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Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · 12h

Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and the outgoing leadership of the Brooklyn Democrats have been summoned to court to face contempt charges after holding a Zoom meeting at 10 p.m. last night to select new leadership, in direct defiance of a judicial order. hellgatenyc.com/zombie-brook...

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h

A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 05/10/2026

So much going on here that I can’t make sense of www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

The sentencing judge, Todd F. Lang of Maricopa County Superior Court, praised the video, saying, "I loved that A.I." He called it "genuine" and noted that the victim was allowed to "speak from his heart."
He then imposed the maximum sentence, which was more than the nine years that prosecutors had sought.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 03/10/2026

Counter theory: Trump is insisting on going on the road so they’re sending him to the places he’ll do the least damage

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 02/10/2026

Great way to demonstrate the club isn't state owned and is a totally independent business, honest.

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI has already taken the jobs of translators and illustrators and is likely to consign other jobs to the dustbin of history whether we like it or not. Also true: some dumb managers over-estimate AIs capabilities and fire people stupidly. Possibly true: many careers will evolve to compensate for AI.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 02/10/2026

Still think it’s the former because the implication of it is that they have a… slave? whose life and consciousness they sell for profit. If you actually *do* believe it’s conscious… what the hell

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Last point: The biggest losers in a low-turnover job market are younger workers. They're the most likely to be looking for jobs and the ones who benefit most from switching. Right now, it's taking longer for them to find jobs AND their switching rates are especially depressed.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

New: Chris Rufo & his co-host devoted a podcast to "The Indian Question," framing Desi people as a problem to be solved. Their "solution?" Mass expulsion. For those allowed to remain: an “assimilation hazing process” w/ instances of “vulgar, defamatory racism" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/chris-r...

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 02/10/2026

One thing it's useful to remember is that right-wing donors have created a series of local-news-like content sites to poison the information well. And now we have a GOP Senate candidate attacking his opponent by citing claims made by one of these explicitly partisan sites.

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Mike Finger @mikefinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Knicks owner Jim Dolan built himself a private surveillance state. Now he's spending millions to give New York a governor who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers. My latest in @wired.com ... www.wired.com/story/madiso...

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Madison Square Garden’s James Dolan Is Spending Big on New York’s Governor Race

James Dolan has put surveillance at the center of his sports and entertainment empire. Now he’s getting involved in GOP politics by backing a candidate who supports Flock, ICE, and AI data centers.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 01/10/2026

There’s this weird phenomena that, best I can tell, is only on Bluesky, but is people certain that “no one told Harris and Walz to stop saying ‘weird’, that’s a myth.” It’s not, and there’s named sources in CNN articles about, from August 2024.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 01/10/2026

Every Instagram ad I get these days is online gambling. I started blocking them. Block DraftKings, I get Polymarket ads. Block that, I get MGM Casino ads. Block that, I get Fanatics Casino ads. Then Caesars Palace. Then FanDuel. Then Golden Nugget. It just doesn’t stop.

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 01/10/2026

Something darkly comic about Facebook using a picture my own child made of me, for me, to advertise the idea of replacing it with AI generated slop

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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 30/09/2026

I'm sorry did we forget we already did this?

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We rightly give Home Office ministers a hard time here for many things, but in their defence, not one of them has ever ordered the Identity & Passport Service to mail out passports in envelopes that might as well be printed with the words ‘Important identity document enclosed: please steal’.

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Nolan Hicks @ndhapple.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants the Trump administration to exempt New York City’s purchases of new subway cars and buses from tariffs to avoid $1 billion in added fees on the nation’s biggest transit system.” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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MTA Seeks to End $1 Billion of Tariffs on Subway Cars, Buses

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority wants the Trump administration to exempt New York City’s purchases of new subway cars and buses from tariffs to avoid $1 billion in added fees on the nation’s...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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 · 29/09/2026

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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The Vampire LesMak @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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Alastair Coote @alastair.is · 25/09/2026

Kids TV just feels impossible to compare. I think Bluey is phenomenal but does it have the storytelling nuance of, say, The Wire? No, of course not. They’re 7 minutes episodes and everything resets at the end. So would I put it in a top ten? Despite thinking it’s amazing… no

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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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