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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h
AI is now the biggest investment in all of US history as a percentage of GDP. Datacenter construction is up, all other construction is down. "AI Is Squeezing Out the Rest of the Stock Market," reported WSJ 2 days ago. We basically bet the whole economy on the most optimistic visions panning out.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 11h
Because Musk doesn’t worry that a Texas AG would ever prosecute his (right-leaning) platform. Bluesky, which skews left, doesn’t have that luxury. It’s Wilhoit’s Law in sharp relief.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 7h
The religious right is steadily expanding its definition of what is sexual — and restricting what it deems acceptable in public spaces. Tech companies, in want of less oversight, are taking the hint. The deplatforming that started with sex workers / kink / trans has come for gay bars.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h
these little freaks love playing dress up
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m pretty excited to see how they fuck it up more over the next month honestly
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
why is all of the money going to make to computer telling dipshits they're a good boy
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 01/10/2026
all-time heavyweight champion
duchamps urinal
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“We must be very nice to the AI” is not a fringe view. the people making this stuff are a fucked up cult www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When white nationalist are a part of your voting base
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lorenzo in 404 Media alert www.404media.co/cops-can-byp...
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anything interesting in the new OnlyFans terms of service?
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Rand Paul blocked Blackburn and Blumenthal's attempt to push KOSA out of the Senate by unanimous consent.
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Paul blocks push to unanimously pass Kids Online Safety Act
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked an effort from Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Wednesday to pass by unanimous consent the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), a long-s…
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
abolish the death penalty
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yeah, this is the part that gets me. You can't have it both ways
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All of this has led a certain sect of the “AI safety” movement, which is largely made up of effective altruists, to warn about “model welfare” and to insist that AI chatbots might be having a bad time. They suggest this, of course, as they insist upon building AI chatbots and agents whose main function is to do work that is tedious for humans to do
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/09/2026
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ron Wyden says the DOJ and FBI withheld a secret interview with a banker tied to Jeffrey Epstein from the files released to the public. And he says there may be more.
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EXCLUSIVE: Senator Accuses DOJ and FBI of Withholding Secret Epstein Banker Interview, Demands Release of All FBI 302s
Senator Ron Wyden is accusing the Justice Department and the FBI of withholding a key record from the Epstein files, demanding in a letter obtained exclusively
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New from 404 Media: when you upload images to Copilot, they're not private. Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users' prompts/images, according to internal docs we got And they're horrified at what they're seeing. Bombarded with requests to make sexual AI images www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Excellent thread! There *are* rewards for being A Good Guy Who Speaks Up even if they are not immediately obvious or publicly bestowed. First, integrity is its own reward. Maybe you didn’t save the world or change hearts & minds. But if you held the line on not making it worse, that’s something.
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this is a bit right?
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 29/09/2026
“If you are a Republican and you want to hold public office in this state, you’re going to have to fight us for it.” For the first time in modern Texas history, there will be a Democrat in every state and federal race.
texasobserver.org
‘Up Against a 500-Pound Gorilla’: Can Dems Make Inroads in Deep-Red West Texas?
With a candidate on the ballot in every state and federal race, the minority party is trying hard to gain some ground in the GOP’s electoral firewall.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/09/2026
one of the reasons our current Moment has become so weird is because a lot of freaky antisocial dweebs with horrible opinions made bank off the last few tech booms and now have entirely too much free time
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I like this new kind of democratic messaging, direct and to the point and not engaging with the bullshit they try to make ppl argue details about
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/09/2026
MC
@burntbulb.bsky.social

okay you can't keep taking every one of my posts and photoshopping it
onto sephiroth
2:52 PM - Sep 28, 2026

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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
She hulk mention
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Noah Zazanis @noahzazanis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sucks how if you've—hypothetically—been leading anticarceral antitrafficking work for years & have a kinda encyclopedic knowledge about it, you still gotta legitimize your arguments w "I traded sex for resources at 16" But the carceral groups can just go "Jesus told me to free the child sex slaves"
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Circ @tinyicecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.
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Vapor Weyve @nymphomachy.meangirls.online · 27/09/2026
This is also why KOSA, FOSTA/SESTA and the age verification grift panopticon are socially apocalyptic
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I don’t want the government spying on me” is the type of straightforward position to take, regardless of ideology.
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
was just trying to google search up a simple idea related to the adult industry and it really was actually completely impossible to find a good primary source on anything just devolving into unrelated social media posts, spam sources. like, not a problem with porn spam, academic language was worse
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
sick deal if so
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
raise their goddam taxes holy shit
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yeah but they also put urotsukidōji in the children’s cartoon section so it was an exciting time to be alive
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 25/09/2026
It's this, btw. 900 square foot modular detention cells.
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ICE seeks ‘modular’ detention units for 50 field offices, saying increased arrests have exceeded its space
A request for information seeks ready-made detention, interview and courtroom units, with no limits on how many people the units would hold or for how long.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Jake Tapper (moderating the 2028 Dem primary debate): Final question. Do you renounce the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar? Pete Buttigieg: I renounce it. Kamala: I renounce it. AOC: I renounce it. Gavin Newsom: I will be deploying the National Guard to Greenfield on day one of my administration.
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
"NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." Video below L: Trump R: AOC"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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samanthAAAH! riedel @samanthawrites.net · 23/09/2026
"Disability activists warned for years that this would be the outcome of allowing COVID-19 to spread unmitigated. Now that it’s time to pay the piper, the state and its media allies are working desperately to sever the connection between COVID-19 and its consequences."
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.
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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
France's National Assembly is considering a bill that would criminalize adult content sales, equating online content creation with pimping. Consumers and platforms would face steep fines and prison. The bill is being championed by Céline Thiébault-Martinez, an MP on the supposed socialist left.
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An Anti-Sexual Violence Bill Could Ban Adult Sites in France AVN
A proposed national bill intended to combat gender-based and sexual violence in the French Republic could drastically expand pimping and procurement measures online to potentially cover direct-to-cons...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Oh no our local scene drama (last ditch) is going viral
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is human trafficking on a massive scale.
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Jiz Lee @jizlee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We love to see it! @vanniall.com
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This seems like a pretty big deal: donors made illegal contributions to Susan Collins and then were awarded lucrative contracts after her office intervened with the Navy. An FBI investigation was dropped under Trump. www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
To skirt campaign finance laws and conceal the source of the funds, Navatek planned to funnel the donation through a shell company. The CEO wanted assurance that Collins would know where
the money came from. Reed confirmed that she would, the executive said - and that Navatek would get its government contracts.
After the Corner Bakery meeting, Navatek's CEO, Martin Kao, sent an initial $150,000 to the Collins super PAC using the shell company. Two months later, he told Navatek executives that Collins committed to getting the company $32 million in naval contracts, according to an internal company email reviewed by ProPublica.
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And studiovanniall.com is live!
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Studio Vanniall Officially Launches Banner With PAYSITE AVN
Vanniall and PAYSITE have debuted StudioVanniall.com. Launched September 15, it is the “official home” for all of Studio Vanniall’s productions.
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Ashley Lake @ashleylatke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our biggest problem is corpos in every direction. We can break all this up, the mechanisms exist and just require political will.
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