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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026

Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.

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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare

Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 11/09/2026

I banned Meta glasses in my classes because students told me they are hesitant to speak up and engage if they think they’re being recorded. Apple releasing this feature is just another tech company setting off yet another bomb on young people trying to learn things and join society. Really gross.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's on. I'm running to be the next Green MP for Holborn & St Pancras. donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 10/08/2026

Several universities have already entered into ’partnerships’ with private education companies. The public sector can’t currently provide good teaching & research without making a loss. It doesn’t take a genius to see how these companies intended to make their profits from us.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 09/08/2026

insane quote

leaving his firm "hundreds of calls". "Actually we went quite close to some real Bronze Age remains, but we avoided Dobby's grave," he said.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/08/2026

Make a Tech Fascist sweat—pre-order "The Nerd Reich" book today! Available wherever you buy books. Use this link to support independent booksellers and my work: bookshop.org/a/109206/978...

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The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

“This transfixing debut from journalist Durán investigates the antidemocratic ideologies espoused by tech billionaires linked to the second Trump administration...It’s an ominous look at an insular el...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...

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Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Thank you to Green Gathering - such a wonderful weekend! I'll be at lots of other festivals this summer - we're building our movement and creating an alternative to the old party politics. Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Good #Governance as #Responsible #Sovereignty: Francis Deng & the Conflict–Development Nexus By @connorpobrien.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Study for the Federal Aviation Administration concluded by 2035, debris from SpaceX satellites alone could kill or injure someone every two years." Into orbit doesn't mean safely away #Pollution #PublicHealth www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...

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A Ton of Space Junk Tumbles Unpredictably to Earth Every Week

Flaming chunks of metal crash into homes, farms and parking lots. Who’s to blame? And who pays for the damage?

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 31/07/2026

1. Amnesty International has withstood threats from death squads and dictators. But it could not stand up to JK Rowling and the anti-trans movement she finances. It has apologized for calling those groups "anti-rights" after legal threats. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Amnesty International UK Caves To JK Rowling, Issues Apology For Calling Anti-Trans Groups "Anti-Rights"

The organization has stood up to dictators and death squads, but Rowling and the UK's anti-speech laws were apparently too much.

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation. Reuters analysis found artificial intelligence watermark that ⁠signals it was made with OpenAI tools. but the AGI will replace us 🫠🫠🫠🫠 www.reuters.com/world/africa...

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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

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Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices

Shell's net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 30/07/2026

If not a bailout then certainly a well-timed announcement

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Dr Alina Utrata @alinau27.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Will certainly be listening with interest to this one 👀

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/07/2026

‘Like pretty much all of his movies, it’s a man on a quest to recover or avenge a lost woman. One can do a very long list of all the Nolan-tropes that come up in this film.’ @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social on Christopher Nolan’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Nolan v. Homer

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 26 July · 52min

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

companies are sourcing millions of printed books for AI labs that scan them for training data, then destroy them. printed books are more valuable because they're free of AI slop, and AI labs know destroying them is an "optics problem." www.404media.co/ai-companies...

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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop

ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Robert Peston, "Would you work with Andy Burnham, can he build consensus with the Greens for example?" Zack Polanski, "My problem is, some of these appointments today suggest a continuity Keir Starmer"

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

"Shabana Mahmood staying as Home Secretary to presumably continue her appalling record of performative cruelty towards migrants and refugees is a warning sign that Burnham has not learnt the lessons from Starmer's failure," says Zack Polanski

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Lyn @lynisalot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The robots cost more to replace.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

This would be a deeply irresponsible and destructive act at any time. To do it whilst we're having a third heatwave of the year and thousands of people have just died from extreme temperatures - makes it also politically incoherent. We urgently need to replace Labour.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The Times has become of the most viciously, relentlessly transphobic publications in the country, and the competition is stiff. It's like the Daily Rowling.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/07/2026

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In pub. Resisting impulse to yell "All national identities are fundamentally fictitious!"

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 13/07/2026

This was about the Prairieland case. The story hadn’t come out yet

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 13/07/2026

We're back to a plane crash full of people per day dying and the government shrugging, as it's business as usual. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests

Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 10/07/2026

Rent controls would save households up to £2,400 a year and the Government £2 billion a year. It's a no-brainer. But only the Green Party has a policy to introduce them.

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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

So it turns out the "contract" teenagers signed for their student loans wasn't actually a contract at all, the government always had the right to retrospectively change the terms, and at no point was this explained to those taking out the loans... www.newstatesman.com/politics/edu...

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Government mis-sold student loans to a generation, report finds

A new Treasury Committee report has found that the state did not sufficiently communicate the terms and conditions

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