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Steve Sikora

@artofangles.bsky.social
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Former manager, bleeding edge tech services for visual communicators. Still sane. Gainfully retired. Veteran🇺🇸 Seen from Key West to PEI 🇨🇦 #STEAM #Humanities #Civics #ClimateAction #PublicHealth #CyberSecurity #RuleOfLaw #InformedCitizenry #SlavaUkraini🇺🇦

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 18h
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Here's Australian musician Kevin Parker, who records as Tame Impala, in his dreamy, floaty, 2015 song "Yes I'm Changing." Nostalgia-inducing synthesizer work here. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_cM...
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Tame Impala - Yes I'm Changing (Audio)
YouTube video by tameimpalaVEVO
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David Partington @davidpartington.bsky.social · 22h
'The Garden Party at Buckingham Palace,' by Émile-Octave-Denis-Victor Guillonnet, ca. 1901
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Linda @lindabythesea.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Lisbeth with Peonies (1908) by Carl Larsson. Watercolor.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 18h
See How The Gutenberg Press Worked: Demonstration Shows the Oldest Functioning Gutenberg Press in Action
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See How The Gutenberg Press Worked: Demonstration Shows the Oldest Functioning Gutenberg Press in Action
People have spoken for decades, and with great certainty, of the impending death of print. But even here into the 21st century, presses continue to run around the world, putting out books and periodic...
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agree with Greg‘s general point. But let me ask the hard question about moral hazard: if the likes of Zuck or Jensen (or Dartmouth or Paul Weiss) pay no price for having kowtowed to Trump, won’t they end up looking smart for having done so? And if we want to curb this moral hazard, what must we do?
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 15h
“To move forward, it will be necessary to convince working and middle classes in both the North and South that the status quo is untenable and leads to climate, social and migration disaster.”👇🏼
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h
No AI Government Guardrails: if we leave it up to Trump Listen to this man 🤦🏽‍♂️ "They're really going to be policing each other... It's going to be very, very safe and there's a self-policing and there's also a group policing and it's going to be great."
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 16h
🚨🚨 @coe.int of Europe said yesterday that the #US formally notified it that it would leave the Group of States against Corruption, or #GRECO. Only two other countries have left GRECO before — #Russia and #Belarus. The fall of the #US on the world scene is striking. apnews.com/article/trum...
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US withdraws from European anti-corruption panel in latest shift away from global groups
The Trump administration has withdrawn the United States from a top European anti-corruption watchdog.
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 16h
This is a part of a broader trend of the US forging ahead with plans to disengage from international and multilateral organizations that it accuses of exceeding their mandates, being inefficient or not adapting to U.S. policies.
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 15h
“Federal law explicitly prohibits the use of US funds 'for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress.' Democrats point out that Trump’s ads might also violate 18 U.S.C. § 641, which forbids the conversion of federal assets to personal use.”👇🏼 www.thebulwark.com/p/congratula...
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Congratulations, You’re a Trump Campaign Donor
Your tax dollars are funding his TV ads. And the White House says you should be proud to pay.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/09/2026
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Burt Bacharach and Hal David wrote this song for the 1964 movie 'A House Is Not a Home.' This instrumental recording by the Bill Evans Trio—on an album that won a Grammy five months after Evans's September 1980 death—is so sad and filled with yearning. See you around.
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Bill Evans Trio - A House Is Not A Home (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bill Evans
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bruce MacKinnon, Halifax Chronicle Herald
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@banxtoons.bsky.social
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wolvertoon.com
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Kat O’Brien @lavidagata.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Something you can do (if you’re from U.S.) to support better media coverage as midterms loom: sign a letter from The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social, as @sulliview.bsky.social writes here. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/how-you-ca...
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How you can demand better media coverage as the midterms loom
Examples of what is working and what must stop. Plus: some great reporting and two scary developments
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Someone should ask Trump, just as a lark, how far Iran is from closest point in the US—and what the range of their missiles is. He won't know the answer to either. (During Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK pointed out that Soviet missiles had range of 1,000+ miles, so from Cuba could hit DC etc)
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report” 9/18/26 (Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale) … 1/
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Overreliance On Palantir AI Technology Played Role In Iran School Bombing: Report
U.S. war planners were too confident in unreliable artificial intelligence tools, leading to a strike on an Iranian school, Bloomberg reported.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2/ “U.S. war planners' overconfidence in artificial intelligence tools and misplaced belief that the tools possessed capabilities beyond their intended scope were among the factors in the deadly strike on an Iranian school, Bloomberg reported…)
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
3/ “Palantir’s Co-Founder [Joe Lonsdale] Thinks We Should Be Less Judgmental About That Deadly Iran School Strike” 9/26/26 share.google/i1ebpdFa4pqS...
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The difference between the practice depicted in “Checkout,” the comedy, and the unrelenting, unbearable horror described in “NAZA” is scale. Now, it’s industrial. That’s what makes it a genocide. It really is that unequivocal, and this is why “NAZA” didn’t need to use the word more than once.
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Opinion | There Is a Word So Powerful It Need Be Spoken Only Once
The film that makes a powerful statement without ever raising its voice.
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📌 🌊(for anyone who thought Massachusetts was exaggerating in MA v. EPA about loss of coastline, it wasn’t.)
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data centers are booming. All other private construction is shrinking.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The video features the longtime Eagle whispering, 'The time has come,' before showing a montage of Dawkins running over offensive players on the field. DHS captioned the tweet, 'Our time has come.'”👇🏽 Hardly a surprise that DHS ignores copyright law.⚖️ www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2026/...
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NFL to DHS: No, you can’t use highlights to promote immigration enforcement
NFL asks DHS to remove video
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“ShinyHunters wrote, 'All FBI data was compromised including PII/PHI [personally identifiable information and protected health information] on incumbent and former FBI employees and all applicant information. We have a lot more than we claim here.'”👇🏼 www.404media.co/fbi-hackers-...
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FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data
ShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou...
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various AI agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin 'helpfully' pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.”👇🏼 appleinsider.com/articles/26/...
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Meta Muse AI reportedly read Mac Messages without consent
In a completely unsurprising turn of events, Meta's Muse AI is stealing Apple Messages, past and present, and uploading the contents to its cloud, even if explicitly told not to.
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“During the testing phase for the new model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra,…showed high levels of what the company saw as deception, or a willingness to mislead users about its actions. The model was also willing to go beyond the original scope of what it was asked to do.”👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/t...
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OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A sobering thought as one considers the unwinding scenarios for the AI bubble: the English Civil War under Cromwell, the French Revolution and the Terror, the triumph of Nazism in Germany, and the rise of Putin in post-Soviet Russia were each one the consequence of a financial collapse.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And, in "It never gets old" territory, this from tenured pundit:
Headline from March 2026: 'The War Is Going Better Than You Think'
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Stephen Miller’s Office of Remigration was deliberately named to announce to the world that white nationalism is now the basis for US immigration policy. If Dems win power, they should defund it. They should also defund third-country deportations. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2157...
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Harvey G. Cohen @cultrhack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social is putting on a clinic⬇️on how a Democrat can win a Senate race in a *RED* state (Kansas) with smart common sense vision, a Methodist pastor using Sermon On The Mount philosophy to unite Americans. Here's an inspiring 44 seconds from a recent speech of his:
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
💥Ok I see other platforms are blocking this. I met Alex Gibney moons ago at ABCNY (the Association of the Bar for the City of New York). He’s the real deal. Here’s the trailer for Alex Gibney’s documentary about Musk. Let’s Streisand Effect this: www.firstshowing.net/2026/must-se... 👋🎥
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Must See Full Trailer for Alex Gibney's 'Musk' Doc About a Fraudster | FirstShowing.net
"Do we even know this man at all?" Bleecker Street has launched their main official trailer for the must see new documentary film titled simply Musk, about the uber-wealthy tech giant megalomaniac Elo...
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“…when Trump’s assertions of executive authority serve the ideological and institutional interests of the Roberts court, the conservative justices are happy to affirm them. When…assertions cut against those interests, the justices are more inclined to reject them.”👇🏼 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/o...
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Opinion | Why Does Trump Think He Can Act Like a King?
The Supreme Court has had a lot to do with it.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 26/09/2026
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: Since yesterday would have been the 90th birthday of the late Jim Henson, and since today marks one month since Dolly Parton died, here they are singing a duet (with Henson voicing Kermit the Frog) on Dolly's variety show in 1987. See you around.
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Dolly Parton & Kermit The Frog – “Everyday People” from 'Dolly' episode 5 (1987)
YouTube video by Jason Kottke
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mike Luckovich
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcoming elections, Human Rights Watch said today." www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
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US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...
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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)
Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Define irony....
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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“When I was in kindergarten in 1961, I survived a near-fatal case of measles… my clearest memory of that period is my father carrying me to our station wagon & rushing me to the hospital. I stayed for a month, part of it in a coma, my blood pressure dangerously unstable” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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Measles almost killed me. Now I’m a doctor — and I'm scared of what's happening
Jewel Mullen was in kindergarten in 1961 when she almost died from measles. Now a physician, measles’ return frightens her.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of multiple occasions where Collins is mad about the perfectly predictable consequences of her votes (see also, Kavanaugh, Brett).
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ljconrad @ljconrad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Judge Orders Feds [Russell Vought] to Restore Consumer Watchdog Funding www.courthousenews.com/judge-orders... #Project2025
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Judge orders feds to restore consumer watchdog funding
Created from the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $20 billion to consumers since its inception, according to the plaintiff states.
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“Russ Vought, the head of the OMB, has argued that Congress doesn’t have full control of the purse when it comes to federal spending. He has said he believes the Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional.”👇🏼 #VoughtProject2025 #TrumpProject2025 #RuleOfLaw www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Angers Lawmakers With $810 Million in Cuts
In the latest round of “pocket rescissions,” the president targeted funding for immigrants refugees and housing services.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 25/09/2026
A #BlueskyLullaby for tonight: 100 years ago this fall, Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II started composing and writing 'Show Boat'—even before they had the rights. Here's Peggy Lee's 1964 cover of one of the musical's great songs. See you around. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4H...
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Make Believe
YouTube video by Peggy Lee - Topic
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Adam Zyglis @adamzyglis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Mini Vlad…
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICYMI- yesterday's #UN #Trump cartoon for @thepointau.bsky.social
Scene is Trump addressing the UN. His speech bubble is just a mass of little pictures- missiles, blasts, sacks of cash, pile of shit, scribbbly lines.
The audience is looking extremely umimpressed and one is saying 'Say what you like about Donald Trump but he's got a gift for uniting nations"
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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Steve Sikora @artofangles.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Jackson argued that the high court’s willingness to grant emergency relief in cases at their earliest stages threatens to upset the legal system’s order of operations and transform the Supreme Court’s role.”👇🏽 Roberts’ #SCOTUS Trump leaning majority rules too quick. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Jackson skewers Supreme Court over emergency docket
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