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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

God everything is so DUMB.

United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...

im a low vision user who can't see this tiny fucking box well enough to type in it. ffs this is obviously not for low vision peopel

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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Impossible to say it better than Mark Harris, but YES: so much of “AI” convo can’t seem to distinguish between the concept (w/loads of hypothetical upsides and downsides), and the parasitic succubus being forced into every aspect of our society by the dumbest, most broken people imaginable.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like the debate about what parts of AI are good and what parts are bad should wait until we solve the worldwide crisis caused by the fact that almost of all of its evangelists in both tech and govt are morally, intellectually, and ethically unequipped to oversee it, when not downright evil.

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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The gambling thing is yet another toxic chicken, steadily making its way home to roost. Our society is not remotely equipped to handle all the poison coursing through our everything right now. But good on @propublica.org, again and again and again, for trying.

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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mary Carillo is cool as hell (and good on Rothenberg for not letting this go). Meanwhile, the cowardice of virtually everyone else involved in big tennis is pathetic, and such a constant feature of these times—the “bigger” you are, the more spineless and empty you are.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

(jd vance cornering an aide who pretends not to hear him) so what are people doing after this

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Courtney Nguyen @fortydeucetwits.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

iron bob. an absurd man.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/09/2026

the press has gotten completely habituated to the ugly and hateful behavior of the people in this government so i will be surprised if anyone ever asks hegseth why he thinks it is appropriate to mock children for wanting to learn, grow and maybe serve their country

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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 01/09/2026

maybe it might surprise others, i don’t know, it doesn’t surprise me, but a startling number of americans — blue, red, ass, elephant, whatever else — will eagerly fall in line and support economic attacks on canada, just like this moron is doing here, if it’s pitched to them with the right spin

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 30/08/2026

Mother speaks

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 25/08/2026

“[A State Department official called the painting] ‘very woke’ and ‘aesthetically terrifying.’” The painting:

A Kehinde Wiley portrait of four Dominicans — two men relaxed on the ground, two women standing, one subject of each gender having white skin while the other has darker skin. The four appear immersed in a backdrop of flowers — an aesthetic signature of Wiley’s work.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

AI makes children better at doing their homework but 20% stupider so it's impossible to say whether it's good or not

Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered AI adoption in a difference-in-differences design. AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of AI users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. AI users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-AI users experience small learning losses.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Yeah, we wouldn't want a Democrat to go viral or thrill the base. That would be terrible.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

institutions of higher education are shuttering entire departments and laying off staff while signing multimillion dollar contracts to provide students with access to the plagiarism machine

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026

Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 29/07/2026

A decade ago, Facebook was so worried about rising misinformation that it paid various news outlets to hire writers specifically tasked with publishing Snopes-like fact-checks. Today, the company is leaping into bed with a purveyor of misinformation to toy with a tool known for getting facts wrong.

The top part of a Newsmax press release dated 28 July 2026 headlined "Newsmax and Meta Enter AI Content Partnership." The screenshotted text of the press release reads:

BOCA RATON, FL / ACCESS Newswire / July 28, 2026 / Newsmax Inc. (NYSE:NMAX) ("Newsmax" or the "Company") announced today that the Company has entered into an AI content partnership with Meta Platforms ("Meta").

Under the agreement, Meta will have access to Newsmax's digital news content. Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content across its platforms to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.

"Newsmax applauds the significant resources Meta is putting into AI to keep America at the forefront of this emerging technology," commented Chris Ruddy, CEO of Newsmax. "We are pleased to work with Meta to help ensure users have access to timely, high-quality journalism through AI technologies."

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Alison Preston @alisonserene.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Best thing that could happen is Nolan comes back at her. Then Wilson goes back at him, and so forth for the rest of the summer. Everyone's social-media-brained and thinking there needs to be a winner and a loser. This is what consuming literature is all about! Politeness is for your dinner party.

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I don’t have the highest self-esteem in the world, but at least it’s not “attending the White House correspondents’ dinner” low. If you’re ever down on yourself, remember there are people out there who have shaped their entire lives around getting into that room on purpose. You’re doing fine.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Next time people say lawmakers don't understand LLMs, remember they are paying significant sums to influence chatbots rather than regulate them.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

My explanation of how climate change is amplifying these wildfires ended up entirely on the @npr.org cutting room floor. Instead they included an extremely misleading of the supposed role of fire suppression and human alteration (expertly debunked here: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/canadas-bo... )

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A fundamentally bad guy, as he continues to prove daily.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

You’re not struggling to buy basic items as wages fail to keep up with inflation. You’re “finding joy” by buying smaller things.

News alert on phone: The Big Take
From tiny totes to mini whisky bottles, US shoppers on a budget are finding joy buying smaller versions of everyday items

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 06/07/2026

Imagine you see your little kid on a cute day of ceremony being demonized by the president of the United States and their face targeted in front of the world.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Lol

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/07/2026

I have given a great deal of thought to why so much political analysis refuses to acknowledge or grapple with the diseased info environment, and I think at least part of it is, people want to be able to claim that the public is informed & wise *when it produces results amenable to their priors*.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

... that humanity could even produce such foolishness -- the erasure, I mean -- is evidence that as a species we should probably just turn out the lights and hand it all over to the roaches, who manage their affairs much more reasonably.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

A chart showing an immediate spike after the headline hit the front page of Wall Street Bets.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026

“You have to give up your privacy & anonymity online because there’s just nothing we can do about the open web getting bait-and-switched into an unregulated global social experiment that gamifies the worst behaviors of humanity for the profit of two billionaire freaks” is just not a great pitch.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

There is a pernicious and sustained effort to distort the historical record and do violence to the public’s memory.

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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The indifference (and disdain) that Dem leaders show towards *the people who are ready to walk through walls to fight this regime* (and consequently elect Dems despite our misgivings) is disgusting, and insanely short sighted. Fuck off @jaimeharrison.bsky.social.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"You know those brief times during the work day when the humans have a minute to think, breathe, rest, hydrate, check on their kids, chat with colleagues, go to the bathroom, or do anything but the repetitive tasks we assign them? How can we get rid of that?"

businessinsider.com

Amazon's next warehouse efficiency drive is about moving humans, not just packages

Amazon is testing software to move warehouse workers more efficiently, aiming to save millions of labor hours a year, internal documents show.

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Elder Taylor @taylornewc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 16/06/2026

I think every media person who has spent the last 3-4 years warning everyone that AI is a scam should, when the bubble bursts, get one billion dollars each to run our normal businesses for the next 1000 years. seems fair.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

How hard are Haberman and Swan running cover for their favorite source? This article should be headlined: "AFTER PRETTI KILLING, VANCE WANTED TO CRUSH MINNESOTA UNREST WITH TROOPS: PAINFUL IN THE SHORT TERM, HE SAID, BUT WORTH IT TO MAKE SURE NO ONE TRIED IT AGAIN"

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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

TBC, yes, my overwhelming hope is that Mainers vote for the creep over Susan Collins, but the fact that we’re going to get 5 months (and 6 years, hopefully!) of this narcissistic Bernie-bro horseshit — in defense of/gaslighting past objectively shitty behavior! — is really the worst.

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I would like it known that everything I did wrong from birth until 3 p.m. yesterday should be classified as part of my personal growth journey and can never be held against me. I was a different person.

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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I can’t say I’ve had the energy or bandwidth to pay *that* much attention to this, and my (admittedly passive and underinformed) gut until a couple of days ago leaned towards “what the hell do I know?” But holy fuck this was pathetic—just so cowardly, dark, ugly and bad.

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House Armed Services Democrats @democrats-armedservices.house.gov · 05/06/2026

"The most important thing about this video is there is nothing classified about it... yet they refuse to release this one. Why? Because if the public sees it, they cannot defend it." - @adamsmith.house.gov on @keating.house.gov's NDAA amdt to require DoD to release double-tap boat strike video.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people in hospitals so that their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release. Now that rule has been dropped.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.

First, the Court's decision will cause havoc. The so-called
"Purcell principle" "generally holds that, because late-breaking changes to election procedures can cause chaos, federal courts should hesitate before exercising their equitable discretion to alter state election laws close to an elec-tion." Malliotakis v. Williams, 607 U. S. _, —
(2026)
(SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting) (slip op., at 10). Today's decision tramples on that principle of restraint.
As the District Court explained, the path of least change in Alabama is keeping the District Court's remedial plan in place. According to Alabama Director of Elections Jeff El-rod, all voters in Alabama are currently assigned in county-level voter rolls to congressional districts based on the remedial map that the District Court previously ordered and that the State used for the 2024 election cycle. 2 App. 135.
To run an election using the remedial map, then, the State need not make any changes to its voter rolls or change the status quo.
To switch to the 2023 Redistricting Plan now, however, county elections officials will have to reassign hundreds of thousands of voters across the State to new congressional districts. Three of Alabama's counties will be particularly hard hit because they are split across two congressional dis-tricts. 2 App. 121-122. These counties have about 600,000

registered voters between them (roughly 15% of the State's total number of registered voters).2
Elrod testified below that county elections officials would have to reassign those 600,000 voters manually. "The sys-tem," he explained, "is not automatic" and "requires manual input" from elections officials who must "physically manually interface with the system." Id., at 146. Reassigning voters in precincts split across two districts is particularly complicated, he continued, as it "cannot be done with a simple click" and instead requires officials to check street-level data to determine how to assign individual voters. Id., at 156-157. Worse yet, Elrod warned that reassigning voters requires using complicated computer software that officials must be trained to use, as "most of the counties' registrars are not tech savvy" and "registrars are the only ones who can make the changes ... to a voter's record." Id., at 147-
148. This process also requires many prechecks and backend quality control steps, all of which add to its time-inten-sive nature. Id., at 140.
Given these complexities, the process for reassigning voters typically takes months. Alabama knows (or at least knew) this. In 2021, at the first preliminary-injunction stage in these cases, Alabama filed a declaration from El-rod's predecessor representing that voter reassignment
"can take a county's Board of Registrars 3 to 4 months to accomplish." ECF Doc. 82-7, p. 4.3 For example, after the Alabama Legislature redrew its state legislative districts in 2017 following litigation, "local election officials struggled to complete the district assignment process in up to 4 months." Ibid.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Supreme Court does not just deserve to lose your respect & legitimacy; it is critical to protecting democracy that they lose any/all respect & legacy from all of US. They are ultimate partisan hacks in robes with lifetime tenure. Anyone giving them respect & legitimacy is collaborating against US.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So many people who can reasonably be described as “that little shit” are in charge of so much of society.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the

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