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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...

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Mamdani’s Taking On Amazon. His Opponent? Chuck Schumer’s Daughter. - The American Prospect

Legislation before the New York City Council would end Amazon’s subcontracting of delivery drivers. Jessica Schumer is the lead lobbyist against it.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My husband and I were talking about the brilliance of naming it the pied-à-terre tax because every time they freak out it sounds like the monopoly man fired his butler for bringing him mildly cold toast.

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"If you weren't in the business you'd think everyone arriving at conclusions independently [they're] not small group who talk to each other between politics and journalism and industries" Group chats leaks of billionaires angry at woke MeToo, their mediocre elite media editors, far-right extremists

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The group chats that changed America

A loose private network on Signal and WhatsApp helped usher in the new alliance between Silicon Valley and Donald Trump’s new right.

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7h

Plus, the "White House Accord on Super Intelligence: Joint Commitment on Frontier Responsibilities" signed by Trump, Google's Pichai, Anthropic's Amodei, Meta's Zuckerberg, OpenAI's Brockman, XAI's Musk, Nvida's Huang.

In order to build a positive future for the American people and the world, we believe every company is responsible for developing its own technology safely and in a way that builds trust with customers and the public.

This starts with every company that is training and deploying frontier models having robust internal processes and controls to ensure that their technology behaves as intended and that any issues are promptly identified and resolved. Therefore, in addition to any other precautions, we believe each company should implement the following four layers of controls and audits:

(1) Implement robust internal controls to monitor the capabilities and alignment of its models during training and deployment around areas like cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to ensure that its models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.

(2) Empower an internal team to ensure all of the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended, and that any issues are remediated.

(3) Partner with an independent external auditor or evaluator to carry out independent assessments of whether the controls, monitoring, and detection are operating as intended.

(4) Designate an independent committee of the board of directors to oversee and receive reports from the teams operating the controls and the internal and external auditors and evaluators, as well as to ensure any issues identified are remediated.

Together, these steps will give each company, its customers, and the public confidence that the technology is operating as intended.

The participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems.

Over time, it may make sense to codify these steps into laws or regulations. Regardless of whether this is required of companies, we believe that implementing these controls and audits is critical to ensuring a safe future for everyone, and each of our companies are ...

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 19h

“The Castellani faction, known also as the ‘red shrimps’, was largely made up of shipbuilders from Venice’s east. The core of the Nicolotti, or the ‘shadows’, were fishermen from the west [who] ... showed their partisan loyalties with red and black clothing and fighting caps”

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 19h

Tsutomu Miyazaki . 黒い服を着たガンマン 1977 OST - Love Theme (9) [Japan, Funk, Soul, Crime, Soundtrack] (1977) redd.it/cta7gf youtu.be/z87bJrgjtrc

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Tsutomu Miyazaki . 黒い服を着たガンマン 1977 OST - Love Theme (9) [Japan, Funk, Soul, Crime, Soundtrack] (1977)

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 19h

Jerry Butler - Whatever Goes Around [United States, Soul] (1973) Groovy soul track sampled by Madlib and 9th Wonder among other artists redd.it/h7vmla youtu.be/WFQMpulD7oc

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Jerry Butler - Whatever Goes Around [United States, Soul] (1973) Groovy soul track sampled by Madlib and 9th Wonder among other artists

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DaddyJew @daddyjew.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

if hamburger helper then surely hot dog collaborator

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 23h

The Town Criers - Shakers Life [USA, Lounge Rock](Early 70’s?) this shreds! redd.it/h8h7kj youtu.be/dgtTASReM2A

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The Town Criers - Shakers Life [USA, Lounge Rock](Early 70’s?) this shreds!

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To people who don’t believe that Kermit the Frog is real: What is the basis for your morality? Where does your moral standard come from?

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alber @captainacabairbud.myatproto.social · 28/09/2026

no this is my circus, that’s not the problem at all. the thing is, though, those aren’t my monkeys

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 28/09/2026

'Pseudo-journalism': Partisan 'news' sites target US midterms 'Pink slime' outlets, many secretly backed by partisan groups, now outnumber US newspaper sites u.afp.com/S9MX

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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026

How do you miss the point of the gospel so badly that I, a heathen, can notice how badly you’ve done it? It being a victory for the lamb is literally the point of Jesus’s teachings! I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!

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Nick 🐙 @nickoctopus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026

absolutely demented. like a scene from a horror movie

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The fact that this was *previously used as a campaign ad during the presidential campaign* removes any real defense as to its purpose. Its not a public service announcement. Its a campaign ad that has become state propaganda.

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 27/09/2026

Jane Bond & The Undercovermen - I Made Love to a Communist [US, New Wave, Synthpop] (1985) redd.it/1w1chhp youtu.be/iPrPplB_kI4

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Jane Bond & The Undercovermen - I Made Love to a Communist [US, New Wave, Synthpop] (1985)

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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Thought Punks 🎲 TTRPGs + Punk 👩‍🎤 @thoughtpunks.com · 27/09/2026

You're the scum of the earth, the filth in the gutter, the trash in our stars. So indulge your worst vice. Ruin the world for more dice. Fuck the drones. Fuck you too. LIFE IS A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT and we're all pieces of it. ko-fi.com/s/4425ccd3dd #LyricGame #IndieGame #TTRPG

Stylized colorful "punk zine" style cover. Stamp letters: LIFE IS A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT. Surrounded by various crude sayings with a ink art style punk woman holding a pipe and text "blaming" the game on Rev Casey

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The entire Trump era feels like God wanted to set up a giant test of the socialization theory of party identification and the theory passed with flying colors.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

This is actually hell, right?

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 26/09/2026

Wahid Omid - Mayham [Kabul, Afghanistan / Pop Rock](1989) This song performed in 1990 on Afghan Central TV + artist toured in RF and Ukraine! . redd.it/1flkez0 youtu.be/ml2rcKCfHEs

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Wahid Omid - Mayham [Kabul, Afghanistan / Pop Rock](1989) This song performed in 1990 on Afghan Central TV + artist toured in RF and Ukraine! .

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ha ha that’s gross and should make everyone uncomfortable, anyway, Rahm presided over a Chicago police black site, lied about what it was and then I sued the Chicago police for its records that proved it:

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Homan Square revealed: how Chicago police 'disappeared' 7,000 people

Exclusive: Lawsuit exposes scale of detention at off-the-books interrogation warehouse while attorneys describe find-your-client chase ‘from a Bond movie’

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Mr. Buddy @alexfirer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A lot of guys whose true calling is "Tammany Hall Politician" want to be in charge of art.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 25/09/2026

🚨EXCLUSIVE: AI safety rules were about to be enacted - then $25 million from OpenAI's president was deposited in Trump's super PAC and the rule disappeared. @levernews.com unearths documents exposing how AI oligarchs got Trump to kill rules they now claim to support. A must-read - pass it on👇

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AI Regulation Was Coming. Then Trump Killed It.

After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest experiments to national security officials. Now lawmakers are scrambling to catc...

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el camino acid @sexdracula.rocks · 25/09/2026

the "don't bring iced coffee to an interview" discourse is great bc it's such a succinct and clarifying example of how private businesses aren't efficient & logical enterprises, they're just arbitrary in-groups ruled by sociopaths, power tripping on their ability to enforce pointless bullshit norms

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...

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Inside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the Press

YouTube video by People Make Games

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24/09/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is seizing Palestinian land under the pretext of preserving ancient West Bank sites ft.trib.al/RH4a8ID

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Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net · 24/09/2026

The May Day Singers - In The 80's (Whatchu Gonna Do) [USA, Political Boogie Funk] (198?) redd.it/hyteov youtu.be/hTZjm3DgFxg

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The May Day Singers - In The 80's (Whatchu Gonna Do) [USA, Political Boogie Funk] (198?)

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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

calling this "misalignment" instead of "negligence" is an accountability dodge. we already have laws about cyber crimes and there's no scale of ML model you can incorporate into your code that makes you not responsible for running it

In a statement, an OpenAI spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.

"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.

"In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend.

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