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Great-GrandMother ~ born at 310.3 ppm Grad Cert Buddhist Philosophy, 1971-72, LTWA, Dharamsala, India 📸"Storm Watch"

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Martin Matishak @martinmatishak.bsky.social · 5h
EXCLUSIVE: The Pentagon’s top cyber policy official last month instructed U.S. Cyber Command to take a series of quick, mandatory actions to better safeguard the well being of its personnel in the wake of recent suicide deaths. therecord.media/cyber-comman...
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After reports on suicide deaths, Pentagon puts Cyber Command on notice
An August 31 memo obtained by Recorded Future News shows that the Pentagon's assistant secretary for cyber policy made specific demands of U.S. Cyber Command leadership after reports of a cluster of s...
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Otrosdías @otrosdias.bsky.social · 4h
Long COVID rates in the US have not changed much since 2022, which is pretty amazing if you take into account the reduction in testing since then.
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The Register @theregister.com · 4h
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
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Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
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Delaware Riverkeeper Network @delriverkeeper.bsky.social · 7h
Did you know that nearly half of all migratory bird species are undergoing a decline in population? Birds are migrating south for the winter and need our cooperation to ensure their journey is safe and as stress free as possible. #Migratorybirds #birdmigration #birding
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h
#RatepayerProtectionAct
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 8h
Before I got to Congress, I organized to win water breaks for Austin construction workers. Then Abbott signed a law wiping them out. Now thousands of Texas workers are getting sick in extreme heat.
houstonchronicle.com
Texas workers face life-or-death heat risks as workplace protections lag
Texas has no statewide heat safety standard for workers, even as OSHA data and researchers suggest workplace heat illnesses are sharply undercounted.
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STAT @statnews.com · 8h
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1. www.statnews.com/2026/09/30/legal-i…
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U.S. poised to boot legal immigrants from Medicaid, including refugees and sex-trafficking victims
Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status, including refugees and sex-trafficking victims, are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1.
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Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 8h
The filing of a misconduct complaint against Minnesota federal judges is an escalation of an ongoing fight between the Justice Department and the Minnesota bench, as the DOJ prosecutes a number of controversial cases stemming from Operation Metro Surge.
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Justice Department alleges misconduct by ‘all but one’ Minnesota federal judge • Minnesota Reformer
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a judicial misconduct complaint to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, accusing “all but one” of Minnesota’s federal district judges of unethical conduct, Att...
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 8h
Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are asking the Supreme Court to let them impose their abortion bans on New York and punish our doctors for providing legal health care. I'll fight with everything in my power to defend our shield law and protect every provider and patient.
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 15h
On the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we acknowledge and reflect on the deep intergenerational harm residential schools have caused to Indigenous families and communities. Art by Elaine Landry #OrangeShirtDay #EveryChildMatters #TruthAndReconciliation
A handprint on an orange background. The handprint is broken into segments, inside of which are different symbols representing elements of Indigenous culture, including animal paw prints, landscapes with trees, and other images drawn from nature. There is a large black eagle feather on the left side of the handprint, and bird silhouettes appear in the upper left hand corner of the image. The words EVERY CHILD MATTERS appear at the bottom of the piece.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 8h
NEW / HUGE: Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama sued nearly three dozen abortion pill providers + a pharmacy and The states asked the Supreme Court to be able to sue New York, Massachusetts, and California to challenge their telehealth shield laws @autonomynews.co storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Dear Mr. Cayce:
I write to notify the panel of two legal developments material to the
panel’s resolution of this case.
First, today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—filed a
lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana against nearly three dozen
individuals and entities responsible for remotely dispensing FDA-
approved mifepristone in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama. See
Louisiana v. Nouhavandi, No. 2:26-cv-03836 (W.D. La.) (attached). As
the complaint in that case illustrates, none of those individuals and
entities could carry out their current operations without the 2023
REMS’s removal of the in-person dispensing requirement.
Second, also today Louisiana—joined by Arkansas and Alabama—
filed a motion for leave to file a bill of complaint (attached), Louisiana v.
New York, in the United States Supreme Court against New York,
Massachusetts, and California. The bill of complaint challenges the
telehealth shield laws of those states on various legal grounds.
Both complaints explain how Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v.
FDA will eliminate the flood of FDA-approved mifepristone into the
State. Louisiana’s success in Louisiana v. Nouhavandi will eliminate the
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ability of nearly three dozen of the most prominent actors to illegally send
any abortion drugs into the State. And Louisiana’s success in Louisiana
v. New York will strip all shield-law state residents—regardless of any
back-up drugs they may try to use—of the claimed authority to violate
Louisiana’s laws with impunity.
espectfully,
/s/J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
J. Benjamin Aguiñaga
Solicitor General
Counsel for Louisiana
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h
Tuesday presented a split-screen picture of a Trump admin seeking ever more extreme uses of executive power w/ barely any pushback from SCOTUS contrasted w/ a Trump admin losing power and facing accountability from increasingly aggressive appeals courts supporting the district courts. Law Dork:
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SCOTUS allows quick third-country removals to resume, as lower courts close in on Trump’s lawlessness
A split-screen of the Supreme Court allowing Trump to expand his authoritarian efforts as appeals courts are increasingly supporting district courts’ accountability efforts.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
DOJ is continuing its equally embarrassing and alarming practice in the second Trump administration of going after federal judges who push back against lawlessness and support the rule of law. Today, they filed a judicial complaint against Minnesota federal judges who spoke to The New York Times.
CONCLUSION
DIS frequently has cases pending in the District of Minnesota, including immigration cases before Judge Schiltz and Judge Tunheim. These judges should be ordered to recuse from any matters involving DHS because the public reasonably questions their impartiality in cases involving immigration. Morcover, the Eighth Circuit should initiate an investigation by the Judicial Counsel into the improper conduct by judges in the District of Minnesota who "covet publicity" rather than adhering to the rule of law by adjudicating cases or controversies. NFL, 585 F.3d at
1140. Finally, pursuant to Rules 11(a)(4) and 11(f) of the Rules for Judicial-Conduct and Judicial-Disability Procedings, a special committee should be appointe inve mate this misconduct.

Trent McCotter
Acting Deputy Attorney General

Stanley Woodward Jr.
Associate Attorney General
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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 8h
To Leah's point, I've yet to see any evidence that AI is pulling down mountains. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/o...
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Opinion | Mountains Are Coming Undone (Gift Article)
The burning of fossil fuels is pulling down the world’s highest peaks.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
End Times Fascism is now an *international* bestseller. Folks, you made this happen and we are so grateful. @astra.bsky.social
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
Atrazine, banned in 60 countries, polluting rivers at levels that can harm wildlife and may threaten human health
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Hormone-disrupting herbicide contaminating 25% of continental US rivers, report finds
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
State passes law banning local, state and federal officers from using gloves that deliver painful electric shocks
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California bans officers’ use of electric-shock gloves after ICE reveals plan to equip agents
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ACLU @aclu.org · 27/09/2026
The conditions in President Trump and Stephen Miller’s detention facilities remain inhumane. Demand immediate action from our elected leaders to prevent further loss of life at aclu.org/stop-ice_killings
"1 person died in ICE detention every 10 days from January 2025 through August 2026. Source: NPR." Image of a barbed wire fence against the sky. ACLU logo.
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ACLU of the District of Columbia @aclu-dc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
NEW: Friday afternoon, the government moved to dismiss its appeal in this free speech case. The government can't shut down speech as a "threat" or "obscene" just because it criticizes the president. bit.ly/4z2ipzZ
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Accountability NOW USA v. Griess, et al. – Defending the Right to Display Signs Accusing President Trump of Sex Crimes - ACLU of DC
Accountability NOW is a group of volunteers who have been holding a permitted, 24/7 anti-Trump vigil on National Park Service (NPS) land in Washington, D.C., for months. After they erected signs sayin...
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atj15 @atriverside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
...The canceled funds are fueling anger from Democrats who say OMB director Russell Vought is violating the separation of powers and undermining Congressional authority. "This is theft from the American people, plain and simple," wrote Washington Sen. Patty Murray ..."
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atj15 @atriverside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"[DHS] pay for access to the following: personal data obtained from data brokers, AI target generation, facial recognition technology, digital forensic extraction tools, automatic license plate readers, secret databases, cell site simulators, cell phone tracing, social media monitoring, ... spyware.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 28/09/2026
Europe is stepping up massively on defence. Today, we are moving forward with five major joint projects: drones, air defence, space, maritime security and our Eastern Flank. Five areas that are crucial to European security. And where we need to move fast.
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atj15 @atriverside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All of Trump’s numbers are suspect "Poll numbers, inflation numbers, investment numbers, gas-price numbers, foreign policy numbers, crowd-size numbers, virtually every other kind of number – a staggering percentage of the figures Trump uses are incorrect."
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman, and Nicole Brosnan map out the legal questions raised by ICE's use of Palantir's Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) targeting tool, from Fourth Amendment search issues to due process and standing hurdles.
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From Records to Raids: The Questionable Legality of ICE’s Palantir ELITE System
There are important legal considerations implicated by ICE’s use of ELITE, write Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman and Nicole Brosnan.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today, Monday 9/28, on Thinking Live... I'll be speaking with @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu about the geopolitics of our moment. Join us at 10am ET via snyder.substack.com
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Thinking about... | Timothy Snyder | Substack
Opening the future by understanding the past. Click to read "Thinking about...", by Timothy Snyder, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Official trailer out, and oof www.theguardian.com/film/video/2...
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NAZA - official trailer
Watch the official trailer for NAZA, an award-winning documentary produced by the Guardian that details the systems behind Israel’s mass killings in Gaza. The critically acclaimed film, produced with ...
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Next week I’m presenting some of my new research on Orthobros, Catholic traditionalism, crusader imagery, conspiracy theories, and online extremism at JCRT’s Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare conference. Thursday, Oct. 1 — program + registration: jcrt.org/blog/2026-08...
jcrt.org
Registration Now Open: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare
Registration is now open for the online JCRT conference Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare: Information, Interpretation, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Reality, taking place October 1-3, 2026.
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atj15 @atriverside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The International Auschwitz Committee slammed the CDU’s support of the motion... “This is a transparent and despicable attempt to drive Nazi victims in Heidenau out of the city once again and dispose of them where, according to the AfD, their memory has belonged a long time ago — at the cemetery,”
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Carmen Celestini @philofwrite.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Often while within the ecosystem of Canadian active clubs and remigration influencers online, residential school harms are dismissed as a hoax. Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation was the first to speak out. www.ubcic.bc.ca/fifth_annive...
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Fifth Anniversary of Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc Announcement: UBCIC Honours Residential School Survivors and Condemns Denialism
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Enhancing grainy images and videos with generative AI to identify key missing details often produces inaccurate and unreliable results. AI models have no reference as to what missing details in a grainy image/video look like, and often generate those details based on an incorrect guess.
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Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An AI-enhanced version of a grainy image that appears to be authentic and shows several men being arrested in relation to the ongoing incident at RAF Fairford is currently being shared on multiple platforms. A SynthID check reveals that the enhanced image was generated with OpenAI.
AI-enhanced version of an authentic image showing arrests at RAF Fairford
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I spoke with danah boyd, author of Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census, about how the 2020 census came together amid fractured politics and a pandemic, and what it means for the next one.
techpolicy.press
The 'Jenga Politics' Threatening the US Census
A conversation with danah boyd, author of Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census.
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atj15 @atriverside.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All of Trump’s numbers are suspect "Poll numbers, inflation numbers, investment numbers, gas-price numbers, foreign policy numbers, crowd-size numbers, virtually every other kind of number – a staggering percentage of the figures Trump uses are incorrect."
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Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RAF Fairfield investigation update: CTP says the 5 people arrested are all male in their early to mid-20s. All five are UK nationals from London, according to the BBC.
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Update on RAF Fairford investigation | Counter Terrorism Policing
The Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into an incident reported close to RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on Sunday 27 September is continuing.  Specially trained CTP investigators have been exa...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 28/09/2026
Bronze hand from the Iron Age site of Irulegi, Navarre (🇪🇸). One of the words inscribed is similar to the modern Basque word for 'good fortune', suggesting it is a prehistoric luck charm. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
Above: bronze hand engraved with Palaeohispanic writing. Below: sketch of the same hand, making the writing clearer.
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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Writing a book about extreme heat was like writing a biography of a ghost. Thermal images like this are powerful because they make that ghost visible.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia's Matryoshka disinformation campaign has shifted to the US elections, where it's making wild claims about random Democratic Party candidates. They've also started one of their jigsaws again, which is nearly complete. Not sure if it's a specific person, but at least my face isn't on the poo.
The image is a crude satirical illustration set against broad red and cream stripes that run down the background and continue across the floor.
On the left stands a shaggy grey donkey, facing the viewer, with large upright ears, a pale muzzle and several white stars across its chest.
On the right is a blonde woman wearing black glasses, a blue dress with puffed sleeves, a white apron and black high heels. She leans forward with one hand on her hip and holds an oversized wooden spoon in the other. The spoon is coated in a brown substance, which also appears smeared around her smiling mouth and chin.
A large pile of faeces sits between them in the foreground, surrounded by flies and rising green and yellow stink lines.
Three horizontal black bands mark missing sections of the reconstructed image: one across the upper ears and hair, a wider band across the donkey’s muzzle and the woman’s waist, and a narrow band near the bottom.
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I contributed a few words to this striking photographic documentation of the 2026 killer heatwave in Europe ... insideclimatenews.org/news/2809202...
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Revealing the Invisible Injustice of Extreme Heat - Inside Climate News
Thermal imaging shows how people experience scorching heat varies depending on their circumstance.
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rise and fall of a discipline! 🏺🧊🔥 (evidenced by discontinuation of JGA)! 'Most of ice patches in North America and the Swiss Alps had melted completely by 2010. [...] these factors have resulted in a significant decline in archaeological discoveries' 😲 journal.equinoxpub.com/JGA/issue/vi...
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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 17/06/2026
Wandering the slopes above Loch Maree, the woodlands provided so many compositions. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers
A gnarled old tree, limbs twisted amongst the undergrowth.
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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 26/09/2026
Revisiting a trip to Colonsay over the next few posts, and the wonderful textures and patterns along its coastline. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers
Rock, showing through the sand on the beach
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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 27/09/2026
“Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ breaks ‘remarkable’ all-time record” by @carbonbrief.org learn more ⬇️ buff.ly/4a9XUAK
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Analysis: ‘Super El Niño’ breaks ‘remarkable’ all-time record - Carbon Brief
This year's so-called “super El Niño” is entering into record-breaking territory
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Verify your registration now and make a plan to vote early in person (or by mail if necessary) to give yourself time to flag and fix any errors. Discouragement is the aim. Determination is the antidote.
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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
SCOTUS undermined elections again in an unsigned 6-3 decision that revived the Trump Admin’s ability to use an error-prone federal citizenship check database that aggregates sensitive voter like social security numbers. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 26/09/2026
Last September, 60 armed and masked federal agents descended on a factory in Cato, NY. They grabbed 100+ workers, including some U.S. citizens and green card holders, some of whom were deported without due process.⁠ ⁠ We're suing Trump's DHS for this unjustified raid that violated worker's rights.
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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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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI is not in control. Not acceptable. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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OpenAI bots meddled with US government agencies, including SEC and Census
OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Really enjoyed talking with Charlie about what the Meta glasses/Flock backlash tells us about changing expectations of privacy. Gift link for my piece from August on Meta glasses-driven harassment: www.theverge.com/report/98241...
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Meta glasses are a workplace menace
“Pervert” glasses are making jobs weird and putting workers on edge.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/09/2026
The reporter Mia Sato speaks with @cwarzel.bsky.social about the rise of Meta’s camera-equipped glasses, the backlash to Flock cameras, and what happens when humans are always being recorded. Watch Galaxy Brain:
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What Do We Do About the Cameras Everywhere?
A genuine reckoning with Meta and the surveillance state
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