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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 4h

3/ Old playbook: the smear runs, other outlets repeat it, and it hardens into "what everyone knows." This time an independent newsletter, Popular Information, took it apart within days. CBS News pulled its social posts. CBS under Bari Weiss is trash. popular.info/p/update-after-the-mamdani-911-smear

Media outlets pushed a false narrative about the number of family members of 9/11 victims who signed a petition targeting Mamdani — and then covered their tracks.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1h

They have a bunch of great EVs, they should put their marketing muscle behind those maybe?

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Alan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 1h

Photos: Human-Tower Season - As autumn nears in Spain, teams at festivals & competitions can be found forming human towers ('castells') up to 9 levels tall. The Catalan tradition is thought to have originated with local dance groups in the 18th century. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Spectators in an arena look on as teams wearing different colors gather on the floor, with one team working to create a human tower about eight people tall. (David Ramos / Getty)

An overhead view of a large crowd of people wearing blue-green shirts, gathered in roughly concentric circles, smashing together, preparing to build a human tower (Albert Gea / Reuters)

Children at the top of a human tower wear safety helmets and goggles. (Josep Lago / AFP / Getty)

An overhead view of a team of people wearing purple and white uniforms, piled on top of each other after a fall while they were attempting to build a human tower (David Ramos / Getty)

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Micah @rincewind.run · 17h

the brazil thing is so depressing because they did the right thing, man they did what we couldn’t, they actually prosecuted their coup and threw bolsonaro’s ass in jail and generally showed the united states what a functional state looks like and now they are gonna elect his dipshit son? really?

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1h

Love when a president treats the Treasury like a personal goodie bag. Much constitutional, very separation of powers. Wow.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Greek system does not permit alcohol at sororities, which makes fraternities the hosts of the alcohol-saturated parties. This is where young women are sometimes manipulated to get them drunk and stranded and abused. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit

Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

No matter how hard they try brain scientists and cognitive psychologists will never find a copy of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in the brain—or copies of words, pictures, grammatical rules or any other kinds of environmental stimuli. The human brain isn’t really empty, of course. But it does not contain

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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays

Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media

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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If there's one thing you can say about social media, it's that it has allowed people who are bad at thinking to more easily locate other people who are also bad at thinking and gather into poorly-thinking groups where they think poorly together in a self-reinforcing manner.

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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 14h

And I just returned from Italy, where went to see Don Saulo, the priest who held my hand through those years of darkness when my family couldn't.

Amanda Knox visiting with the prison chaplain, Don Saulo, in Perugia, Italy.

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Greg Dennis @gregsdennis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was doing a Google search the other day, and I think I stumbled across one of yours in the wild. Was this you? I saw it multiple times with different text at the end.

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randomcranium.bsky.social @randomcranium.bsky.social · 21h

Just in time for the position to reach plurality status among Palestinians

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 22h

Leiji Matsumoto's The Galaxy Railways & The Galaxy Railways II: Crossroads to Eternity started 23 and 20 years ago today respectively. "Interstellar travel has become possible, via Space Trains that run on the lines of the Galaxy Railways which travel throughout the universe."

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Anti-SS 🍺 🍻 @antiss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

ICE is planning to deploy "detainment" vans in areas where they have direct capture Operations. They will "detain" people up to 12hrs in said vans as they execute operations in the area. So ... mobile torture-holding cells. No water, no food, no toilet. Just people packed into a Van, handcuffed.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Tom Costello @tomcostello.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

More from our group on this! (And using the same cool format as Matt): the effect comes mostly from facts and evidence¹ and holds for conspiracies only days old². LLMs can also talk people into conspiracies³. ¹ psyarxiv.com/h7n8u ² arxiv.org/abs/2608.06151 ³ arxiv.org/abs/2601.05050

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 04/10/2026

#priorities bsky.app/profile/news...

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Andrew @andrewdavies.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Facebook wants you to pay $50 / month to post more than 2 links. Nice to read some strategies thatcan still work but also a reminder that Facebook is not your friend

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Facebook to limit external links in organic page posts – what should charities do? – Digital Charity Lab

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is such a crystalline expression of Trump’s worldview. The only motivation that matters is money. If you’ve got money, you keep people loyal by giving them “gifts.” If you don’t have much money, you may say you hold certain values, but really, it’s just a matter of finding each person’s price.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One of the other strong possibilities here isn't just Dems adding, it's also MAGA subtracting. It's important to remember that Trump brought out a lot of people who wouldn't vote otherwise. As long as Trump was succeeding, those people often voted in midterms. But now? It's "broken promises."

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Status @status.news · 03/10/2026

David Ellison has acquired another media conglomerate to add to his new burgeoning media empire. Now comes the hard part: brutal cost cuts to make the economics work. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Ellison’s Media Titanic

David Ellison has acquired another media conglomerate to add to his new burgeoning media empire. Now comes the hard part: brutal cost cuts to make the economics work.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The new normal: “What scientists do agree on, however, is that 2026 has been extremely—and concerningly—hot.” And it's going to be still hotter for the balance of your lifetime. www.scientificamerican.com/article/2026...

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2026 has been a record hot year for the U.S.—it can only get worse

So far this year has been ridiculously hot. If it stays that way, 2026 could set a sobering new record

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Leslie Joy Mills @ljoymills.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

‘Out of control’: Jared Kushner lashes out at ‘deeply misleading’ CNN report www.rawstory.com/jared-kushne... Boo hoo hoo. Kushner who has benefitted immensely from his marriage to dear leader's daughter is crying foul over fact-based reporting on his finances? He'd never have made it on his own.

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‘Out of control’: Jared Kushner lashes out at ‘deeply misleading’ CNN report

Jared Kushner lashed out at CNN on Friday, accusing the network of publishing a “deeply misleading” investigation about his business investments — and declaring that a decade of ignoring stories about...

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today's affordability crisis is rooted in Trump's insurrection www.editorialboard.com/ask-me-anyth...

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Today's affordability crisis is rooted in Trump's insurrection

As his corruption gets worse, so does our pain.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/10/2026

I have absolutely wondered about this. Amazing.

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Indonesian teenager who survived 49 days adrift at sea after his wooden fish trap slipped its moorings. 18-year-old Aldi Novel Adilang survived on fish and seawater he squeezed from his clothing before being rescued by a passing cargo ship. Original post

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

22 California billionaires have spent a combined $150 million to defeat Prop 40. Their combined wealth in January 2025 was $439 BILLION. By September 2026, it had grown to $722 BILLION. They're accidentally making the case for the billionaire tax better than anyone else could.

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ultimately I think human authorship is impoetant, even if AI tools are part of the process. (Part of, not the start and finish)

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 02/10/2026

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very good points from @mjtoma.bsky.social here: Any movement (and president!) that are nutball enough to go down Eric Schmitt-style rabbit holes will be willing to steal the election and much worse. This humiliation won't dissuade them in the slightest: newrepublic.com/post/216176/...

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Eric Schmitt’s a Joke. The Assaults on Jack Smith Are Anything But.

The Missouri senator and other Republicans made fools of themselves Tuesday. But that won’t stop them lying about—and trying to destroy—Donald Trump’s prosecutor.

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Washington Post Opinions @postopinions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eight years after our colleague Jamal Khashoggi’s body was dismembered by a bone saw, there has never been high-level accountability for the horrific crime, the Editorial Board writes. "The Saudis do not deserve the benefit of the doubt."

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Opinion | Saudi Arabia wants America’s nuclear trust. Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

The regime tried to cover up its assassination of a Post columnist eight years ago. Don’t believe it wants a peaceful nuclear program.

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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In the year I've been working w/ air pollution regulators on data center on-site emissions, I've seen almost no acknowledgement of this trend from energy-side advocates of data center buildout. This isn't just bad actors-it's a corporate playbook and a roadmap to a future of unconstrained emissions.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/10/2026

Maryland became the first state to bar grocery stores from using electronic pricing tools to adjust the cost of food items throughout the day, which critics say could enable retailers to unfairly manipulate prices at a time when households are already squeezed by rising costs.

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Maryland becomes first state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores

The measure comes as households are struggling with rising costs.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 19/09/2026

It should be illegal to buy a company with debt and then sell it off to a foreign owner, but that fight was lost long ago. Anyway, now the Saudis own a truly distressing portion of American entertainment, from Hollywood to Video Games to Sports. This is not neutral behavior. Anyway.

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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 02/10/2026

Our hearts go out to Nigerians affected by extreme climate impacts. We need urgent climate action to curb extreme weather around the world.

Image highlighting two devastating news stories about Nigeria that broke in the same week

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Yant is... @donkeyislandpress.co.uk · 02/10/2026

I do wonder if all the big bulk carrier deals with amazon et al for free postage means the individuals get stiffed when only sending small amounts

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The profound moral question is not, 'Do they deserve to die?' but 'Do we deserve to kill them?'" - Sister Helen Prejean

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Much of bullying is just about wasting people's time & halting progress. This process won't be perfect, but I assume @aaron.bsky.team can only read a random subset of what is sent his way anyway, so his increasing the odds he sees stuff he can really learn from & act on makes sense to me. #AIEthics

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 02/10/2026

We're pleased to announce that Bellingcat won three awards at the Online Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees listed here: awards.journalists.org/2026/10/02/c...

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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards! - Online Journalism Awards

As the in-person celebration of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards (#OJA26) comes to a close, we congratulate the winners in the remaining 12 of 28 categories.

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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 02/10/2026

Last night, hundreds of people gathered outside Palantir's London HQ to demand an end to their #NHS contract. The rally closed a day of protests at 40+ locations across England, and a week of action against Palantir around the world. ✊ #PeopleVsPalantir #NoPalantirInTheNHS #BackTheBreakClause

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/10/2026

Still the absolute funniest "trailer remix" ever made -- as well as one of the very first of its kind, debuting in 2005 Every shot is perfectly chosen God I could watch this all day

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a very useful piece, but it doesn't account for Musk and Andreessen/Horowitz's spending. They're the biggest donors in the cycle, and they're basically AI plays at this point.

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ESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 02/10/2026

IRIDE’s Eaglet II constellation is complete🛰️ The final satellites reached orbit on 1 October, equipped with multispectral sensors that will capture images of Earth’s surface for applications including land monitoring, coastal observation and emergency mapping. 🔗 www.esa.int/Applications... 📸SpaceX

A white rocket with a dark band near its base climbs diagonally through a clear blue sky, trailing a bright orange-white exhaust plume.

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