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software engineer and illustrator. soccer fan: #USMNT, #USWNT, #NWSLBoston, Portland #UpTheHearts, QPR, Serbia. anti-racist. anti-terf bensaufley.com

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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 9h
I am never touching the lathe of heaven again
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Our "we're not Enron" memo is raising many questions which are already answered by our memo.
Rusty Foster
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Futurism
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ETHICS
URINE GOOD HANDS
People Who Drink Their Own Pee Are Obsessed With Al, Using It to Reassure Themselves That It'sa Miraculous Cure-All
The power of AI.
By Joe Wilkins
Published Sep 30, 2026 1:48 PM EDT
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URINE IS THE SOLUTION TO EVERYTHING!
BATHE IN IT!
SOAK YOUR FEET IN IT!
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 9h
Yes and it's when the true customer became the investor.
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Too Big to Fail @toobigtofail.bsky.social · 9h
When you're so racist that you use openly racist stereotypes that don't even exist.
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 10h
(I do not know anything about Tracker)
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 10h
While reading about another show I have discovered that the show Tracker is now on its *fourth season*. Didn't I just read the @defector.com article about them promoting their new show Tracker?? What happened to time
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 14h
I think a lot about Biden/Garland keeping David Weiss on as US Attorney, because they didn't want to meddle with the Hunter probe. And then Garland elevating Weiss to special counsel so he could convict Hunter. And this having ZERO IMPACT on the GOP certainty that Biden was rigging the DOJ
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Macster @millhousebooty.bsky.social · 13h
Krakauer wrote something in the intro to Missoula about rape being the only crime where the victim is assumed to be lying www.npr.org/2015/04/19/4...
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Jon Krakauer Tells A 'Depressingly Typical' Story Of College Town Rapes
Krakauer's Missoula looks at stories of women who have been sexually assaulted by people they know. He says rape is unlike other crimes because in other crimes, "the victim isn't assumed to be lying."
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 14h
Also, it was just a few short months ago that we were being told it would be the mark of political immaturity to deny the fact that Trump’s election changes everything.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h
ahem
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 13h
listen everyone, i’m getting sick of all the criticism. this is my first blender project. i’m still figuring out how pivot points work. i am also aware that at frame 860 he teleports to fairfax along the x-axis. i’m working on it
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Trump is standing like no human has ever stood before
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Document signed by Trump, Sundar Pichai
Google
Dario Amodei
Anthropic
Mark Zuckerberg
Meta

Greg Brockman
OpenAl

Elon Musk
XAI

Jensen Huang
nvidia “Unites States”
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 29/09/2026
Naomi Wolf vibes. Absolutely embarrassing.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The idea that you can easily separate 'economic' and 'cultural' issues is nonsense. It’s very expensive for transgender Americans to move to blue states so they can live freely. It’s harder to buy a house in a neighborhood with rising home values if you are Black." newrepublic.com/article/2159...
newrepublic.com
Why Democrats Should Stop Using the Phrase “Culture Wars”
Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and others slamming the party for focusing too much on so-called cultural issues are pushing a flawed electoral and policy strategy.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We can spend our lives debating the justifications (I more or less have); but we are wasting our time. What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.
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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
YES WE ARE TOTALLY A CREDIBLE MOVEMENT WHY DO YOU ASK
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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/09/2026
I think Trump should keep bringing politicians from red states that are suddenly in play to the oval office and forcing them to talk about how great he is let's get Ken Paxton in here
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Because for a lot of men and women, dominating children is the only absolute, god-like power they will ever have in this existence.
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 28/09/2026
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No Kings (?) protest sign saying "If _Kamala_ were president, we'd all be at _BRUNCH_"
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 28/09/2026
Yes yes, sports fans know: if the players are fighting in the locker room, it famously doesn't matter. Good teams fight in the locker room all the time. (also, fighting is … not … emotional?)
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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."
Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton 

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
Oh he’s going to do the migrant caravan thing. I hope people ignore him.
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
if anyone asks I’m a lawyer and this is protected
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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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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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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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if you’ve known any loggers this is a minor miracle. not water into wine but, like, water into Labatt
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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
just gonna note that none of this stuff I’ve seen from Jackson this far has him using anything like a slur. he works blue but he doesn’t work dirty
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bush v. Gore on steriods
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guy who never stops talking about trans children has thoughts about grown men who seem to be pretty obsessed with trans children
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Mike Scollins @mikescollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
oh no what did the nor'easter say?! katu.com/news/nation-...
katu.com
Ed Sheeran concerts at Gillette Stadium have been canceled due to nor'easter
The Ed Sheeran concerts at Gillette Stadium this weekend have been canceled due to the nor’easter, the promoters announced on Friday.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jennifer was asked for one word and delivered an incoherent string of anti-LGBT bigotry because Republican loyalists experience cognition on a level somewhere a bit below that of Cleverbot
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026
I don't think any of the top 4 are bad, although I never got into BB (too bleak) or Mad Men (too bleak in a different way), just that it's always this subset of Bad Men And Almost No Women But It's OK Because We Know They're Bad shows that get all the accolades
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026
I'm happy to see The Americans so high on this list, and The Night Of on the list at all. I don't see it, but I think DEVS was really underrated and I'd love to see it on here. I liked Fleabag but it seems too high; I think it's to offset the extremely "dude with red flags taste"-ness of the top 4
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026
(ok but I'll watch Psych on purpose)
FORGED IN FIREFORENSIC | FILES
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It would be hilarious / amazing if AI is what finally got us single-payer
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 25/09/2026
not to single out max, who is great, but there's this interesting thing where folks on both the left and MAGA right are extra suspicious of any tech folks who profess to care about the societal impacts of what they do. i get the cynicism but i'm really not convinced the alternative is preferable
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026
That is, you could say "if you're going to show X content, you have a responsibility to filter against some level of disinformation etc" and when they use that power improperly, you could hold them accountable. But we don't hold companies properly accountable for abuses.
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026
I think that's a compelling argument but those aren't the only two options. A company *could be* held to a standard of liability for what it platforms *while also* being held accountable for not doing so properly. I think the issue there is that companies that large don't ever see real consequences
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Whilst this system is very much not working for the majority of people, for the small minority who govern this system, it absolutely is working. So all of thethings that make us think of chaos and catastrophe and apocalypse are creating profits for those at the top." @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#MEpolitics: This piece from the BDN editorial board reads like a sponsored campaign ad for Susan Collins, especially as it curiously claims the allegations of corruption are based solely on the word of the disgraced Navatek CEO, ignoring the myriad other evidence presented by @propublica.org.
propublica.org
ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#MEpolitics: The difference in coverage Susan Collins receives from major national investigative journalism and media outlets compared to major Maine-based outlets is rather concerning. Local media like the BDN and PPH tend to show far more leniency—bordering on deference—to Collins.
propublica.org
ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe
ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 25/09/2026
Holy shit I had no idea the guy our government bullied into suicide for sharing free documents for free *actually warned us* about the guy our government is bullying everyone into propping of because he stole every document he could, free or not, to build a chatbot for profit
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Again, this is what Tucker says to normal audiences. To his own audience, literally today, he went on a deranged rant about, among other things, how Oswald Mosley wasn’t a Nazi.
I know, buddy, you did that during World War II. When the very first thing the British government did was imprison the opposition party, called them Nazis, which they weren't, run by one of the great war heroes of the First World War, Oswald Mosley. Oh, he was a Nazi.
No, he wasn't. If he was a Nazi, he'd be living in Britain, in Germany. He didn't want the war.
And he has been slandered ever since. It's like scary even to defend him. I'm not even defending the guy.
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Ben Saufley @bensaufley.com · 24/09/2026
What is the -ocracy for "rulership by your most regrettable family Facebook connection"
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Chernobyl Odinsdottir @eightpointvalkyrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I haven't been near 4Chan in damned near a decade now, and I don't really have a finger on the pulse of the culture over there any more. But from what I can recall, if even /pol/ thinks you've gone too far with blaming minorities, you may need to rethink your strategy.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump stole taxpayer $$ to destroy the White House and replace it with a firetrap and too few ladies stalls. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
McCrery informed the White House that Trump’s ballroom design did not meet fire safety codes, which require the majority of guests to be able to quickly exit through the main entrance during an emergency, according to the people and documents. The architect also pointed out that alternative emergency exit routes out of the building were insufficient, and that there was little in the design to prevent a kitchen fire from rapidly spreading into the event space on the floor above.

In addition to fire safety concerns, Trump’s desired ballroom design did not include enough toilets to accommodate the structure’s maximum occupancy, according to documents, and there were few options for adding more, as the event space occupied most of the building’s footprint. One early ballroom design featured just seven stalls in the women’s bathroom.
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