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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 10h

This is objectively psychotic and every member of Congress and Senate should be ashamed if they don’t try to remove him from office before this happens

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enamoramiento @enamoramiento.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

God, this is so grim.

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Steam Sale! #SteamSale #SteamAutumnSale Games from @mrsambarlow.bsky.social @halfmermaid.co Be sad, be scared, have your brain ✨tingle✨ a little 🔥 IMMORTALITY $11.99 ☕ Her Story - $4.99 🫦 Telling Lies - $4.99 🧠 Precognition - $0 Wish! 😱 Project D - $0 Wish! store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen 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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A man replied to this saying in earnest that women need to get organized and fight for our rights and men will follow. We did that. We do that. We mobilized the largest single day protest in global history on every continent and yet I have fewer rights than my mom did at my age.

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

sarbanes-oxley for agentic cybercrime. do it. become legends.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reaction from my friend who works in financial services

“Imagining a loadable Goldman Sachs M&A Advisory gift card on a rack at walmart”

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 21/09/2026

Digital regulation and enforcement is an area where Canada could do a lot in partnership with the EU.

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

[At the Docks] Me: [chanting] cod, cod- Other longshoremen: cod, COD Harbormaster: [pounding his clipboard] COD, COD, COD!

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Jess Miers 🦝 @jmiers230.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/09/2026

i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected

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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When I was volunteering at the COVID19 vaccine POD in 2021, people would say over and over again that they were getting vaccinated for the people they love. Last year, only 17.5% of American adults got the COVID19 vaccine. Please get one for the people you love. 💕

Photo of a brunette with a braid in her hair, standing in front of a sign that says Vaccinated with a count of 30,000.

She is wearing glasses, a Sun Studio t-shirt, and an orange high vis vest.

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 01/09/2026

For the Toronto Star, I wrote about the trade war, digital sovereignty, and Lake Ontario. We are already dominated by American tech giants. If Canada fights this trade war and we don't renegotiate the terms of digital trade, we will lose. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Google changing Lake Ontario to Lake America isn’t just frustrating. It points to a deeper problem for Mark Carney

Canada’s digital infrastructure is too tied to companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon.

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Andres Guadamuz @technollama.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

These stories should be headline news everywhere. We are not just in a political crises but a dangerously immoral one.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

“No, we stole that term from you Black folk. And now it’s ours, because we use it. We use it to mean that the concerns and perspectives of you Black folk are annoying or wrong or dangerous, as a way of ignoring and dismissing those concerns and perspectives. Like I’m doing now—does that make sense?”

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Sjef @sjef.nu · 30/08/2026

I love agrivoltaics news. Always send me more good agrivoltaics news. One day I will get around to the agrivoltaics project I have had shelved for years, meanwhile everyone please enjoy agrivoltaics and consider integrating some in any project you can. Agrivoltaics!

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I can’t possibly imagine why someone who works on Bitcoin would need to know about the meanings people assign to objects, about technically but not personally interchangable things, or about social systems of belief in shared narratives.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I'm astonished by the response to my poem "Instructions for Having a Soul." Here it is in my voice, from one human to another:

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One night, after trying to write about this troubled world, after crossing out pages and pages of what I'd written, I fell asleep, dreamt of being visited by the great poet Rumi, and woke with this poem.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026

We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

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John Schmitt @jschmittwdc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Inflation-adjusted weekly wages of public school teachers (elementary, middle, and secondary) were basically flat from 1996 through 2021. In the most recent data, they are down about 6% from 2021. Full report: www.epi.org/publication/...

Description from report: "Figure shows that the inflation-adjusted average weekly wages for teachers were relatively flat from 1996 through 2021, indicating that teacher wages, on average, were just keeping up with the rate of inflation. By 2025, teacher wages were 6.2% less than they were on average in 1996. The average weekly wages of other college graduates also experienced a stretch of stagnation, but for a shorter time span (2002–2014), after which real increases ensued. Since 1996, the wages of other college graduates increased by 28.8%.

"Illustrated in Figure A is a noteworthy fall in teacher wages that occurred in 2022 due to high rates of inflation. A similar decline did not occur in the wages of other college graduates as private-sector wages can be more responsive to economic conditions, whereas that is not possible with public-sector teacher pay."

Figure shows average weekly wages (2025$) of public school teachers (elementary, middle, and secondary) and other college graduate (nonteacher) peers. Data points for 1994 and 1995 are unavailable; dotted lines represent interpolated data. See Allegretto and Mishel 2019, Appendix A, for more details on data and methodology.

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Drew Scanlon @drewscanlon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 23/08/2026

Aluminum is one of the key industries in the U.S. trade war. The tariffs are going to hurt both Canada and the U.S.A. precisely because our supply chains are so integrated. They don't make aluminum, and we don't make cans. canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/case...

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Case Study: Why Can’t Canada Make Cans? | Canadian Shield Institute

Canada is the world’s fourth-largest producer of primary aluminum. This actually isn’t an obvious niche for us; we don’t mine any of the ore that is...

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Cory @argotechnica.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Social theorist: the dispute over fullness is a symbolic struggle for policing the boundaries of valid discourse and naturalizing elite dispositions Social influencer: use my link to get 10% off this cup everyone's talking about

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Editor of Stars and Stripes says he is being fired for insubordination after saying any censorship is a 'red line.'

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Cory @argotechnica.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The phrase "children's prison" should not exist. ICE should not exist. "Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Evidence keeps accumulating that LLMs are a powerfully useful technology for people who already know what they're talking about, and a dangerous outsourcing of cognitive function for people who don't. This can occur within a single individual, who knows a lot about some things and not about others.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The harassment that starts in high schools never ends there. It is very common to see new tech find its sexist footing in high school—especially if parents and school staff react with “boys will be boys.” And that normalizes their behavior for adult men too.

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oh no @ili.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

en esta economía??????

nyt cooking melissa clark seis leches cake january 21, 2020

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Odd how all the intrepid defenders of campus free speech & academic freedom who filled the pages of @theatlantic.com @harpers.bsky.social @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com @wsj.com etc just a few short years ago have all gone silent…

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Björn Lindström @bjornlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

When is language needed for human culture to accumulate? When observing successful behavior is not enough to recover the mental model behind it! This is an incredibly ambitious project, involving large-scale experimentation, RL and ABM modeling, and computational language analyses.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Marion, Kansas has a population of 1,900. That means the police chief cost every single resident $447. He cost a family of four $1,789.

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Matthew Sag @matthewsag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

My new textbook on Copyright Law in the Age of AI is now up on my website as a free pdf. I will move it to a dedicated website soon, but for now matthewsag.com/copyright-la...

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026

Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.

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Before reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learned

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026

This 1911 book shows that taking photos of cats and furnishing them with an amusing caption was a thing long before the internet publicdomainreview.tumblr.com/post/8243890...

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xiaochang @xiaochang.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Resurfacing online to mention: my book on the history of Speech Rec, NLP, and data-driven AI is coming out in a couple of weeks! Just got my author's copy from @uchicagopress.bsky.social and it finally feels real! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Divination Engines

A revealing and surprising origin story, showing how attempts to render human speech and language computable led from the era of big data to today’s AI. Since the advent of computers, society has fant...

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 06/08/2026

Two years ago, Minnesota rightfully returned the land of the Upper Sioux Agency State Park back to the Yellow Medicine People. Today, I had the distinct honor to run that land - Pezihutazizi Kapi, The Place Where They Dig For Yellow Medicine - with Chairman Jensvold.

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