NO ARCH @ilainme.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Audio Available www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Judge Excludes Key Confession in Sept. 11 Case (Gift Article)
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
According to a new city report, enforcement of New York City’s tip transparency law has led to an average of about $2,287 in additional tips for each of the city’s 70,000 app-based delivery workers.
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NYC Delivery Workers Earned $104M Extra in Tips Under New City Law
According to a new city report, enforcement of New York City’s tip transparency law has led to an average of about $2,287 in additional tips for each of the city’s 70,000 app-based delivery workers.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... #NYC #rents #Compass #Zillow #anticompetitive
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Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says
Renters say hidden Zillow listings make it harder to afford living in New York City.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
#ICE #deportation #thirdCountry
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#immigration #ICE #deportation #travel
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#ICE #deportation #thirdCountries
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.thequint.com/news/politic... #India #casteism
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'Tu Sala N**ch': Dalit Journalist Beaten In Udaipur, 2 FIRs Filed, 1 Against Him
"He abused my caste and attacked me with a sharp object on my chest, neck, face and head," alleged Lakhan Salvi. He was attacked in Gogunda district while he was at work, recording people's bytes.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.salon.com/2026/08/18/t... > Taxpayer-funded federal security agencies are being used as a private shield for a political dynasty, deployed to physically block the basic mechanics of a civil lawsuit that Trump himself initiated. #Trump #BBC
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Trump sued the BBC — now Jared and Ivanka may pay for it
Secret Service agents blocked the subpoena at the door, but Trump's suit could still force testimony
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich - popular.info/p/how-vivek-... #VivekRamaswamy #Ohio #pumpAndDump
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How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.
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a k_wala @akwala.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
ICE Worked With Iran on Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War - theintercept.com/2026/08/18/i... #ICE #immigration #asylum #deportation #USA #Iran #Qatar
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ICE Worked With Iranian Regime to Set Up Deportation Flights as Trump Laid Plans for War
Immigration agents appeared to comply with an Iranian request to hand over specific nationals — and send the wrong person to Iran.
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