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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2026

economy-rattling bubbles caused by widespread financial fraud and product misrepresentation are good, actually especially for the already heavily marginalized, I'm told

Baier asked Bezos about his comments that AI was kind of an “industrial bubble” that is “good.” The billionaire said: “What happens in these industrial bubbles…speculators can lose money because they’re investing in all of these things. But the inventions don’t disappear when the bubble pops.” When Baier asked if the world was witnessing a bubble right now, Bezos replied: “It’s very hard to know. What I do know is the technology is real.” He argued that a bubble can be good for society, if not investors, because it allows every idea to be funded.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This made me laugh this week.

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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. n.pr/4zauALa

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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide

Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 03/10/2026

Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Aaargh I was just puzzling this week about how I used to be a lot funnier, and how/why did I disappear this part of myself. There it is.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Apropos of nothing, I get a lot of mileage out of this meme.

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ketamine was not "at the center" of multiple men's decision to rape someone, the men who made the decision to rape someone were at the center of that decision

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I am going to say what I've been saying for some time. If they succeed in restricting and criminalizing abortion pills, more people are going to die. ALSO, I think that the public is overly complacent right now.

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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Awwwww this warms my heart. Thank you! The biggest lesson I have learned over these years is that when we ground ourselves in our shared humanity, build / evolve a vision together, and keep trying trying trying, it stokes our collective conviction. Keep insisting it is possible and it just may be.

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Well what a delight to find this today! Thank you @sharethecities.bsky.social and esp all the many folks who love this city and have worked / are working to make things better. Showing up day in & day out with tenacity and conviction even knowing what we are up against. We keep us strong!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dave - You might also love From The Clinic to The Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures by Lara Sheehi. OMG. About the specific techniques of psychological manipulation power activates inside our own identities to neutralize / disarm us.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026

"Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake." 🎯

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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've been posting all day (except when on the radio or calls) about a public safety budget meeting at the Seattle City Council that was truly an all-timer on the batshit scale. I'll have a longer post after I breathe into this bag for a while. Meanwhile, please support my work covering City Hall!

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Support PubliCola - PubliCola

PubliCola is 100% reader-powered! If you like the work we’re doing here, and would like to support PubliCola financially, please…

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Bob's Got Questions" #doomloop #seattle

BOB KETTLE: We need some answers from the mayor on public safety!
BOB: For starters, why did she fire the police chief?
[CAPTION: Because he was out of town 40% of the time]
BOB: And why did it take so long for the mayor to have a press conference after the Bite of Seattle shootings?
[CAPTION: because she had to wait for the chief and his 2 top deputies to fly back into town from a conference in Dallas]
BOB: Does the mayor even have a public safety plan?
[CAPTION: crime rates are down in all categories this year]
BOB: [pointing at caption] Can we please get rid of these text boxes? t’s very distracting[CAPTION: but you said you needed answers]
-In closing, um, crime is bad and I blame the mayor
[CAPTION: this press conference could’ve been a Nextdoor post]

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Invest In Washington Now @investwanow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In Washington, the people with the lowest incomes pay 3.5x more in state and local taxes than the richest 1%. That’s why we’re the second worst in the U.S. when it comes to tax fairness. I-645 will make this even worse.

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Seattle Social Housing Developer @seasocialhousing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Join our team! The Community Engagement Manager is responsible for building and sustaining trust between SSHD and the communities it serves — both the future residents of SSHD’s acquisitions and the neighbors surrounding its new construction sites.

Purple graphic that says “We’re hiring! Community engagement Manager”

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A good friend and wonderful person could use some support thru a rough patch. If you have any funds to spare, please consider helping out Kaeshon and his family. gofund.me/d4414afbb

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Donate to Standing with Kaeshon and His Family, organized by Steve Walker

This is a time to show Kaeshon what community looks like. Kaeshon is one o… Steve Walker needs your support for Standing with Kaeshon and His Family

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thank you @naomiishisaka.bsky.social for a beautiful depiction of a beloved community leader and inspiring organizer. Truly one of the great ones. Rest in Power, KL, we miss you so much.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Anyone who wants to understand how policing works in the U.S. needs to read this incredible local investigation about what Minneapolis police did after feds killed Renee Good.

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No Hate in WA State @nohateinwastate.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Want to get involved and help spread the word to voters about these harmful initiatives? There's tons of opportunities to volunteer with No Hate in WA State each week. Head to www.mobilize.us/nohateinwastate to sign up for upcoming opportunities. Bring a friend or two with you! #NoHateWAState

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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Normal ppl: I don’t want AI to take my job, steal artists’ work, prevent my kids’ from learning critical thinking, tell ppl to hurt themselves/eat poison. Data centers are bad. Rationalists: AI will turn all humans into paperclips. I must be the 1st to create it or I’ll become the worst paper clip

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Remember less than a year ago, when Bill Gates said aggressive climate action was a waste of limited money that should be spent fighting poverty and disease instead? www.latimes.com/business/sto... 🤔

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Gates Foundation commits $1 billion to improving global AI access

Amid calls for slowing down AI development, new funding from Bill Gates' philanthropic organization will support education, healthcare, agriculture and language gaps.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Google is killing journalism: "At Truthout, we anticipate a loss of roughly $500,000 in online revenue as a result of this massive traffic plunge in the next year alone."

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We’re Already Living Through Journalism’s Dystopian Future

AI is devouring our industry and undermining access to factual information. We all have a duty to fight back.

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.

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Guy Oron @guyoron.net · 15/09/2026

NEW: Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has released a new gun violence prevention plan after weeks of criticism from big business. Key components include empowering the City’s recently expanded CARE Department and keeping investments in youth services. @thestranger.com www.thestranger.com/news/mayor-k...

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Mayor Katie Wilson Presents Gun Violence Prevention Plan - The Stranger

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is rolling out a plan to tackle gun violence by better integrating city departments and maintaining services for youth. The announcement comes after weeks of relentless crit...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 14/09/2026

they want to leverage real-fears about AI implementation to scare the government into letting them ghost write shitty protectionist legislation that legalizes all of their unethical choices and boxes out open source and overseas competitors under the veneer of being super ethical it's dogshit

"The world deserves confidence that American companies developing increasingly capable AI will act responsibly, especially as the trajectory of progress has steepened. Every frontier lab must deliver on this, and there is no reason any of us should come to work if we cannot.

We welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements for frontier AI. But we do not believe we need to wait for an anti-trust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence. Consistent rules to manage frontier risk so that we can maximize the benefits are a good idea (and we are excited by ideas like independent auditors).

Years ago, companies like ours developed things like Responsible Scaling Policies and Preparedness Frameworks. Those were good for that moment, and focused primarily on the deployment of completed models, not what happens during their development process.

Today's shift to focusing on safe development and evaluation will need new tools. For example, at OpenAI we now formulate explicit safety cases in advance of frontier reinforcement learning runs we expect to significantly increase capability, in addition to the safety work we have long done in advance of model releases.

We hope that other companies will learn from our approaches and propose their own; we think shared standards for misalignment, monitoring, and safety will lead to better outcomes. We look forward to collaborating with our colleagues across the industry to formulate the best version of these.

When we talk about “pacing”, we do not mean “stopping”. Progress has been rapid and will continue to be. But it should be slower than it otherwise could be; interventions like safety cases and monitoring have significant costs.

Pacing will be well worth this cost; no amount of American competitive pressure should justify recklessness, or let capabilities get ahead of alignment and monitoring."

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Daniel Aldana Cohen @aldasky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And we can notice the oldest story ever at the core of AI ideology: it's a mystification machine. It is misdirecting attention from an objectively given material emergency, which AI itself is worsening, to a completely vague and abstract debate about a fictional future.

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Aaargh this hits the bullseye

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Brett Hamil @bretthamil.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Today's DOOM LOOP for @soseaemerald.bsky.social: "Ballard Ghost Dad" See the whole thing here: southseattleemerald.org/voices/2026/...

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Got to work with some incredibly talented filmmakers to turn End Times Fascism into a ten minute video essay. Check it out below. There’s nothing like hearing the derangement directly from the doom profiteers. m.youtube.com/watch?v=aK2n...

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How modern fascism works | End Times Fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

YouTube video by Naomi Klein

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Shirley Leung, PhD @shirleyswirley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Being liked by everyone is totally overrated and is also a red flag lol

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New: Seattle residents call on Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, Alaska Airlines, other major employers to stop fighting the proposed taxes that would give the city resources to properly address serious social issues that lead to public safety problems.

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kelabe.bsky.social @kelabe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's important we don't fall for talking points from the right. Let's make sure we are not adding to suburban sprawl and harming our green spaces, waterways, and farmland. I'l continue to fight for affordable housing through density, social housing, affordable housing, and community landtrusts.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026

I shouldn’t be this emotional about a city deciding hey maybe kids shouldn’t starve all day Like how low is the bar. Anyway, thankful to the people who fought for this.

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Cary Moon @carymoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Friends - When a bigoted right wing billionaire comes for the freedom and privacy of our children, we have to say NO. Please support the #NoHateWAState campaign with a donation of any size, they need to get the word out.

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