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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do wish it was more of a big deal that Congress, as per its Constitutional powers, appropriated money for federal programs and the Trump administration refused to spend it until it lapsed www.newsfromthestates.com/article/trum...
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Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Don't forget that @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social wants to let the GOP get away with all of this. He said let's turn the page and get on with business. He's on the side of the Nazis if he thinks this kind of thing is acceptable in the United States of America. This can't be allowed to slide. It can't.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
like I suspect many of you on This Website, I think a core reason why I find Eliezer Yudkowsky and his rationalist and effective altruist satellites so intensely annoying is because I had a VERY similar “being a super weird, pretentious, hyper-literate kid” experience - I just, you know, grew up.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026
“Most importantly, society should refuse to outsource moral responsibility to any class of people who claim a special intercessory competence and authority to calculate, accelerate, democratize, liberate, harmonize or otherwise determine the “correct” future.” Yes.
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Chris D’Amore @chrisdamore.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So they put this guy in a keychain
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We’re at the “shipping container courts” stage of ICE’s mass expansion of the enforcement system.
Each detention unit would sit on asphalt or concrete behind an office's existing security fence, with a counter for processing people and a separate holding area fitted with a toilet and sink for detainees according to the draft work statement.
The agency also wants a 300-square-foot unit for interviewing people in custody and a 60-square-foot "Virtual Immigration Court Unit" for hearings run by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that operates the immigration courts.
Both must also be designed for their purpose before delivery.
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For Bluesky TOS reasons I cannot say what I would like to happen
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lmao turns out that when you build a system in which instructions, inputs, outputs, and "reasoning" are indistinguishable it's piss easy to trick it into thinking your input is instructions and/or reasoning
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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Damnatio Memoriae (Ghosts of Doggerland) @onlylooksharmless.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Said this for years. Street crime & low-level white collar crime is mostly committed by people who don't plan, weigh consequences, or have good impulse control. Rich-person crime is committed based on only having to pay a fine AT MOST. So it would vanish if bright lines were aggressively enforced.
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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The law should protect but not bind my ppl and bind but not protect everyone else"
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 24/09/2026
Having déjà vu to “Roe v. Wade is settled precedent” coming from the mouths of Supreme Court nominees
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BREAKING: The state of New York is suing Polymarket, claiming the company operates an illegal gambling platform in violation of state gambling laws.
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ChocoMingo 🦩 @chocomingo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The GFM is up now. With my mom in police custody & on ICE hold despite being in the US for nearly 3 decades, this puts me & my family in a very tough spot If you can, I ask y'all to send some love & support our way to help us fight for our mom's freedom from this unjust system. gofund.me/5506965b6
An image statement featuring my fursona, Choco, with a concerned expression (sticker made by @freddy1565.bsky.social), with a header reading "help us bring back our mom & stay afloat"

The description below reads, "yesterday, my mom was stopped by police, taken to jail, and has an ICE hold placed on her. Me and my family are hoping & praying for her release. She is the breadwinner of our family & we depend on her.

We need financial support to stay on top of bills & to help pay for any legal fees as we fight to bring our mom back home to us.

Here's the link to our GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/5506965b6"
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They're also almost always about women and queer people in left-leaning spaces, which says whom we reflexively think of as toxic or annoying. I guarantee some fantasy football league is falling apart over some petty asshole, but he doesn't become a symbol for the annoying left. He can just be Jeff.
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I need to remember this story when I next need to name a pet. Naming a pet with a sound English speakers have trouble with would give me extra joy whenever I said its name. I would be a different kind of asshole about it, though. (I would hoard the joy of correct pronunciation jealously to myself.)
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026
look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world
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kevinwilliams @kevvwill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don't think people realize the reailty about newsrooms and the folks who own and run them. From when I started in journalism in the early '80s, the industry was talking about diverse newsrooms. When I left journalism in '21, newsrooms were LESS diverse than when I started.
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
...So I don't know anything and am probably wrong, but couldn't you achieve the intended result (prioritizing the US market) by adding a small (5% max?) short-term export tax on refined petroleum?
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My pilot may be part of a community with a reputation for being friendly and technically competent? Oh noooo
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trying to get my health insurance to cover chemo like
Charlie Brown saying “I got a rock”
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Debordekai Tenkaichi @detournementarc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The year is 2026. The military has been so successfully De-Fagged by Hegseth & Co that the sodomite notion of "supply lines" has been abolished. Every naval officer that tried to commit suicide on the USS Lincoln was just a pussy. This is the plan for Everything, Now.
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Alabama is still Alabama but I think any ad campaign that just overlays "what the fuck are you TALKING about, man?" with Tuberville's various insane quotes/graphics while flashing current gas prices will give him a real run for his money
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21/09/2026
A theatre in Barcelona has been banned from promoting a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own on Instagram and Facebook because the work includes “social topics.”* www.theguardian.com/technology/2... * "any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform"
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Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
UnitedHealthcare AI Blocks Prescribed Treatment With 90% Error Rate UnitedHealthcare is allegedly using a deeply flawed AI to override doctors’ judgments and wrongfully deny critical health coverage to elderly patients. It's Violating Medicare Care Guidelines. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
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UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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load-bearing wokeness @pauleke.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It would be nice if liberals would listen to all of the marginalized groups who have correctly pinned Newsom down as a snake in the grass for the last 6+ years This man cannot be trusted around levers of power and he routinely proves it
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Build Soil, Collect Water, Emerge from the Ashes. @buildsoil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So I am teaching a unit of a climate justice class and early in the class we are focused on context of power and safety while approaching difficult topics. Can everyone send me their favorite Climate memes and jokes that don’t punch don’t punch down?
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the footage of the president speaking at a news conference and you can't hear him because it's the press he banned who bring the sound equipment is too on the damn nose because guess what we wouldn't have if people hadn't kept insisting on handing this asshole a microphone over & over & over again
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 20/09/2026
Exactly. I’ve been saying this since I started the tracker last year, and it’s why I don’t call them deportations. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...
I am using the term "third-country removals" instead of "third-country deportations" here, because the latter is a legal process in which a migrant is resettled in a safe third country. What is actually happening, in nearly all cases, more closely resembles chain refoulement, rendition, or kidnapping - and may violate U.S. and
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 19/09/2026
AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’ ft.trib.al/oImlEFY
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AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries ‘most of the time’
Report finds some chatbots ignored upcoming tax changes and hallucinated rules
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a genuinely good application for machine learning on big data that could provide real health benefits using only anonymous data that the chain already knows: suppliers, and the number of people who call out sick on a given day. Too bad it gives money to fucking Palantir
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
THIS is the danger of LLM-based AI to humanity.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Imagine if, instead of regulating drones (which we did!), we instead decided to let drone companies self-regulate, and ALSO dedicated tons of money and time to "problems" like "what if, in 1000 years, hyper-intelligent dogs learn to fly drones into mailmen." This is what we are doing with AI.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
This also matters because too many big-name, well-funded "AI safety" proponents are actually linked to the Weird Millenarian AI Sex/Death Cult, and thus focus on galaxy-brain hypothetical AI risks, instead of actually-relevant stuff like "job displacement" and "data center environmental impact."
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
Why talk about how nuts the AI rationalist sex cult is, and not just focus on the (very real) risks and harms of AI? Well, when we're discussing "who should get to regulate AI, and how," I think it's VERY relevant to talk about the antisocial, unsettling ways many people running US AI think.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Hey all, Im looking for any academics who may be able to help someone from Gaza get enrolled in a European University. Please let me know if you can help or if you know of anyone who could help.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Q: China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world-- TRUMP: Well, I don't know about that. I think we're repressive also
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i'm sorry i can't get over the idea of using an AI agent as a package manager. even if you're going all-in on the AI powered linux distro, it's still faster to open a shell and type "sudo pacman -S [list of programs to install]."
install cybersecurity tools to my Omarchy OS system including burpsuite, nmap, gobuster, wireshark, and brave browser.
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Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“move fast and break things” was always about breaking people
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eliko thalia @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
just learned this today
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You really shouldn't be in politics if you can't take advantage of your opponent being sponsored by The Job Destroying Factory That Raises Your Water And Power Bills And Whose Creators Say It Might Kill Us All.
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Pumpactionmusket @pumpactionmusket.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Holy shit. All of the submission videos are just being uploaded immediately at the bottom of the webpage without any moderation whatsoever. Somebody is getting fired for this. openforlegends.guitarcenter.com/campaign/ope...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Canada reached a trade agreement with us, the President blew it up for no reason while threatening to annex them, and Congress didn't do squat about either. It sucks, it's objectively bad for America, but WaPo is outright lying that "spite" is driving Canada's policy. It's the only rational choice.
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Button @boombutton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I hold an impossible dream that the widespread adoption of AI coding tools trained in part on copyleft material will ultimately lead to the forced open sourcing of everything written with them
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is eugenics
Emily Hilliard, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, confirmed on Wednesday that the department had not yet made a decision about whether to provide the shots through that program.
Vaccines for Children provides free shots to children who are uninsured, underinsured or eligible for Medicaid, as well as to American Indian and Alaska Native children.
Pediatric doses are available for children who have insurance, or whose parents can afford to pay for vaccines out of pocket.
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New analysis with the Edelman Trust Institute and my colleagues at Yale School of Public Health. Nearly 13,000 people across 13 countries, on how they decide what to believe about their health. Here's what we found! 🧵
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Stephen Geigen-Miller @stephengm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is specifically about Bluesky leadership but I think it's astute and generalizable. Is frustration over the ordinary, basic friction involved in just regular conversations with someone who doesn't exist to serve them going to be something we increasingly see in heavy chatbot users?
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