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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 01/10/2026

Going to be honest this might be my favourite headline of the AI bubble

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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mallow's hyperrealistic blood @bajablastenjoyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

what the fuck? the right lost *Third Way*?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

they claim insurrectioning is protected free speech

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Cannonball Adderall @echoloop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is like saying Twitter “is being taken over” by elon musk

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

BREAKING: Federal Court blocks Trump Admin attempt to misuse homeland security funds to force states to bend to its efforts to interfere in local election processes. Big win for our clients, partners, and American voters. @protectdemocracy.org

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CyberOtters @cyberotters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Also, because the more we learn about the main personalities of most tech from around 2015 onwards, the more they seem like a bunch of weirdos you wouldn't put in charge of sack lunches on a field trip, let alone the ethics & safety of multi-billion dollar enterprises. bsky.app/profile/fain...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?

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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Morning Kitten (I’m with him)

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Isn't it nice when there's something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheUnredactedEPSTEIN-Files

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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One Squashed Chihuahua. 🤣😂🤣

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Letting your writing, thinking, artistic, and research skills atrophy into a shriveled heap of dead earthworms is definitely a good long term plan.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Front page news, Boston Globe: Ivy provost leading charge to infuse AI into higher ed discovered using AI in academic & public work w/out disclosure--an action for which a student could fail a course or worse. Free link: archive.is/JoJbA

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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026

The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Erin Redwing
@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse

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Stevie P @intruder1500stevie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The more I hear about FBI involvement in suppression of contacts and details in their possession. The more inclined I am to believe someone in there has a lot to hide…..and they’re probably still alive ? iol.co.za/news/world/2...

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Hugh Hefner ‘repeatedly’ flagged Epstein to FBI

A lawsuit has revealed how despite reports, the FBI failed to act on complaints about Jeffrey Epstein.

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Alison Willmore @alisonwillmore.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blood boys OVER we’re out here Renfieldmaxxing now

He’s on a quest to live forever.
Mr. Emanuel’s morning routine involves waking up at 4 a.m., stretching for 40 minutes and then doing breath work, sauna, meditation, an ice plunge and infrared light therapy before ingesting a protein shake and a cup of live worms to fight off “the bad bacteria in my gut.” He describes a recent lunch with his old CAA boss, Michael Ovitz. Mr. Emanuel writes: “He goes to the gym; he thinks that means he’s taking care of himself. But it doesn’t. I scold him. He hasn’t gotten his blood work done in years, he isn’t doing ice plunges, he isn’t doing daily breath work, he isn’t fasting. And he needs to be eating worms.”

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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The Repukes are the party of death. 😡

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Moose out for a swim in Glacier National Park: #AGoodPlace Source: AccuWeather

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/09/2026

⚡️Update: Russian attacks on Kyiv kill 5, including 14-year-old boy, injure 31 as drone strikes continue into daytime At least five people were killed and 31 others injured in Russian attacks on Kyiv on Sept. 25 as of 4 p.m. local time, local authorities said

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Russian attacks on Kyiv kill 5, including 14-year-old boy, injure 31 as drone strikes continue into daytime

Fifteen people, including two children, were hospitalized, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should be reposted every month....

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/09/2026

By killing the VRA, John Roberts has set the stage for Black voting power to be wiped out at every level of politics. Black people in affected districts will still technically have the right to vote, but no real ability to elect candidates they support and who represent their communities.

motherjones.com

Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.

The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 24/09/2026

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. The White House isn’t listening. trib.al/5HATDBg

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White House Ignores Court Ruling, Continues Banning Reporters

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore access to CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. The White House isn’t listening.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Percy is determined to get his stick home: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s so fucking funny that the image of Northernlion that the chuds are using to make him look “evil” because he had the audacity to expect better from his friend of 14 years is this:

Northernlion was asked if he will give FFXIV another shot

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

www.reddit.com/r/Propaganda...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docket Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Exclusive: Over half a million voters registered in a single day last week

At least 550,000 voters registered or updated their registration last week, according to final tallies the nonpartisan nonprofit National Voter Registration Day shared exclusively with Democracy Docke...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, this argument should be chilling. Trying to limit freedom of the press under the guise of national security is what tinpot dictators do. That’s not how a functioning democracy works.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

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migas7.bsky.social @migas7.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And Trump will act like he is doing a great thing.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A federal judge has ordered Texas to air condition all of the state’s prisons by the end of 2029 High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled.

texastribune.org

Texas ordered to air condition all prisons by the end of 2029

High temperatures violate the Constitution’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment, the judge ruled. Just over a third of Texas prisons are fully air conditioned.

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

LOL, the gotcha part in the second paragraph is truly hilarious. Who will think of the straight white rightwing men in the literary world? WHO? WHO?

Last week, the longlists for the National Book Awards were announced. Among the 20 authors in the fiction and nonfiction categories, nearly all are straight white males. Most are also on the political right, some even on the far right. Remarkably, mainstream media outlets haven’t reported this, perhaps because they don’t think it’s noteworthy. It’s as if we were living in 1956 rather than 2026.

If you’re scratching your head at this “news,” well, it’s because I made it up. Or rather, I inverted the particulars about the authors’ identities and their political views to make a point: If today, as a reader, you recoil at the thought of a time in which minorities were systematically marginalized when it came to the literary world’s public honors (and so much else), shouldn’t you also recoil now that the tables have been almost completely turned? And if you object to the right’s efforts to politicize the arts, won’t you also object when the efforts come from the left?

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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here is the check that Susan Collins' PAC got from a defense contractor's shell company in exchange for millions of dollars in government contracts

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Skeith - Platinum Princess @skeiththeterror.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The "Skip clash" button doesn't work 70% of the time because the auto-battle A.I. Will always make the worst decisions when left on its own. But that's okay because I just spit my drink laughing at the result

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47has34Felonies @xnavychief.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Robert Kraft and three other NFL team owners facing possible lawsuit for violating protected first amendment rights youtube.com/shorts/IB1ey...

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UH OH.

YouTube video by Rick Strom

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We're all having such a bad time

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

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