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Kris Konrad

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Happy birthday to Winnie the Pooh! The Hundred Acre Wood has just turned one hundred years old.
countrylife.co.uk
A. A. Milne hoped for immortality. In Winnie-the-Pooh, he found it
One hundred years ago this month, the publication of 'When We Were Very Young' saw the nation take an accident-prone little bear to its heart. Emma Hughes uncovers the true story of Winnie-the-Pooh an...
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
For almost 2 years now, DHS has repeatedly told me they're not detaining U.S. citizens It's simply not true So @propublica.org published the receipts: a searchable database of the 500+ citizens detained by immigration agents during this Trump administration projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 07/10/2026
"As programming increasingly becomes a caffeinated bender with magical bots, this measured pace and emphasis on communal thinking likely holds an important lesson." Love this piece on the development of Zotero. newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
newsletter.dancohen.org
The Slow Formation of Durable Software
How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 09/09/2026
the example they give of why it’s important to surveil anti-ai activists is that it helped them keep their executive team from walking into a protest, where they might have… seen real people who were mad at them
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Missouri’s emergency stay application leaving the 2022 congressional map protecting Black voters in Kansas City in place for the midterms. A victory for Elias Law Group, its client and voters of Missouri! www.democracydocket.com/cases/missou...
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🚨 von Glahn v. Hoskins
Learn more here.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A THREAD, which I am calling 'Some Of The Many Reasons Lichen And Moss Are Fucking Brilliant'. 1. They make public seating super comfy.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
yall are gonna hear me say this a lot so here goes again: make plans to vote in person, and do it as early as possible. literally make turnout this election too big to steal.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So, let me get this straight, the US illegally attacks a country, kidnaps its president, threatens its government with massive military force, gets them to hand over to US control a huge portion of their national assets, hails the billions it has already brought in and promises billions more...
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
gavi.org
Fridge-free vaccine passes first human trial, raising hopes for the hardest-to-reach
Unreliable electricity makes it hard to keep vaccines at the right temperature – this development could change that.
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Make illegal now thank you
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.
Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Tom Savini is a fucking legend. And he lost everything. His home. His beloved pets. His life's work - work that served as the foundation of the horror we hold most dear. There isn't the character count to list his legacy here. If you can, please consider donating. www.gofundme.com/f/support-to...
gofundme.com
Donate to Support Tom Savini After House Fire, organized by Jason Baker
Tom Savini, special makeup effects legend, is facing a heartbreaking loss after Tom’s … Jason Baker needs your support for Support Tom Savini After House Fire
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Oprah tries (unsuccessfully) to distance herself from Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil For decades, Oprah paved the way for MAHA, promoting quackery and making Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz celebrities. Now, she's trying (unsuccessfully) to distance herself from them.
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Oprah tries (unsuccessfully) to distance herself from Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil
For decades, Oprah paved the way for MAHA, promoting quackery and making Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz celebrities. Now, she's trying (unsuccessfully) to distance herself from them.
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Maxwell Frost @maxwellfrost.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
SCHOOL BOARD SLATE: WON. GOODBYE MOMS FOR LIBERTY. We knocked doors all summer in these districts.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In the Renaissance people theorized, since the Aeneid is great, if you wrote poems made only of words & phrases from the Aeneid rearranged they should be great too, since a great source regurgitated should yield greatness. They produced NOTHING we still read. Thinking about that a lot lately.
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Avel Guénin--Carlut @avel.kairos-research.org · 26/07/2026
Would assume everyone knows it by now, but just in case "First the traitors, then the invaders" is an explicit reference to The Turner Diaries, where a white supremacist revolution overruns "The System" and kills all their enemy during the evocatively named "Day of the Rope".
en.wikipedia.org
The Turner Diaries - Wikipedia
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14/07/2026
An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning
xAI's unpermitted turbine emissions would dwarf federal permit thresholds
Potential annual emissions, in short tons, from 30 unpermitted turbines at xAI's Southaven, MS facility

Chart: Potential emissions at 80% load
Nitrogen oxide: 2,474
Carbon monoxide: 4,065
A vertical dotted line indicates the Federal permit threshold.

Note: Federal permit threshold of 100 short tons/year is based on emissions at 100% capacity. Emissions shown at 80% capacity reflect the lower end of typical operating levels for gas turbines, according to the EPA.

He said the facility would be on par with the top 25 U.S. gas plants for nitrogen oxide emissions, citing EPA data for actual emissions.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.
adweek.com
Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search
The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 08/07/2026
NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...
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He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was picking up a crew for a construction project when ICE shot him. It now claims he was the aggressor.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It’s incredible to think this was written over sixty years ago. Eerily prescient.
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franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.
youtube.com
Whale graveyard discovered 7km under the sea
YouTube video by nature video
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Kris Konrad @carondolet.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Holy shit. Incredible comeback! #Knicks
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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties. It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.
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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
European alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office launches on 9 June: free, open source and online, using existing building blocks. An important step in freeing ourselves from US control. www.zdnet.com/article/euro...
zdnet.com
Euro-Office, Europe's open-source alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs, launches June 9
European tech firms will ship the first stable release of Euro-Office next month, giving governments and businesses worldwide a ready-to-run, sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Your digital life doesn't end when you do—it keeps working for tech platforms. Mike Bennett and Nicole Bennett make the case that digital afterlives are a civic infrastructure problem, not a personal planning one, and regulation is long overdue.
buff.ly
Big Tech is Becoming the Executor of the Dead
If digital afterlives are governed by private infrastructure, individual planning will never be enough, write Mike Bennett and Nicole Bennett.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Two encouraging data points on the road to broad recognition that it's important to get students writing, rather than doing automation-assisted document production. 1st from @drrebeccawinthrop.bsky.social on a large study that showed using AI decreases original ideas. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity
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Andy Dehnart @andydehnart.com · 26/05/2026
Top Chef Carolinas episode 12 had a shocking ending, and I'm not talking about the scene from Anaconda where a massive snake leapt out of the woods and attacked the chefs and judges. #TopChef #TopChefCarolinas
realityblurred.com
Top Chef Carolinas episode 12 recap: snake attack
Top Chef Carolinas episode 12 had a shocking ending, and I'm not talking about the scene from Anaconda where a massive snake leapt out of the woods and attacked the chefs and judges.
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Kris Konrad @carondolet.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
We walked down to Vince's from my Uncle Bernie's house to get hot dogs and fries to share with him --we knew it was our last meal with him and it was perfect ❤️ Love Colbert too! #Colbert #Michigan
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22/05/2026
Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about how there’s nowhere near enough revenue in the software industry to justify the amount of AI data centers being built, and how badly I want OpenAI to file for IPO. youtu.be/itU85-8z_54?...
youtu.be
OpenAI’s IPO is a move of ‘desperation’ | Ed Zitron
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 20/05/2026
ChatGPT was never Google’s biggest threat; it was always its own hubris. With Search now being sacrificed on the altar of AI dominance, the time has come for users to get serious about moving off Google services. It’s not only destroying its products; it’s trying to further degrade the web itself.
disconnect.blog
Google is its own worst enemy
In its bid to push AI, it’s destroying its products and trying to kill the web too
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
And an IP vacuum masquerading as a book club is top tier girl bossing. www.advisorpedia.com/viewpoints/h...
advisorpedia.com
How Reese Witherspoon Turned a Book Club Into Hollywood’s Smartest IP Machine
When a Reese’s Book Club pick inevitably blows up on the bestseller list, she decides whether or not to take it to Hollywood.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Disabled folks are some of the most courageous people. We have to do most everything while afraid.
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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Vital thread for historians, other researchers who use digitized historical archives, and teachers. AI is altering docs via transcript and summary, and it’s radically changing them in dangerous ways:
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This article is a dystopian fucking nightmare—not just because of what it says about the state of Hollywood, but because this is a glipse at the true "Ai Future!" you've been lectured thoroughly is inevitable & definitely THE FUTURE. It's your kids' nightmarish future. www.wired.com/story/i-work...
wired.com
I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/05/2026
One of Trump’s most loyal voting blocs may be losing faith in him.
motherjones.com
Can MAGA survive the great evangelical crack-up?
One of Trump’s most loyal voting blocs may be losing faith in him.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Trump's billion-dollar ballroom is now so toxic that some vulnerable House Republicans don't want to vote on it. This is important, because to Trump/MAGA, the ballroom represents a potent symbol of his imperial/dictatorial presidency. 1/ (new piece from me) newrepublic.com/article/2101...
newrepublic.com
Trump Ballroom Suddenly Faces GOP Opposition in Surprise Blow to MAGA
MAGA hoped the correspondents’ dinner assassination plot would give the ballroom a big political lift. But Americans still hate the idea. Democrats must capitalize on that.
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Kris Konrad @carondolet.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Are we ever going to learn what role vibecoding, laying off essential devs, and AI in general played in weakening Canvas' security systems? Protecting your users should be priority 1, not adding on flashy and mostly useless AI widgets... #Canvas
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Oakland Review of Books @oaklandreviewofbooks.org · 03/05/2026
every sunday, we dump the links: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/email/3ce155...
oaklandreviewofbooks.org
Sunday you-know-it-smells-crazy-in-there Reading
This week, your Oakland Review of Books was funky. First, there was this banger on Lake Merritt from Cole and Aaron (come for the question of why it smells, or doesn’t, stay for an exploration of what...
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Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
For Daily Yonder, I wrote about "Dark Winds," the excellent, addicting series about Navajo police investigators. Drawn from the Hillerman novels, "Dark Winds" is stark and beautiful and absorbing. dailyyonder.com/dark-winds/2...
dailyyonder.com
Indigenous-Centered "Dark Winds" Adds Depth to the Crime TV Genre | The Daily Yonder
This thrilling series, set in the Southwest, centers Navajo stories with stirring action and well-developed narratives.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
One of many, many findings in my big story on the Shapiro admin & Amazon today: A real estate mogul told the PA governor’s staff last month that Amazon was privately threatening to pull all of its data center investments due to local opposition. You should really read the story. Link below.
Amazon, wrote the property developer, had just told him "in writing, and I have sent you the e-mail, that they will not be doing any projects in Pennsylvania until they get certainty that the projects they have invested in can move forward. In conversations, they have pointed out to us that they have been appealed in EVERY project at EVERY turn," O'Neill told Kirshner, Governor Josh Shapiro's chief transformation and opportunity officer, referring to local governments rejecting the company's permit applications. His own project in the Philadelphia suburb of Conshohocken had been blocked in November.O'Neill then pleaded for the governor to
"make sure we are not going to get appealed frivolously by people who just want to slow us down for sport like Amazon," asking the governor to force those who challenge zoning decisions to post a bond double the value of the project. "If a $2 billion development is postponed due to an appeal, they should have to post a bond for $4
billion," he wrote.
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Kris Konrad @carondolet.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Let's fucking go, Pistons! #Pistons #Detroit
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Rick CarBOOso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I’ve read the article & understood it completely. Being in remission or recovery from an ED is really fucking hard these days, because the triggers to restart your ED are advertised constantly, because suddenly your friends’ IG posts look more like the thinspo accounts you followed on LiveJournal.
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Kickstarter for an anthology to help fantasy legend Peter Orullian and his wife(who are both fighting the big C) featuring one of the most star studded lineups you'll see anywhere. Chip in if you can, or help spread the word to support a much-beloved writer? www.kickstarter.com/projects/unb...
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Coming soon: Unbroken: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy
An anthology of SF&F stories from Brandon Sanderson & Peter Orullian, Christopher Paolini, Seanan McGuire, Matt Dinniman and many more.
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