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[ uh - m ee ] art maker & enabler | new yorker in a strange land

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Hearing Things @hearingthingsco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
AI art is not cheap. The cost is just passed down to those who have been deemed expendable.
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AI Album Covers Have No Place in Hip-Hop
A visual artist who built his career on creating covers for independent rap records laments how AI is bastardizing his life’s work.
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Duran Duran @durandurancom.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Ahead of a Halloween show at the O2, pop’s great survivors explain their staying power” www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
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‘We look like soft, made-up blokes, but we’re really tough’: Duran Duran on 80s excess, tabloid scrutiny and their Halloween glow-up
They spent their heyday on yachts, then rolled up their sleeves in the wilderness years. Ahead of a Halloween show at the O2, pop’s great survivors explain their staying power
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 15h
Me, all of these:
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 14h
In his post, "Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility," Eric Eggert explains that at its core, accessibility is about how people interact with computers. Automated tools might help identify issues, but they aren't a replacement for human expertise. yatil.net/blog/automat...
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Automated testing won’t solve web accessibility · Eric Eggert
Over the past few years, accessibility companies have started to develop tools that claim to find accessibility problems automatically. Often the idea is that “automated testing is not quite there…
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Documented @documentedny.bsky.social · 12h
ICE Is detaining West African women, some of whom have been in New York for decades, with plans to send them to countries they have no connection to.
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‘But I’m Not From Ghana’: ICE Targets Longtime New Yorkers for Third-Country Deportation
African New Yorkers, many here for decades with protected legal status, are being arrested by ICE.
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 11h
Commercial air travel has been dragged into the front lines of escalating conflicts across the globe, with airports, planes and airspace becoming the deliberate target of missile and drone attacks on a scale not seen before. www.wsj.com/business/air...
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Air Travel Emerges as Dangerous Front Line in Global Conflicts
Commercial air travel has been dragged into escalating conflicts, with airports, planes and airspace becoming the deliberate target of missile and drone attacks.
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10h
As I’ve often said, my first fear, on learning that the UK had voted for Brexit, was that it might even be possible for Trump to be elected.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10h
wiktionary
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10h
Flash floods hit central Nepal on Sunday, leaving at least five people missing. Some 45 houses were swept away, with the flood also damaging three hydropower projects and four bridges u.afp.com/SCci
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 9h
Forests full of dead trees aren’t just found by the US coasts – they are also appearing far from the sea around freshwater lakes
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Rising water is creating inland ghost forests in the US | New Scientist
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 9h
I support Wikipedia, where information is still human-created, fact-checked, and 100% free.! donate.wikimedia.org
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Make your donation now - Wikimedia Foundation
Donate to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia and other crucial free knowledge projects. Each year, the generosity of the 2% of readers who donate allows us to expand the reac...
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Adam Hurrey @footballcliches.bsky.social · 20h
Recording FOOTBALL CLICHES on Monday... Let's have your questions, observations, football-linguistic litigation, footballers' names in things or anything else at all for the Adjudication Panel. Cheers!
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 10/10/2026
When companies automate, they keep the savings while workers and governments bear the cost, writes Alessandro Crimi. He points to South Korea’s automation tax as one possible solution restofworld.org/2026/robot-tax-ai-w…
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The case for a robot tax to redistribute wealth
In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 20h
AI data centers demand is driving up smartphone costs and squeezing cheap budget phones off the market restofworld.org/2026/ai-data-center…
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 20h
it's very funny (read: stupid) to frame manchester city dismantling a rival as defiance or overcoming adversity when their ability to win a lot with squads that were constructed illegally is kinda the whole point of the scandal
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rb @mostlyinane.quest · 20h
whispering "it's just a game and sure they're annoying pricks with a soulless fanbase that's smug about one of the most egregious cheating scandals in recent sporting history but it's fundamentally just a game" to myself
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 20h
“If ICE is going to act with criminal impunity, why should we cooperate with them at all?” From @gaigedavila.bsky.social: Here's how the community, local police and politicians have responded to the shooting of delivery driver Wilber Garces Perez.
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What Will It Take to ‘Get ICE the Fuck Out of Austin’?
Shootings by federal agents are proliferating since Donald Trump took office in 2025, several of them in Texas. To stop it from happening again, local elected officials and prosecutors are hunting…
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Kevin Morris @socceralt.bsky.social · 21h
Austin FC wants the story to go away. They want to escape accountability and real dialog about the league’s policy banning political speech. They are keeping convos isolated to closed-door convos w/SGs and have made one brief statement to local media. National coverage keeps the spotlight focused.
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Kevin Morris @socceralt.bsky.social · 21h
If you’re not in Austin — here’s the incident that sparked the ongoing conflict between fans and the club. www.kxan.com/news/local/a...
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Austin woman removed from Q2 Stadium over anti-ICE shirt
An Austin woman says she was removed from Austin FC’s Q2 Stadium during Saturday’s match, after refusing to cover a shirt that read “Abolish ICE,” an incident she says refle…
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 20h
private equity groups, inconsistent and bullshit officiating….
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 20h
i need to not be a fan of this sportsball anymore, hate what it’s turned into
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 20h
what are the bananas meant to represent?
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Ravi Hiranand @ravi64.com · 21h
Ref from Manchester innit.
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 21h
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 21h
i am so freaking envious. i want to wear layers. and need a jacket. and cider slushies. 😣
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21h
“The O’odham have inhabited the Sonoran Desert, from what is now Southern Arizona to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, for thousands of years.”
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As Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and Drones
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their...
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 21h
i’m glad i brought donuts to watch the match
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The actions of a terrified and weak administration. The great tragedy is that the radicalized Hindu middle classes who support him will perceive this as a sign of how "masculine" and "strong" their daddy is.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/10/2026
"She literally put her body on the line for seven years, which is how long she fought this eviction for."
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Maricarmen, 87, Dies; Her Eviction Sparked Spain Housing Protests
The 87-year-old pensioner in Spain whose eviction from her lifelong home sparked nationwide protests has died. María del Carmen Abascal, better known as Maricarmen, died on Wednesday just hours before...
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10/11 News @1011now.com · 10/10/2026
Despite weakening, Isaias still poses threat to Southeast
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Despite weakening, Isaias still poses threat to Southeast
Isaias is now a post-tropical storm but remains a threat as it drenches the Southeast.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 10/10/2026
Several injured and flights cancelled after second attack on Saudi airport in Riyadh
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Several injured, flights cancelled after second attack on Saudi airport
Multiple people are wounded and flights grounded after a second attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We don’t have to call AI agents “agents,” which is what AI companies decided to name them and is conveniently suggestive of agency, which they do not have
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 10/10/2026
Happy 32nd Birthday The first proposal of Cascading HTML Style Sheets! On October 10, 1994, the Norwegian programmer Håkon Wium Lie published the first proposal of Cascading HTML style sheets.
Happy 32nd Birthday The first proposal of Cascading HTML Style Sheets!  

On October 10, 1994, the Norwegian programmer Håkon Wium Lie published the first proposal of Cascading HTML style sheets.
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Is luxury brand Etro copying Central Asian nomadic patterns without credit?
Etro under fire for using Central Asian nomadic patterns without attribution
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 10/10/2026
🇯🇵 Japan's 'polka dot queen' works on display at Tokyo exhibition Giant balloon sculptures and a field of silver spheres by the late Japanese "polka dot queen" Yayoi Kusama go on display ahead of the opening of Tokyo Atlas, a new international exhibition in the capital.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It is never just one case gone wrong. There are always so many other survivors who were mistreated before any of these stories make it into the public eye.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
trying (and in many cases succeeding) to remove rights from people, animals, and land, and giving rights to inanimate objects made for sale is super fucked
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
One of the most disconcerting moments of living in this timeline of the world in the U.S. is that A LOT of people in this country keep acting like there's a special line that needs to be crossed for fascism to *arrive.* The reality is that we are CURRENTLY living under Federal fascism. NOW.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 09/10/2026
Every US Electrical Outlet Explained. There are more than three?? Apparently there are more than 35 types of electrical outlets just in the US! [kottke.org]
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Every US Electrical Outlet Explained
This video from Practical Engineering was very illuminating to me, a naive person who thought there were only three types of electrical outlets used in the US — the two-prong, the three-prong, and the 240V — and not the
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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We Must Move Beyond the Era of State-Sponsored, State-Celebrated Murder
Let’s build a world in which the torture of Christa Pike — or anyone — is unthinkable.
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Should anyone find themselves in Tucson, AZ next week - humanitiesfestival.arizona.edu/game-end-wor...
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Game at the End of the World | Tucson Humanities Festival
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
‘Chaos and cruelty’: the kids trapped in Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign
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‘Chaos and cruelty’: the kids trapped in Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign
Children are being detained in record numbers, sometimes alone and where lawyers and family cannot find them
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The Trace @thetrace.org · 09/10/2026
Research has consistently shown that cigarette smoking, chronic stress, and a sedentary lifestyle can speed up a person’s biological clock. A new study suggests that aging may also be accelerated by exposure to gun violence, a finding that exposes the hidden toll of trauma. thetr.ac/kd6n5
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Exposure to Gun Violence Can Accelerate Biological Age, Study Finds
New research adds to a growing body of work illustrating the effect of gun violence on overall physical health.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 09/10/2026
Survivors will not be silenced, and the fight for justice is not over. Join an action near you: action.womensmarch.com/local
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/10/2026
How a plant selfie in Colombian jungle led to ‘jaw dropping’ giant waterlily find
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How a plant selfie in Colombian jungle led to ‘jaw dropping’ giant waterlily find
Species with leaves large enough to be seen from space is already critically endangered – and plans are afoot to protect it A chance social media encounter has led to the race-against-time discovery of a new species of giant waterlily that has until now been hidden in the depths of Colombia’s jungle. But the plant, which is so huge it is visible from space, is already considered critically endangered. Continue reading...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2026
gosh if only somebody had warned you all repeatedly for like 25 consecutive years
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The Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Merger Already Sounds Terrible
The new entertainment giant has an insane plan for how AI can improve the creative process.
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Fare network @farenet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 The Dominican sports minister has banned Haiti from playing football in the country, citing disorder at a Nations League match Haiti won 4–1 before some 50,000 fans. An op-ed has called it a racially motivated abuse of power. buff.ly/3JSFR5n
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oof. i forgot it’s currently hotter in LA than it is here at the moment 😱
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.timeout.com/newyork/news...
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America’s nicest place is a tiny village in upstate New York
Liverpool knows a thing or two about being neighborly.
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ami @amidst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
in the olden days i’d have been able to watch a us-canada match on one of the channels my digital antenna gets. mex-chile will just have to provide my ⚽️ fix today
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