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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Data science teams at DraftKings built models to identify likely losers and target them with promotions, while efforts to build predictive models for problem gambling were shelved. The counterpoint on self regulation is companies can be more incentivized to avoid identifying harm than addressing it
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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)
Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Umm what do I do now? 😳
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brianeh.bsky.social @brianeh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"many people say.." = "I hear little voices that tell me.."
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brianeh.bsky.social @brianeh.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
There is a hunger in the US for any news organization to actually be journalists, and hold the administration accountable. All this "they said a thing" or "<someone> has an opinion" style reporting is garbage and part of the problem. It might not pay off at the start, but it will in the end.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
1. Real Change PAC, a super PAC that purports to be "committed to progressive values," has spent millions of dollars in Democratic primaries. It is actually a Republican front closely tied to House Republican leadership. An email completely exposed the dirty tricks operation.
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UPDATE: Email exposes GOP dirty tricks operation
On Friday, Popular Information reported that Real Change PAC, a purportedly “progressive” super PAC spending millions attacking Democrats from the left, was linked to House Republicans.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I have to keep up with Right Wing spaces for my work and I’m here to tell you that people aren’t nearly worried enough about what AI is doing to people. Cooking their already cooked brains like a microwave about to start a house fire. Unreal levels of damage.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
The reason fascists hate science is because scientists can call bullshit on their edicts. The government can claim “clean coal” exists or windmills cause cancer but science can easily debunk that. So the solution is to defund, discredit and destroy the pillars of science as much as they can.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.
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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Permanent Standard Time brings us closer to nature’s rhythms. #DitchDST
A photo of the sun near the horizon, captioned “The sun tells the time”. A photo of the moon’s phases, captioned “The moon tells the day”. A photo of the star-filled sky, captioned “The stars tell the month”. Final caption “We are living inside a beautiful cosmic clock”.
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 16/12/2025
I tried to warn them... www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/f...
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Fascism For First Time Founders
Over the last year or so I’ve seen a disturbing tendency in tech/startup/VC worlds to buy into the neoreactionary view that for startups to be successful they need to get on board the Trump t…
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brianeh.bsky.social @brianeh.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Will the Republicans who are retiring from Congress early do the thing and actually attempt to redeem themselves and their past? Or are they just hoping it will end the threats and cycle of abuse by those in power? (Without pushing back)
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Retired 4-star Army General Barry McCaffrey said the Pentagon's threats to Sen. Mark Kelly are making the U.S. start to look like the government of North Korea.
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brianeh.bsky.social @brianeh.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Does everyone remember when the primarily conservative business of reality flopped from master to primary bedroom, seemingly overnight in the US? And without a peep of drama.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If you're interested in this topic you can watch this interview I did on Substack or read this (co)author's book: The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony asharangappa.substack.com/p/class-48-h...
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Class 48. Harnessing a Common Identity to Promote Democracy
Is there a way to get people to identify with the traits that unite, rather than divide us to change their thinking and behave in our collective interests?
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
It's important to understand what this ad does and why it is so threatening to the Trump admin. It gets to social identity theory, which posits that we have many identities, and the one which is salient in a given context will dictate how we think/behave in a particular situation. 1/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Y’all need to learn how to 'yes AND'. There’s a lot of rejecting or dismissing facts because the framing is incorrect/immoral/trite, etc. but that’s doesn’t change the FACT. You can still use and share the FACT while altering or arguing against the framing in which said information was shared.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
From street marches to court battles to the ballot box - we’ve challenged the power of this exceptionally unpopular president. The lesson from each success we've had is that we need to ramp the political pressure up, always up, not back down, now more than ever.
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brianeh.bsky.social @brianeh.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The Democrats have one job; be the opposition party, be the peoples party. The people know it. If democrat leaders can't deliver, we know what to do.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Pay attention to what Democratic candidates are saying right now. Find and support the fighters. Having a spine must be a litmus test issue in 2026 and beyond.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling
The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.
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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Best 3 minutes you will spend on the internet today.
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Nicole Minet 🌊💙 @nicoleminet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
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Nicole Minet 🌊💙 @nicoleminet.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
your vote is your power. don't forget about this year's elections, Tues Nov 4 then, get involved to change things for the good of your family, your friends, your neighbors and the country
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🔥 COACH SULLY: “Let’s see what $4.3 TRILLION looks like when each party gets their hands on it… the oligarchs are laughing all the way to the bank (with Republicans)…”
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Watching mainstream news sites try to come up with euphemisms for the video where Trump dumped "a brown liquid or sludge" on protestors is a great example of the sane-washing that the media has done for his administration since the the first time around.
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News Outlets Won't Describe Trump's AI Video For What It Is: The President Pooping on America
Major outlets said the President dumped "brown liquid" that "appeared to be feces" in an AI-generated video. They refused to call a spade a spade, or poop, poop.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 18/10/2025
There sure were a lot of American flags at the “hate America rally”
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There sure were a lot of American flags at the “hate America rally”
"I'm trying to protect democracy in this country."
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
GoFundMe wanted to build a service to help groups fundraise for social projects and then it became a backstop to our broken healthcare system. It looks like they are now a backstop for our broken system when it comes to food insecurity especially given cuts and the tanking economy.
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GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food
GoFundThis: Some surprising items have begun to make the list for crowdfunding lately, according to this CEO.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
The corporate myth is that embracing AI will get you results that are cheap, fast and good with fewer employees. The reality is a lot of companies will find out they got things done for a lot cheaper and a lot faster but if definitely wasn’t good.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A reason why we got here is that the media stopped reporting facts and replaced reporting with making everything a reality tv show where contestants fight one another. It turned lying from a liability into an advantage since it would no longer be punished
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Fascism is here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Both documented & undocumented immigrants are definitely deleting their socials and keeping heads down at the risk of being disappeared. While the average white American citizen isn’t being oppressed by the government. It doesn’t mean no one is.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/10/2025
We're just now dealing with the ramifications of social media being utilized to dismantle democracy and set up a surveillance state. I have no idea how these new powerful generative AI video models will help destroy reality and thus society. I'm so pessimistic about all of this.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🧑‍🌾 @timmiller.bsky.social on the Trump FARMER BAILOUT: “Tariffs caused a trade war, farmers can’t sell… and now you and I will have to pay them. The stupidest policy I think I’ve ever seen. A land speed record for policy disaster.” The very tariffs he said would help them are killing them.
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brianeh.bsky.social @brianeh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
This is great! I have a similar problem.
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brianeh.bsky.social @brianeh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
open.substack.com/pub/contrari... This is interesting, how the visuals shape the narrative and help normalize the things that should be objectionable.
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Split Screen: The visuals of a military takeover
Photographs can normalize the absurd.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
“Fascism is a political system built on control, fear, and loyalty to a strong leader. Fascism attacks democracy.” A quick primer on fascism and anti-fascism:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
$100K/year H-1B visa fee + return to office means hours of commuting to work per week to do Zoom calls with international coworkers as outsourcing becomes the new norm.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/09/2025
"Adolescence" just won for best directing. Netflix’s megahit explores the dangers of online radicalization. But @markfollman.bsky.social argues it misses a key truth: targeted violence isn’t sudden or “inexplicable.” It leaves red flags we can’t afford to ignore.
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Here's the key missing piece to the megahit show "Adolescence"
The Netflix series about online radicalization is a stunning work of art—but neglects a vital aspect of the violence.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
We Stupided Ourselves Into Killing Our Own Democracy: America's Anemic Civil Culture Has Come Home to Roost open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
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We Stupided Ourselves Into Killing Our Own Democracy:
America's Anemic Civil Culture Has Come Home to Roost
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
“Dems cannot pretend this is a normal Republican administration. They cannot ignore masked agents in the streets, armed troops in the cities, billions of dollars of money going into the Trump family’s pockets… If Dems cannot make an issue out of all that, then they are screwed and so are we.” 🎁🔗
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Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025
Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.
Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/09/2025
Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 03/09/2025
California, Oregon, and Washington are joining forces to combat Health Sec. RFK Jr.’s dismantling of public health infrastructure—instead, working together to set evidence-based health policy and guidelines, separate from the CDC’s recommendations. trib.al/I6SZHkN
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 01/09/2025
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
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Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
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