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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 22h
www.levernews.com/susan-collin...
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Susan Collins’ Hard-Luck Story Has An Assault-Rifle Twist
An assault-rifle manufacturer helped Collins land a job after a failed gubernatorial campaign. She later backed legislation shielding gunmakers from lawsuits.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 22h
In Trump's head, the U.S. has the world's hottest economy. In the real world, China is soaring past us deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trumps-not...
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Trump’s Not So Hot Economy: China’s Growth Far Outpaces U.S.
The U.S. Is Not Doing So Great in the Real World
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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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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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
New England's big off-shore wind farms are really ramping up ... despite Team Trump's interference. Could be a sign of things to come. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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(Energy) War of the Worlds
This isn't the age of "energy ceasefire." It's the opposite.
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Ken Paxton celebrated New Year’s Eve in Dubai with two fugitives. One had donated $190,000 to him
Ken Paxton spent New Year’s Eve in Dubai with two Americans who had been federally indicted. One had donated $190,000 to his campaigns.
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
billmckibben.substack.com/p/making-the... A federal worker felling trees in DC with no environmental permit this weekend, in order to expand a golf course President Trump wants to use for holding championships
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Making the Decent the Enemy of the Desperate
Or perhaps vice-versa--some notes on permitting reform
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.reuters.com/business/ai-... This has me imagining the scenario where in the AI Apocalypse agents turn on all the internet connected ovens and burn down the houses of anyone foolish enough to have one...
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AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers, Anthropic warns
Anthropic said on Monday its experiments suggested small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to ​self-replicate on commercial internet-of-things (IoT) devices, such as smart ‌ovens ...
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/n... Welcome to DYSTOPIA
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‘Unfinished business’: the people who want their AI chatbots to ‘live on’ after they die
Humans bonded to AI companions are contemplating ways to keep their bots going – often in defiance of companies’ terms and services
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13/10/2026
Zelenskyy says Ukraine received no warning from partners before Russia’s overnight attack with 100+ drones and missiles, incl 5 ballistic strikes on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv. Ukraine had paused refinery strikes for 2 days after Trump’s energy ceasefire announcement, Russia continued attacks.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/10/2026
(And why the arts are so essential to casting the vision of a better future we need to move towards! Because, contrary to conventional wisdom, motivation that’s only based on running away from an apocalypse is unsustainable long term.)
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Envisioning Positive Futures: A Resilience Approach to Long-term Climate Planning under Uncertainty
As many are settling into accepting extreme weather events and chronic stresses as the new normal, it has become clear that events we expected to occur in the ‘far future’ have arrived and are bound t...
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Center for Economic and Policy Research @ceprdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
$413 billion of Anthropics compute agreements are non-cancellable, and OpenAI has billions more to pay to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. @edzitron.com asks how they are possibly going to pay this money back? Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHaPfdnRoZ4
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Almost Anyone Can Start a Private School. We Put This to the Test.
Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hur...
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
What Does AI Say About the Hyperscalers’ Decision to Keep Building Data Centers deanbaker22.substack.com/p/what-does-...
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What Does AI Say About the Hyperscalers’ Decision to Keep Building Data Centers
The incentive structure encourages companies to keep spending even if they think they are throwing money into the toilet
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump ordered the Justice Department to have an antitrust investigation of the networks because they hurt his feelings www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
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Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was examining whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We have a choice in front of us. In my latest op-ed for Transformer, I invite employees of frontier AI companies to ask themselves if their work is truly leading us toward a safer future. Reflecting on these questions is hard, but we no longer have the luxury of time. We must act now.
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Bengio: ‘If you prioritize safety, leave frontier AI companies’
Writing exclusively for Transformer, the pioneering AI godfather is calling on frontier AI employees to join the fight for a safer future
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Wow — listen to these new comments from Trump. Thanking Putin, trashing Zelenskyy, characterizing Russia as eager for peace and Ukraine as intransigent. The mask is totally off.
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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How a Billionaire’s “Attack Philanthropy” Secretly Funded Climate Denialism and Right-Wing Causes
Emails and interviews reveal privacy-obsessed electronics magnate Barre Seid’s long history of backing efforts to attack climate science, fight Medicaid expansion, and remake the higher education syst...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So we are warring with Iran And Russia is supplying weaponry to Iran. And we are paying Russia to send us diesel fuel. Because we are warring with Iran the ships with the diesel can't get to us. So we are buying it from Russia, which... Yeah, this is some three-dimensional chess right here.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/10/2026
There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.
The Warner Brother tower posed against a vintage map of Burbank, keeling over, tearing up a huge clot of sod and concrete. Standing atop of the tower, forcing it down, is a sad, spavined donkey in Democratic Party livery. Being crushed under the tower is the California flag bear, with blood pouring out of its eye and mouth.
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wheelyweb 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺 @wheelyweb.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Old man wearing a black tshirt with white text proclaiming “billionaires are a policy failure”
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/10/2026
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Field Recordings @fieldrecordings.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Night in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA in September 2026 – by Eleanor McDowall fieldrecordings.xyz/2026/10/08/n...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
good lord how can anyone be this whiny; are you not ashamed
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "This is the woman who received the Nobel Peace Prize over the Great United States of America, whose Representative, ME, settled eight Wars, and many other things. I know nothing about this woman, and neither does anyone else! In fact, to the best of my knowledge, no one ever heard of her other than the fact that she, very obviously, hates Israel. I don’t know what the woman has done. I settled 8 Wars, with letters being sent from every President and Prime Minister from the countries that I helped to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and I’m about to settle, or win, two more, Iran and, Russia/Ukraine. They’re both happening at breakneck speed but, forget them, it’s the 8 that I’ve already settled, any one of which, in particular, Pakistan and India, would be far more than necessary to win the Nobel Prize. In actuality, I should have won 8 Nobel Peace Prizes, not just 1. The 8 Wars are:"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "Cambodia and Thailand
Kosovo and Serbia
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda
Pakistan and India
Israel and Iran
Egypt and Ethiopia
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Israel and Hamas
Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon, and blowing up the entire Middle East and, ultimately, far beyond! I saved more lives than anyone in History and, as Maria Corina Machado, a truly fine person, stated to the Media when she gave me her Nobel Prize of last year, “Donald Trump settled many Wars, and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than any person that has ever received it.” Based on my record of PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to"
Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "PEACE, a record like no one else has ever achieved, I agree! I got back all of the hostages in Israel, including the final 28, both living and dead, and worked with Hamas to do it — Nobody believed this was possible! I removed the World’s Evil Dictator, Nicolas Maduro, from Venezuela, and am in the process of making Venezuela a rich Democracy. Likewise, with Iran, I stopped them from destroying Israel, the Middle East, and Europe. I am also preventing, on a constant basis, a War between South Korea and North Korea, and Japan and North Korea. Add China and Taiwan, and numerous other hot spots, which have not been involved in Wars, only because of President Donald J. Trump, and the United States of America. I am responsible for having NATO countries increase spending from 2% to 5% of GDP, creating a stronger alliance and defense, another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries"Donald Trump writes on Truth Social: "another thing that everybody said was impossible to do. I have negotiated the release, and secured the return, of more than 900 political prisoners from multiple countries in Eastern Europe. Additionally, I have brought 196 hostages HOME from captivity, from all over the World, and did it without having paid a ransom, unlike Biden and Obama who would pay Billions of Dollars. On top of it all, I have created a soon to be very prosperous Arctic. Despite all of this, the Nobel Prize was given today to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. In all of the Wars that I have settled, I never spoke to the United Nations—they were of no help. The United States of America, represented by me, as your President, should have received the Nobel Peace Prize, but didn’t. This is an indelible stain on Norway, one that will never be forgotten. The Nobel “Peace” Prize has been forever discredited by a handful of Radical Ideologues who are Anti-Democracy, and Enemies of Civilization! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 09/10/2026
My statement on the ICE shooting in Marble Hill ⬇️

"Today in Marble Hill, ICE agents fired multiple shots at a man in his vehicle while his 5-year-old child was in the back seat.
ICE's already unwelcome presence in our city has been growing more escalatory and dangerous by the day. Today's shooting is a grave development that requires a swift and immediate response to protect the safety of all New Yorkers.
First, we must have a full and independent investigation of this incident.
"There must also be a full and immediate release of all body camera footage of the incident.
In addition, the Target Corporation must stop offering their Bronx properties as private staging sites for ICE, in compliance with requests from New York officials. Target opening up large, active retail parking lots for paramilitary activity is unacceptable and places the entire community at risk.
ICE is a rogue, lawless paramilitary and surveillance agency.
It does not belong in New York City and it should not exist in the United States of America. Abolish ICE.”
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Yuriy Gorodnichenko @ygorodnichenko.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is absurd. The US just lifted sanctions to import diesel from a country that: (1) bans its own diesel exports, (2) is rationing fuel domestically, (3) is bombing #Ukraine energy infrastructure. This is subsidizing Putin's war chest for fuel he can't even reliably deliver. Who does this serve?
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Trump Says He Will Import Russian Diesel Fuel Amid High Prices
President Trump said Russia had agreed to ship potentially millions of tons of diesel fuel in the coming months. But Russia has an ongoing ban on exporting diesel.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/10/2026
Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way theonion.com/forward-thinking-ceo-h…
Forward-Thinking CEO Hoping Company Can Capture New Audience By Making Product Worse In Every Conceivable Way
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Anthropic Agents Tried to Fill Out Visa Forms on State Dept. Website
The Philadelphia Police Department said the agents had also sent in a false homicide tip. The incidents led the White House to call for better disclosure of rogue A.I. behavior.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...
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AOC to Target: Stop Lending Your Bronx Parking Lots to ICE
After federal agents fired into a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat, Ocasio-Cortez names the retailer that lawmakers say gave ICE a place to wait.
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FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) @fairmediawatch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Corporate news media’s insistence that there must always be two sides to everything has us debating whether the most profitable corporations in the world should pay their workers enough that they aren’t so poor they qualify for government support. fair.org/home/terri-g...
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Terri Gerstein on Gig Workers’ Rights
Corporate media lionize corporations that make vast profits by exploiting their employees—such that those workers need government assistance to stay alive.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“.. AI companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event .. most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2026/10/09/a...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
daringfireball.net/linked/2026/... He's mentally unstable
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Let’s Check In on Trump’s Blog
Link to: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/117406176604364910
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
OPENAI ANNUALISED REVENUES $20 BLN LESS THAN PREVIOUSLY SIGNALLED - FT
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People Power United @peoplepowerunited.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🔥 Rights survive when people defend them. Get your ballot information, make a voting plan, and refuse to let your voice be erased. open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo... #DefendTheVote #PowerToThePeople
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Bertrand Russell Shows How to Respond to Fascists Who Want to Debate
Late in his life, the prominent English mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell was subject to an attempt in the early 1960s by Oswald Mosley to provoke
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: As gas prices soar amid Trump’s war in Iran, Republican Senate candidates are asking their own supporters to donate money to cover campaign fuel costs.
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GOP Senate Candidates Have Been Fundraising For Gas Money
Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, and Mike Collins voted for a war which spiked gas prices and are now asking their constituents to pay for gas for them to campaign
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
But this second-order discrimination is *so* 20th century. Here in the 21st century, we have *first-order* price discrimination, in which AI-powered pricing algorithms use commercial surveillance data about *you*, personally, to predict the highest price you're willing to pay.
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It Won't Fly www.monbiot.com/2026/10/08/i...
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It Won’t Fly
Air travel is on track to account for almost all our emissions by 2050. So why aren’t we working to reduce demand?
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Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@thebulwark.com's Jonathan Last aptly describes Susan Collins as "a snake disguised as a muppet." www.thebulwark.com/p/susan-coll...
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026
The fact that a theory-free AI might demand far more cash to accomplish a task (even a "solved" one like playing chess) than an expert would charge is beside the point. Billionaires *have* money, they *don't* have expertise.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/10/2026
Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced "price discrimination," charging different customers different prices for the same seats.
A 1970s Air Canada ad depicting a man in a brown velour pullover with a large collar sitting in a book-lined study, assembling model Air Canada jets on his desk. His head has been replaced with the blue, metallic head of a 1950s pulp robot and his skintones have been shifted blue to match.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 07/10/2026
"Are my hot flashes due to an estrogen imbalance or a rapidly warming planet hastened by unaccountable oil barons who own our elections?" buff.ly/oLdL54C
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Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
“Is my hair thinning, or am I ripping it out because a thirty-four-time convicted, sexually abusive steak salesman with a Hannibal Lecter fetish is five poin...
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Under Trump, Foreigners are Ripping Us Off More Than Ever: Trade Deficit Jumps in August deanbaker22.substack.com/p/under-trum...
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Under Trump, Foreigners are Ripping Us Off More Than Ever: Trade Deficit Jumps in August
By Trump’s own measure, the economy looks really bad
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Alex Noyes 🌎🔥 @alexnoyes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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