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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A country that will not fix its mistakes is a country that has given up on the future. And Brexit was, it’s now clear, a terrible, terrible mistake inews.co.uk/opinion/brex...
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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s important that Google Earth/Maps has done this, but worth noting that so far the updated 2026 imagery is only of southern Gaza—the imagery of northern Gaza is still from before the final destruction of spring-fall 2025, giving the impression that large areas of Gaza City and Jabaliya are…
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation…
bylinetimes.com
Times Higher Education, Sponsored by Orbán’s Hungary, Failed to Report James Orr Allegations
The publication signed a partnership with Viktor Orbán's government and has since published no coverage of the allegations around a Cambridge academic and former Reform UK policy chief whose foundation receives Hungary-linked funding
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Andy AVAV Systems @avavsystems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Another Magnet Media Warning! miniDV - Helping a buddy out with a job. He couldn’t get stable picture without blocking or decent sync on a few Tapes There’s a reason Broadcast Kit was so expensive back in day. These Sony DSR-2000s hang on where Domestic Decks don’t These Tapes are failing rapidly
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Have you got a copy of Fly Tipping by RAF Fairford? You do? Oh that's wonderful. My name? Fairford. RAF Fairford.'
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The humanities have been calling out genAI theft since the jump, while STEM has rallied around “discovery potential”. I am *ONCE AGAIN* reminding EVERYONE that science is not the sacred cow, STEM isn’t the exception. They are going to steal our IP, too. We aren’t special.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So, what to do? USE YOUR FUCKING BRAIN. THINK: “Would I give this information to someone who wants to make money off my ideas without giving me credit?” Don’t outsource your brilliance to these people. They are NOT good actors. It’s not rocket science; have a drop of self-preservation instinct!
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
between this and Medicaid and more, trump and his party have set up for so much of this country to fall off a very steep cliff starting next year. It is going to be really bad. We are going to stay on top of it at @zeteo.com
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Police: 'Don't speculate about Fairford' Farage: 'Here's my speculative theory...'
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
10. Final thought: there is an open question for me about whether AI companies actually respect the data agreements they have with institutions. I think so far they have been stealing from scientists’ personal accounts, which have few protections. Personal use for work seems to present extreme risk.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
1. These companies steal research. I don’t think there’s any other way to n out this. OpenAI and Anthropic use scientists’ own work against them to steal credit and short cut work with none of the hard conceptual development.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 28/09/2026
Two things worth considering dude by side, with AI in research:
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Rachael Hamlet @karmamylanta.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watch the trailer here:
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
More on this and other stories you need to know in this week's online business news
revenuerulebreaker.com
What you need to know in online business news: Week of September 21
Daily recaps of important stories, trends and updates from the small business scene with my fiery commentary
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Lex Roman @lexroman.com · 25/09/2026
I don't see this in my trending stories on Threads but you can see it in a screenshot another user sent to Peter below. I scanned the news stories about this incident and don't see Peter's photo attached to any of them, so it seems Threads specific and if so, that's fucking crazy.
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Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE @ms.now: Trump administration officials have discussed attaching the president’s name to Ford’s Theatre, the playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 Officials are circulating a list of government sites that could carry the president’s name www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
ms.now
Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’ve updated this to link to the extremely late report the BBC has now published on the incident.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2026
LOL -- Fox News cuts away from Vance's speech and a host says, "we will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news"
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just searched the A numbers of the Somalis at Guantanamo Bay, and they're all gone. Will make verifying reporting much harder.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just 4 months after the local elections, Reform UK (RefUK) have lost 158 of their local councillors: -55 resigned -42 went Independent -28 defected -24 were kicked out -5 lost their seats -2 disqualified -2 suspended. Appalling record - and a waste of taxpayers’ money!
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 21/09/2026
Tragic: Former Fox News producer unalives herself after being unable to get justice against accused rapist, ex-Fox anchor Ed Henry and the network. RIP Jennifer Eckhart.
dailymail.com
Former Fox News producer Jennifer Eckhart dies by suicide at 36
Jennifer Eckhart, 36, was found at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida, on Saturday, with TMZ subsequently reporting that she had taken her own life.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Neil Charles @neilcharles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"If this had been about the BBC promoting polls secretly funded by the Labour party, all hell would have broken loose... damning coverage by the papers, dominating the news agenda to the exclusion of all other matters, and probably leading to the resignation of the director general"
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Because I'm feeling punchy tonight - the primary thing that distinguishes white supremacy from other forms of xenophobia and bigotry used to justify imperial brutality is simply that it was the bigotry to hand for the most powerful countries at the moment the world happened to globalize.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"A Microsoft exec called the training of artificial intelligence models the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' according to a legal brief filed by the New York Times and unsealed Thursday ... that same executive called it "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.'" wapo.st/4cNqaRV
wapo.st
Microsoft exec called AI the ‘largest theft of labor’ in history, court records show
The quote headlined an unsealed document in the New York Times’s copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
RFKJr clearly feeling confident about the changes he can continue make and accelerate as he goes full anti-vaccine at the Children’s Health Defense conference
theguardian.com
RFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreak
The US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The worst place ever I’ve been in my life," Sakariye Abdi Mohamed, a Somali asylum seeker, told me over the phone from Guantanamo Bay last week. Sakariye is one of 7 or 8 Somalis who are being held at Gitmo. They say guards tell them the order to keep Somalis at the facility comes from DC.
motherjones.com
The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants in Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Joseph Britt @zathras5.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This report by @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social (via @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) is grim enough on its own. Keep in mind, though, the US still has military forces committed to the fight against Islamist terrorist groups in Somalia. Those groups are why Somalis sought asylum here in the first place.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely unhinged response from the Israeli government, trying to revoke the citizenship of people who make critical films about the armed forces. Symptomatic of a national descent into far-right authoritarianism www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Netanyahu seeks to strip citizenship from Israelis as threats to NAZA film directors intensify
Israeli prime minister to pursue new laws as directors of Guardian-produced film face threats from far-right officials and activists
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 17/09/2026
Moving public $ from medical to AI research reveals #priorities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump administration
Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts

Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years
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Thu 17 Sep 2026 07.00 EDT
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Savantfoxt @savantfoxt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reform's ground troops making Britain much less safe. If one person drowns off the coast because the RNLI weren't able to launch from Portsmouth lifeboat station, their death is blood on the hands of these nasty racist thugs who value human life as cheap, if they value it at all.
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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cool. Let’s just wait for the headlines on children drowning & then make sure these guys own this. I guess innocent people have to keep dying to satisfy public opinion polls
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’; accompanied by deregulation of the City, weaken the authority of the courts. That would be the return on donations by the super-rich. Cost borne by the old, sick, disabled, unfortunate; cuts to public services.
theguardian.com
Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’
Centre for a Better Britain will urge abolishing inheritance tax and phasing out capital gains tax, report says
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2026
Tell me again that climate change is a hoax.
Chart showing global annual temperature abnormalities between 1880 and 2024
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Archangel Beth @archangelbeth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Long COVID’s brain fog finally has a biological explanation: Dopamine loss - FORTUNE apple.news/A-e_y-C0ZQua...
apple.news
Long COVID’s brain fog finally has a biological explanation: Dopamine loss — FORTUNE
September 14, 2026, 2:55 PM ET Scientists found a link between damaged dopamine nerves and those experiencing symptoms of Long Covid. For years, long COVID has been defined almost entirely by what pat...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 16/09/2026
Nigel Farage said he wanted its councillors to demonstrate how a Reform government would run the UK. It seems that the chaos erupting before our very eyes is a very accurate representation of what a Reform UK government would look like...
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Reform UK 'In Complete Meltdown' After Three More Councillors Quit Party
It came on the same day that Reform’s leader in Wales quit after being arrested for assault.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Unlike Macklemore, these support acts don’t have big followings and they are giving up their chance to perform to stadiums to push back against censorship, not of themselves but of a fellow artist. Respect.
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