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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23/09/2026
Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/09/2026
Help i made malware and I used it to hack several enormous companies I guess there's nothing anyone can do until we pass new laws In the meantime I'll let you watch over my shoulder while i do it again and again Also give me more money or I'll hack you all
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.
cnn.com
The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business
Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by private equity Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list
theankler.com
Private Equity Is Coming for Authors, Dead or Alive - The Ankler
Like music catalogs, literary estates are now targeted by investment firms and changing how Hollywood will deal with IP
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While we are all here at #ff2026 talking about applying AI to digital collections of things I hope I can put a plug in for my new article, which asks whether or not it was a good idea to put all those resources on countless websites in the first place
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Against cultural heritage wastelands
The twin scholarly booms of the 2010s, digital humanities and public humanities, introduced a relatively accessbile suite of platforms for managing digital and digitised content. Sudden interest in...
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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
holy shit, this is the whole ballgame in a single paragraph gAI systems require mass theft of copyrighted works, for the explicit purpose of replacing the market for the people they stole from, and the people in charge knew what they were doing ahead of time, and did it anyway
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WorldsLargest @algeebraten.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have an ear infection and it's driving me insane. Mad respect to all the babies out there. Desperately need someone to keep my alternating meds schedule and rock me to sleep.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
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Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The rise of the "working homeless" isn't just about the chasm between wages and rents. It's also about the degraded nature of work itself: volatile schedules, eroded job security, and a lack of basic benefits like health insurance or sick leave—all of which put stable housing further out of reach.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 07/09/2026
the biggest “job creator” in america is walmart, a third of whose employees are on public assistance
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WorldsLargest @algeebraten.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My hot take is that there are no "geniuses" and the concept is wildly detrimental to humanity.
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fakesharrows @fakesharrows.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
wow, I hate this
washingtonpost.com
Secret Service is getting the fortified White House that past presidents resisted
President Donald Trump has backed plans including permanently fencing Lafayette Square that were previously rejected to maintain public access to the “People’s House.”
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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org
Postcard graphic with large text saying "Save the Date for Douglass Day" Below that, text reads "Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Black Press" and the date "2.11.2027" followed by the web address DouglassDay.org.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
No undergrad should be using an LLM and it's absurdly irresponsible to suggest otherwise.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.
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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
critical to remember that for a lot of dolly's adult life she was a punchline - the reverence is recent. nevertheless she persisted etc
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Dependency is the goal.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Love MARLON BRANDO’s reply to Connie Chung when she says “Don’t you realise that you’re thought of as the greatest Actor ever?”
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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 10/08/2026
On my blog, I wrote about how America's museums are falling apart. The US has 20k+ museums, and most have historic buildings with leaky roofs, failing HVAC units, and flooding basements. What they don't have is money for repairs. Please read/share! 🧵 johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-s-...
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America's Museums are Falling Apart
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Michelle DuBarry @dubarrypie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Every time I read something like this I wonder if my son (killed by a careless driver in 2010) is one of the lives that could have been saved
A blond-haired toddler boy wearing a red fleece jacket and navy blue pants. He is standing ankle-deep in a mountain lake holding a fistful of rocks and laughing
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Air Budd Dwyer @deliciousmalk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Literally this
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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
There are over 800 people sleeping on the streets of DC (& that’s a lowwwwball estimate). Almost all of them are Black & from DC. But we’re spending hundreds of millions & making exceptions for the occupying military force so they can continue to terrorize our neighbors.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The "Fee D.C." movement is born. (I'll see myself out now.) But for real, DoorDash can't be happy that Rep. James Comer publicly unveiled that the platform supported the Republican bill to restrict D.C.'s ability to increase taxes or fees. It's a PR challenge, to say the least.
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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Interesting: DoorDash is supporting the GOP bill in Congress to limit D.C.'s ability to increase or decrease taxes and fees, largely in response to the D.C. Council's recent vote in impose a new 20-cent delivery fee to help fund food-access programs. www.notus.org/metro/uberea...
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That Food Delivery Is Soon Going To Cost You a Little More in D.C.
DoorDash unsuccessfully fought a 20-cent fee approved by the D.C. Council that will also affect UberEats deliveries.
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 18/07/2026
Sure.
r/Fauxmoi 
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While announcing the layoff of 8,000 employees, Mark Zuckerberg was seen wearing a watch worth $2million.
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GREUBEL©FORSEY
HANDIMADE
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Emily (spooky) @emilyrose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“Screens designed to shield the records from harsh light have been defective and temperatures inside the display case have repeatedly reached more than 80 degrees, according to the Park Service officials.”
dc.citycast.fm
Rare Lincoln Documents Exposed to Unsafe Heat in New Exhibit, NPS Staff Say · City Cast DC
Beneath the Lincoln Memorial, another potential disaster is brewing for the Park Service.
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WorldsLargest @algeebraten.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Books, movies, and my mom any time she or I get sick to this day.
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Gawain @niawag.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
70% of global internet traffic runs through Virginia.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 06/07/2026
Breaking news: A new 162-page report from the White House, titled “Saving America’s Story,” accuses the Smithsonian‘s National Museum of American History of “extreme political activism” and blames museum leaders for erasing America’s heritage.
washingtonpost.com
White House report accuses Smithsonian museum of ‘extreme political activism’
The 162-page report on the National Museum of American History marks an escalation of President Donald Trump’s criticism of the Smithsonian museums.
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Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.
A screenshot from here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

It explains that the machine learning involves only the detection of ink
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singlecatlady23.bsky.social @singlecatlady23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.
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NPR @npr.org · 07/05/2026
Just in: Tennessee Republicans' map would crack Shelby County — home to majority-Black Memphis — into three different districts, in an effort to eliminate the state's lone remaining Democratic-held seat.
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Tennessee Republicans pass a map to break up the state's lone Democratic House seat
Tennessee Republicans' map would crack Shelby County — home to majority-Black Memphis — into three different districts, in an effort to eliminate the state's lone remaining Democratic-held seat.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
For decades it’s been well understood that learning by doing is essential. If you are not doing the thing—writing the essay, solving the math problem, reading the book—you aren’t learning. Public education should not be all about learning to use a company’s products.
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I haven't had a long enough breath to talk about how AI is ruining the open web. API after API I used to use is closing - literally because paying the $$$ required to feed these impersonation machines is prohibitive.
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Matthew Reichbach @fbihop.com · 01/04/2026
Today's the day.
A screenshot of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk in front of a NASA logo. Cross is speaking into a microphone at a podium. 

Text says " American can, should must, and will blow up the moon"
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 20/03/2026
@eleanornorton.bsky.social, @mikethompson.house.gov, and I are demanding that NPS immediately halt any plans to remove this bike lane, which is a vital commuter route for DC-area residents.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
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George @hannahtempler.com · 06/03/2026
move slow and repair things
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 06/03/2026
As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
This one hits hard.
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WorldsLargest @algeebraten.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
In other depressing UT news
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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 19/02/2026
The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a rule requiring its universities to ensure students can graduate without studying “unnecessary controversial subjects,” despite warnings it could leave them less prepared for the real world.
texastribune.org
University of Texas regents OK limits on controversial subjects
Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.
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Emily Higgs Kopin (spooky) @ehkopin.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
One thing is increasingly clear to me: the intersection of unlimited upward expansion of cloud-hosted storage and applications, with the emerging landscape of being able to build and deploy things without clear knowledge of the inner mechanics, is really nefarious.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Okay but you absolutely cannot be serious that we're just glossing over "there are more data centers under construction than there are active data centers in the U.S" web.archive.org/web/20260208...
Ives pointed out there are more data centers under construction than there are active data centers in the U.S. “I believe clean energy around nuclear is going to be the answer,” he said. “I think 2030 is the key threshold to hit some sort of scale and begin the next nuclear era in the United States.”
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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
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