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Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 15h

To be fair, I’m not entirely certain I’m not a troll by some AI…

Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 15h

I am loving seeing all of the work on digital and platform intimacies at #AoIR2026! Sad that some are scheduled opposite each other, but I am taking that as reflective of the growing prominence of critical intimacy work in internet studies.

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Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I love watching the the posts start to come in from #AoIR2026. Sorry to miss the workshop day, but I get in later tonight, see you all soon!

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Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Awww boo, sad you can't make it!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12/09/2025

"But he did a Groyper meme" That's the "Slav squat," not groyper-specific www.economist.com/1843/2019/09... "The song is on a groyper playlist" It's just some random guy's playlist. The Spotify account has 5 followers And none of these reference trans issues at all

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If you’re a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you don’t know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I wrote this yesterday. This is how predictable you are

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business

With Substack's latest launch, writers are actually ceding control of the billing relationship to Apple, which now owns and controls the subscription.
These transactions, subscriptions, and customers will no longer be accessible in their Stripe account.

Most importantly, that means that if writers choose to leave Substack, they won't be able to port their paid subscriptions over to another platform like they could previously. This predatory platform lock-in is incredibly dangerous for writers. It strips away data and control, while locking them into the platform.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes #
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Are you near Brighton the first week of Nov? Check out this talk by one of my favourite people @drfigree.bsky.social

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Bradley Busch @bradleybusch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

IAEA DIRECTOR ON IRAN: “We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon.”

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

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Tash @tashmonstergarden.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Unfortunately, it's already happened, many women have been sexually assaulted by men, pretending to be ice agents, there are tons of reported issues, #abolishice

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 11/06/2025

Today in "Is Los Angeles Burning?": No.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Trump actually managed to push CNN into saying the truth plainly, which is no small feat

Trump is exaggerating disorder to justify use of military on US soil

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Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The right only care about "free speech" when it is their preferred speech in question.

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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Entire Madleen crew representing 7 countries has gone dark and presumed kidnapped by Israel Greta Thunberg Rima Hassan Yasemin Acar Baptiste Andre Thiago Avila Omar Faiad Pascal Maurieras Yanis Mhamdi Suayb Ordu Sergio Toribio Marco van Rennes Reva Viard

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Rik :blackcat: 🇵🇸 :fckpvv: @rik.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

Strange development "Freedom Flotilla Coalition says surrounding boats have left In an audio message on the coalition’s Telegram, activist Thiago Avila has said the boats that surrounded the Madleen have now left. “This, unfortunately, has been a very unlikely false alarm. we have been […]

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Madleen aid ship with Greta Thunberg on board heading to Gaza is now surrounded by Israeli boats, says Freedom Flotilla Coalition member Thiago Avila: “We are being attacked.”

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Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

So... the DOJ is using ChatGPT to write documents maybe? Hallucinated quotes rings a pretty familiar bell...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Bully: Hey Columbia, gimme your lunch money. Columbia: Here you go. (He'll leave us alone now, right?) Bully: Gimme a year's lunch money, Columbia. Columbia: OK, here you go. Bully: Hey Harvard, gimme two year's lunch money. Harvard: No. Bully: Uh... that lunch money request was an accident.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

@marisakabas.bsky.social identifies seven GOP reps who were welcomed to tour Trump's concentration camp the day before they refused Van Hollen entry: Ron Estes (KS) Kevin Hern (OK) Mike Kennedy (UT) Carol Miller (WV) Riley Moore (WV) Jason Smith (MO) Claudia Tenney (NY)

A row of Latino men with shaved heads and stoic expressions wearing identical white boxer shorts stand behind thick metal bars. In the back fellow prisoners sit cross-legged on large shelves that look like they’re meant for boxed furniture at IKEA, but are instead being used for humans. Outside the bars, free, is a white man in a blazer and collared shirt, his arm stretched out to hold the camera being used to take the photo of him and the men. The image is grotesque. And now it is history.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

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Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People

Internal Palantir Slack chats and message boards obtained by 404 Media show the contracting giant is helping find the location of people flagged for deportation, that Palantir is now a “more mature pa...

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Naomi Jane Gray @shadesofgraylaw.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Important point

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

20,000 in ruby red Utah on their feet, in community, and ready to organize for a better world. A better world is possible.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/04/2025

HUGE WIN: A federal judge just issued a lengthy TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from freezing federal funds to Maine over their policies protecting transgender youth. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A legal document titled "Order on Motion for Temporary Restraining Order" from the United States District Court, District of Maine. The case is "State of Maine v. United States Department of Agriculture, et al.," case number 1:25-cv-00131-JAW. The document grants the State of Maine's request to prevent the USDA from terminating or interfering with federal funds based on alleged Title IX violations without due legal process. The court orders the release of frozen funds and prohibits further interference without following required procedures. The document is marked as Document 12, filed on April 11, 2025, and is page 1 of 70.

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 12/04/2025

A seven-year US resident with a residency visa went to his sister's memorial for two days in Australia, and upon his return, he was arrested for over 30 hours, called him "retarded", cancelled his residency, and deported him with a five-year ban from the US. The reason:

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/04/2025

Happy to help. Nothing happened. Everyone pretended like it didn't happen. It's almost entirely gone. Horizon World somehow exists. $45bn basically disappeared into a black hole owed to "lack of a clear vision and mismanagement." Who knows what happened! finance.yahoo.com/news/metas-r...

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Meta's reality check: Inside the $45 billion cash burn at Reality Labs

Meta's Reality Labs division has lost nearly $50 billion in the last five years. Yahoo Finance spoke to several former employees about what's happening inside Mark Zuckerberg's virtual world.

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Allegedly, Trump has instructed members of his Cabinet to wear golden lapel pins depicting the bust of Trump (rather than the American flag) as a sign of loyalty to him. Would we call this the Mark of the Beast? 🤔 #TrumpGoldenBustLapelPin #USPolitics

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

"Some even fear that this may not even be ideology" is a seam so rich that I could happily spend the rest of my life unpacking it.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 12/04/2025

Politicians considering automated government in other countries need to take heed...

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

‘Hundreds’ of students have just been told their visas are being revoked because of social media posts or undefined campus activism. They’re directed to self-deport or face the threat of being sent to a third country timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

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Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism - The Times of India

US News: The US Department of State has asked hundreds of international students, including Indians, to self-deport over alleged campus activism. Learn about the visa revocations and government polici...

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Nathan Rambukkana @beeblefish.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

As always happens, my short, overdue, paper is now both too long and not quite finished...

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.

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Ernest @fintechernest.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“Agents of India and their proxies allegedly meddled in the 2022 election of Pierre Poilievre as Conservative Party Leader as part of a larger effort to cozy up to politicians of all parties,” www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

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CSIS alleges India organized support for Poilievre’s 2022 Conservative leadership bid

Agency’s assessment does not point to a highly organized effort or indicate the Conservative leader’s circle knew of the actions, source says

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Can we also ask how bombing civilians in Yemen is in the national interest of the United States?

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