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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”

Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
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Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
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Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 13h

The 2nd Department Appeals Court is saying it will rule on the Brooklyn Democratic Party power struggle case today, teeing up even more uncertainty ahead of tonight's planned executive committee meeting where the party will pick a new chair.

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Zed @behindthebluemotel.com · 14h

Waiting for more people to realize the sudden increase in this is because of AI crawlers constantly taking sites down, and that the longer the AI push continues to harder it is to actually do anything online

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 16h

The grifters take care of their own

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Adam @adamshap.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NYC’s congestion pricing program cut ambulance travel times by over a minute

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also important to note that it's not completely surprising to see a poll with Collins +3 if the race is really Jackson +3(ish), that's how polling and the distribution of errors works.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

seeing a lot of discussion about this and like: the reason the poster did a screenshot with no link is that if you actually search for the article you'd learn that this bill 1) has nothing to do with Zohran Mamdani 2) was introduced in committee back in May and didn't go anywhere

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A Frogs Gent @frogsgent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Does the rationalist movement have a misogyny problem?" is a question with a pretty clear answer. Just look at what Yud's willing to say out loud.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 27/09/2026

I genuinely haven’t heard it and I think there’s an interesting piece to be written about the death of monoculture (I imagine I would have heard it if we were still in the 90s!) but this piece sidesteps over that in favour of a weird uninteresting bitterness

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Post SZN Nope @lesleynope.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The woman carrying the baby and food in the Giants game clip that went viral has written the full story of her marriage and what happened in the stands that night. If you’ve commented or shared any of the clips you also need to read and share her story themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026

Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 25/09/2026

I do wonder about recency bias in this list. 50 years from now are we still going to be looking back on Ted Lasso so fondly? (also, wild to me that Westworld isn't on the list at all, even accounting for the subpar later seasons)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wild stuff. Sheri Mecklenberg, career prosecutor accused of misconduct in Broadview 6 case, resigns from DOJ. The NYT obtained her scathing resignation letter, in which she says the U.S. attorney directed her to bring felony charges over her objection. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Read the document (Gift Article)

Sheri H. Mecklenburg resignation letter

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I read this as they’re all saying the same thing: they’re saying MARK HALPERIN

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reposting this because one of the many interesting things about the list were the categories voters chose, or didn't. No children's TV. Relatively little reality/documentary. Some comedy/variety, but not late night (say, The Colbert Report). I do not know why. But I have theories!

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Thomas Jerome @thomasjerome.com · 24/09/2026

Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit

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Charlie Savage @charliesavage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The DC Circuit has unsealed about 600 pages of litigation material from the Trump investigations at my request. They include a written 2-1 opinion and dissent (Millett, Wilkins, Katsas) rejecting Trump's attempt to block Mike Pence from testifying before a grand jury www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...

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Newly Public Documents Shed New Light on Trump Investigations (Gift Article)

Records unsealed on Wednesday include a 2023 appeals court opinion rejecting Donald J. Trump’s attempt to block Mike Pence’s grand jury testimony.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 23/09/2026

This thread is wild. What happens when a party is not used to any level of accountability

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is not paywalls, fyi - this chart looks roughly the same for sites that have had paywalls since long before 2022. this is all former SEO traffic that has now vanished in exchange for ai search summaries

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 22/09/2026

Hell yeah ICL One Per Desk. I remember almost nothing about it except you could make it talk and my sister and I made it “sing” the theme to Home and Away en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Per...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I know that some people don't think these types of things are important but I really do. Cultural change precedes political change. When you don't have the culture, it's more difficult to win politically or to sustain political wins. newrepublic.com/post/215697/...

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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go

The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.

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June Martin @theworldsgreatestwriter.com · 22/09/2026

my smart glasses told me "hey, it looks like you're beating your wife. that's not the best approach to being a good husband" and it really turned my life around

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵

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Lukács Doncic @weirdalf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Lmao Among Democrats: Hasan Piker Favorability 🟢Favorable 14% 🌕Neutral 20% 🔴Unfavorable 14% ⚪️Never heard of 51% Link: stratpolitics.org/wp-content/upl…

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 22/09/2026

SCOOP: "Clavicular"—the celebrity looksmaxxer—is facing criminal charges, including rape. www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-look...

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SCOOP: Looksmaxxer Clavicular Charged With Criminal Rape, Drugging

The manosphere celeb faces three counts stemming from an alleged encounter with a minor.

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WIRED @wired.com · 21/09/2026

WIRED asked 634 women what they really think about working in tech. They told us about harassment, bias, unequal treatment, and the everyday indignities that still shape life in the industry. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/women-...

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 21/09/2026

Oddity with Bluesky is that the trending topics can't keep up: my feed is full of people complaining about "transplant discourse", but there's no actual transplant discourse to see

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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 21/09/2026

But, fundamentally, the [gang] wanted to stay completely focused on the [heist] itself, he writes. The team was well aware that they needed to move with speed, as they might soon be slowed down by [security and police].

DOGE members were private citizens, fearful of being personally targeted and unfamiliar with the media apparatus that is part of Washington culture, he says. But, fundamentally, the DOGE crew wanted to stay completely focused on the mission itself, he writes. The team was well aware that they needed to move with speed, as they might soon be slowed down by lawsuits, Congress or other bureaucratic forces.
"We were there to work. We weren't there to be public figuresẠihe said in the interview.
In the book, Hassen implies that this was, to some degree, a miscalculation. "Once we stepped back, others were happy to define the work for usại

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Been reading about Paramount's promise that an outside body will ensure CNN's editorial independence, and man is it wearisome to be the sole person on Earth who remembers anything that happened more than 10 years ago www.theguardian.com/business/200....

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Wall Street Journal committee claims Murdoch broke agreement

A special independent committee accused the press baron of breaking agreement to protect editorial integrity

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 21/09/2026

Great to see Alan Partridge in the NYT

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This genuinely made me laugh out loud today

HOW AM I DRIVING?
HOW DOES AN ENGINE EVEN WORK?
HOW CAN A LOVING GOD CAUSE SUCH AGONY

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/09/2026

Internal emails and documents obtained by The New York Times demonstrate President Trump’s political capture of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including how officials once pursued a plan to unload much of the art collection. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

Debris from fallen ceiling plaster soiled the carpet in the Grand Foyer inside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. A headline reads: "How President Trump Broke the Kennedy Center." Photo by Salwan Georges for The New York Times.

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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This piece is exceptional for many reasons, but one that you should not overlook is the comments and Nikole Hannah-Jones' responses to them. The only way you have a movement is to talk with people.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 20/09/2026

Pitch: “it’s okay for parents to be on a laptop” screenings at movie theatres when school is closed

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g0m @g0m.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The whole internet loves Jev, a cheap model that classifies in milliseconds! *5 days later* We regret to inform you the Jev is racist

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Trump returning to WH; US issues a travel alert for the Middle East

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 19/09/2026

Oh this is going to be a whole thing isn’t it

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 19/09/2026

Ireland’s national broadcaster announces changes for games against Israel: no studio, no in house commentary, no advertising taken www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

RTÉ has confirmed it will provide stripped back coverage that will meet its contractual obligations to broadcast the two UEFA Nations League fixtures between the Republic of Ireland and Israel.
Ireland are scheduled to face Israel in Debrecen in Hungary on 27 September for the 'away' tie, before the return 'home' fixture on 4 October in Backa Topola, Serbia.
RTÉ have contractual broadcasting obligations to cover the games, however there will be no studio presentation, while commentary will be taken from the international feed and will not be provided by an RTE commentator.
A minimal technical team will be deployed by RTÉ to ensure the broadcast goes ahead and there will be no studio punditry.
RTÉ has not taken advertising or sponsorship around either game.
There will be news coverage of the games and the wider events surrounding them.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's a chart from the post.... quite a change in a single generation.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

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