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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14h
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026
In our course and book _Calling Bullshit_, we posit that If something seems too good, or too bad, to be true, it probably is. Now as a college professor I'm pretty confident that overreliance can AI can harm our thinking ability, but just ten minutes of use? Let's dig into this this study a bit.
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/10/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Technology has created an intrusive eye that never blinks — a stealthy weapon for dictators keen to stifle speech and thought,” Megan Stack writes from Kampala, Uganda.
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Opinion | I Went to Uganda and Saw the Authoritarian Future
A crackdown in Uganda shows how new technologies, Chinese influence and America’s moral retreat are making the world safer for autocrats.
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Congresswoman Grace Meng @meng.house.gov · 09/10/2026
These rogue federal agents cannot continue to terrorize our communities. The agents involved must be held fully accountable for this violence. We need to get ICE off of our streets, away from our children, and out of our city for good. (3/3)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In an Uber. Driver having loud phone conversation with someone in Spanish. A little annoying, but it happens. He hangs up. Says, “Mi hermano. La Migra.” And starts weeping.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here's a good test case for our framework, demonstrating how a real incident can be turned into a false "rigged election" rumor or narrative. Here the DOJ highlights a case where a postal worker discarded mail that included ballots, and uses that to suggest voter fraud and untrustworthy elections.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🎯"I think people are starving for freedom to, not freedom from. That doesn’t come from government being small enough to fit in your bedroom; it comes from competent government doing its job well enough that Americans don’t have to spend their whole lives managing precarity."
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mass politics and elections always ran more on vibes than policy. What's collapsed is how much policymakers and high-info nerds and news junkies focus on policy because it's crowded out by the constant Trump-centric insanity. And that was only ever a tiny slice of the public but it was load-bearing.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The kids these days will hardly believe this, but a mere decade ago, we had a presidential election in which effectively the only issue on the table was the security of communications at the highest level of government.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/08/2026
The lab-leak thing was a way for establishment figures to grab onto a little bit of this contrarian cool, and it has visibly led many of them down the dark path described here. It really is like a drug -- feels good in the short term, fucks your brain up long term.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/08/2026
What The Man doesn't want you to do is cultivate solidarity and build bottom-up networks that can challenge those with power & money. You think saying "retard" is some kind of rebellion? They love that shit!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/08/2026
Somehow as Gen Xers got older, "don't tell me what to do" morphed into "don't tell me not to be an asshole." There is nothing people with money, people with power, want you to do more than be an asshole! The Man f'ing delights when you direct your anger laterally. You've become the Man's bitch!
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/08/2026
As a true Gen Xer -- specifically, a Gen Xer of the "fuck the man, don't sell out" variety -- the direction of my cohort has just been an agonizing disappointment to me. They've clutched on to this adolescent "don't tell me what to do" mentality in a way that is demonstrably enabling authoritarians!
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF, genuinely scary thezvi.substack.com/p/openai-tra...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/07/2026
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Trump took office.
washingtonpost.com
The EPA halted a study on gas stoves and asthma. But even partial results were striking.
Research that used a federal grant to pay for asthma patients to have their gas stoves replaced showed a dramatic fall in asthma attacks. The program was cut short after President Donald Trump took of...
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ShrivelingFire @shrivelingfire.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
unironically the most important step in making a game is getting people to tell you everything that's wrong with it
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"if I was trying to ruin American leadership in scientific research this is pretty much the kind of rule I would write"
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/07/2026
The White House announced on Friday that President Trump had issued pardons to 11 men, most of whom had been convicted of crimes related to the Clean Air Act, a bedrock environmental law.
nyti.ms
Trump Pardons Violators of the Clean Air Act and a Major Donor
The president used his clemency power to further undermine environmental laws and to help a political supporter who pleaded guilty in a fraud involving Jack Abramoff.
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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's telling that this guy is doing a victory dance even when he lost. Even he recognizes, implicitly, that he helped take something preposterous and get it four votes.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This does. Not. Happen. The government does not agree to pay defendants’ legal fees. It is not done. They are doing it in the hopes of avoiding discovery, because they are hiding something that is somehow even worse than what we already know.
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e6dle @e6dle.net · 01/06/2026
Introducing e6dle, a “choose-what’s-more-popular” type wordle, but for, y’know. e621 tags. Prove your pride by showing that yeah, you do know what furries are into. Play now at e6dle.net
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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 29/04/2026
Dems still have quite a few states and districts they can target, as this thread explains. Importantly, *none* of these opportunities depend on Dems dismantling Black and Latino districts that were protected by the VRA.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A British king is lecturing us - correctly! - about constitutional democracy. The Founding Fathers are turning over in their graves.
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aysz88.bsky.social @aysz88.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
A psychological horror...like if someone's idea of a prank were to format the Time Cube webpage in Times New Roman, then email and submit that with my identity.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026
More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.
insidehighered.com
Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
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★ winnie ★ @winonaparadise.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
come on man.
leaf from pokemon looking angrya s a bunch of fisherman on the bridge want to battle her
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
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aysz88.bsky.social @aysz88.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The House GOP leadership trying to trick their own members is such a show of contempt and disdain for the institution they ostensibly lead.
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Liza Goitein @lizagoitein.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
In a dramatic scene that unfolded in the wee hours this morning, members of the House defeated a ploy by the administration and Speaker Johnson to ram through a 5-year reauthorization of FISA Section 702. Here’s what happened, and what will/should happen next. 1/20
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Derek Willis @dwillis.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
sweepthestrait.com
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.
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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 02/04/2026
Results of a new experiment on foreign policy attitudes % of U.S. adult citizens who say they believe the military should be used [frequently | rarely or never] when the question... Doesn't give labels to the positions 14% | 45% Labels the positions hawk and dove 20% | 37% yougov.com/en-us/articl...
A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "More Americans describe themselves as hawks and less  as doves when the ideologies are given those bird labels."
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
My resignation letter
screenshot of a resignation letter expressing sadness at leaving NASA
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14/03/2026
"...pathocracy is a system of government 'wherein a small pathological minority takes control over a society of normal people'."
bps.org.uk
The problem of pathocracy | BPS
Do psychologists have a responsibility to help prevent ruthless, amoral people attaining positions of power? Steve Taylor considers the arguments.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/03/2026
I don't have a problem with Tim. But I do think it is deleterious that so many smart people spend so much time on X, which has essentially become an algorithmically and AI-optimized far-right MAGA message testing and propaganda machine. People assume X posts represent the masses, but they don't!
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aysz88.bsky.social @aysz88.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Those who think DJT an ally are fools for not understanding that, to him, their lives are only worth their usefulness. Soon in Iran, we'll see what he can pawn them off for, before the knife goes into their backs. Perhaps not only in Iran... And not even only in other countries.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Literally
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aysz88.bsky.social @aysz88.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Hearing these chimes which I usually associate with heroic, highly-prepared efforts against natural disasters...but it's actually a highly costly, premeditated inflicting of disaster, ultimately triggered by choice of one idiot.... Hard to describe the feeling.
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aysz88.bsky.social @aysz88.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
If you hadn't quite absorbed the depth of the pretending: there was a dramatic reading of an "amnesty if you surrender" script, from a teleprompter into a camera. Surrender...to what, the planes? Poseurs, through and through.
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Been thinking about how the government that follows Trump's must constantly demonstrate to both Americans and the world that Trumpism is over. The rule of law is nothing more than a series of expectations and as such, strong and obvious signals must be sent that this shit does not fly any longer.
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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/02/2026
The vaccine maker Moderna said on Tuesday that the FDA had notified the company that the agency would not review its mRNA flu vaccine, the latest sign of federal health policy that has become hostile to vaccine development.
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F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
The vaccine maker’s shots involve the successful Covid vaccines’ RNA technology. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has broadly rejected it, canceling millions of dollars in research projects.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026
This galaxy is VERY tiny—much much smaller than our own Milky Way—& incredibly distant. But we can see it AND distinguish its shape! How? The light we see from it is from SO LONG AGO that the Universe was MUCH smaller at the time: we see it as it was when it was close enough to us to look big!! 🤯
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Synthetic Sensations @synthsentoys.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
@lizyips.bsky.social’s ‘roo, Audrey, is joining the SynthSen lineup soon and we’re giving away a copy of her in her signature colour for free! Just repost before Feb 15th 20:00 gmt and follow us here, a single winner will be picked. What are you waiting for? Hop to it! 🦘
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