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“…Truth would say these are arrogant times. Believers slaughter their doubters while the greedy oil their lips with excuses and the righteous turn merciless; the merciful, mad.” -Rita Dove

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 9h
No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.
A faded, scratched postcard advertising the 'Edge of Town Motel.' Next to the motel sign is a vast pink piggybank, out of whose slot rises a motel key on a diamond keychain, emblazoned with a metallic dollar-sign.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🧵🧵🧵 I was going to write a simple sentence about the madness of the moment, but I got distracted by the U.S. president’s complaint that he was screwed out of the Nobel Peace Prize after bombing multiple countries, and then he bolstered his case with a plan to execute a guy in a wheelchair and ...
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson won a Nobel and I have THOUGHTS (also this is a better Greek mythology reference than anything in her work)
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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tool
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It’s in the middle of a dark scene, but “I just want my phone call” in the Dark Knight is legit hilarious…
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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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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Fucking witless coward. It is insane how wildly out of touch Democrats are from their base/reality.
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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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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
It gets soap opera-ish in a bloodless, corny way, and maintaining the jumps forward in time (with main characters aged badly, new characters awkwardly introduced) proves to be too much… but the first two seasons are indeed great.
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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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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It is wild how fucking stupid this is.
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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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HELL 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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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Utter fucking failure of leadership—resign, please.
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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Pathetic fucking coward
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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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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?"
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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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awarmarterialspray.bsky.social @awarmarterialspray.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Oh fuck off you pathetic fucking narcissist.
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