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Annemarie Bridy

@annemariebridy.bsky.social
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IP + tech lawyer. English PhD. Sometime career shifter and cross-country migrant. Gave up law professing; now law practicing. Fan of careful people. Lover of well made things. Views my own. SSRN: ssrn.com/author=630766

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 1h
[OC] Barbican from a different angle r/brutalism
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 2h
DC folks, FYI 🧵
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 5h
if people said "no" to him, he would simply disappear. look at him. look at the impotent rage. we can still say no to him and all of this. we do not have to live this way
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 8h
Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.
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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch
Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 3h
“Only two things come out of Oklahoma” www.youtube.com/watch?t=11&v...
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An Officer and a Gentleman (1/6) Movie CLIP - Steers and Queers (1982) HD
YouTube video by Movieclips
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.
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Sameena Safdar @sameenasafdar.bsky.social · 4h
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 5h
An intensely competitive economy in a democratic society should give us better, cheaper products — not less safe ones. Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Decision to Pull the Trigger on Meta’s A.I. Agent www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Decision to Pull the Trigger on Meta’s A.I. Agent
Meta had delayed releasing Muse, its A.I. agent app, for months over safety concerns. Then new competition forced Mr. Zuckerberg’s hand.
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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 13h
The problem with Elon Musk is not his politics - it's the fact that he has billions of dollars to throw at his pet ideological projects. Concentrations of wealth. Everything comes back to concentrations of wealth.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11/10/2026
The more combative Dems get, the more of this they will run into. It will be a coordinated wave of elite opinion, scolding them, tamping them down. The fight strategy *only* works if they are willing to bull their way through it, blow it off, mock it. (Their history does not raise one's hopes.)
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 11/10/2026
This is kind of wonderful, Alison Brown wrangled a handful of pretty decent old bluegrass guys to play “Old Town Road”. Nas X’s impact… immeasurable youtu.be/a_GCX5IoCds
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Alison Brown & Steve Martin - Old Town Road (feat. Del McCoury & Dan Tyminski)
YouTube video by Alison Brown
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is what happens when you elevate “civil discourse” to be the greatest good. All of the sudden, it’s worse to call someone a Nazi than it is to be a Nazi.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 11/10/2026
The anti-anti-Trump movement has been as damaging to he country as the pro-Trump movement. The basic idea of the anti-anti-Trump faction is that they themselves criticize Trump sometimes, but any political or legal figure who tries to stop Trump is always going too far or not doing it the right way.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This video proves the old saying wrong in seconds. Appearances lie, and your brain hates being tricked like this.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago has placed more than 100 crosses outside the parish. Each bears the name of someone who died in ICE custody or during an immigration enforcement action. Union workers built the traveling memorial, which began at Holy Name Cathedral last month.
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Asshole meets analog hole.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There's a reason Trump's FDA is pushing their review of the abortion pill into next year: The midterms. They don't want to tell women, before they vote in a few weeks, that they are about to lose their ability to obtain abortion medication. Vote blue, no matter who. www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/h...
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FDA says its safety review of abortion pill will continue into next year | CNN
The Food and Drug Administration says its ongoing safety review of the nation’s main abortion pill will continue into next year, a timeline that was quickly condemned by abortion opponents hoping to s...
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Peter Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/10/2026
Despite its name, the DEFEND IP Act would instead incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name
There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the
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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/10/2026
They have been dealing secretly with Putin for weeks over this. Impeach. Impeach. Impeach.
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is a horrible person in a hundred ways and could always have been expected to completely sell out Ukraine. I shouldn’t be surprised, but somehow it still feels shocking. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader after diesel deal with Russia
US president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end war
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.
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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 10/10/2026
Lakeside Centre, Thamesmead, London [OC] r/brutalism
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com If A.I. programs “cannot be trusted to work within the law, the companies should not release them,” the editorial board writes. “If the programs break the law, the companies should face the consequences.”
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Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.
A.I. giants must operate under our laws.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
DC folks, if you film an arrest, especially one involving federal agents or National Guard, please make a report to Film the Police DC. @harrietsdreams.bsky.social and @dcmigrantmutualaid.org can then take action to help arrestees #WeKeepUsSafe www.filmthepolicedc.org
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Film the Police DC
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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
See what’s happening with voting in DC. bsky.app/profile/coun... This is why we who have a state government between us and Trump must vote in massive numbers. #JustGoVoteEarly … in Person #LandOfAction #NewMexico
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Shoq 🌱 @shoq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Not all cops…
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Media coverage of ICE has decreased since the agency’s winter surge in Minneapolis, where immigration officials killed two U.S. citizens. @us.theguardian.com immigration reporter Jose Olivares takes us inside the agency’s new strategy to increase arrests while staying out of the headlines.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Update:
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
every senate democrat voted to confirm marco rubio.
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Karen Yourish @karenyourish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: President Trump has cast doubt on U.S. elections at least once on 440 days of his second term, nearly three-quarters of his days in office. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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All the Ways Trump Has Attacked Elections In His Second Term (Gift Article)
President Trump has attacked the integrity of U.S. elections on more than 70 percent of the days since he returned to office, repeatedly making false claims. Here’s how he does it.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Y'all denied her tenure
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Alexander Howard @digiphile.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Every new government website should be on a .gov top level domain in 2026. The benefits are clear. It’s free to local & state governments: get.gov Yet the @whitehouse-47.bsky.social’s new website for parents of ~70 million Americans to manage their new investment accounts is a .com trumpaccount.com
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For Parents
What are Trump Accounts?
Who is eligible?
All U.S. children under 18 with a valid Social Security number are eligible to establish a Trump Account. Parents or legal guardians can open and manage accounts on behalf of their children.
What is automatic enrollment?
If my child is automatically enrolled in a Trump Account, do I still need to do anything?
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Trump Accounts
Download the app
How do I claim my child's
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Download the official Trump Accounts app to claim your child's account. During the claiming process, you'll verify your identity, confirm your relationship to your child, review your child's information, and accept the account terms. You can also claim a one-time $1,000 seed contribution from Treasury if your child is eligible.Screenshot: trumpaccounts.gov
Where do I manage my
Trump Account?
Download the Trump Account mobile app through the Apple App Store or Google Play, or go to TrumpAccount.com to log in, set up and manage a Trump Account. The mobile app and website will allow eligible individuals to activate the account, as well as track and manage account activity.trumpaccount.com
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Trump Accounts are a new type of investment account for children. You'll manage your child's account until they turn 18, then it's all theirs.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Republicans would rather your children watch a man get killed than a drag queen read
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Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Biggest issue not being discussed are real-time crime centers and police power. Now they are being discussed. wamu.org/story/26/10/...
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Flock is catching flak. Experts say other police surveillance tools are more worrisome
Real-time crime-center software is a sometimes overlooked but powerful tool allowing police to aggregate immense amounts of data, significantly expanding their surveillance reach.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Today, I remembered with affection the ‘raising awareness’ bot from Twitter, which retweeted every tweet that mentioned, well, raising awareness. I really miss old Twitter. It was a prelapsarian place and time. (Please resist any urge you may have to call me deluded in a reply.)
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This fuckin guy
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Gyms for our brains," you say?
Don Draper meme showing him presenting with the words "Hear me out...We call it 'The University'."
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/10/2026
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I was then perplexed by the Vanderbilt/Washington University report. Health inequity and disparities, lack of diversity, urban racial segregation, structural racial discrimination, each of which is taken as an a priori societal ill to be addressed, are seemingly proper objects of study, research and, yes, at times advocacy, across much of my university’s vast research enterprise. And yet, for my colleagues in the humanities, the report casts the same a priori assumptions as suspect, as political goals that threaten to “distort the scholarly enterprise.”
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
one of the ways the media shows which side they prefer, is which politicians they quote uncharitably out-of-context and which they clean up for even when what they actually say and do is offensive (the Biden story ran on the front page less than a week before the 24 election)
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I love the finding that “people are really not ever fully baked” — that there’s always some internal space in ourselves for growth and change. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026....
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Column | Birth order doesn’t predict your personality. Here’s what does.
New research is challenging assumptions about what determines our personality — and showing that you can change it.
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s sad to see the DNS overtaken by meme “new gTLDs” floated solely to make money for commercial DNS intermediaries.
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MiffyAnn @miffyann94.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Idahoans, make sure you are registered to vote and tell all your friends. We have a real chance to make change this cycle.
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Michael "Fallen Coffee Pot of Shadows" Senters the Sigillite:ABD @mikesenters.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Moldbug might not be a household name but the fact that he's a well known influence on not just Vance but many members of this regime is bleak.No one should have to know who Moldbug and Land are; we should be able to laugh at them cause they are fringe freaks but here we are.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Joint task forces have historically been used to fight drug cartels and terrorism. In DC, Trump is using them to police children on their way to school and harass people simply for being outside.
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Time on Task - The American Prospect
The Trump administration has abused the interagency task force process to intervene in law enforcement across the country.
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Annemarie Bridy @annemariebridy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Obama gets it.
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