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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 8h
Hay policías a quienes se les ordena no mencionar el uso de ALPR en sus informes ni a las personas detenidas. Ocultar tecnología de espionaje no es nuevo, pero impide el control público y el derecho de defensa. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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La policía oculta su uso de tecnología de espionaje para evitar el
Las agencias del orden de todo el país recurren cada vez más a tecnologías de espionaje, como los lectores automáticos de placas vehiculares (ALPR), los simuladores de antenas de telefonía celular y
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h
wow -- Fox Business is now treating Trump's completely made up economic boasts as though they are factual. Note the citation here -- "The White House" Reminder that the entire US economy is about $32t. If we really had $21t flowing in, you'd notice it Fox thinks their viewers are really dumb
Fox Biz screencap that says: "$21 TRILLION INVESTMENTS POURING INTO THE US"
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 8h
I had a deeply depressing conversation with a health equity researcher recently about all the ways that Jay Bhattacharya's appalling list of banned words and topics has affected their work....
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WIRED @wired.com · 8h
The National Design Studio (NDS) has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h
Gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers reveal
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Gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers reveal
Optogenetic therapy, based on Nobel prize-winning science, involves turning nerve cells on and off using light A type of gene therapy based on Nobel prize-winning science is safe and can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers have revealed. The approach, known as optogenetic therapy, harnesses the technique for turning nerve cells on and off using light that scooped the 2026 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine. Continue reading...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 6h
Universities are racing to buy AI—but they should implement AI governance that keeps today's procurement decisions from hardening into institutional architecture that can't be changed, says Tom Smith, academic director of Royal Air Force College.
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Universities Need AI Infrastructure. They Don’t Need AI Lock-In
Switching AI vendors means unwinding an entire ecosystem. Universities can preserve their freedom of choice through AI governance, says Tom Smith.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h
You did this Jared Polis, @colorado.gov. You own this. I hope whatever lobbying firm or think-tank's payroll you sold yourself for bounces you out after a fucking month, you degenerate Collaborator.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 9h
Crise du logement en Espagne : l’octogénaire expulsée à l’origine du mouvement de protestation est morte
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Crise du logement en Espagne : l’octogénaire expulsée à l’origine du mouvement de protestation est morte
Maricarmen Abascal, 87 ans, avait été hospitalisée dans un état d’épuisement après son expulsion, bien qu’un accord ait été obtenu avec la société propriétaire pour qu’elle puisse réintégrer son appartement.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 9h
Three government sponsors pulled their logos from Europe's premier disinformation conference in Vilnius this week. Ramsha Jahangir and Giovana Fleck report on what drove the withdrawals and the transatlantic politics behind them.
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Disinformation Conference in Europe Caught Up in Transatlantic Politics
Europe’s top disinformation conference faces government withdrawals and pressure over its debate on foreign interference, free speech and the US.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h
“This entity appears to be run by James Burnham, a former member of DOGE and the current general counsel of SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence space company founded by Musk. It is not clear who is funding the foundation or how much money it has.” www.wired.com/story/myster...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 9h
Rather than positioning AI systems as tools scientists can use, AI companies insist their systems are responsible for making discoveries. It's an approach some scientists see as “incompatible with how science actually works." www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/28/1...
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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
AI companies’ insistence that their technology is making breakthroughs, not just aiding scientists, is making real progress harder to recognize.
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The Register @theregister.com · 9h
Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs
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Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs
Trusted brand impersonation without the usual browser certificate warnings spells trouble
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 9h
"You won't find anything even slightly resembling an ESG report in the Anthropic Transparency Hub. The Anthropic Econ Index says that it is for understanding the impacts of AI on the economy, but since their methodology doesn't cover externalities, there's nothing on the environment there either."
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Claude prompts will soon directly poison lungs in South Memphis
I wish this were hyperbole. It's not. The Cult of Claude has reached a new low.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h
People always ask “where are you going to get the money to pay for stuff like housing and healthcare and public transit” and the answer is the same as it’s always been Make the rich pay their fair share
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Truthout @truthout.org · 9h
White House staffers indicated on Tuesday that President Donald Trump will not be reimbursing the government for the millions of dollars in taxpayer funds he has used to produce promotional TV ads ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
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Trump Won’t Reimburse Taxpayers for Ads Promoting Himself Paid for by Government
Trump has spent at least $10 million in taxpayer funds on TV ads ahead of the midterm elections.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 9h
As long as authoritarian governments work to censor & surveil us for ultimate control, VPNs remain vital tools. That’s why we’re fighting to defend them.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 8h
Where in the world are typefaces being designed? The US, Germany, and France…but also the UK, Netherlands, and Indonesia. [type.lol]
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Where are typefaces being designed?
A foundry’s address can place its catalog on a map. It can’t tell us where every typeface was drawn. The gaps in our records change that map again.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 11h
Les affections longue durée ont coûté près de 20 milliards d’euros à l’Assurance-maladie en 2025
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Les affections longue durée ont coûté près de 20 milliards d’euros à l’Assurance-maladie en 2025
En dix ans, les dépenses de l’Assurance-maladie liées aux affections longue durée ont augmenté de 8,2 milliards d’euros (+ 72 % en euros courants). Et ce, en raison du vieillissement de la population, d’une hausse de la prévalence des maladies chroniques et du coût des traitements.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 15h
Australia is building a lot of new homes. But is the datacentre boom holding us back? | Greg Jericho
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Australia is building a lot of new homes. But is the datacentre boom holding us back? | Greg Jericho
Housing construction is at its strongest level since 2016, but it’s AI that is sucking up resources for builders The latest series of data on housing and building activity has been released, showing residential building is growing strongly but also that the datacentre boom is massive and ongoing. As political parties look to keep housing on the agenda, the massive resources devoted to building datacentres is going to hit anyone wishing to increase housing supply. Continue reading...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 14h
For months, Alberta’s business leaders largely stayed away from the debate on separation. Now, with a referendum just weeks away, a flurry of businesses are taking Canada’s side. But oil producers and pipeline companies remain notably absent from the debate.
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Alberta’s major oil producers and pipeline companies are staying out of the referendum debate
With less than two weeks before the vote, dozens of businesses signed on to an open letter calling for national unity, including several heavy hitters in the energy sector. But oil producers and pipel...
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 10h
University of Michigan's Eric Bell spoke to staff scientists about extragalactic archaeology and what mergers do (and don't do) to galaxies and their satellites today at the Space Telescope Science Institute. The lecture was part of our ongoing colloquium talks program. 🔭
A person stands in a lecture hall giving a presentation. They are positioned near a large screen displaying slides about astrophysics, including text and images related to galaxies. Multiple screens and a laptop are visible in the foreground.
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 10h
Duck Tales 🎬 A behind-the-scenes look at DuckDuckGo Ep.47: How performance reviews work in a distributed, asynchronous company. Full episode: insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales... | 'Inside DuckDuckGo' on Spotify
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 10h
I mean yeah dude that's always the goal
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 20h
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
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Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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Street Sense Media @streetsensedc.bsky.social · 17h
Latest issue of Street Sense is out today, including a new installment in Jeffery McNeil's series The Grind. Catch him slinging papers at 18th and L NW near Nordstrom Rack until 10:00 am.
Cover of "Street Sense" newspaper featuring a person holding a football. The headline reads "The Homeless Crisis Reporting Project." A QR code and information about vendor purchase price are visible.A newspaper page titled "The Grind, Ch. 11: Havoc in a New Jersey penthouse" by Jeffrey McDaniel. The text is formatted in columns. There's an "Editor's Note" highlighting that this is chapter 11 and past chapters are available online.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 17h
The number of dangers and the amount of work AI is already causing and will cause us is astounding. Yet we keep getting advice on how to make it work for us. FU if that is your advice.
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Opinion | A.I. Is Lying to You. Here’s How to Fight Back. (Gift Article)
In the age of A.I. disinformation, we all need to use the tools of counterespionage to find the truth.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 18h
Try Paid For By yourself: paidforby.info
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 13h
Four families from New Hampshire have filed suit against Trump's HHS over Medicaid rule changes for gender-affirming care. @alyssaur.bsky.social brings you the story here!
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New Hampshire Families Sue Over New Medicaid Rule - Assigned Media
Four families have filed suit to prevent a Medicaid ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth from going into effect next week.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 13h
From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers like Flock they rushed to install. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/03/p...
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The Flock Backlash Catches Up to the Tech
From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to install.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 13h
The Trump administration wants to exclude millions of immigrants from the 2030 census. The proposal would do more than just violate the law — it would harm the American public. bit.ly/4y6x1yl
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Excluding Immigrants from the Census Would Hurt the Country and Break the Law
The Constitution, federal law, and centuries of history make clear that the census is meant to count everyone, regardless of citizenship.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 10h
This amount of money spent for this purpose is almost inconceivable to me, and each and every single time I see these my mind starts thinking about what sums like this could accomplish directed towards the good of collective society instead of...this.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 18h
Censorship is the point. “Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for ‘historical purposes’ in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Alabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts Colleges
Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h
What a hedline: @apnews.com apnews.com/article/midt...
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20h
The Norwegian Nobel Committee could simply award the Peace Prize to the most deserving candidate and explain that they will not consider Donald Trump due to his human rights violations and alleged war crimes.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17h
Anywho.
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NPR @npr.org · 17h
Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year. n.pr/4j4JGxa
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An early flu season means it might be time to think about a flu shot
Flu season typically starts in October or November. But it looks like the flu started to pick up in September this year.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 18h
Félicitations à Henri Kagan of France and Kenso Soai of Japan for winning this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry. Their discoveries have opened new avenues for scientific research, including the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/10/2026
Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value. OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.
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OpenAI Releases Findings on 377 Math Problems, Further Roiling Field (Gift Article)
After a previous solution angered mathematicians, the company characterized the new release as being more responsive to concerns about A.I. disrupting research.
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 17h
w0w
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
When I started this project, the idea was to make an Inca quipu, which is a knotted counting system. Basically "what if quipu, but a loom." dr.eamer.dev/games/quipu-... It's fun to hover your mouse through! Other than that, I stand by going with the minimal version instead.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 07/10/2026
A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend became Kenya's first confirmed case of Ebola and the country's first death from the disease in the fast-moving outbreak, authorities said Tuesday. to.pbs.org/3VmPfxg
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Man living in Congo who went back to Kenya is country's 1st confirmed Ebola case and death
A Kenyan citizen who had been living in Congo before returning to Nairobi over the weekend became Kenya’s first confirmed case of Ebola and the country’s first death from the disease in the fast-movin...
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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 07/10/2026
h/t to @slack2thefuture.bsky.social for letting me know you can delete the "customer personalization" data in your Amazon account and enter anything you want. Like this.
Fucking with Amazon "customer personalization"
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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
They said they are going to dismantle the administrative state, so they're doing it. The problem is that the administrative state is the only state. There is no other state.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 06/10/2026
My new book HYPERSCALE is out in two weeks — and my copies just arrived! I recorded an unboxing video to share some thoughts as it gets closer to release and show you what it looks like. Hate data centers? You’re going to want a copy! Preorder yours today: bookshop.org/a/18331/9798...
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"Changing this limit requires congressional action, but Carr doesn't care. He'll do whatever it takes to clear the way for Trump-aligned billionaires to swallow up stations wherever and whenever they please."- Free Press' @mattfieldwood.bsky.social via @arstechnica.com
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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 07/10/2026
"They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy."
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Meta's Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family
Meta's buzzy new AI agent comes with some major privacy risks — not just for users, but anybody on the periphery of its users' lives.
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